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You need to improve your English speaking, but how can you do that without someone to speak to?

This is one of the most common questions I get when it comes to learning English and improving.

I think speaking is an area where we all need a bit more practice, but it's very difficult to get practice with other people.

So first of all, getting a teacher can be expensive.

It's difficult to find someone to talk with and pay them because it takes a lot of money.

Of course, I know that it is expensive.

It can be for sure.

And the other methods like language partners can be challenging.

I mean, to find a language partner might take a bit more work.

You might have to do more research, make those connections, make a good introduction and all this kind of stuff that you don't have to do when you're paying a teacher.

And of course, you may have to also spend time in your own language.

So most situations with language exchange partners might be 50 % in English and 50 % in your native language.

So therefore you're not really making the most of your time

because you have to use your own language quite a lot as well.

And of course it may just be quite hard to find

people in your area where you live it may be quite difficult to connect with people who speak English

and for all of these reasons and more speaking can be such a hard skill to practice.

So in today's episode I want to share something

that I've been practicing myself and this is a method to improve your speaking

and get some speaking practice all on your own.

Of course it's not generally going to be as good as with another person

if you're practicing with someone else you're getting live feedback you're getting listening practice as well

and there's a lot more

that goes into it i think we can all agree there's

a lot more in a conversation than just speaking there's also gestures

and facial expressions and all these different feelings and emotions that you don't get when you're speaking on your own.

Having said that, a huge amount of improvement can be seen

when you practice alone and that's exactly what I want to talk about today.

So recently I've been working on a website just for my own personal use to practice speaking in different languages

and I'm going to share that with you today.

This is one of the benefits of using AI these days is that you can code your own web page very easily.

And if you kind of use it well, this can be really, really effective to do many different things.

I think there are many things that you can do on a website

that would be much harder to do in a notebook or in a, you know, Google document or Word document, something like that.

So I'm going to show you what I made today

and I really hope it's going to be useful for you as well.

Maybe it will spark some ideas for you.

So just to give a bit of an overview, this is kind of the website I made for myself.

I am using it to practice my Chinese and my Japanese speaking

and it's been working so well for me

that I decided to just tweak it a little bit tweak means make a small change

and also make an English version just to show you as well.

To be honest, I haven't made this public yet.

Maybe I will when I edit the podcast.

I haven't decided yet.

I mean, if you would like to use this yourself, let me know.

You know, maybe I can add it to my website, but you have to let me know what you think about it. But basically,

I made this with claude claude is a one of the big ai kind of providers these days the llms

and claude is quite good at coding so it you may think you know

if you're not familiar with ai you may think oh it's

not for me it's way too difficult i could never make

a website this really just took i would say five messages to do.

So I wrote my idea to Claude.

I said, basically, I have an idea.

I want to make a website where I can practice my language speaking on my own.

And I said exactly what I want it to have.

I want it to have different question prompts.

So a prompt is something that kind of gives you an idea of what to speak about.

And each day there will be a new prompt to talk about

and it will challenge me to talk for you know maybe 10 minutes

or 20 minutes on a certain topic

and there's a recording button i also asked for an archive

so once i have recorded i can see history and archive of all of my previous

recordings there and also i want to have a streak system

so it will count how many days in a row i study so having

that little streak in there will encourage me to do it

every day i also said i don't think i have time on the weekend

so only do it monday to friday that's what i decided for myself

so it counts the streak from monday to friday

and that's what i started with that it took about three messages to get

that right you know he he made a website for me you know i say he it's an ai

but you know in my mind it's a man for some reason

but yeah claude made a website for me

and it was pretty good i sent another message just to

tweak some things can you make this look different can you

change this part about it oh this isn't working properly

and yeah just a couple messages i ended up with this

i'm showing it on the screen on the video version today

but if you don't want to look that's fine if you're listening

or you're driving that's totally fine it's not a big problem

if you can't see and then i had one more idea the next day

which was to add a vocabulary element too

so down below the recording i have a section called words to practice

so this is where i learn a new word from somewhere i'll add it to this list

and i have the idea to practice

so i've added a few words here like astounded flabbergasted there's some example words

that i can practice here and i can tick them off once i have practiced them

so that's a nice way for me to keep track of these words

and of course the more you practice

and the more you use them the easier they will be to remember in a real conversation

so yeah maybe i will just give you an example now

i thought for today we can do a few examples of this

and i want to show you

and demonstrate to you how this could work for you okay

so let's have a go at this first one here

and this first question says talk for 10 minutes on one

question what makes a good life now i'm going to keep

an eye on my vocab list at the bottom here uh what you know

so before i answer So I'm going to try and think what words might be useful.

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I might come up with for, pray to, and groggy.

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I'm going to try and use these words.

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So, okay, what makes a good life?

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Let me talk.

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I'm not going to talk for 10 minutes, probably, but let me just have a go.

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Give you an example so in my opinion there are many things

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that can contribute to a good life i believe

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that a good life is often one that has uh

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that is focused on health so

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if you look after your body then you will have a better life

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if you feel good and you look good especially feel is more important then I believe you can have a good life.

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If you exercise and you walk every day,

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if you avoid junk food and you eat relatively healthily,

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I believe these things can have a huge impact on your life.

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I also think similarly, sleep has a big impact as well.

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Just the quality of your sleep really affects how you feel the next day.

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If you don't have a good night's sleep you will wake up feeling very groggy.

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Groggy is that grumpy feeling in the morning when you're sleepy.

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If you can get your sleep to a healthy level you will wake up feeling good.

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Actually I forgot to start recording so let me record here.

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It's recording me now but yeah you will wake up feeling good and not groggy if you get a good night's sleep.

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And I just know from personal experience, if I don't sleep well,

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I feel miserable for the whole day.

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So that definitely has a huge impact on a good life.

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I also think two big things that come to mind are hobbies and social connection.

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So to tackle the first one, if you don't have any hobbies,

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I don't see how you could live a meaningful, fulfilled life.

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Just doing things that you love that make you happy every day, to me, that plays a huge role in my enjoyment of life.

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And I would say.. if I ever feel sad, it might be because I don't have enough hobbies.

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So that could be one possible reason for not having a good life.

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And as I said, loneliness could be another one.

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So social connection is hugely important.

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If you are surrounded by friends and family, this can make you feel happy and satisfied.

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However, if you are isolated, you don't have good friends

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and you spend a lot of time on your own i

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think over time this can have a bad effect on you

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and people who fall prey to this kind of temptation of

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spending time alone will end up being less happy right

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so fall prey to something is another one of my new words i wanted to practice

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but to fall prey to is to be a victim to something to accidentally have something happen

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so i fell prey to

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not making friends it's very easy not to make friends

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and live a life alone but this is something we should avoid

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and not let that not let that problem overtake us

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so there we go there was my answer

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if i stop recording here i can i can save it

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and it takes a second yeah then it says saved nice work today and then if I go to my archive page

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I can see the question and my answer is here

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and the date right so this also allows me to go back through time

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and hopefully see my improvements

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so let's imagine I'm doing this for one year i can listen to my answer today

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and to my answer one year ago and hopefully i can hear

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that difference i can see or hear the improvements in my speaking

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and i think

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that will be really motivating once you start to hear your

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confidence growing i've only been doing this for a few days myself

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so i haven't got to that point yet

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but i really hope that's going to be a factor in the future as well.

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And by the way, if you stick around until the end of this episode, I will tell you how you can make your own website like this for yourself.

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I'll explain more about that at the end.

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And if some of you may already be quite familiar with how to use AI and technical stuff like this, but maybe some of you are not.

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So I'll try to explain it at the end of this episode.

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And just for this example, I've also allowed myself to go through different days.

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So if we go through to tomorrow we can have a look at tomorrow's prompt here so

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if i wake up tomorrow this would be what it said

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describe your ideal day what time do you wake up where do you go what makes it enjoyable hmm

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so this one is a little bit easier than before perhaps but describe your ideal day.

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I might want to use come up with for this one and astounded.

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So let's use these two in this answer.

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So start recording here.

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So while thinking about what my perfect day would look like, quite a few things are coming to me.

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It's difficult to come up with, that means think about a perfect day because I have

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so many different ideas in my mind of what could contribute to

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that perfect day but to get more specific I think I would wake up quite early

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because recently I have found that you know waking up early makes my day feel longer and therefore I can extract,

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take more happiness out of my day.

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In fact when I first started waking up early I was astounded by just how much I could achieve in the day.

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Astounded means surprised.

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I was really astounded by just how much I accomplished in one day

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and I realized before I was just sleeping too much

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and therefore I didn't have enough time to do everything I wanted to do

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so I would definitely wake up early

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and in regards to where I would go I might like

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to explore some new area for me seeing something different having

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a new environment is a big part in the enjoyment of

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my day it plays a big role in how much I enjoy the day

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so I probably would just pick somewhere on the map where I haven't explored before and see what it's like.

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It's a bit of a mystery of course because it might be terrible

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and boring and ugly but it also might be beautiful and peaceful. and exciting.

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So I don't know what I'm expecting, but I think the surprise is part of the excitement to me.

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And yeah, what makes it enjoyable?

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Well, I kind of already explained that the unknown aspect of where I'm going is what makes it enjoyable.

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But I think the key thing is that I'm doing something new and I'm doing it with people I like.

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I know that sounds simple, but I think at the end of the day

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if you're surrounded by friends

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that you enjoy spending time with you will have a good day

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so yeah that could be my answer there stop recording save recording

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if we go back to the archive now you will see Thursday

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and Friday both of these recordings are archived and recorded there

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and I don't know about you

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but for me recording my practice really makes a big difference

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so the reason why I made this website is

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because I was just kind of talking to myself before I would sit down on my at my desk

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and I would look at some words I want to practice

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or maybe some grammar and I would just talk I would talk on my own

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and there would be no way to record it

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and even though this might be quite useful I just found

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it it felt very pointless it felt very silly I'm just talking to myself

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and there's no way to show how I've spent my time I don't know

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if you agree with me

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but for some reason recording my practice in like this kind

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of an archive of everything I do how much time I'm spending on it this really helps motivate me

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because i can see how much work i've put into it

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and it's also nice to track each day as well

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so there's something about

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that for me that's just recording what i'm doing is more motivating maybe you feel the same

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and if so

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if you are like me maybe you can think about other ways you can record what you do i think

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when it comes to language study i tend to record everything

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so I've got data on everything I do and

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that makes it more motivating for me to continue

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but yeah maybe that's just me but I wonder if

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if other people are the same as well let me know

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if you are let's go to Saturday now well actually no this will go ahead so this might be Monday now Anyway,

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it doesn't really matter.

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But the next day says, tell the story of a memorable trip.

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What happened?

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Why do you still remember it?

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And what would you do differently now?

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By the way, I should say, all of these questions, they're not my questions.

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I just asked Claude to give a list of questions.

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I think I described what kind of questions to use, like kind of just give everyday questions

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that would be useful in a prompt not too easy not too difficult

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and this is these are the questions

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that claude came up with all on its own i didn't give any really ideas

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or examples so it's quite impressive that it's got a huge list of questions

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and i suppose eventually i'm going to finish all of them

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and at that point i can just give another message to Claude and ask for some more questions, maybe 100 more questions for the next 100 days.

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That should take a few seconds, right?

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So yeah, to me, this is a very effective way to use AI.

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Let's continue until I've finished all of my new words.

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So a memorable trip, I want to use flabbergasted and irate.

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These are both adjectives here.

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Okay, start recording.

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today i want to talk about a memorable trip

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that i have taken and the first one

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that comes to my mind is one of my probably my most recent trip besides going back to the uk

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and that was my trip to south korea now the reason this was memorable for me is

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because i embarked on a big adventure my goal was to

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cycle from Seoul in the north to Busan in the south

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and I can cut to the end of the story now

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I was successful I successfully crossed the entire country by bicycle

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and of course it goes without saying

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that this was a memorable trip what happened on the trip

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you might be wondering well it's hard to summarize in just a few

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sentences because so many things happened it was a huge adventure

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but basically I woke up every day and I got on my bike

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and I cycled according to the plan

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that I had made before the plan I had the route on my phone

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and there were a few things

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that surprised me about South Korea i think one thing where

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i felt kind of flabbergasted is just how empty the country

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seemed i flabbergasted it's a very funny word to me

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but it kind of just means yeah really surprised or shocked

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or amazed i flabbergasted whoa that's incredible um it's quite strong word

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so maybe it's not really appropriate here

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but i was really flabbergasted i was like speechless with shock almost

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so yeah maybe it's too strong for this example but anyway I want to talk about

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when I think of South Korea I think of you know

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Seoul a big city like many Asian countries I think of like a big population like you might in China

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or Japan you know lots of people in in one place

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but what really surprised me was just how rural the country

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seemed you know as I cycled through I didn't see

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that many towns or cities there was so much countryside

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so many mountains and forests and that was a big shock to me

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and the reason why I remember it now is firstly

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because it was still quite a recent trip

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so it's still somewhat fresh in my mind but I think also

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because it was so different it's not every day you cycle across a whole country

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and for that reason it's something that I doubt I will be forgetting very soon.

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What would I do differently now, you ask?

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That's a good question.

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What would I do differently now?

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Let me have a think about it.

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I would say one area that I wasn't totally prepared for was the food aspect.

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There were some days where it was very difficult to find food again

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because it was so rural and I found myself getting more

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and more grumpy because as I ran out of food I would get angry

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and I'd have to work really hard and say something went wrong I would just get really irate.

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Irate means angry by the way.

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I would get really irate.

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So say I was cycling, I got off my bike and then the pedal hit my shin, it hit my leg and it really hurt.

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If I felt normal, if I had breakfast and I had lunch, I wasn't hungry, I would be like, ouch, that hurts, that's painful.

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But because I was so hungry, I got really irate and I got really angry because not only was I in pain,

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but I was also very hungry as well

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and i think i know you can relate to

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that feeling right it's a horrible feeling so

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if i could go back in time i would probably prepare some more food to bring

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and that would allow me to keep going despite uh despite the hunger

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and also also some more water bottles as well okay you know how it works now as you can see

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if you do it every day you will have that streak here.

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I did notice that it has included Saturday, which I think is something I would need to fix on my website

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because I decided I don't want to study on Saturday.

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So that's a problem, but it's only an example today, isn't it?

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And then once again on the archive page, I now have some nice history here that I can compare to.

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But yeah, I think that's basically it.

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Oh, Also, I had ponder.

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So, OK, let me do 30 seconds more.

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Talk about a mistake that you made. So ponder.

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Hmm.

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OK, let me ponder this question for a while.

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Hmm.

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Ponder means think about, think about something.

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If I really ponder on this question, I might talk about the time where I booked,

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I missed my flight and I had to pay for a new flight home

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that was a very big mistake that I won't be making again

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if you want to hear more mistakes

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that I've made recently I actually did record a full private podcast all about this last week

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so you can hear my episode on mistakes on levelupenglish .school

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but yeah anyway that's basically it

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so it's quite a simple episode today I wanted to showcase my idea to practice your speaking

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and let me know what you think.

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this is the part now where I can kind of tell you how you can make this yourself

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so as I said I used Claude sometimes I do pay for Claude you can pay monthly

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or annually and I do find it is useful

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if you're building a big website

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if you're just building one web page like this I think

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you can use it for free probably at the moment

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and it might you know you might use up your usage message temporarily

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but then if you wait six hours you can send another message and try again

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and yeah I think you can probably make it for free again

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if you do it correctly it might just take five messages to get the final code

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so it will make a code for you

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that you can use on a website

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and this code can be opened on your computer

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but i think one thing we want to do is make sure you can save your data

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so my website is also saving my vocabulary it's also saving my streak

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and more importantly my audio files of course these audio files take up space

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so because of that i've hosted it on my website

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but what some of you may not know is you can get a free hosting platform so

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if it's only for personal use there are some places where

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you can make a website maybe you can just type in something like make website for free online

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and you can sign up and you don't have to pay for any host

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or any domain name you don't need to have you know michael .com for example i don't have

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that on mine it's just a random

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a few letters and numbers

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but yeah i think there are some services where you can do it for free

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and then you can host it on their website and

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if you're not using too much memory you should be able

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to do it for free on some of them i mean this is also another thing

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that honestly you could ask ai as well

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so once you've made the website you could say now can

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you tell me can you explain very very simply how can i host this website

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so i can use it for personal use i think you would have to make it clear

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that i don't want to share it with anyone i don't

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need it to be public i i'm going to be the only user

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but i need the data to be saved every time i visit

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so that's what you need to say and yeah

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if you do get confused i think ai should be able to help with

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that as well

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so I know some of you I'm sure you can make

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a website many of you can't that's why I'm trying to

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explain it in a way to those of you who who don't know how really

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but I think a lot of you would be surprised just how easy this would be

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so for me I already have a website host

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that I pay for of course because I host Level Up English my main website

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so I'm just kind of using a different website on the same host for this kind of personal private one

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and that works well for me but yeah i haven't paid anything to make this

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and i do think there are ways we could improve it too i always think

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when it comes to language learning there's almost like a balance

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between how much time you want to spend on setting up your learning materials

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and how much time you should actually spend learning.

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Now, you could spend a long time buying a comfortable chair, a desk, getting loads of notebooks, making the perfect study environment.

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But of course, in that time, you're not studying at all.

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It's kind of wasting time.

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So there's definitely a balance here.

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You want to have something that you can use, but don't fall into the trap or don't fall prey to wasting time on things

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that aren't so important but if i'm looking at this website maybe one area

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that could be added i think could be quite fun

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and motivating is a bit of uh what could we say it's kind of like gamification

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or some more statistics that are recorded like imagine a thing at the top

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that said you know this year you have spoken english for five hours

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and you oh that's nice and maybe there's a goal

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that says you know speak for 50 hours in one year that's one hour a week roughly

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so that would be a good goal

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and then you can see your progress as you work towards

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that goal that could be a really fun addition to motivate you to work a bit harder

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and you know what just came to my mind what would be really fun is

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if you could publish this website and share it with friends.

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That would be amazing, right?

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Imagine you could do this

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and you can compete with your friends to see who has done the most speaking practice in the week.

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Maybe that's a bit too complicated

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but I think there are many ways you could improve it

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with just a few messages you can make a website that works for you.

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But I guess the final thing I'll say is it doesn't have to be this technical.

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If some of you are very kind of anti -AI

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or you're just not good with this stuff at all then of course you can do it manually.

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What I used to do is just record on my phone

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and store all of my recordings in a folder on my computer

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that was kind of the basic way this way is just a bit more streamlined

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which means kind of faster and tidier basically there are different ways you could do it

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but for those who don't know i just wanted to share

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that method today of using ai to benefit your own learning

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but yeah i think i'll end my rant there about ai i hope you found that useful

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and i do want to share one thank you now to

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olive in the uk i wonder where olive is i wonder where you're

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when you wait where are you writing from olive

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but anyway olive left a lovely review on apple podcasts

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and it reads i listen to this podcast regularly on my way to the office it helps a lot

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and that would be good to do more episodes such as 388

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or UK slang

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so I can use it in daily life in the UK

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thanks well thank you very much I'm glad to hear

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that you like it and it's a nice uh addition on your commute

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so hello Olive on your commute but yeah I'm really glad

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that you find it useful and I like the suggestion about UK slang

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i will consider that for a future episode i'll write it down

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and see what i can do soon

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so thank you very much for your review as well

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and i also have a quote here from brian tracy

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and this is one of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well

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that need not be done at all this is quite a cool one

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so it's such a waste of time to be really good at something

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that doesn't need to be done what a waste that is

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so yeah that could be relevant to today i think don't waste all your time on stuff

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that isn't actually helping you maybe for some of you making this website would be one of them anyway well

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if you want to hear more from me this week i'm

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going to be doing more speaking prompts on the private podcast i'm going to be talking about some random questions

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and answering them myself and hopefully this will give you some ideas on questions

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that you could answer in your own english speaking practice as well

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of course you can always submit your practice on the website too

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if you want to get feedback from me so once again

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if you want to hear the private podcast go to levelupenglish .school click join become a member

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “How to Improve Your English Speaking”. This video has 434 sentences and 5324 words to shadow. The speech runs for 33:21. The speaker talks at a natural 160 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 86% 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

The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
archive noun	/ˈɑɹˌkaɪv/	A repository or other place for storing material (such as documents and records) no longer in current use, and usually having historical value.
flabbergast verb	/ˈflæbɚˌɡæst/	To overwhelm with bewilderment; to amaze, confound, or stun, especially in a ludicrous manner.
motivate verb	/ˈmoʊ.tɪ.veɪt/	To provide someone with an incentive to do something; to encourage; to actuate.
prompt verb	/pɹɑmpt/	To lead (someone) toward what they should say or do.
podcast noun	/ˈpɑdˌkæst/	A program, especially an audio program, produced on a regular basis, delivered over the Internet in a compressed digital format and designed for playback on…
astound verb	/əˈstaʊnd/	To astonish, bewilder or dazzle.
irate adjective	/aɪˈɹeɪt/	Extremely angry; wrathful; enraged.
ponder verb	/ˈpɑn.dəɹ/	To wonder, think of deeply.
memorable adjective	/ˈmɛm.(ə)ɹə.bl̩/	Worthy to be remembered; very important or remarkable.
prey noun	/pɹeɪ/	That which is or may be seized by animals to be devoured.
streak noun	/stɹiːk/	An irregular line, as is left from smearing or motion.
olive noun	/ˈɑ.lɪv/	A tree of species Olea europaea cultivated since ancient times in the Mediterranean for its fruit and the oil obtained from it.
groggy adjective	/ˈɡɹɑ.ɡi/	Slowed or weakened, as by drink, sleepiness, etc.
tweak noun	/twiːk/	A sharp pinch or jerk; a twist or twitch.
enjoyable adjective	/ɛnˈd͡ʒɔɪ.ə.bl̩/	Pleasant, capable of giving pleasure.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
wake up verb	/ˌweɪk ˈʌp/	To stop sleeping; to awake.
come up with verb		To manage to produce, deliver, or present (something) by inventing, creating, thinking of, or obtaining it.
go back to verb		To stem from; to originate in.
end up verb		To bring to a conclusion.
get off verb		To move from being on top of (something) to not being on top of it.
go ahead verb	/ˌɡoʊ əˈhɛd/	To proceed with; to begin.
go back verb		To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time.
go through verb		To travel from one end of something to the other.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

To be honest, I haven't made this public yet.
I'm going to try and use these words.
Why do you still remember it?
What would I do differently now, you ask?
What would I do differently now?

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 i wake up tomorrow this would be
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on	I've been practicing · I've been working · it's been working
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	haven't made · haven't decided · have recorded
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	can be seen · are surrounded · are isolated

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 106 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: shin /ʃɪn/, temptation /ˌtɛmpˈteɪʃən/, showcase /ˈʃoʊˌkeɪs/, accomplish /əˈkɑm.plɪʃ/, publish /ˈpʌblɪʃ/
Long words — get the stress right: vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, manually /ˈmænj(u)əliː/, temporarily /ˌtɛmpəˈɹɛɹəli/, miserable /ˈmɪz(ə)ɹəbəl/, importantly /ɪmˈpɔɹ.tənt.li/

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 archive, flabbergast, motivate.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

Key vocabulary in this video

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Sentences worth repeating

Grammar in this video

Pronunciation to watch

How to practise with this video

What is the Shadowing Technique?