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I really want to improve my English

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speaking skills but I just don't have

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anyone to speak with and then when I do

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have an English conversation I totally

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forget the words that I want to say does

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this sound like you if so you are not

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alone last month I asked my English

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students what their biggest frustrations

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with learning English were and there

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were five common frustrations that

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seemed the same no matter the student's

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level no matter the student's country or

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background and they might be the same

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for you too hi I'm Vanessa from

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speakenglish with vanessa.com and today

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I want to help you with the top five

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English learning frustrations and how to

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fix them because you don't want to be

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stuck in your frustrations for long

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you'll lose your motivation you'll stop

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learning English you might never get

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that promotion to an English-speaking

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job or travel easily around the world I

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want you to reach your English goals so

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let's tackle these top five English

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frustrations and fix them once and for

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all and like always I've created a free

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pdf worksheet for you to download with

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all of today's top frustrations how to

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fix them and some important links so

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that you can watch other videos and have

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other resources that will help you to

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solve that frustration for yourself you

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can click on the link in the description

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to download that free pdf worksheet

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today let's get started with English

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frustration number one English

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frustration number one is this I can't

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remember the words I want to say when I

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speak this is so frustrating because

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maybe you're watching vocabulary lessons

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you're trying to memorize lists you're

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trying to build your vocabulary so that

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when you have a conversation you have

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the words that you want to say but then

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they just seem to go floating away in

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one ear and out the other so what can

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you do to actually remember vocabulary I

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recommend using the four step vocabulary

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method which we'll practice in just a

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minute but let's take a look at the four

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steps let's imagine that there's a new

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word that you want to learn maybe ever

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since you heard other people using this

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you get the general idea but you never

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use it yourself in conversation so how

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can you remember ever since step number

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one you need to look it up in a

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dictionary I highly recommend the online

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dictionary

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uglish because it involves clips from

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around the internet and you can hear

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people using this in real sentences not

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just textbook sentences after you write

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down the meaning write down some sample

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sentences that you saw in the dictionary

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you can move on to number two which is

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while you're watching English movies and

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TV shows listening to podcasts watching

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my lessons listen especially for the key

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phrase ever since that you want to learn

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and write down those sentences that you

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hear because that's how it's really used

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in real life number three is that you

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can look for it in writing as you're

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reading English news articles as you're

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reading English emails look for the key

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phrase that you're trying to remember

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ever since do you see here that we're

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trying to find out how to use this

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phrase in real life using a lot of

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different media so that it finally soaks

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into your brain because step number four

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is to use it in conversation you might

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need to consciously decide to use it it

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might not spontaneously come up yet so

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you can think about common conversation

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topics that you have maybe you commonly

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have small talk in the office well you

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can integrate the word ever since into a

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common phrase that you might say when

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someone asks hey how was your weekend

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you could say you know what it was great

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ever since I started going to bed

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earlier I feel so much better

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you used it in conversation you great

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work so now I'd like to take a look at a

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clip where we are actually practicing

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this technique together we're going to

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take a look at a clip from this video

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where we use the four-step vocabulary

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method together let's watch let's

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imagine that you want to remember this

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phrase ever since maybe you heard me use

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it in a video I found Vanessa's English

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lesson six months ago and I've been

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passionate about English ever since oh

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this is a great phrase you want to be

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able to use it too but when you have an

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English conversation you know that

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you're just gonna forget it so what can

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you do well let's go through the four

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steps so that you can remember this

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lovely phrase ever since

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step number one is to look up the word

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in a dictionary you need to know the

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basic meaning I recommend using an

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English dictionary if this is too tricky

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for you maybe you are a pretty low

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beginner it's okay to use a translated

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dictionary but if you are a little bit

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above a beginner if you can understand

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this lesson in English I recommend using

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an English dictionary this way you are

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immersing yourself in English so look it

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up in the dictionary in your notebook

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write down the definition oh ever since

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means from that moment okay but I need a

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little bit more than that so you can use

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a pronunciation dictionary or a

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dictionary in context such as this

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website

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uglish uglish is awesome because you can

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type any phrase and it will find

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somewhere that uses this phrase in a

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video beautiful you've got context

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you've got pronunciation you've got some

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kind of interest because there's a topic

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make so let's watch a clip from euglish

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where you'll see ever since used

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ever since I was probably five years old

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I always wanted to work with animals

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ever since I was probably five years old

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I always wanted to work with animals

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definition you've watched it on euglish

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so you might say ever since I found

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Vanessa's lessons I have been passionate

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about English lovely let's go on to step

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number two which is to listen for that

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phrase in movies TV shows or songs these

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common phrases come up all the time so

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when you can hear them you'll get more

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context for how to use them and you

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won't forget them let's take a look at a

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quick clip from a movie called Earnest

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Saves Christmas where you'll hear the

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phrase ever since let's watch Christmas

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is just about my favorite time ever

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since I was a little kid I always felt

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like it was my own personal holiday

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Christmas is just about my favorite time

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ever since I was a little kid I always

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felt like it was my own personal holiday

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you heard him say ever since I was a

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little kid I felt like Christmas was my

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own personal holiday ever since I was a

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little kid so at that moment from that

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he has always felt like Christmas was

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his own personal holiday basically for

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his whole life let's take a look at this

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in a song unfortunately I can't play

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this song for you because YouTube will

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have some problems with my video but in

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this Harry Style song he says I've been

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praying ever since New York okay well he

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went to New York City and something

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happened and he has needed to pray

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great you've got more input by finding

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it listening for it in media let's go on

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to step number three step number three

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is to look for this phrase in a book are

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you noticing a theme Here the more input

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you have the easier it will be to

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remember this phrase so let's take a

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look at a quote from a book that uses

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ever since I'm going to read this phrase

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for you here author rupee Kapoor says I

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felt like you threw me so far from

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myself I've been trying to find my way

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so he was in a relationship that really

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made him feel unsteady and when that

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relationship ended he's been trying to

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find himself again so he says I've been

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trying to find my way back to myself

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ever since so since that person threw

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him so far it's a little poetic here

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he's been trying to find his way back

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ever since from that moment beautiful

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all right and step number four is to use

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it in a conversation when you have been

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focusing on the phrase ever since

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in books in movies in TV shows and

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youglish in a dictionary writing those

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consciously this means you make the

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decision to use this phrase the next

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time you have a conversation so you

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might say I started watching cartoons in

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English when I was a child and I've been

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excited about English ever since if

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someone asks you oh your English is

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pretty good how did you get started

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learning English you could use this

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phrase oh I've been watching cartoons

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since I was a kid and I've been excited

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about English ever since from the moment

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I was a child

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until now and it's continuing into the

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future ever since

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success you have used this phrase in a

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conversation all right let's go on to

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Common English frustration number two

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which is I want to speak but I don't

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have anyone to speak with well good on

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you wanting to speak in English you know

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that it's important but how can you

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really find someone to speak with well

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the solution is you can learn English

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and speak in English right now from Home

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hmm yep it's true in 2022 the YouTube

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English lessons that you loved the most

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were part of a speaking Series where you

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got the chance to practice speaking with

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me this is a great low stress way to

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practice speaking so that when you get

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the chance to speak with someone in the

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real world you will be ready so what

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we're gonna do you're gonna see a sample

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conversation with my husband Dan and I

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where we're talking about a topic and

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then you will get the chance to answer

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the same questions and practice speaking

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with me we'll do this for two different

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conversation topics and I challenge you

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to listen to the sample conversation and

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then to also practice speaking out loud

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the great thing about a video is that

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you can always pause and review and

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watch it as many times as you need to

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Let's watch

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hey Dan how's your week going oh it's

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going great I just got back from a week

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at the beach oh where'd you go uh we

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went to Polly's Island my family's been

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going there for years oh what do you

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like to do at the beach

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just hang out at the beach mostly we

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play in the sand build sand castles read

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books I love it oh do you do that every

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hey how's your week going

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oh great where'd you go

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oh what do you like to do at the beach

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that sounds like a great vacation do you

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do that every year

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oh cool well welcome back

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hey Dan you doing anything fun this

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weekend yeah I'm gonna be hanging out

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with some friends from out of town oh

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that sounds great what are you gonna do

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uh mostly just hang out but we're gonna

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go on a hike and then go to my favorite

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restaurant oh what's your favorite

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restaurant it's an Asian fusion

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restaurant with great tacos and

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delicious kimchi oh sounds wonderful

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what else are you gonna do uh just walk

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around downtown and go to a few shops

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grab a few beers at the local breweries

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oh I hope you have a great time enjoy

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your weekend

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hey are you doing anything fun this

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weekend

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ah that sounds fun what are you gonna do

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cool where's your favorite place to go

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oh that sounds fun what else are you

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gonna do

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well have a great weekend I'll see you

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later

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great work practicing speaking with me I

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hope this was a low stress way to start

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speaking now let's go on to Common

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English frustration number three which

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is uh I cannot understand fast English

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conversations has this ever happened to

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you that you're watching an English

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movie or TV show and as people are

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speaking you think oh my goodness this

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is absolutely like a different language

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than the one I learned at school is this

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even English

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well you know what you learned classroom

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English at school and real English is

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quite different than what you actually

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learned in the classroom this means that

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in the real world people use real

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English with linking and reductions and

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different ways to speak than you learned

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in the classroom in a textbook it can be

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really frustrating when all of the words

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just blur together you've been

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practicing so hard to improve your

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vocabulary and grammar and pronunciation

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and then you try to listen and

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so nothing makes sense so what's a

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solution how can you understand fast

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English conversations I recommend using

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the conversation breakdown method where

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you will analyze real English

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conversations and break down what makes

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them so fast so that you can understand

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them and use that type of natural

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speaking yourself let's take a look at a

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clip where my husband Dan and I tried

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different desserts you'll see a short

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clip of us speaking and then we'll use

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the conversation breakdown method to

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break down some common fast speaking

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points in our conversation so that you

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can understand it better and also speak

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better yourself let's watch

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all right you want to try the peanut

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brittle sure I'm gonna take this huge

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piece okay

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all right you want to try the peanut

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brittle sure I'm gonna take this huge

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piece okay

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you heard Dan say I'm going to take this

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huge piece

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but did it sound like that nope he said

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I'm gonna take this huge piece let's

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break this down at the beginning of the

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sentence he uses a great contraction I'm

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I'm this is I plus am that makes I'm and

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then he makes a reduction within another

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reduction he says going to take but he

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doesn't say going to he says gonna and

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then he reduces it even further he cuts

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off the G and says Anna I'm gonna take

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this huge piece I'm gonna take this huge

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piece sometimes when we're speaking

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really quickly we reduce going to to

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gonna I'm gonna take this huge piece but

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we might reduce it even more cut off the

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G and just say I'm gonna take this huge

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piece I'm gonna take this huge piece do

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you want to practice a sample sentence

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with me yes let's do it I'm going to

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visit my friend

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becomes I'm gonna visit my friend can

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you say that with me let's say it slowly

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first and then we'll speed it up because

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if you're going to use Anna it needs to

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be in fast English you can't say I'm

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Anna meet my friend no this needs to be

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a reduction in a fast sentence so let's

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say it slowly and then we'll speed it up

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I'm gonna visit my friend

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I wanna visit my friend let's say it

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fast I'm gonna visit my friend I'm gonna

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visit my friend I'm gonna visit my

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friend great work all right let's watch

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the original clip one more time and I

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want to know has your listening and

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pronunciation skills improved with just

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this one clip imagine when we do all of

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the other clips from this video alright

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let's watch all right you want to try

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the peanut brittle sure I'm gonna take

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this huge piece okay

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all right you want to try the peanut

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brittle sure I'm gonna take this huge

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piece okay

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great work I hope you are able to

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understand this fast English

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conversation sentence and that you are

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able to improve your listening skills

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let's go on to Common English learning

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frustration number four and that's this

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I don't have time to study English you

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know what our world now is a busy place

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if you ask 10 people if they're busy I

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bet 10 people will say yes what about

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you are you a busy person probably so so

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who really has time to improve their

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English skills well the answer is no one

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no one has time you have to make time

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well we're certainly not someone who has

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control of the universe and can stretch

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out time so how can we really make time

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well I'd like to show you a clip where I

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give you four useful and important

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suggestions to help you yes busy you to

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make time to study English during your

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hectic busy life let's take a look

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suggestion number one schedule a certain

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time each day for English

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make sure that this is realistic you

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cannot say I will study for four hours

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after I come home from work every day

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do you know what's going to happen after

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one week maybe less

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we call this burnout you will burn out

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that means you will become so exhausted

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and you will be annoyed at learning

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English you won't want to do it anymore

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so make sure that you set a realistic

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time 15 minutes 30 minutes set this time

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aside and make it the most important

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thing that you want to accomplish that

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day for that 15 or 30 minutes you can

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play a podcast in English while you are

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commuting to work if you don't commute

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you can listen to a podcast while you're

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cooking breakfast while you're folding

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the laundry while you're taking a walk

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around your neighborhood you can just

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spend that time doing something with

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English or you could subscribe to my

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YouTube channel I have over 300 English

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lessons

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maybe you have not seen all of them so

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you could watch one lesson per day

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that's about 30 minutes each day immerse

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yourself in English and learn something

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new great and I hope you will enjoy it

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at the same time my first tip was to set

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aside a specific amount of time every

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day my second tip is to surround

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yourself with English even if you're not

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in an English-speaking country you can

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still do this you can find fun and

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creative ways to immerse yourself here

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are some of my suggestions you can

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change the language settings on your

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phone or on your browser on the computer

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that means that just as you're looking

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at news articles or as you are reading a

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recipe whatever you're doing on your

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phone all of the text is going to be in

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English simple effective and doesn't

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take any extra time you could also take

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some sticky notes or little pieces of

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paper with tape and put them around your

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house to label different items write a

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full sentence and this will help you to

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be able to see English and have your

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brain switch over to English for that

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moment you could read your favorite

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books in English if you need any

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recommendations for good books in

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English I love reading so I have made I

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think four videos about book

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recommendations uh you can check out

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this one up here which is Beginner Books

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or if you have never read a book in

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English before I recommend starting with

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those books you can check out that link

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up here to get some ideas or you can

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check out the link in the description

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which is my Amazon storefront I have

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listed on there all of the books that I

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recommend and you can just click on them

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and purchase them I think I get like 10

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cents from each purchase so it's not

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really that much for me but it's just a

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way to show you the books that you can

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read and give some recommendations and

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where you can get them and finally of

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course you can watch some TV shows or

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cartoons in English sometimes children's

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cartoons are a great way to get started

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they use Simple language for kids and

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they speak slowly you can see the action

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developing it's a good way to start to

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immerse yourself more in English

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well now that you have made time for

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English let's go on to our fifth and

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final biggest frustration when learning

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English and that's this I feel like I'm

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not making any progress has this ever

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happened to you you start the new year

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with lots of motivation yeah this is the

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year I'm gonna improve my English I'm

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gonna speak confidently I'm gonna do it

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and then two weeks later what happens

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your motivation starts to go down and

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you start to lose sight of why you

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wanted to improve your English in the

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first place if this is you don't feel

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bad this has happened to almost all of

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us but we want to fix this we want to

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grow our motivation and maintain it so

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that you can see progress and you can

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actually improve so how can you maintain

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your motivation so that you can really

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see real progress well my solution is to

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track your progress and this way you can

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see the real results that you're having

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for some people this might mean taking

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an English test but for a lot of people

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it's not realistic to take an English

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exam every six months to see your

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progress so what could you do instead I

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recommend giving yourself a short-term

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deadline you don't know what your life

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is going to be like in three months or

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eight months or four years so instead

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make a goal for this month this way you

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can see your progress over 30 days and

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that will help you to maintain your

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motivation well congratulations we have

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overcome the top five frustrations that

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you as an English learner might be

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feeling I'm here to help you I'm your

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teacher don't forget to download the

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free pdf worksheet for today's important

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lesson with all of the frustrations

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Solutions links and ideas to help you

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overcome them step by step well thank

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you so much for learning English with me

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and I'll see you again next Friday for a

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new lesson here on my YouTube channel

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bye but wait do you want more I

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recommend watching this video next where

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you will learn how to become a fluent

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English speaker in 2023 you'll learn my

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top 10 tips for finally achieving

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fluency and confidence in English I

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can't wait to help you I'll see you

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there