LEARN ENGLISH LIVE FROM ENGLAND - 6th JULY 2019 - with Misterduncan - Chat to me !

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English Addict with Mr Duncan


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oh hello there hi everybody this is mr. Duncan in England how are you today
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are you okay I hope so are you happy are you happy that is the question I am
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asking right now are you happy I really hope so here we are then outside on a
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Saturday just after lunchtime it is around about 5 minutes past midday 12
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p.m. it's just after lunchtime although I'm not having my lunch just yet in
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about an hour and a half I will be going into town to have some lunch with mr.
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Steve but at the moment I'm standing in the garden and I think it might be the
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first time I've ever done a livestream in the rain
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it is raining at the moment and I've had to put a big cover over my head to
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protect myself so if you see anything flapping around above my head that is
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the reason why I am undercover but I am still outside I think this might be the
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first time I've ever done a livestream in the rain so at the moment it is
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raining and we've had some glorious weather over the past few days it's been
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absolutely gorgeous but today everything has changed it has reverted oh I like
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that word reverted if something revert it means it goes back to its former
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state so the way it was before so if something reverts it goes back to how it
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was before it reverts very similar to reverse so revert means to go back to
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its former state so the weather at the moment has reverted to typical British
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summer weather which is rain and lots of gray clouds anyway I'm feeling great
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today even though last night I had a terrible night's sleep I couldn't get to
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sleep last night at all I found it very difficult to slow
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because it was so hot so the weather yesterday was at its peak the highest
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temperature yesterday and it was very humid so last night in bed I could not
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get to sleep I was tossing I was turning I couldn't get to sleep I was awake
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until around about 3:30 in the morning I could just couldn't get to sleep
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it was so hard it was so hot in the in in the bedroom the windows were open but
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there was no air nothing no fresh air was coming into the house so it was
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really quite hot and humid so I didn't sleep very well which worried me I was a
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bit worried I thought well maybe I won't have enough energy to do the live stream
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but to be honest with you I feel quite good this morning I woke up as usual
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with a smile on my face so glad that I get to see another day of existence
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isn't that lovely I hope you are well - I'm going to set the live stream up so
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just give me a moment oh that was easy I've done it quite quickly there so here
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we go it's Saturday my name is mr. Duncan if you don't know who I am I am
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an English teacher I have been teaching here on YouTube can you guess how long
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I've been here on YouTube teaching English do you know go on have
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a guess no not six days cheeky actually I've been on here for 13
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years this year I will be celebrating my 13th anniversary on YouTube so the live
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chat is very busy hello Sarge Sarge Junaid you are first on the live chat
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today welcome to my little live stream from my garden here in England a lot of
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people ask where are you mr. Duncan I'm in a place called Much Wenlock which is
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in Shropshire and that is where I am right now talking to you live from my
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garden in the rain it's not raining heavily it is what we call
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all drizzle drizzle so drizzle means something that falls very lightly it
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isn't too heavy so the rain at the moment I can feel it on my hand the rain
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at the moment it is just drizzle drizzle so it's not too bad
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I hope the rain doesn't get on my camera or it might blow up so hello to Maura
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hello Maura thanks for joining me on Saturday and yes good news I will be
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here every weekend on Saturday and Sunday and there are the details I hope
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you can see them clearly so there are the details of my live streams so you
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have live English on Saturday it's 12:00 midday that is lunchtime UK time and on
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Sunday at 2:00 p.m. UK time as usual so you have two live streams to look
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forward to every weekend so not just one but two so
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there you can see make a note of the times 12:00 p.m. which is midday lunch
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time UK time and also on Sunday 2:00 p.m. UK time as usual and as if that
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wasn't enough also there will be a new full English lesson posted every week as
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well oh my goodness I am really spoiling you I have to be honest I think I am
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spoiling you far too much so there you can see the times of the live streams
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and there will be a new full English lesson posted every Wednesday so make a
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note of that as well so there will be a new full English lesson posted every
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Wednesday I hope you can see that clearly on the screen make a note of it
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Saturday Sunday live streams and a new full English lesson every Wednesday I
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have been so busy in the in this week filming some clips for my
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next full English lesson of course there was one posted last Wednesday I hope
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you've seen it it was quite interesting to make and also I hope quite
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interesting to watch for you and next Wednesday there will be another one as
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well and can I just let you in on a secret next Wednesday the next full
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English lesson I will be pondering the meaning of life ponder have you heard
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that word ponder to ponder is to think about things you think you ponder you
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wonder you consider you ponder it's a great word that I think we use that more
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in British English but you might hear it used as well in American English also
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hello to anise luskey hello to you and also hello to Rana
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hello Rana nice to see you here on the live stream this is a short live stream
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on Saturday and then on Sunday we always have the long live stream so I'm here to
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say hello and talk about a few subjects but most importantly I am here to chat
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to you because that's the reason why I am here and the reason why you are here
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is because you love the English language hi grace hello grace chin nice to see
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you here as well on the live stream also
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Khadija hello Khadija I think you were watching last week weren't you I think
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you were on the live stream last week as well
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Solomon is here also Sarah and Giovanni Giovanni asks when does the live stream
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start well it's on now here we are live together the whole world coming together
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to share their love of English andrew is Sunday already no it's not Sunday
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don't worry there is nothing wrong with your calendar it is Saturday I will be
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doing live streams Saturday 12 p.m. and Sunday 2 p.m.
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excuse me I am suffering at the moment with hayfever which is not surprising
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because this week all the farmers around here have been cutting their grass so I
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have been suffering from hay fever this week so if I do cough or sneeze now and
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again I do apologize for that but I am suffering from the seasonal allergy
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known as hay fever I don't like it it makes my nose very
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sore it makes my throat sore as well it makes my eyes itchy and my nose runs and
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I sneeze quite often during the hay fever season so if I do sneeze I
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apologize hello - Rana hello also to Baja hello Baja engineer asthma is here
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oh thank you very much for joining me again let's have a look now at the live
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chat as it is right now
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guau guau Rev Gua rev says hello it's happy to see you after a long time where
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have you been Gua rev what have you been doing hello mr. Duncan working as busy
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as a bee has become your new lifestyle I think so I have been so busy and I
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really worried last night I was very worried because I thought I wouldn't be
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able to do the live stream because I didn't sleep very well last night does
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that happen to you do you sometimes find that it's very very hard to get to sleep
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that's what happened last night because it was so humid
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the bed was very hot it was a hot bed hi mr. Duncan greetings from Chile
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Alexandra Alexandra hello this week we've learned with my students
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from your video about money and they told me you are a fantastic teacher
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thank you very much for that isn't that nice I love hearing from you and I like
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finding out how you are using my video lessons so sometimes teachers do use my
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video lessons in their classrooms which is okay that's why I do it I like to
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share my love of English with everyone we also have Abdullah from Ethiopia also
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I want to ask mr. Duncan do you have a family well I have a family everyone has
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a family you have a family we all have a family that's the reason why I'm here in
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this world because I have a family I have problems with your video every
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lesson there there are too many words that I must repeat to not forget what do
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you advise for me Thank You Heba for your question can I just say something
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when you watch my videos you can always stop the video you can pause it or if
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you want to review the video you can watch it again so sometimes there might
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be words that you don't understand or maybe a word that you hear or maybe you
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see a word on the subtitles sometimes that you don't understand or maybe you
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don't know the meaning of but I always suggest that you can stop the video like
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that you can pause the video you can
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stop the video so if there is something that you hear or see in the video that
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you want to understand more clearly you can
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pause the video you can stop the video and look at what is on the screen so
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that is my advice to you learning is the same whatever you are trying to learn
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whatever you are interested in learning is always the same the process is always
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the same you have to do things in stages many people make the mistake of trying
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to learn too much too soon when sometimes you just need to give
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yourself a little bit of space to breathe you need to do it carefully but
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also don't do too much don't overdo it or else you might feel too stressed and
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then perhaps you will give up so don't worry too much if you don't understand
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everything it is perfectly normal that is how we all learn I really learn too
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much from you maybe you mean so much sometimes people
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say mr. Duncan I love your lessons too much well in fact what I think you mean
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is I love your lessons so much that is a better way of expressing your enjoyment
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of something hammered hi mr. Duncan I'm Jabbar maquette from
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Syria but now I'm living in Dubai and I've been watching your videos since
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2007 Wow 12 years 12 years you've been watching
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my videos I am so grateful for each lesson you produce indeed they are so
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beneficial oh I like that word if something is beneficial it means it
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helps you so it is a benefit to you you find it beneficial it helps you to
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succeed or to move forward you get something from it that helps you
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something is an official it's really starting to rain
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now I tell you Rakesh hello Rakesh hello accent as Sentinel
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the Zulu a salut I hope I pronounced your name right mr. Duncan you have all
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of my respect Thank You Rana that is very kind of you to say so
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accent hello accent I like your name by the way
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hello mr. Duncan I'm glad to see you again from Spain hello to Spain I was
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very close to you a couple of weeks ago I was in Portugal having a little break
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did you see my livestream that I did from Portugal I did really I'm not
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joking I'm not buying mr. Duncan could you
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please tell me the best way to learn English from the start well as I've just
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explained you learn just the way you learn anything you learn from what I
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call the basics the simple parts of any subject are the first things you learn
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the first things you learn when you start out is the basics Olga says the
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pauses you made were fantastic I first thought that something was wrong with my
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connection sorry mr. Duncan if you have more time for me to talk with me because
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I want to learn English I humbly request you well I don't do personal lessons for
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the reason which is very clear that I don't have time so I don't have time to
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teach personally but I do try to give as many people as possible a chance to
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listen to English being spoken and that's the reason why I do the live
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lessons so the live streams allow you to listen to English being spoken
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naturally so nothing here has been planned
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nothing has been rehearsed everything you see is spontaneous it hasn't been
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rehearsed I was lying in bed this morning until about half-past 10:00 and
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then I suddenly realized that I had a live stream to do so yes I've had a busy
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morning let's just say and now I'm standing here with you in the rain is it
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raining where you are I doubt it Maria
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hello mr. Duncan please give me some advice how to understand another English
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accent yours is very pure but there are some really hard there are some accents
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that are really hard to understand will I sympathize with you and can I just say
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something there are accents in English that even I don't understand clearly and
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this is something I always explain when when students say I don't understand
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everyone when they speak English but the thing to remember is sometimes even
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native speakers like me don't understand some of the accents Scottish accents can
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be very difficult to understand they are not clear sometimes with the
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pronunciation so what I always say is don't worry too much about it because
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quite often even a native English speaker will have difficulty
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understanding certain accents and the reason why I speak clearly is because
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that's how I speak so this is my my normal speaking voice
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this isn't put on this is how I normally speak even in everyday life this is how
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I speak hmm it is very generous of you mr. Duncan thank you very much you are
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welcome it's not a problem I enjoy doing this and I hope you enjoy watching
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hello mr. Duncan from Congo hello Patrick watching in Congo hello to you
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nice to see you it is a shame but I live in London for
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six years and I continue to need your help mr. Duncan thank you for your help
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well I try to offer as much advice as possible but sometimes the advice is
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just very simple so if you want to improve your English
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my advice is always the same thing you need to make it a part of your life
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you need to get into the habit of learning new words every day and slowly
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you build your word power it happens over a period of time you can't rush it
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never try to rush learning something because the fact is eventually you won't
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want to do it anymore don't forget that I was searching for your last lesson and
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caught up with the live stream on YouTube it is a nice surprise
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yes I posted a new lesson last week on Wednesday another full English lesson
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and there will be another full English lesson next Wednesday I will show you
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this again just in case you missed it so there is the new schedule you can see it
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there on the screen Saturday live English 12:00 midday 12:00 p.m. UK time
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and on Sunday 2:00 p.m. UK time and a new full English lesson every Wednesday
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mr. doe could we can't believe it you're giving us a live lesson every Wednesday
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yes it's true I'm not joking I wish I was but I'm not I really do need a table
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to help me present I need a big table in front of me but I don't have one today
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well it's really raining now it is chucking it down it is coming down very
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heavily something very strange happened during
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the week now we've had some very weird weather over the past few days it's been
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very dry but also very windy which is very unusual for summertime during the
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summertime we don't tend to have strong wind but this week there were there was
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dry weather and also very strong winds and something very strange happened
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right here do you want to know what it was many farmers at the moment are
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cutting the grass they are making bales of hay for the animals to feed on later
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in the year but something very strange happened whilst they were cutting the
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grass the wind caught some of the grass and carried it into the air and a lot of
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it landed in the garden in fact the house on the roof has lots of hay on top
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of it and also in the garden there there are pieces of hay lying around you want
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to see some of it there's some right here look so this this was literally
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falling from the sky the other day this was falling out of the sky
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so this is hay that was being cut during the week so when this is growing it is
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grass once it is cut once it has been trimmed we call this hay hay so this is
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hay and because of the strong winds during the week this was flying all over
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the place and lots of it was landing in the garden so it's everywhere some
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clumps and lots of fragments as well fragments of hay everywhere apparently
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rana says I love rainy days I'm not sure if I share
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you're feeling I'm not sure if I share your opinion of that but yes I suppose
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the rain is okay as long as you are not outside in the rain like today so the
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forecast yesterday was for rain and here it is
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the weather forecast was right thank you for getting it right and making my live
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stream very soggy can you give us some advice on interesting books to read this
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summer well there are many different types of books it just depends what you
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are interested in so there are many different types of story many different
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types of novels many different types of books that you can buy about all sorts
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of things some people like a particular type of
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story some people like to read historical books they like to read about
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history and things that happened in the past other people like to read crime
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novels books about crimes sometimes the crimes are real and they really happened
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and sometimes the crimes are fictitious they are fiction fiction and fact so
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fact and fiction are antonyms they are the opposites so fact means something
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that is real it really happened fiction is something that is unreal it
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has been created it it is I suppose you could use the word fake fake now there
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is a word that is being used a lot recently acmad hello Ahmed nice to see
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you here long time no see mr. Duncan well I'm here I'm here just for you so
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don't worry Olga says the strong wind is starting around the place where I am at
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the moment maybe it's the same wind that you had before yes maybe the wind has
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moved away from here and now it has gone to where you are Olga I
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think so we need simple books yes well there are many different types of
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textbook you can buy and of course you have the Internet I love the Internet
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there are so many things you can read so much you can learn from surfing the
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internet so don't forget you can also find lots of simple lessons lots of very
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basic lessons and texts on the Internet hi mr. Duncan you're always providing us
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the most beautiful landscapes we've already seen during the English classes
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and conversation Thank You Jones Jones QD thank you very much for that wow it's
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really really raining now can you hear it the rain is falling on my live stream
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it is very hot apparently in Egypt it is hot you are
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lucky it's cool and raining here in fact today it feels a little bit tropical
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I'll be honest with you so maybe it isn't very warm but it does feel humid
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it feels very damp the air feels like it's got a lot of moisture around mr.
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Duncan could you please tell me how we can prepare ourselves for the IELTS exam
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well once again III don't want to repeat myself but normally it is best if you
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find out the things that the IELTS test will test you on one of the big things
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that they will test you on is your comprehension the way you understand
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English and I think this is the hardest part of learning English and quite
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possibly learning any language so you have to understand you have to have the
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comprehension when we talk about comprehension we mean
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understanding the meaning of words and sentences so you comprehend you
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understand so quite often in the IELTS test you will be tested to find out if
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you can really understand what is being said so you might listen to a
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conversation taking place you might read something and then you are asked
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questions about it quite often they will do both
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so they need to to understand if you comprehend English they need to find out
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how much English you understand so I think possibly the hardest part of the
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IELTS test is the comprehension test where they find out how much English
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you understand in your brain it's a very hard thing but also it is a very useful
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thing for both you and the examiner a very useful thing indeed voila oh it
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would appear that wala is also suffering from hay fever I was suffering from hay
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fever two years ago and then I started drinking ginger with lemon and honey and
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also I use a lot of garlic in my recipes now I feel better well I've heard that
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garlic can be very good for all sorts of things and and garlic is something I eat
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a lot of so I do eat a lot of garlic but yes I like your suggestion about the
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ginger and lemon and honey in a drink I like that the garden around you also
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looks tropical it does doesn't it well if you look behind me carefully if you
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look carefully you can see just over there can you see that there is actually
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a tropical plant growing in the garden so that particular plant there is
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actually tropical it is not supposed to grow here in the UK
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but it is a tropical plant but we didn't plant it we didn't plant it it was here
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when we moved here but now it is getting very large quite large so yes it doesn't
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look like I'm in a rainforest at the moment and you can see already the the
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rain is starting to drip can you see the rain it is dripping behind me the rain
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is falling from above it is something I don't love we live British English very
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much oh thank you very much you're you're welcome mr. Duncan can you
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make Spanish accents well I'm not going to do an accent today
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I will just stick with British English accent I think
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thank you for your accent mr. Duncan it is very clear thank you for saying that
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yes well the reason why I always try to speak clearly even though my accent is
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clear anyway is because I want you to understand what I'm saying
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I remember when I was in China when I first joined the school that I was
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working for there was a teacher there who was from Scotland and as I mentioned
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earlier the Scottish accent can be very difficult to understand and many of the
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students when I arrived at the school they all said Oh mr. Duncan we are so
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happy we can hear what you say we can understand you we have another teacher
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here at the school and he's from Scotland and we can never understand
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what he says so the Scottish accent can be very difficult to understand even for
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us even for native English speakers so that is the reason why it is better to
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be understood if you are teaching a language it's a little bit like taking
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driving lessons from someone who doesn't know how to drive a car it would be
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useless wouldn't it it certainly would because Exmouth your
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garden looks like paradise it is amazing it seems like fiction well I can
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guarantee I can tell you now that this is real
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everything you see behind me now is real do you want me to go over there but the
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only problem is if I go over there I will get wet because now it is raining
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heavily when I say I don't quite understand Brits always don't quite
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comprehend and think I didn't get anything at all Thank You Sergio
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sometimes and again this is something that I'm saying because I like to be
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honest with you sometimes native English speakers can be very impatient ah maybe
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you've had this situation yourself so maybe you've tried to communicate with
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someone who is a native English speaker but sometimes they seem very impatient
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they don't have time to to try and understand what you're saying so yes I
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think that can happen sometimes I think you can have a situation where a native
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English speaker might have no patience they don't want to try and understand
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what you're saying even if your English is quite clear and maybe if it's the
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opposite way round maybe you don't understand what the native English
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speaker is saying and the same thing applies so the native English speaker
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might not have the patience to keep explaining themselves they won't have
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the patience to keep repeating themselves so this can happen sometimes
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but don't worry I can guarantee that I am a very patient person so you don't
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have to worry about me if you want me to repeat myself a million times I will
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don't worry about that Giovanni says it doesn't look like a summer day where you
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are and you are right it doesn't look like it it's very humid and it's also
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very wet and last night in it was very hot I couldn't get to sleep
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JC Jordi says you are the best English teacher ever Thank You JC Jordi that is
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very kind of you to say but Retta what is the difference between try to do
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something and try doing something well again it's basically the same thing
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except for in one case you are talking about actually doing it so du is the
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action of doing and doing expresses the actual action of the thing you are doing
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so they are basically the same thing but they are used in slightly different ways
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but the base meaning is identical I am trying to do something I am in the
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process of doing something so doing is active I am not so close to that volcano
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but I live on the foot of another volcano which is Mount Etna hello Maria
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are we talking about volcanoes I think I missed that conversation on the live
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chat I didn't see it volcanoes fortunately there aren't any volcanoes
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here in England I'm very pleased to say I'm not going to copy people's accents
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because it might be offensive to some people so I won't be doing that hi
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Celine hello from South Seine Sarah hello so so sane Sarah I love your name
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by the way hello Sally hello again mr. Duncan it's nice to see you here
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so there are many accents that are spoken with an English accent or with
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English that can be very difficult to understand
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so maybe the Irish accent as well so Irish accent Scottish accent sometimes
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also the Welsh accent if a person is speaking Welsh but they are using
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English in Wales it can be very difficult to one
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stand very hard zoo just seek care as the CCAP says I am very happy to be here
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you are welcome you are welcome on the live chat it is a Saturday and it is a
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very rainy day I'm in the garden fortunately I am undercover I have built
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a little tint over my head so I don't get wet it's true I wish I could show
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you bless you this is the first time that I watch you you are very good thank
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you Fatima Najib hello Fatima
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where are you watching at the moment well I do appreciate your kind comments
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thank you very much but where are you and congratulations on being here for
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the first time on the live chat I hope you will join me every weekend I am here
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on Saturday from 12:00 noon 12 p.m. UK time and on Sunday 2 p.m. UK time yes
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I'm back tomorrow so you can watch me again
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live on YouTube tomorrow from 2 p.m. UK time that is when I'm on tomorrow don't
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forget next Wednesday another full english lesson and that one is recorded
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o Fatima Fatima al Najib is watching in Birmingham I know Birmingham very well I
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know it very well I wonder what part of Birmingham you are watching me from I
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know Birmingham very well there's Yardley wood there's spark Hill are you
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there hello from Indonesia fernando hello fernando watching in indonesia i
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do have a lot of people following me in indonesia i don't know where t s is TS
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are you watching today are you there we have TS who is one of my regular
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viewers and she watches me in Indonesia doing dumb Duong says I like you thank
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you very much and I'm very happy to hear that I don't often get people saying mr.
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Duncan I can't stand you I hate you you're really horrible that
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doesn't happen very often thank goodness so every single Saturday there will be a
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live chat yes I will show you again my little piece of paper that is getting
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very wet but this piece of paper is now getting very wet so there it is you can
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see it on the screen I will hold it there can you see it English in your ear
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Saturday from 1:00 p.m. midday UK time and also Sunday as well Sunday from 2
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p.m. UK time so make a note of those times and don't forget also there will
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be a new full English lesson posted every Wednesday every Wednesday so three
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times a week you could have lots of English courtesy of me and I hope we
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will all have a good time doing it hi mr. Duncan according to your personal
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experience oh here we go someone wants my personal experience of
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something hi mr. Duncan according to your personal experience which country
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is the most similar to the UK as a French person I think we are very
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similar what do you think thank you owl owl I think you are watching in France
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well yes there are many similarities between French culture and what I would
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call British culture certainly the language there are many words that exist
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in French that we use in English and also there are many words the
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exist in English that have been derived they have been created from the French
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language they have used French to create certain English words so I suppose
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France is very similar if I was to say a country I tell you where I'm going to
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tell you where right now I suppose countries like Australia New Zealand I
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know what you're going to say but mr. Duncan they speak English and also they
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are British colonies or they were so yes I suppose a country where English is not
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spoken but is very similar to Britain I would say probably France yes I think
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that's actually a good good way of looking at it yes I think so should I
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speak to myself to practice English asks Rana the answer to that is yes yes never
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be afraid to talk to yourself to listen to the way you speak another good thing
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you can do is to record your voice and this is something I talked about many
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years ago over ten years ago I made a lesson all about speaking and one of my
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tips one of my little ideas to help you is to record your voice hello my name is
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mr. Duncan and I enjoy speaking English and then you can listen hello Duncan
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I enjoy speaking English you can listen back to your voice so there are many
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ways of improving your English and a good one is to listen to your own voice
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by recording it and of course another thing you can do you can also practice
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in the mirror I'm not joking so look in the mirror speak English
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to yourself in the mirror have a look at your face as you speak get used to the
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sound of your own voice and also get used to
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seeing yourself speak English these are all very helpful things and they can
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really help you to improve not only your English but also your confidence as well
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which is something many people have a problem with I am going in a moment yes
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on Saturday the live stream is always short because I will be going into town
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to have my lunch soon safra's hello mr. benkard I am originally from Pakistan
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but now I'm watching you in Nottingham hello to Nottingham also in the Midlands
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I know Nottingham I've never been to Nottingham but I know of it never been
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there but I know of it I know that it exists Yuliya
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hello mr. Duncan it's my first time on your chat is that your own garden behind
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you or are you in a park it looks wonderful no at the moment I'm actually
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in the garden I am in the garden honestly and if you look behind me you
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can see the birds there are some birds flying around me they are feeding just
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behind me so yes I mean my garden here in the UK just behind me you can see all
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the plants and flowers and also there is a lovely bird feeder where the birds
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come every day to feed hi mr. Duncan is your favorite sport
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cricket I don't follow sport I think I should have a t-shirt and on the front
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it should say I don't follow sport because I don't I don't really have much
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interest in sport to be honest with you so I don't follow cricket I know that
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there are some cricket matches taking place at the moment but but that's all I
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know I can't give you any more information
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Daniel Daniel morels Oh Morales says do you consider yourself a teacher or a
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youtuber well I suppose over the years I've
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become both so I teach English on YouTube but also I like being on YouTube
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and creating content on YouTube so I suppose really I am I'm both I'm a
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youtuber teacher sandrine says hello mr. Duncan it's incredible I just discovered
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you 30 minutes ago because I want to learn English during my holidays and
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you're here now I am French and I'm happy to hear you live yes I'm here live
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in the rain on a Saturday and here at the times of my live streams I will put
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them on the screen and I will give you some lovely music at the same time
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didn't it ding did it ok that's it did you get that did you write the
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information down Saturday 12 midday sunday 2 p.m. both of them are UK time
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every Wednesday a new full English lesson oh my goodness I am so busy these
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days mr. Duncan you deserve an Oscar why for what why do I deserve an Oscar mr.
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Steve is the actor not me how can I improve my English alone hello Salim I
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will give you some very quick advice before I go the the the best way to
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learn English by yourself is to listen to English being spoken by other people
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and one of the best ways to do that is right here on the Internet
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so first of all this is the best thing that you could be doing this is the best
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that you can be doing right now is listening to English being spoken also
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later on you will see subtitles under the video and also you can play them
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that the videos you can play the lessons again and again in a game so you can
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listen to these messages or these short videos or my live streams you can listen
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to them again and again and again don't worry
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about it there are many many many ways oh that's
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good Alamgir says I I sometimes take a
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screenshot that is a good idea yes I think so I am going in around about one
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minute maybe two minutes and then I'm gone you can learn English alone it's
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true you can't learn it alone and I saw it happen for myself when I was in China
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so I did see it for myself so it is possible but I suppose there is
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more pressure on you to succeed if you do it by yourself what is the scientific
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topic that intrigues you the most quantum physics
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I find quantum physics very intriguing and the reason why I find it intriguing
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is because it's still not fully understood
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so things that are still mysterious things that are still not fully
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understood fascinate me a lot so I like finding out about things that are known
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but I also like finding out about things that are still being discovered quantum
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physics I like that one very much you are very funny mr. Duncan thank you la
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la thank you very much for that yes of course you can learn English by yourself
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it is possible and I have seen it happen for one more time I will
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show you the times that I will be on at the weekend Saturday and Sunday I will
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be with you live on both days so that means that I will be back tomorrow I'll
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be right here tomorrow from 2:00 p.m. UK time with a longer but still live
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livestream what topics have you explained in Wednesday's program do you
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mean last Wednesday or next Wednesday well next Wednesday I will be talking
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about various subjects but also I will be thinking about the meaning of life
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what is it all about but not quantum physics we won't be talking about
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quantum physics on Wednesday thank you very much mr. Duncan could you ask mr.
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Steve to join the sunday live stream well at the moment Steve is very busy he
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has a concert today so he's going away today to perform in a concert so he
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won't be able to join me today and I don't think he will be joining us
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tomorrow either unfortunately mr. Duncan hello from Columbia I want to learn
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English but I feel I can't please who can help me mr. Duncan I want to be your
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friend always okay al well my best advice is to join me every weekend live
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and you can ask me some questions and I will try my best to answer them is that
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a good idea I'm going now it is time to say goodbye I am going to dry my feet
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because my feet are wet I don't know why but the rain has gone all over my socks
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and now my feet are wet thank you very much Leila thank you also to Rana
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Valentin I am going now it is time to say goodbye but I will be back tomorrow
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don't worry I will be here from p.m. UK time tomorrow don't forget to
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catch me then set your clock set your alarm find out what the time difference
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is and I hope you will join me tomorrow
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sarfaraaz says quantum physics will be helpful to understand the natural
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phenomenons of the endless universe oh what a deep way to finish the
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livestream today I'm going now I'm going back in the house to dry my feet and I
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will see you tomorrow from 2 p.m. UK time thank you also to Sarge
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voila Anna thank you very much for your lovely greetings and I will go back into
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the house because and also I'm hungry guess what I'm having to eat today today
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I am having all those an yeah a little bit of Italian food Thank You pal Mira
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Thank You Olga thank you I mean thank you also to everyone really who has
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joined me today this is mr. Duncan in the birthplace of
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English saying thanks for watching you can watch this again later hopefully
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there will be subtitles underneath all you have to do is click the button under
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the video and then you will see subtitles that will be later on and of
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course until tomorrow when we meet once again right here on the Internet
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you know what's coming next yes you do
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stay warm stay dry and...
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ta ta for now. 8-)
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