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There are certain English expressions or words that you only use in the spring.
In this episode, Lindsay and Michelle show you the words of spring and how to use them.
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Hey, Michelle, how's it going?
Hey, Lindsay, spring is in the air.
Oh my gosh, that's so exciting.
I love that smell of the air in springtime, especially the first hint of that, when there's like a lightness, there's a warmth.
It's a certain smell.
It's very clear.
Every year.
What do you think?
What is for you?
What is the first thing you feel when it comes to springtime or notice?
Just like a relief.
Honestly, I feel I just feel, you know, the day you start to feel the day is getting longer.
Yeah.
You're starting to maybe switch up your jacket and you're like this.
Like it feels in that moment when you start to consider changing jackets.
Yeah.
It's a very big moment, don't you think?
Yeah.
Michelle, I feel like you should not live in the Northeast, because it sounds like you really don't like winter.
Like, you really don't like winter.
I hate it.
And it's so funny that you say that, because sometimes I say like I don't know what I'm doing here, like I sometimes I think like well, there are other options.
It's not like this is the only place in the world, but then there are so many wonderful things about living here and then family is here and you know so.
But I do hate it.
And the funny thing is my son hates it too.
Like oh, in the winter there was one day uh, where he like couldn't get his glove on properly and i was taking him home from school and he was crying.
Yeah, like he was crying.
That's how cold he was.
And he and he goes i don't like the cold.
Can you make it sunny?
Can you take?
Oh yeah, he said can you take away the cold?
He thinks he can.
You can do anything because you're his mom, right?
Yeah, i love that.
Yeah, it's true.
I mean, you guys should think about moving to Florida or something or California, you know?
Oh, yeah.
Well, maybe one day I'll do winters in a warmer place or something.
But yeah, until then.
Sometimes I'm like, this is so ridiculous.
Like, not everybody in the country is tracing this.
Yeah, it's true.
It's true.
Definitely, yeah.
New England, I think a lot of New Englanders or Northeasterners you're a New Yorker, I was a New Englander we have this inner dialogue, this inner argument with ourselves every year when it gets really, really cold or like, why do we live here?
Oh, but it's so great because it's you know, big cities, exciting stuff and it is.
There's so much culture, so much diversity on the east coast, but it's, it's tough.
So spring would you say that's your favorite time of year.
When it turns into spring Um, I would say like late spring, because I like when, like you're a little bit more like assured that it's going to be nice outside.
You know, when it's kind of like back and forth, I get a little bit frustrated.
Yeah, me too, me too.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But but so but you must not hate winter because you like to ski and all that stuff.
Yeah.
You know, Colorado is really funny.
Everyone thinks that Colorado is so cold.
You think of Colorado, I think of cold and snow, but actually it's really sunny and warm here a lot of the time.
It's just that it's the temperature swings so quickly.
Yeah.
So I could wake up on a spring morning and it could be winter, like full on 25 degrees.
And you need gloves on a day like that in Colorado because you'll get this intense frostbite.
And then by the afternoon, the sun could come out.
It could be 70 degrees.
I've seen that happen easily.
And you can sit outside and drink a beer.
So it's a really weird climate here.
Yeah.
And here it's – did you ever feel, when you lived in this area, that there was no actual spring and sometimes no actual fall?
Like sometimes it just feels like it's like cold, a little less cold.
Yeah.
Hot.
I think that's happening –
I kind of feel that way more so.
I don't know if that's climate change or what, but when I was a kid I remember actual spring and fall seasons.
Now I feel like they don't exist.
Yeah, i don't feel like they exist, but if they do exist, we do have some vocabulary for them.
Right, we do, we do, we do, we do so guys, we did an episode in the winter it was episode 1711, and it was called ugly sweaters and stocking stuffers phrases you only use in the winter.
You remember that one, lindsay?
Yeah, this is so fun.
I love this little mini-series we're doing Michelle, on phrases you only use in specific seasons, right?
Right, right, right.
Exactly.
So today, because now we are well into spring, we are going to talk about spring words expressions, so things that we typically only end up saying in spring.
So it's kind of interesting.
So Lindsay, what's the Well?
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Okay Michelle, let's get into this, because I really want our listeners to have this vocabulary right away so they can use it even today.
Absolutely.
Okay.
So the first one is April showers bring May flowers.
Oh my gosh.
I feel like my mom used to say this all the time.
This is so embedded in the culture.
It is.
And you're not going to say this at really another time of year.
This is a very specific spring expression.
You're not.
But I feel like in the Northeast, June is a really rainy month.
So I would always say June showers bring July flowers.
But yeah, it's really just this one, guys.
So it's kind of funny because we have these things that we say in these specific seasons, at certain times.
So if I wake up in April on a rainy day, I would say well, it's rainy, but April showers bring May flowers, right.
That's a cheesy over-exaggeration of the intonation there, Michelle.
That's kind of how we might say it to make ourselves feel better.
Yeah, it's like the optimistic viewpoint.
Because I think what happens is you reach March and you're like, okay, okay, it's coming.
And then you start April.
And you're like, okay, okay, okay, it's gonna be really nice.
And then it just like starts to rain.
And then it's like, no.
And so you have to keep reminding yourself to be patient, because that good weather is really on the way.
And then you mean you can have beautiful weather at that time of year as well.
You can.
And I know for a lot of our listeners.
I mean they come from countries where there are true rainy seasons.
I don't know if we have a true rainy season in the Northeast, you know, in New England, New York City, even here in Denver, we don't get any rain out here.
Never rains.
Um, but in countries like Thailand, I think the rainy season is something like the spring time.
I want to say June.
They have real, real rainstorms.
So you guys are ready for this.
You'll need this kind of expression.
Okay.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
So the next one is spring is in the air.
And, you know, now that I think of it.
Because there's also lovins in the air, right?
Right, right, right.
So like I don't know if one of these started as a song or I'm not sure exactly how we started saying this, but we don't usually say like winter is in the air or summer is in the air.
It's usually spring is in the air, right?
No, exactly.
And I do think that I'm glad you mentioned love, because I think there's something with spring and love.
It's kind of a theme in poetry and poems and songs in what we say.
It's like things are waking up.
Our hearts are waking up.
This is very much in the culture, for sure.
So love is in the air, spring is in the air, absolutely.
Yeah, I'm thinking of a song anyway, I don't know, but yeah, a good one to just say yeah, spring is in the air.
The you know, the leaves are getting beautiful, the birds are chirping right, And I think it's true too.
I do feel like people start dating more.
They kind of hunker down in the winter if you're not with anyone.
You might hunker down in the winter.
You don't want to go out and date, and maybe you get a little bit more frisky in the springtime.
You want to go out that's a great word, by the way frisky, um.
You want to go out and just have fun, meet people.
You don't have to bring a jacket out, it's just a feeling of lightness in your heart right exactly exactly, um.
So then what's the next one?
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Okay, well, April Fool's, and what would be the intonation?
When would you say this, April Fool's?
Well, it's April 1st, right?
So guys, we're here in April 12th now.
So we're a little bit past that.
We missed it.
Oh, no.
No, it's okay.
It was April Fool's.
That's usually basically the day.
April 1st is when people might play little practical jokes on each other.
So it's kind of a fun and also a little scary day.
Did you ever have a really bad joke played on you?
Not that I can think of, but my friends were all jokers, especially in college.
So probably, but I can't think of it.
What about you?
Nothing specific.
I do remember.
I think we put like shaving cream on someone's car once.
Things like that, especially when we all got our licenses and when we were 16 and 17, we used to play jokes on people's cars.
We thought that was funny.
I don't know why.
But yeah, that's.
That's a fun thing that like, you're not really going to be talking about April Fool.
I mean, like you could had another time of year, but this is very specific to spring.
Exactly.
And we've talked about April Fool's on this show before, guys.
So just come back to the blog. allersenglish.com and type in April Fools.
I bet something will come up there for you, okay?
All right, Michelle, what's the next one?
The next one is spring forward, fall back.
So I think we've also done something on this, but basically it's this way to remember the time change right?
So So this one you also use in the fall, actually.
But to remind yourself what's going on with the hours, what's going on with the time?
Change, spring forward.
So if it was 5 o'clock, it's 6 o'clock.
And in the fall, you change your clocks back.
Right.
And that's where you really start to notice that the days are a little longer.
Right, Michelle?
That's the best.
Yeah, that is the best.
I mean, these days, you know, we're recording this in the winter and it's pretty dark at night.
It's going to be dark at 430 or 5.
That's hard.
You feel like your day is very short.
Yes, exactly.
Exactly.
So this is nice.
And then I have one more.
It's a it's a weathery term, I guess.
What is it, Lindsay?
Are we just putting wise at the end of everything then today, Michelle?
Dewy, weathery?
Yeah.
Weathery, yes.
I'm just doing, yeah, weathery.
Yeah, that's not a word.
All right.
Yeah, so the word, guys, is, well, do we.
So it's do, and then we add a Y, and that makes it an adjective, right, Michelle?
Do, D-E-W-Y is the word.
Mm-hmm.
Right.
So what is Dewey?
The Dewey Decimal System?
I don't know.
That's right.
No, this is not about math or decimals or numbers.
It's about weather, guys.
So when you walk out in the springtime, you see your grass.
There's a layer of dew on your grass.
And that's kind of – it's not frost because frost is colder –
But it's just precipitation or it's just, I guess, liquid that's come from the clouds and it's gone onto your grass.
That's all I know about that.
That was pretty good.
Not bad?
You like that?
Yeah.
I mean, that sounds about right to me.
Yeah.
No, you're not a wither.
I mean, and I think of spring when I think of like the dew.
Yes, the spring dew.
I think of spring.
Yeah, the springtime.
You kind of get it at night too, right?
Sometimes in the evening you see dew on your grass.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That kind of thing.
Yeah.
So that's definitely something we would say only in the spring, not really in the fall.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Spring.
I think I hear.
I don't know.
I just wanted to throw that one in there.
Do it.
Yeah.
There's definitely like each season kind of has a feeling for sure.
I think I think spring is a feeling of freshness.
Mm hmm.
Oh, it's it's.
Yeah, it is great.
It's really good.
So let's do a role play for our listeners.
Michelle, are you ready?
Let's do it.
All right.
Here we go.
Oh, wow.
I love that dewy smell and it's a little warmer today.
I'm so happy.
Spring is in the air.
You know what?
I still can't believe you played that April Fool's joke on me.
It was so funny.
Well, you were the one who got me with spring forward fall back earlier this month.
I totally had no idea what time it was.
Anyway, the weather.
Yeah.
Now we just have to get through this rainy month.
I know.
But at least April showers bring May flowers.
That's true.
We're almost there.
Yeah.
OK, let's go back through it here.
So first I said, oh, wow, I love that dewy smell.
Or I could have said I love the smell of dew.
Right.
Right.
Yeah.
You don't want to use the Y.
Maybe we'll do another episode Michelle, in the future on adding why at the end of a noun to make it an adjective.
That would be a good one for our listeners.
That is a good idea.
That's a good idea.
Why at the end of a noun to make it an adjective.
Nice.
Okay.
So I said, I'm so happy spring is in the air.
Yes, spring is in the air.
And then you said, I still can't believe you played that April Fool's joke on me, right?
Maybe I did something funny to you.
Do I guess people still do this in the workplace?
April Fool's jokes, don't they?
They do.
Yeah, I think so.
I think it's still a thing.
Yeah.
So watch out.
Yeah, that's right.
And again, you said April, I said April Fool's joke.
But if I were saying it to you, like as I was playing the joke, I would have said April Fool's.
Right, exactly.
Exactly.
Perfect.
And then I said, you were the one who got me with spring forward fall back.
What does that mean?
What did you do here?
Sounds like I like played around with your clocks or I tried to confuse you to play a joke on you.
Yeah.
Or you were like, oh, you're late.
But I actually wasn't late.
You're trying to play around with me.
Right.
Exactly.
And then the last one, would you say, Michelle?
I said, you were saying we have to get through this rainy month.
And I said, at least April showers bring May flowers.
Yeah, good.
Okay, cool.
So this is good, guys.
I mean, you know, spring is the season of freshness and love, I guess.
I guess there's love every season.
But I think of that just the way that love and spring and the weather come together.
So, so good.
Oh, It's very poetic, Michelle.
That was beautiful, Lindsay.
Oh, gosh.
So what's a final thought for our listeners?
Any final takeaway from your rant?
Well, basically spring.
What I thought was, you know, spring is a beautiful, but it's a little bit of an odd season.
You know, there's just... is weird.
It's a transition time.
It's exciting, but sometimes it's a little frustrating because you want those beautiful days.
You want it to be every day.
And then there are more and more as time goes on.
Yeah.
It's kind of a teasing season, right?
It kind of teases you, right?
A teasing.
A teasing.
A teasing.
Oh, that's good, Michelle.
Oh, the puns.
The puns.
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So good.
Nice.
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Have a great spring.
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