शैडोइंग अभ्यास: Slow English Conversation with my American friend! - वीडियो के साथ अंग्रेजी बोलना सीखें

Hello everyone and welcome to English Cozy Chat.

Today we have a very exciting episode because we are going to have an easy,

fun conversation with my good friend.

Kiran.

She is on the show today.

Actually, it was your idea.

to come on the show.

I told her I had a YouTube channel.

And she said, I should come on the show and we should do an easy English conversation.

So here we are.

- The first question is, She's one of my very good friends, and she's also a language learner,

so we should have some really fun things.

to talk about.

I think so.

Yeah?

Okay, so...

Hi, Kieran.

Hello.

Tell us a little bit about yourself.

My name is Kiran and I moved to Spain three years ago from the United States. with my two kids.

who are almost eight years old and six years old.

and my husband is actually from Spain originally.

So that's why we moved here.

Cool.

Nice.

And how do you like it here so far?

I really like living here.

It's definitely very different, but It's been a really good experience because of people like Maria.

It's actually really funny.

We met on Instagram.

That's true.

You sent me a message, right?

I got like a random...

Instagram message from someone that I didn't know.

And she's like, Hey, do you live in Spain?

Or where we live? And, um...

I was like, yeah, and she said, I might be moving there.

And I was like, cool.

And we talked like a little bit.

And then I didn't hear from you for like a year. And then...

I think it was a year later I messaged you.

and I was like, "Hey, are you moving here?" In the end, she was, and she was like,

"Yeah." And she said, "I'm moving like a kilometer away from where you like next week." And I was like,

"Oh, cool !" So it was kind of funny.

Then we met and we became friends.

The reason I had the idea for coming on the show today is

because I myself am learning how to speak Spanish better.

And There's lots of videos online or podcasts where they speak in slow Spanish.

And some of my favorite ones are ones where two people are having a conversation.

I didn't know that.

I didn't know you watched those.

Mm -hmm.

Ah!

Cool.

Kiran is fluent in Spanish.

She speaks very good Spanish.

Actually, Just the other day, I heard her speak a lot of Spanish.

And before that, I think I hadn't heard you speak in a long time.

And I was like,

wow look at kieran she's like really speaking well so tell us how has your spanish learning journey been

for you and How has that been for you?

It's been long.

Two years before I moved here,

so five years ago, I started trying to learn Spanish with a tutor and also through different apps and things like that.

And then when we moved here, I also got another tutor and was learning Spanish.

A tutor is a teacher, like a private teacher.

Right.

Yeah.

And it was going well, but it was challenging to advance, especially with some of the more

specific verbs and changes that happen in Spanish when you're talking about things that happen in the past or in the future.

So when I moved here, it was a little challenging for a while because I was very scared.

to speak in Spanish.

I was scared to make mistakes.

And I was scared people were going to be upset with me making those mistakes.

So I didn't use Spanish for a while or I think it was my own fear that prevented that.

Yeah.

When I became more comfortable here and started meeting more people, then...

I started speaking in Spanish more and...

not really caring if I did make a mistake and especially speaking in Spanish, Um...

with people who who could maybe correct me in the moment as well was helpful.

And what I did was find someone who wanted to learn English

and they wanted to learn and I wanted to learn more Spanish.

And then we would meet and have conversations where we helped each other.

And that was really helpful.

So I think the biggest obstacle even now is just the fear of speaking.

And when I'm calm, and able to make mistakes, then I learn.

Faster.

Right.

I think that's everybody's biggest...

obstacle, like an obstacle is like something hard. to overcome.

when learning a language is the fear and the fear of messing up is just in your mind.

It's just in your mind.

It has so much control over us.

It's true it will prevent you from doing something that you can really do just because you're like

I don't want to mess up.

I don't want to...

This happens to me still also and I realize When I forget that I'm speaking the language, That's when I speak the best.

For example, if I'm meeting a new person, And...

I want to speak well.

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in Catalan, for example, I will think, oh gosh, What am I going to say?

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How do I say it?

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And then I'll start speaking and I'm like, it just doesn't come out.

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But if I like forget that I'm speaking it and I just start, it just comes, right?

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It's all in your head.

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and It just comes with practice, doesn't it?

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I think so.

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It really does.

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Okay, so for learning Spanish, What?

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has been your strategy or what has worked for you?

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What has helped you to learn?

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Do you do grammar, vocabulary, listening, I don't know, do you watch TV or just speaking with people,

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what I think all of those things.

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- Yeah.

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- One really important thing is Listening.

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I think I can do that in my own time, whether it be like on YouTube, like a video like this,

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or a podcast And then sometimes I think of how I would respond. in that language.

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So sometimes I'll pause

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the podcast and try to figure out or the video and try to figure out how I would construct a sentence.

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And then.. and then going back and checking.

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if that was correct or not.

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And Sometimes it's just about learning also like a new word and then challenging yourself to use it in sentences or

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with friends or a teacher or writing down a sentence and then checking it online to see if it's correct or not.

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Yeah.

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And then you feel comfortable using this word and then the next word and the next word,

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and somehow they start to come more easily, especially words that are used in common conversations.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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It's a cool feeling, right?

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Like when you hear a word, You don't know.

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what it is, you like look it up, you kind of practice it to yourself.

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And then in one moment, you're like, I'm going to use the word.

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And you say it like while you're speaking, you're like, I'm doing it.

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I'm like, shoot.

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It's a good feeling.

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It's a good feeling.

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You can mess up the words.

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Yeah, yeah. Of course.

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So do you have any funny or embarrassing stories of...

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when you were learning Spanish?

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There was one time where I was just learning how to speak Spanish.

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And remember, my husband is a fluent Spanish speaker and I wanted to say I'm married.

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And instead, I said, I'm tired.

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Because the words are very similar in Spanish.

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I'm married is casado.

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And tired is... Can -sado.

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Can -sado, yeah.

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So, That was pretty funny.

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Oh my gosh.

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Um, Yeah, there can be times like that.

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Sometimes you don't realize it, like in the moment you say something, and someone just kind of looks at you like, Oh, and you're like, why are they looking at me like that?

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I just said I'm married.

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And then later you realized I didn't say that.

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Like I said, yeah.

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Luckily, I did make this mistake with my husband, so it was an...

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Okay.

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That's a space.

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Right. But, um...

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From then on, I definitely knew the difference between those two words.

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So it's a benefit to make mistakes.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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It is.

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And it's always like a funny memory, right?

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Yeah.

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Especially once you understand it well, you're like, oh, remember when I made those mistakes?

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Exactly.

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Exactly.

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Back to living in Spain, are there any interesting differences?

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What would you say is the biggest difference between Spain and the United States for you?

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Well, there's lots of little differences.

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But one thing that really surprised me when I first came here, off the top of my head, now that I'm thinking about it,

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is that there are playgrounds and then bars next to the playgrounds.

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That's cool, right?

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Yeah, I think it's really cool.

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And so it was really nice because I could have a water or a coffee or a glass of wine, and then my kids could play on the playground safely.

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That is a good – that's a really good one, actually, because in the U .S you will never find that.

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Like, if you are – at a place with a playground,

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then there's never gonna be like a restaurant beside it where you can like eat or drink something and watch your kids.

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It's always like you're at the playground and your kids are playing and you're like, Here I am.

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I really wish I could have a coffee right now.

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Watching my kids play again.

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And no, I love that.

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I love that.

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Yeah, it's really good.

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Yeah.

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So is there anything that you really miss?

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What do you miss about the U .S.?

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I really miss my family and friends.

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Yeah.

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But also there's a store in the U .S called Trader Joe's.

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And I really miss Trader Joe's.

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Me too.

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Yeah.

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Trader Joe's is a store, I think it started in California they have really inexpensive,

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good, products and food great snacks fresh products like great snack every yeah great acts and great frozen foods.

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And it's nice.

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when you're a busy family to go ahead and easily grab something that you can make into like a healthy, easy, meal pretty quickly.

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I used to get those bean burgers like black bean burgers.

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They were so good.

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Yeah, one difference about living here is there's-- it's not as convenient as the US,

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which is a good thing because the food is more local and it's more fresh and you have to cook everything. from scratch.

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But some nights you're tired and it's really hard to find good pre -made items that are available in the vein.

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Yeah.

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They don't make it easy.

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It's like, oh, I want like a really fast dinner to just put on the table.

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And then the next thing you know, you're cooking a whole meal because...

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Yeah.

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The prepared food that you have here is just not very good.

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But I guess it's a good thing.

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It is a good thing.

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You end up cooking more, even though maybe because the more you have like, prepared, convenient food, the more you're going to eat that.

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And it's not as healthy.

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Exactly.

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Maybe it's more convenient, but not as healthy.

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Yes.

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It forces you to slow down.

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It does.

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That's one thing about living here and I think in other places in Europe is

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that it just forces you to slow down a lot more than living in the United States.

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It does.

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I feel the same way.

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I feel the same way.

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Yeah.

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um, Okay.

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Let's move on to your hobbies.

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Okay.

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I'm excited about this one.

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Tell us about your hobbies.

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One of my biggest hobby is that I do ceramics.

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So I make ceramics and mostly I make cups and plates

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and bowls and things that you would use every day in your life.

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In fact, we have two of my mugs here today that we would have coffee or tea in.

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Look at this mug, you guys.

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Like how cool.

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It's like, it's not even like a real mug.

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It's like a little little i don't know it's really creative this little shape that's here cheers cheers

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I have-- there's been multiple episodes where I'm like, showing everyone look at my new mug that I made.

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And no one was a mug that you made me, And then I showed an olive bowl And then the mug that I made,

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it's been a few things now. But...

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Why did you start doing that?

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I started doing it when I was pregnant with my first child.

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And I was really wanting to do something like crafty and with my hands.

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And so I started taking classes at a studio, a ceramic studio near my house.

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And one thing led to another and then I was taking a lot of classes

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and learning a lot and spending a lot of hours working in the studio.

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And even on days when I would try to make a piece

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and it would fall apart or something happened or it broke, it didn't matter to me.

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I was still so, so happy just to have the experience of making something with my hands.

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It just brought me a lot of joy.

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So it was something I definitely knew I wanted.

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that was important to me.

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And I really wanted to keep doing.

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It's something so special, right?

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Like I have talked about this so many times on the show.

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how making something with my hands feels.

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And you know, how that feels to actually make a mug, and to, and like every, every day when I drink coffee out of the mug that I made,

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like, "I think I made this." I made this.

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Like it's so...

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It is fun.

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Yeah.

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And because I feel like a lot of us have jobs where we're like at the computer and We are working,

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but it's you don't see a physical result, right?

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And like with with pottery and ceramics, like you get these beautiful results.

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Like, and same with making bread, which I love.

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And these things where it's like, oh, I worked and like, look at this.

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It would be the same also, I think, with say, woodworking.

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If you work with your hands or if you're someone who builds things

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or you work with iron or even people who fix things with their hands, you know, like something is really broken and they fix it.

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That's also got to be really rewarding.

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those things.

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I actually brought this mug today because I don't know if you can see, but it has a very small little like dent right here.

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Yeah.

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It was a chip.

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And it's not perfect. But...

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I instead of throwing it away, I decided that it would be important to keep it because

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It reminds me that um doing this hobby is not for the perfection of it.

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It's really for the joy of the making of it.

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Yeah.

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That's true.

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My mug has these like, it's not straight and it's not flat and it's like, oh, but that's perfect for me like this.

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imperfect, perfect type saying it's really.. really cool and not something that I really knew so much about until recently,

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until I started kind of doing these more artistic things like with my hands so That's really cool.

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What really brings me the most joy is showing other people.

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Yeah how to do it and watching their experience as well.

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So it really makes me happy when I have other people in the studio and we're working together and

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I can kind of have them experience a little of what I experienced when I first started to learn ceramics.

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Yeah, she's so good at teaching and it's fun because you are good at teaching.

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And like, it'll be some of us in there and she does it in the garage of her house.

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She invites people over and we're all making things and we talk and

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for me it's so much better doing that than just having a coffee with people because you're,

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you're, you're, working on something together and yeah that's it's really special what you do and i and i also think

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that is important to also do things to bring bring people together.

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Yeah.

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And I think sometimes we get lazy and we're like, I just be at my house and.

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do my own thing and blah but if you make a little effort to plan things with friends to Get people together.

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It always feels good after, doesn't it?

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It does.

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It does.

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And I started, I didn't go to school to.. be doing ceramics.

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And I think At points, I've...

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thought, "Maybe I shouldn't be doing this because I wasn't trained professionally in it.

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I was trained like on some classes and then a lot of like practice on my own.

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But then I think then it would just stop you from doing it.

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Everything had to be some professional degree or something, it would just stop you from actually doing the thing that you want to do.

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So I say, try something you like and keep on doing it.

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And even if you don't, aren't an expert in it, that doesn't mean that you can't do it and can't enjoy the process.

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It's such a good, it's a really good point.

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It's actually the same with this YouTube channel, because I.

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I knew I kind of wanted to do this.

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And I also knew when I started, like the it wasn't perfect.

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These videos that I was making like But it was something.

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I was like, just start.

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Just create the channel.

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Just do it.

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And then as you go, you learn.

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And you're like, okay, this works.

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This doesn't work.

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And there's also something really beautiful about learning.

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Right?

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And just that whole process is really nice.

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It's about...

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Kind of like speaking a new language.

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Yeah.

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You just have to...

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start speaking.

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And then you just learn.

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You learn.

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And then there's good days and there's bad days and you're embarrassed and you're happy.

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And it's like this roller coaster.

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It is a roller coaster.

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But it's better to be on the roller coaster, I think, than watching it from...

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That's so...

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That's a good fun ad.

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Thanks.

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Is there any advice you would have for language learners for anyone watching the channel.

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I would say keep watching and...

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And keep trying to speak.

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Maybe there's someone in your community or a Facebook group you could join to reach out to talk to someone in...

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English or whatever language you're learning really.

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And Don't get hard on yourself.

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I would say be kind to yourself and keep going and keep trying things that challenge you.

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As my husband would say, challenge yourself without judgment.

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Ah, very good.

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That's great.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, there are so many ways now that online or like in your community, you can find someone who's trying to learn your language

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that you speak and see if they can do an exchange with you in English.

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That's a great thing.

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And they just kind of try to look for these resources.

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podcasts in the language that they're trying to learn.

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And that I think is always a helpful.

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a helpful way.

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I know that I watch a lot of Spanish television series, and actually it helps me to kind of learn

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the way some of the words are pronounced and the flow of some like sentences that might be different than English.

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Yeah.

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And it makes a difference, right?

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Like if you're watching something that you actually enjoy.

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Exactly.

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And then you're also learning at the same time.

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That's so important.

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You don't feel like you're like studying.

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And that really does help your brain.

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When your brain is having fun, it like learns better.

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Yeah.

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It's much easier for it to And my children speak three languages.

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And my son, when he's speaking in Spanish, because of the fact that he learn Spanish from native Spanish speakers here,

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he speaks with like, the Spanish way of using your hands and the way you would say a sentence.

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And it's really funny to me because he already has these native mannerisms,

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ways of saying things that you would only learn from watching a native speaker speak Spanish.

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And that's why watching shows in English might be helpful to you guys or this type of thing,

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because you could learn how native Yeah.

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Mm -hmm.

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That's That's really a good point.

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Okay, so last question.

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What's it like being friends with me.

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What kind of friend am I?

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I told her, I'm going to ask you this, it has to be nice.

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No, that's not hard.

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Maria is an amazing friend and she's always so thoughtful and cares about everyone around her.

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And I'm really, really so grateful to have her here.

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She's so sweet.

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I'm thankful to have you.

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Isn't it great she had this idea?

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Okay guys, that is it for today.

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Thank you so much for watching.

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We hope you have a wonderful day.

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And we cannot wait to see you in the next episode.

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looking forward to it.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Bye.

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