Seeing foreign movies.
It is difficult for me to listen to English that actors said in a movie. Recently, I saw a movie "Holiday of Rome". A actress in the movie was a beautiful , lovely and great figure. I enjoyed it. However, I am not good at understanding spoken English.
I saw the movie anyway and I worry that I would be able to listen to and speak English. But I know it is important to make steady effots. By the way, there are strange and interesting expressions I thought in the movie. For example, "nuts to that","Holy smoke"and"How do you do?" Especially, I was surprised "How do you do" is almost identical to "Nice to meet you".
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Seeing foreign movies.
It is difficult for me to listen to understand the English that actors said in a movie. Recently, I saw a the movie "Roman Holiday". An actress in the movie was a beautiful , lovely and great figure. She has a great figure or she was a great figure? I enjoyed it. However, I am not good at understanding spoken English.I saw the movie anyway and I worry that I wouldn't be able to listen to and speak English. But I know it is important to make steady efforts. Yes! By the way, there are strange and interesting expressions I thought in the movie. For example, "nuts to that","Holy smoke"and"How do you do?" Especially, I was surprised that "How do you do" is almost identical to "Nice to meet you".
Yes, the movie is old, so the language is old-fashioned. People still say "How do you do" sometimes, but it is very formal. I'm glad that you enjoyed the movie! Do you often watch movies in English?
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Thank you for your comment and advice. That is right! I sometimes feel that I am trying to do tremendous something. I'll try to watch movies on youtube!
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English is full of all kinds of weird and irregular expressions! Not many of them have literal translations, but here are the intended meanings of the ones you mentioned-
"Nuts to that" = "Screw that" ie. indicating that the person doesn't like whatever "that" is, or thinks it's a bad idea.
"Holy smoke" = an expression of surprise. Attempting to translate literally would be like saying that smoke has some sort of religious significance. Then try to understand why that would be an indication of something being surprising and have a nice laugh.
"How do you do" = a more formal way of saying "nice to meet you." No one really says that. It is more aristocratic, and from an older time period, like before 1910. Also it is more of a British syntax.
For me, I watch movies in Hindi to help me learn, but I find them on YouTube/Netflix/Amazon and get the ones with English subtitles. That way I can pause them when I get confused and read the translations. Maybe try that. :)
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