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Speaker 1: Now this is weird. I remembered to do it, but

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the next day I didn't remember doing it. Maybe I'm

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just getting old, or I'm just distracted. I mean, like recently,

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it seems like it's easy to forget what I have

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to do. I'll explain what I mean in a moment,

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but now let's stop to listen to the intro music.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to another Happy English podcast, coming to you from

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New York City. And here's your English teacher, Michael.

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Speaker 1: All right, thank you John, and thanks everyone. It's Michael

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here from Happy English and I help people speak English better.

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And this is Happy English Podcast, Episode seven fifty eight.

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Remember to do this one thing. That's today's English lesson topic.

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Do you have a request for a topic here? Send

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me a message at Myhappy English dot com and let

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me know so. Like you know how some verbs completely

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change their meaning when you add ing or two. For example,

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you can stop to drink coffee or stop drinking coffee.

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It's like one minute you're talking about taking a break,

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and the next you're talking about quitting something entirely.

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Speaker 2: Stop.

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Speaker 1: Try remember and forget. These four verbs have been annoying

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some of my students this week, and I realized after

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a lesson this morning that this can be pretty tricky

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for a lot of English learners. So let's jump right

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in with stop and try two words we use all

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the time but can get us into trouble. You can

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stop to buy a cup of coffee, or you can

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stop buying a cup of coffee. What the thing is

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when you stop to do something that stop followed by

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the infinitive the two verb stopped to do. It means

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that you took a break in order to do that thing.

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I stopped to buy coffee means that I was doing

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something and then I hit the pause button on that

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in order to buy a cup of coffee. Like I

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was walking to my office and I noticed the coffee shop,

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and I stopped to buy coffee. I took a break

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from walking in order to buy coffee, And I could

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say that I stopped walking in order to buy coffee.

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Stop walking. When you use stop followed by an ing,

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it means to finish an activity. I stopped working last

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night around eight o'clock. Stop working means to finish working.

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Stop followed by an I also means to quit doing

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something forever, like quitting a bad habit. I don't know

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if I've ever mentioned this before, but I used to

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smoke when I was younger, and I stopped smoking when

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I was like twenty five years old. Boy, was that

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a good decision. I stopped to buy coffee. I'm not

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giving up coffee forever, just taking a quick break in

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order to get some coffee. But if I stop buying coffee,

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that gives us the idea that I'm putting an end

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to that habit. And you all know how expensive a

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cup of coffee is compared to making it at home.

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I'm glad I stopped buying coffee and started making it myself. Okay,

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let's move on to try. Since I moved to this town,

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I've been trying to find a good pizza place. When

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you say that you are trying to do something, it

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suggests you're putting an effort towards something. I'm really trying

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to improve my Japanese reading and writing skills. You do

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know I'm also a language learner, don't you. But when

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you try doing something, it's like more of an experiment

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to see what happens. I haven't heard from Jack in

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a couple of days. I tried calling him, but he

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didn't answer and then I tried sending him a message,

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but I didn't get a reply. I think I'm going

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to try going to his house and knocking on the door. Wow,

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there's a lot of experimenting going on just to see

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what's up with Jack. Okay, now you'd better make sure

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you're sitting down, because we're about to dive into a

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pair of verbs that are even trickier than stop and try.

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I'm talking about remember and forget. Here's the story. I

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forgot to call my grandmother on her birthday and she

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was pretty upset. Has that ever happened to you? Have

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you ever forgotten to do something? When you have an obligation,

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in other words, something that you have to do, you

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should remember to do it. It's kind of like before

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you leave the house in the morning, you need to

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remember to turn off the gas, right, But have you

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ever been in a situation where you left the house

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and then five minutes later you thought, uh, oh, did

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I forget to turn off the gas and then you

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go all the way back home only to find that

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you remember to turn off the guests Remember too, and forget.

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To talk about your responsibility, your obligations, remember ing is

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about your memories like if I say I remember visiting Rome,

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that means I have that experience stored away in my

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memory bank. Or what about my friend Jack. Jack said

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he doesn't remember drinking too much, but he was very

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drunk at the party. Classic Jack. Seems like he forgot

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drinking all those shots of tequila. You can forget doing

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a lot of things when alcohol is involved, that's for sure.

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So remember ing and forget ing are all about your memories.

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Have you ever been watching a movie and like, after

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a half hour or so, you remember watching that movie before.

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When you picked out that movie to watch, you probably

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forgot watching it sometime before and you didn't remember watching

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it until about halfway into the movie. Has that ever

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happened to you? So again, remember doing and forget doing

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are all about your memories. I'll never forget visiting Japan

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for the first time. That was really an amazing trip.

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When you think about using stop, try remember and forget.

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Try applying the patterns we looked at today to your

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own life and own experiences. Have you stopped doing some

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bad habit? Have you taken a break and stopped to

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do something or maybe with your effort, have you tried

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doing something just don't forget to write your own sentences

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with this vocabulary. That will help you remember these patterns

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so you can use them in your English conversations and

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speaking of your English conversations. Did you know that you

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can get the chance to practice this kind of English

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fifty eight. Remember, learning another language is not easy, but

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