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Hello everyone and welcome to English Pod. My name is Marco.
My name is Katherine. And today we're talking about someone who's very, very dirty.
That's right. And actually, not only are we talking about something being dirty, but also that we want to clean everything.
Okay. So, you'll learn how to call someone who likes clean things in English today. Let's take a listen to our dialogue.

Dialogue
Friend: This bathroom is a pigsty. Helen, why do you keep flushing the toilet? What's wrong?
Helen: I just can't stand it. It's really gross in here. There's a stain on the toilet seat and the floor was wet and slippery, so I cleaned it.
Friend: You did what? Helen, I know it's gross, but I've seen many public washrooms that are much worse. Why are you cleaning the countertop? Are you out of your mind?
Helen: I can't help myself. It's just so disgusting in here.
Friend: Helen, this is not like your own bathroom. Just leave it to the cleaners.
Helen: Okay, hang on. I'm just going to quickly wipe the sink and sweep the floor.
Friend: You're such a neat freak. I'm out of here.

Language Takeaway
All right, we're back. So, this girl was very much of a neat freak, and we're going to take a look at that word a little bit later on. Why don't we go back to the very beginning and take a look at some vocab on Language Takeaway.

The first word we have here on Language Takeaway today is pigsty.
Right. "This bathroom is a pigsty."
Okay. So a pigsty is a place where pigs live. Now obviously, the bathroom is not really a place where pigs live. So if you call something a pigsty, you're saying that it's very dirty.
You're saying it's disgusting. It's very, very dirty, like a pigsty. So actually, if you go to a farm and you see where all the pigs are, that is actually called a pigsty, right?
There's mud and dirt, and yeah, that's a pigsty. So someone who is very, very dirty, you can also call a pig.

Okay, now she was saying that the bathroom is so dirty and it's really gross in here.
Okay, so gross means something she doesn't like. It's really dirty and, you know, makes her uncomfortable. So something that doesn't taste good, you can say it's gross.
That's right. So I don't like to eat snake. I think eating snake is gross.
Okay, very good. So something that is gross is something that's not really nice. Maybe it tastes bad or it smells bad. Something that is bad in general.

Okay. So she went on to talk about the toilet seat and that there was a stain on the toilet seat.
Okay, a stain is usually a bad thing. It means that there's a color or a mark that's permanent or maybe can be washed away on something. So, in this case, the toilet seat has a mark on it. Maybe it's brown or yellow. But I can also say, um, I was drinking wine and I spilled the wine on my shirt, and it left a stain. So, now there's always this red part on my shirt. It won't go away.
Okay. So, a stain is a mark that usually won't go away.

Vol296.日常英语学习From Pigsty to Spotless