Shadowing Practice: Comprehensible Input English Native British Speaker B1 B2 C1 Conversation - Learn English Speaking with Video
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If you want to improve your English and travel the whole world, you are in the right place,
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because on this channel, you will see real -life conversations with native speakers,
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just like here in Prague, Czech Republic.
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But this video is going to be extra challenging,
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because we will speak very fast with this british polyglot who speaks 25 languages although
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if you want to sound like us you have to number one listen to our conversation
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and number two shadow us which means don't sneeze like i do
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but pause this video every five seconds
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and say everything we say in exactly the same way now hit the like button below and let's get started
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where is peter that's not peter where is that polyglot that speaks 25 languages Excuse me,
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do you speak English by chance?
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No, very little.
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Very little?
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I'm looking for a very suspicious guy.
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He might be a gangster.
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Have you seen him here?
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No?
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No. Alright, thank you.
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Appreciate it.
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What was that?
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Sounds like a baby.
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That's very suspicious.
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I see him right there.
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This guy right here, Peter.
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Good to meet you.
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Good to finally see you.
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You're a smart man.
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He speaks 25 languages.
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Well, all of them badly.
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and where are you originally from were you born in czech
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republic no i was born in the uk in the uk
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yeah dang i've lived here for nine years i'm waiting for
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my passport nice for a czech passport how come it's the eu possible eu that's
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because of brexit that makes sense
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so you were born in england right yeah you said metro
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or you just call it subway
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or what do you call it in the czech republic
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or there there oh well they've got to take you a train just what they call the tube only goes so far.
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Tube?
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Yeah, the tube.
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So you call it a metro a tube in England?
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Well, I don't.
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I call it a metro, you see, because I've lived in Europe for so long.
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And I'm here in the Grimsburg subway tunnels, which were abandoned years ago.
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I'm 34 now.
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I left the country when I was 17.
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Nice.
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So I've totally become un -British besides my accent.
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Yeah.
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Except for vampires, you don't need sunlight.
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So everyone thinks, oh, you're very British.
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But when it comes down to cultural things.
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Yeah.
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No, not at all.
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I left a long time ago.
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That's very cool.
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And where have you traveled to?
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Everywhere, basically everywhere in Europe now.
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I would ask you, what's your body count if we were talking about something else?
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The country count.
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What's your country count? About 50.
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About 50 now, yeah.
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Dang, you beat me, man.
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Really?
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Sorry.
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Zero body count.
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I'm sick.
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I've seen some of the world.
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I've been to America, Canada, Mexico, China, Thailand, Indonesia, the UAE.
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I want to go out to Latin America.
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Oh, you haven't been to Latin America yet?
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Well, I've only been to Mexico.
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You've been to Mexico.
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The only reason I went to Mexico, because it was 2021, and I had to go to America.
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Yeah.
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And I couldn't go to America because of the COVID restrictions.
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So I had to stay in Mexico for… Where after Mexico?
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Guadalajara.
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Tonight, there's growing outrage over the Chinese government's increasingly harsh COVID restrictions in the biggest city in China.
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Oh, nice.
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So I stayed there for two weeks.
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Well, I thought it was two weeks.
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Yeah.
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When I got to the airport to go to America, they said, we can't let you on.
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It hasn't been two weeks.
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I said, it's been 14 days.
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They said, no, it's been 13 days and sort of like 12 hours.
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Oh, snap it is and they were like no the system won't let us on
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so you have to stay here and get on next plane snap
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and i just stayed in the hotel
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and i think i watched all the jurassic park films
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and a titanic and 24 hours
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and eight pizza that's hilarious the way i found you wasn't it wasn't it a video
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that i posted on instagram i'll put it right here where
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the guy from slovakia told indian guy to get the out of czech republic
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while he does he doesn't even belong here i'm not sure
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but i commented underneath as well so i'm probably winding up the indians as i always do Yeah, yeah.
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And why do they do so?
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Because we have a lot of people from India watching us.
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Bollocks, you're lying.
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No. Someone's warning you up, mate.
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Oh, tell me what it says, mate.
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I'm done here.
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The reason is, about six months ago, all the Indian people started coming on my page.
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Yeah.
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And some of the videos went viral in India and Pakistan, these countries.
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Now, at first I was like, okay, all these people are welcome.
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But they all started DMing me saying, I want to learn a language.
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Nope, I've tried calling, DMing her.
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I've been stuck covering her shift for the last two weeks
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who wrote to me sort of every day for a year
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saying hello sir i am going to be k -pop stars i am going to be learning english
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and he's like i need free englishings
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and i go no i don't have anything for that
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and he kept saying but i'm going to be k -pop star i go yeah
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and i was like well i got this is how much
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a class costs a teacher no two dollars two dollars i
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was like what per class that's too much no two dollars a year we can't do this
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but it got to such a high standard that I, one day, I receive 1 ,000 DMs in a day.
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1 ,000 DMs.
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And I was like, okay, I've tried to be respectful here, although half my video is me being a rage baiter and sort of whining people up.
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It's how I got so far.
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Rage bait.
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Rage bait is the act of intentionally provoking anger or outrage out of another individual.
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Many Indians are great people.
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I'm going to have to go on sort of a holy
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war against them to make them all unfollow my page because they got to sort of the top fifth country.
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But in our business, we can't survive.
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If it's definitely a high ticket sale, you're sort of selling something for $1 ,000 most of them are not going to be able to pay for
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that but they're going to come to you
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and ask you for free things
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or cheap things there are people from other poorer countries let's say from brazil for example yep or countries
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that just can't afford this yeah they ask you the price
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you say this is sorry i can't afford it that's great the problem with indians is they come to me
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and then beg but but i need indian price okay well i'm not an indian company
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but that's really expensive in india i know it is sorry
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yeah i need it for free could you give it to me for free i want to go shut up
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because i want to see you beg beg you beg beg for what beg i tried to be respectful
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so now i'm going a holy war and i realized
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if i write rage baity comments under other people's videos yeah i gain all the kinds of followers i want
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because ironically a lot of these americans who are very rich
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and british they sort of looked at and laughed it
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and followed me and sign up yeah so it's like a double win
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and then all the people who are never going to buy my courses
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and they're going to annoy me all say right that's it we're all going to unfollow and I'm like thank god
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please leave that's hilarious you are really starting to annoy me
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so many people are taking selfies oh my god well it's
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like this is a selfie spot I suppose we're one of
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them it's funny actually on the internet I'm very serious
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when I'm making these videos and people say but
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when I speak to you in person you're really happy but
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when you're making your videos you're like stop being poor stop
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being lazy learn some languages sort your life out i'm telling
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people what they need to hear you know what they want
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to hear on my videos exactly oh i'm tired of being poor man
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so true it's quite different what people need need to hear
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and what they want to hear
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because we always want to be lazy we want to hear we're awesome
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but like myself if you want to motivate me the most
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if you want
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if you want to get the most out of me yeah
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you have to stab me on the back exactly literally
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because uh the dark energy is the most powerful energy in the world compared to compared to light energy
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stab me i've just got this thing in my head where i wake up
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and every day i just do what i'm supposed to do
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yeah every day i go to the gym i love
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that i've already like spoken arabic on the phone from an hour this morning
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and i make about five six videos a day nice from across my channel do my work
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and i'll write the clients every day i just do it automatically i love it whereas i work with
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so many different schools and teachers around the world yeah
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and i notice they don't necessarily ah they're really good at teaching that's their skill
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but running a business they're terrible
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if you fucking beat this prick long enough until you started the goddamn chicago fire now
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that don't necessarily make it so because most people don't just get up
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and say right i've got to do these tasks they'll say i'll do it tomorrow exactly i can't be bothered
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or maybe I don't need one more student.
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Whereas in my head, I'm just obsessed.
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Like, come on, again, again, again, keep going, keep going.
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You made 10K, right?
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20K, 30K.
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Keep going, keep going.
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Entrepreneurship.
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100%.
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I think it's quite rare in people.
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This is why online, I'm there shouting at people, going, will you get on with it?
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I'm trying to encourage them.
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I could just make a video where I just dance around and piss about.
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Exactly.
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But I'm not going to do that.
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That's so true.
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The majority of people are lazy by default.
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100%.
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This was quite an achievement.
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But Marie and Pierre were hunting for something far more rare.
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You speak 25 languages?
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Okay, approximately.
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I've never actually counted them.
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And I've never actually released them.
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So I'll get into the story of what I'm doing.
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A lot of people said, tell us which languages you can speak.
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So I had to have a marketing ploy.
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So they started adding the colored all -stars as a bit of a marketing ploy, because a lot of people had never seen a black baseball team i make videos in each language
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that i speak yeah it is about a 20 to 30
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minute uh interview on youtube it's not scripted no green screen
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it's just a camera it's like what we're doing now we normally sit down
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and whenever those videos get to a thousand views i'll make another one nice
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and i've got to nine so far and anyone can go
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and watch them and judge them and say it's good it's bad
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or could be better or mistakes obviously i did ukrainian yeah
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and this was after a year
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and a half of learning ukraine there were lots of mistakes i've heard now
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but we shouldn't You can't judge them just because they're different.
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All the other videos very quickly got 1 ,000 views, 1 ,000 views, 1 ,000 views.
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Unfortunately, Ukrainian sort of just goes up by like 10 views a week now.
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And it's about 550 views.
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Yeah.
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And everyone's like, when's the next one?
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And I said, okay, it's been like eight months, but I'm sorry.
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The next one comes when it gets to 1 ,000 views.
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So if anybody wants to see these interviews, go and watch them.
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The other languages I keep a secret as a marketing ploy.
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If you want to say it, you have to come and watch the videos.
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Absolutely.
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We're going to leave a link for your profile right below this video.
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So, you said you speak Portuguese, right?
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Yes.
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How do you say, and since I've been to Brazil, I want to hear, how do you say, Hi, my name is Peter.
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When I speak Portuguese, everyone says I've got a Brazilian accent, not a Portuguese accent.
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Yeah, you're in between.
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Because I've never really studied Portuguese Portuguese I've just learned from
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just talking to people now I've heard a lot of Brazilian Portuguese online.
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So I think I just picked it up every goddamn paper in town's picture though
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For me now when I'm wearing personal person for Portugal speaks Portuguese It's like somebody from Spain who learned Brazilian Portuguese Yeah, it sounds almost more Russian to me in some ways.
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Yeah, exactly it's so playful i love it
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and by the way on the previous video right here i have promised to send 100 dollars to
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that person who will leave a comment right below this video
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and if we get 400 comments i will send 100 bucks
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And I wanted to say congratulations to
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And on this question we're going to do the same thing
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You guys are going to leave a comment right below this video
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And whenever we get 400 comments I'm going to send 100 bucks to a random person But the question is Perfect,
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leave a comment right below this video
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And simply tell us how many languages you speak And specify which are they All right, let's continue.
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Let's go.
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Let's imagine you're Brazilian or Japanese somewhere from the middle of those countries and you want to learn English completely from scratch.
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Yes.
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How would you go about it at your age since you're not a kid anymore?
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It would depend on how much money I had.
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What would you say if I asked you to marry me?
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It would depend on the ring.
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Let's say you have not much money let's say you're in brazil you're making minimum salary
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which is 300 which is 1500 reais per month
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and you want to learn language the first thing i'd say
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is make more money i look at this from probably a
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very different way from most of the people i would say get out there
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and make more money but
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if you're forcing me not to in this situation one of the books i would buy is english grammar
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and use do you know this no it goes from basically
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a very simple stuff like present simple past simple present continues passing continuous
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and each page has got an exercise
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that goes with it you don't have to neither of us
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does nobody's forcing us to go back to phoenix look we could go to to canada
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or mexico any place if we're saying you can't speak any english you wouldn't understand
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that book so we're gonna have to go one step before let's come back
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and if you can't speak english you can't understand what i'm saying
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so yeah although on youtube there's a new function
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that allows it to be translated you would have to start learning 10 words a day i would say yeah
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Or a 20, it depends if you've got a full job or you're busy, but you would have to write down the basic words.
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So we're going, hello, goodbye, yes, no, I, you, he, she, these kind of things.
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Yeah.
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And then just think of the very basic things, bridge, building, house, tree.
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We've got the colours, green, red, blue.
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Absolutely.
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We've got water down here, we've got river.
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And every day, write down 10 words in a book.
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And after a year, now you're going to get me on the math, 365 days a year, 3 ,650 words which doesn't seem like that many
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but it's enough to get by in one year you can
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learn these words it's not a language like chinese where you
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have to learn the characters my job pays for the things
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we need to get by okay english is a very simple
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language to learn at the beginning one of the easiest
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so true until you get to around b2
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or c1 yeah then it gets incredibly
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and then becomes one of the most difficult languages in the world
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because most languages are as a core set of grammar
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that you need to even start english doesn't really have
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that yeah whereas english has all these idioms and exceptions
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and irregulars my name's stuart
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and yes it's time to take a look at the new
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corset for warhammer the old world start watching kids tv kids
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tv peppa pig is another one yesterday i was here at this bridge uh with an english teacher from canada
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and she was like i'm i learned check check by watching
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peppa pig really kids tv shows then you move on to travel vlogs is another one i watch podcasts shows
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that you've watched in netflix this is really good
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if you've seen the show before if there's a show
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that you really like and you've watched it a few times watch it again
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so in the language you're learning now you might think well that's boring
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or autistic there are shows like wednesday
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that i must have watched 10 times now i'm not watching
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it for my entertainment yeah i'm watching it for the purpose
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of language learning check it out dustin hoffman ray man look
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retarded act retarded not retarded count two picks cheated cards artistic show
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never die or if it's too hard or if you want to
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Learn how to write you keep it in English or your language and have the subtitles.
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Absolutely So you're listening listening to the language for the speaking and listening part And then you have the reading part.
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Yeah for the reading and writing both of those work absolutely fine
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So don't think that it's a waste of time watching Netflix if you're just watching it to waste time Obviously, it's stupid.
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But if you're learning a language hundred percent, it's good.
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It's a waste of time I called every number up here When I was a kid, I remember my mom telling me don't play the computer read a freaking book do something for your health
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or go outside yeah they're like no mom i want it i like it
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and right now i understand that
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while i was playing those games i have developed a quite interesting way of thinking i've improved my english uh
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and now i i wouldn't be a person who i am
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if i wouldn't be playing one freaking game that i played
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when i was a kid and everybody would tell me
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that you're stupid why the hell are you playing this game
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yeah now anyone who knows my content will probably be commenting now all right
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but peter you said people who play video games are idiots.
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Yes, that's slightly clickbait.
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I did say this.
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Can I tell you something I'm bad at?
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I am terrible at making clickbait.
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However, it is good for learning English.
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If you're young, I especially encourage young children.
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If you're 14, if you're 16, and you have some games that you like, especially if you don't speak English as a native language, 100 % play it.
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If you are 30 or 30 year old like me, and you're just playing Grand Theft Auto English rather than doing
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something serious yeah get a life do yourself a favor get a life stop living mine
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so you said you spoke some ukrainian and now
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when you re -watch the video understand what yeah what kind
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of mistakes you made yeah i said how important is it
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for beginners to concentrate on mistakes versus on actual speaking
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so in the in the interview i said ya rozmavlaya ukraiński like the russian They should be Ukrainskoyou.
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Yeah.
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So I knew this, but in the pressure of the interview, I made a lot of mistakes.
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100 % just speak.
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It's cut and dry.
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You just start speaking from day one.
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The coroner's taking a look right now, but it looks like it's going to be pretty cut and dry.
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Don't care about mistakes.
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Don't listen to the haters.
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The haters are losers.
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I have my haters on the internet.
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I have guys who have whole channels dedicated almost to hating on this.
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Is his name Kevin Douche?
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No, but he's a douche.
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He's called an evil day.
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He's so Australian the douchebag does think you're dead right yeah that's good you should keep it
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that way honestly speaking i make mistakes my level is c1
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but i still make mistakes i spent half of my life in the united states yeah
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and that's completely finding my mistakes i'm a ceo of multiple
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companies yeah i've been working as a senior engineering manager in the silicon valley
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and i still make mistakes oh it's absolutely fine there is a dude there is a kevin douche
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and i'm gonna look him up now i'm gonna find him
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i won't say he's not the name of his channel
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but he's again it's not kevin dude that's what i call
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him a person with almost half a million subscribers on the
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youtube is making videos about a guy who has 60 000 by the way guys make sure to subscribe
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and hit the like button right now and pointing at the mistakes
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that i make and he's making he's getting less views
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that i'm getting while i'm making fun videos that people enjoy
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and he's just pointing different mistakes the guy who went for
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me the title of his video is peter calls the fraud
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and my question is my question is what fraud have i
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committed fraud is taking money under false pretenses first the world
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will see you for what you are a fraud my entire
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business is connecting students with the best native speaker teachers i wouldn't even have to speak a language to do
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that i could just speak one language to do that
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so there's no fraud occurred in this whole interaction i love it that's hilarious
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because that guy calls me
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and a lot of people who have millions of subscribers fake
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teachers like i'm not even a freaking teacher i'm a traveler
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i get this all the time though i don't learn where
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peter is a rubbish teacher i'm like i've been a teacher for what six years
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or something we spoke about the people who don't have much
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money for example who want to learn english what about
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if you had lots of money in
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that case i wouldn't give the advice i just gave on
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how to learn languages yeah 100 just get a teacher from day one i learn all my languages of teachers
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and you wouldn't have to worry about all this stuff like the
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which books to use
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and doing the exercise by yourself the teacher would just lead
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you through it incredibly quickly this figure here it will lead you to the resistance
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yeah and any kind of mistake they would correct uh you wouldn't have to be nervous about speaking
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because it's almost like a safe space i hate that word
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but it is a safe space yeah okay you're in a
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safe space why are we here they don't want to judge you for making mistakes
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so you can learn so much quicker
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and obviously watch the peppa pig obviously write down 20 words
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is like uh do everything it's a prophecy 100 what if i am right what if the prophecy is true
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how long does it take to go from a1 to b1
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in your experience what language i did it in dutch dutch
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i did it in three weeks are you learning by yourself
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you're learning with a teacher you're doing it seven times a week one time a week these are
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when people come to me in my school and say how many weeks is it going to take or how many classes?
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I have absolutely no idea.
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It could be in one year.
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It could be in 10.
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Yeah, it totally depends.
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You are in Brazil.
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You're in Brazil.
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You want to improve your life.
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You want to get a better life.
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You want to get an international job.
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kid you are let's say 30
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and your name is matthews okay all of you amateurs
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and international affairs should never be run by gentlemen amateurs six months
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if you really really really went for it i think
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if i knew my life depended on it i could learn a language a lot quicker wow english exactly
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and that's what he did i'm going to show a video
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right here the guy who who who saw my videos yeah
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i created a platform where i simply connect people no teachers at all just the people
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so they could talk to each other and
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that guy he was practicing english every day with somebody from different country in the world of his level
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and a little bit higher level
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and he was watching videos listening to audiobooks reading he's doing
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a lot of homework yeah i'm not taking credit at all it's not
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that i'm i'm taking credit for how extraordinary you turned out to be the fun fact is he recorded himself
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while he was he joined our first community speaking session yeah he couldn't did anything
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and how do you find us which youtube video we can see i i don't understand
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could you repeat please three months after he's got a view
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on level i have a video of him speaking with me
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dude what happened to your english it sounds awesome thanks so much
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i've been practicing every day i realized
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that today i can understand much more your your last video
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i watch it without subtitles wow that's crazy for me yeah
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that's insane i understand 90 percent congressman you're killing it man
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that's crazy i'm like jesus christ that's the fastest that's amazing
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story in the world that's crazy how how dedicated the person is
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but i definitely agree that with a teacher it's going to be so much easier you have to prove
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how king you are how dedicated majority people in the world
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the biggest problem they have is they don't simply speak they learn freaking grammar all their life in a school
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but they never speak yeah i was the same way
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when i went to the u .s i'm like hi my name is sergi good to meet you yeah
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but when i was talking about the um being immersed yeah
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that is one thing go there you can't immerse yourself in
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your country this guy sounds like he totally immersed himself in
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english bringing the characters to life you just immersed yourself in what the action figure was supposed to do
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and how the character would do it so
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when i say immersion i don't just mean going to the
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country yeah i mean immersing yourself in any way possible switching
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your phones between your camera everything talking to somebody yeah what
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i'm going to do right now i'm going to give you guys two steps
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that you need to take in your life if you want to improve your english learn it the the fastest way possible.
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Number one, the link for my platform is right here.
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It's called foxu .com.
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F -O -X.
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Fox you, okay.
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Fox you.
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Got it.
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F -O -X .com, where you can talk to people from all around the world completely for free.
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And AI will listen to it, it will hear your mistakes, it will give you feedback afterwards.
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You have people from all around the world, from more than 130 countries around the world, they're watching our videos right now.
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People are insanely happy about every single time they talk to somebody else.
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Because number one, you practice English.
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You practice speaking.
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Number two, you practice listening, because whenever you're going to get an international job, you're going to talk to people from India, people from Brazil.
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You have to understand their accents.
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And number three, you're learning about different cultures every single day.
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Today, you'll talk to Japanese, tomorrow Brazilian, after tomorrow Colombian, maybe one day you'll talk to English or British.
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But that's the way to practice English.
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But if you also want to get a teacher, I highly recommend you.
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I'm going to leave a link to Peter's website right here, where you can also hire a teacher
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and you want me to know what you think
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but i think the best way is to hire a teacher
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to speak at least like once per week once a week
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but at least once a week and then practice every single day with us
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so you could learn something practice practice practice learn something yeah
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practice for the whole week 100 totally agree dang we made it let me ask you the last
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and the best question if the whole world goes here right now yeah
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if you could share one thing with them what would you
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sure i would say whatever you want to do in life
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don't give up don't let people judge you don't let people
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laugh at you go for it 100 don't be lazy at
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it try your absolute best for example i want to learn
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all the languages in the world people laugh at me people
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think it's ridiculous they say why don't you get a normal job why don't you live a normal life what
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that the z word don't say it why not
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because it's ridiculous all right i 100 just went for it they laughed at
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when I said I was going to do social media.
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I only started about this time two years ago.
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Wow.
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I had 200 ,000 followers.
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People laughed at me and said, why are you going to do it?
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No, 100%.
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Just go for it.
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I don't know what they're doing in their lives.
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It could be anything.
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Whatever it is.
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As long as it's something positive, you're going to improve your life.
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Go for it 100 % no matter what anybody tells you.
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Fucks fear and speak English.
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Thank you, Peter.
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Have a good one.
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It's a pleasure.
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Thank you.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 493 sentences and 5110 words to shadow. The speech runs for 24:50. The speaker talks fast, about 206 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 85% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| fraud noun | /ˈfɹɔːd/ | The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics. |
| tube noun | /tuːb/ | Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape. |
| lazy adjective | /ˈleɪ̯zi(ː)/ | Unwilling to do work or make an effort; disinclined to exertion. |
| accent noun | /ækˈsɛnt/ | A higher-pitched or stronger (louder or longer) articulation of a particular syllable of a word or phrase in order to distinguish it from the others or to… |
| rage noun | /ɹeɪd͡ʒ/ | Violent uncontrolled anger. |
| whereas | /(h)wɛɹˈæz/ | In contrast; whilst on the contrary; although. |
| hilarious adjective | /hɪˈlɛə.ɹi.əs/ | Very funny; causing great merriment and laughter. |
| depend verb | /dɪˈpɛnd/ | To be contingent or conditioned; to have something as a necessary condition |
| metro noun | /ˈmɛtɹoʊ/ | A rapid transit rail transport system, or a train in such systems, generally underground and serving a metropolitan area. |
| grammar noun | /ˈɡɹæm.ə(ɹ)/ | A system of rules and principles for the structure of a language, or of languages in general. |
| dedicate verb | /ˈdɛdɪˌkeɪt/ | To set apart for a deity or for religious purposes; consecrate. |
| necessarily adverb | /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/ | Inevitably; of necessity. |
| ridiculous adjective | /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/ | Deserving of ridicule; foolish, absurd. |
| encourage verb | /ɪnˈkʌɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/ | To mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit. |
| establishment noun | /ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ.mənt/ | The act or process of establishing; a ratifying or ordaining; settlement; confirmation. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| write down verb | To produce or set (something) down in writing; to record something. |
| come back verb | To return to a place. |
| come down to verb | To reach by moving down or reducing. |
| get on with verb | To proceed with; to begin or continue, especially after an interruption. |
| get out verb | To leave or escape. |
| get up verb | To move in an upward direction; to ascend or climb. |
| give up verb | To surrender (someone or something); to inform on (someone). |
| go back to verb | To stem from; to originate in. |
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result | if we get 400 comments i will send |
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on | i've been working · i've been practicing |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | i've lived · I've seen · I've been |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | tunnels, which were · people who are · person who will |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 203 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, you're, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: bother /ˈbɑðɚ/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/, underneath /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: establishment /ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ.mənt/, suspicious /səˈspɪʃ.əs/, restriction /ɹɪˈstɹɪkʃən/, shadow /ˈʃædəʊ̯/, congratulations /kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/
- Long words — get the stress right: hilarious /hɪˈlɛə.ɹi.əs/, necessarily /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/, ridiculous /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/, establishment /ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ.mənt/, incredibly /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like fraud, tube, lazy.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.