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2 ASL
[00:00:00] Nationality, location, language, age and relationship

[00:00:04] You can now introduce another person or yourself. But you probably want to add
some descriptions! Like, nationality, language, age, location and relationship status.

[00:00:15] Let’s start with nationality.

[00:00:17] We have two ways to do this. We can [00:00:20] say he or she is from a certain
country. Like, he’s from Germany. She’s from Japan. Or we can say he or she is and then the
adjective for that country. So, he’s German. She’s Japanese. Here are some more examples.

[00:00:35] This is my friend Liz. She’s Australian.

[00:00:38] This is my friend Liz. [00:00:40] She’s from Australia.

[00:00:42] This is Mohamed. He’s from Saudi Arabia.

[00:00:45] This is Mohamed. He’s Saudi.

[00:00:48] I’m Kallan. I’m American.

[00:00:50] I’m Kallan. I’m from the US.

[00:00:53] Let’s pretend you have a friend named Jeremy. Jeremy comes from Ireland. But we
don’t say “comes [00:01:00] from”, that’s too formal. Introduce Jeremy to me, using one or both
of the ways I told you about to describe nationality.

[00:01:12] This is Jeremy. He’s from Ireland.

[00:01:15] This is Jeremy. He’s Irish.

[00:01:18] If you have no idea where [00:01:20] someone is from, we have two options. First,
Where are you from? Or, What nationality are you?

[00:01:26] If you want to guess, or forgot, we turn our statements from before into questions
using inversion, so we just change the order of the subject and verb.

[00:01:36] So, He’s from Ireland becomes…

[00:01:43] [00:01:40] Is he from Ireland?

[00:01:45] He’s Irish becomes ….

[00:01:50] Is he Irish?

[00:01:52] Now to talk about language.

[00:01:54] If you want to describe the languages that you speak, just say, I speak.. and
[00:02:00] then the language or languages.

[00:02:02] I speak English, Arabic and Spanish.

[00:02:05] For someone else, just change the subject.

[00:02:08] She speaks Hebrew. He speaks Mandarin. They speak Hindi.

[00:02:12] Tell me, what languages do you speak?

[00:02:17] Very cool! Let’s continue now [00:02:20] to age.

[00:02:21] In English, we only use the verb ‘to be’ when describing age. So when describing
yourself, I’m and then the age.

[00:02:28] I’m 29. He’s 14. She’s 45. They’re both 60.

[00:02:33] We have two ways to ask about someone’s age. First, how old are you, or how old is
[00:02:40] he, is she, are they, etc. Also, we can use inversion. So my examples from before
become:

[00:02:47] Am I 29? Is he 14? Is she 45? Are they both 60?

[00:02:53] Let me ask you, how old are you?

[00:02:58] Oh yea? You look [00:03:00] young for your age!

[00:03:01] In most situations, it’s strange to ask about age right away. And a man is never
supposed to ask a woman about her age unless he knows her very well. So only ask about age if
it is important to the conversation. Someone’s weight is also not something that we openly
discuss.

[00:03:17] Now location. Meaning, where [00:03:20] someone lives now. You already learned
how to ask where someone was from originally, that’s their nationality. But now let’s focus on
asking about where someone lives at present.

[00:03:30] It’s just the subject, the verb live, and the place.

[00:03:34] I live in the US. My best friend lives in Germany. My family lives in a city close to me.
[00:03:40] I’m from South Africa, but I live in New York now.

[00:03:43] Notice that with countries and cities we use ‘in’. To live in a city, in a country! But for
a street, we say on. I live on 5th Street. I live on State Street!.

[00:03:54] To ask where someone lives, we say “Where do you live?” If someone tells you where
they live, [00:04:00] but you don’t know where that is exactly, respond by asking, “Where is that
exactly?” or “What’s it close to?” Like this.
[00:04:08] Where do you live?

[00:04:09] I live in the US!

[00:04:10] Oh, what city?

[00:04:12] In Milwaukee.

[00:04:13] What’s it close it?

[00:04:14] It’s pretty close to Chicago.

[00:04:16] Remember, ‘where are you from?’ means where [00:04:20] were you born, in what
country were you born. ‘Where do you live?’ means where is your house that you spend most of
your time in the present.

[00:04:30] Finally, relationship. A person’s relationship status means if someone is single, in a

relationship, engaged, or married. Be careful [00:04:40] asking about relationship with people
you just met, because it might appear that you are physically attracted to them. But if you ask a
friend, it is usually appropriate.

[00:04:49] To describe your relationship status, we say:

[00:04:52] I’m single. This means you are not in a relationship

[00:04:56] I’m in a relationship. This means you have a romantic [00:05:00] partner but you are
not engaged or married. We can also say, “I’m dating or seeing someone”.

[00:05:06] I’m engaged. To be engaged means you proposed to someone and have set a date to
get married.

[00:05:13] I’m married. If you are married, you have a husband or a wife.

[00:05:17] I’m divorced. If you are divorced, [00:05:20] you were married in the past, but you
both decided the marriage was not successful and ended it.

[00:05:26] I’m widowed. If you are widowed, a widow or a widower, your husband or wife died
and you have not married again.

[00:05:34] Let’s practice! Let’s imagine we’re at a party and I start asking you some questions
related [00:05:40] to nationality, language, age and relationship!

[00:05:43] Hi! I’m Kallan. What’s your name?

[00:05:49] OH yeah? That’s a cool name!

[00:05:51] Where are you from?

[00:05:55] I’ve never been there before, what’s it by?

[00:06:00] [00:06:01] Do you still live there? Where do you live now?

[00:06:09] Are you in a relationship? I saw you came with someone else to the party.

[00:06:16] Oh, okay! And sorry if it’s rude, but how old are you?

[00:06:20] [00:06:23] Oh, okay! You look young for your age!

[00:06:25] And remember, if you want to ask the same question that someone asked you, you
can just say, “and you?” It’s very common and a nice way to return a question in a conversation.

[00:06:37] Awesome job! You killing it, meaning [00:06:40] doing a great job, with this
conversation practice!

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