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when she opens the cart she hears music betty closes the card

betty opens the card again the music starts again

betty laughs and dances to the music

hi betty nice music

thanks my nephew sent me this musical birthday card

isn't it fun it says

leap for joy it's your birthday

happy leap year birthday that's great

so are you excited for your birthday

tomorrow yes i'm very excited i'm thinking about

getting engaged what

really no

not really but i could get engaged you know

how do you know someone who wants to propose

to you no

but i could propose to someone that's true some women do propose to men

they do now but years ago in great britain and

ireland women could only propose marriage on february 29th

really that's interesting

yes and you know what else

what the man couldn't say no what if he did

then he'd have to give the woman a gift sounds like a perfect day for women

yes too bad it only came once every four years

the first one familiar right

this one is pronounced cosmetic cosmetic remember

s here so z okay

cosmetic now cosmetic

you know things like lipstick or foundation concealer or eyeliner

they are used to put on your face to make you to be more

beautiful or attractive you know just like put on a makeup so you have to use

cosmetics cosmetic

cosmetic for number two i think you know this one

you know what i mean is you know the meaning of the word right the popular

styles of hair or clothes or anything but remember don't pronounce a fashion

it's not fashion it's actually a faction

fashion for number three

um this one very familiar

um mosquito

mosquito you know when you are sleeping the mosquitoes

can bite you and makes you hurt okay

so mosquito

remember s here mosquito not more sweet dog

mosquito mosquito or you can even pronounce

mosquito for

number four this one is not that

this one b this b here is silent so we just pronounce

that that you know when you are in depth that

means you owe somebody

you know the money or things like that

that you owe somebody something um

now for number five recommend

this one is not very common or recommend okay it's recommend

recommend recommend that means to

introduce or to tell somebody something is

good or useful or suitable to do or it can also

mean that to advise somebody to do something

recommend recommend for number six

this one please don't pronounce so much even though this one here is

just like watch or catch or teach right but this one is pronounced summer

stomach tell me the reason why i'll tell you the

reason why well i don't know stomach

okay so just remember not that much no stomach

okay stomach

um stomach is actually an organ inside your body where the food is contained

stomach for

number seven um

this one is marriage remember

g e here so we have to pronounce marriage not mary h okay marriage

marriage is actually the legal relationship

um between a husband and a wife

marriage for number eight

um you know this one right uh but don't pronounce finance or phoenix

is finance

finance and remember ce here is s

finance finance um

threat second syllable or you can even stress first syllable

finance finance or you can pronounce

finance f here for finance but i usually

pronounce finance finance okay

um finance you know things to do with money

now number nine

we can't you can pronounce we can't just like

american sorry we can't british english and for

american english stress the first syllable weekend but

don't ever pronounce weekend that weekend okay

we can't or we can't you know saturday and sunday

um and the last one um

when you see this one you can maybe you can see the similarity between

nature right so you think it is major or just like future or things like that

but actually actually this one is mature

mature mature or you can pronounce as t mature mature okay

or mature anything but usually i would pronounce this one mature mature

c h this one

t-u-r-e sure

future future

feature feature

nature number three

t-u-a-l chor

cho actually

actually puncture

puncture virtually

virtually s

t i o n

question question

suggestion suggestion

text

hi renee sarah good can you help me sure

thank you take this red paper

okay what are you doing

i'm putting up decorations for lunar new year i don't know anything about lunar

new year how do you celebrate it well on lunar new year's eve families get

together then they eat a big meal

what do you eat we eat

chicken fish noodles and dumplings

and parents give red envelopes to their

children red envelopes

the envelopes have money inside cool

we also wear new clothes look at my cheap house it is from my mom

it's really pretty how do you say that word again

pow is a traditional chinese dress

lunar new year sounds interesting i can write about it for the newspaper

great write about the diner too

why this month the diner has a lunar new

year menu we are serving delicious chinese food

all month okay

i can write about the diner but

i want a red envelope first you look great honey

what's the occasion very funny

why are you wearing running shorts tonight's lunar new year's eve

did you forget no

we're having dinner with my family i don't want to go

well we have to go change your clothes i put your new

clothes in your bag honey

why am i wearing this i feel silly

i like to wear traditional chinese clothes for lunar new year we'll be a

hit at dinner fine

i'm not too excited about seeing my brother

last lunar new year he kept talking about his money

i understand but he's family i know

let's go happy lunar new year

i have a lot of work to do what are you working on

i'm writing a column about lunar new year

the date of lunar new year changes every year did you know that yes it follows

the lunar calendar that's right

lunar new year isn't just a chinese holiday did you know that many other

asian countries also celebrate new year's on the same day

yes max how do you know all this when i cook

foods from different countries i like to learn about the culture too i love

reading about other cultures and foods cool

chinese called their new year chonjiye

and koreans call theirs and vietnamese call it pet but i don't

know much about their traditions do you i know some traditions

do all three holidays have the same traditions

they have similar traditions in all three countries people eat a big

meal with their families cool tradition so what are some of the differences

the food is different koreans enjoy rice cake soup vietnamese

eats sticky rice with meat it's wrapped in leaves i want to try to

make that let's stop talking about food

i'm getting hungry i'll cook some new year's food for us

betty picks up a stuffed rat she gives the rat to sarah because it's

the year of the rat sarah has a gift for betty too

betty is happy but a little confused when she sees the

gift she isn't sure what the gift is

thanks uh

what is it it's a chinese paper lantern

it's flat now pick up the top and it opens up

wow where did you get this lantern

in chicago's chinatown i went there with my brother last night

chicago that's far

you must have driven a long time it took us two hours it's okay

we had fun well that's good

we ate a lunar new year's eve dinner in chinatown

i've always wanted to go to chinatown you should go

there will be a lunar new year parade on saturday max and i are going

will there be firecrackers yes do you want to go okay

i'm sure we can find the best chinese food there

i don't think so i think max cooks the best chinese food

renee listens to them they are talking about max's daily

special simon doesn't like it

max isn't happy about that he loves his food

renee smiles she walks over to max and simon

what's wrong voice simon can't appreciate good food

i can appreciate good food i just don't want this food

what's wrong with it simon well

it's strange it is

yes what's so strange about it

simon it's slimy and

it smells a little strange too it smells okay to me simon simon just

try it it tastes really good but simon come on

one bite can't hurt you and you may really like it

all right hey

this is really good see my food is good

yes it is renee bring me another plate of this

i love it okay honey coming right up

hi sarah how was school great

we're doing presentations on world festivals

my presentation is next week which festival will you talk about

the winter carnival in quebec i can make snow cones for everyone

great idea i can help you

or you can present australia day and talk about the cockroach races i can