Hello, when I started this, bienvenidos a light speed Spanish, we're in lockdown here because of El Puto virus and so it gives you time to reflect and I've been reflecting on a few things. I've been reflecting on the way that us Brits understate everything and the way that Spanish people overstate everything and so kind of there's no middle line. Brits we tend to play things down and Spanish people tend to exaggerate la cosa. So here are some examples of the classic English understatement and the even more classic Spanish overstatement. Now everybody knows that Brits are not massively expressive about food, we like it and we eat it every day. But we don't talk about it, we kind of understand it so if we're eating a soup for example, we might say something like this is actually quite tasty and so we'd use the word actually just to play it down and we'll use the word quite to play it down a little bit more and we'll stick tasty on the end. Now if a Brits says to you this is actually quite tasty, that's a real compliment. That's a real compliment, wouldn't work in Spain. We're still not everybody but some of us will say this is awfully good and we use the word awful, not a great word to use when you're trying to say something's good, awful, like the word frightfully good. But there you are, that's what we do the Brits, not bad at all. Not bad at all, we've got to get the word bad in even though we're talking about something good. How are you? I'm not bad. I haven't asked that, I'm not asking if you're bad. How's the soup? It's not bad. Well I know that, I've made it, we love. What do you mean it's not bad? Something a bit more positive, so that's the understatement of English, you see that's what Brits are like. Spanish people overstayed food and so if you have a Spanish person who's eating the same bowl of soup, the same tasty bowl of soup, then you're going to hear them say things like this. The other me, if you're going to die, I'm going to die. If I die today, I die happy. Spanish people kind of have to really really go over the top and I stop to chew bad cellos finger-ligging good. The Americans are allowed to say that, we wouldn't say that in the UK finger-ligging good. And all this, deputamari. So all of those, that's just a standard bowl of soup, okay? That's just, that's what Spanish people do. They overstayed. So let's have a look at another one. We Brits, we do get annoyed. We get annoyed just like the next man or woman. But we tend to understand that we're annoying. So we would say things like this. Actually, I'm really quite ticked off. And that means we're really, really annoyed. I'm ticked off. Okay, or we'll say, do you know I'm at the end of my tether. I don't even know what a tether is. Tire is something anyway. I'm at the end of my tether with them. Now that's the understanding, or, or, or, I'm up to here. And we use our neck as a reference of how upset we are. I'm up to here. Now a Spanish person, for the slightest thing, okay? If they're upset by something, they will say something far more kind of overstayed as opposed to the understated Brits. So they'll say things like this. I'm hollet. Mecaro en la madrequeles barrio. Okay. So basically, powing on the mom that gave birth to them. Pretty light. Pretty light. Or, for example, to say, the start bringing in body parts now. Body parts. We bring in tevis, okay? And next, they bring another body parts. Joder. Tiene cojones el asunto. Tiene cojones. Okay? Or, tienen cojones ejos. Whatever. We then, then Spanish person brings in other body parts. Testicles basically. Or, for example, in the UK, we are up to here. Right? The Spanish get up up to there, but a little bit lower down. So they'll say, metienen hasta los cojones. See, same the upward movement, but the hand is in different place. And if women, quite often might say metienen hasta la raja, okay? Which we're not going to. So another example of the understated Brit and the overstated Spanish person. It's like illiter. Now, just imagine in the UK, if there are a group of children playing football on the green outside of the window, and it's prohibited, of course, on all greens in the UK to play football, it's prohibited everywhere to play football in the UK, except in football stadiums. And so we might open a window in the UK and we might shout, now, hey, go on, clear off. Okay? So that's okay. And we can be quite clear off. Or we can say, now come on, be off with you. Be off with you. That's a bit old English, really isn't it? Be off with you. That's the imperative. Be off with you. I mean, if we are really, really upset, we might resort to saying, bugger off. Come on, bugger off now. These are kids. We wouldn't use the F off word, the kids. That's the understatement. The overstatement here in Spain would be to open a window and shout, and then finally, the exclamation, the shock. When we get a shock in the UK, when we get a surprise, sometimes we just say, well, that came as a bit of a surprise. But we might shout out, goodness, goodness. And we use the word good, and that's nice. We might say, for goodness sake. Okay? Remember this is understood, we do use swear words, but we know, we're talking about the traditional British way of understanding. And also we might say something like this, give me strength. Obviously, we're referring to God. When we do that, we ask God to give us strength. That's the understatement. So it's shock. Goodness gracious. Good grief. In Spain, slightly stronger, slightly more exaggerated. So the classic, you get a shock and you say, that's standard, I am shocked by that. Also, you know, when an English person might say, give me strength. Okay? A Spanish person would probably want to bring in another body part there, and with the typical mandacojones. Mandacojones, you see, they're asking someone to send them, because the need, the need them to get through this. Or, for example, a Brit might say, well, well, give me. Okay? And a Spanish person would say something like this. Me cago en todo que se menea. Me cago en... fill in the gap. Me cago en... tu puta madre. Me cago en Dios. Me cago en el masadía. Me cago en la leche. Obviously, very light. If the pooing and milk, that's light. That's the lightest poo that can do. Me cago en la leche. So, embresumen. I think that British people just need to turn up the dial a little bit more. We just need to just umfid up a bit. You know, I mean, understandments, nice understandments can be very funny. If you're salt and pepper it, you know, into your conversation. But all the time, understandments, I, oh, goodness, say, tell me really what you feel. Spanish people probably just need to turn that dial down a bit. That's all. We want a middle way, you know, as Buddha talked about. The middle way, I think Buddha or somebody else. You know, Spanish people, you've got to consider your blood pressure, you know, all that, all that. That does nothing for your blood pressure. And us Brits, we need to think about, you know, this repression that we have, this emotional repression that makes us not show our emotion until we find it. And then we're up on the table singing and dancing and telling everyone that we love them. Both are lacking and both need to be addressed, I think. So, I'm not the man to do it. I'm just here, I'm just here to mention it. I'm just mentioning it. You can do what you like with that information. I'll start the way, go, add yours. Thank you.