Easy English Expression 0468 in a rut

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Yep, and he's over there in Japan enjoying this podcast. So thank you very much, Tetsuo, and to everybody who is listening to today's podcast. Today's podcast is in a rut.

I am in a rut. In, I-N, the preposition. A, the letter A. The actual pronunciation of the letter A, the article A, is A-Rut. But 98.79% of the time we say a.

So in a rut, R-U-T. So first of all, what is a rut? Well, I'll give you an easy image. Imagine it's raining outside and there is no sidewalk, there is no road, it's just dirt, okay?

Okay. So when you walk on the dirt in the rain, it leaves your footprint, right? You can see your shoe, right? Well, imagine you are riding a bicycle.

Well, then you're going to see a long line where your bicycle was riding, correct? Correct. Okay, so now you've got a bicycle and you're riding and it's a little bit deep, right? It goes down because the bicycle is heavy.

Now, three days later, it's dry, but there's still that path of your bicycle. That is a rut. So imagine if there's a rut, a dried rut, like a place where your bicycle tire was, and you ride your bicycle on the same path as

Your tires might fall into the rut and then you are restricted. It's very difficult to turn to the left and turn to the right. Do you understand what I mean?

You have to go down the exact same path. There's no flexibility. No left, no right. You just got to go straight. This is what the expression means in real life.

I am in a rut. My life is the same every day. There's no left. There's no right. I have no flexibility. I have no time, no freedom, no money to do anything.

It's just the same thing every day. Yeah, it happens. It happens to everybody. Maybe right now for you, maybe you are in a rut. Are you married? Do you have a husband?

Do you have a wife? Is your relationship in a rut? It's the same thing. You wake up in the morning. You take a shower. You go to work. You come home. You eat dinner together.

You wash dishes. You watch television. You go to bed. You wake up. You take a shower. You go to work. It's the same thing. And you have to work. You need to make money to save money to pay your bills.

You're stuck in a rut. You're in a rut. Maybe your English lessons, the same thing. You go to an institute and it's the same book. It's the same teacher.

It's the same lesson. You're in a rut. Yeah, being in a rut, it's no fun. Yeah. And but, you know, sometimes that's life. There's nothing you can do. There's nothing you can do sometimes.

So you have to find the joy while living in a rut. And I found some new joy that helps me take my English lessons out of a rut. And I'll tell you about that after you listen to the dialogue.

You don't look so happy. I'm in a rut. Take a break from work. Yeah, maybe a week off would help. You bet. If you are in a rut, if you're very bored with your job, bored with life, bored with your family, take a break.

See if you can take a break. Take a vacation. Go someplace. Maybe start a new hobby. Start exercising. Start listening to a different podcast. Do something.

Take a break. It doesn't mean, you know, taking a break can be a psychological break. You can find something to keep yourself busy, something new, a new book.

I don't know. I don't watch TV, but maybe a new TV show or some new music, a new genre of music. So you guys know I'm an English teacher and I have my podcast. I have my daily videos.

I have my DDM lessons and my perf lessons. But I'm always looking for something to add, to change, to make it a little exciting. And yeah, let's check out that dialogue two more times.

You don't look so happy. I'm in a rut. Take a break from work. Yeah, maybe a week off would help. You don't look so happy. I'm in a rut. Take a break from work.

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