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hi i'm vanessa from speak english with

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vanessa calm have you ever worked really

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hard for something and finally it was

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finished that's what we're going to talk

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about today let's get started as many of

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you know i've been working very hard

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over the last month to create the

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program 30 days of english some days i

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spent 10 hours some days i spent 15

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hours working and trying to make videos

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and creating the content and thinking

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about new ideas and how to make it the

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best it could possibly be

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i spent so much time on this project and

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when it was finished i felt so relieved

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we could say near the end of the project

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i saw the light at the end of the tunnel

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i knew that in a few days it would be

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completed this expression i saw the

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light at the end of the tunnel is a

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great expression to use if you're

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working really hard for something and

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it's almost finished maybe you're

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working really hard to get a visa to

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live in the US or you're working really

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hard to study for and i lter another

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english test or maybe you are working

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really hard because there's a work

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project that you're trying to get

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finished by the end of the week you're

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working so hard it's like you're running

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a marathon every day you're doing so

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much and finally at the very end you see

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the light at the end of the tunnel now a

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tunnel is a hole in a mountain so as

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you're driving it's very likely that

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you've probably driven through a

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mountain and this hole in the mountain

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is a tunnel so when you're driving

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through a really long tunnel it's really

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dark inside I'm sure there's some sort

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of light so you can see but you're

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driving through the tunnel and at the

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very end you see a little bit of light

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you see some sunlight coming through the

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opposite end of the tunnel that means

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you're almost finished you're almost

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through the tunnel if you can get to the

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other side you will be out of the

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Tunnel this is the kind of expression

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that you can use to talk about working

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really hard for a project or for

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something so you could say uh I have

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been studying for this English test for

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so long I have been preparing and

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working so hard and on Friday I'm going

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to take the test I can see the light at

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the end of the tunnel your preparation

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is almost finished you're almost there

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that's how I felt as I was working on

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the project thirty days of English I

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love doing this kind of work it's not

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boring or frustrating or annoying to me

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even though it doesn't always go as I

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planned I think that this kind of thing

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is engaging and challenging but because

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I worked so hard and spent so many hours

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preparing near the end last weekend I

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felt like I can see the light at the end

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of the tunnel finally my to-do list was

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almost finished I only had one or two

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things left to do I felt so relieved

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that I could finally see the light at

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the end of the tunnel and now that the

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program is opened I am out of the tunnel

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and this process has been completed so

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I'm curious for you what has some what

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has been some kind of project or task

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that you have worked really hard for and

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near the end of your work you saw the

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light at the end of the tunnel you saw

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it's almost finished soon I can do it

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yes and you worked really hard to finish

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on time or to finish and do a good job

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tell me a story in the comments below

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what has been a time that you could have

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used this expression thanks so much for

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watching this video and please head over

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to my website where you can see some

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other examples of this expression light

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at the end of the tunnel I can see the

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light at the end of the tunnel on my

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website I'm going to give some more

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sample sentences some more explanations

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and if you leave me a comment I'll try

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to respond as fast as I can all right

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I'll talk to you later

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thanks so much goodbye

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you

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you