Fluency, confidence and teaching English on YouTube | With @andreseningles

16,753 views ・ 2019-12-18

Accent's Way English with Hadar


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- Hey everyone its Hadar,
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Welcome to my channel
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and today I have a special treat for you
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so you are exactly where you need to be
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because today we have a special guest
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and that guest is Andres from Andres en Ingles.
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Andres is a remarkable youtube creator
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based in New York City.
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He is originally from Colombia.
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His videos are engaging, fun, and creative
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and he has helped thousands and thousands
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of English learners change the way they speak english.
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This video is going to be divided into two parts.
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The first part is where Andres will share with us
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his inspiring story about turning from an English learner
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to an English teacher and coach on his channel.
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And how he started his channel just because
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he wanted to help his friends learn English in a fun way.
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And on the second part we are going to answer questions
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from Andres' community about how to pronounce
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the most difficult words.
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And yes, the word world is going to be there.
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- World.
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Oh my god it is groundbreaking.
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- Also I appear as a guest on his channel,
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so definitely go and check out the video there
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where we had a beautiful conversation about English,
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English learning, different methods, fluency,
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limiting beliefs, and so much more,
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so make sure you check it out as well.
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And when you're there make sure to subscribe,
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especially if you're a Spanish speaker.
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So what are we waiting for,
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let's check out the interview I had with Andres.
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Andres!
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- Hi Hadar.
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- Hi welcome to my channel.
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- Thank you so much for inviting me.
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- Oh Its such a pleasure actually you're inviting me,
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because I'm in your apartment in New York City
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- Yeah.
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- In Chell Sea
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and why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself?
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Wait I'm gonna say that Andres is a good friend
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and he is also my student
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- Yes
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- and we're gonna talk a little but about that
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but I think that the most incredible thing
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about you is your journey.
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- Thank you.
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- Um so I know it
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and I think a lot of people don't necessarily,
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why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself
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and how you got to do what you're doing now.
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- How much time do we have?
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(laughter)
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So my story started thirty something years ago.
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I'm already from Colombia
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and my whole life I wanted to live in the states,
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New York and I didn't have the means to study English
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when I was younger my family didn't have enough money
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to study to put me through bilingual school.
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I might look young but I wasn't that young,
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it was like twenty years ago when there was like
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no internet there was like you needed to buy books
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and you needed to pay for a higher education
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and that was like twenty something years ago,
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thirty years ago
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and so I decided to study on my own.
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I didn't want to study.
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I was very curious about the English language
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so I started watching movies,
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I started watching tv shows ,
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and that's how I fell in love with living in the USA,
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- Yeah.
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- Because I was watching those shows those movies.
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And in a way , you know I'm from Colombia
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and I was like maybe I want to live there
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- Yeah.
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- So I
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- The American dream.
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- Yes.
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- Everything looks nice and pretty and flawless
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- Until you come here and realize it was all BS
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(laughter)
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no I shouldn't, it could be, it depends
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- it depends, it depends
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- What you do with it.
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- Yes, exactly.
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- When I was going to class I realized that
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they were boring
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and I didn't want to go
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and sit down for forty minutes on for an hour
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- And like answer questions in books
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- And reading books and you know reading copies
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and It wasn't engaging enough for me
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- Yeah
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- So I was like, maybe I should like keep studying on my own
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- Yeah.
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- And I did.
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Then you know I started working, I graduate,
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I start working and I used my English a couple times
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but I spent more than thirty years speaking only Spanish.
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- Yeah so even if you learn,
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you don't really put it to practice.
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Unless you take action, specific action,
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and then you know it goes away.
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- It did give me a little bit of advantage
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when I was working
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because I was the one that my boss would
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take to the meeting with the international contacts
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or clients and that did give me an advantage
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and I started learning what it meant to have that knowledge
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it really put you in a different box,
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it really give you that advantage
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and I start feeling that I needed
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to improve how I was speaking English
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- Right
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- So,
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- Because you realize that English
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was not just a language that you need to learn
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it's your leeway
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like its your door to like all the opportunities to
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- Totally
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- To fulfill the dreams or the goals
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and to like live the life that you want.
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- Totally
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- Its just a tool
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- And then
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- And you get what you want
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- And it's not really about not feeling like a latino
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or owning my voice in Spanish
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but it is about being comfortable enough
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to speak to a crowd that only speaks that language.
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- Yeah
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- And if they understand what I want them to understand
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from my own perspective on any different topic
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I needed to be clear enough.
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- Yep.
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- Then I start pursuing learning more about English.
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I was always learning grammar,
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I was always learning writing or like reading from books,
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but honestly Hadar I never ever ever studied pronunciation.
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Or intonation.
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- Right.
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- Or any for that matter
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so I thought I knew enough
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and then I moved to New York three years ago.
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To make a long story short,
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I wanted to give my friends an opportunity
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to work here in the states,
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for us to have an apartment and the lifestyle
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and have the same opportunities
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as any other person in New York,
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but they didn't speak English.
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So I was like I want you guys to start speaking English,
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so go to Youtube and find some lessons and learn.
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So they said to me,
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everything is so boring on YouTube,
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they're like just only teachers with big boards
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- White boards
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- Yeah and hey its all yum
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- And hey if it works for you
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- I respect that
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- Stick with that
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- But for them that wasn't engaging enough
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- Yeah
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- Its funny cause I decided
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to start my own channel for my friends.
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I never thought that it was going to be what it is right now
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this opportunities they have brought into my life
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uh you have no idea I only have to make a video
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only about how speaking English changed my life forever.
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- yeah
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- after a couple of years making videos,
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I felt this need to go deeper
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- yeah
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- On pronunciation and that's how I found you.
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And I decided to start learning more about
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how could I sound better in English
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and understanding why it sounded different
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if I thought that I knew how to pronounce things in English.
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- Why was it important to you?
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- Because I thought that I had this level of knowledge
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and grammar or how to express ideas and put together words
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but I thought, and sometimes I found situations
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that I thought I was saying something
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and people understood a different thing,
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and I was like why?
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I am doing everything I was supposed to do
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- Yeah.
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- But there's so many layers to pronunciation
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and I think that's why its important to go deeper in that
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and that's where I'm at right now.
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- And that's why you went through my online program
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and what is the hardest thing as a student trying to
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or as a learner trying to work on that
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aspect of spoken English?
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- The thing I found about your course
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was there this thing that happened to me was
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like called you named that regression right?
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- Regression
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- when you have so much knowledge
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- yeah
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- and you think, oh I understand now
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the 't' the 'flap t' 'th' voices the 'h'
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- And you can make the single sounds
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- Yes
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- Yeah.
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- And you try to create them and you get confused.
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When it comes to the vowels,
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especially for me because I am a Spanish speaker
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we only have like five sounds
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and English has like
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- About sixteen
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- Sixteen, yeah.
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And that for me and when you try to,
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I had been watching her videos and when she's like
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you put your tongue here and I'm like
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- where?
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- I don't get it, like how, I'm trying
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it doesn't sound the same, but
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- You get all tangled up with your tongue
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and like it goes out through your ear
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and you're like what's going on
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- Man the vowels for me are the most confusing thing
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- And one of the things you told me before we started is
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I can't hear it, I'm deaf right
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- I said that
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- And I was like, first of all change that language
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- Yes
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- Once you say that you're brain will not hear it,
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if you decide that you won't hear it, you won't hear it
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- Its funny Hadar how you mention that
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cause you know I like to think of myself as a person who
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doesn't have those limiting beliefs and we all do
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- We all do.
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- We all do, oh my god that is so funny
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that that happened like today with us here
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when I was so self conscious
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oh I don't want to speak English around her,
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she's going to start criticizing everything I say
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- And that's what he was thinking
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and I was like at the same time thinking
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wow Andres you're so expressive and fluent and engaging
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and I totally see your personality
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and I was totally thrilled to listen to him, you
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- Thank you
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- And at the same time he was like
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oh she's judging me
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its like we put so much pressure on ourselves
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- Its in here
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- Yeah and we like have so many expectations
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and we put other peoples opinions
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like so high up like
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and its more important than our own expression.
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How many subscribers do you have?
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- Four hundred and sixty thousand subscribers.
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- So four hundred and sixty thousand subscribers later
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you know obviously have something important
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to say and people want to listen.
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- Yes I think so, I hope so
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- And still what I wanted to talk about and show you is like
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it doesn't matter where you're at in your journey
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there is always something you can work on,
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but especially your mindset.
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You can see oh he's so successful, its easy for him.
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Its not easy for him,
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he's working at it every single day,
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but he's still showing up.
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Because you have made the decision ,
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I'm not going to let that stop me the judgment
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you know like what is she going to say,
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still you invited me,
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you were like I'm going to speak to her
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you could've easily said no
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you know Hadar is coming to New York,
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great to see you you know
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and have coffee and that's it.
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Afterwards I want you to go there to Andres en ingles
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and watch the video there where we talk about the mindset
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and common challenging sounds
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for Latin speakers and for nonnative speakers.
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- We do go over different aspects of what it means
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to have an accent when you're not a native speaker
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- Right
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- What it means to have an accent
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if that's right is that wrong
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how far you can go with it
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and some tips if you're a Spanish speaker
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on how to be more clear and confident
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when you speak English
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- You got it!
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(laughter)
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Took a while to figure out how to say the whole thing
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- But no no its actually really important for
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you guys to understand that those are not only words,
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its a mindset.
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- So I don't like to use lose your accent,
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eliminate your accent or speak like a native,
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cause not that its not achievable,
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but it takes a lot of hard work
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and I don't think that people need to do that,
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but I do think that you need to learn pronunciation
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to speak with clarity and confidence.
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- Yes
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- First of all it lets agree that
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once you tell yourself something negative
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oh I can't do this I can't hear that I'm just bad in this
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its not reality its your perception of reality
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and its called a limiting belief
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and your limiting belief has become your reality
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but it doesn't mean its true
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- It doesn't and I wanna add to it
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and I love the fact that we met today
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because sometimes you need somebody else to let you know
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that what you're doing is okay
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thinking like that is not wrong it is part of the process.
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- Recognizing it
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- Yes
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- Catching it is our work our constant work
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- The fact that you think that you are perfect
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or you need to be perfect or perfection by itself
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is a limiting belief cause it is the process
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- There's no such thing as perfect,
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perfect is not interesting
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- And I want to know what I'm doing right
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and I want to know if I'm not doing it right
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why am I doing it that way
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- Right, so you have the power
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yes
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not that
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Okay I have to stop here
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because we have come to the end of part one.
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In part two were going to talk about
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the most confusing words for Spanish speaking people
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and also for nonnative speakers in general
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because these are tricky words in English
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also get to see how I work with people
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how I coach someone one on one which is a lot of fun.
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Okay?
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So make sure to subscribe so you'll get a notification
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when a new video is out
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and don't forget to check out Andres' channel.
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The links are right below and you can also click here.
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Have a beautiful day and I'll see you tomorrow.
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Bye.
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