Shadowing Practice: I'm moving to Canada - Learn English Speaking with Video

Where am I right now?

I can tell you where I'm not.

I'm not in England.

I'm not in England anymore.

Hi guys, welcome to another episode of the English podcast.

This is a podcast for English learners to practice their listening comprehension with me, Evie,

an English teacher from the UK but we're not in the UK anymore

and that is what we are going to be chatting about today.

Before we get started though with the podcast I have a little drink.

This is a San Pellegrino, I don't know, orange and pomegranate flavour.

I was panicking then because it says the name in Italian.

In this podcast episode, I'm going to explain what is going on.

Why have I left the UK?

What is going to happen to us, to you and me on this channel?

What's going to happen to us? Where is Wilson?

Where is my dog?

I'm going to explain it all

so grab a drink it's going to be fun chatty catch up with me

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so i i'm gonna address like the big question first

and then um on my ipad i have like made a

few questions like made i've like written a few questions down

that i think you guys will be probably asking

so first of all like what has happened what has happened

i have left the uk i'm not in the uk right now um i'm actually in Canada.

And I have been in Canada now for five days.

Five days.

And I am going to be here for two years.

This is, I don't know if two years counts as like a permanent mood, move.

I guess it's just a it's like a long -term move for me basically

and this has been something

that I have been planning to do since I think about March

which is before my YouTube channel like no one was watching

me basically I've like had this plan I've been thinking about it

and I wanted to explain a little bit the reason why.

In order to explain why I moved I think I need to explain to you a little bit about my background.

So I am from a place in the UK called Cornwall

and if you know what that is it's probably

because you watch my YouTube videos and if you don't know what that is or you don't watch my YouTube videos,

then honestly, don't worry about it because no one knows where it is.

It's basically a really, really rural part of the UK.

I'm from a really small village.

Um, when I went to school, for example, in primary school, there were four people in my year like everyone in my

village is my cousin like that's just I'm from a really really small area of the UK

and when I turned 18 I knew

that I wanted to get as far away as I possibly could

and I went to university in London I went to the London School of Economics

and I started my degree in international history and I loved it

and I was in London and I knew

that I would never move back home I would never go

back to Cornwall during the third year of my degree in London I had the opportunity to study abroad

and I went to California San Diego I went to the University of California San Diego

and I loved it even more I loved being away from the UK

and I just knew that I could move to any country

and make a life for myself like

that was a really big thing for me to just leave everything

and everyone and know that I can go to a new place

and be okay that was huge for me so when I finished my degree I said, I want to travel.

I either want to go to Mexico City or Sweden.

And I went to Sweden.

I spent about six months in Sweden during 2025, so last year.

And I was there from, I was there from like September until the end of January

or something like this

and uh I loved it again I moved to a new city I made new friends

and it was just awesome

and um you know that's just what I am like I

like traveling I like new experiences I like meeting new people I really really want to see the world

and actually that's why I became an English teacher in the

first place um being an English teacher is kind of the

job for people who like just want to travel basically

so that's why I started English teaching

and then I ended up just like absolutely loving the job

and I was making like no money

and I was like how can I do this

and actually make a living off it

because I just wasn't making enough I was literally making like minimum wage not even

and um I wanted to to do it as a as a career

so it was so I could travel it was

so I could teach and um this has always been my goal

or at least it has been my goal for the last like year basically

and I'm really really fortunate that my YouTube channel blew up can I say

that can I say that about my own channel can I say

that like but it did right like you know my channel kind of blew up

and um now YouTube is my job and English teaching is my job

and that is like amazing and it means that I can move anywhere

and do anything that I want well maybe I can't do anything I want

but I can travel anywhere so that was great and I was in this position where I could work from anywhere.

So after I left Sweden, I was living at home.

And that's when I started my YouTube channel.

And that's why I have been filming in Cornwall, because I was basically living with my parents, like I was living at my mom's house.

I was living with my mom.

Anyway, so I moved back home to my mom's house.

And, you know, none of my friends live in my hometown really like all of my friends went to university in London

and have since moved abroad like my friends live in New York

and Paris and some of them are in London

and my boyfriend doesn't live in Cornwall he's not even British like he's never lived in the UK

so I really didn't have anything we say tying me down I had nothing tying me down

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so you tie something with rope, right?

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It's like a knot.

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Nothing was tying me down to the UK.

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And when my boyfriend moved to Canada, I decided that I'm going to move as well.

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You know, me and my boyfriend, we've been together for about two and a half years now.

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And we have been in a long distance relationship for most of that time.

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We have lived together, but for most of that relationship, we have been long distance so I decided that

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because I am very lucky and I work remotely

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that I would apply for a visa and

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that I would move to Canada and

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that is exactly what I have done I have been filming I want to say the entire process

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but I will be honest I have like forgotten to film a lot

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or not forgotten

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but I've been really jet -lagged really really jet -lagged from the time difference between Canada

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and the UK so I have been filming

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and next week will be a vlog all about my first week living here in Canada

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and I'm really excited to edit

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that I think it's going to be a really fun video

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so I hope that you stick around for that and I figured

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that now would be a really good time to maybe answer some questions

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that I think you guys are going to have probably about my experience and moving here and everything like this.

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First of all where is Wilson?

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If you don't know who Wilson is, Wilson is my dog.

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Wilson is a sausage dog.

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He's a dash hound, miniature dash hound.

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And he features in basically, I won't say all of my videos, but I think he's in, he's in a lot of them.

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At least he's usually barking in them.

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Barking in the background and being like annoying.

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Wilson is not with me.

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There's a couple of reasons for this.

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One, Wilson is the family dog uh he's the dog of my family

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so we got Wilson when I was 14 years old

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and he is now 11 okay he's now nearly 11 um

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and he did not come with me to university he did not come with me to California

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because my mom is Wilson's favorite person in the world like really Wilson is the family dog

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but the person that he loves is my mom

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and I think my mom would actually kill me

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if I took Wilson like

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if I took Wilson to Canada oh my god I my

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mom would be with me like the only way to bring Wilson would be to bring my mom

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and that's not happening I love my mom

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but that's not happening um the other thing is one of my students told me

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because she one of my students has a dog and

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when she goes on holiday she brings her dog with her

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which is so cool first of all um the dog has been to more countries than me

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and uh she told me that I could bring Wilson on a plane

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because if your dog weighs less than seven kilograms so

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if your dog weighs less than seven kilograms the dog can

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go with you in the plane they do not have to

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go in the hold like with the suitcases they can go with you

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and they have to go in a bag underneath the seat in front of you

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but they have to weigh seven kilograms or less now as a miniature sausage dog should weigh between

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five what's the weight let me see right it says here

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a fully grown adult miniature dash hound should ideally weigh under 5 kg

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and Wilson weighs about 7 .6 the last time

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that we weighed him it does say here though

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that there is a healthy range between 4 .5 kg

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and 7 .2 depending on their individual frame Wilson weighs about 7 .6 kilograms um

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because Wilson is just a chunky boy he's just chunky okay he's chunky he lives well he eats well

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and he's happy okay we walk Wilson every single day um

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and sometimes he eats a little bit of cheese and that is fine okay he's very very healthy

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but he's too heavy to go in the seat in front of me

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and we're not you know putting him in the hold

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if he went into the hold I genuinely believe he would die of like fright of fear um

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so Wilson is at home in the UK I know some

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of you will be interested in like the visa process for me

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so I'm here on like a working holiday visa basically

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and it lasts for two years

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but you can also extend it to three years for now I do not have plans to be here forever

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but you never know you never know what might happen you know um there are many things

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that I am like afraid of uh to be honest this move has been really stressful

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and I have been very stressed

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because it's just it's just a lot like you know a

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big part of my income is YouTube um I I know

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that you actually think that YouTubers make loads of money

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but I actually don't make loads of money like I I do not make enough on YouTube to live actually. So I still teach.

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I teach English.

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I have like one -on -one classes with people

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and it's been really difficult because I have spent like several months working with the same students.

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We have class every week or twice a week at the same time and the time difference between

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West Canada and East Asia and also West Canada

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and Europe it sucks like it fucking sucks like for me

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to speak to my students in Korea I have a lot

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of students in Korea some students in China the time difference is bloody awful unless I work weekends um

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and then my students have to have class on a weekend, which, you know, people kind of want to hang out and like have fun on the weekend.

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Like I know, I hope my classes are fun, but like people, you don't want a class at 1pm on a Saturday,

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you know, especially as I work with people like business people.

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I teach English more specifically to like people who are professionals, like white collar professionals.

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And these people like brother they all work like crazy

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and they don't want to be talking to me on a

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Saturday fair enough it's fair enough okay I'm not I don't

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blame them actually some of my students are now talking to me on a Saturday

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but so it's been really difficult arranging like a new schedule

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and basically now I've I've changed my teaching schedule

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so I'm gonna start teaching at like 7 a .m from Canada

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which is like fine at the moment because I'm jet lagged but I'm a little bit worried about that in the future.

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I'm also really worried about making friends because moving abroad is just

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so scary because you really do leave behind absolutely everyone um

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and all of those support networks are gone

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and I think for some people it's really easy to make new friends

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and meet new people it's not that easy for me um

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and it's not because like I am not chatty like I'm chatty

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but I am not very good at going to the places

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where I would meet someone to be friends with I'm fine once I start talking to someone

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or like if we're in the same place

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but I'm not very good at like joining clubs like I don't really do clubs

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and I don't do any sports

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so it's kind of you know unless I like approach somebody at a cafe which is probably

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unnerving maybe it's not maybe but then I overthink it right

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so I just don't do it and um I sometimes think you know

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when I move to a new place trying to create like a new friend group

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and a new support network is quite it's quite difficult for me like I find that challenging

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um you know it's okay I think I hope I'll be fine

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but I am worried about

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that at the moment it it makes me feel like scared

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I feel scared to have like no friends with me like I have friends

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but they're they're not here another question

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that I thought would be interesting to answer is what will

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I miss the most about the UK obviously my friends obviously

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Wilson like I already miss him I know I complain about him barking

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but he's like the best co -worker ever he just sits next to me

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and like chills um something I really think I'm going

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to miss about the UK is oh I've got it um oh my god

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that actually took me so long

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the supermarkets like I I find it very exciting to go

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to a new supermarket in a new country like actively I

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love it like I actually love going to a new supermarket uh

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but also like they just have different things here oh you know what I miss cheese like the cheese in America

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continent American continent like it's just not good like in the UK we have the best cheese cheddar cheese

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so good I feel like Wallace and Gromit um

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do you know what Wallace

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and Gromit is it's like a it's like a cartoon in the UK but I'm gonna miss the cheese.

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And I'm going to miss the vegetarian protein because here in Canada,

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do vegetarians like not exist or do they starve or what?

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Because I went to the supermarket.

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Tell me why the only thing there is like, there's like three packs, three packs of like medium firm tofu.

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And there are hot dogs vegetarian hot dogs

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and nothing else like nothing else but also

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that sucks like in the UK the vegetarian food aisle is

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massive like it's massive you can eat anything we have vegetarian

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fish vegetarian chicken done like 27 different ways it is

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so easy to be a vegetarian in the UK

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and actually I think the UK

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and the Netherlands are the best countries to be vegetarian in

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if anyone here is Dutch I bet there are not many Dutch people here

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because the Dutch have amazing English not not that you don't have amazing English but I don't think

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I don't think many Dutch people watch my videos I've never seen the Netherlands in my audience analytics

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if you're Dutch please comment I would love to know you're

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here the Dutch have good vegetarian food Sweden had pretty good

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vegetarian food like it was fine Spain they're like halfway Spain is fine

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because they have such good like vegetables that I don't care um

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but America America America was really bad and I lived in California

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which is like you know apparently the land of veganism

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and like LA it's actually difficult to be vegan in LA that's shocking um

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but Canada is even bloody worse so if any of you are here

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and you're vegetarian and you know where to buy like vegetarian protein in Canada please tell me because I'm gonna like

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i can't just eat tofu forever tofu

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and eggs like i can't i actually had already announced my move last week over on my school

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which i'm using kind of like a patreon um

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but i also run live events there as well for people

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who are learning english we have a book club um i

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post native speed podcast extensions as well we have some grammar videos up there as well

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if you want like a grammar course but the option is there for you

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if you would like we also have like live speaking events

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so if you want to practice speaking in English then you can join along as well

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that is going to be linked down in the description anyway

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I think that's probably like all of the at least the questions I can think of

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if you have any more comments then just like comment comment down below

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but we have loads of fun things planned for the future I have lots of vlogs planned now

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that I've finally like moved

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and I have more time to edit I'm I'm gonna film

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some more vlogs um my first week in Canada is coming next week probably hopefully it will it will

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and yeah thank you

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so very much for watching I will see you in the next video next week on friday see you then

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