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easy dreamers welcome to a very special

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video because I'm celebrating my 40th

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birthday

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how do they get to this I was

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celebrating my 36th birthday on YouTube

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with you guys just last week right and

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now 40 years so to mark this special

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occasion I went on YouTube and Instagram

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and asked you guys to ask me 40

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questions 40 questions for a 40 year old

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and you guys did a fantastic job I'm

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gonna answer all those questions as

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quickly and honestly as possible but

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first I'd just like to warn you that

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somewhere in the middle of this video

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there is an amazing special offer that

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I'm giving you guys so make sure you're

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around to find out what it is thank you

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to all of you for sending questions all

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right let's get to question number one

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okay Claudia on YouTube asked if you had

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to pick another country to live in which

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one would you choose I at this point in

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my life I would choose Singapore I've

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lived in Spain Argentina and Hong Kong

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I feel like I've got one more trip in me

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and I think Singapore would be the place

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I've been there before I had a great

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trip there a few years ago the food is

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just incredible and I love the location

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the fact that you can get to so many

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amazing countries

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um so easily so I think yeah I go

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Singapore okay I don't know how to say

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this Instagram handle but thank you for

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your question uh what plans do I have

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for the future well the immediate future

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I want to celebrate my birthday with my

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girlfriend and with my family then me

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and Sharna are off to Singapore funnily

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enough we're going for two weeks to

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Singapore the Philippines and Hong Kong

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as a sort of celebratory trip that's

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gonna be amazing in the longer term for

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eat sleep dream English I'm gonna

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release a business English book that's

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coming really soon then I'm going to

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release another course and the big thing

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is that I want to release a podcast all

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about British life British culture some

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language some TV some film some new

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music things going on in London

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um yeah that's something I really want

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to do and I know on YouTube asks me

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um what's your favorite thing you've

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experienced while making this channel

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what a great question that is

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um I think two things I think firstly

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sort of finding the confidence in myself

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to put myself out there uh on social

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media

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um in the public eye to be seen by

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millions of people around the world it's

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been hard

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um especially when I'm editing and I'm

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listening to my own voice and you know

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to begin with I didn't like hearing my

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own voice and now I'm just used to it

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it's what it is but yeah that was

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probably something that I had to deal

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with and just having the confidence to

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put a video out on YouTube or Instagram

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and

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see what comments you get back or what

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feedback you get so that's been an

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interesting Journey

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I think though the part that's been the

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most rewarding is meeting you guys so

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I'm so lucky to get lots of comments on

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YouTube and Instagram uh from you guys

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and that's fantastic and then when I've

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done my meetups in person and I get to

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see you guys and I get to put faces to

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names it's amazing I've done a few uh

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meetups in London Hong Kong I did one in

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uh South Korea with uh Ali from Papa

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teach me and that was amazing shaking

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hands

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um sharing drinks

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um conversations finding out your

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stories that was amazing so I think that

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has been the best part of this journey

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okay back on Instagram uh Jamie Antonio

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Mendez asks what are your tips for

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learning English the way that I approach

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learning is small and often so I teach

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my students to learn in bite-sized

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chunks I think finding consistency in

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your learning is more important than

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studying for long stretches of time I

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think little and often is the best way

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many of you will know one of my favorite

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books is atomic Habits by James

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clearance all about

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fostering positive learning habits and I

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think that applies to learning English

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perfectly I think studying 10 minutes or

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15 minutes every day is so much better

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than one day a week for two hours

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because I think if you build that

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consistency over time it's compounding

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right you're compounding your knowledge

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over time whereas if you study once a

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week by the time you study again you

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might have forgotten what you've learned

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so little and often is my approach to

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learning jjks asks could you please give

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some advice for non-english speakers who

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have to deliver lectures in English well

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I think this advice I would give to

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native speakers non-native speakers

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however and that is to write out your

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lecture or your speech and then to take

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the first sentence and just to break it

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up into chunks okay so two or three four

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chunks and write it out so the first

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three words then the space then the next

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couple of words space Etc obviously

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making sure it's logical where you leave

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that space and that gap between the

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words should be where you naturally

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breathe and it should give you the

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opportunity to put some space into your

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words because when we're speaking in

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public I certainly am very nervous and I

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speak quite quickly I might Mumble or

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swallow my words

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so this is a really nice way to make

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sure that you breathe space into your

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speech I did that with my best man

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speech and a eulogy that I had to do and

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it really helped when I was reading the

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speech it really helped me to go at a

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good Pace to breathe

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to speak clearly and more coherently

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okay and a great question here when

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hearing non-native English speakers

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attempting uh to speak English with a

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British accent what would the Brits feel

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about it and what do they think that's a

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really good question I think generally

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speaking your accent isn't too important

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I think people just want you to be able

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to communicate clearly right so if you

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have a Italian accent or if you have a

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Japanese accent and you're speaking

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English that's great no problem I think

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people don't mind whether it's Italian

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or Japanese or if you've got a cockney

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accent or I don't think people mind too

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much I don't think it's a problem

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um so I would say be authentic to your

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accent wherever you're from but if

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you've picked up a bit of a British

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accent in some way then great I think it

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can be quite endearing but I don't think

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it's the most important thing I think

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being clear and communicating

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confidently I think that's probably

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better goal underscore car asked me what

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is your absolute favorite spot in London

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what a question where do I even begin

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okay one particular place if you do come

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to London I would say go to Primrose

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Hill it's a hill in North London uh just

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north of Regents Park and you climb up

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to the top of the hill take a picnic or

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maybe a bottle of wine take a loved one

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someone special uh just go sit there

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particularly on a summer's afternoon

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just sit there and just watch the world

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go by

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um you have this incredible view of

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London you can see everything uh the

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Easter London Canary Wharf you can see

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the city you can see the West End you

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can see the London Eye Saint Paul's

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Cathedral everything and it's a

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beautiful place to be yagit Jalan asks

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uh I want to know about your educational

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background so generally speaking I've

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always been a Humanities kind of person

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I was always quite good at English at

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school history geography things like

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that terrible at maths terrible at

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science which is a real shame because I

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find them fascinating just I'm not good

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at them

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um and then at University I studied

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media and popular culture which was an

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interesting choice but it led me to a

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job at the BBC so I guess there was some

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logical sense there and then from TV I

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worked in TV for a bit and then I moved

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into teaching because of my mum and

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other influences on me so yeah that's

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how I got here Patrice bear asks you're

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telling 40 next month uh oh you're

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telling me 40 next month congratulations

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do you still feel 30 like me

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yeah to an extent but 30 to 40 yeah I

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feel a little bit more uh at ease with

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myself who I am

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um I definitely noticed that I can't

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physically do the things that I used to

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do I can't run as fast I can't lift as

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heavy but yeah I think you always feel

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younger than you are right I think

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that's a natural thing guys I have a

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I don't know how you say that advice for

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20 something what should I do when I

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have no idea what I want to do wow

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that's a great question and yeah I'll be

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honest I don't think I feel qualified to

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give you advice or anyone advice

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something I've been thinking about

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recently is the quote I can't remember

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where it came from where it's like you

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are the things that you consume so you

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are the news that you listen to you are

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the podcast you listen to the people you

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surround yourself with and I think to an

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extent we can control that so when I

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think about for example podcasts

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um trying to find podcasts that enrich

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me that leave me feeling smarter or I

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understand the world a bit differently

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there's an author called Tim Ferriss who

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says that you are the average of the

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five people you associate with most so

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that could be friends family

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Etc it could be people that you choose

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to bring into your life so podcasts wise

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smart people uh on podcasts or authors

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or wherever it might be and through

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their voices through their wisdom their

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intelligence you can kind of raise

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yourself up and through all that I think

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you'll start to find out what you want

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to do I think when you start to consume

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the right things

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you start to Foster different ideas and

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you should do this or do that but just

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start thinking about what you consume

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and I think through absorbing all that

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you'll start to find some answers to

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your questions Stefano melisis asks have

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either been to Greece yes I've been to

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Greece several times as a kid I've been

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to kefalonia Corfu the food obviously

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fantastic yeah I love Greece would love

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to go back yarislava asks uh why is fish

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and chips so popular in the UK two

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reasons

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tradition

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and it's delicious okay La ibaranata

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asks uh if I'm learning any other

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languages well currently not at this

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exact moment but a couple of months ago

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I had started learning Hindi so that I

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could speak to my girlfriend's mum and

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dad I haven't taken any lessons recently

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but I'm gonna pick it up again

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absolutely

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um I've still got a little bit of

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Knowledge from what I learned

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um

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was a phrase that I remember learning

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but yes I need to continue I need to

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continue doing that now on Instagram I

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am Daria Wolfe asks are you in a happy

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place in your life right now what a

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question I love that yeah

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um I am pretty happy right now I have to

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say yeah

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um I'm really I'm just I have so much to

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be thankful for so much to be grateful

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for

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um I start every day with a little

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gratitude diary and I think of three

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things that I'm grateful for in my life

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and I always have loads of things to

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write

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um whether it's you know the people in

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my life the love that I have

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um the job that I have all these kinds

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of things the health of my body and my

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family and all those kinds of things so

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yeah I would say I am really happy in

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life I think there's things I would

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change of course um and particularly

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with Etc dream English there are things

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I want to do to make it grow and expand

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um so there's always that sort of push

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and drive but

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essentially yeah pretty happy

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asks about

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um university and if brexit has changed

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anything for University I don't know how

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brexit has impacted University for

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overseas students

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um you ask although I don't have any uni

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recommendations I mean you know it all

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depends on what you're studying what

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kind of person are you what do you want

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from University

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one broad tip that I would give is that

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there are loads of great University

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cities and towns all around Britain that

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are a really lovely size

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I chose not to study in London because

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I'm from London and I kind of wanted to

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get out of London and I understand why

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people do choose to study in London it's

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got some amazing universities but I also

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think that cities like Bristol Leeds

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Edinburgh Manchester

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um you know Newcastle they are really

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wonderfully sized they're kind of big so

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they've got lots of things going on

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events music that kind of thing but also

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quite small so you can you're never far

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away from your friends from events from

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all the things that are going on and I

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quite like that size so I would say do

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your research and think about the

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location as much as the university okay

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Dana Garcia 7 asks what's the thing that

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makes you happiest in the world

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what I mean where do I even begin with

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that um Tottenham Hotspur winning a

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football match makes me pretty happy

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um getting hugs from my loved ones from

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my girlfriend from my niece and nephew

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from my sister's dog Skye that makes me

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pretty happy okay but maybe this is a

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strange answer but the feeling I get

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after surfing so I'll go out surfing

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I'll be out in nature it's tiring it's

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exciting it's a bit scary and then I

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come in and um I'll have maybe like some

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food and a drink on the beach and I'll

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look back out of the waves and just that

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feeling of appreciation and that feeling

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of exhaustion that I love

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yeah that makes me pretty happy I have

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to say Okay cheesy DCM wanted to see

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some pictures of me when I lived in

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Spain uh in Santa Rosa and I lived there

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in 20 no 2008 or nine something like

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that around then many many years ago

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um and I had longer hair and I looked a

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lot younger here's a few photos Marcelo

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Estevez asks what have you got from Life

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over 40 years old tell uh tell about

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your nice and bad experiences wow okay

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um I my mind immediately goes to I guess

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it's a bad experience Okay so so I lost

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my mother about five years ago

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um which was obviously devastatingly

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hard right to lose

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someone that you love so much so that

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was a tough time and we went through a

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lot of hardship as a family as all

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families do my mum was suffering from

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cancer so it was a year and a half of

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treatment and all that kind of stuff

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so obviously that was a hard experience

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and that you know

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I we learned to kind of deal with uh The

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New Normal of each moment so we go to

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the doctor and they would say okay your

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mum can't eat now because she has a

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problem with her stomach so that became

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the new normal so okay she can't eat so

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we'll we have to find an alternative way

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for her to to get nutrition so each time

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we went into the doctor we had new

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information and so we had to change

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um the moment that I remember really

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clearly was I had to shave her hair

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because she had got because she went

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through chemotherapy and so it was like

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okay this is the new normal mum doesn't

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have any hair how can we adapt to that

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so we got some head scarves and you know

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got used to it she actually looked great

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with no hair she sort of made it work

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for herself so I guess that was a real

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lesson from a tough time uh and then at

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the end the last moment this is actually

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um it's really tough so

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um saying goodbye to her um we had a

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couple of hours just to sit there by her

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bedside and

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um all we talked about was the happy

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times that we shared with her so the

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holidays

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um the special memories that we had we

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didn't talk about anything else you know

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it's a bit of a cliche we talk about

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cars or houses or jewelry or anything

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silly like that we talked about memories

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um

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and that really sort of helped

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to

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reaffirm that in me that the most

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important things in life are making

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memories with the people that you love

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so that was a really amazing lesson to

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learn from yeah particularly hard

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moments but yeah that's what I've

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learned okay sparsha R asks

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um I just want to know how do you change

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between multiple accents and still sound

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like a natural to be honest I don't

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think I do my accents they're not that

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good what I would say is I use like

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little

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um Gateway words to help me into an

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accent and there's a comedian called

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Jimmy Carr who talks about this how he

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uses the word Kawasaki to help him speak

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in a Geordie accent so he goes Kawasaki

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Kawasaki and then he can start speaking

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Jordy because it kind of helps

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um so with like a cockney accent I'll be

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like all right gorgeous all right

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gorgeous just saying that phrase helps

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me go into a cockney accent with scouse

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it might be like uh

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what I just say the word what

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but in a scouse way and that helps me to

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get into a scouse accent so yeah that's

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how I try to do it uh I'm Daria Wolfe

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asks what advice would you give to

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non-native ESL teachers who make

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mistakes in English

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I would say to all uh teachers but

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particularly non-native speakers

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um own your mistake right don't try and

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hide it don't try and pretend it didn't

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happen own it just say yeah I made that

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mistake the first lesson I ever gave as

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a fully qualified English teacher I

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thought I was teaching the present

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perfect I was actually teaching the past

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perfect and my wonderful students just

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just believes me for about 40 minutes

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and then one of them said uh teacher Tom

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um uh are you sure that's right and I

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was like yeah yeah it's right yeah

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absolutely and then they were like

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I don't think it's right and I had a

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look at it I was like oh

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I've been teaching the total wrong thing

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and I owned it and I just went like guys

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I'm so sorry I yeah I effed up here

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let's let's figure this out

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so I think you just gotta be honest and

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just know that it's not you're not

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making a mistake because you're a

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non-native English speaker we all make

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mistakes especially as teachers you're

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gonna make mistakes it's a part of it

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just own it be honest I think your your

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students will respond really well to you

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just being honest and then just make

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sure next time you've learned from your

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mistakes you show them how professional

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you are you show them how good a teacher

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you are and you'll be fine Edie asks

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um I'd like to know if you are single or

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married I'm not married I am in a

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relationship

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um yeah we've been together for three

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years Edie also asks have you been to

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Brazil no I've never been to Brazil I

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would love to go I lived in Argentina

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and we're so close Vel 13 it's near I

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don't know you say that how do you how

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did you start as an English teacher

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um so I was working for the BBC I was

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really bored with my job I didn't it

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just didn't fulfill me my mum was an

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English teacher and so it made The

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Logical sense to take the course and to

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see if I liked it and I wanted to travel

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around the world so I did the Celtic

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course at St Charles Highgate uh

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qualified

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um and then traveled the world to Spain

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Argentina Hong Kong Etc and British

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English now Anna asks what pieces of

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pronunciation advice would you give

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Iranians who speak English oh this is

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advice for all speakers of English not

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just Iranian speakers if you are not at

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the beginner stage you're kind of

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intermediate I would start focusing on

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connected speech and how we blend sounds

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and words together I have a course a

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pronunciation course that looks into all

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of that you can check out at my shop

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shop.extdrome english.com

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um I think later speech is the most

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important way to improve your

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pronunciation and to start speaking more

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fluently because this is how we blend

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sounds and words together and there are

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lots of little techniques that we use

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that you can learn so I would say

548
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whether you're Iranian speaker or

549
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Italian or whatever that's where I'd

550
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Focus my attention venmu 03 asks how is

551
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your lovely sister and when are you

552
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gonna make another video so my sister is

553
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great she's fantastic

554
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um so she was in a couple of my videos a

555
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few years ago we went for some walks and

556
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talks and they were very popular it was

557
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a really natural conversations and yeah

558
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I should totally do one again I'll have

559
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to ask her if you want me to make a

560
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video with my sister let me know in the

561
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comments below I'll show it to her and

562
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yeah we can persuade it to come on again

563
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uh chocolate did man asks

564
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um have you done something willy-nilly

565
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recently willy-nilly was a word that we

566
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looked at recently so it means kind of

567
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without any order kind of so yeah so the

568
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other day I did the washing and I took

569
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all the clothes I've just put them on my

570
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wardrobe willy-nilly I just threw them

571
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in didn't want to think about it too

572
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much just oh it sucks there yeah didn't

573
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hang things up just pushed them in

574
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because I had to go out so yeah that was

575
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something that I did willy-nilly oh

576
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volume on YouTube asks

577
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um what the attitudes of British people

578
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who live in the UK when it comes to

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learning languages

580
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yeah so you kind of sum it up here I

581
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think a lot of us appreciate or really

582
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respect other people who can speak uh

583
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numerous languages

584
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um it we really Revere it we think like

585
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oh wow that's amazing

586
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um I'm always blown away when I meet

587
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someone that can speak two languages

588
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three languages I'm like wow how do you

589
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do it

590
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but yeah I think you're right when you

591
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say that a lot of British people would

592
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think yeah I'd love to know another

593
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language but I don't really need to you

594
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know like the reality is you can travel

595
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around the world and get by with English

596
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that's a kind of demotivating factor for

597
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a lot of British people I'm not saying

598
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that's right I'm just saying that's kind

599
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of the reality of it interesting fact

600
00:23:46.619 --> 00:23:49.260
asked uh do all British children go out

601
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away from their parents to earn and to

602
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live in their own life yeah great

603
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question so traditionally

604
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um you would leave home at 18

605
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um and either you would get a job and

606
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you'd find a place to live or you would

607
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go to university

608
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um I think the reality of life these

609
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days is that it's really expensive to

610
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live but either by yourself or to live

611
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in a shared house

612
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and a lot of young people can't afford

613
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it right like it's it's too expensive

614
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especially in big cities like London

615
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Manchester places like that

616
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so that age of leaving home has

617
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definitely got older as the years have

618
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gone by but I know that in other

619
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cultures you stay and you live with your

620
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parents right up until you get married

621
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that's not the case here I think when

622
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you're in your 20s a lot of British

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people want to live out they want to be

624
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young and free and live their own lives

625
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but the reality of

626
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how much it costs kind of means that

627
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they some of them can't Ashley Beverly

628
00:24:52.320 --> 00:24:54.240
asks what's your favorite British meal

629
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my favorite British meal is a Sunday

630
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roast I think it's super underrated it's

631
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absolutely delicious so on a Sunday

632
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um usually in Winter that's when I would

633
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have it we have a Sunday roast which is

634
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a big meal uh you've got roasted meat

635
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roast potatoes Yorkshire pudding amazing

636
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lots of vegetables gravy ah so good that

637
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would be my favorite British meal Carl

638
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Jans asks which cities in the UK would

639
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you recommend to live

640
00:25:23.460 --> 00:25:25.440
as a foreigner if London is too

641
00:25:25.440 --> 00:25:28.140
expensive okay A bit like how I answer

642
00:25:28.140 --> 00:25:29.760
the university question I would say that

643
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there are some really fantastic cities

644
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of a nice sort of small size but with

645
00:25:34.799 --> 00:25:37.260
lots going on so Bristol I think is an

646
00:25:37.260 --> 00:25:39.419
amazing City so much going on so vibrant

647
00:25:39.419 --> 00:25:42.059
great art scene there

648
00:25:42.059 --> 00:25:44.820
um Brighton as well by the Sea it's also

649
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a really great place and then you're

650
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just an hour from London so you can kind

651
00:25:48.000 --> 00:25:49.919
of get up to London if you've got you

652
00:25:49.919 --> 00:25:51.900
know if there's a big event going on

653
00:25:51.900 --> 00:25:54.720
um Manchester is very popular with

654
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students so that could be a cool young

655
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place to be um I think Edinburgh is a

656
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beautiful city uh but really cold in

657
00:26:03.179 --> 00:26:07.559
winter so yeah some great yeah so some

658
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ideas there for you Abraham Cano asks um

659
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did you have or still have an old

660
00:26:12.359 --> 00:26:14.039
computer uh what were your favorite

661
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video games

662
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uh did you ever did you ever meet Mr

663
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Bean I didn't meet Mr Bean no I haven't

664
00:26:21.659 --> 00:26:23.820
spoken to the king yet

665
00:26:23.820 --> 00:26:26.760
favorite video game at Mario Kart on the

666
00:26:26.760 --> 00:26:28.919
Super Nintendo Mario Kart was my

667
00:26:28.919 --> 00:26:30.960
absolute favorite oh and there was a

668
00:26:30.960 --> 00:26:32.039
football manager game called

669
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Championship manager I spent most of my

670
00:26:34.320 --> 00:26:36.359
teenage years playing that Rhys Crofton

671
00:26:36.359 --> 00:26:38.159
asks what was the idea behind the

672
00:26:38.159 --> 00:26:40.919
channel and the course the channel the

673
00:26:40.919 --> 00:26:42.900
idea of the channel was that I just

674
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wanted to share fresh modern British

675
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English with as many people as I could I

676
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wanted to teach the language the words

677
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the phrases that I hear every day

678
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um in London and around me italoko asks

679
00:26:57.119 --> 00:26:59.940
what is your biggest dream

680
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ah Tottenham winning the Champions

681
00:27:01.740 --> 00:27:03.840
League that's one of them

682
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um

683
00:27:05.520 --> 00:27:07.580
um my personal dream

684
00:27:07.580 --> 00:27:10.320
wow to live by the sea I think to live

685
00:27:10.320 --> 00:27:11.820
by the Sea every London that talks about

686
00:27:11.820 --> 00:27:14.940
living by the Sea Mary Honeywell asks um

687
00:27:14.940 --> 00:27:16.919
she's from Switzerland and she wants to

688
00:27:16.919 --> 00:27:19.140
know um is it easy to get a job with

689
00:27:19.140 --> 00:27:21.720
intermediate level in English

690
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um I mean depending on the job that you

691
00:27:24.359 --> 00:27:25.500
want

692
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um yeah I think it's a great place to

693
00:27:27.840 --> 00:27:30.299
come and to get a job and with by

694
00:27:30.299 --> 00:27:32.039
getting a job you're going to improve

695
00:27:32.039 --> 00:27:33.480
your English particularly if you think

696
00:27:33.480 --> 00:27:36.720
about service industry so I went to a

697
00:27:36.720 --> 00:27:38.400
preter manager the other day and you

698
00:27:38.400 --> 00:27:40.140
know all the people serving me are from

699
00:27:40.140 --> 00:27:41.760
different countries right you know ones

700
00:27:41.760 --> 00:27:44.820
from France one's from Turkey one's from

701
00:27:44.820 --> 00:27:48.299
Morocco and they are there practicing

702
00:27:48.299 --> 00:27:50.700
English just every day all day speaking

703
00:27:50.700 --> 00:27:52.559
to people and I think that's an amazing

704
00:27:52.559 --> 00:27:54.840
way to improve your English so you know

705
00:27:54.840 --> 00:27:56.820
at a basic level I think it's a great

706
00:27:56.820 --> 00:27:58.440
place to come and improve your English

707
00:27:58.440 --> 00:28:00.659
Timmy style for asks have you ever been

708
00:28:00.659 --> 00:28:02.820
to Derbyshire do you fancy a vlogging

709
00:28:02.820 --> 00:28:04.320
trip that way I've never been to

710
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Derbyshire

711
00:28:05.580 --> 00:28:06.779
um apart from the Peaks I think I've

712
00:28:06.779 --> 00:28:08.400
been to the Peak District but I've never

713
00:28:08.400 --> 00:28:11.039
been to Derby or Derbyshire I think uh

714
00:28:11.039 --> 00:28:12.419
yeah I'd like to go it sounds like a

715
00:28:12.419 --> 00:28:13.500
beautiful place

716
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um so for sure

717
00:28:15.140 --> 00:28:18.119
asks please could you recommend the best

718
00:28:18.119 --> 00:28:19.919
cafe in London obviously this is

719
00:28:19.919 --> 00:28:22.320
subjective but I would say that the

720
00:28:22.320 --> 00:28:25.320
Pavilion Cafe in Victoria Park is my

721
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favorite they do amazing buns and they

722
00:28:28.020 --> 00:28:30.779
have a beautiful view of the lake go

723
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check it out guys thank you so much for

724
00:28:32.880 --> 00:28:34.679
watching I appreciate your support I

725
00:28:34.679 --> 00:28:37.140
appreciate your energy I appreciate you

726
00:28:37.140 --> 00:28:39.600
thank you so much I can't wait to keep

727
00:28:39.600 --> 00:28:41.760
serving you keep helping you learn

728
00:28:41.760 --> 00:28:44.760
English this year and thank you again to

729
00:28:44.760 --> 00:28:46.140
all of you that have asked me questions

730
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this is teacher Tom in London saying

731
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goodbye