[18:07] Authentic English Listening Practice: Real Dialogue from 'The Bridges of Madison County' Episode 1

Learning English isn't just about grammar and vocabulary—it’s about being able to use it naturally in real-life situations. Textbook sentences are often too formal and far from what people actually say. To speak naturally and authentically, we need to immerse ourselves in real dialogue. Here, we’ve selected commonly used English expressions from daily life, covering social, work, and travel scenarios to help you break free from 'textbook English' and start speaking like a native. Below is the content from Episode 1 of 'The Bridges of Madison County'. Keep building your knowledge, and bring your English closer to real life!

music Before you go make this moment with him We were say to if night I realized that he had been here just a few minutes before. I was lying with the water and ran down his body and I found that intensely erotic. Almost everything in my Robert King Cade had begun to seem erotic to me. I had thoughts about him. I hardly knew what to do with him. And he read everyone. Whatever I felt, whatever I wanted he gave himself up to. And in that moment everything on YouTube had been true about myself until then was gone. I was acting like another woman. Yet I was more myself than ever before. Just look at that. All right. Good. More coffee? Sure. Robert, I hope you don't mind me asking about that skill like I should. What? Well, these women's friends of yours all over the world, how does it work? Do you see some of them? Again or? If we have others, what do you write to some of them? Another name? I'll be my little. What do you mean? I don't need to know the routines, the procedures. I don't have schedule routine. You want some jam? What are you talking about routine? There's no routine. So what you think is this? Well, what is this? Well, it's up to me. If you're the one who's married and you have no intention of leaving your husband. To the one? Go off with someone who needs everyone but no one in particular. I mean, well, would be the point. You pass me the back, please. I was honest with you. Yes, absolutely. You have. You have this habit of not needing and that's very hard to break. In that case, why sleep? You're only rest, why eat? You don't need food. What are you doing? Do you know maybe I'm not gonna be a wonky student in the loop? Experience is everything, nothing at the same time. How do you know what I experience? I know you. I work in this closet, I mean to someone who doesn't need meaning, who just goes to the mystery. Who pretends that he's not scared to that. Let's stop this right now. You know, after you leave here, I'm gonna have to sit here for a while and laugh. And wonder what happened to me? If anything happened at all, I'm gonna have to wonder if you're gonna be sitting in some house-wise kitchen in Romania somewhere and telling her all about your world of a good friends and secretly, including me in that group. What do you want me to say? I don't want you to say anything, I don't need you to say anything. I want you to stop this right now. Hi. More eggs or shall we just fuck them in only a one last time? I'm not gonna apologize for who I am. I'm not gonna be made to feel like I've done something wrong. You're not gonna be made to feel anything serious because you have carved out the truth, you're not gonna be allowed for yourself in the world when you get to be a lawyer or an a hernerner. And I love it when I'm in feel like it. And the rest of us are supposed to be all incredibly grateful for this brief moment that you touched us. Do it! It isn't you, it's not gonna be lonely, it isn't you, it's not gonna be afraid. You're a hypocrite and you're a phony. I don't want to need you. What? Because I can't have you. What difference does that make? Don't you see? I just, I don't know, but don't you see I just have to know the truth, huh? I just have to know the truth because I don't know what crazy. So just tell me, either way, because I can't act like this is enough because it has to be. And I can't pretend not to feel what I feel because it's over tomorrow. If I've done anything, it's to make you think that what we have between us is nothing new for me. It's just some routine that I do apologize. What makes you do that, Robert? It's just, I think, the way I make pictures. The reason I can come up with it, it seems that I've been making my way here. It seems right now that all I've ever done in my life has been making my way here. And yes, I have to think about leaving here tomorrow. That's your heart. Oh. Oh my God. Oh my God, what a good girl. You want to share it from there? No. You're not telling where they are. Oh. Oh, smell it all the time, I turn it over and over in my mind. Nothing like the right thing. So for anyone, don't ever be able to live through a talk. And reach. For each of them will never be able to get his arms around his. It will break him in half. He doesn't deserve that. He's never hurt anyone in his whole life. He can live on, he can people move. He's family has had this farm for over a hundred years. Right, it doesn't have to live anywhere else. And my kids. They're practically grown. You said yourself they are hardly taught to you. But, darling, it's always 16. But she's about to find out of all this for herself. She's going to fall in love. She's going to try to build a life with someone. If I leave, what does that say to her? What about us? You have to know. Deep down. The minute we leave, you hear everything will change. Yeah, I could get better. And no matter how much distance we put between ourselves and this house, I carry it with me. I feel it every minute we're together. I will start to blame loving you for how much it hurts. And then even these beautiful days will seem just like something sort of a mistake. You think what happened in the house just happens to anyone? What we feel, what we feel for each other, we're hardly, hardly two separate people now. And some people search all their life for this and never find it. Others think that they can exist. You're going to tell me that you're going to tell me that this is the right thing to do. You're going to get up. We are the choices that we have made, aren't we? You're a man. Don't you think? Nobody understands what a woman makes a choice to marry and have children. In one way, a whole lot of begins, but in another way, it's pots. You build a life of the tales and you just start to hope and it stays steady so that your children can move. And when they leave, they take your life and it's a tale to be found. You're expected to move on with your body. You don't have to remember what it was. Nobody says it's locked. Let me be yourself. I never think. I never think love like this is going to hurt you. But that's not what you have. Now I want to keep it forever. I want to keep it forever. Love you will do as you now for the rest of my life. But if we leave, we lose it. And then I can't make an entire life disappear. To throw a new one. All I can do is try to hold on to all of us. Somewhere inside of me, you have to help me. Don't throw us away. Maybe you feel this way, maybe you don't. This is because you're in this house. Tomorrow when they come back, you'll feel differently from Jimmy, that's possible. I will love. Look, I'm going to be here a few more days. We can talk later. We don't have to decide right now. Robert, don't do this. I don't want to say goodbye right now. I have to make that decision. Maybe you'll change your mind. Maybe we'll see each other and you'll change your mind. Yeah. If that happens, you have to be fine. Because I can't. I'll always say this once I've never said before. This kind of certainty comes but just once in a lifetime. You all came home and with you, my life has detailed. The day or two passed and with each thought of him, the task could present itself like a life saver, pulling me further and further away from those four days. I was grateful. I felt safe. I was grateful for the silence then night. I realized love won't obey our expectations. It's mystery, it's pure and absolute. What Robert and I had could not continue if we were together. What Richard and I shared would vanish if we were apart. But how I wanted to share this. How would our lives have changed if I had could anyone else have seen the beauty of it? Oh, we may never again be free. You go make this moment with you. We were, say the night on the last moon. Oh, love of my husband. And my husband will be in it. Oh, we know. We will never again be free.