Hi Ana! I love your podcasts.
I’m a housewife and when I’m tired of cleaning the house, wash the dishes, …I put my foot down and say:
Tonight we’re gonna have sandwich for dinner!!! I put my foot down and we have sandwich!
Bye, bye!
I’ve watched an episode of The Big Bang Theory and there’s a scene that Sheldon says to Leonard “I’ve been seeing Penny behind your back” When I’ve heard that phrase I remembered of this podcast! :D
See you soon Ana!
Hi, I’m Fernando, from RS, and I work at CCAA.
I just wanted to say that then your web site is out of this world. Amazing content!
Your pronunciation is unbelievable perfect. English is really your strong suit.
Congratulations!!!
Fernando
There was a slip up in my typing. I wanted to say “your pronunciation is unbelievably perfect”.
Thanks, Fernando. I really love what I do and I think it shows :))
When I go shopping, if the shop isn’t expensive, I often pay it in cash. The salesperson
usually says that I can pay in two, three or more times but I put my foot down and pay
the way I want.
Nice one, Raymundo. Só que a impressão que dá é que o vendedor está meio que querendo te forçar a pagar com cartão ou outro meio… Foi isso mesmo? Ficou divertido :) “put my foot down” é fazer valer a vontade, contra a vontade dos outros.
Well, Hi Everyone! I had a situation very stressing last week. My friend told me that he wanted see a movie in saturday and invited his girlfriend to go with us too. However,I discovered that I like him there’s a little time. I put my feet down when I said to him my new feeling,because he looks at me like his best friend and he don’t wanted change it. I’m still in love with him,but I don’t will try something to put him behind someone’s back!
Obs: I did this story to test my English.Thank You Ana!
Hi Tainara – I understand… you don’t wanna go behind his girlfriend’s back, right? Great example!
Hi Ana
gostaria de saber se tem como usar a expressão “behind someone´s back” sem o “go”, por exemplo “he did this behind your back” ou “he bought this behind my back”
thank you
Comum também, matheus. O exemplo com bought – pra mim é mais comum “he went behind my back and bought it”, mas outros verbos podem ser usados sim.
thank you, helped a lot
Aninha ( as I call my daughter ), you give meanings
in the Glossary but not in the Key expressions. I think it’s
for us to research. What do you say ?
Thanks for answering.
Raymundo
Sim, Raymundo, é que as key expressions eu explico no podcast.
como falar ingles eu nao seii eu so sei falar potugues e mais nada bjs. barbara
Hi Ana
This is my first comment.
I have been listening your podcasts since a week and i liked it a lot, very very good job.
congratulations for your website ^^
Well a don´t no if someone went behind my back , and a really don´t want to known kkkkkkk
Best regards.
Awesome comments, everyone! Thank you!
Hello Ana Luiza, How is it going?
Could you help me out to make it clearer. I have heard the last podcast about Compromise and this one as well, but I need a clearance. Does Compromise means the same as Give Up (meaning “Ceder”)?
Thank you very much!!
Olá Evandro – estão na mesma “área”, mas não vou dizer que são a mesma coisa, pois eu usei ‘compromise’ como verbo intransitivo, e ‘give up’ não.
Eu disse ‘give up part of what you want’. Essa frase inteira significa o mesmo que ‘compromise’ no meu texto.
‘give up’ sozinho não quer dizer ‘compromise’. ‘I give up’, por exemplo, quer dizer ‘Eu desisto’.
Uma possível tradução para português de “We need to compromise” poderia ser “Precisamos ceder um pouco” na minha opinião.. Mas tradutores especializados podem ter outras traduções.
My friends wanted to watch Happy Feet 2 but I didn’t want. I put my foot down, then we went and watch Mission Impossible 4.
I can see people going behind their back all the time. :(
There was this party at home, in which I invited my friends of school, and the guy I like came, and everyone knew that I liked him, even him knew about it… So here’s what happened: for some reason I don’t know, he was gone, and I got really bad about it and I got drunk… so I kissed a guy! It was the worst thing I’ve ever did in my life… I told my friend about it and she went behind my back and told the guy I like about the kiss!! He doesn’t talk to me anymore, he thinks I’m like the other girls… Anyway… I regret everyday, but there’s nothing I can do to fix this :/
well, thank you so much, I loooove your podcasts! See ya ;)
Hiii
My sister wanted to go home by motorcycle and I wanted to go home by car. So I put my foot down and we went by car.
I remember one day that I told a friend of mine about a girl I liked. I thought he would help me , buut , did he help me?? nooo , he went behind my back and picked up her. ¬¬ haha
Great expressions , Thankss !!!!!!!! please , correct me if I wrote something incorrect !!! thanksss !!!!!!!