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Hello guys

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Welcome to my channel

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I have a guest today

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Her name is Daria

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And we actually studied at the same school

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And now working together

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And she's in Linguatrip as well

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And if you're calling us sometimes

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You probably talking to her

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And Daria is also

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bilingual, trilingual

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She speaks Russian, English and Spanish

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And today I wanted to ask her tips and tricks

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how she learns Spanish

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because it took her a little time to learn it

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And now she's proficient

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And she's going to share her experience with us

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You started learning Spanish when you went to University, right?

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Yeah

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16, 17 something like this

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And this was your second foreign language

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after English

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Tell me when did you feel that

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your Spanish is getting better

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and you actually can start speaking Spanish

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Well, maybe it was after half a year

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Firstly because when you're in the university

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you start with

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you start with

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phonetics

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some theoretical things

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Actual speaking starts a little bit later.

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It took me half a year just not to be shy

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because when for example you speak one foreign language

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at rather good level as English for example

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it's impossible for you to understand O my God

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I'm starting to learn a new language

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and I'm so rabish

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I make stupid mistakes

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I'll rather keep shut up

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It was a little bit difficult

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After a half a year it was okay for me

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Then I went to Spain

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for a language course

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Something changes in your mind

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when you can go to a country where you can actually speak language

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And then there was no problem

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Okay

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You learned Spanish for a year

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and then you realised you wouldn't be able to improve it

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Well, I had an experience of a language exchange program

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with English

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Something really changes in your head

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when you speak English in native country

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I decided maybe it would be the same thing with Spanish

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My groupmates and I

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decided to go to Spain to improve our Spanish

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break this barrier

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And it helped actually

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You took 3 week course

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It was something like a 3 week course

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Not much but it really helped

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because on the third day you realise that you

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you're not translation from Russian into Spanish

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 But you actually talk

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like a normal human being

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and when you're surrounded by people who speak Spanish

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you just think a little bit in a different way

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it really helped

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From the 3 day it worked okay

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When you came back, what did you do to improve your language?

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Was it just university?

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University and watching movies in Spanish

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watching serials

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reading books as well

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Great tip was watching euro news

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Euro news has a website in all the languages possible

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I watched it in Spanish

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Then I read just the Spanish transcript

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If there were some things I didn't understand

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I could put on Russian version

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That's it

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Many people who think that news produced by their own country

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somehow biest

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expresses a different point of view

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you can just watch in other language

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Yeah, cool

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Can you recommend any films that you watched?

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Some my university works

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on movies

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I watched lots of

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but in Russia we have

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google it

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I like the movie  Azuloscurocasinegro

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What else?

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You can just google film director, I don't remember him

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You'll find lots of movies

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he made and we'll post it below

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If you have a movie already translated into

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your native language

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If you watch it in your native language

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you can just watch it in Spanish as well

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If it was Spanish originally

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Some people find it easier to watch like if you're American

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and you have an American film translated into Spanish

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The translation will be easier

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They'll use like American idioms, phrases

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translated into Spanish

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and try any tv series that you watch now

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and watch them in Spanish

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because the culture will be familiar, I think

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Or you can watch Spanish serials as well

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They're not so nice but

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What did I watch?

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The website is telecinco

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It's a Spanish channel

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They have lots of serials, you can choose what you want

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And antenna free I guess

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Something like this

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You can google it, download and watch online

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And there are torrents

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It's not good to say it

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We'll cut it out

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Okay, you can just download that

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Okay, you know how

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If somebody wants to go to Spain

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or Mexico, that would be a different language?

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It would be a different accent I'd say

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That's important when you go to the classroom

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with teachers and everybody

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they speak to you in castellano

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That's Spanish that is spoken in Madrid

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just the central part

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the right one

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In Mexico, no

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If you're talking about Spain, yeah

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In Spain teachers have a standardized version of Spanish

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In Mexico or Latin America

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that would be different

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They have their own not only accent

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but the version of language

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When I worked with Spanish language

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I was translating I don't remember the country

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it was some serial from Latin America

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And were moments like "what the hell is that?"

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I contacted my friend from Spain

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like I have a problem with my work and need help

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what does it mean?

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He said: "I have no idea".

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Just google it please

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Maybe there is some different between

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Spanish in Spain and Spanish in Latin America

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That's not great. If you want to improve your language

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just some skills and some vocabulary

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any destination you like

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If you're in Europe

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of course it'll be easier for you to go to Spain

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In you're in other parts of the world

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Maybe Latin America

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That's really no difference

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If you're in the States, go to Miami

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or to San Francisco

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everything in two languages

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Exactly, in the Bay area

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When Daria came to California

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she said all of the names are in Spanish

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Los Altos

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Yeah

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It was a part that spoke Spanish

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What really suprised me

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you see some, I don't know, even in shops

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some writing in Spanish

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In Spanish districts

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Go on and practice, you don't even have to travel

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If you want to learn proper Spanish

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that has to be a proper language school

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somewhere like in Mexico

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or in Spain and then

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you go out and experience real language

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Yeah, that's even better

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because in the crowded classroom you have classes

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standard language is very standard

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When you go out on the street

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you brain starts working in different manner

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and that's a good practice

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When you understand 30% of all the information

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but you hear really language

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it's really good for you

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And choosing the destination, 

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the best in not the popular one

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like Barcelona

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In Barcelona everything is for tourists

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If you know English, nobody will speak Spanish to you

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Everybody wants to practice English

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Go to some not very remote places but

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just not so popular

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in your country

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The best way to practice Spanish is to do it without

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people who speak your language

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When you meet people who speak your language

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It's impossible not to talk to them

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Choose not very popular destination

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and that would be okay

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Did you stay with a host family?

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No, I stayed in a flat share

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and in a residence

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Did you have a chance to speak Spanish?

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Yeah, we had our neighbors

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In Spain everyone is friendly

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if you're going to some school in Spain

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you have lots of parties

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some class activities

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and everything will be with your professor and activity leaders

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You'll make lots of new friends

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friends of your professor

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and everyone

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My last question - how did you beat the fear of speaking

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a foreign language

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to a native speaker?

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My English is I hope quite okay

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But I practiced my Spanish not so much

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as I want to

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And unfortunately I really have this fear

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The only way to beat it

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is just go and speak

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Go to Spain and tell some native speaker

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like you know I studies Spanish and I can speak a little bit

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In this very moment he'll start speaking Spanish with you

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And you have practice

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The only way - just start speaking

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Just go there and speak Spanish

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And it's the best way to learn it

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beat the stress

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Cool

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Thank you so much Daria

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Thank you for your advice

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Like this vide

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We're gonna leave all the links below

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And subscribe to my channel

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there're going to be more videos with Daria

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You don't want to miss them

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Bye bye