Easy English expression.
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Saturday, another beautiful weekend day.
I hope you're having a great day.
Is it sunshiny and warm where you are?
Or is it cold and rainy?
regardless I hope you have a fantastic day I got another expression for you let's go back in time today's expression is really good here it is it spoke to me it spoke to me that's past tense this is present tense it speaks to me.
It speaks to me. It spoke s -p -o -k -e or speaks s -p -e -a -k -s.
Of course they speak s -p -e -a -k anyway to me.
It spoke to me. Okay.
Well, speak, speaks, spoke, that means to, you know, be talking.
It, it means something that's not a human.
So, what is it? A computer?
Did the computer talk to me?
Did the door talk to me?
Did my iPhone talk to me?
No, no. The painting, the painting talked to me.
It spoke to me. The lecture talked to me, the movie talked to me, the music talked to me, the book talked to me, the view talked to me.
What does this mean?
It means that the painting or the book or the music or the the whatever it was, the thing you saw spoke to you it connected with you.
You felt a connection and you really loved it.
You appreciated it.
You could understand it.
So an example, the best example is a painting.
Now I think everybody in the world knows about the famous painter named Picasso, Pablo Picasso.
Oh, what a genius, what a genius!
But I don't know, if you look at his paintings, pfft, they're not that difficult.
I could do that. I believe that I could make a Picasso -style painting and show you a real Picasso and my version and you probably, well, some of you, would not know the difference.
Don't you agree? Yeah, I don't, the reason I say that is because I don't understand Pablo Picasso's paintings.
They're just lines and colors and crazy faces.
I don't get it but other people do.
Other people. I don't know how but other people can look at a Pablo Picasso painting and say oh Magnifico, it is magnificent.
Oh, it's beautiful.
Oh my god, oh my god, this painting is speaking to me.
Oh, I feel connected.
Ah, do you understand?
Okay, I'll give you another example after you listen to the dialogue.
Ahh! This painting is SO ugly.
Why did you buy it?
It spoke to me. What did it say?
No, look at it. It shows the meaning of life.
Yeah, some people can look at a painting of…whatever and understand something very deep!
situation that painting is speaking to that person.
Do you guys remember the movie The Matrix?
The Matrix? Yeah great movie, I liked it, especially the first one.
A lot of people who watched The Matrix, they didn't get it.
They didn't understand it.
The movie did not speak to them.
But for other people like Like me, oh wow, it was fantastic.
The movie spoke to me.
The movie was kind of telling me the definition of life, or life for many people.
Just a battery. So many people, many people, you know, they're slaves to their jobs.
They're just a battery for the system, yeah.
That's what the Matrix movie told me.
It spoke to me. I had a connection.
I had a really good feeling.
I got it. I understood it.
It's a great expression.
Check out the dialogue two more times.
Uh, this painting is so ugly.
Why did you buy it?
It spoke to me. What did it say?
No. Look at it. It shows the meaning of life.
Uh, this painting is so ugly.
Why did you buy it?
It spoke to me. What did it say?
No. Look at it. It shows the meaning of life.
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