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O podcast de hoje tem expressões que você pode usar para dizer que não entendeu nada ou que está
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Hey, how's it going? This is Ana Luiza with a new episode of the inglesonline podcast. To download
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OK, so I'll start off with a nice expression that will sound familiar to you. Go back to when you
were in school. Did you do well in mathematics, physics, history? What was your least favorite
subject in school? Mathematics is a popular answer to that question, so let's go with Maths. If you're
one of those people who hate Maths, I'll go right ahead and make the assumption that you didn't do
very well in Maths. That's not necessarily true, of course, but in most cases it is. So let's say you
really disliked Maths, and there were times when the teacher was explaining something or writing
this complicated equation on the blackboard, and you were like... "Wow, I have no idea what's
going on on that blackboard". You know what you could have said? This is all Greek to me.
We say the same in Portuguese: Isso pra mim é grego. In English, This is all Greek to me, or This is
Greek to me. It's a very informal expression, OK, very informal. So, were there times in school
when you felt like saying "This is Greek to me"?
Here's another one: go back again to the time you were in school and picture your teacher
explaining something. Now this isn't Mathematics anymore. This is a different subject, a subject
that you actually liked. So, you were usually interested in what the teacher was saying but
sometimes you couldn't understand what she meant. Sometimes you would raise your hand and you
would say "Excuse me! I'm not following" or "I'm not following you". So we can use the word
follow to mean 'understand someone's reasoning', or 'understand someone's logic'. Right? A private
investigator follows people around... When someone opens the door and tells you "Follow me",
they mean "Come right after me" or "Walk right behind me and go wherever I'm going".
But when someone's telling you a story or explaining something to you and, all of a sudden, you're
lost... You can say "Wait. I'm not following you." I'm not following you. What you just said isn't
clear to me, it's not making sense, I am not following you. Sometimes people will ask you "Are you
following me?" or "Do you follow me?". So that's what they mean. When someone asks you "Are
you following me?", they want to know if you understand what they are saying. They wanna know
if you are following their reasoning, their logic.
And here's one more. Let's go back to the teacher and the Maths class. You're listening to the
teacher speak and you're thinking, "This is all Greek to me". So after class you're talking to your
friend and he says "Can you help me with Maths? That stuff our teacher talked about today... it went
way over my head". It went over my head, or it went way over my head. Imagine something going
over your head. Way over your head. That means you have no idea, you can't even begin to
understand it. Sometimes that happens when we're talking to friends, even. Sometimes our friends
are talking about their work, and it's something you know nothing about, and it all sounds very
complicated, and you think "Wow, this stuff is way over my head". And you can tell your friend
later "You know when you were telling me about your work? That went over my head". That went
way over my head.

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 Inglês Online Como Digo em Inglês: Tô Boiando

So what is it for you? What's the subject that... when people start talking about it, goes over your
head? That makes you think "This is Greek to me"?
OK, that's it for today. Talk to you next time!

Key expressions
• That's Greek to me
• I'm not following (you)
• That went (way) over my head

Glossary
your least favorite = a que você menos gostava
I'll go right ahead = eu vou em frente, não vou hesitar em
you didn't do very well in = você não foi muito bem em
it's not making sense = não está fazendo sentido

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