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In today's episode, we talk about the different expressions using the word worth. These expressions can help you discuss the true value of something. Listen in to learn more today.

Hey, Michelle, what's going on today? Hey, Lindsay, not too much, not too much. How are you? Almost the end of the year. I know we're in that week, right in between Christmas and New Year's. Going to try to take some time off this particular week and just reflect and prepare for the new year. You know what I mean? It's always a week of reflection, relaxation, arrest and preparation for me.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I agree. It's it's exciting. It's exciting. And hopefully we'll have a good twenty, twenty one so. Oh my God. I can't be worse than twenty twenty. Don't say that. But I think the whole world feels that right now everyone is like let's get out of twenty twenty.

It's so funny how we associate like so much with the year that we're in. It's like oh there's so many celebrity deaths in a certain year. Oh this year couldn't be, you know, like I feel like we always have something like that. But it's funny because I mean, you know, there is this new feeling of hope of like, OK, let's get out of it. Yeah, I know.

I know. I know. It's been it's been such a year. Oh, my gosh. All right. But anyway, so did we have a question from a listener today?

Do we do we have a question from Marco today?

Yeah, Marco. OK, should I go ahead and read it? Let's go for it. All right.

So Marco says, Hey, girls, I hope this email finds you. Well, I've been an assiduous listener of your podcast for more than four years. And thanks to you, my English has skyrocketed. Thanks a million for your consistent and sincere effort to help US learners in entertaining and convenient way. I'm always in doubt regarding the usage of worthy and worthwhile. Oh so good. I feel that they're pretty similar and in all fairness, I wouldn't know how to discern them.

Oh, good vocabulary, I guess. I know this is amazing. I know. So I'd be extremely glad if you could cover the topic in one of your next episodes. Thanks again for your hard work and have a great week. Cheers from Marco.

Nice Marco. Wow.

Discern I mean, assiduous, assiduous. I know these fantastic words, Marco. I love it.

I love it. Awesome. Thank you, Mark, over that question. And guys. Yeah, we are going to talk about this in just a second. But before we do, we want to remind you to hit subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast so that you don't miss anything. Guys, we do bonuses. We do stuff that you aren't going to know about unless you are subscribe to the podcast. So we'll give you a second to do that now.

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OK, Michelle, what else have we done about this worth. This term worth.

Yeah well we did an episode 700. We did seven. Seven hundred reasons why all is English is worth it.

So yeah, we did discuss the words worthy and worthwhile.

There are. So we are going to talk about this more, but we're going to take it in a new direction because we have answered this question. We'll go over it briefly. But guys, definitely listen to that episode so that you can hear more about these words. Yeah, really good stuff.

So go all the way back to seven hundred and review that and then we'll just get into a review of what these mean. Right, Michelle. So for example, worthwhile. So that's the first one he asked about. What exactly does it mean. Well, so that's like basically it's an adjective that means worth the time, money or effort.

But I think I had taken these from the dictionary. Just copy these from our from our blog, I realized. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So it's worth eRate or value or importance.

Right. So it's worth it. Right.

It's yeah. Yeah it's worthwhile. Yeah. Exactly. And then worthy. Right. I think we talked about this I guess said you can be careful, it can sound like worth it. So I wanted to bring that up. Yeah.

If you're speaking quickly. So definitely listen for worthy verses. Worth it. Worth it. For the right.

Well I mean the pronunciation, if you really listen closely, the way we pronounce the t h guys is different. Right. Worthwhile and worthy or slightly different.

Yeah. Right. Sound right. Right, right. So worthy is I so. Oh this is the one. Yeah. I copy this from our blog which was from the dictionary said having or showing the qualities or ability that merit recognition and a specified way.

Wow. OK, I think we're going to need a lot of examples for this because they are, they do seem very similar based on the definition, Michel. Yeah, well, guys, we definitely spoke more about these in that episode.

Seven hundred. So today was going to be going in a different direction. OK, but so I did want to direct you to that one.

So give you some basic definitions of those today. But I want to give you as a homework assignment to listen to Episode seven hundred to really get what we spoke about. Yeah.

So we did cover that then in that other episode. We talked about worthwhile versus worthy. OK, so we do something we did worth it, worthy, worthwhile. We talked about it. OK, so you guys definitely have to go to 700 today.

We're moving on. We're doing an extension of this worth idea. So where are we going then, Michelle, with this?

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OK, so we're going to teach you some new, very useful idioms with worth with, OK, that's funny. So I'm excited for this episode. So, yeah, again, remember to listen to Episode Seven Hundred for all your answers to those questions. So what is the first idiom today.

OK, worth every penny. I love this one because it feels good when you can say it, you know what I mean. There's always certain emotions associated with saying something because you're experiencing something is when you feel that you've made a good purchase. Right.

Right, right. Yes. It is great when something is worth your penny. Right. Worth every penny. So you could say something like, man, I know this phone was expensive, but it was worth every penny. Yes, exactly.

Exactly. What is something? So I'm trying to think of something recently that I purchased that was worth every penny. Oh, geez, it's so hard. Like a good pair of jeans. I believe in spending a little bit more money on a good pair of jeans. That fits you really well. That looks good. And they last forever. Yeah, that can be worth every penny. Yeah.

For me it's been baby proofing stuff like we got these crazy cool things that you can put on the doors to make sure that the kid doesn't get in and maybe I'll do an Instagram video on it. It's the most amazing thing that I've ever purchased. So it's worth every penny. Yeah.

So kind of what you're saying is what you've purchased is like gives you peace of mind and like it goes, you know, the value exceeds the amount you paid for it. All right. For me, another example would be puppy training.

Is it the right price? Right, everybody. Because you don't want to get to like age for your puppies. You know, your dog is four and your dog doesn't know how to walk on a leash, is biting at dogs. Right. That would make for a really awful miserable life with your dog. So. Right, right, right. Puppy training when they're young is worth every penny and it pays dividends and other good dividends later on in life.

Yeah, right.

Right, right. It's true. It's like annoying to sometimes spend money on something in the beginning and then you're like, oh no, but it's going to be worth every penny. Yep. Exactly.

Love it guys. You really should use this expression. Awesome. OK, what else. All right, now we're going to the other side of it. So not worth a dime, right? Hey, good. Wow, that's nasty.

So that's really like saying that something is worthless, which is actually our next word. But both of these expressions are words. So we have not worth the diamond worthless.

I mean, it means that there's no value in something. So I could hear someone saying this at like a pawn shop. Right. Like if you remember, I tried to give something to a pawn shop or maybe to a thrift store to sell something. Right. So somebody might say something like, sorry about that. Jewelry isn't worth a dime. It's worthless. Oh, interesting.

Yeah. When I think about this too, this word worthless, I also think about inflation. Right.

So if we don't invest our money and we leave it in the bank, it eventually, you know, as inflation moves forward, it could become worthless. So you think about it in terms of investing and money and that kind of thing. Guys, it's used there to really good. Really good. Exactly.

Exactly. So hopefully you don't have any purchases that you now think are worthless. So. Yeah, but yeah. I mean, have you ever tried to sell anything.

Yeah, for sure. I mean we just moved to a new apartment here and so we've tried to sell a few little things and we've been had some success there, like on Facebook marketplace, that kind of thing. But certainly there are things are another good example of something that eventually becomes not worth it list, but it loses its value quickly as a new car, when you buy a brand new car, as soon as you drive it off the lot, it drops its value by like eighty percent or something crazy.

Yeah, that's why I don't think I'd ever be into an expensive cars.

It's like there's no gain ever make money off of not an appreciating asset. Right. Is a depreciating, extremely depreciating asset.

Yeah. So we could talk about this another day, all of these investment ideas for sure. But yeah I know, I think definitely a car would be something that eventually becomes pretty worthless or hard to resell. Yeah, right.

Exactly. And this can also be about time spent. So you could say something like, I worked so hard on that project, but it was worthless in the end I failed.

So yeah, I did. Yes. Good stuff.

OK, here's the next one. Worth your while. Hmm. Tell me about that one, Michelle.

Well, this one is that the value is high, but it may be tough to do. Right. You have to put in some effort.

So your while is basically the time that you would spend or how hard you'd work doing something. Right. So let's do an example so I know you don't feel like driving all the way there, but I know you don't feel like driving all the way here.

But I really think it will be worth your while. We have a huge surprise for you.

Yeah, exactly.

So first, it's annoying, but you'll understand that you'll be glad you did it later.

Yes, exactly. Exactly. Have you done anything recently that's been worth your while?

Well, I guess. I would say, like probably that puppy school again, because it also requires more time, requires more time and money. And but then I also learn how to raise my puppy the right way and also just move to a new apartment. And maybe that was worth our while just because we have a better set up here than our old place. Yeah, things like that. Yeah. Yeah. What about you, Michelle. Anything.

Oh anything recently that's been worth my while huh. I think it's been about trying to get my son to take naps unfortunately. And it's been I spoke to a sleep consultant, I spoke to the doctor a different ideas and it was really worth my while, even though I've had to put effort in. Let's see if by the time this episode comes out, if he's still doing a good job.

Well, let us know. Let us know. Give us an update. I will. I will.

OK, so the takeaway for today is I mean, this was a great question. We had covered something, something very similar before. So we took it in a different direction today. But we wanted you to listen to that other episode so that you get all the information. So ask yourself the questions we asked each other today. Right. Practice these conversation questions. Right. Like have what have you bought recently that's been worth every penny? Things like that.

And also think about what is valuable in your life. This is really good for the New Year, right? Not just your possessions, but what do you value in your life?

Absolutely. This is really good, guys. And if you want more episodes on how to talk about kind of these money concepts, you know, that's something that we could go in for, for sure, Michel. That would be really interesting. Let us know, you know, if you were on Instagram, leave a comment. Let us know that you like this kind of episode, because we do need to be able to have conversations about these things with the people around us for sure.

Yeah, absolutely.

Good point, Lindsey. This would be a fun one, so I would look into that. OK, take care, Michelle. Talk. All right. Bye, guys.

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