[Music] Hello lovely, I'm Maria. My name is Rory, and we're the most 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 gorgeous grammar and fabulous vocabulary, or your high-eyed school. Your bad night score. Is that a new dress? Oh yes, and I also bought these new shoes. Oh wow, that's a lot of shopping. It's Rory's favorite topic. Is it? No, it's not. It's like my least favorite topic in the world. It's a joke. Our Rory dislikes shopping. I think he does it like once in five years, in ten years, or even longer if I can help it. I hate shopping. [Music] Rory, do you like shopping? If it's a simple case of going in, getting the things I want, and then getting out again, then I'm a big fan. Otherwise, I'm really not thrilled about being dragged around a million stores to window shop, to be honest. It seems like a massive waste of time. Do you compare prices when you shop? Well, sometimes I nip back and forth between some cosmetic shots when I'm looking at moisturizer, but other than that, I usually just pick the most convenient place to go. But I'm pretty low maintenance, so most of what I buy is quite cheap anyway, and I don't have to search high and low for the best deals. Is it difficult for you to make choices when you shop? No, usually, but then I have pretty fixed requirements for clothes and things. Do they fit and are they inexpensive? I'm not about to spend hours traipsing around trying to find the best shade to match my eyes or something like that. Do you think expensive products are always better than cheaper ones? Well, not always, but usually they are. Otherwise, what would be the point on buying them at a higher price? [Music] Hey, shopping and Rory are two different, you know, universe is the listener. Are you into shopping? Well, I like shopping, you know. Have we talked about shopping before? Yes, I hope people tend to repeat the same topics over and over again. So, dear listener, you can just go ahead and listen to our older episodes about shopping. So, dear listener, Rory's shopping works like this. Rory goes in, he gets the things he wants, and he gets out. Go in, get the things I want, get out. So, if this is your, I don't know, like, this is what you do, usually. Well, you can say, I'm a big fan of shopping. Go in, get the things I want, get out. Yay, shopping is done. But do we always do this? I always do it. So, then it's not a simple case. It's a case of, and then you describe what you're doing. Or you could say, it's a complicated case or a complicated process. But if it's a very simple process, then it's a simple case of, and then doing a few short actions, and you're done. You can say, I'm not really thrilled about shopping, or I am thrilled about shopping. I love it, like, I do love it. I'm really thrilled about shopping, yay. If you are negative about shopping, then you can say, I'm not thrilled about being dragged around a million stores. Stores like shops, and if you are dragged, so kind of, I, like, I drag you, I don't know, I... You take me there, whether I want to go or not. Have we, have I ever been shopping with you? No, never. That's the reason, Rory. There is a reason for that. Yes, so kind of, if, for example, Rory and I go shopping together, someone might die. Rory doesn't want to go, and I drag Rory to all these shops in a shopping center. And sometimes we just window shop. When you do window shopping, or I window shop, or I enjoy window shopping, you just look at the, you know, windows of a shop. You don't buy anything, but you just, you know, like, you check out the windows. You look what they have. But if I window shop, do I go inside and check out the clothes and the things that they have? Well, the term comes from looking through the windows at the product. So really, no, but to be honest, just any process of looking at the product, but not buying it, but wondering about buying it, or what it would be like to have it, is window shopping. So you don't need a window to window shop, even though it seems like this. We sometimes compare prices. So when I shop or when I go shopping, I usually compare prices. Oh, I don't. And Rory, you said like sometimes I nip back and forth, nip back and forth. Oh, it just means move between places very quickly. Well, nip is a slang term or an idiom for moving quickly somewhere. Nip to the shops means just, it's like pop to the shops. It just means go somewhere very quickly in a short space of time. So if you nip back and forth, then you go between shops repeatedly to find the best prices, or something else that requires going between places very quickly. It's very frustrating and tedious, and I don't like doing it. TGS, it's like boring, so shopping is tedious from its boring. And nip is a verb, informal, and it's used in the UK delissa. To go somewhere quickly, or be somewhere for only a short time. For example, can you nip out to the shop for me, or nip round to the shop like, or pop round to the shop like, go there very quickly. Or just like, let's nip into the cafe. Okay, let's just let go to a cafe real quick. Cosmetics, we usually buy cosmetics, so all in our shamboos and conditioners and all this stuff. And Rory sometimes looks for a moisturizer. Moisturizer? That Rory puts onto his face to make sure it's like a well-moistured, yes, Rory? Do you so moisturize on your face? I do, yeah, but I wouldn't say it's a very complex process. I just buy the ones that like, put a little bit in your hand, you put it on your face, and you are done. I appreciate that moisturizing for many people is a much more complicated process, but for me, it's not. Yeah, and careful, cosmetics doesn't mean like makeup, right? Cosmetics is like all the products like we use for our hair, face, body, but like makeup is like makeup, okay? Cosmetics is like a general term, right? Uh, yes, for anything that improves the appearance, I think. You choose cosmetics, or you pick, pick. So I pick the most convenient place to go. I pick the most expensive moisturizer, okay? But Rory is raw maintenance, okay? So he doesn't require much stuff, whereas I am high maintenance, okay? I have all the shampoos and all lots of bottles and creams and everything perfume. So it's like like, wow, like a suitcase, so cosmetics. So I'm high maintenance. Just for the hair, Rory, just my hair needs like 10 different bottles. I feel like though the women have a, well, it could be an advantage if you like it, but it could be a disadvantage if you don't like it. So you have one of these things over men here, because that sounds, for to me, that sounds really complicated, and I would not want to have to deal with that. But do you enjoy that? Well, I have to enjoy it because like, to take care of my hair, you know, I like that. I have to enjoy it. I don't really, I have to, like usually men have one bottle and this one bottle is like all inclusive gel, it's not, it's like, it's five and one, I have one, I love it. It's shampoo, conditioner, but I think it's like a five-in-one, five, 10-in-one. I have a five-in-one. My god, five-in-one. Oh, did you listen? Do you have this five-in-one bottle, shampoo, cream, conditioner, cream for your feet? What? All at one bottle. Oh my god. You can get cream for your feet. We make choices. So when you shop, you pick different things, you choose or you make choices. When you go shopping or you shop, you pop into a shop. Rory has pretty fixed requirements for clothes. He knows exactly what he needs, he just gets it there, do the shopping and get out. Yeah, which is ballerating deliciousness. So this is kind of like shopping is boring. It's not boring, it's easy, it's very easy. Thank you. It's like, this coffee right, he's like, oh. And Rory's clothes are inexpensive, okay, deliciousness. So they are quite cheap and clothes are inexpensive. And what verb did you use about like, I don't want to spend hours to rape some something around? Oh, traipzing, traipzing around is the whole thing. But traipzing or traipzing around is just moving in a tired and reluctant manner. You don't want to do it. So I don't want to spend hours going around shops, looking for things constantly. I just want to get the thing by the thing and then take the thing home. So traips, informal, they listen to walk from one place to another, often feeling tired or bored. You know, so when you're after like five hours of shopping, you haven't found your favorite dress and you go, oh my God. Oh, I'm tired. So I spent the day traipsing around the shops like this. Or like you see a lot of tourists traipsing around the museums, for example. You don't see me doing it though, because I'm very organized. And I'm not very organized. Like sometimes I spent hours traipting around different shops, trying to find the best deal, the best bargain, for example, like a good price. And here Rory gave us an example with like makeup, shade. Shade is something you put like what on your eyes, not eyes. I think it's eyeshadow, you mean? Eyeshadow, yeah. Shade is the form of color. Oh, you mean shade like a color with your clothes? Okay, okay. If I compare it to comparing the brightness or the darkness of the color. So if you're looking for a shade of blue that matches your eyes, you're looking for a shade of blue or a piece of clothing that's the same as your eyes. And because they match, that's supposed to be a good thing. Oh, jealousness. How do I know that? Why do I know that? Ah, I have no idea. So you can say that I don't want to spend hours traipsing around different shops, trying to find the best shade, the best color to match my eyes, okay? Or I do love checking out millions of shops, trying to find the best shade, the best color to match my eyes, you see? Who are these people that enjoy this? Where are they? Yes, they're listening. I'm sure you do enjoy some shopping. Well, not every day, you know? But kind of like once in a while, maybe like once, twice a month. Okay, some good shopping. And kind of like spontaneous shopping, jealousness. Once or twice every five years. Oh, really? We buy things at a higher price. All we buy things at a lower price. All we buy cheap things. Can you tell us now? And also we shop for things. Shop for the best bargains, like good deals. Well, you can say like, you know what's the examiner? I'm a shopaholic. Like I have this addiction. I'm addicted to shopping. Healthy. I have to rent two flats to keep all my stuff that I buy every day. And some people do this, you know? They rent certain spaces to keep all the stuff. And you know what? Roy, what's the trend now? What's like a popular? Why are you asking the person who hates shopping? What the popular shopping trends are? I have no idea. Oh, it's going to be something ridiculous. Like buying something that has been printed with the same color of hair that you have. No, no, no, no, no, no. People are very busy these days. So what do they do? They hire a professional stylist to do the shopping for you. So you pay money to a professional. This person comes to your house. They analyze all your clothes. Then they shop for you, dear listener. Okay? They go to the shops. They choose the clothes for you. They leave the clothes in the shop saved for you. And what do you do? You go in there. You try all the clothes, which are there waiting for you. And then you say, "Okay, I'll take these ones. I want to take these ones." And then, "Hey, is this, you know, like an expert level shopping?" That is... I can't even begin to form an opinion related to that. That's crazy. Why is it crazy? You save time. You save your money. A professional person tells you like, "Oh, what's good for you? What's not?" You're like, "What's the same as learning English?" You do it with a teacher, usually. So the same with style and clothes. It's possible that I am... Maybe this does not work for someone who is as direct and straightforward as I am. But I just... What? I just don't see the appeal. You see, he doesn't see the appeal. Roy thinks it's not interesting. But I think it's great. And I'm going to do it very soon, Delos. And I'm going to show you pictures before and after. Thank you very much for listening. I'll have to do some shopping now. And for some shameless self-promotion. Not for clothes, but for books. If you're in the market for a new book. My new book is out on Amazon. You can find it on my Instagram. Links are in the description below. Or they will be somewhere. Bye! Bye! Worry, do like shopping. If it's a simple case of going in, getting the things I want, and then getting out again, then I'm a big fan. Otherwise, I'm really not thrilled about being dragged around a million stores to window shop, to be honest. It seems like a massive waste of time. Do you compare prices when you shop? Well, sometimes I nip back and forth between some cosmetic shops, so I'm looking at moisturizer. But other than that, I usually just pick the most convenient place to go. But I'm pretty low maintenance, so most of what I buy is quite cheap anyway. And I don't have to search high and low for the best deals. Is it difficult for you to make choices when you shop? No, usually. But then I have pretty fixed requirements for clothes and things. Do they fit? And are they inexpensive? I'm not about to spend hours traipsing around trying to find the best shade to match my eyes or something like that. Do you think expensive products are always better than cheaper ones? Well, not always, but usually they are. Otherwise, what would be the point on buying them at a higher price?
