English Fluency journey with Anna: Mastering English Fluency

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Hey everyone, thank you for joining me.
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Today we have a different episode.
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In this episode I'm going to interview Anna
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Anna is an English learner
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and she is also a student of mine. She's a member of my online program
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She's a member of the online Facebook community that we run of non-native speakers.
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But most importantly she's a YouTube creator and she has her own channel
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called the 'English Fluency Journey'
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where she shares her experience as an English learner and as an English teacher.
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We're also going to talk about how video can help you improve your English skills
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and your speaking skills.
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especially when you share it with a supportive community,
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and we're also going to talk about her experience taking my online program
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and how improving her pronunciation and her accent helped her improve her English,
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her confidence and her speaking skills.
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Okay, so let's welcome her.
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Hi, Anna, welcome welcome to my channel. How are you doing?
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Hi. Hi, I'm great
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I'm great. Excited.
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I'm so so happy and excited as well to have you here
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I've known you for a long time.
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And I think it's the first time we're doing this kind of interview together, right?
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Yes, yes. The first time together the first time ever for me
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So, I'm really honored to have you here and
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for those who don't know you
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why don't you just introduce yourself really quickly and share
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share with them what you do and where you're from.
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Okay, I'm Anna I am from Ukraine born and raised.
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So I'm a Youtuber now... recently.
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Yes.
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And I have a son, a toddler
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and me and my husband we are entrepreneurs and
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Yeah, and I learn and teach English.
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So have you ever lived in an English-speaking country?
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Have you ever had people around you who spoke English?
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No, never.
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I've never even visited English... any English-speaking countries. So yeah..
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And your English is fantastic!
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So, how do you... what have you done?
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What is the secret?
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I mean there are so many ... I always get this question all of my followers
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and all like they say, okay agree
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but you lived in New York, you know for 5 years,
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of course it was easy for you to accomplish this.
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But I don't have anyone to speak with, right. I will never improve.
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I will never be able to practice my English.
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And here you are, you know, um
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Um, yeah
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never in this room.
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this is so are not true.
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So yeah, so tell us, tell us a little bit about it.
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Yeah, I I know a lot of people that live in the US
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and they just literally can't speak. They don't know the language
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although they live there like 20 years, maybe more even so or less and
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my secret is my passion because I just love English and I just love learning and studying,'
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all this process and
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and
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Practice and hard work.
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So guys there's that's the I don't know
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That's the only way for me because I realized that
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that you have to practice, that you have to you have to do something
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Because otherwise, no, you're not gonna speak
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So, how did you even start this whole thing that your journey?
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How old were you like? What what made you?
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What what were the first few things that you started doing?
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Okay, so it started when I was in kindergarten actually.
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I remember yeah they were teaching us English
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and I remember my first, first teacher, I still remember her face.
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She was great, and my first word that I remembered,
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that I learned was 'an apple'.
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So I came back home and I was like: 'Mommy, I know that this is an apple, this is an apple!"
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It was so exciting and I loved it.
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and when of course it was school, but do you know our educational system it's not great.
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It was like basic and we didn't have internet back then.
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So I didn't have any opportunities that we have now, right? Yeah,
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but I knew back then that I love this language.
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And when I was watching some movies or TV shows
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and I, I heard this, their voices to the background behind the translation
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I tried to listen carefully and I try to repeat.
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So that's when I started to apply this shadowing technique.
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Although I didn't know about that.
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Maybe explain a little bit. What is the shadowing technique?
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It's when you hear something and repeat right away after the speaker. Yeah.
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Do you speak English English with your son?
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Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Only English, or?
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When we're at home, it's only English
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and when we were outside, of course I speak Ukrainian
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because a lot of people are around and
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the people that we know they like looking at us like we're weird or something
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but you know even though I still speak in English with him outside.
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and it's a to me. It's kind of additional motivation to learn English
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and to drill sounds
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to be, to be consistent, to you use a proper English and .. Right,
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to learn grammar because it's important.
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Right.
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especially before a child. Yeah.
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Yeah, yeah, absolutely, and it's a gift, you know, you're giving him the gift of
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having a second language and then it's amazing.
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Yeah, I hope so
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Although my mom says like because he says .... all these words and she's like, oh my god
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he's speaking English and
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'This R, this R-sound. Don't teach him this R-sound!
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Teach him our R-r-r-sound!
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Yeah, it's so funny.
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He'll master both, he'll master both.
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That's so amazing with kids is that they're able to hear an apply immediately
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It's not like us. That it's hard for us now to move from R-r- to the Ur.
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So yeah, that's the beauty of being a baby, you know?
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Yeah. Yeah.
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So, do you ever feel judgement?
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When you speak do you ever feel
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What is your biggest fear when you communicate in English?
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Do you ever, have you ever experienced judgment from other people?
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even non-native speakers of English
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that like do not understand why you're doing this English thing
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Yeah, just of non-native speakers actually.
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Really?
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Yeah, native speakers, they don't judge they actually
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well the ones I've talked to
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they are actually fascinated by the fact that we learn English
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and that we can master this language and I really like it because it's their own
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language and a lot of
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English native speakers, they don't know other languages. So yeah, but
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Yeah, I am judged by people
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around me
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yeah.
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So I get these looks all the time and these weird questions like
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'So, okay, so you have a YouTube channel?'
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"That's funny'. And like so so, do you know English? So do you teach English?
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it's like and I'm like standing and saying well, yeah, so what? And
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But actually it's um, to be honest I couldn't care less.
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Right.
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I'm just ending these conversations like they are and say: "Okay it was nice to talk to you, and goodbye".
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Someone will always have something to say, you know.
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Yeah.
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I recently listened to Rachel Hollis. She's awesome and she had this
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podcasts or she says it in their book.
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'Other people's opinions of you are none of your business', right?
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It's not it shouldn't interest you
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It shouldn't bother you
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and you definitely shouldn't make a decision
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based on what other people think, you know.
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And I think this is a great motto.
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Yeah,
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if you feel that this is something that you want to do
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then do it, then don't listen to anyone. Yeah
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Especially when it comes to English people feel that they're not enough
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because they're non-native speakers.
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They're new to English.
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They weren't born into the language.
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But it's more than enough, you know
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It's more than enough
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If you do the work, if you show up
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if you're consistent, if you provide value to others then absolutely.
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Okay, so Anna, what made you
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decide to open your YouTube channel, and how did it all start?
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Okay, so it all started when I
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found, actually I came across your YouTube channel,
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and then I found out about this community,
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about this Facebook group of non-native speakers
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that learn English and help each other
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but actually back It was just just just a challenge.
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Right.
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So we had a challenge. Was that 30-day challenge, right?
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Cuz I have up one before. The 30 day July challenge, right?
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Yeah.
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We do there
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Yeah, and we had to make videos every single day
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talking about some particular topic
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that was intimidating
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and terrifying experience for me
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because I started from introducing myself and
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It was so weird because I've never talked to anyone in English. Let's say like this
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Maybe there was some time but especially I didn't record myself.
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I haven't recorded myself ever!
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So it was so weird, but then I decided that I'm gonna do it.
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if I start it then I'm gonna continue.
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How did you like once you posted the first video?
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What did you think that's going to happen?
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Actually, I was I was so terrified that I didn't think anything.
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I was like, oh my god. Did I actually do it?
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Oh my god, people are watching and they're commenting. Oh gosh
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I had all these thoughts.
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Then I watched a lot of other videos of other people
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and I never judged, never judge.
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And I was like, they are awesome. They're great.
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They're speaking English. That's amazing.
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Yeah, and I was like I can do it too and I'm gonna do it.
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I'm gonna be consistent. So I'm gonna
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I'm gonna
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continue with this challenge
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and yeah, and I did.
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The comments what you got were amazing, right.
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Like the feedback you've got, people loved you.
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Yeah, yeah, the comments were great.
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They were asking me like
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what do I do to improve? What did I do to get this level of English?
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Although I didn't think that it was a level at all
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I was so stunned by those comments. I was like great. It's it's awesome.
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And this is where that was a great motivation for me.
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I was like, yeah I wanted to do it and now I have this confirmation that I need to continue.
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Yeah, that was great
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This is this is what I love about it so much
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Is that people have these opinions about themselves and about their English.
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How bad it is and how
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Not interesting, they are and not engaging
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and they take the first step and they post the video and
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they want to you know like
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Natalie one of our students, she's also from Ukraine,
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she said that she posted a video and she turned off the phone and
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and then she deleted the Facebook app from her phone
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because she was so embarrassed
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She was just like it's going to be terrible.
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people are going to mock me and ridicule me
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And then like the next day, she was just like I don't know
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I don't want to know anything about it
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and then the next day she turn it on
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and there are all these amazing comments
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'You're awesome' . 'Thank you so much for sharing'.
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'You're so interesting and awesome.'
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You're like wait, right.
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It's like what exists in my head does not exist in other people's heads
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Actually people are interested in what I have to say and they're curious
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And and they're motivated and inspired by what I'm saying or how I show up
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And that gives you an to continue, you know and from there
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she was like she posted every single day and
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they're super interesting video
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and I think she created relations
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like we all did, you know like created relationships?
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And had impact on each other.
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I mean there's such stong relationships
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just by just because you connect to people who show up on video.
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Because when you see someone you're like you really see the person
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and you can get a little deeper than you can in
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just writing a post, you know, so
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Yeah, yeah.
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The patience or their the skills
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to write like exactly what they want to say, so
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Taking a video. That's actually the secret. I would say
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Right.
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Making us you get supportive community
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Yeah, yeah totally respond.
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Yes, and the safe place, I think like a place like you said you never judge and just like you
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people don't judge like in that community at least,
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like like it was only support it was always only empowerment so
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yeah, yeah a lot of support and a lot of feedback and I get some great advice and
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corrections because we have a lot of teachers there.
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Right.
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So of course that my grammar wasn't great and I was struggling with it.
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And I is still struggle, you know.
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I still make mistakes, but that's okay I think.
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And you know, it's it's so great because you get to improve just like this
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so and also
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You know what I loved as well that I had to make like 5 videos every single time
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because I didn't like something,
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because I made a mistake,
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because I didn't say that I wanted to stay
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because it forget
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forgot something. Yeah and
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It was great because every single time it was better and better and better.
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Yeah
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That's how you improve when you don't have someone to talk to use video
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This is like my new my new
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Belief system, right if you don't have people you have the video thank God like everyone has a phone so yeah, yeah
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okay, so so what so from that point where you saw that you're like
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You know you you have people who want to listen to what you have to say
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What was the moment where you decided that okay, I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna open my youtube channel
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Yeah, that was that moment
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But actually I wanted to start my youtube channel a lot earlier me and my husband we were thinking about that
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But we just didn't know
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what to talk about
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what would you show to people
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what to share and how to help people
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and that was the problem and
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then when I told my husband, you know, I would like to I would like to try
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because I think that
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something amazing will happen and
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and will turn work out from that and also that was another
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opportunity for me to practice and to learn English and to stick to it.
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Right, absolutely.
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Yeah.
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And you're always like if you have a dream you always have to go for it
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I mean worst thing that can happen you fail you close the channel
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That's it, like or you click but but it it and you only learn from it
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you only learn and you start again doing something better because you learn
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But the worst thing is just like not to do it
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because you're afraid
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you're afraid you're not gonna succeed,
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you're afraid of of what people are gonna think I mean, you know
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You're the only person who needs to face those consequences at the end of the day, so
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Got it.
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Yeah.
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You got to give it a try
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Yeah.
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Well, when we started the channel I didn't think about getting a lot of subscribers.
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I didn't think about bad comments because I know that there always will be bad comments.
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Always. There are people that like you and there are people they just don't like you no matter what
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You say and just because you look this way. That's it.
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Yeah, and I wasn't thinking about that man
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I I just I just wanted to
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when when I had my first hundred subscribers it was so exciting
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I was like, oh my god a hundred people are listening to me
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and are interested in what I have to say
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This is so cool. Yeah, and I just wanted to I just wanted to share
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then I start getting questions
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Amazing.
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That was exciting.
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Yeah, as well.
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So what kind of content do you share on your channel?
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Different
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like tips and advice how to improve how to learn
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basically on your own
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And I just share what do I do all the time?
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Mm-hm.
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And I'm gonna yeah, I'm planning to make a video like I'm explaining
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and telling that
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Describing my day.
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What I do is every single day to practice like just to show people that
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It's all achievable. It's oh it's all doable
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You can't find time for that you can't make time for that.
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Right, right.
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It doesn't need to be much you just have to be very intentional about it, right.
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So what was the video you had the most fun creating or you thought that was?
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Like, you know you you really enjoy doing
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Okay, so
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to be honest
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Like the first 10 videos that we've made
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Were really fun to shoot
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because we didn't have a place so we don't have a studio or a separate room for that and
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every single time we have to arrange here in the apartment
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the place to shoot the video so we had to
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We had to we had to buy these lamps, lights.
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and yeah, my husband was arranging all that
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it was so it was such a mess inside the apartment
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Right.
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We tried to that
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Yeah, we tried to keep our baby away
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So we were
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Yeah, he was what you got a lot of your videos
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I think on one of your videos you can even hear him right like
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yeah.
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I remember watching one of your videos
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I remember cuz when I just started out it was just the same way
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waiting for the girls to go to the kindergarten and then
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You know
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changing the entire apartment getting all the lights and everything
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and then having to fix it all, right
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Yeah. Yeah, and also I'm
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Yeah, and it's a great experience for my husband as well.
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Because he he's learning how to edit videos
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Hmm
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and he's enjoying this a lot. So this is like his
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This is like his
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how to say it right?
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Passion?
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Like yeah passion or this idiom, a cup of....
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want to say something
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Cup of tea?
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yeah, cup of tea, yeah
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Yeah
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So the coffee didn't feel right but the cup of something.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, I have this word. I was in the middle of a class
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I had like 10 students in front of me
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and I get stuck here just like no wait, I know this word.
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And that was that what was the word I was looking for?
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Forbid it
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forbidding, forbidding or forbid
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So it was just like, you know, I know this word
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is just it was not very available and nothing else
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was fitting enough.
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Yeah.
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So also, so once we started in the Fluency challenge
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you also became a member of my online program, right
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The Accent Makeover
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Yeah
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Online course.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, and you actually made a video about it
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without me knowing.
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So it wasn't like something planned
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because I think it was worthwhile
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So guys if you want to learn more about the program
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I'm gonna I'm gonna put links to everything below
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So go check out her channel, you know
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because it's over there and
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anyway, you need to go check out our channel
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and subscribe to If you're learning English and
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So, yeah, maybe telling a little bit about that about that experience
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and why pronunciation was like,
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why improving your pronunciation was a goal for you and why?
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How it helped your English like I'm really curious in understanding
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what led you to join this program and to
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What impact did it have on your English?
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So I gotta say that in the first place why I decided to
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do at least something and to change my life, basically
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starting learning English because of my son
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because I want
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better opportunities for him and better life.
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So this is why and
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for that reason if I wanted to talk in English to my son.
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I needed to have a good pronunciation
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So that was the main, the main reason.
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Right
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also
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that I have a YouTube channel,
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and I have to like speak properly and I to know how to speak and
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to be honest enrolling to this course was the best decision that I made.
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It's so, it's so true because I
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Could be frankly speaking. I didn't expect much.
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I was like well, okay this is gonna be like some recorded video lessons
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and
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maybe I'm gonna practice
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maybe I'm not gonna practice.
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I don't know...
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but it got so interesting
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It was so engaging.
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Yeah.
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We have this group as well
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Right.
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We have another I think a Facebook group for the course numbers, right
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Yeah, and a lot of people they're posting their videos
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and drilling sounds and doing all the work
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and it was so great, so exciting
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and when I started, it was so hard.
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I didn't expect that
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so I
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my face muscles literally hurt a lot
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when I tried to speak properly and to speak like a lot like having a conversation
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It was hard. It was so hard.
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It was so tensed.
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Yeah.
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Like we resist, right.
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We've learned something new
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and the muscle resists it right like the muscles and
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So you got to learn how to let go
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and how to train those new muscles like the th, you know
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we're starting with the th.
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So the tongue does those things that it never used to do before so yeah, uh-huh.
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Yeah
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Yeah, it was
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but
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when I practice I actually kind of saw the results right away like on the
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like the
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Like on the other day, let's say it like this
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So I practiced today a lot, a lot, a lot and then I I was so tired and exhausted
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and then when I got it up
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the other day and I tried all these words and all these sentences
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It was easy and I was like, oh my god, this is so great
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Yeah
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Now I can no I can't pronounce it actually
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because I didn't have actually a lot of problems with the separate sounds or maybe words
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but I had a problem with sentences.
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So when we go to sentences, it's hard to
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to try to repeat with the same intonation and speed and all the stresses.
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Right
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Yeah that It's hard to be consistent especially when you get tired,
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and you don't want to think about the accent, right
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It has to be there for you
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For that you gotta develop the skills,
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and the pronunciation skills on the muscle memory, right
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Yeah. Yeah.
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What was the most challenging sound for you?
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Element of the speech that you worked on throughout the course
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I'd say that of course th
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Mm-hmm.
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because we don't have this sound in our language, in Ukrainian language
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but particularly
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this transition when we have voiceless th and S, voice th and Z.
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Mm-hmm
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And I still tend a bullet I
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let's get a given example like voiceless th and s 'with some'
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'with some' with some , PS
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'with some people' or yeah
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'Is that you?' , right
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These transitions I get questions about those all of the time
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so we have a few tricks there in the course, right
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that we as how to practice and drill it
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so it's easy
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So this is like my number one problem.
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Let's say like this
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Yeah, we also do that. We prioritize our issues, right
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So it's not like we need to learn everything.
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I love it that you said it now I and that you pointed it
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Yeah, absolutely. Cuz like if you're if something is not yet there or you
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you get obsessed about a certain sound, but you haven't mastered
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that's probably your number one priority
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because if you get self-conscious about
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especially when you're at a more advanced level where it's not a clarity issue
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right
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then you've got to figure out and bring the sounds that are tricky for you
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or that you are that you're overly aware
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and for people who have clarity issues that like they're really not fully understood
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then they need to work on first and foremost
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like all of the time
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during the course and after you know to
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to invest all the time to master the sounds that will get them
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the best results, right.
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So this is the system behind it. Yeah.
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Yeah
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yeah, also of course that's
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V and W, V sounds
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The same problem here
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For Ukranian speakers and Russian speakers. Yeah
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Yeah, because we don't have these sounds in our languages and it's when people
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When people do these sounds make these sounds it sounds
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Like they are
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I forgot the word, you know all they we have this boring.
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Mm-hmm
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Well, it sounds like they're not speaking properly a bit weird
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Oh that they have a list for they have a speech again.
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Yeah. Yes. Yes exactly
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I'm yeah is is something that we're trying to face? Yes.
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Mmm-hmm.
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And actually I still work
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with your practice toolkits that you gave us
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Oh, cool.
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Yeah
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Once it over you get like two months
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worth of recordings for every single day where it's like 10 minutes a day.
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Do you find it useful, helpful?
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Super useful, I'm on the day 45 right now.
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Good for you!
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Yeah
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Yeah, and I go back to those days that were
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maybe, maybe hard or maybe that I want to drill them more and more.
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So I always go back and I actually practice it throughout the day.
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practiced throughout the day. So starting from the morning.
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This is the first thing that I do.
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I get up, I have my breakfast
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and then I go and practice
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with these practice toolkits because it's so convenient.
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We have this already recorded, you know like
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Yeah, you don't need search for the content
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Yeah, you know I work with
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So like the reason why I created it is actually for,
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I created it for my online students
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but the needs came from all of my students even the ones here in my
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school in Tel Aviv
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the
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okay, there's all this content.
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How do I know what to focus on?
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How do I decide what to do every single day and
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people are so busy that they don't have like that
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because they need to take another action of opening the drive looking for the content
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deciding, the decision
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So I'm like I'm gonna stay here the decision.
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I decided for you what you're gonna practice today
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all you need to do is hit play, you know
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and then I think it's very valuable of the responses are great
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I feel that people do the work
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And the most important that I've learned on this course
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is to be consistent and to actually you taught us
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You taught us what to do.
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So you showed us all the tricks and hacks and like to
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to practice with TED Talks.
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So you get to choose some TED talks and you you can
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You can do shadowing practice or whatever.
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So it's like
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We also have the monologues where you did incredible work.
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Right you have it.
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Yeah, that was so fun each, right. You want to you want to tell us about that?
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Oh, that was so much fun
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I
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I've chosen this monologue
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I actually don't remember right now the name
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"Hidden figures".
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Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah
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I was really impressed by the power of this monologue
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but by the power of power of the speech and I and I really wanted to
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go out at the comfort zone one more time
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because it was something totally new in this monologue
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it requires to be so, so emotional
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Right.
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to play, to show yourself, to scream
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and I was like okay
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how am I even gonna do it?
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but I just closed the door and I decided that yes
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I'm gonna record this and actually the first so that was the first take I guess
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that I that I did and my husband said that this one is just great
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because you showed like
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showed all the emotions and it was so genuine
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Yeah
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So he like
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You even picked up on the southern accent. It was so good. Yeah
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So to wrap it up Anna
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What is the best thing you can recommend our viewers
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and the people out there learning English
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or wanting to improve their English, but they don't live in an English-speaking country
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So you talked a little bit about it at the beginning, but you know
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if you can tell me in one thing that they can start doing as of today
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tell me in one thing that they can start doing as of today
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Even though they don't have a conversation partner
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Like what can they do to improve their speaking skills?
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Okay, if we're talking about speaking skills
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that I would really recommend to do this mimicking, shadowing practice
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and to need to record yourself
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Right.
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This is this is those are two main things that you should do to improve
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and if you want if you can't if you're not shy then just
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join this community, our community Facebook group
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and post our videos there
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but be consistent don't just post one video
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don't just post one video and then people all people are like
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oh nobody commented and I don't know
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I'm so frustrated. That was so humiliating.
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No, it wasn't. We have so many people there.
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So I guess
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So maybe it's just lost in the feed
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like it could be an hour when too many people posted at the same time
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Yeah
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So you got a consistent you got to show up right now like
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You know, we don't have the 30 day challenge
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but we have weekly discussions right every week. We have a different topic
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This week it's about privilege, you know,
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What is being privileged mean and so it's like
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and last week what was like your favorite movie seems
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so we have different topics
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so it's quite fun
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like to talk about things enough of your comfort zone on video
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and we have different activities
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and we have Fluency talks where people give "mini-TED talks"
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Yeah
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in the group so
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I'd say that if you want, really want to feedback then you should post your video
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You should take part in the activities
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Yeah.
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For example, we yeah, cuz then you're gonna get your feedback is for sure
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and then you're gonna be
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You're gonna be noticed.
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So okay, there you are and
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then people are gonna watch your weekly discussion video a lot more
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and it's really about like doing the work and benefiting,
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from, you know recording 5 videos and finally uploading the fifth one.
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Even if you don't it's like
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if people don't upload but they do the work
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and they get inspired but by other people and they learn it.
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That's also valuable, you know
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Yeah.
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I actually, I didn't have time to upload
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and I forgot to upload a lot of videos of weekly discussions that we had
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but I recorded them. Yeah, I have them to my phone and I watched
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like the other day one of the videos and I noticed that I pronounced. I forgot the word
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That I pronounced some word wrong
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Right.
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And I was like, oh
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Great. Okay. Now I'm gonna check it out.
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And now I know how to pronounce this word.
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Right.
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This is so useful.
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So useful, so valuable. Absolutely.
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Anna It was so much fun talking to you
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So it was so much fun as well.
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So first of all, thank you so much
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I know your your baby boy is a little sick today
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and you'd still took the time
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and spend it with us and shared your knowledge in your journey
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the English Fluency journey
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And that's also your YouTube channel
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and I highly recommend you all to go and check it out and subscribe
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and go click on the link
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So I will put a few links below check them out
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if you want to know more about the program
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so also go check out the video Anna made on her channel.
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And of course join us, join our community on Facebook
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of non-native speakers from around the world
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Yes.
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You know
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maybe one day you will open your YouTube channel also
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Because you'll get so freaking comfortable on video
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and you'll see that you are a rock star
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It's just like you Anna
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yeah
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Thanks for having me. That was awesome.
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Yeah, thank you so much and thank you for all the value you bring to
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English learners around the world. So thanks
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