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I'm Maria. And my name is Rory.
And we are the hosts of the IELTS Speaking for Success podcast.
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Rory, there's this expensive glass.
I really want to buy, but I don't want to wait until payday to get it.
Would you mind lending me the money for it?
Of course. Shall we talk about borrowing and lending things?
Oh, yes, let's do that.
Borrowing and lending, dear listener.
So first of all, when we borrow, we take something from another person for some time.
and the person lends us this thing, okay?
So money, for example.
Rory lends me money and I borrow money from him, okay?
It's important to understand because in some languages the word for these two different concepts is actually the same, which can cause all kinds of problems.
Yeah, so when you take things from other people, you borrow things from them when people give you things for a short period of time or for a long period of time they lend you things and then you kind of you give it back what you have taken it's the locus of control i love it have you ever borrowed books
from other people yes as a matter of fact i've borrowed one from my mom before dropping it off at a mutual friend's place so she could read it next.
And I've just taken out, and actually I regularly take out, books on loan from the local library too.
Have you ever borrowed money?
Oh, not in decades.
I really hate the idea of being in any kind of financial debt to anyone, especially a bank, since it feels like they own your soul.
Even a mortgage was out of the question for me, and I avoid borrowing it from friends, since I think it can actually ruin a friendship as well, which is why I typically don't lend money to others either.
Do you like to lend things to others?
Provided it's not money, I have no issue with that.
My friends are quite responsible people for the most part, and they tend to look after things.
And I live with a lodger too, and I like renting a room to him, since I'm grateful for the company, not to mention the income from that.
How do you feel when people don't return things they borrowed from you?
Well, this is it. You see, I'm a very orderly person.
So when I loan things out, I expect them to be returned to their rightful place.
And I keep track of that.
So when people borrowed money from me in the past, and they didn't return it when they said they would, it really put me out of sorts.
And similarly, for other things, I noticed the hole it leaves in my existence.
And that annoys me no end so this is I just don't like doing it at all you found your person now let the knot help you with everything else the knot connects you to the wedding inspo vendors venues and planning tools you need to make your day totally you having helped plan 25 million weddings we've
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for the archive Click the link in the description below See you soon right dear listener so we usually borrow what from other people for example we can borrow shoes or clothes oh i would never borrow shoes from someone no do you yeah you know like once i went to this very cold place like minus 35 and i
had to borrow some special shoes yeah or people borrow board games video games some kitchen appliances like ice cream makers bread makers camping equipment there you go travel gear suitcases for example sporting equipment bicycles some specialized tools like uh some woodworking tool like uh some woodworking
tools dear listener books we borrow toys we borrow musical instruments costly electronics dear listener like cameras drones oh rory can i borrow your drone please i don't have a drone to borrow no oh yeah interesting and also dear listener you can kind of like ask like oh rory like um can i borrow your
lipstick i do not have lipstick but i think this used to be a thing maybe it's not a thing now did ladies not used to borrow makeup from each other when they were in the bathroom together or something yeah all the time yeah but it's you know it's still there's another concept like absolutely absolutely
yes it's kind of like you borrow things for a very short time like you're in the bathroom with your girlfriends like oh can i borrow your lipstick okay you take the lipstick you put it on and then you give it back right away so or like uh you are at home at your friend's house and then kind of oh can i
borrow your hair dryer hair dryer you know or can i borrow i don't know a shirt or can i borrow your can i borrow your fancy sunglasses yeah or can i borrow i don't know shampoo or hand cream then you You use it right away and then you give it back.
This also is borrowing and very often we borrow books from other people.
Or the library. Oh, we borrow books from a library.
We take out books from the local library and kind of if you borrow some books from a library, you bring them back.
We can also borrow money from our friends.
what about a bank if I go to the bank or I kind of like online is it borrowing or I take out a loan well you you can take out a loan or you can borrow money but the idea of taking money from somewhere from a bank is the same and there are different kinds of loan like a more big like purchases and then
paying them back over a long period of time it's usually for houses but that's not the only thing yeah and rory hates the idea of being in financial debt a debt is a situation when you owe money when you need to loans or pay someone back yeah for example i take um ten thousand dollars from rory and now
it's my debt i owe him this money so i don't like financial debts d -e -b -t, we say it debts.
And I don't borrow any money from anybody, and I don't lend money to others, to other people, because I think it can ruin a friendship, it can destroy a friendship.
The proposition is to, to lend money to others or to other people.
And about lending, Rory is okay with lending things to other people because his friends are quite responsible.
So his friends always pay him back, return the money.
And Rory lives with a lodger.
Who is a lodger? A lodger is someone that pays to live with you, basically.
So if it's someone living in property that you own, but you do not live in, then they are a tenant.
And if it's someone who lives on your property while you live there, they're a lodger.
It's my understanding of it.
I'm simplifying things.
Or a rumour. In the American English, a rumour or a lodger.
Someone who pays for a place to sleep.
So Rory, do you come to your lodger and say, give me my money?
Where's my money? Give me my money or I'll throw you out.
No, you don't do it.
Give me my money. Where's my money?
You're going to give me my money?
Where's my money, man?
Where's the money? You got till five o 'clock.
Where's the money? You got till five o 'clock.
You hear me? You got till five o 'clock.
Not with money, no.
With other things, yes, I'm quite happy to lend like physical things like books or other bits and pieces to people.
But when it comes to money, there just seems to be something special about money, which makes people very stressed out.
And that's why I don't like to do it.
other people can but when i talk about myself what about your lodger does he pay on a regular basis like do you come up to him and say hey lodger give me my money oh right okay um when we talk about the lodger no it's there's like a regular bank payment that gets made at the end of every month but then
we have a it's like uh when you when you when you rent a flat from someone you have a rental agreement and when you lodge with someone you have a lodger's agreement and And that, like, stipulates all the dates and everything.
And what do you call people who take money out of people who owe them?
Like, they're really serious, maybe mafia.
Well, by force. Yeah.
They're loan sharks, but I don't really think that that's a regular issue these days.
At least not that I'm aware of.
Hmm, yeah, so if you kind of, like, you take money from some, you know, dodgy people, from some, you know, mafia.
So, you might meet some lone sharks like in films, you know, like serious people.
Oh, come on. You need to pay us back.
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Unfortunately, some people don't return things they borrowed from other people.
And how do we feel about that?
Well, we are frustrated.
and especially Rory is really upset when somebody doesn't return the things that Rory gave them.
Rory is a very orderly person.
I'm an orderly person, meaning that you enjoy your order.
Yes, I know where everything is in my apartment at any one time.
Well, I know where everything that belongs to me is.
So when you loan something out, what do you mean?
It just means you allow people to borrow it for a period of time.
Yeah, like I give you a loan, I loan things out and I expect my things to be returned.
So I keep track of what I give to people.
I keep track of what I lend to people.
Some people do that on a spreadsheet.
I do it in my head.
When people don't return the things I gave them, it really puts me out of thoughts.
It puts me out of thoughts.
So, this means that, well, you don't like the situation and you are really upset, unhappy.
To be out of thoughts is an idiom to be slightly ill or slightly unhappy.
For example, I've been feeling tired and out of sorts but that just means not feeling so great about the situation feeling out of sorts can be feeling ill but it can also just be feeling uneasy about something yeah you can also say that it annoys me no end it's like it really annoys me it's just oh i
hate it it annoys me no end and i liked it uh how you put it like i notice the hole it lives in my existence so kind of a hole in my life.
So, they didn't return the money and kind of I feel this emptiness, this hole and it annoys me no end.
Beautiful. Right, dear listener.
So, my suggestion is that you can choose some strange things that people usually borrow.
Like, what's the strangest thing that you borrowed?
let's ask google what is the strangest thing i've borrowed i'm just trying to think deodorant toothbrush no you wouldn't borrow someone's toothbrush that's disgusting no yeah it is it is yeah you know i don't think i've ever i think i've borrowed someone's pen pen yeah but that's not no no that's not strange
no really that's the two orders for me if i'm um usually organized i don't know i i honestly i think it's unusual for most people but in the context it makes sense i borrowed someone's key card once to get access to a building because i'd lost my own but that's not really weird that's just like the logical
choice in the situation can't borrow your car just just give me your car come on don't be greedy oh i think I think, one time, I borrowed someone's students from a class to demonstrate something.
Ohhh, that's a nice one.
You borrowed people to use them.
That's something about, like, um, teaching.
I don't think most people would know that.
Rory's Vocabulary Show!
I know! Now it's that time of the episode where I asked Maria to identify some vocabulary or grammar from my answers.
This is something that you can do and play along with at home if you want to or while you're listening in the car.
So the first question was, have you ever borrowed books from others?
And I used a phrasal verb or a phrasal verb and a collocation to talk about borrowing books from a library.
But you could also use this for borrowing something from somewhere else as well so what was it maria take out books on loan yes take something out was have you ever borrowed money and here i talked about the idea of owing money to people but it was a very special collocation or phrase what was it they
own your soul that's no that's how you feel Okay, okay.
To be in financial debt.
Yes. I knew that you were going to pick that one initially because that's very poetic, but actually it's to be in financial debt.
Let's talk about grammar now.
What kind of grammar did I use at the beginning of the answer to the question, do you like to lend things to others?
Provided it's not money, I have no issue with that.
What kind of grammar is that?
Well, it's kind of conditional.
If it's not money, I have no issue.
I'm okay with it. So provided it's not money, if it's not money.
It's like a participle clause with conditional meaning.
Oh, that's got to be C2.
Come on. Yeah. Yeah.
Band nine. Oh, yeah, for sure.
And for question number four, how do you feel when people don't return things they borrowed from you?
I used a word to describe the kind of character that I have.
But what was that word?
It puts me out of sorts.
No, that's how my emotions are.
What about the character?
The character? The character.
It annoys me no end.
No, that's also the emotions.
No, Maria. Oh, orderly.
Yeah, I'm a very orderly person.
Yes, I am a very orderly person.
Like, I'm ridiculously orderly.
It's almost embarrassing.
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Bye. Have you ever borrowed books from other people?
Yes, as a matter of fact, I borrowed one from my mum before dropping it off at a mutual friend's place so she could read it next.
And I've just taken out, and actually I regularly take out books on loan from the local library too.
Have you ever borrowed money?
Oh, not in decades.
I really hate the idea of being in any kind of financial debt to anyone, especially a bank, since it feels like they own your soul.
Even a mortgage was out of the question for me, and I avoid borrowing it from friends, since I think it can actually ruin a friendship as well, which is why I typically don't lend money to others either.
Do you like to lend things to others?
Provided it's not money, I have no issue with that.
My friends are quite responsible people for the most part and they tend to look after things.
And I live with a lodger too and I like renting a room to him since I'm grateful for the company not to mention the income from that.
How do you feel when people don't return things they borrowed from you?
Well, this is it you see, I'm a very orderly person So when I loan things out I expect them to be returned to their rightful place And I keep track of that So when people borrowed money from me in the past And they didn't return it when they said they would It really put me out of sorts And similarly
for other things I notice the hole it leaves in my existence And that annoys me no end So I just don't like doing it at all you
