⌨️ Typing (Part 1) + Transcript

0:00Hello, lovely, I'm Mariam. And I am Chief Turingam Tester, Rory Duncan. And we are the hosts of the IELTS Speaking for Success podcast. The podcast that aims to help you improve your speaking skills, as well as your listening skills along the way. We've started this podcast to give you super grammar and fabulous vocabulary for your high-IELTS school. Your bad-night school. Oh, look at you, so you're a Turingam Tester now. Yes, I've moved on. I got bored of being a professional dance instructor. He was a dancing teacher and a dancer last time. Now he's a Turingam Tester. You know, Turingam, yeah, memium. And he just tests different tastes of Turingam. But Rory is an English teacher, so he's lying. Again, that's a lying. Just out of boredom. And Rory, what are you doing now? What are you doing? What's going on?

1:00I'm just typing an email to a student. Oh, about Turingam. Not about Turingam. Just about learning. Not about Turingam. So you're a teacher now and the Turingam Tester, right, okay? A bunch of lies. Shall we talk about typing? Let me type down some good vocabulary for it. Do you prefer typing or handwriting? I'm pretty fine with both, to be honest, though, if it's a short message I can send online to someone easily enough, then I just type it to get it done and dusted as soon as possible. If it's a longer written piece like an essay, then I like to write it by hand to organize my ideas before making it look all nice and official when I type it up. How do you improve your typing? I don't know. I just got used to it over time, really. There wasn't any conscious effort involved.

2:00I do remember the first time I was able to partially touch type and do it without banging down the keys like an old-fashioned typewriter. I was pretty pleased when that happened. And I've only gotten better since. When did you learn how to type on a keyboard? We didn't really have any specific classes for that at school. It was just something I picked up over the course of my childhood. I suppose it helped having a computer at home and parents who were reasonably techno literate for the time as well. Do you type on a desktop or laptop keyboard every day? I suppose I must do. Since I'm never far from my laptop, and I'm always on it for something that requires something using keys, even if it's just playing video games. And if I'm not doing it on there, I'm definitely doing it on my phone. As you know, we now release all of our premium content for free

3:02and it's available for one month. After one month, it goes into our super secret archive. To sign up for the archive, click the link in the description below. See you soon. So there is no typing. It's when you use a laptop or your computer and you type things. You can handwrite things or you can type things. So you can say I prefer handwriting or I prefer typing. Or I use a pen or I use a keyboard. And you can say I'm fine with both. So the examiner asks you to do prefer typing or handwriting. You can say I'm fine with both. So both typing and handwriting are fine for me. If it's a short message, I can send it online. I can type it up. So you type it up. But that just means you type it. You could type it up or type it out. You can write something up or write it out as well.

4:03Many prepositions. If it's a longer piece, like a piece of writing, like an essay, I write it by hand. So you say to write something by hand. Using your hands to write. Using a pen. You can say I prefer to write with a pen. Or I never write anything by hand. I only type. That's a good paraphrase of handwriting. Write something by hand. You don't say write something with my hand or with hand or on hand. But you've missed something. Two things, in fact, because I type things up or I type things quickly to get them done and dusted as soon as possible. So if something is done and dusted, it's just completed. And you can move on to the next thing. But we also type things to make them look nice and official. Not official and nice. So these are binomials. We've talked about these before. But they're pretty good.

5:03We don't say official and nice. We don't say dusted and done. It's done and dusted, official or nice and official. How do you improve your typing? How do you improve your typing? You go to a typing instructor. You just improve your typing by typing. And you can say to improve my touch typing. I learn touch typing. I train to myself to use the keyboard. You can say just I type regularly. I typed regularly. I took a course on typing. I used proper hand position. Just a few positions in your fingers in the right way. And it helps you to type faster. You can say I used some online tools. Type in Academy or type in.com. Is that a thing? Yeah, it's just a real thing.

6:04Yeah, so pretty much. You can say I didn't do anything. I just kept typing. Or I learned the positions of the letters on the keyboard. I trained my fingers. So pretty much just training your fingers. And knowing the proper position of your fingers. So you can type faster. And some people they type slowly. First, but then they start typing faster. Regular practice. When you bang down the keys. The keys here are buttons on the keyboard. We have a keyboard. And when you type here, you kind of touch the keys of a keyboard. So when you bang down the keys, you kind of do it with force. Like bam, bam, bam. Very largely. Some people find it very annoying. I don't have a problem with it, but other people find it irritating.

7:06Yeah, but it also depends on the keyboard. Some keys are quite noisy. Some people have keys. Or keyboards which are designed to make that noise. Because they find it therapeutic. Because they're nuts. I'm nuts. I'm totally nuts. Because you're nuts. I'm Maria and I'm nuts. Yum, yum, yum. Nuts. And I am asylum in Nate Maria Bolashenko. And the Rory is a chewing gum tester. Well, at least I'm telling the truth Rory, okay? And you are lying. Love it. I might be crazy, but at least I'm telling the truth. Exactly. Yeah, deal with it. Now I'm just telling you the truth. You know, I'm a bit crazy. I learned to type on a keyboard at school. We didn't have any specific classes at school, but I started using a laptop. I started using a computer.

8:07I picked up... I picked up typing over the course of my childhood. So I picked it up. I learned something. I picked it up. Or you can say I picked it up from my friends. I picked it up at school, like pick something up, learn it. It's important to point out that picking something up involves usually not conscious learning. It's something that you do while you're doing something else. For example, people talk about picking up a language or picking up bad habits. It's something that you don't really think about to do it. Yeah, for example, like when you go to China, you may not learn Chinese, but you kind of you pick up some Chinese. Yeah, you pick up some phrases. Having a computer helped me with start a sentence with I&G. Having a computer, typing on a computer helped me to learn how to type fast. And I had some techno literate friends, for example.

9:08Techno literate, this means that people knew something about technology. So they kind of they were in the know how to use computers. A long time ago, like literate. Literate is actually a C2. Not bad for a chewing gum tester. So literate means a person who is able to read and write. But you can say computer literate. So a person who knows how to use a computer well, tech literate. And you can say like, I was tech literate as a child or I wasn't. No, I'm not so tech literate. But do you have a person, maybe some of your friends or your parents, your family, who can't type or who types those two fingers? I mean, maybe my dad, but that's just because he doesn't do it so much. He repairs things instead. Yeah, because I think like most people can type now. Maybe someone, somebody from a village, like older people, but generally.

10:10These villages with no infrastructure. Yeah, like no computers, no connection. Well, there are many villages, you know, in the mountains, for example, in some kind of, you know, far away places. What a privileged existence that must be. I would love that. Yeah, but mostly like people are fine with typing. And at work, like we usually type different documents. You can say I type lots of documents. And we say like I type on a keyboard. I type on a keyboard. A laptop keyboard, a desktop keyboard. Like if you have a big computer, so a desktop keyboard. And you say like, yeah, I usually use my desktop computer or laptop. Can I say I usually type on my phone? You could, yes, although that's not really related to the question here. It's talking about typing on a desktop or a laptop keyboard. However, I mentioned it just to point out that I'm doing it all the time, regardless.

11:13Yeah, kind of, listen, if you don't use your desktop or laptop, you can say like, oh, I don't use a desktop or a laptop. I just use my phone, my smartphone. So I usually type on my phone. When else do you type? You type on your phone, you type on a keyboard. I don't think you really use a typewriter anymore. Does anyone use a typewriter? No, I don't think so. Why? Why? Maybe if you're a writer, but yeah, everything's done on a computer. So, right, Joe, how fast do you type? Are you a fast type or are you a slow type? Like, Rory, do you type fast? Usually, especially on my phone, but not on a keyboard. I suppose it's the moderate speed, just because I'm old. And I need to check my work. I can touch type, though. So I think that's a pretty good skill to have. But touch type means like using your phone.

12:13No, well, it could be. Touch typing means that you type without looking at the keys. Instead, you just look at what's on the screen. Yeah, you see, listen, touch type. Like, yeah, you kind of like, you don't look at the keyboards, but you're looking at what's your writing. You can do it on your phone. It's usually associated with a computer or maybe a typewriter. Have you lived in the 1990s or 1980s? And now, here's a joke for you to wrap it up. So, the joke is about handwriting. Tell us now when you write something by hand. So, the joke is, I took a handwriting test and the results came back. Doctor. Rory is explaining the joke. Okay. So, doctors have notoriously very bad handwriting. So, it's difficult to read. And so, if you take a handwriting test, it comes back.

13:14You're a doctor. That means that your handwriting is very untidy. Yeah, I think it does. In every country, doctors, if they handwrite something, it's impossible to read. Because they usually write very fast and it's just like this. So, yeah. I took a handwriting test and the results came back. Like, you write, you are a doctor. You're right as if you were a doctor. Right, you listen. Thank you very much for listening and being with us. We love you, we hug you, and we'll get back to you in our new episode. Okay? Bye. Bye. Do you prefer typing or handwriting? I'm pretty fine with both, to be honest. Though, if it's a short message, I can send online to someone easily enough, then I just type it to get it done and dusted as soon as possible. If it's a longer written piece like an essay, then I like to write it by hand

14:15to organize my ideas before making it look all nice and official when I type it up. How do you improve your typing? I don't know. I just got used to it over time, really. There wasn't any conscious effort involved. I do remember the first time I was able to partially touch type and do it without banging down the keys like an old-fashioned typewriter. I was pretty pleased when that happened and I've only gotten better since. When did you learn how to type on a keyboard? We didn't really have any specific classes for that at school. It was just something I picked up over the course of my childhood. I suppose it helped having a computer at home and parents who were reasonably techno literate for the time as well. Do you type on a desktop or laptop keyboard every day? I suppose I must do. Since I'm never far from my laptop and I'm always on it for something that requires something using keys, even if it's just playing video games.

15:16If I'm not doing it on there, I'm definitely doing it on my phone.