Meaning of YOU CAN'T TEACH AN OLD DOG NEW TRICKS - A Really Short English Lesson with Subtitles

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Bob's Short English Lessons


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So we have a saying in English, "You can't teach an old dog new tricks!", and what this
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means is that old people can't learn how to do new cool things.
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So when you say, "You can't teach an old dog new tricks!", what you're saying is that old
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people, like me, ha ha, have trouble learning new things.
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And you know what?
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I don't actually believe it.
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I'm an old dog and I've learned a lot of new tricks.
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I learned how to use Youtube.
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I learned how make English videos.
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And I think a lot of you are actually older.
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I think a lot of you who watch these videos are older, and you are learning English!
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Some of you are in your 30's or 40's or 50's and I know some of you are even over the age
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of 60 and you are learning English.
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Some of you for the first time in your lives.
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And I just think that is amazing and I applaud you for it.
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So I think old dogs can learn new tricks.
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And I think some of you are old dogs and you are definitely doing it.
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In fact one of the new tricks that I looked at today was I played around with TikTok.
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So if you search TikTok for Bob the Canadian, if you are a TikTok user, you can find me
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there.
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There's one little video.
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I'm not sure I'm actually going to produce videos on TikTok yet, but because I'm a old
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dog and I like to learn new tricks I thought I should at least try it out.
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So if you're a TikTok user head over to TikTok and search Bob the Canadian and see what you
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think!
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