Shadowing-Übung: Speaking English Fluently | Stop Studying Grammar — Start Listening Instead | The Power of Listening - Englisch Sprechen Lernen mit YouTube
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Hello, everyone, and welcome back to Viral English Daily, where every English helps you improve your life.
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I'm Lucy.
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Hello, Lucy.
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Hello to all English learners.
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I'm Leo.
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How are you today, Lucy?
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I am wonderful today.
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Very, very happy.
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And you, Leo?
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I'm excited, Lucy.
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Something amazing happened to me this week.
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Oh, tell me.
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I was watching an English TV show, a real show, not a lesson, no subtitles, and I understood a lot.
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That is wonderful!
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How much did you understand?
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Not everything, but maybe 70 percent.
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Six months ago, maybe 30 percent.
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But this week, 70.
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Impressive, Leo!
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That is amazing progress!
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How does that make you feel?
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proud and very surprised because I did not study grammar this week.
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I did not memorize new words.
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I just listened a lot.
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You just listened?
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Yes.
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I listened to podcasts.
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I listened to songs.
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I listened to English videos every day.
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Just English into my ears.
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And look what happened.
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Your understanding grew without textbooks, without tests, just by listening.
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That is the part that surprises me.
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And that is exactly our topic today, the power of listening.
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Yes, today we are talking about the power of listening more
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and why listening is the most important thing you can do for your English.
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I believe it now.
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I am a living proof.
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But first, we have a small request.
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Yes.
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We love our listeners.
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Okay, now let's start.
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Leo, many English learners ask me this question.
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Lucy, how can I speak better?
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That is a very common question.
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Yes, and I always give the same answer.
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What do you say?
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I say, listen more.
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Listen more?
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Not, speak more?
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No, listen more.
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Here's the truth.
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You cannot speak well if you do not listen well first.
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But many people think speaking is the most important thing.
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I know.
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Many people focus on speaking.
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They want to talk, talk, talk.
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But they forget something very important.
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What do they forget?
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Before you can speak, your brain needs to hear the language a lot.
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Your brain needs input.
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Input?
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What is input?
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Input is what goes into your brain.
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Listening is input.
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Reading is input.
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And output is what comes out.
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Speaking is output.
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So input first, output later.
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Exactly.
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Fill your brain first, then the words will come out.
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And today, I want to share a very important idea with you.
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I am ready.
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Your ears are your best teacher.
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That is a very powerful idea.
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Say it again.
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Your ears are your best teacher.
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Yes.
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Remember this today.
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Not a book, not a test.
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Your ears.
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Let me explain with three stories from life.
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Okay.
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I love stories.
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Everyone, think about a baby.
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A baby?
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Yes, a small baby.
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How does a baby learn to speak?
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Um, a baby listens.
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Yes, a baby listens for one year, maybe two years.
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Every day the baby hears words.
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Mama, Papa, water, milk, more, no, yes.
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Thousands of words just going into the baby's ears.
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Yes, and the baby does not study grammar.
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No grammar books for babies.
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No vocabulary lists, no tests, no homework, just ears, just listening, day after day after day.
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And then one day.
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One day, the baby says a word, mama or papa or more.
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The first word comes out.
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After so much listening.
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One year of listening, then one word.
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Yes.
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And then more words come, and more and more, because the brain was full of input, full of sounds, full of language.
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Like a glass of water, you fill it and fill it, and then it overflows.
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Beautiful, Leo.
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You fill the glass with the listening, then the words overflow into speaking.
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So English learners are like babies in a way.
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Yes.
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Your brain needs to hear English many, many times.
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Then your brain can produce English.
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Listening fills your brain.
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Speaking comes after.
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Fill first, then speak.
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Yes.
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Listening comes first.
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Always.
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Story 2.
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Think about learning to swim.
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Swimming!
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I love the water, but I learned slowly.
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That's okay.
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Think about your first swimming lesson.
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What happened?
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The coach showed me, move your arms like this, kick your legs, breathe here.
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Yes, and you listened, you watched, you observed.
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I did not jump into the deep water on day one.
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No, that would be very dangerous.
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First, you listened to the coach, you watched other people swim, you learned with your eyes and ears years.
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And then I tried in the shallow water.
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Slowly.
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Step by step.
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Listen first, then try.
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Every sport is like this.
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Every skill is like this.
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First observe, then do.
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Yes.
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You cannot play the guitar before you hear music.
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You cannot paint before you see paintings.
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You cannot swim before you watch and listen.
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And you cannot speak English before you listen to English.
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Exactly.
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English is a skill like swimming, like music.
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You listen first.
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You fill your brain, and then, when you are ready, you start to speak naturally, not forced.
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Listening first, even at the swimming pool.
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Story 3.
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Think about cooking.
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Ooh, now I am very interested.
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you want to cook a new dish something you never made
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before what do you do first i watch a cooking video on my phone
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and what do you do
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while watching the video i listen the chef says first chop
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the onion then add the oil wait until it is hot you listen carefully you watch the hands you don't cook yet.
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You listen first.
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Yes, I need to understand the steps before I try.
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And what happens if you try to cook without listening to the video first?
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Disaster.
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Burnt food, wrong ingredients, a big mess in the kitchen.
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Yes, but if you listen first… I know what to do.
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The instructions are in my brain because I listened.
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Exactly.
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Listening gave you the knowledge.
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Then your hands did the work.
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Your ears prepared your brain.
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Your brain guided your hands.
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Ears first, then action.
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Three stories.
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Baby, swimming, cooking.
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All the same message.
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Listen first.
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Your ears are your best teacher.
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Yes, always.
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Now I want to share three secrets.
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Three secrets about listening.
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Secrets.
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I love secrets.
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Secret number one.
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Listen every day.
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Every day.
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How much?
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Even ten minutes is enough.
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Ten minutes of English in your ears every single day.
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Ten minutes.
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That is not a lot.
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No, but it is very powerful.
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Think about it.
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Ten minutes today, ten minutes tomorrow.
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After one week, seventy minutes.
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Seventy minutes.
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After one month, about five hours.
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After one year, sixty hours of English listening, all from just ten minutes a day.
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Sixty hours.
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That is a lot of English.
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A lot.
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And the key is every day.
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Not two hours on Saturday and zero on Monday.
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A little bit every day is much, much better.
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Every day.
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Consistent.
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Yes, consistent.
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And you can listen anywhere.
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On the bus, while cooking dinner, while cleaning your room, while walking in the park, before bed.
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My ears are always open.
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They never close.
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Exactly.
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Your ears never take a day off.
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They are always ready.
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Use them.
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Even when I am tired, my ears are still working.
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Yes, you can lie on the sofa with your eyes closed and your ears are still learning.
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My sofa loves this idea.
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Rest and learn at the same time.
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Secret 1.
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Listen every day.
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Even 10 minutes.
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Your ears are always ready.
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Good!
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Secret number 2.
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Let it flow.
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Let it flow?
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What does that mean?
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It means don't try to understand every single word.
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Just let the English flow into your ears, like water in a river.
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But Lucy, I want to understand everything.
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I know.
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Everyone does.
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But when you try to catch every word, something bad happens.
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What happens?
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You hear one word you don't understand, and your brain shouts, Stop!
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What was that?
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I need to know this word!
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Yes, my brain does that all the time.
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And while your brain is shouting, you miss the next five sentences.
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That is exactly what happens to me.
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I hear a strange word, I stop, I try to translate it, and then I'm completely lost.
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So, secret two is let it flow.
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Don't stop at every word.
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Keep listening.
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Catch what you can and let the rest go.
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Let the rest go?
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That is very hard, Lucy.
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I know it is hard.
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But here's something beautiful.
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Your brain is very smart.
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Even the words you don't understand, your brain is still processing them quietly in the background.
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Really?
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My brain is learning even when I don't understand?
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Yes.
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Your brain hears the sounds, the rhythm, the melody of English, and slowly over time, things start to make sense.
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Like rain on a garden.
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Mm-hmm.
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Tell me more.
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Not every drop of rain goes to one flower.
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The rain falls everywhere, but the whole garden grows.
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Impressed, Leo.
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That is beautiful.
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is like rain.
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It falls on your brain.
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You don't choose which words to learn.
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The rain falls and your whole brain grows.
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I love that picture.
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Yes.
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Let the rain fall.
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Let the English flow.
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Your brain will grow.
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You don't need to control every drop.
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Secret 2.
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Let it flow.
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Don't stop.
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Keep listening.
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Trust my brain.
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Wonderful.
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Secret number three, the last one, and maybe the most important.
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Tell me.
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Secret three is trust the process.
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Trust the process?
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What does that mean?
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It means believe that listening is working even when you don't feel it.
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Even when I feel no progress?
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Yes.
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Some days you listen for 20 minutes and you think, I didn't learn anything today.
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Nothing feels different.
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Yes, I know this feeling very well.
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I listen and listen, but everything still sounds fast and confusing.
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I understand.
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But here's the truth.
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Your brain is working.
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Even when you feel nothing, it is working quietly under the surface.
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Under the surface?
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Like what?
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Like a seed in the ground.
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You plant a seed, you water it every day, and for many days, nothing happens.
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Just dirt.
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No green leaf, no flower.
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And you think, is it working?
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Is the seed alive?
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Yes, you doubt it.
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You want to dig up the seed and check.
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But under the ground, something is happening.
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Roots are forming.
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The plant is getting ready.
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Getting ready to grow?
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Yes.
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And one day, a small green leaf appears.
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Just one tiny leaf.
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And you say, oh, it was growing all this time.
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Ah.
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But it was always growing.
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I just could not see it.
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Exactly.
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Your English is the same.
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Every minute of listening is a drop of water for your seed.
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You cannot see the growth every day, but it is happening.
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Ah, that is very comforting, Lucy. Be patient.
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Trust the process.
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One day, you will hear a sentence and understand it perfectly, a sentence you never studied.
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And you will think, where did I learn that?
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From my ears.
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From all that listening.
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Yes.
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From the rain, from the water, from every minute your ears were open.
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Secret 3.
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Trust the process. Be patient.
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The seed is growing.
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Even when you cannot see it.
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Now I want to speak to our listeners directly.
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Yes, go ahead, Lucy.
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I want to hear this too.
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If you are listening to this right now, I want you to know something.
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You are already doing it.
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Right now, at this moment, you are listening to English.
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That is true.
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Right now.
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You chose to press play today.
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You chose to listen.
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And your brain is learning right now.
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Even if you don't understand every word we say, your brain is working.
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Your seed is getting water.
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Right now.
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Yes.
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And I want you to know you are doing a great job.
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Learning a new language is not easy.
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Some days are hard.
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Some days you feel stuck.
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Some days you want to give up.
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But you are here.
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You are listening.
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And that is enough.
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That is more than enough.
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Your ears are your best teacher.
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And your ears brought you here today.
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We are very proud of you.
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Really.
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Keep listening.
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Keep going.
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Every day a little more English in your ears.
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And one day you will surprise yourself, just like Leo surprised himself this week.
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It will happen.
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Trust the process.
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You can do this.
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We believe in you.
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Okay, let's review.
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Yes, let's review.
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Today we talked about the power of listening more.
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Yes, why listening is so important for English.
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We shared three stories.
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Story 1.
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A baby listens for one or two years before speaking.
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Input first.
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Story 2 You listen and watch before you swim.
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Observe first.
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Story 3 You listen to the cooking video before you cook.
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Ears first.
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And we shared three secrets.
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Secret 1 Listen every day, even 10 minutes.
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Secret 2 Let it flow.
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Don't stop in every word.
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Secret 3 Trust the process. Be patient.
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The seed is growing.
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And the big idea today?
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Say it for everyone.
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Your ears are your best teacher.
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Perfect.
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Remember this always.
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Well, that is all the time we have for today.
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Thank you so much for listening to Viral English Daily.
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Yes, thank you, everyone.
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This was a very special episode.
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Please subscribe to Viral English Daily and give this episode a like.
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Share it with a friend.
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We have a question for you today.
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Yes, please leave a comment below.
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Tell us, what will you listen to in English this week?
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A podcast, a song, a TV show, or a movie?
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Set a small goal for this week.
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We would love to read your answers.
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See you next time!
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Bye, everyone.
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Keep practicing your English.
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