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i want to say thank you thank you
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so much for having me sir it's one of the biggest
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dream today it's becoming true uh just i used to see on the youtube only you
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and really i'm the very biggest fan of you sir thank you thank you
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so much brother finally we are connected after all the struggles for half a number we were struggling to connect
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but now but we are finally connected
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okay how is it going for you yeah everything is going
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good there is too many things to mention with you something very new
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that i was not aware from
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that uh yesterday night i was in the party it was
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the very first party of my life after joining in my office
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so uh just i was enjoying a lot in the pool
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and with the music with the tea and delicious food it was very amazing
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so because of that i was covering my sleeping hour in a day just
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when i came back from the party i was
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so happy at the night and when i come back from there and i saw your mail oh my god my
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my heart started booming and right now i'm also feeling
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so excited i don't know what i need to share with
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you i'm very glad sir yeah likewise okay let's do the
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introduction first let me introduce myself obviously you know myself you
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know me my name is ramachadran from Tamil Nadu I used
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to work in the software industry now I became a full -time youtuber
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and man about you yeah so about me my name is Rajnikanth Kumar
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and this is the name
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that most of the people are asking about my name this name is South Indian name
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but yeah and if I talk about my study
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so I have completed my own study in Hindi medium uh from bihar
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but i got opportunity with the scholarship that is provided by the bihar government
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so i have right now i'm talking to you from jaipur rajasthan
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and in this city i'm going to complete my more than
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3 .5 year i have completed my bachelor with the specialization of computer science
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and application from vivekananda global university
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and right now uh i think i'm about to complete my
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five month of journey with uh teleperformance maybe you're already aware
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it's an international bpo industry okay uh this is the very first opportunity
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that i have grab while pursuing my bachelor
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so that's a bit about me if i talk about my hobby
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so i'm into music i like to sing
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and uh the another one thing uh i'm into fitness as well just like i'm running each
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and every day at least three
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or four kilometers in the park oh even me too i
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try to run every day at least two to three kilometers every day
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but some days i'm able to do it some days i cannot do it yeah what to do
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and nice bro actually so you are from bihar
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and you are currently you are living in jaipur
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and you're working in the bpo industry
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and also you do speak very good english yeah thank you there is too many things
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that i can mention behind the scene how i have learned this language how many rejections uh
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that i got i was facing really it was not very easy uh
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when you are in university the opportunities are coming
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and you are unable to grab because of you're not speaking well
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so uh during the journey i'm talking about
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when i was in my fifth semester or
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when i was in the sixth semester at
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that time some of the companies are coming they're not from
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it sector they are known it sector they were just rejecting me
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because you're not speaking well
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and i will i have faced around more than 17 rejection
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included three selection okay whenever sending this thing to my parents
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they are becoming oh my god man what are you doing
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and i was also thinking like
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that i came here uh with the uh scholarship i have to pay the money to my government as well
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and if i will not achieve anything
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while completing my uh degree then what i will do i
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don't want it to visit revisit again my will is i wanted to grab something something
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and the thing that i can mention i'm talking about teleperformance
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when teleperformance came in my university for hiring some students so at
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that time one of the hr uh the hr name is
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uh the Beyonce Jam yeah okay I had I had qualified one
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and two round of one round of interview there is one round of interview
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that is I think it's a conducted by the AI
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so I had qualified two round of interview and after
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that she rejected me because she mentioned a lot of things your pronunciation is not good
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or you're also not forming sentence in a good way I accept
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that thing yeah accept that things
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and uh just i take a challenge now i think i'm
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going to improve my communication in next three months i started working i started working on every pillar listening reading writing
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and grammar as well for grammar i was following one of
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the youtube channel it's called master study there is a playlist of included 60 videos okay i was
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yeah and after four months i cracked the interview in the same company okay
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so first you attended the interview and you got rejected from the company
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and you prepared well you improve your english
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and you attended the interview again and you got selected from the same company
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wow that's cool brother you know what there's a company called
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amazon in bangalore yeah i tried attending interviews three times all the three times i failed in
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that interview i thought of attending one last time as a
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fourth time then i decided why you know three times we have we got rejection from this company
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so let's this time we reject this company
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so i attended interviews in different companies
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and i got selected there that's my experience i even i
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also attended many interviews in my journey well after finishing my college
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so far i think i've attended around 60 70 interviews yeah
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and initially first 25 30 interviews i faced rejection
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but later i was able to crack interviews
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because once you get the knack of it you will know what type of questions they will ask
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and you know how to answer and you already have the experience of answering questions
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so you can clear the any interviews
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so it became a practice for me yeah and one thing
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that i have also realized uh i think we have to include rejection in also a good way
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because uh i had learned
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so many things i'm talking about the very first very first
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interview it was a virtual interview i wasn't able to see properly in the camera
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and uh i was not answering i know that at
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that time i was not very good at communicating
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but rather than communicating there is also
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so many parts that's helping you to crack the interview to look a professional
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and to look a confident person but i was not like
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that and uh i want to accept that that gap
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that i had and right i'm also not very perfect
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but i'm trying my best each and every day i'm trying to become better
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and during that job still i am working on my communication i'm doing shadowing practice
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and i think yesterday i was listening one video
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and today i was also listening one video of you
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while sleeping whenever i'm sleeping just i'm putting my uh here here okay
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so am i giving you am i giving you lullaby feeling like i make you sleep
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or what why are you listening to my video only
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when you sleep no it's not it's not like
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that i'm also doing some some shadowing practice here
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but right now i'm like
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that i'm not talking to you just like i'm listening your video
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and i'm also into video i'm also in your video okay
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i understand i was just joking don't take it seriously
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so now for the last six months you've been working in this company it's a bpo sector
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so what is your next plan
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so what are you going to do in another five years
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another five years they mean there is too many things
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that i can mention okay the first one thing the first ambition
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that i have uh right now i have more than three
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not more than yeah less than three months uh in 2026
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i will try to work on my communication a lot i will try to fix
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that uh how can you say you can say gap whenever
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i'm like lacking sometime i'm lacking to form sentence sometime i'm
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unable to find the exact vocabulary to express my feelings i
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will i will try to learn some kind of professional vocabulary
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and uh tone way and uh because of
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that i'm also using chat jpy itself it's helping me a lot okay
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so you're using chat gpt to do your speaking practice i'm using
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so many things okay
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so to do speaking practice what do you do do you
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have anyone to talk in english with yeah uh for for
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practicing i am using one of the platform it's called episoden
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it's a it's a south korean platform where the international people
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are connecting i more than 80 countries are included with
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that platform so you can use this platform
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but there is a time limit time limitation you can only
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connect with the person for next seven minutes right seven minutes seven minutes
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but but if with the same person you are meeting three times then after
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that you can send the body request
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and after becoming a body you can talk more than hours
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and numbers it's what is the name of the application episoden
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e -p -i -s -o -d -e -n okay episoden okay
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i'll try using it i never heard of this application before
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so we can connect with foreigners mostly by using this application
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you can connect with uh indian you can connect with foreigner
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as well there is a setting in your profile you can change you can change as well right what's the main
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yeah so what's the main purpose of this application is it to learn english or to learn all the languages.
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Is it to learn all the English?
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okay only english
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so only english will be there in the application yeah uh
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in the beginning i was also using one of the platform you are most aware from
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that and i have also heard about
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that that platform from you in the video as well peer up right fear of application yeah
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yeah but uh i i thought like
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that no the people on uh peer up they are not
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much serious related to this language they are also forcing to talk in your native language
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so i quit that platform
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and i search on the youtube i search on um i asked to chat gpt as well
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so youtube suggests me to go through episoden
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and on it on episoden i have completed more than three
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thousand three thousand conversations with international people i have more than 25 buddies right now
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and three thousand people you have spoken with three thousand conversation
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oh my god that's too much bro yeah I have completed three thousand
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and I have visited around more than 80s country with
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that platform I have completed conversation with
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that people's they're from okay more than 80 more than 80 countries okay now in your opinion
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which country people speak good English some of the Indians are also speaking very good one thing
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that I want to include about some of the South Indian
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girls they from Crayola they from AP they from Tamil Nadu
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I have too many friends just like i'm thinking like
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that i'm a global person
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because i have too many friends from another country from india from each
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and every part of india uh i'm talking about the last
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week off i had visited gujarat to meet one of the
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girls see from uh ap she called me to rasnika meets
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we are we are connected to in uh from six months right
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and uh this is the time
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that we have to connect um meet physically i need
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and it's also very very very very happiness moment
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that i have celebrated with uh myself yeah okay cool
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and uh first in in first time i ate a shambar in my life right
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and i first time i like oh you never have sambar you've never tasted sambar in your life.
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Sambar is nothing
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but dal actually they have yeah they give dal in North
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India right it's more like yeah they mix vegetables in dal so it becomes sambar.
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Yeah but there is also menu in my university
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but the taste of sambar was like
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that you can't eat I'm talking about me the taste was not good
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so the same thing she asked to me after visiting actually
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she is living with uh their partners five members uh living in that flat
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so she asked to me what you like to eat then
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i you like to eat south indian food then i said uh i was having sambar in my university
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and really i actually i'm
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that kind of person i don't want to listen the name of
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that curry as well so she said then okay this is the day
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that we are going to uh prepare curry sorry sambar for you
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and really alike okay so you went to her place
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or she came to uh i i have visited her place okay
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so that's why sambar is available yeah probably south indian sambar
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they taste really good they have the knack for it
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but north indians mostly they don't cook sambar
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so they don't know how to make a good sambar i
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mean i think yeah in my opinion yeah no you are you are totally right you're totally right
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and uh yeah i have also a bit experience
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because this is the thing
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that i'm mentioning to a lot of south indian people okay that's great brother
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so great journey and also yeah great story to hear yeah
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and maybe i'm also going to be celebrate pongal with her family it's my dream
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because right now i am aware from all the peoples uh included in their family
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and they know who is rajnikanth and i'm also famous rajnikanth
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because of my name yeah yeah you're famous actually rajnikanth the name itself is very famous in southern india
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and also very rarely people has this name rajnikanth you cannot
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find people with this name very often it's very rare yes
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but also it's a very famous name
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so let's see how it's going to go uh not much aware
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but i will try i want to make a lot of family
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and i think that platform
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that platforms are working according to mean okay yeah it really
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helps you that's good that's good even actually i'm also thinking of changing the platform
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because i've been using this peer platform i mean nowadays i'm not using it i used to use it
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but like you said most of the people in peer of
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application they are not very serious about english most of the
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time they are very boring they do the same introduction thing
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and that's all it's really boring and they disconnect the call within few minutes
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so i'm looking for a different application different platform i thought of okay let's talk with some international people
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and so yeah i'll try that application but one thing
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that i want to mention about i think there is no any communicator who is better than you
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that i have realized in eight months of journey uh
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that i have completed with that okay it's not like better
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or something i'm i just i also need practice right i also have to speak with someone
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so i used to have some friend i used to have
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a friend to talk in english with i used to practice
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but now they are busy
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so now i need someone to speak in english words yeah something it's also happened in my life at
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that time i'm talking about in january i had a female friend okay
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and i was able to handle that friendship in a good way
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so because of that uh it's ended you can say like
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that and after that I was finding someone to speak at
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that same time as I was also facing so many
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so many rejections from multiple organizations So I was thinking like
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that where I am and I took a challenge I think no, I will work.
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I will work on my communication in any situation So I found that application
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and I started having fun I started enjoying some of the
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person are coming in front of me They are saying like that you don't have to take it seriously.
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You have to learn English while singing song
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then i said really it's like that i can learn english while singing song then i also started
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that is actually really true you know i used to sing
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a lot of songs i mean not used to sing i
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listen i used to listen to a lot of english songs
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and some songs i also sing along with them
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so singing songs can also really helpful to learn english yeah
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so uh so after that i i thought like
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that okay i'll try this method
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and uh i wasn't able to recognize the lyrics of the english song
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so i started singing hindi song right and after
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that i was translating the meaning of the song in english
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uh some of the girls i'm talking about uh indonesian yeah
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indonesian they are very very very biggest fan of saru khan
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and there are a lot of there are a lot of
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countries i think saru khan is only one a character from india he is famous in the world
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that i have realized from i think more than 25 countries people are aware he's
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so popular and he's so famous most of the people they like him it's not only just
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because of his movies it's also
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because of his personality sharkan is more like a down -to -earth person
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so everybody likes him even me too yeah
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so uh i started singing song just in the beginning of the conversation
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because there is a barrier you can only talk with before seven minutes
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so in one minute I am singing I was singing the lyrics
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and after that I was translating the meaning of the song in English
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so some of the girls
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or some yeah most of the time I'm I was singing in front of girl
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so yeah you are nice yes I am a singer
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and after knowing the meaning of the song actually though they know they know about the song
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but they are not much aware from the meaning of the song
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so when i was explaining the meaning of the song they are thinking oh my god
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so romantic man i said yes looks like you're not only
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improving your english also you're improving your flirting skills i think no i don't think
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so i'm flirting but i'm taking it very not very seriously i know
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that uh that one is like that no to work on my communication
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if I said truly to you sir when I
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when I was living at my locality okay I was into myself like
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that I have more than 35 friend more than 45 friend
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but no any girl no any girl included in
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that list only real friends what one thing
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that I I can also mention about I was very popular in my locality
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because uh i'm also a priest okay super you're a priest of the temple
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no but uh i from a brahman family where it's not like a room
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but you should uh know about this thing right
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and everything you should learn
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when you are young okay yeah i have some brahmin friends they also learn everything
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when they are young okay and i think i'm also good at worshiping
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and chanting as well i have more than 60 collection of mantras
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and i have completed my uh more than 60 weddings
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when i was living in my uh how can i say in my locality more than 16
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wedding wedding because of me I was the priest in that wedding in the wedding okay
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good even I actually I have a friend he also does
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the same thing I will tell you one interesting thing about
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Tamil Nadu in Tamil Nadu nowadays it's very difficult to find a priest for wedding
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because there is a huge demand because the next generation they are all studying
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and they want to work in IT they all they go to different countries they want to settle there
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so nowadays in this generation the priests are very less
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so my friend tells me all the time like I'm making more money than you people
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because you know in my job we have very less people
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so I have work almost every single day so whenever I go
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and attend a function I get paid a lot
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so that's a good thing
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and right now I'm living in Jaipur I'm not connected with all those things
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but right now feeling like that no I was very perfect
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and that sector as well I was explaining what everything
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but i was also learning i was enjoying but there was a thing
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that i was thinking like that rajnika you are not not made for
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that okay in the next two months uh i will work
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on my communication i will switch my uh company as well
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after having six months of come try to experience this time try to go to either pune hyderabad
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or bangalore yeah i'm ready to cities you know you can
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really have a good time in these three cities i can
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tell you they have thousands of companies especially yeah you know
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most of us know bangalore is the it capital of india where
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if you go there they have thousands of companies you can get selected in any company
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and you'll get a good high package
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yeah definitely i will try and even one thing is always running in my mind uh
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because i think i'm living in that environment uh
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if i will got a chance to go abroad really i will try to explore
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and one of the one of the country
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that I have a dream country
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but right now I'm becoming aware from too many countries just like I'm also yeah I'm also not biggest fan
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but yeah a fan of Singapore that I will try
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and another one thing that I can easily switch in Dubai some of the French circle
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that I am building in Dubai and in another country as well
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so I'm not much aware from the next five year
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that you asked to me wow you have very good plans
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actually yeah i think i will try to capture all the
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things all the story uh in a camera i will try to be a person who like to feel free
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while talking in front of the camera i'm thinking like
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that start a journey and uh i don't think
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so the people are going to be influenced by me
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but I think yeah I think some of the people are
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facing problem chasing their goals like me step by step
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while facing rejection
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so let's see what's going to be happen yeah definitely probably you can start a YouTube channel
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or else you can have your Instagram channel you can post your daily vlogs like what you're doing
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if you travel to different places you can upload them yeah
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there will always be people who will get influenced by us
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if you are in front of the camera
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that will definitely happen we cannot deny it
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but at the end of the day we have to live happy
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and also we have to make others happy that's all that's the only goal yeah i i will try
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and i think for becoming a blogger
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or for becoming a influencer you don't have to find a
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particular place you can record from anywhere you can upload that video
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and i think my life is also unstable right now I'm
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living in Jaipur in the next few months I'm going to live in some another place
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so yeah one thing that I want to add just I have completed my bachelor
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and I wanted to continue my master from India but
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because of I was becoming aware from the
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so many countries they are also providing some kind of scholarship
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and actually I don't want to mention about my family
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but yeah I think I'm not very stronger from economy I'm talking about my family background
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so each and every I have to manage by myself
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so I thought I think I don't have to continue my master from India
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so I took a break for one year
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or maybe in the next year I will try to pursue MBA be the specialization of hospitality
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and management okay so which country are you planning to go Canada not Canada
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but no actually my dream is I want to visit Germany
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Germany okay for visiting Germany you have to be at least
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be to level of communicator in Germany yeah you have to
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learn German as well right yeah also trying to learn German
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she's been trying to learn German I don't know whether she had learned it or not.
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It's a very difficult language I think and also the content is very less.
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yeah i was i was also trying to learn some kind of alphabetical things
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and letters in uh german really it was not easy for me
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but let's see uh i will try to manage whatever i have right now right
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if right now i'm able to speak english
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so i will try to visit
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that country where uh the english are spoken just like australia
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or some of the countries i can also visit dubai in
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dubai you can easily manage with yeah people speak english and hindi also i think
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yeah Hindi also you can find your colleagues a lot
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so do you have anything to ask me the last one
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minute what I want to ask nothing huh one thing
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that you had asked to a girl in your video about Sivtandava, Sivtandava.
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And you were mentioning like that, da -da -da -da -da -da -da -da -da -da -da
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It's too long, but yeah, thank you, thank you so much for having me.
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Oh, nice brother.
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Thank you for singing that song.
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I mean, I don't know, it's a song or it's a mantra?
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but thank you so much for you know saying that i really enjoyed this conversation with you

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This speaking lesson is built on the video “How I faced rejections in interview”. This video has 405 sentences and 4690 words to shadow. The speech runs for 26:26. The speaker talks at a natural 177 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 84% 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:

WordPronunciationMeaning
connect verb/kəˈnɛkt/To join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object.
rejection noun/ɹɪˈd͡ʒɛkʃən/The act of rejecting.
priest noun/ˈpɹiːst/A religious clergyman (clergywoman, clergyperson) who is trained to perform services or sacrifices at a church or temple.
peer noun/pɪɹ/Somebody who is, or something that is, at a level or of a value equal (to that of something else).
select verb/sɪˈlɛkt/To choose one or more elements of a set, especially a set of options.
crack noun/kɹæk/A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.
scholarship noun/ˈskɑːləɹʃɪp/A grant-in-aid to a student.
nowadays adverb/ˈnaʊ.ə.deɪz/At the present time; in the current era.
bachelor noun/ˈbæt͡ʃ.ə.lə(ɹ)/A person, especially a man, who is socially regarded as able to marry, but has not yet.
locality noun/loʊˈkæl.ɪ.ti/The fact or quality of having a position in space.
shadow noun/ˈʃædəʊ̯/A dark image projected onto a surface where light (or other radiation) is blocked by the shade of an object.
lyrics noun/ˈlɪɹ.ɪks/The words to a song (or other vocal music).
pursue verb/pɚˈsu/To follow urgently, originally with intent to capture or harm; to chase.
khan noun/kɑːn/An Ottoman sultan.
communicate verb/kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/To impart or transmit (information or knowledge) to someone; to make known, to tell.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

WordMeaning
come back from verbTo become successful, confident or effective again after an injury, setback, failure, embarrassment, etc.
go through verbTo travel from one end of something to the other.

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

StructureIn the video
“Used to” used to + verb — a past habit or state that is no longer trueused to see · used to use · used to have
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going onyou've been working · i've been using · she's been trying
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters nowhave completed · have learned · have faced
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does itare connected · are finally connected · is provided

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 104 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, you're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

  • The “sh” and “zh” sounds: rejection /ɹɪˈd͡ʒɛkʃən/, scholarship /ˈskɑːləɹʃɪp/, shadow /ˈʃædəʊ̯/, capture /ˈkæp.(t)ʃɚ/, friendship /ˈfɹɛn(d)ʃɪp/
  • Long words — get the stress right: locality /loʊˈkæl.ɪ.ti/, communicate /kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, hospitality /ˌhɑ.spɪˈtæl.ə.ti/, limitation /lɪmɪˈteɪʃən/

How to practise with this video

  1. Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
  2. Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
  3. Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like connect, rejection, priest.

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