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Hello, lovely. I'm Luria.
My name is Rory, and we are the most of the IELTS speaking for success podcast.
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Is that a new dress? Oh, yes!
And I also bought these new shoes.
Oh, wow, that's a lot of shopping.
It's Rory's favorite topic.
Is it? No, it's not. It's like my least favorite topic in the world.
It's a joke. Our Rory dislikes shopping.
I think he does it like a once in five years?
In ten years? Or even longer if I can help it, I hate shopping.
Rory, do you like shopping?
If it's a simple case of going in, getting the things I want, and then getting out again, then I'm a big fan.
Otherwise, I'm really not thrilled about being dragged around a million stores to window shop to be honest.
It seems like a massive waste of time.
Do you compare prices when you shop?
Well, sometimes I knit back and forth between some cosmetic shops when I'm looking at moisturizer, but other than that, I usually just pick the most convenient place to go.
But I'm pretty low-maintenance, so most of what I buy is quite cheap anyway, and I don't have to search high and low for the best deals.
Is it difficult for you to make choices when you shop?
No, usually. But then I have pretty fixed requirements for clothes and things.
Do they fit and are they inexpensive?
I'm not about to spend hours traipsing around trying to find the best shade to match my eyes or something like that.
Do you think expensive products are always better than cheaper ones?
Not always, but usually they are.
Otherwise, what will be the point on buying them at a higher price?
Hey, shoppading and the Rory are two different, you know, universities, DLSN.
Are you into shopping? Well, I like shopping, you know.
Have we talked about shopping before?
Yes, I else people tend to repeat the same topics over and over again.
So, DLSN, you can just go ahead and listen to our older episodes about shopping.
So, DLSN, Rory's shopping works like this.
Rory goes in, he gets the things he wants and he gets out.
Go in, get the things I want, get out.
So, if this is your, I don't know, like this is what you do usually.
Well, you can say, I'm a big fan of shopping.
Go in, get the things I want, get out.
Yay, shopping is done. But, do we always do this?
I always do it. So, then it's not a simple case.
It's a case of and then you describe what you're doing, where you could say it's a complicated case or a complicated process.
But if it's a very simple process, then it's a simple case of and then doing a few short actions and you're done.
You can say, I'm not really thrilled about shopping or I am thrilled about shopping.
I love it. Like I do love it.
I'm really thrilled about shopping.
Yay, if you are negative about shopping, then you can say, I'm not thrilled about being dragged around a million stores.
Stores like shops and if you are dragged, so can I like I drag you?
I don't know. You take me there, whether I want to go or not.
Have we ever been shopping with you?
No, never. That's the reason Rory.
There is a reason for that.
Yes, so if for example, Rory and I go shopping together, someone might die.
Rory doesn't want to go and I drag Rory to all these shops in a shopping center.
And sometimes we just window shop.
When you do window shopping or I window shop or I enjoy window shopping, you just look at the windows of a shop.
You don't buy anything, but you just, you know, like you check out the windows.
You look what they have.
But if I window shop, do I go inside and check out the clothes and the things that they have?
Well, the term comes from looking through the windows at the product, so really know.
But to be honest, just any process of looking at the product, but not buying it, but wondering about buying it, or what it would be like to have it is window shopping.
So you don't need a window to window shop, even though it seems like this.
We sometimes compare prices.
So when I shop or when I go shopping, I usually compare prices or I don't.
And Rory, you said like sometimes I nip back and forth.
Nip back and forth? Oh, it just means move between places very quickly.
Well, Nip is a slang term or an idiom for moving quickly somewhere.
Nip to the shops means just it's like pop to the shops.
It just means go somewhere very quickly in short space of time.
So if you nip back and forth, then you go between shops repeatedly to find the best prices or something else that requires going between places very quickly.
It's very frustrating and tedious and I don't like doing it.
Tegious, it's boring, so shopping is tedious for me.
And nip is a verb in formal and it's used in the UK, Dellisna, to go somewhere quickly or be somewhere for only a short time.
For example, can you nip out to the shop for me or nip round to the shop like pop round to the shop like go there very quickly or just like let's nip into the cafe.
Okay, let's just go to a cafe real quick.
Cosmetics, we usually buy cosmetics, so all your shabu's and disheners and all this stuff.
And Rory sometimes looks for a moisturizer.
Moisturizer, that's Rory puts onto his face to make sure it's a well moist shit.
Yes, Rory? So moisturize on your face?
I do, yeah, but I wouldn't say it's a very complex process.
I just buy the ones that put a little bit in your hand, you put it on your face and you are done.
I appreciate that moisturizing for many people is a much more complicated process, but for me it's not.
Yeah, and careful cosmetics doesn't mean like makeup, right?
Cosmetics is like all the products like we use for hair, face, body, but like makeup is like makeup.
Okay, but cosmetics is like a general term, right?
Yes, for anything that improves the appearance, I think.
You choose cosmetics or you pick pick.
So I pick the most convenient place to go.
I pick the most expensive moisturizer.
Okay, but Rory is low maintenance.
Okay, so he doesn't require much stuff, whereas I am high maintenance.
Okay, I have all the shampoos and lots of bottles and creams and everything per film.
So it's like like wow, like a suitcase of cosmetics.
So I'm high maintenance.
Just for the hair, Rory, just my hair needs all like 10 different bottles.
I feel like though the women have a, well, it could be an advantage if you like it, but it could be a disadvantage if you don't like it.
So you have one of these things over men here, because that sounds, for to me that sounds really complicated.
I would not want to have to deal with that, but do you enjoy that?
Well, I have to enjoy it because like to take care of my hair, you know.
I like that. I have to do that.
Really, I have to. Like usually men have one bottle and this one bottle is like all inclusive.
It's not easy. It's five and one.
I have one. I love it. It's shampoos, conditioner, but I think it's like a five and one, five, ten and one.
I have a five and one. Oh my God.
Five and one. Oh, did you listen?
Do you have this five and one bottle?
Shampoo, cream, conditioner, cream for your feet?
What? All of the other bottles.
Oh my God. You can get cream for your feet.
We make choices. So when you shop, you pick different things, you choose or you make choices.
When you go shopping or you shop, you pop into a shop.
Rory has pretty fixed requirements for clothes.
He knows exactly what he needs.
He just gets it there. Do the shopping and get out.
Yeah, which is boring, deal with this.
So this is kind of like shopping is boring.
It's not boring. It's easy.
It's very easy. Thank you.
It's like this kind of a ride.
He's like, oh. And Rory's clothes are inexpensive.
Okay, deal with some. So they are quite cheap and clothes are inexpensive.
And what verb did you use about like, I don't want to spend hours to rapes something around.
Oh, trapezing. Trapezing around is the whole thing.
But trapezing or trapezing around is just moving in a tired and reluctant manner.
You don't want to do it. So I don't want to spend hours going around shops looking for things constantly.
I just want to get the thing by the thing and then take the thing home.
So trapezing. informal.
There is that to walk from one place to another often feeling tired or bored.
You know, so when you're after like five hours of shopping, you haven't found your favorite dress.
And you go, oh my god. Oh, la la, I'm tired.
So I spent the day trapezing around the shops like this.
Or like you see a lot of tourists trapezing around the museums for example.
You don't see me doing it though because I'm very organized.
And I'm not very organized.
Like sometimes I spend hours trapezing around different shops trying to find the best deal.
The best bargain for example, like a good price.
And here, Rory gave us an example with like makeup shade.
Shade is something you put like what's on your eyes, not eyes.
I think that's a high shadow, you mean?
I shadow. Yeah. Shade is the form of color.
Oh, you mean shade like a color with your clothes?
Okay, okay. It's like comparative for comparing the brightness or the darkness of the color.
So if you're looking for a shade of blue that matches your eyes, you're looking for a shade of blue or a piece of clothing, that's the same as your eyes.
And because they match that supposed to be a good thing.
Oh, Dylistna. How do I know that?
Why do I know that? I have no idea.
So Dylsna, you can say that I don't want to spend hours, trapezing around different shops, trying to find the best shade, the best color to match my eyes.
Okay? Or I do love checking out millions of shops, trying to find the best shade, the best color to match my eyes, you see?
Who are these people that enjoy this?
Where are they? Yes, Dylistna.
I'm sure you do enjoy some shopping.
Well, not every day, you know?
But the heat of like once in a while, maybe like once, twice a month?
Okay, some good shopping.
And kind of like spontaneous shopping, Dylistna.
Once or twice every five years?
Oh, right. We buy things at a higher price.
Or we buy things at a lower price.
Or we buy cheap things. Okay, Dylistna.
And also we shop for things.
Shop for the best bargains, like good deals.
Or you can say like, you know what's the examiner?
I'm a shopaholic. Like, I have this addiction.
I'm addicted to shopping.
Heli. I have to rent two flats to keep all my stuff that I buy every day.
And some people do this, you know, they rent certain spaces to keep all the stuff.
And you know what, Rory, what's the trend now?
What's like a popular? Why are you asking the person who hates shopping?
What the popular shopping trends are?
I have no idea. Oh, it's going to be something ridiculous, like buying something that has been printed with the same color of hair that you have.
No, no, no, no, no. People are very busy these days.
So what they do, they hire a professional stylist to do the shopping for you.
So you pay money to a professional.
This person comes to your house, they analyze all your clothes, then they shop for you, Dylistna.
Okay, they go to the shops, they choose the clothes for you, they leave the clothes in the shop saved for you.
And what do you do, you go in there, you try all the clothes, which are there waiting for you, and then you say, okay, I'll take these ones, I won't take these ones, and then hey, is this, you know, like an expert level shopping?
That is, I can't even begin to form an opinion related to that.
That's crazy. Why is it crazy?
You save time, you save your money.
A professional person tells you like, oh, what's good for you, what's not?
You're like, what's not?
You're like, what's the same as learning English?
You do it with a teacher usually, so the same with style and clothes.
It's possible that I am, maybe this does not work for someone who is as direct and straightforward as I am.
But I just, what, I just don't see, they appeal.
You see, he doesn't see the appeal.
What he thinks, it's not interesting.
But I think it's great, and I'm gonna do it very soon, Dylist.
And I'm gonna show you pictures before and after.
Thank you very much for listening.
I'll have to do some shopping now.
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Bye! Bye! Rory, do you like shopping?
If it's a simple case of going in, getting the things I want, and then getting out again, then I'm a big fan.
Otherwise, I'm really not thrilled about being dragged around a million stores to window shop to be honest.
It seems like a massive waste of time.
Do you compare prices when you shop?
Well, sometimes I knit back and forth between some cosmetic shops, and I'm looking at moisturizer.
But other than that, I usually just pick the most convenient place to go.
But I'm pretty low maintenance, so most of what I buy is quite cheap anyway.
And I don't have to search high and low for the best deals.
Is it difficult for you to make choices when you shop?
No, usually. But then I have pretty fixed requirements for clothes and things.
Do they fit? And are they inexpensive?
I'm not about to spend hours traipsing around trying to find the best shade to match my eyes or something like that.
Do you think expensive products are always better than cheaper ones?
I'm not always, but usually they are.
Otherwise, what would be the point on buying them at a higher price?
