Learn the English Terms GENTLE GIANT and SLEEPING GIANT

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In this English lesson,
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I wanted to help you learn the English term gentle giant.
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A gentle giant is someone who's really tall and really big,
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but actually very, very kind.
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Sometimes when you see a really large man,
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someone who maybe works out at the gym,
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someone who's over six feet tall,
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not like me, I'm under six feet tall,
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but someone who works out, over six feet tall,
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and you might think they're very, very mean.
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Maybe they have big tattoos on their arms
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and they just look like
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they're someone who's just not very nice,
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but if you get to know them, they're actually very kind.
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We would call that person a gentle giant.
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I actually have an uncle who I would say is a gentle giant.
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If you didn't know him, if you just looked at him,
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he looks big and mean, but if you get to know him,
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he's a very, very kind person.
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He's definitely a gentle giant.
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The other term I wanted to teach you today
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is the term sleeping giant.
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We use the term sleeping giant
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to talk about an organization, or usually a country,
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that's very quiet and doesn't seem very powerful
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until someone provokes them.
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And we would say that then they kind of wake up.
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So a sleeping giant is a country
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that has a lot of resources, they have a lot of hidden power
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and no one really knows until they tick them off,
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until they make them angry.
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We would say that they are a sleeping giant.
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And then when someone does tick them off,
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you realize that they're actually quite powerful.
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So to review, a gentle giant is a very, very big person,
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usually a man, it's almost always a man,
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who's like over six feet tall, works out at the gym,
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maybe drives a big motorcycle and has tattoos,
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and you think they are mean,
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but when you actually get to know them,
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they are super, super nice.
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And a sleeping giant, usually used to refer to a country
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that doesn't seem very powerful until someone provokes them,
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and then you realize
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they're actually quite a powerful country.
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So, hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video.
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This comment is from,
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I think, Regina, Google Translate said,
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and the comment is this:
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"I created a manual with links to different resources.
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It is about my experience, how I learned English,
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and I would like to inform you
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that I included both your channels
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in the list of my favorite YouTube channels about English."
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Thank you so much.
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And my response, "Thank you, (chuckles)
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thank you so much for adding me to the list.
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I promise to continue working hard
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to provide English-learning content."
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So I do really appreciate that.
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Every once in a while, people will let me know
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that they've added me to a list of website links,
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or they've added me to a handout in their classroom,
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they've put links to my YouTube channel or channels
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somewhere so that other people can find me.
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I appreciate it when people let other people know
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about my English-learning content.
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I really like making it, and it seems, I don't know,
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a little bit, I don't know what the exact word is,
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the more people share your videos,
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It's kind of like that's how the system works.
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So not that I'm super intent on getting really famous,
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it's not that I'm super intent on growing,
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but it is enjoyable for me
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to see that lots of people watch an English lesson
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that I put a lot of work into.
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So thank you to all of you that do that.
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Thank you to all of you
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that share my videos with other people.
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I really appreciate it.
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Anyways, Bob the Canadian here on a nice Monday afternoon,
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sorry, Sunday afternoon, (chuckles)
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I hope you're having a good day.
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I'll see you in a couple days
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with another short English lesson, bye.
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