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Oh, look at that. Whoa, thank you.
Yeah, I got it at a street market actually.
Really? Street markets?
Shopping, on the street, at a market.
Let's talk about the street market, dear listener.
Are there many street markets in your country?
Yeah there are a few village markets that get put on from time to time and occasionally they bring their wares to the city centres as well.
When was the last time you went to a street market?
That's a good question.
I think it was when I was abroad actually.
There were rows of stalls flogging all kinds of things from jewellery to stationery.
It was very interesting to see actually.
We don't see so many stationary stalls at street markets in my country.
Do you prefer shopping in a shopping mall or at the street market?
Well I like to get everything in one go, so shopping malls cater to this nicely, unless I'm shopping for something special, like a souvenir, then I head down to the markets.
What do you usually buy at a street market?
Whatever catches my eye really.
Like I said, it's usually something that signifies a particular place, or something for a specific person.
So there's quite a range.
One of the last things I picked up was a candle holder actually, but before that it was a necklace, so like I say, there's quite a lot of diversity in the things that I can buy from a street market.
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See you soon! a big street or a square, and there is a market, open air places, open air markets.
Usually they happen on the weekend, but not necessarily.
And there are different markets.
For example, a market where you can buy food or a flea market.
Rory, what's a flea market?
Isn't that where you can buy secondhand things at reduced prices?
Is that right? I don't, I've never been to a flea market, so I don't know.
No, oh wow. So there are famous flea markets all over Europe and they're quite beautiful markets with music and food and dancing and different events, every weekend.
So you can buy secondhand clothes, bags, antiques, some vintage stuff, furniture, a flea market like F -L -E -A.
Or, you can talk about the farmer's market where you can buy food, local products.
There are also some, I don't know, like, garage sales.
So for example, if Rory wants to sell his stuff, Rory organizes a garage sale of his personal stuff.
Even though I don't have a garage?
Yeah, just like, you know...
It's still called a garage sale.
So, the reason why is that's usually where all of your old things are kept.
If you are from a middle class background, but I live in an apartment, so there is no need for a garage or a garage.
I also don't drive.
So there's like a compounding lack of need here.
So dear listener, in your country, there are flea markets, there are garage sales, there are farmers markets.
even if you don't know them, there are lots of street markets but some of them are called, aren't they, like fairs?
A fair? What's a fair?
A fair, that's less a market and more, I think they're usually connected to some kind of celebration.
So for example, you might have a fair with different rides on for a particular holiday and there might be stalls connected to that, but their fairs and markets are generally separate things.
One is about celebrating and having fun and one is about buying things.
Yeah, so a fair is a large public event where goods are bought and sold usually from tables that have been specifically arranged for the Yeah, actually, a craft fair.
And you go there and you can buy some wooden stuff from local people, so a craft fair.
You can talk about craft fairs or vegetable fairs that are organized every weekend in your city or village, wherever you live.
If indeed they are.
People bring their wares to the city centers.
Where's what do you mean by wheres?
Where's are just the things that they sell.
Or the things they make in order to be sold.
They're products, they're goods, they're wheres.
When the examiner asks you when was the last time you went to, or when was the last time you saw, and then you kind of react naturally, dear listener.
It's super Band 9 important.
You just say well, I don't know really, hmm that's a good question.
Well, let me think like a street market probably It was when I was abroad actually, okay So they're a very natural response from Rory and then you talk about row Then you talk about stalls So when you are at the market, you see different stalls and a stall is where products are laid out for you.
A stall, like a vegetable stall, a large kind of table with products.
And you can say that there were rows of stores, so lines of stores, many stores and people sold all kinds of things from jewelry to stationery.
So all kinds of things.
Rory, if I say that I can buy knick -knacks at a market, what do I mean?
Is that not just...
You buy odds and ends, which is another word for bits and pieces.
Yeah, so all you kind of like little thingies, you know, like little, like, usually we don't need them, but little, I don't know, souvenirs, magnets, I don't know...
some... some useless stuff but...
which is so cool when you are at a market.
You can say like, lots of knickknacks I usually get bits and pieces, for the kitchen, for my house, for myself some like hats, socks, I don't know, and secondhand goods.
It's good to have bits and pieces, because that is a binomial, which is a special kind of fixed expression in English.
it's always bits and pieces, it's not pieces and bits, it's similar to things like salt and pepper or fish and chips.
We don't say chips and fish and we don't say pepper and salt.
So these kinds of fixed expressions are quite useful to have. You can say that I usually pick up some bits and pieces for my house, I usually pick some, you know, chews, buy.
I usually shop for nick -nacks, different souvenirs, local produce, local food, you know.
Or maybe, dear listener, pirated goods.
You know, some pirate stuff.
Illegal stuff. Oh my god, we cannot talk about that on the podcast!
Oh, no. Okay. All right.
Okay. Maria, encouraging piracy?
You can't encourage intellectual property theft when what we sell is intellectual property.
Yeah okay okay yeah, that's true.
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Verizon Business. You can also shop for local delicacies, the listener.
So local foods. Mmm, yum yum yum.
So I usually pick up some local delicacies.
I can shop in a mall or at the street market.
And Roy, do we say at a market, in a market, on a market?
I think normally we talk about, well, things are in a market for the physical space, but also at the market for a specific event as well.
But those things can be interchangeable.
You can say that I prefer to get everything in one go.
So I go to a shopping mall, I get everything in one go, in one place at once.
Wow, nice, Roy. No, it's just efficient.
I shop for something special.
So if I'm shopping for something special like different knickknacks, souvenirs, I head down to the markets.
Yay. Head down to? I go to the markets.
I just head, head down to the market.
Or if I need to get hold of something special to buy, to pick up, get hold of something special, I head down to the market.
Yeah and you can say that I can haggle at a market.
Roy, what do we do when we haggle?
It's kind of like a special kind of negotiating for the price which I am terrible at.
So it's like the vendor establishes a price and you go lower and then they offer an alternative and then you offer an alternative so it's like a friendly argument over the price but again some people are very good at this.
I am not I just like to get the thing and leave but for some people it's a very important part of their culture and how things are bought and sold.
Yeah you can say that I enjoy haggling so when the seller, vendor.
Vendor is a like this jacket is $100 no it's $50 I'll get it for $20 no 50 or 60 so this is like haggling and you can find a good bargain at the market so you can find a thing at a good price a good bargain maybe if you're good at it you haggle and then you get a bargain so you buy something at a very good price.
And what do we usually buy at street markets?
Again nicks and necks, bits and pieces for your house, local produce, local delicacies, yummy and food, fresh veggies and whatever catches my eye.
Alright so we're just like walking along the street market.
Oh okay. Some cups.
Alright so you get some cups, whatever catches my eye.
And you can say that one of the last things I picked up, I bought, I picked up, a phrasal verb, was a candle holder.
Again, something, you know, just bits and pieces, you know, a candle holder, wow, and a necklace.
I was trying to remember why I bought the candle holder there, but it was just because it was nice.
Yeah, that's, you know, the benefits of street markets.
They're just like, nice designs and you shop around and you find a bargain and you can haggle there are affordable prices so there are different sellers and vendors vendors or sellers you can chat with them you know like like usually there is a nice atmosphere and you get to meet your local community local vendors But it could be unhygienic, could be dirty.
And that could be true of anything, anywhere.
Yeah, yeah. They could be packed with lots of people.
When I was travelling around Europe, we would go to a flea market every weekend.
So for example, I remember some...
a flea market in Greece, in Athens, also in Italy, in Paris, yeah, it's kind of like you see real people, local people.
So even if you don't buy anything like such places have a very unique atmosphere and this is something like Connected to culture, and if you want to know a city go to a flea market.
Yeah That's a nice another glance at the city.
You know if you want to feel the city to plunge you to the city's atmosphere Yeah, and we have a joke.
We do? Of course we have a joke.
Is it about flea markets?
No Rory you're a killjoy!
You've just killed my joke.
Why? You were talking about it.
I'm gonna tell the joke anyway.
So what kind of market do dogs hate?
Is it a flea market, Maria?
Yes… Right, dogs hate fleas.
And a flea is an an insect dear listener.
FLEAS. This annoying, disgusting insect.
Are fleas insects? FLEAS were arthropods.
Yeah, no no. It's it's an insect according to the Cambridge online dictionary.
Is it? Popular science Rory, we don't go into details.
Oh we shouldn't! So a very small jumping insect that feeds on the blood of animals.
Oh you're disgusting!
So usually it's in the hair of cats and dogs and even people.
So yeah, that's why dogs hate fleas.
And what kind of markets do dogs hate?
Flee markets! Right, dear listener, we're done.
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Are there many street markets in your country?
Um, yeah, there are a few village markets that get put on from time to time and occasionally they bring their wares to the city centers as well.
When was the last time you went to a street market?
That's a good question.
I think it was when I was abroad actually, there were rows of stalls flogging all kinds of things from jewelry to stationery.
It was very interesting to see actually.
We don't see so many stationery stalls at street markets in my country.
Do you prefer shopping in a shopping mall or at the street market?
Well I like to get everything in one go, so shopping malls cater to this nicely unless I'm shopping for something special like a souvenir.
um then I head down to the markets.
What do you usually buy at the street market?
Um whatever catches my eye really, um, like I said it's usually something that signifies a particular place or something for a specific person.
So there's quite a range.
Um one of the last things I picked up was a candle holder actually but before that it was a necklace.
So, like I said, there's quite a lot of diversity in the things that I can buy from the street market.
