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Street Speak: What is True Love?

Street Speak: What is True Love?

Date: May 19 2006

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It’s a question that has been pondered by the world’s greatest poets and philosophers, and still no one really knows the answer.

What is true love?

Is it sexual or physical? Emotional or intellectual? Maybe it is a mixture of everything.

Kayla asked a Hank, a man on the street, to answer the question, What is true love? Listen to his response.

Dialog

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Kayla

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Hank

Kayla:  Alright, so, what do you think true love is?

Hank:  What do I think true love is? Hmm….

Kayla:  Have you ever really thought about it before?

Hank:  Ah, sometimes, yes. Ah, between someone, between a person and a significant other, they just know. Ah, shoot. How would I say this?

Kayla:  Do you think people act differently when they’re experiencing true love?

Hank:  Well, yeah, I think so, totally. Because, I mean, I don’t know, it’s got…can’t say I’ve ever really experienced it that much, but I think it’s definitely, like, a bit, definitely make you feel better, happier, kind of this fulfilling feeling that you have inside you.

 

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Discussion

Love is difficult to define, as you can tell from Hank’s response to the question, “What is true love?”

Sometimes, it is easier to say what love is not instead of what love is. For example, love is not sex. Love is not a feeling. Love is not selfish or impatient.

How do you define true love?



What other questions would you like random Americans to answer? Send your questions to dave@englishbaby.com.

 

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pink_gurl

pink_gurl

Kuwait

In my opinion true love we cannot express it with words but its with what we do for ..

11:38 PM Mar 22 2012 |

Hossam_bounab

Algeria

i Guess the pic put for this lesson is not a true love !!! It seems like two teens having fun !


Love in nowadays is a big misconception…you could barely find it 


11:06 PM Sep 11 2011 |

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oroba

oroba

Yemen

I wish I can feel it one day

01:54 PM Sep 11 2011 |

i love life

Palestinian Territory, Occupied

true love meaning a pure love without any interst in the material and sexual love

and the life with all the circumstances on the other hand every thing changed in our life so the love

the money in life doesnt all thing there are  alot thing to express our ideas about love about  a real life as respect and sense of mutual

GOOD LUCK to each other in life and al the best from my heart

08:51 PM Dec 10 2010 |

roufaa

Tunisia

the true love is the love true

11:52 AM Nov 17 2009 |

faith_07

faith_07

India

True is never become a sexual love… It may be a pure love. Love bear everything, love never hate …

02:21 PM Oct 08 2009 |

julywidiawati

Indonesia

true love is an unconditional love, you will happy when you see someone you're love happy though it has to sacrificing your happiness.<!-Session data-><!-Session data->

11:36 AM Sep 26 2009 |

faith_07

faith_07

India

According to the Holy Bible, The love is not pride, not jealous, it’s ready to give everything, listern to everybody and so on….

05:11 AM Apr 12 2007 |

Tio

Tio

Indonesia

it’s okay…

02:56 PM May 22 2006 |

lnln

lnln

China

why in today’s lesson , the sentence “Have you ever really thought about it before?” is sound like “you have really thought about it before?”

02:43 AM May 21 2006 |

abhishek

abhishek

India

i

05:32 PM May 20 2006 |

teddy008

teddy008

China

Awful

06:05 AM May 20 2006 |

DODO

France

good

11:41 AM May 19 2006 |

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