from SpeakEnglishWithVanessa.com. Today, I have a special guest, my husband, Dan.

Dan: Hello.

Vanessa: Today, we are going to be having a long

English conversation, because over two years ago, back in February 2020, we made this conversation

and millions of you loved this and said that it helped you to immerse yourself in English

and have a fun time. Today, we are going to be doing something similar. We'll be talking about

at least 10, possibly more, topics. We'll be giving our opinions and stories and ideas.

Dan: Answers.

Vanessa: Yes, whatever comes up

along the way. There will be subtitles for key phrases down here, but you can also click CC to

get the full subtitles so that you don't miss any words. All right, are you ready to get started?

Dan: I'm ready.

Vanessa: Let's do it.

But wait, before we get started, like always, I have created a free PDF worksheet for this lesson

that you can download. Never forget what you are about to learn. You can click on the link in the

description to download this free PDF worksheet today, and you will have a chance to answer all

of today's questions too. Dan:

Oo. Vanessa:

Okay. Are you ready for question number one? Dan:

Yes, I'm ready. What is it? Vanessa:

All right. Question number one ... Dan:

What is the meaning of life? Vanessa:

Oh, that would be a good start. Topic number one is family. I'm going to be putting the timestamps

for all of these topics in the description, so if you want to rewatch any of these sections you can

easily skip to them. My first question is about family, and that is what is an interesting fact

about your family history? Dan:

Interesting fact. Well, I don't know too much about my mom's side of the family. I know they've

been in the United States for a long time, but they just didn't really keep any records. On my

dad's side, on the other hand, I have a, well, I had a particularly detail-oriented grandmother who

would remember everything about her childhood. She went back and looked at, I don't even know how she

found documents about where they came from. Her family was in Germany, near, I can't remember,

I think it's Hamburg, Hamburg. Grandpa was also from somewhere in Germany, and both of them

just happened to move to eastern Kansas, which is if you've ever been to Kansas, it's just corn

fields and that's it. It's not a very beautiful place, but somehow they ended up in Kansas.

Dan: My grandma would always give lots of details

about growing up there on the farm and how they didn't have electricity. She would go on about

these stories about, this is how she would talk, one time, me and my brother Bern,

we went to the backyard and filled up the tin bucket with hot boiling water,

and he took all the hot water, Daniel. Vanessa: