Lesson #12: Pets I Algerian Podcast | Learn English |تعلّم الإنجليزيّة بالدّارجة الجزائريّة

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- Do you have any pets?

- I do. I have a turtle.

- A turtle! That’s unusual.

- Is it? I don’t know. It just feels normal to me because it’s always been there.

- You’ve always had a turtle?

- Yes, it was there before I was born.

- It’s more than twenty five years old?

- It is! It’s always been with us. It appeared in the vegetable garden one day and ate all of the lettuce that my mom had planted. And it never left.

- This is so funny to me. I know people who have cats and dogs and fish but I’ve never met someone who had a turtle. Does it have a name?

- Actually, no, it doesn’t. We just call it turtle.

- This is hilarious!

- Do you have a pet?

- No, I don’t. I wish I did.

- Have you ever had a pet?

- Yes, when I was a child we had a dog called Laika.

- So many dogs are called Laika.

- Of course! It’s named after the first dog in space! That’s an excellent name, if you ask me.

- Oh, that’s the reason. I didn’t know.