Shadowing Practice: Our Recent Issues With Soccer (Kenjumboy - Talk to myself #6) - Learn English Speaking with YouTube
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Hey, what's up guys?
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And welcome back to another episode of Talk to Myself.
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so yes it's a new background just move in
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so it's gonna be quite new for you guys to watch
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but for me it's been it's been two weeks now since I've moved in
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so now in this episode i'm not going to be talking about any topic
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that i've picked from the comment section from the last video
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but today i'm going to be talking about a topic
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which i've seen on the internet recently
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so before i get into the topic i'd like to start off by saying
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that i am not a soccer fan i don't watch soccer
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that much but i watch soccer just to support the vietnamese soccer team recently so
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If you watch this video then it would have been two weeks since our last match with UAE
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So it's been quite long but anyway So after
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that match I've seen a lot of posts
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and articles about how a lot of agitated fans coming to the referee profile page
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and start saying some really rude things or really mean things about him,
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about his culture, about his countries and all that
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So I just think that it is not a cool thing to do Because first of all,
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it is his culture, you have to respect it If it was us who was being attacked like that,
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we would not be able to handle that, would we?
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So if you do that to him,
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then it's not cool either It's his culture,
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it's his country, and if you start saying some really rude things about it,
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it's not cool You know what I mean?
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Now I understand that you're frustrated understand
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that you feel like it's not fair for the referee to didn't give the penalty to our team
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but It is not cool for you to go to his profile page and say those really mean things to him
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Because he's a human being too.
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He has feelings too I mean
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if it was you you wouldn't be able to handle 100
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people you know attacking you at once let alone thousands
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and thousands of people from a different country start going onto your profile page
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and start saying some really mean things about you
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and your country right
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so you have to understand for him you have to respect him a little bit
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if you want to make your point clear instead of having
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to be violent you can just you know lay out like an article like give points
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and you know some clue about what you think is wrong
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for him to read maybe i'll sort something out we don't know
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but you know it's better than being toxic you know what i mean now i'm not saying this
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because i don't love my country i do love my country don't get me wrong
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but i just feel like it's it's better not to do that because Say if you be toxic towards him, right?
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And a lot of people from foreign country will look at us as toxic fans.
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And it'll not show that we love a country.
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It's more like we're humiliating our country, right?
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Because foreign country will look at us as toxic fans and they'll not like it.
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Now think about our soccer team, okay?
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Think about them.
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If they go home after that match and then they heard
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that a lot of Vietnamese fans and being agitated and being toxic towards the referee
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and foreign countries didn't like
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that then they would be stressed out too they don't want
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their soccer fan to be toxic you know what i mean
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so try to be chill out a bit and there's
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so many things you can do instead of having to go
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and you know be toxic towards referee and all
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that another thing is our soccer team has done so well
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so well like have you seen like the old matches like from 2009
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or something i don't know because i don't watch football
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but like back then we wouldn't be able to win anything right
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but these recent matches and the match in 2019 or something like against quarter or something
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they were so well they were doing so well they have improved a lot
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and we we just have to we just have to be
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proud of them you know be happy with what we have like we we've done
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so well man
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so we just you know we they've improved a lot we
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should be proud of them we should be happy for them
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so we just have to baby step our way into world cup
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and eventually we'll win so yeah it's it's okay to lose sometimes it's okay to lose from
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that loss we learn something and then we improve it
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and then we can achieve the better version of ourselves that's
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what I'm trying to say now I'm not saying this
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because I don't want you guys to do things I'm just giving you advices just
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so you guys can think about you know what you should do and all that because everything
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depends on you not me okay I'm just saying here
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so I'm just trying to give you some advices just you know things
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that I think should not do because it's not cool
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so yeah I think that's it for this video thank you guys
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so much for watching live like you did subscribe for more and I'll see you in the next video.
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Stay fabulous.
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Bye.
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Context & Background
In this video titled "Our Recent Issues With Soccer," the speaker shares personal insights while addressing the ongoing frustrations expressed by soccer fans regarding referee decisions. Although not a die-hard soccer enthusiast, the speaker engages in the topic to support their local team and highlight the often toxic environment that ensues after matches. Through their narrative, viewers gain a glimpse into the cultural implications of sportsmanship and online behavior, emphasizing the importance of respect in all communications.
Top 5 Phrases for Daily Communication
- “It is not cool to…” – A phrase used to express disapproval of negative actions.
- “You have to respect…” – This phrase highlights the need for respect, especially concerning cultural differences.
- “I understand that you’re frustrated…” – Acknowledging someone's feelings can help maintain a constructive dialogue.
- “If it were us…” – This conditional phrasing encourages empathy by putting oneself in another’s position.
- “It’s been quite long…” – A casual way to indicate a passage of time, useful in everyday conversation.
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