Officially we were called The Republic of the Philippines. But The Philippines can be used as well. When I went to South Korea last week, I was given the chance to visit DMZ-Demilitarized Zone. It is the boundary barrier of North and South Korea. i have seen North Korea from afar and to be honest, I felt a bit sad. I know in my own country, we do have a lot of complaints about many things (traffic, poverty, corruptions to name a few). We are a poor country compared to some of the Asian countries around us. But knowing what kind of lives the people of North Korea has to endure daily, I am still grateful of what my country has to offer me.-Freedom. Yes we have freedom to choose, speak , education, religion and expression. We practice our right to vote, we value the right of everyone. We unite to fight for our freedom . I hope not just for North Korea but to other nations as well whose lives had been restraints that one day, freedom will greet them when they open their eyes every morning.
Ukraine had an article "The" till 1991 because the country was one of republic of Soviet Union. After August 24 of 1991 it became an independent country and became known as just"Ukraine". I guess because of this. :)
Hi Mark...I'm from Indonesia without THE))) eventhough it is a group of island)) we have 33 provincies)) and i will not go to North Korea because there is no freedom as you said))) thanks for teaching me English. It is very useful)) Take care!))
Re: the Philippines. The general rule states that archipelagoes, which the Philippines is, take the definite article. This rule doesn't apply to the Indonesian peninsula, though. Cracking vid.
I agree with you, I prefer to be free and relaxed when I am on vacation somewhere. P.S. I give you a little knowledge about the Pope mansion: he lives on the Apostolic Palace located in the Vatican city, but on the summer he lives at Castel Gandolfo in Rome.
i'm really excited to learn English articles and editorials because its a best opportunity to learn new phrases, complex sentence structure, phrases, clauses, vocabulary and idiomatic expressions. please make a series of it. i a. looking forward to it. i am very found of travelling so i'd love to go to Korea if i got a chance to go there.
It's not about our opinion, it's about the rule that an independent state with the name containing no common nouns like republic, state, federation, emirate, kingdom, etc. takes no definite article. Therefore, the correct variant is Ukraine without any article.
Hey Master Mark, over here we have thirteen states. Each state is leaded by a Chief Minister. Well, If I had the chance to go to North Korea, I would love to. Why not? I guess the people there are friendly apart from their stringent rules and regulations. As this country always remained isolated in the world and it's one of the most secretive country on earth. I really wanted to find out more about them.
The difference between state and province lies in autonomy. States are far more independent and have their own parliaments and can establish their own laws and even conduct a foreign policy. I don't have to go to the North Korea because I remember communism in Poland and lack of everything in shops. I'll give you some example - a joke from '80 - how do you call a butcher shop? - Naked hooks :) Actually the only one commodity sold constantly was lard. Other things were supllied temporarily and one had to stay in the long long queue, for example 5 hours to buy a ham or a sausage and, furthermore, meat was restricted to, as I remember, 400 grams for one person for month. This was with everything - candy, alcohol etc :)
Wow! That's crazy! I really want to learn more about the history of Poland. When did they become free from communism? Thanks for teaching me the difference between states and provinces.
The end of communism has a funny story. Communists let the opposition to take part in ballot and things were changing slowly from restrictions to freedom and some day one of famous Polish actresses during a live interview announced cold turkey "the 4 of june 1989 the communism in Poland ends up". It was live, so it went :) This sentence become a symbol and starting date of the beginning of new political system in Poland :)
The name of North Korea does not seem to make sense now, but South Koreans hope for unification, hoping that it will eventually follow its name. Although it is delayed in line with the interests of neighboring countries.
Hi Mark! I am from Ukraine and I am so proud of you that you mentioned Ukraine in your lesson. Thank you. Prior to 2014 Ukraine was divided into 24 oblasts (regions) and one Autonomous Republic of Crimea. In March 2014 Crimea was occupied and annexed by Russia and April 2014 pro-Russian separatists occupied Donbass in eastern Ukraine, which has many Russian-speaking people. Today, Ukraine is a bit smaller than before. Would I go to North Korea if I had the chance? Of course, I would like to visit that country. I would not mind visiting all the countries of the world.
It's about 200 km from my home to North Korea. And I have the same feeling as you have. I do not need a personal guide. I hope to see reunited Korea without personal guided for me and you. Let's meet there!
Hi Mark I would be happy if you mention the name of my country Bangladesh! In your lesson often you mention India Pakistan and China. You have lot of subscribers here in Bangladesh. I'm one of your regular student on your channel so I hope this time you will mention my county's name. Thank you so much!
Hey, Mark! I certainly wouldn't go to the DPRK or North Korea because I've got sick from the communism in this country. I live in Russia or in the Russian Federation, there are 8 federal districts in Russia, I live in the North-West federal district. Thank you so much for the very informative lesson! Take care!
@@MadEnglishTVHi, Mark! Right you are! I was unhappy to see it in my country, it died away with 'Perestroika', and then it collapsed completely but I've been seeing aftershocks of it by the present times and who knows the end of it? That's unfortunate, it may as well end with the Global nuclear war and the end of the World! I hope that would never happen! I'd rather not speculate about in public, so, if you are interested in my opinion, then just be free to contact me by e-mail or give me a call + 79811646837
The Dominican Republic has provinces. In the Dominican Republic we have 31 provinces and National Distric, the National Distric is the capital of the country.
That's how it works in the U.S. The capital is in a special district, not a state. I think your provinces are probably the same as our states. They're both subdivisions that have some independent powers.
Emirate is an arabic word which is plural to the word emara , emara is a land governed by amir which means prince so emirate is a group of counries each governed by amir
Hi Mark! I enjoy learning from your you tube English lessons, and I also have a question :) "Burma has 7 states" I am originally from the State of Rakhine in Burma, so Should I say that I am from the state of Burma?
The Vatican is a kingdom, the pope is the king so the pope is from The Vatican. I'm from Hungary but my great-grandparents were born in The Hungarian Kingdom. Not simple... :D
The grammar book i'm reading right now says: normally THE is not used with names of places (English grammar in use by Raymond Murphy) BUT THE is used in names with REPUBLIC, KINGDOM, STATES etc. So I'm from Ukraine is right. I use and misuse the articles all the time. I'm looking into the grammar book and understand that there is no way I can learn all these rules!!! Russia is a federation (unfortunately on paper only). So everything is in Moscow. People say there is no life outside Moscow. They suck all the money from us, and there is nothing we can do... on the paper we've got republics, oblast' (something like states), etc. but all the goverment is federal, and the federals tell us who is going to be a governor and where and how...
OK, you're right about sucking money. But... When we need a federal something in Russia we don't have it. In the education field a small boss of a little territory can decide how many hours of physics per week we have to have in local schools. It drives me mad...
Hi..! But I' m from Diminican Repúblic, and I' ve never been used THE, Because is ONE Republic, AND only ONE Dominocan, So Everything us in SINGULAR..! THANK
When you visit the Dominican Republic I would like to talk with you. If you want you can stay in my house. I live in the capital. My home is your house.
I would like to visit to North Korea if I had the chance. In my casr the travel go can break the bank.. it is far from me.. I also think people from the country are friendly. They look like seriously because they protect their territory , their land...
Mad English TV Btw, it is Ukraine not the Ukraine. I heard it on the VOA news last night, Do you think we can trust that radio to be correct? I suppose that people might use "the" meaning "that particular" country which everyone is talking about nowadays. 😉
Republic and democracy are totaly different from each other. Republic is who manages you. Democracy is how you are governed, managed Republic describes the state, democracy related to people and the way of life. Russia, iran, ukraine and France are all republic. Managers in The first three were elected. All but france are tyrany or dictatorship, no democracy. The voters vote for whom manages them , but if those elected has right to decide how they live them, this is called authocracy, dictatorship. If they had democracy, people would decide how to live. The UK is not republic, is monorchy, has king or queen,but democracy. Emirate means the head of the various tribes.
INNA PETROVA I think a couple of places we used to put "The" in front of we don't so much any more. Ukraine is one example. Lebanon is another. If you look at old newspapers or books it's frequently called the Lebanon. I don't know anyone who says that today. But we also added one in recent history. When Czechoslovakia split apart it was easy to call the second one Slovakia. But the first one was awkward. We can't call it Czecho because that's really only an adjective, so we call it The Czech Republic. I think some people might call it Czechia. I think some people used to call Argentina by the name The Argentine.
In old newspapers you might have seen the Soviet Republic of Ukraine. In this case “the” correlates to the word republic. Ukraine is no longer the Soviet republic.
I wouldn't go to North Korea unless they change Kim Jong Un/Il ?? as a leader there with another good one.Or at least they turned to be kind and welcome to visitors.
Hi Mr Mark. Answers: I am from Ukraine. Not The. Because it's not Kingdom, Rupeblic and States.......... No, I wouldn't go to North Korea but If I had the chance, I would go to South Korea or Japan. Goodbye.
I don’t need to go to the North Korea because I have became like it...unfortunately 😭😭I don’t like our government...😭I think the name of Iran should be changed because there’s no democracy in Iran.😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
I love your voice, it’s very easy to listen and understand. I could just listen and no need to read the subtitle. Thank you very much
Thank you so much! 😃😃
Thanks for clear explanations .Perfect.
Officially we were called The Republic of the Philippines. But The Philippines can be used as well.
When I went to South Korea last week, I was given the chance to visit DMZ-Demilitarized Zone.
It is the boundary barrier of North and South Korea.
i have seen North Korea from afar and to be honest, I felt a bit sad. I know in my own country, we do have a lot of complaints about many things (traffic, poverty, corruptions to name a few). We are a poor country compared to some of the Asian countries around us. But knowing what kind of lives the people of North Korea has to endure daily, I am still grateful of what my country has to offer me.-Freedom.
Yes we have freedom to choose, speak , education, religion and expression. We practice our right to vote, we value the right of everyone. We unite to fight for our freedom . I hope not just for North Korea but to other nations as well whose lives had been restraints that one day, freedom will greet them when they open their eyes every morning.
I hope all the people in North Korea will get a better life soon! 🙏🙏
Ukraine had an article "The" till 1991 because the country was one of republic of Soviet Union. After August 24 of 1991 it became an independent country and became known as just"Ukraine". I guess because of this. :)
I got it. Thx
thank you,my teacher
Hi Mark...I'm from Indonesia without THE))) eventhough it is a group of island)) we have 33 provincies)) and i will not go to North Korea because there is no freedom as you said))) thanks for teaching me English. It is very useful)) Take care!))
I’m from the Philippines!!! proud to be pinoy! we have 7,107 islands
That's awesome! Wow, I hope I can visit every island. 😃🤗
your very welcome in our country! i can suggest go visit Boracay, Palawan, Batanes and Siargao 👍🏻
Thank you so much! :D
you are the best teacher !!!!!!
Thank you so much! 😃
Re: the Philippines. The general rule states that archipelagoes, which the Philippines is, take the definite article.
This rule doesn't apply to the Indonesian peninsula, though. Cracking vid.
Your explanation is so so great! Now I can dishtinguish this problem. Thank you very much, teacher!
You're welcome! 😃
Hi Mark. I follow all your videos from The Canary Islands. We say Canary Islands too.
Excellent practice and great joke.
Thank you for explaining this confusing topic in a nice way
Please tell, is there any difference between 'a' and 'one'
I agree with you, I prefer to be free and relaxed when I am on vacation somewhere.
P.S. I give you a little knowledge about the Pope mansion: he lives on the Apostolic Palace located in the Vatican city, but on the summer he lives at Castel Gandolfo in Rome.
Awesome! Thanks for the information! To be honest, I don't know too much about the Pope's life. 😅
Hi! I'm from Morocco or I'm from the kingdom of Morocco. My country has twelve (12) regions and seventy- five (75) provinces.
Take care!
Useful
I am from the Philippines...
It is really nice your passion for job. I see the heart. Thank you teacher
I am slow in learning, I am progress, Now, I do it.
Its okay my writing?
Your writing is great! 😃😃
i'm really excited to learn English articles and editorials because its a best opportunity to learn new phrases, complex sentence structure, phrases, clauses, vocabulary and idiomatic expressions. please make a series of it. i a. looking forward to it.
i am very found of travelling so i'd love to go to Korea if i got a chance to go there.
😃😃
Thanks....
You're welcome! 😃
It's not about our opinion, it's about the rule that an independent state with the name containing no common nouns like republic, state, federation, emirate, kingdom, etc. takes no definite article. Therefore, the correct variant is Ukraine without any article.
Hey Master Mark, over here we have thirteen states. Each state is leaded by a Chief Minister. Well, If I had the chance to go to North Korea, I would love to. Why not?
I guess the people there are friendly apart from their stringent rules and regulations. As this country always remained isolated in the world and it's one of the most secretive country on earth. I really wanted to find out more about them.
That's great! 😃😃
"leaded" is not a word. It's better to say "led" or "governed".
@@MadEnglishTV Yes Sir! :)
Yey! You mentioned Philippines. Thanks Mark! You're awesome 😀
Thanks Janice! 🤗
I will, Mark
The difference between state and province lies in autonomy. States are far more independent and have their own parliaments and can establish their own laws and even conduct a foreign policy. I don't have to go to the North Korea because I remember communism in Poland and lack of everything in shops. I'll give you some example - a joke from '80 - how do you call a butcher shop? - Naked hooks :) Actually the only one commodity sold constantly was lard. Other things were supllied temporarily and one had to stay in the long long queue, for example 5 hours to buy a ham or a sausage and, furthermore, meat was restricted to, as I remember, 400 grams for one person for month. This was with everything - candy, alcohol etc :)
Wow! That's crazy! I really want to learn more about the history of Poland. When did they become free from communism?
Thanks for teaching me the difference between states and provinces.
The end of communism has a funny story. Communists let the opposition to take part in ballot and things were changing slowly from restrictions to freedom and some day one of famous Polish actresses during a live interview announced cold turkey "the 4 of june 1989 the communism in Poland ends up". It was live, so it went :) This sentence become a symbol and starting date of the beginning of new political system in Poland :)
Wow, that's great!
How are the shops nowadays?
The name of North Korea does not seem to make sense now, but South Koreans hope for unification, hoping that it will eventually follow its name. Although it is delayed in line with the interests of neighboring countries.
Hi Mark! I am from Ukraine and I am so proud of you that you mentioned Ukraine in your lesson. Thank you. Prior to 2014 Ukraine was divided into 24 oblasts (regions) and one Autonomous Republic of Crimea. In March 2014 Crimea was occupied and annexed by Russia and April 2014 pro-Russian separatists occupied Donbass in eastern Ukraine, which has many Russian-speaking people. Today, Ukraine is a bit smaller than before. Would I go to North Korea if I had the chance? Of course, I would like to visit that country. I would not mind visiting all the countries of the world.
Hi Alla! Thanks for the comment! I hope to visit your country one day! It looks amazing. 🤗🤗
Ukraine (without article) is the only correct version.
Thanks for interesting lessons!
It's about 200 km from my home to North Korea. And I have the same feeling as you have. I do not need a personal guide. I hope to see reunited Korea without personal guided for me and you. Let's meet there!
😃😃
Hi Mark I would be happy if you mention the name of my country Bangladesh! In your lesson often you mention India Pakistan and China. You have lot of subscribers here in Bangladesh. I'm one of your regular student on your channel so I hope this time you will mention my county's name. Thank you so much!
Thank you so much for letting me know! I'll talk about Bangladesh next time! 😃😃
Hey, Mark! I certainly wouldn't go to the DPRK or North Korea because I've got sick from the communism in this country. I live in Russia or in the Russian Federation, there are 8 federal districts in Russia, I live in the North-West federal district. Thank you so much for the very informative lesson! Take care!
Hi! 😃😃I don't think I would go to DPRK either. I'm afraid of communism.
@@MadEnglishTVHi, Mark! Right you are! I was unhappy to see it in my country, it died away with 'Perestroika', and then it collapsed completely but I've been seeing aftershocks of it by the present times and who knows the end of it? That's unfortunate, it may as well end with the Global nuclear war and the end of the World! I hope that would never happen! I'd rather not speculate about in public, so, if you are interested in my opinion, then just be free to contact me by e-mail or give me a call + 79811646837
The Dominican Republic has provinces. In the Dominican Republic we have 31 provinces and National Distric, the National Distric is the capital of the country.
Cool! 😃
That's how it works in the U.S. The capital is in a special district, not a state. I think your provinces are probably the same as our states. They're both subdivisions that have some independent powers.
Okay!
Majority rules in a democracy whereas in republic, individual is protected from the majority.
I have been to North Korea when North Korea opened South Korea to visit Mt. Kumgang.
That's amazing! 😃
Hello I think that province is more small than state
☝👍the video is a great! Thank you, Mark!
Thanks! 🤗You're welcome!
Emirate is an arabic word which is plural to the word emara , emara is a land governed by amir which means prince so emirate is a group of counries each governed by amir
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Hi, i am from India is it right. Pls reply so that i could get over the confusion.
Hi Mark! I enjoy learning from your you tube English lessons, and I also have a question :) "Burma has 7 states" I am originally from the State of Rakhine in Burma, so Should I say that I am from the state of Burma?
Wow, that's great! You should say, "I am from the state of Rakhine in Burma."
The Vatican is a kingdom, the pope is the king so the pope is from The Vatican. I'm from Hungary but my great-grandparents were born in The Hungarian Kingdom. Not simple... :D
The grammar book i'm reading right now says: normally THE is not used with names of places (English grammar in use by Raymond Murphy) BUT THE is used in names with REPUBLIC, KINGDOM, STATES etc. So I'm from Ukraine is right.
I use and misuse the articles all the time. I'm looking into the grammar book and understand that there is no way I can learn all these rules!!!
Russia is a federation (unfortunately on paper only). So everything is in Moscow. People say there is no life outside Moscow. They suck all the money from us, and there is nothing we can do... on the paper we've got republics, oblast' (something like states), etc. but all the goverment is federal, and the federals tell us who is going to be a governor and where and how...
Okay! I hope Putin gives you more money! Don't worry about English grammar. Your English is great! 😃😃
Good sarcasm. No one owes me any money. They shouldn't take away ours. What would you call it? a robbery?
OK, you're right about sucking money. But... When we need a federal something in Russia we don't have it. In the education field a small boss of a little territory can decide how many hours of physics per week we have to have in local schools. It drives me mad...
I'd really like to go to South Korea.
We have departmentos in Guatemala not provinces or states
Hi..! But I' m from Diminican Repúblic, and I' ve never been used THE, Because is ONE Republic, AND only ONE Dominocan, So Everything us in SINGULAR..! THANK
Thank you sir. Don't forget our country Morocco next time 🤗
Okay, I won't forget next time.
Hi MARK
I'm from the Dominican Republic. My country is by Puerto Rico and Haiti.
I want to visit your country some day! I've heard it's amazing!
When you visit the Dominican Republic I would like to talk with you. If you want you can stay in my house. I live in the capital. My home is your house.
Thank you so much! 😃
We will be waiting for you.
I would like to visit to North Korea if I had the chance. In my casr the travel go can break the bank.. it is far from me.. I also think people from the country are friendly. They look like seriously because they protect their territory , their land...
😃😃
I am from korea
That's amazing! 😃😃
Morning Mark! I am from Ukraine ;)
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Hi Mark,im from Iran,but i never like go to north korea,because there have dictator goverment,My countery Iran is provinces too,
Okay!
I don't want to go to North Korea in those cases, how was written about that by sti sti. I remember the communism in my country too😨.
Yes, communism destroyed many countries and lives.
Mad English TV communism is just tool. root of evil is russian empire
If I had a chance, I'd go everywhere simply out of curiosity. 🧐😀
Haha, me too!
Mad English TV Btw, it is Ukraine not the Ukraine. I heard it on the VOA news last night, Do you think we can trust that radio to be correct?
I suppose that people might use "the" meaning "that particular" country which everyone is talking about nowadays. 😉
Haha, thanks for clearing that up!
HOLAAAA teacher how long without seeing it you already missed ... hahaha ; )
Haha, HOLA!
I don’t understand but I will remember all the country use the * ... lol 😂
Lol
Republic and democracy are totaly different from each other.
Republic is who manages you.
Democracy is how you are governed, managed
Republic describes the state, democracy related to people and the way of life.
Russia, iran, ukraine and France are all republic.
Managers in
The first three were elected. All but france are tyrany or dictatorship, no democracy. The voters vote for whom manages them , but if those elected has right to decide how they live them, this is called authocracy, dictatorship.
If they had democracy, people would decide how to live.
The UK is not republic, is monorchy, has king or queen,but democracy.
Emirate means the head of the various tribes.
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I am from Ukraine)
I think the state has its own goverment and internal policy. but the province hasn't.
Okay! :)
Ukraine is hundred/ correct
I'm from Ukraine) don't make it complex - use the same rule as for Canada(kidding here :))
Here in Ukraine we say I’m from Ukraine, void of any article.
INNA PETROVA I think a couple of places we used to put "The" in front of we don't so much any more. Ukraine is one example. Lebanon is another. If you look at old newspapers or books it's frequently called the Lebanon. I don't know anyone who says that today.
But we also added one in recent history. When Czechoslovakia split apart it was easy to call the second one Slovakia. But the first one was awkward. We can't call it Czecho because that's really only an adjective, so we call it The Czech Republic. I think some people might call it Czechia.
I think some people used to call Argentina by the name The Argentine.
In old newspapers you might have seen the Soviet Republic of Ukraine. In this case “the” correlates to the word republic. Ukraine is no longer the Soviet republic.
Thanks for the information! 😃
I'm not going to Noth Korea because it' the worst likeness of the USSR.
I would never go to NK
I wouldn't go to North Korea unless they change Kim Jong Un/Il ?? as a leader there with another good one.Or at least they turned to be kind and welcome to visitors.
Yes, I saw on the news today that Trump and Kim Jong might make peace.
Great news,we hoping together peace over the world become true.Someday.
Yes!
I'm from indonesia and i'd like to go to Kim Jong Un. LOL
Lol, let's take a trip there!
There are a lot more nice countries in the world, why would I go there in such conditions.
You're right. It's better to travel to a nice place. :)
I would't go to north Korea, cas there no freedom
unfortunately the rebel regime are ruling over there I'm sure never go
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India is also a republic then why shall we call it just India and not The India
Hi Mr Mark.
Answers:
I am from Ukraine. Not The.
Because it's not Kingdom, Rupeblic and States..........
No, I wouldn't go to North Korea but If I had the chance, I would go to South Korea or Japan.
Goodbye.
I don’t need to go to the North Korea because I have became like it...unfortunately 😭😭I don’t like our government...😭I think the name of Iran should be changed because there’s no democracy in Iran.😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Israel it not a country . Free Palestine
Haha, at Mad English TV I have to stay politically neutral. I like Jews and Muslims.
I from Ukraina is the correct verson. And I come from The UK, Because they are more than one country.