Learn the English Phrases "That's the spirit!" and "a kindred spirit"
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In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, "That's the spirit." When we say, "That's the spirit," to someone, we are encouraging them or recognizing that they did something cool or that they're excited about something. I'm not sure I'm explaining this well. Let me explain. If I said to someone, "I want to go for a hike tomorrow, but it's going to rain," if they said, "I'll just wear a jacket and bring an umbrella,"

I would say to them, that's the spirit. They are showing a positive attitude towards something that might be hard. If I said to a student, the exam is going to take three hours, and if they responded by saying, well, then I'll just study for three weeks, I would say, that's the spirit. They are showing a positive attitude when something difficult is going to happen.

It's very windy out here today. I'll show you in a minute. Hopefully I don't blow away. The second phrase I wanted to teach you today is a kindred spirit. A kindred spirit is a person you meet who is very similar to you and has a lot of the same interests. I have a good friend and that friend and I both read science fiction books when we were teenagers and we often talked about them. We were kindred spirits. When I was at university, I met people who I really enjoyed hanging out with. We were kindred spirits.

So to review, that's the spirit is used to basically recognize that someone is being positive in a situation that might be negative. And when you say a kindred spirit, you're talking about someone who thinks a lot like you, likes a lot of the same things as you. But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from...

Pedro, talking in person is different. It brings back a kind of warmth you don't get through a screen. Have a great weekend, Bob. And my response, yeah, I like in person better than online. So that was a reference. Thanks, Pedro. That was a reference to the last lesson where I talked about face-to-face and in person. Let's walk over here and see if we can see. Oh, I was going to say one more thing.

I used to have to do parent-teacher interviews online during the pandemic and I didn't like it at all. Okay, I'm not sure if you can see this tree. It was moving quite a bit more earlier. I'll just point like this for a bit.

It's just really, really windy out here. I'm going to walk this way so the wind is at my back. That's better for the microphone than the sound. The audio quality should be pretty good. But I'm just walking in what I would call a typical Canadian neighborhood in a small town. Notice some of the driveways are gravel.

Some of the driveways are concrete and some of the driveways are pavement.

Last time I did a video like this in town, a lady ran out of her house and wanted to know what I was doing. So I don't know if that will happen again, but people are quite protective when they see someone with a camera. Although the last time it happened, the person thought that it was some sort of sensor that I was looking for gas leaks or something like that. This person must be getting ready to go camping.

It's a little early for camping in Ontario, Canada, but you can see they have their pickup truck hooked up to their camper and it looks like they're getting ready to hit the road and maybe find a campground that's open. I don't think a lot of them are yet. They usually don't open till the middle of May. Anyways, again, a view of the trees moving in the wind, a nice view of a typical Canadian neighborhood.

older neighborhood. Sorry, it just got really windy there for just a moment. Anyways, thanks for watching. I'll see you in a few days with another short English lesson. Bye. Hi, Bob the Canadian here. Thank you for listening to this English podcast lesson. If you would like to support me in the work that I do as an online English teacher, please visit patreon.com slash bobthecanadian.