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you know how very often people say that if you are able to understand jokes in english that means that you are fluent in english and this is actually one of the points describing the sea one english proficiency level which is advanced the next and the last one is only see two mastery so in this video we will test your ability to understand jokes in english thus find out how fluent you are in english so it's going to be an educational and hopefully funny and fun video at the same time jokes might be difficult to understand sometimes because they might be very specific to some cultural features and here's the thing to be able to understand everything you hear in english one really needs to spend a lot of time not only working on their listening skills and thereby immersing themselves into the culture, but also having advanced vocabulary well at least their passive vocabulary needs to be advanced so let's proceed to the jokes and don't worry if you don't understand them i'll explain them although it generally means that the joke isn't funny if you have to explain it, but it's technically the case if you are the one who's telling the joke so anyways this first video from we got the chocolates actually just popped up in my feet recently and i thought that it would be a perfect fit for this video i accidentally took my cat smeds lost on don't ask me out i've never heard that incredibly surprised when the stationary store moved was that it was no second line that's the joke yeah that's the joke i think we laugh first because she didn't get it okay if you guys got it that's great if not let me explain and by the way i'm not laughing and my reaction is not authentic because i had already seen these videos so in the first one when she said what sounded like don't ask me how she actually said don't ask me how which if you ling the words me and how they might sound like meow in the australian accent and the joke was kind of about her taking her cat's meds and starting to sound like a cat the second one so first of all you need to know what a stationary store is a stationary store is a store that sells stationary such as paper and paper products, postcards envelopes, pens folders and so on they're also called supplies doors and the word stationary is an adjective and it means standing still not moving remaining in one place they are spelled differently but they sound the same so it's a play of words he was surprised because the store was stationary and it moved also he says it was a real belter which is australian slang for very good or outstanding okay let's move on to the next one would you rod or ease a baby goals are a matter baby i'm master baby yeah what's your matter baby nothing sugar what's the matter with you again if you got it amazing if you didn't get it let me break it down so he asks would you rather eat a baby goat or a matter baby which it doesn't make any sense because there's no such thing as a matter baby it's just a word play in results in the other man asking what it is which is exactly what the younger man needed as soon as the older man actually asks the question he realizes that it sounds like people who are dating asking one another what's wrong because what's the matter means what's wrong and then if you add the word baby at the end of this question it will indicate that you are in a relationship with that person or at least very close so the younger man basically tricked the other man into saying this and then hearing the other man actually say this and then seeing his reaction when he realizes what he had just said that's what's funny okay so this one has been circling around for a while now here's the baby oh, thank you i'm sorry but your wife didn't make it then send me the one my wife did make so i'm pretty positive that everybody knows that to make something means to create something like in this case a woman's body created a baby however, when he said that she didn't make it he didn't mean that she didn't create it he meant that she didn't survive to make it means to succeed in something or to live through a difficult situation or near death experience and survive so in this context she didn't make it meant she didn't survive these are just three examples and they were fairly easy however, if you were able to understand them then your english is on a very good level they're of course a lot more complicated ones that involve wordplay and they are used in movies very often literally in every animation that i've watched recently were these kinds of jokes and honestly exactly these kinds of jokes make the movies truly funny okay, so how did you do did you understand all three of them or one or two or none any of these are fine because it's not your first language and it might be difficult but you'll get there in any case, let me know in the comments down below another type of comedy that if you can understand it means that you are fluent in english is stand up comedy, have you tried watching stand up in english if so then let me know how it went did you understand it or was it difficult if you like this type of content i mean breaking down, jokes also, please let me know and i'll make more of these types of videos and thank you for watching and i'll see you in the next one。