Welcome to English as a Second Language podcast number 683.
Using a video sharing website.
This is English as a Second Language podcast episode 683.
I'm your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan.
Coming to you from the Center for Educational Development in beautiful Los Angeles, California.
Our website, you know, it's ESLPOD.com.
Go there, you know what to do.
This episode is called Using a Video Sharing Website.
Let's get started.
You're looking at the next overnight sensation.
I'm uploading my video right now and by this time tomorrow I wouldn't be surprised if it's had over 100000 views.
It's going to go viral.
You and your amateur videos.
Who is going to watch something with such low production value?
You'd be surprised.
I have my own channel on YouGoob with over 5,000 subscribers.
Are you sure that's not because your username is Angelina Jolie?
No, it's because people enjoy my videos, mark them as their favorites and share them with their friends.
Word of mouth.
That's why I'm so popular.
But what about the comments on your videos?
How many of those are positive and how many are negative?
I don't read the comments.
I assume they're all positive and my videos have never been flagged.
All right.
So is this another video of you dancing with your cat?
No, my cat and I are dancing and singing.
That's why we're both going to be the next big thing.
Right.
I'll get in line right now to buy tickets to your upcoming Vegas show.
Our dialogue begins with Melissa saying to Frank, You're looking at the next overnight sensation.
Overnight, one word, means from today till tomorrow in 24 hours.
If a company says we'll deliver that to you overnight, that means it will be there the next day.
Overnight, however, can also mean very quickly, suddenly.
This is the meaning that Melissa has in mind when she says the next overnight sensation.
A sensation here means something that is very popular.
Something that has become very popular very quickly is called an overnight sensation.
Melissa says, I'm uploading my video right now.
To upload U-P-L-O-A-D.
One word means to move a file from a computer, a computer's hard drive, up to another computer on the internet or on a network of computers.
Melissa says that by this time tomorrow, in 24 hours, I wouldn't be surprised if it's had over 100000 views.
She's saying that she expects that her video will, in 24 hours, have 100,000 views.
A view when we're talking about a video website means that something has been watched online by 100000 people, or 100000 times.
Maybe one person watches it 100,000 times.
I'm not sure exactly how that works.
But 100,000 views usually means that 100,000 people have seen the video.
It's going to go viral, Melissa says.
The expression to go viral.
V-I-R-A-L means something becomes very popular on the internet very quickly.
Like a virus causes illness, sickness to spread quickly from one person to another.
Viral means something moves very quickly on the internet.
It becomes popular very quickly.
Frank says, you and your amateur videos.
Amateur is the opposite of professional.
Something done by someone who isn't getting any money for it, typically.
Also, it means not very good, not very sophisticated.
That's the idea that Frank is saying.
He's saying that you are making another amateur video.
Who's going to watch something with such low production value?
Production value... is the quality of the video or the quality of the movie.
It could be the sound.
It could be the way it looks, the special effects.
All of these are part of the production value.
Production comes from the word produce, meaning to make.
Value here is how good or bad it is.
It's a term you hear a lot in Los Angeles when people talk about movies and films, production value.
Melissa says, you'd be surprised.
That expression, you'd be surprised, means you will be surprised at the quality of my video.
She says, I have my own channel on YouGoob with over 5,000 subscribers.
A channel here is a group of things that are related to each other.
It typically refers to something on the radio or the television that is created and can be found in the same place every time.
On video sharing sites.
This one is called YouGOOB similar, I think, to YouTube.
You can have your own channel so you can put all of your videos in one place and people can find them easily.
They can also subscribe to your channel.
Meaning every time you put a new video on your channel, they get an email telling you hey, there's a new video on this person's channel.
A subscriber is someone who has signed up or paid to receive copies of something such as a newspaper, a magazine or, in this case, emails on the Internet.
Notice when pronounced quickly, the word internet often loses that T in the middle when we say it quickly.
Internet instead of internet.
Anyway, Frank says, are you sure that's not because your username is Angelina Jolie?
A username.
One word is a name that you select for an email account or when you register or subscribe to something on the Internet.
It's a name that you can pick that doesn't necessarily have to be your name.
One of my usernames is ESLPOD.
That's not my name, but I can use it as my username.
That's my username on Twitter.
You can follow me on Twitter if you want to.
Frank says Melissa has a username of Angelina Jolie, who you may know is a famous beautiful actress who lives with another actor, some guy by the name of Brad.
Brad, what is it?
Brad Pitt.
Yeah, Brad Pitt.
Whoever heard of him?
Anyway, Angelina Jolie is the username Melissa uses.
And, of course, people would subscribe to her channel thinking that she was the real Angelina Jolie.
Melissa says, however, no, that isn't true.
She has 5000 subscribers, she says because people enjoy my videos, mark them as their favorites and share them with their friends.
On many websites you can indicate which things on the site are your favorite things.
And that's what Melissa is referring to.
People also share her videos.
They send an email, perhaps with a link, the website address, so the person can then look at that video, or they put it on their Facebook page, or perhaps they put it on their Twitter feed by tweeting it.
Melissa says, Word of mouth.
That's why I'm so popular.
Word of mouth is an expression that means that one person tells another person, and then they tell their friend, and then that friend tells someone else.
And pretty soon you're very popular because everyone has been telling everyone else.
Normally, we use this expression to compare it to another way of getting people to come to your website or go to your store, which would be a commercial on the television, for example, or in the newspaper.
But word of mouth is advertising that takes place when one person tells another.
It doesn't cost you any money.
It's the best kind of advertising.
Melissa says that's why I'm so popular.
That's why everyone likes me.
Frank says but what about the comments on your videos?
A comment is something that you write to express your opinion, especially on a website.
Frank asks how many of those comments are positive and how many are negative.
Melissa says I don't read the comments.
I assume they're all positive comments.
She thinks everyone loves her videos, but she doesn't read their comments with their actual opinions.
She says her videos have never been flagged.
To be flagged F-L-A-G-G-E-D means to indicate that something on the Internet has either broken a rule for the website or is somehow unusual in some way.
So if you go to YouTube and you put up video of a television program that is illegal, someone could flag your video.
They could indicate to the owner of the website that you are doing something wrong.
Frank says alright, so this is another video of you dancing with your cat.
That's Melissa's video her dancing with her cat.
Melissa says, no, my cat and I are dancing and singing.
That's why we're both going to be the next big thing.
The next big thing is the next thing that will be very popular and well-known among many people.
It's the next.
We might call it trend or fad, F-A-D.
Something that's popular for a while, but only briefly, only for a short time, and then it's not so popular anymore.
Melissa says she thinks she and her cat will be the next big thing.
Frank says, right.
But he says it in a way that really means wrong.
He says the word right, meaning I don't believe you.
So sometimes the meaning of the word can be the opposite depending on how the person says it.
He says, I'll get in line.
I'll start waiting right now to buy tickets to your upcoming Vegas show.
Upcoming, one word, means happening in the near future.
Something that will be happening soon.
Vegas refers to the city of Las Vegas in Nevada, about five hours by car east of Los Angeles.
It's where you can go and see a lot of famous singers.
They have shows, they have performances that you can go and watch.
Frank, of course, is making a joke.
Now let's listen to the dialogue, this time at a normal speed.
You're looking at the next overnight sensation.
I'm uploading my video right now and by this time tomorrow I wouldn't be surprised if it's had over 100000 views.
It's going to go viral.
You and your amateur videos.
Who is going to watch something with such low production value?
You'd be surprised.
I have my own channel on YouGOOB with over 5,000 subscribers.
Are you sure that's not because your username is Angelina Jolie?
No, it's because people enjoy my videos, mark them as their favorites and share them with their friends.
Word of mouth.
That's why I'm so popular.
But what about the comments on your videos?
How many of those are positive and how many are negative?
I don't read the comments.
I assume they're all positive and my videos have never been flagged.
All right.
So is this another video of you dancing with your cat?
No.
My cat and I are dancing and singing.
That's why we're both going to be the next big thing.
Right.
I'll get in line right now to buy tickets to your upcoming Vegas show.
Why is ESL Podcasts so popular?
Well, the big reason, I think, is our scriptwriter, the wonderful Dr. Lucy Say.
From Los Angeles, California, I'm Jeff McQuillan.
Thank you for listening.
Come back and listen to us again here on ESL Podcast.
Angelina, call me.
English as a Second Language Podcast is written and produced by Dr Lucy Say, hosted by Dr Jeff McQuillan.
Copyright 2011 by the Center for Educational Development.
