B1 English Listening Practice - Christmas

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[@elimpostoryt]

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[@RafalT6-y3r]

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[@muxlisaabdujalilova5253]

Where are you from

[@보라-h3h]

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[@ns-544]

Cheers! I'm from Kazakhstan and our religion can't celebrate Christmas but i love it so much. However some people just ignoring and they're celebrating it cool! So i understand nearly 90% of this podcast and it's absolutely incredible channel to learn English.

[@muxlisaabdujalilova5253]

Yeah I am from Uzbekistan. do you know? We are neighbours

[@ns-544]

@muxlisaabdujalilova5253 Of course i know)

[@diogerarturoyarce4485]

Hi, good evening. As I live in Colombia, we use to go to Church first, then , we gathered together at grandma´s house with our relatives and friend. WThe, we prepare a special dinner, traditional food as natilla and buñuelos, we give presents to our families, stayed until late, talking, laughing, dancing and having a good time

[@yoniromero9522]

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[@uzumakimikey4364]

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[@JaneEnglishLearning2023]

Thanks again. Your video really helps me a lot on speaking and writing. Let's see how many days I can last and jump to next level. Today, I hope to share about the most important Festival in America and China. I suppose almost everybody knows that Christmas is the most important Festival in the US, but in China, Chinese New Year is the biggest one. The actual day of Christmas is the 25th of December, but most people celebrate from the night of 24th and continue to 25. This is an excuse to celebrate the festival for 2 days. People will visit the relatives of their father on 24th and then spend the 25th with the relative of their mothers. This is fairly common in China, because we have both sides of relatives who needs to accompany. While, holiday in China is 7 days, but people usually rearrange their working time and have 15 days for the New Year, of course, they need to work harder in front of and after the New Year. The second part is the ways to open the present. American enjoy to open the present in front of others, but this is opposite in China, we like to open the present in private. That is a big difference. Once, I was invited to a Christmas party, people sat in a circle, when somebody get a gift, others will shout and let that person open the gift immediately. After he opened the gift, everybody will shout loudly and celebrate it. It is really difficult to see in China. The third part is food. This part is almost the same, because people will make lots of food to celebrate both Christmas and Chinese New Year. The difference is the number of dishes, in Christmas, it is almost four or five dishes, like turkey, salad and etc. But in China, the number at least should be six or eight, and most families will make 12, 16 or 18, because these numbers means lucky. And of course, we cannot finish eating all of food, but this is a tradition. We have lots of delicious food, nevertheless to say other yummy dessert or drinks. The final part is about the activities. This is a visible elements of these two festivals. In Christmas, people enjoy to decorate their house and yard with lots of lights. People from all over the city will come and just to see the decoration. Some houses are decorated most impressive and creative. People will talk about the decoration together. In China, we have the firework. That is extremely huge and almost all the people will come out of their house and enjoy and join the firework. Okay, that’s it. Hope it will give you more information about these two countries and welcome to Chinese New Year and feel by yourself.

[@shaxzodjolmatov1095]

That is a great informatsion to us. I wish I had been in US or CHina

[@JaneEnglishLearning2023]

@@shaxzodjolmatov1095 great, how about making a plan, it will come true in the future.

[@إناللهمعنا-ز1ح]

Thank you so much for this video it is very help me to improve my English I can understand and I can write but I'm trying to speak as you ❤

[@professorarnaldomatematica9775]

I like Christmas, decoration, foods, family together and celebration. It's my favorite holiday

[@listeningtimepodcast]

It's mine too! :D

[@IvonneMer]

I have good memories about Christmas. Ten year ago my whole family met in my house to celebrate this amazing date. In this day, my family were spending the whole day planing and cooking to have dinner. Meanwhile me and my cousins were playing a lot. We usually had dinner at 12 followed by conversations about ourselves, our family, and various topics. However for the past of 4 years ago my family moved to a new city, so now we celebrate christmas with my mom and siblings. Times have changed but I remember this stage of my life with so much emotion.

[@mennasorour8828]

Thank u for your effort 🤍we don't celebrate Christmas because we are Muslims ❤-elhamdulallah- but we have celebrate at two day a year, we are so happy at those days ❤❤❤❤🎉

[@kosay.morad.]

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[@yoneeee24]

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[@stefanbarnert2478]

🥂 In my country we celebrated christmas with our familiy & delicious food 🍽 We cooked together and made presents with each other 🎆

[@eslamsayed4116]

In fact, Egyptian people don't celebrate the Christmas because most of us are Muslims, but i actually like this event and i'd visit an european country during a Christmas week 🌠☃️💖

[@abdellahhassaine6441]

yeah but all people are muslims it's the same here in morocco and the arabic countries , it's been 1 year do you visit any european country ???

[@filipbudil2384]

Our Christmas main food is dinner with carp and potato-salad in the Czech Republic. I very looked forward for Christmas home made ginger, sweat and cookies.

[@finitecode-xq5k]

I'm very glad that we have this wondefull b1 english course or podcast course to help Us improve our listening! For your videos , first of all I listen two times without subtitle, and then I listen with watching to the subtitle, abd then for last time I listen and watch to the subtitle and then for every vocab which I don't know abput their meaning I ask from google translate or chatgpt, and finally I listen 2 times without subtitle, This method can be helpfull for everyone, it's my method, you can find your method.

[@faridjosuaolmedolopez5958]

On chrismas day, we usually eat turkey which is fairly common in Mexico, besides to eat pozole and meat. We gets to open the chrisma gift 24 and 25 and regarding decorations, we decorate the chrismas tree as well as the house to involve everyone in the neighborhood. And about myself, I spend chismas day with my mom's size of family.

[@carlablanco9654]

In my country we celebrated christmas with our familiy And delicious food. We cooked together and sometimes we exchanged presents with each other 😊

[@mo6592]

Oh I’m Muslim and we don’t have Christmas

[@inared]

We have 2 celebrations brother, Id-Al Fitr and Id-Al Adha

[@Muhammed0tr0]

I'm Muslim, too.😊

[@MOHAMED-dn6ue]

​@@inared there two celebration in Islam not in our general life lol

[@abumayr]

Alhamdulillah for everything))

[@abumayr]

@@Zaar-e5t it’s not good. We must like just usMubarak

[@SunA-zn4gs]

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[@ЮліяЛужна-т3в]

I really like Christmas. This day we meet with all our family in my parent's house. Holiday starts 24-th December. We cook 12-th traditinal lean meals and start dinner when firs star shines. We sing Christmas carols. Relatives pay children money or give sweets for singing carols. We decorate our house. On the dor hang wreath with colored balls, we decorate Christmas tree. In Ukraine celebrate Christmas three days from 24 to 26 December

[@aykhanalizada]

I love your sir and that's all.

[@Thuy-re5bv]

Thank you for this video. I like Chrismast because i can decorate the house with my family and prepare delicious food

[@trixter88]

Many Orthodox churches (Russian, part of Greek, etc.) celebrate Christmas according to the Julian calendar, that is, from January 6 to 7 according to the Gregorian (generally accepted civil) calendar. Because of this discrepancy in dates, a curious thing happened about a hundred years ago. In January 1914, Henry Ford fired 900 Russian guest workers from his factory because they did not show up for work on January 7, celebrating Christmas according to the Julian calendar.

[@daghantasdelen]

When we are in christmas, we celebrate on the 1th January. Only we have my mom side parents here and we usually bake turkey in Turkey :D and we always play Bingo with eachother that's all that we what we do in Christmas Eve. Thanks for video.

[@sultantalan6376]

In my country ,everyone is not to get serious christmas but recently they've changed everything. They got to decorate some part of their place with christmas tree . I love that christmas and decorating christmas tree. After christmas day, it's my birthday ta da!

[@MissDoan-g7o]

Thanks and Merry Christmas 🎄

[@gugamachado3007]

Christmas traditions in my family is in 24th and 25th , in midnight We eat good meal in dinner and next day we'll to open gifts, It's cooler holiday in the year in my opinion

[@ArifCavadzadə]

Thank you I understand everything

[@alterpro_1864]

Hey, i live in Kazakhstan. There are a lot of muslim families like my family. We dont celebrate Christmas, cause its forbidden. But its doesn't interfere listen your amazing podcast. Thank you for your great jod

[@useifmhmd-e8m]

and me i am muslim

[@stub-t1h]

In my country, Christmas also falls on December 25 but the most celebrated December 24 because on that night we have speacial night, called "Svyatiy vechir".

[@jkim3084]

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[@user-yz2ct2sy3l]

Thx for your labor

[@genesisserrot2276]

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[@listeningtimepodcast]

I'm glad to hear that! You're welcome!

[@هاجرجمال-ذ5ت]

ممكن تقلي الطريقة ال بتسمع بيها الفيديو علشان تستفيد بأكبر قدر واحسن السمع

[@matmateo8467]

I like this kind of videos! I wish you a happy Christmas! :)

[@listeningtimepodcast]

A Merry Christmas to you too! :D

[@franciscorodriguezrubio6727]

Thanks, I can understand all.

[@amna.a7634]

in Iraq we celebrate Christmas at the end of the 31st of the month of December, we use fireworks in the street or on the rooftop to get people with their families to enjoy Some people celebrate at their houses because stuck in traffic and buy people cakes to eat with drink juice at night after arriving time 12 clock after we wish a happy new year to all🎉

[@manarshaban9882]

Am muslim brother We have no celebration We have only two eids Iftar and adha♥️ Elhamdullah

[@alvarezbecerrajuanandres5253]

colombia christmas is a importan date for the population because there are a lot of family that on christmas go to visit their relatives or go to the abroad winth their family, the meal in this date is delicious, a think that one of things more important or more exciting is the meal, here we eat buñuelos, natilla, meat, etc, for other hand i like to celebrate it very much because every christmas i´m gonna visit my dad´s family and that is very important for me beacuse i love them and miss them and lastly this date i think people have to take adventage visitng their family and shere with them

[@kevinlobo6588]

In Venezuela we celebrate on 24th. The tradition is to wait until midnight when "niño Jesús" birth. Then everyone can open their gifts, many people eat at this time but in my case we dinner at 9 pm.. About the food we usually eat chicken, or pig baked, chicken salad, hallacas, ham bread. On December 25Th we also celebrate it hahaha because it's a day off for most people. Merry Christmas !

[@listeningtimepodcast]

Cool! I've never heard of hallacas before xD Merry Christmas to you too!

[@kevinlobo6588]

@@listeningtimepodcast Hahaha It's like a tamal es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallaca

[@NamAnhĐinh-v6y]

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[@МузаффарНортураев]

Ok you are good speaker

[@hikki537]

In my family from Brazil we've always celebrated on Cristimas eve, opening the presents at midnight and leaving the Santa Claus's (here it's refered to as ''papai noel'') presents for children unpack during the next morning.

[@haidersaififabrication5431]

Aapka bahot sukriya jnab

[@zclaudio__.1039]

hi there! in my contry, uruguay the chritmas are very different, firts of all the importan day is the 24, because the people get meeting whit his families and at 12pm the party start. before 12pm normally you have dinner and hanging out. The childrens open the gift and the different present at 12pm and the adults celebrate the chritsmas

[@josevillalobos9478]

In my country commonly people buy new clothes to dress in the 24th night, then they hang out with their friends or with their family or both. It's no typical to have a dinner, only in some specifically cases

[@maysaalhawamda2083]

I'm Muslim because we don't celebrate in the Christmas but I like the design of this event and the most things that I like is the tree Christmas

[@baturalptanfer6]

I too

[@نوحعبدالقادر]

we are Muslims that we should let this things

[@heltonzamora8556]

Hello Conner ! What is Christmas ? What type of foods do you want to prepare for Christmas ?

[@diananascimento5893]

I used to like christmas when I was a child, but nowadays there is no more togetherness with my relatives

[@stepansobko3648]

In my country is really important 12 meals on table and talking with your family

[@muxlisaabdujalilova5253]

Now I translate this podcast into Uzbek

[@muxlisaabdujalilova5253]

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[@ders2911]

ın turkey majority of population dont celebrate christmas (it sounds really normal bcs christians are very minority here) but i wish to celebrate it at least 1 day bcs people need to just think about how to have more fun

[@victorguerrero686]

Hi profesor!! I has a question ⁉️ tell me if you give class online? I want to learn English more advanced , Tobe more fluid ...

[@josebenjamin8227]

jajaja this is very funny to talk, but here in Nicaragua it is very common to get super drunk on december 24th at night, then 25th you gotta survive the hangover with all your frinds and family. People who don't drink just spend time together, and share a good dinner meal with something we called "relleno" o "gallina india" jajaja greatings!!!

[@valeriameneses14]

In my family, we don't put up Christmas lights or any decorations because we are too lazy to pack them away. We have dinner at 10 pm, watch movies and when it's midnight we go outside and watch the fireworks.

[@tmyfofo]

we dont have christmas , we only celebrate the new year but instated we have eid which im sure you 've heared about it

[@polancoch]

Excellent

[@denischavez-of2iw]

Wow I understood all i don't believe myself

[@edwardramos2971]

My family celebrate cristhmas in both days, in 24th with the wife's family and 25th with my family. In the wife's family have more celebration, decoration, food and funny. My daughter likes a lot about Christmas and the parties. This text is correct?

[@npbispo]

In my country university is good . I am doing public university and it is completely free!!!

[@syedshadmanazam]

😑Boring, because in my side people don't celebrate the Christmas. By the way My name is Shadman Azam, from India. I usually listen your Spotify episode and I'm really into it.

[@ThuyTran-mp9mv]

Can you talk about history of Vietnam and American. Like Dien Bien Phu

[@randheersingh6434]

Being Non Christian majority country Xmas is not a major festival but we Indians do celebrate every occasion of festivity. There are decoration in all star hotels and major shopping malls and people do enjoy Xmas special cookies etc.

[@dasstren7441]

We don't celebrate Christmas. We celebrate only New Year. We also have Christmas, but we don't make parties for this. We make parties, catching up with relatives on 31 December and then we are waiting for New Year. But i don't celebrate new year anymore, i just can go out and watch the fireworks. I haven't been celebrating New Year already 3 years.

[@DZ-Elec]

yatik saha

[@Username.11fcj]

I’ve been always having a time with my girlfriend on dec 25th and then we eat a lot of food we’ve been wanting to eat and see a movie

[@residenciapsiquica]

That s amazing.

[@hoale8243]

I live in VietNam. There have Christmas but don 't have snow.

[@JimmyK2012]

No, I don't like Christmas, I'm neither Catholic nor Christian nor affiliated with a religion. However, I'm listening to this podcast to farm new vocabulary.

[@AsukaSoryu-yk4lr]

Share presents with each other

[@davidtarrida5984]

Welllllll!!!!!🎉🎉

[@dmchka0]

We celebrate Christmas of January 7th

[@27_nguyenminhthu52]

What does "it's not a given" mean?

[@growingupinthecostaricanju1751]

Great video

[@stepansobko3648]

Super

[@davidtarrida5984]

Wellllll!!!!!🎉

[@thaomy456]

We are going to be there for about an hour and then we will have to go home

[@blick3]

I wanna leave comment becuse I think it can help me with improving language. So actualy I from Ukraine buy now I live in Germany because of war. In my country we selebrated Christmas at 7th of January, but now we borrow European and American day. I think it`s rigth because for our mentalitet Europe more relative. I literaly don`t want to share this amazing day with Russian people. BTW my eaglish is not really good, but I hope you understand me

[@oumamael4505]

I thought chrismas is on 31th december 😂😂😂

[@muxlisaabdujalilova5253]

Me too😅😅

[@muxlisaabdujalilova5253]

Where are you from?

[@Broker_uae_nechaev]

While I was texting a comment under previous video, youtube just switch the video and I lost all what I typed. Could youtube at least save a draft under certain video..?

[@abdulrahmanayman3240]

I never clelebrated the Christmas before. Christmas is not in our culture.

[@npbispo]

In Brazil is 24 December more important

[@lavantalpaylasmlarsulli]

♥️🙏

[@tuplmenw6956]

My country don't celebrate Christmas, because major people in my country Muslims, but i'm don't swear to god

[@Someone_brilliant]

What do you want ?

[@tuplmenw6956]

@@Someone_brilliant why you ask me?

[@Someone_brilliant]

@@tuplmenw6956 like what did you mean you swear you don’t

[@YoussefAhmed-p6n]

I ask God for forgiveness

[@yanelaarias1132]

We celebrate Christmas' Eve .At midnight a hot drink made of chocolate is served. It's truly a good time to spend with family. Kind regards from Peru and I wish you and your family a Merry Christmas! 🤗 By the way, Is there any difference between Merry and Happy Christmas?

[@listeningtimepodcast]

That sounds nice! And "Merry" is the word we normally say with "Christmas"; we don't say "Happy Christmas". Merry Christmas to you! :D

[@zeynepgularslantas74]

We don't celebrate the christmas in Turkey. In Turkey, ome of the people don't like other countries' tradition but i don' think so. I wish we celebrate too.

[@Funny-om7sl]

We don't celebrate christmas because We muslims have our festival too. and you can celebrate of your Eids instead.

[@nazliergul97]

​@@Funny-om7sl maybe she isnt a muslim and turkey is NOT a muslim country we are free to choose our religion

[@onurefr]

The thing that Christmas is not a "Tradition" . it is a religional activity so it is similar like Ramadan as well. So as it is normal people are not celebrating Ramadan Bajram in USA, we don't celebrate Christmas though. In Türkiye, people celebrate new year, that can be a tradition. But it is not weird not to celebrate Christmas as Turkish citizen because this is not our religional activity.

[@azizcanbozkurtf1]

In Turkey, many people can celebrate Christmas. Shopping mall, cafeterias, roads, a lot of places have decorations.If you are under pressure from your family, it is hard I know it. If not, you can.

[@Mohamed_emad_elkholy]

Why you didn't ask they don't celebrate your aid in America ? Or you just need to copy because they look more cool ?

[@trammytram7460]

Before Christmas day, I and y sister decorate Christmas tree and Christmas lights front yard. In Viet Nam, we have Christmas in both 24th and 25th December. In Christmas day, my family celebrate a meal and sing together. In the midnight of 24th, my family go to the church. In this time of the church is gorgeous, every corner of the church also decorate by Christmas lights, stone cave, Santa Claus... Besides, they also organize singing and dancing, i'd like Christmas' atmosphere. In 25th, I can have a meal with my friend. This is the time for me to gather my family b/c I live far away my home..

[@AlaEddin-f1r]

I am a Muslim and I do not celebrate Christmas because it is forbidden and not permissible. We celebrate Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha. and thank God.

[@parisakouchaki3187]

Ok good for you

[@zahraahussain616]

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@HdhdhdBdhdhdh-nw9bl]

I'm Muslim and we don't have Christmas. It's haram we have 2 Eid.

[@useifmhmd-e8m]

bravo and me

[@annars874]

We do have Christmas in iran😢😢. Our new year is in spring we have 13 days holiday. We have to put 7 things in table which start with( s) we say (haft sin).

[@listeningtimepodcast]

Interesting!

[@aungsone6423]

I'm not sure does Lord Christ like drinking or not but we always drunk at 24th Dec night 😂

[@haywood9546]

Just 10 words didn't understand ✅

[@gabrielagreste5504]

Jesus wants to save your life from the sin, the Son of God became like a human because he loves you, and he Didi it to die for your sins, and take your place of sentence on the cross, and if today you decide to believe in him and accept him you will be saved

[@exer2024]

our xmas traditions are eating oranges and watch tv so boring

[@ducanhdo-b2l]

does Muslim have a Monica Fairies'

[@nicatcebiyev865]

Bu kişinin sesinden bezmişem

[@ducanhdo-b2l]

that means you don't have a human sense iduot

[@gizemmmmmm32134]

Why you are talking so fast ? This video to learning language. ıt should be slower. Except for that thank you for the videos.

[@lyhononline]

Bcuz it is b1, a higher level than a2

[@NarwanSediqi]

Well, I am a Muslim, and I don't celebrate Christmas.

[@useifmhmd-e8m]

yes bravo and me