Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases IN DENIAL and TO DENY ONESELF

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to be in denial. If someone is in denial about something, it means that there are a lot of facts that show that something is true, but they still don't believe it. There are a lot of people in the world that are in denial about climate change. There is a lot of scientific evidence that climate change is happening but a lot of people are in denial. So when you are in denial about something it means that there are lots of facts. There's lots of scientific information that proves something is true but you still don't believe it, so you are in denial. Sometimes people have this in life as well. Maybe they love someone and that person doesn't love them back, but in their minds, they think that they are still having a romantic relationship. We would say that that person is in denial because they are not believing that the other person doesn't love them anymore. That's kinda sad.

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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase to deny myself or to deny oneself. If I deny myself something it means I don't allow myself to have it. Right now I'm trying to deny myself ice cream, I thought I should stop eating ice cream. It sometimes makes my stomach upset, it's full of sugar and fat and it's really not good for you. So I'm trying to deny myself ice cream. When you deny yourself something when you say I'm going to deny myself this thing or that thing, it means you're not going to let yourself have it.

So once again to be in denial means to not believe something that is scientifically true. And when you deny yourself or when you say I'm going to deny myself something it means you're not going to allow yourself to have it.

I think I'm in denial a little bit about the weather right now. It's actually cold out here, my hands are cold and I don't have my gloves or my hat, 'cause I think I'm in denial that it's actually cold. It's been warm for so long. I think I'm just in a little bit of denial.

Hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Patty, and Patty says this hello from France. Hi, I so agree with you Bob, I'm 57 and so far so good but I love studying things and I always use my brain a lot. One of my biggest fears is also if one day my brain isn't with it and my response is bonjour Patty I use a little bit of French there. My mom does Sudokus for her brain. I don't know if I'm pronouncing that right by the way but I say Sudokus, Sudokus. Sudoku's I'm going to start doing them too.

So Sudoku's, if I'm saying it correctly our little math puzzles where you have a grid of numbers by the way, thank you Patty, for that comment, it's a good one. And it's from the video where I was talking about being with it. I wanna make sure when I'm old that I'm with it and in that video as well, I think or a comment from that video as well from Julia was that she likes learning a language because it's good for your brain as well. So Patty, yes, I think that you do need to make sure that you do things with your brain so that you stay with it. It's good to always use your brain a lot. And Julia as well from that previous comment said learning a language is a good way to keep your brain active. I'm gonna try and do both. I'm gonna try and start doing crossword puzzles and Sudoku's I think that's the right pronunciation. It's kind of a relatively new kind of puzzle here in Canada. It's only been around for about 20 years, maybe more but I'm gonna try to do those as well.

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