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My name is Lara and I'm a SALSA certified English teacher.
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We're talking about dum-dum-da-dum, dum-dum-da-dum, getting married.
Our train's coming, honey.
What's your seat number?
3B.
Lisa, I know it's not the best moment, but it's now or never.
Lisa, honey, will you f*** me?
Oh my gosh, Jude!
I can't believe you finally proposed!
You have no idea how long I've waited for this!
I have to call Claire right away!
Hold on.
Claire!
Claire!
Jude just proposed!
No way!
He finally popped the question, huh?
Yes!
We're finally engaged!
Who would have thought you'd be the first to walk down the aisle?
Honey, wait a second.
So, when are you going to tie the knot?
I don't know.
We haven't talked about... Lisa!
Honey!
What?
I just said, will you switch seats with me?
Claire, I'm gonna have to call you back.
Okay, so maybe it wasn't exactly the wedding story we'd expected.
Expression number one, propose.
I can't believe you finally proposed.
If you propose to someone, are you asking them to spend the rest of their life with you or to buy a house together?
If you propose to someone, you're asking them to spend the rest of their life with you, to get married.
Traditionally, who's the one proposing in the couple?
The man or the woman?
Okay, I said traditionally, all right?
We have all sorts of couples and all are beautiful and all are great.
But traditionally, it's the man that proposes.
Nothing wrong with a woman proposing, but that's, you know, traditionally that's what happens.
So what did you say or will say to someone you proposed or will propose to?
So I have never proposed to anybody and nobody's ever proposed to me.
I do have a boyfriend and I've had boyfriends before, but we never got to that point.
So I think if I were to propose you know to someone, I would obviously I would go for the standard.
Like you know, you're the most important person in my life.
You mean the world to me.
Like, you know, just a nice speech before I actually propose and ask him to marry me.
Expression number two, pop the question.
He finally popped the question, huh?
Traditionally, again, traditionally, what are the words you say when you pop the question?
Traditionally, you say, will you marry me?
At least in English, that's the most popular question to ask.
Hey, you can ask whatever you want.
You can be like, hey, dude, let's get married, depending on how romantic or traditional you are.
Traditionally, which position are you in when you pop the question?
Are you standing or kneeling down?
So usually, this is the way we picture it at least, is with the man kneeling down.
So on one knee, showing the ring to the woman.
That's, you know, the moment when he pops the question.
How long do you think you need to have dated someone before one of you pops the question?
This is a million dollar question.
Obviously, there's no right or wrong answer.
It depends on the couple.
I personally think you need to have spent enough time together.
It doesn't really matter how long, but let's say, two years in a long distance relationship, for example, are not the same as a year living together.
So I think, one year of living together, like Seeing each other every day, going through all the birthdays, all the celebrations, you know, all the seasons.
That really gives you a chance to see what a person is like and decide if you would like to spend the rest of your life with them.
Expression number three, be engaged.
We're finally engaged.
If you are engaged, can you break up with your partner?
I hope you don't have to, but yes, you can break up with your partner even if you're engaged.
And in that case, would you have to go through a divorce?
No.
If you are engaged, there's no papers, there's no documents involved.
So nothing, you know it doesn't have any major consequences if you want to break up with your partner.
What changes in your relationship after you've gotten engaged?
Well, not much really.
The only thing that changes is that you start preparing for the wedding.
So you start looking for a venue.
Maybe you start sending out the invitations and all these things that go into planning a wedding.
How long are people usually engaged for before getting married? again, this really depends.
There's people, they get engaged and then two months later, they're already married.
Maybe they go to Las Vegas and they do it super quickly.
And people that take years and years and years before to plan the wedding and everything.
So it takes them a long time to get married.
I think the average is about a year.
That's usually how long it takes to plan a traditional wedding, at least in the united states, but it might vary in other countries.
Expression number four walk down the aisle.
Who would have thought you'd be the first to walk down the aisle?
Is walking down the aisle another way of saying get married or get engaged?
Walk down the aisle is what you do when you're a bride, when you're getting married.
So you're wearing your in the US, your white dress, and you walk, you know, all the way to the altar.
So walking down the aisle means getting married.
When do you think you'll walk down the aisle or how long ago did you walk down the aisle if you're already married?
Guys, so like I said, I have never, I've never been married.
And unfortunately, I don't think I ever will.
So I don't think I'll ever walk down the aisle.
Right now, I'm in a relationship with my boyfriend, Marcos.
Hi, Marcos.
He listens to me.
So take that.
And he doesn't want to get married.
We talked about this.
We haven't finished discussing this.
But yeah, he doesn't want to get married.
So I think I will never get to walk down the aisle, which is pretty sad.
But there's worse things in life.
So...
Expression number five, tie the knot.
When are you going to tie the knot?
Is tying the knot another way of saying get married or get engaged?
Tie the knot, just like walk down the aisle, means to get married.
How old do you think you need to be in order to tie the knot?
Again, it can change.
And you know, there's people that get married at 20, even younger than that, and people that wait until they're in their 40s or 50s.
Some people get married and tie the knot more than once in their life.
And personally, what I think is The later, the better.
So the later in life, the better.
Because you know we change so much as human beings and you know getting married early on is just I don't think it's a great idea.
It may work out perfectly and, you know, you may find the perfect match and maybe you grow together.
But chances are, you know, you're going to change a lot in your life.
And the more you wait, the better match you will be able to find.
That's what I think.
But if you're happily married and have been married ever since you were 20, I'm super, super happy for you and a little bit jealous.
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