849. Stories of Insects, Bugs & Creepy Crawlies with Zdenek Lukas

[@Staruha91]

Can I just take a minute to praise Zdenek’s English? He’s so fluent and all these idioms and rare vocab items pop up so naturally and so fast, this is awesome, honestly. I am also fluent, confident, etc, but man, this level of control, fluidity, agility and pace is amazing. I think there is a potential for yet another episode with Zdenek on how to master your English beyond C2, how to achieve native-like English not as a learner, but as someone who sort of adopted it all as a lifestyle rather than just a language. You could call it something like “Beyond Fluency” or whatever)

[@jenkaah]

as someone who has achieved beyond-fluency lexicon knowledge, i can agree

[@Staruha91]

@@jenkaah my vocab is around 15-17 thousand and I still want to learn more. What about you?

[@jenkaah]

@@Staruha91 probably the same amount, but I also feel that I have so much more words to learn. Also the fact that sometimes i forget basic words

[@gustavochaverra4009]

Ok

[@ZehraFischer]

4:01 m😅😅😅😅😅Uhr am

[@Yonomansushi]

My compliments for this amazing episode Mr.Thomson🕷️ i hope you’ll invite this guy more often Together you create a really good vibe and a very high-quality symbiosis👍👍👍

[@Rita-bw3wh]

I am so glad I found your podcast. It is always a pleasure to listen. 👍

[@МаксимКупчин-з6щ]

Thank you guys!

[@evaobermajerova]

I'm proud of your guest as he is from the Czech Republic as I am. His English is very understandable for me. Where have you come across him 😉. Good luck both of you. Eva

[@dipayandey5372]

What is his KZbin channel or apps name? Please reply me when you can.

[@evaobermajerova]

His YT chanel is Teacher Zdenek. :)@@dipayandey5372

[@odileismorag8379]

Definitely one of the best chat. Thanks Luke and Zdenek for the insightful vocabulary and idioms! You rock!!!!😂😊👏🇧🇷

[@linhnguyen1558]

Sorry for your situation when u was in Vietnam, i am a local person and live in a countryside that far Nha Trang city with a beautiful beach, hope to see u again

[@maya.7057]

Zdenek comes across a very nice person :) His English is beyond all praise!

[@ZehraFischer]

😮 😮😮😅

[@ZehraFischer]

7:02 n😅😅😅😅

[@pink7119]

Hi from Danang City! It's a big surprise knowing your guest in this episode has lived in Danang for such a long time. I'm a local here and will leave Danang for 🇬🇧 for my Tesol course in the next 2 months :) Nice to hear your sharing

[@TeacherZdenek]

Hey. In fact, I'm still here 🤗 let me know if you'd like to meet up for some board games.

[@damianmarkiewicz]

Wow, Zdenek and Luke, my two BEST teachers! Buzzing through this video, I was totally caught in its web! It's the bee's knees! Keep fluttering to greater heights, and don't let any negative bugs bite in the comments. This talk about bed bugs in Paris is really interesting. I liked the funny bits, especially the "naked eye" joke. It's good to know we shouldn't always believe everything we hear right away. Luke's own stories made it feel more real and fun. They did a good job mixing facts with some laughs. Great chat!

[@GianlucaMariaLecchi]

❤ thank you as usual for your podcast. Zdenek is a very pleasant guest. His english is impressive. He masters so many idioms in a natural way. Long live las cucarachas

[@YU肖恩]

It was good to listen to the guest sharing his bed bugs experience while eating my dinner alone

[@helenedauberte4960]

I've learnt this idiom : "to be bitten by the bugs" it means to be very excited in doing something

[@LukesEnglishPodcast]

Yes! "To be bitten by the _____ bug" - that's one we didn't include. 10 points to you Helene. Some examples youglish.com/pronounce/bitten%20by%20the/english?

[@TuanBui-we3dz]

Speaking of mosquitos in Vietnam, I completely agree with Zdenek that they are so unbelievably cunning that I hardly kill them by hand. Therefore, electric mosquito traps are prevalent in Vietnam and favoured by many people. Btw, thanks Luke and Zdenek for another amazing podcast!

[@kaylee6335]

Very interesting topic. Thanks Luke and the guest. I like to listen both talking.

[@Meow_meoW414]

This episode makes me freak and laugh at the same time.

[@ngochaphung4367]

It's so surprised, so happy when i hear you say about Da Nang. it's a small pretty city that I am living. if possible, see you again in Da Nang.

[@TeacherZdenek]

if you want, you can join us for board games. We have a nice little group here :)

[@lexxmatos]

Great video, Luke! I listened to it on Spotify, but I prefer to leave my comments here because it's more permanent. Zdenek knows how to tell a compelling story, and he has an interesting life. You should interview more people like him. Just one more thing: Cockroaches can fly, but some do so slowly, while others, which my daughter refers to as 'demons', fly rapidly and make a lot of noise when they're in flight.

[@АннаАлександрова-ы5е]

Luke's sense of humour is amazing 😂lol

[@takielddine9901]

Thnx

[@nhuanh3994]

From Vietnam❤

[@aliciasodi5080]

Excelent podcast. I laughed a lot. Thanks

[@MyFluentPodcast]

Hi Luke, hi Zdenek! (Howdie to all the LEPSTERS as well) How could you not have mentioned "to put a bug in someone's ear? Just kidding! It was an amazing chat. Zdenek at his best. Vietnam is doing him good, I can tell! You're making a great team together. Looking forward to the next one! Cheers, Daniel.

[@mmare1263]

The bed creepy crawlies are in London as well, from the tube, they say. I am a scientist, so I love nature in all its form.

[@asaduzzaman23]

listening from Bangladesh 🇧🇩😊

[@QuangAnhVõPhạm]

From Vietnam with love

[@АнжеликаТарханова-г2в]

Nice sense of humor

[@mrsabuela5889]

Bonjour Luke. 😂😂😂😂I must laugh ! Love all your stories ☺️

[@quynguyen9137]

Hello from Vietnam

[@EnglishPodcastwithPaul]

I've got shivers. When I returned from Cambodia four months ago people would ask me if I ate barbecued snakes, spiders 🕷 or cockroaches, to which I replied "yuck, gross no way". Great stories.

[@panagiotaapostolou3955]

You are stupendous ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@AnnaM-nd2vr]

Hello, I am here because of episode 484. I hadn't known that they were crepes. Where do I collect my award? :D Regards, ex-ninja.

[@rosalbaprietorubio3519]

Lo que dejé de buscar, me cayó del cielo.

[@Atmanyatri]

I feel more paranoid after this episode hahaha, the story of the bed bug stuck in the ear is horrifying and the fact that the doctor sent him away to wait for 2 days is so annoying I can’t imagine how he slept with the bed bug stuck in his ear! , great conversation about creepy crawly things loved it 🐜🐛❤

[@phuctrieuxuan2888]

I'm from Viet nam, too. So great, bro

[@mmare1263]

Love your utube program, the joke of the baged room- genius 😂😅

[@LukesEnglishPodcast]

"bugged" 👍

[@js9876]

I already saw this episode before but it was published 10 hours ago, it's strange🙄🙄

[@LukesEnglishPodcast]

Maybe you watched it 10 hours ago.

[@janieforb]

lmao the /phở/ and /phò/ thingy give me life ahahah

[@user-wo5ct8ri5m]

Just to make a little correction there, Luke, some cockroaches do bite humans in Australia, unless they thought I was a huge piece of bread wrapped with a huge tea towel. Although they don't seem to leave any poison or substance on your skin like other insects do, so it doesn't get itchy or swollen.

[@englishlessons9457]

There is an episode of Black mirror that came out years ago: cockroaches , is its name. You should watch it. Thank you for this very interesting epidode, by the way I'm scared of hornets

[@mollietai8946]

It’s an earworm, after all.

[@LukesEnglishPodcast]

😂

[@Nuhakhan-t9p]

57:30 bookmark

[@NuranSesen]

Please add Turkish translation as well 🥲

[@alexeykhoraskin6569]

Why not to put a net on a window to prevent any insect from getting to your house?

[@LukesEnglishPodcast]

Could you do it for me?

[@toobatooba5334]

❤❤❤

[@Staruha91]

Fun fact about ants: did you know that Bob Dylan himself considered them to be his friends?

[@rajithalakmal8369]

The electric mosquito tennis racket is the best thing since sliced bread. By the way, this is the 100th comment on this episode. 😀

[@aliakbormahin-jw9xj]

❤

[@acemaxtec]

Hi I want to download the audio files and save to a mp3 player and give to my daughter to practice English in high school , anybody know how? Since she can not use mobile in the school. It is forbidden. Thanks

[@LukesEnglishPodcast]

You can download all the episodes as audio MP3s from the episode pages on my website. All the episode pages are available here 👉 www.teacherluke.co.uk/episodes On each page there is a download link. Just "right click" the link and save the file onto your computer as an MP3.

[@acemaxtec]

@@LukesEnglishPodcast many thanks Luke.

[@mmare1263]

I still need to improve my English, do to the fact I am not using a more complex language structure, they say 😂

[@tanyarykiel6117]

Is anyone's skin itches like mine while watching this vid? 😂

[@Anarchistka]

By the way I subscribed for you in Russia😊

[@dudeinthecrowd]

you can have subscribed for it from any place in the world. )))

[@aungkyawphyo8678]

The prostitute meaning of Pho is in our language, Burmese. 😅

[@marianoscotti8899]

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@twojzdrowykregoslup_online]

❤😇🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@iocaio]

bbbbeatles!😁

[@alexeykhoraskin6569]

I was quite surprised ti hear that cockroaches fly, i knew that they have a wings, but never heard about much flying abilities. Maybe you confused your cockroaches with beetles?

[@LukesEnglishPodcast]

Some cockroaches can fly but not all species.

[@chandrafauzi3926]

Hi Luke! You talked about Ukraine issues in the past. Do not you also want to address the conflict in Palestine?

[@chandrafauzi3926]

@@RoseReadings Where is the source of your rumbling, lady?

[@chandrafauzi3926]

@@RoseReadings What is your take on Palestinian children who died over Israeli bomb in Gaza?

[@onurkeskin4068]

​@@chandrafauzi3926if palestiens have the same power as much as israel has what they would make? Think about it

[@chandrafauzi3926]

@@onurkeskin4068 Do you watch or read news on Palestinian and Israeli conflict? If not, you can go along with your 'if'.

[@esraalev]

Oh one of those “blonder” days!😊

[@LukesEnglishPodcast]

Different webcam. Weird isn’t it? One webcam makes me look blonde, another one makes my hair darker.

[@esraalev]

@@LukesEnglishPodcast either way you look cool, however you should use this webcam more 🤘

[@komilovalyukobondmantaj232]

Which accent does he have?

[@komilovalyukobondmantaj232]

​@@RoseReadingsSlightly different consonants tho at some points

[@komilovalyukobondmantaj232]

​@@RoseReadingsWell I cant show exactly which words or sentences, because I am not expert at this. But the way he spoke sounded like either European people seaping British accent with some features which make you think they are not British or British people talking to foreigners accommodating to them. Perhaps the intonation or lack of chaining words together like dropping or adding some sounds made me think like that

[@komilovalyukobondmantaj232]

@@RoseReadings I did not mean to be rude or negative tho

[@josebenito15]

I made the mistake, terrible mistake, of watching this episode while I was having my tasty lunch and it definitely spolied my appetite. My Godness, that bedbug crawling inside Zdenek's ear and blending inside with cerumen, blood and other human dark secretions give the willies for the rest of the day and.. Night!!. Is this the Halloween Episode and I was totally mistaken about the day and hour ?... Shame on you ( Both of you) 👻👻👻

[@LukesEnglishPodcast]

Yes it is the Halloween episode!

[@emmamonge6298]

Hola, buenas tardes. acabo de inscribirme a Premium y sólo consigo el audio y tampoco puedo bajarme el podcast. Disculpa, puedes ayudarme. Gracias

[@LukesEnglishPodcast]

@@emmamonge6298 Hello. You need to add LEP Premium to a podcast app on your phone. You can see the links for PDFs and video versions in the show notes in your podcast app. All the information is here www.teacherluke.co.uk/premiuminfo

[@galinaivaniva6973]

It

[@dudeinthecrowd]

You are so ridiculous, Luke! )))

[@borisromanenko5168]

There is no Chemistry between the speakers, from my point of view.

[@LukesEnglishPodcast]

English, not chemistry.

[@mdatikullah5321]

I am so glad I found your podcast. It is always a pleasure to listen. 👍

[@MRaquelGarciaValero]

❤