Ana: Hello Jackie: Ana Luisa is a language teacher, but she's a language teacher with two hats. Ana

Richard: Well, it's 1,236 kilometres per hour or about one kilometre in three seconds or approximately one mile in five seconds.
Jackie: So... so Felix did that, he went that fast.
Richard: Unbelievably he reached a speed of 1,342 kilometres per hour.

Jackie: That's just amazing.
Richard: And finally, he wanted to do the longest freefall. Now the last guy to do this was way back in 1960, and his fall lasted 4 minutes 36 seconds.
Jackie: So he... he did that too then.
Richard: Well, it took about 10 minutes from when he jumped to when he landed.
Jackie: Wow, 10 minutes falling.
Richard: But his parachute opened only after 4 minutes 16 seconds.
Jackie: 4 minutes 16 seconds, Richard. So, well, three out of four is not bad. Now Neil Armstrong, he said that's one small step for man etc etc, when he was on the Moon, did Felix have any similar comment?
Richard: He said, “Sometimes you have to go up really high to see how small you are.”
Jackie: Well, he went up very high.

Richard: Absolutely amazing.
Jackie: Mmm definitely.

Fingers and thumbs

Jackie: Often, when we interview people for podcastsinenglish we interview people who are good at doing things or good at making things. But for this week's podcast, I'm talking to Helen, hi Helen...
Helen: Hello
Jackie: ...who says she's a little bit fed up because she's not good at doing things. Helen can you... can you give an example?
Helen: Well, I would say that I am all fingers and thumbs.
Jackie: Fingers and thumbs, that's a great expression, can you explain what that means.
Helen: It means that when I'm doing something um... close like knitting or drawing I'm very clumsy and I get all my fingers and thumb... thumbs mixed up together and I drop things or make a mess so if I'm doing some painting, for example, I'll end up with more paint on me than there will be on the wall or the um... piece of paper.