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Oh man, you know, making these podcasts every day, I'm just too tired.
I'm gonna give up. I'm gonna quit.
I'm giving up. I'm quitting.
I'm quitting, I'm going to throw in the towel.
That's today's expression.
No, I'm not quitting.
I'm not going to give up.
I am not going to throw in the towel.
This is a great expression.
Actually, it's a terrible expression.
To throw T H R O W in the towel, T O W E L.
Now when do you use a towel?
Well, if you go to the beach, you need a beach towel.
If you wash your hair, or wash your hands, or wash your body, you need a towel to dry yourself off, right?
Oh, and me, if you've seen a picture of me, you know that I...
Well, I'm very muscular.
I'm a boxer. I'm a professional boxer.
and when I box, I sweat a lot so I need a towel to wipe the sweat from my face.
What, are some of you laughing?
You don't think I'm a boxer?
Huh, I always box, I box with my cats and my cats are pretty good, no I'm not a boxer, but that's where this expression comes from, it comes from boxing and the idea is, let's say I'm a boxing coach and my guy is up fighting.
Now when he's fighting in the boxing ring, he's getting killed, the other guy is just killing my guy and I have my boxer's towel to wipe his sweat, but I'm seeing that my boy is getting killed.
So what I do is I take my towel and I throw it into the boxing ring.
And then the referee, the man who's watching the fight, he sees the towel and he stops the fight and he forces my guy to stop.
To save his life or to save his face.
Yeah, that's where the expression comes from.
It comes from boxing, to throw in the towel.
And we use this expression a lot.
pops. Let's check out the dialogue.
How's your English going?
Ah, I threw in the towel.
Already? It's too hard. And boring.
Oh, man. I know, learning a language is tough.
Very tough. I learned Korean, very difficult.
Now, let me tell you about the Korean language, as an English speaker.
First of all, the alphabet is completely different.
They don't use ABCD, it's totally different.
The number of consonants is different, the number of vowels is different.
The grammar structure is completely different.
It's, it's a very different language.
the pronunciation difference.
There's you know a regular r -l...
no they don't have that.
It's just very very tough.
The grammar rule, oh my good the vocabulary and then many Korean words have a Chinese origin, so sometimes you need to know the Chinese character for something and oh boy it just goes on and on.
There are so many difficult languages–Japanese, Chinese, very difficult.
Russian, Polish, very difficult languages.
What about you? Is English the difficult language for you?
Or is there another language that seems even more crazy, more difficult?
A one language that seems too difficult for me, Arabic, the writing, the writing is from the other side and I don't see the letters and the pronunciation looks really tough.
But you know what, if there's a reason that we want to study the language, not just a study, not because teacher says study the language but if there's a reason, then we got to do it.
And we can't throw in the towel.
So when it comes to English, it might be business.
For business, you need English.
Or maybe for school, you need English.
You might. Maybe you want to travel the world.
Well, English will help.
Especially if you want to travel the world by yourself with no tour guide.
Yeah, you're gonna need English.
And I know it's tough.
That's why I am here.
I do not want you to throw in the towel.
Don't give up. Have fun with the English.
Enjoy the podcast. You know if you miss a day that's okay.
No problem. You can come back and start again.
We got videos on YouTube.
It's amazing, we got Perth for your speaking, we have DDM for your listening, excellent classes that you can sign up for but the last thing I want you to do is throw in the towel.
Do not throw in the towel on your English studies.
Take a break. That's fine but don't throw in the towel.
Okay? You promise? If you promise to do that then I promise to, well, I guess another year.
and I'll do another year of this podcast. Ha ha ha.
Maybe longer. Maybe longer.
But, you know, we've got to help each other.
You help me, by listening, by telling your friends and I will help you by being here every day for you as best I can.
That's it everybody.
Do not throw in the towel on your English studies, okay?
That's it. Listen to the dialogue two more times and together, let's Master English!
How's your English going?
Ah! I threw in the towel.
Already? It's too hard and boring!
How's your English going?
Ah! I threw in the towel.
Already? It's too hard and boring!
