Chatterbox #255 – Tips for talking about art
Episode description
It’s hard to share your thoughts and feelings in a different language. Sometimes you don’t have the words! In this episode, Andrew and Jeremy share their four tips for talking about art, films, and literature in English.
Fun fact
Vincent van Gogh, one of history’s greatest painters, only officially sold one painting while he was alive. He sold it to his fellow painter Anna Boch in early 1890, and it’s his only painting with documentation showing that he sold it.
Expressions included in the study guide
- On the right track
- You can say that again
- It’s hard to say
- People/person behind the [something]
- Pick up [something]
- Expose yourself to [something]
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Chatterbox #255 – Tips for talking about art
Episode description
It’s hard to share your thoughts and feelings in a different language. Sometimes you don’t have the words! In this episode, Andrew and Jeremy share their four tips for talking about art, films, and literature in English.Fun fact
Vincent van Gogh, one of history’s greatest painters, only officially sold one painting while he was alive. He sold it to his fellow painter Anna Boch in early 1890, and it’s his only painting with documentation showing that he sold it.Expressions included in the study guide
- On the right track
- You can say that again
- It’s hard to say
- People/person behind the [something]
- Pick up [something]
- Expose yourself to [something]
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Sign inHosts: Andrew Bates and Jeremy Brinkerhoff Music: Something Elated by Broke For Free
Episode preparation/research: Andrew Bates
Audio editor: Andrew Bates
Transcriptionist: Heather Bates
Study guide writer: Lisa Hoekstra
English editor: Stephanie MacLean
Business manager: Tsuyoshi Kaneshima
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