Learn These Phrasal Verbs and Great Expressions in Context

[@sevillavieira]

Thanks Professor, loved this episode plenty of new words expressions, phrasal verbs and last but not least cultural context. I look forward for more of Input English.

[@comprehendeng]

You are most welcome. Thank you for your ongoing support. It is appreciated and it really helps.

[@JoseE-wj7re]

Thanks

[@comprehendeng]

Most welcome.

[@normaquesada7307]

Thanks so much teacher. These phrases are certainly useful to develop real life fluency. I have also heard the exoression "can it" to mean stop talking.

[@comprehendeng]

Oh, yes. There are so many. That is a good one.

[@SergiuszWesolowski]

Actually, the Mesopotamian number system was based on sexagesimal system which used a base of 60. They did not know the number 12. The Babylonians only knew the symbols for the number one, ten and sixty, to write 12 you had to draw three symbols, 10 and two ones. So, to write 82, you had to draw the symbol 60 and two times 10 and two ones. I beg you people, please check your info and don't take everything at face value.

[@comprehendeng]

Wow. I believe you. There is conflicting info published on this. Thank you.

[@SergiuszWesolowski]

@comprehendeng You can type "Cambridge University department of mathematics, Babylonian numbers explained". It is easy to check.

[@georged.7937]

Sorry, but I cannot see from teacher's part any attempt at distorting the history of mathematics, let alone the fact that what he said on the subject can be found on internet as one version on subject. Thanks for your understandig and the given information on the subject. ​@@SergiuszWesolowski

[@SergiuszWesolowski]

@@georged.7937 You have to understand that my vocabulary is very limited and I can't write everything as clearly as I should. Nowhere did I say that Joseph said it premeditatedly, I know it was not intentional. But one should check what one says. And what I said is not any interpretation of mine but Dr. Eleanor Robson's, who is Professor of Ancient Middle Eastern History at University College London. I don't have any interpretation because I'm not a historian and I don't know anything about it.

[@vogditis]

In my opinion, the purpose of this video is to learn English, not to understand exactly how people counted in ancient times. This is a subject I'm not familiar with, and my opinion on it may change over the years as the next scholar gives his interpretation of how they constructed their counting system.