The A to Z English Podcast | Would you rather have a roommate who constantly cleans but never speaks, or a roommate who constantly speaks but never cleans?

In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Jack is joined by guest hosts May and Salimeh. Together, they answer the following Would you rather question: Would you rather have a roommate who constantly cleans but never speaks, or a roommate who constantly speaks but never cleans? Transcript: 00:00:00 Jack You're listening to the A-Z English podcast. 00:00:14 Jack Welcome to the A to Z English podcast. My name is Jack and today I am here with two of my good friends Saalimah from Iran and may from Malaysia. 00:00:24 Jack Yeah. And we are going to do a would you rather question and today's question is would you rather have a roommate who constantly cleans but never speaks or a roommate who constantly speaks but never cleans? 00:00:44 Jack And I'm going to start with Salimeh first. So Salimeh, what would you? 00:00:49a Jack In a roommate? 00:00:50 May Yeah. Jack, maybe you can. Maybe you can before we start maybe. 00:00:53 May You could define the prove it is it. 00:00:56 Jack Ohh yeah, that's interesting. Yeah, OK right. Cause may before we started recording today May mentioned that in Malaysia a roommate is a person who you share a room with and a housemate is someone who lives in your house together. But you have different rooms. And in English we just use the same word for both. 00:01:17 Jack So if you live in an apartment and you and you share that apartment with another person, but you have two bedrooms and so one person stays in one bedroom and another in the other bedroom, you would still refer to that person as my roommate. 00:01:32 Jack As your roommate. So yeah. OK, so, Selena, what do you think? Yeah. 00:01:33 May OK, OK, got it checked. 00:01:37 Salimeh Thank you. Well, this is easy for me actually, because I would rather to be with the roommate. It will cleanse constantly. No speaking, you know, because I don't care about the cleanliness and I don't mind if you know she doesn't talk at all. So I have still have a clean room. 00:01:57 Salimeh Clean hands and also I have enough. You know there is no noise. All all silent I can work. 00:02:04 Salimeh Or study or whatever and you know, and no interrupting or no one is gonna disturb me. So this is my answer. 00:02:14 Jack So for you it's OK, like if you're not friend like close with your roommate. You would rather they just be like a good roommate, but you don't. 00:02:22 Jack Have to be friends. 00:02:24 Salimeh Yeah, yeah. For for me, it's OK. 00:02:26 Salimeh Because I can have my own friends. 00:02:29 Salimeh This is totally fine for me. 00:02:31 Jack Yeah. Yeah, OK. OK. Alright, that's pretty good. That's a good argument. You make a good point. 00:02:36 Salimeh Yeah, living in dormitory. So we I have. 00:02:39 Salimeh A lot of. 00:02:40 Salimeh You know, like a lot, a lot of. But I had a few roommates and I I didn't, you know, and they not all of them were my friends. We we were just roommates and we were. 00:02:52 Salimeh Let's share within room. You know the House, so this is OK for me as long as you know they are clean and care about the cleaning cleanliness. 00:03:00 Jack Right. And respectful. That's like pretty important too. You don't want to have a bad like dynamic or anything, but in this case it's just a person who's very quiet but is always cleaning. OK, so you're going for the clean, the clean house. Alright. May what about you? What? What would you rather have constantly speaks, never cleans. 00:03:20 Jack Constantly cleans but never speaks. 00:03:22 May I have this same view as Selima. I prefer to have a roommate. 00:03:30 May Who is clean and when she when she is clean, obviously she will also clean her room. 00:03:40 May The house. Maybe the her her bedroom. The the living room. 00:03:47 May Kitchen so everything is clean. I mean, I can find friends from another side. I can go out and hang and hang out with people at the shop. Or maybe I can call my friend to talk. 00:03:59 May To however, if she. 00:04:04 May It's not a clean person. I will de