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Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Lesson 370. Today we are going to cover the
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difference between a proverb, a fable, and a parable. Yeah. Because sometimes
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students mix up what's the difference between these three. All right. Let's look
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at the first one. Which is probably the most common. We hear about proverbs more
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than any of these. A proverb is a short saying or phrase. That's a key part
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right away. Because it's really more like a statement or a saying. Where the next two,
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fable and parables will be stories. All right. So a proverb is a short saying or
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phrase that expresses a truism. All right. What's a truism ? A truism is something
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that can be recognized in life often through common sense or practical
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experience. A proverb states that the truth and allows the listener to think
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about it and it implies advice, but it doesn't really push it on you. You know,
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like it's specifically trying to you know, try very hard to teach you. But by
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recognizing it, hopefully you'll figure it out yourself.
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"Haste makes waste" would be a good example of a good example of a proverb. Okay. Meaning you
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know, if you fool around too much. Haste. You try to hurry too much, you're probably
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going to make mistakes. This could be recognized probably all over the world. It
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doesn't matter what country or culture you're in. Most people would probably
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agree that you know, if you try to rush too much, often it causes you to make
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more mistakes than less mistakes and you end up wasting more time and energy. So
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this is more like a typical proverb. Okay. Let's look at a fable. Now a fable is a
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short story. So it is a story. Usually using anthropomorphism or
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personification. All right. This is basically the idea of giving human
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characteristics ... human characteristics or or behavior to something that is not
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human, especially animals or other objects. The goal of a fable is to tea
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a lesson. Typical examples can be found in Aesop's fables. Yeah. Remember Aesop is
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probably the most famous one. Even though there are other fables in other
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countries and cultures too, but he's the most famous and he definitely liked to
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use a lot of animals. Remember I think I've talked about him before in some
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videos. You know, he used to be a slave and he purposely didn't want to use real
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identities. So using an animal was a way of escaping, but he was really talking about
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people. But this way he can hide what he was talking about them by using the
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animals and still teach a lesson at the same time. So he is well known for fables.
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Examples include like you know, " The boy who cried wolf " would be a good example
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or "The hare and the tortoise. " Most people are familiar with these two. You know, the
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boy that was fooling around, calling you know, wolf, wolf, wolf. Everybody would come out and then
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nobody would believe him after a while. And the hare, the hare meaning like the
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rabbit the turtle. The hare and the tortoise. They had the race and remember
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the rabbit that went to sleep and you know the the turtle ended up beating him.
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Okay. So Let's continue. Fables sometimes are remembered by key lines that sum up
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the lesson. So , so really what I mentioned here like the boy who cried wolf. Now
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that's the fable , but you could use like a key line like just to cry wolf and
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this could almost be used or this could be used as kind of like a problem.
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The same with you know, the other one like slow and steady wins the race. You
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know with the hare and the tortoise. Because you know, the , the turtle was the
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one that didn't give up. He just .. even though he's moving slow, he never gave up
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he continued and he won mostly because the rabbit fooled around. Which is kind
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of another lesson of that story. All right. Let's continue. Let's look at
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parable. A parable, like a fable has the goal of teaching a lesson , especially a
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moral lesson. Yeah. So parables probably focus more on morals. However, it usually
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does not include anthropomorphism. So it usually does
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like animals talking or using some sort of imagination like this. And it focuses on
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human behavior. They tend to be more religious or spiritual. Okay. In nature,
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typical examples are stories told by Jesus in the Bible such as " The Good
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Samaritan. " Remember the guy that was left in the desert. He was robbed they stole
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his clothes and nobody would help him And then finally the one person that did
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help him was usually like somebody that was typically his enemy. But he still
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decided to help him you know, it's the Good Samaritan or " The Prodigal Son. "
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Remember the son that left the family and went and fooled around for the
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longest time and you know kind of deserted the family. And then the older
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brother there who was the one that worked hard and stayed with family but
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when prodigal son finally returns. His father's so happy you know, throws all
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kinds of parties for him and even sacrifices the best animals and you know
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but there obviously was a lesson in this story too. So this will mean by the
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prodigal son. So this is more like a parable. Okay. All right. Anyway. So , so
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remember both fables and parables are actually stories. Both tried to teach a
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lesson. Okay. But you know, a fable is a little bit more fantasy and using like
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animals that talk. This one's more religious and proverbs don't have to be
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stories they're they are actually just very short more like statements or
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truisms. Okay. Anyway, I hope you got t. I hope it's clear. Thank you for your time.
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Bye-bye.