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Hi, this is Puyant from Iran, and you're listening to Everybody ESO.
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Welcome to episode 457 of Everybody ESO.
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The podcast for Everybody who wants to improve their English, practice their English,
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or just learn more English. My name is Ben, and I have a mini episode for you today,
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where I am going to teach you about one English topic. You can subscribe to the Everybody ESO
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Okay, let's get on with this mini episode.
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In this episode, I am going to talk about a very common word that I think you already know.
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I am going to tell you about the two different meanings of this word. It's possible that these
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two different meanings have caused you a little bit of confusion. The word is remember. Remember
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R-E-M-E-M-B-E-R. Remember, you might be thinking that you already understand
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everything there is to know about this word. And maybe you are right. But maybe you will find this
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interesting. Remember means two different but related things. Here's how I think we can think about
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it. One meaning of remember is something like to put something in your memory, to store something
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in your memory. We can imagine that we are placing or storing something inside a computer.
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If we remember it, we keep it in our memory. It's just like storing or saving something inside
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a computer. If we remember it, we keep it there. This is the meaning that we see in a sentence
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like this. He has told me his name three times already. This time I will definitely remember it.
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This time I will definitely remember his name. In other words, this time I will save or store
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his name inside my mind. I will keep it there. Here is the second meaning of remember. We can
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think of it as finding something inside our mental computer and pulling it out so that we can
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look at it. Instead of putting something in, we are taking something out. This is the meaning of
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remember that you see in a sentence like this. I know that he told me his name. Now I need to try
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to remember it. In other words, now I need to find that name. I know it's in my mind somewhere. I
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need to take it out. I need to find it and look at it. In a way, remember has these two opposite
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meanings. One meaning is to put something inside your mind and keep it there. And the other meaning is
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to find something inside your mind and take it out. Put in and take out. One word has these two
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meanings. That is a little bit more information about the common word remember. And I think this is
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something you should know. This is the end of episode 457 of Everybody ESL. Remember if you have
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questions about English or if you have comments from me or if you would like to record an introduction
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that I can play at the beginning of future episodes. The same way Puyon recorded the introduction
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you heard at the beginning of this episode. Send an email to everybody ESL at gmail.com. I'll be back
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soon with a new episode. And until then, keep going, keep practicing and keep learning. I'll see you
