31 Days of Learning English - DAY 30 - improve your English LIVE - BIG PLANS & IDEAS - 30th October

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English Addict with Mr Duncan


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only one more day to go just one more day
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I don't know about you but I'm really going to miss that piece of music
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after tomorrow yes the end is coming we are nearly at the
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end of 31 days of learning English during October 2019
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the end is nigh we are coming towards the end of 31 days of English in October
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the end is nigh in fact today is the penultimate live English for October so
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today is the penultimate which means not the last one but the second-to-last so
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tomorrow is the last day of October and my 31 days however today is the
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penultimate day penultimate the second-to-last so tomorrow will be the
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last day oh dear who remembers this now during the 1970s you would often see
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people walking around the streets holding one of these and displaying
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these words the end is nigh you would often see people standing around on
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street corners growing up I remember seeing in the town centre in Stafford
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there was always a man standing in the town centre and he was carrying a large
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sign that said the end is nigh so the word nigh means near something is
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approaching so nigh is the old use of the word near and for me the end is nigh
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it is approaching so tomorrow is sadly the last day of 31 days of learning
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English in October but today is the penultimate day we are almost there not
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quite but almost so where shall I start what shall I start with because
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have so many things to tell you today so many things to talk to you about first
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of all tomorrow is the last day of October many people asking what will you
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be doing after October ends so what are your plans for November mr. Duncan well
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I will tell you tomorrow some of the things that are happening there will be
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some changes of course the biggest change of all will be the fact that I'm
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not with you every day so in November we will go back to something more normal
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whatever that is so more details to come tomorrow meanwhile outside everything is
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looking rather nice we've had some sunshine this morning although now it
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has gone very cloudy but it is quite mild now I almost went outside today but
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I decided at the last minute not to because well it would be a lot of work
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unfortunately I mean it's bad enough doing it in here
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it takes me hours and hours to prepare these live streams and there you can see
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in the distance all of the lovely trees lots of trees now turning red and gold
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because it's autumn here in the UK we now have autumn all around us I suppose
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I should mention please someone make it stop this the long-running saga of this
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I'm not going to say the word I am so tired of hearing this word so it looks
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as if this has definitely been postponed until next January however the big news
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from yesterday is that there will be a general election here in the UK now
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normally we hold our general elections in the spring or sometimes in the summer
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however we never have a general election during the winter months because well
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first of all most people want to stay indoors during the winter they don't
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want to go outside and stand in a queue waiting to vote however they have
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decided that this is going to be the date of the general election in 2019 so
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Thursday the 12th of December is going to be the date of the general election
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here in the UK in winter now I'm just wondering how many people are actually
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going to bother to vote because to be honest with you can I just be honest I
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don't think many people are going to want to go out to vote in a general
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election in the middle of winter and also a few days before Christmas as well
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so who wants to do that I'm not sure what the turnout will be
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when we say turnout it means the people who actually leave their houses to do
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something so when we say the turnout it means the attendance or the number of
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people who get involved with the thing that you're talking about so we will
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have a general election it looks as if it's happening on Thursday the 12th of
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December this year just a few days before Christmas so it's going to be a
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very strange winter here in the UK I'm not sure what the weather will be like
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it might be cold there might be snow on the ground people might be unable to
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leave their houses to vote so I think this is going to be a very interesting
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general election lots of things already being discussed and I suppose
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the topic that most people are talking about is this because that's what it's
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all about so the reason why we are having this is because of this I wish I
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was joking I really do and also the other thing that I'm not going to
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mention looks as if it's going to happen on this date so this is the date for the
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thing I don't want to mention it's so so tiring really hello to the live chat Oh
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live chat is very busy can I say congratulations to Luis Mendez guess
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what you are first on today's live chat maybe for the first time ever
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so congratulations Luis
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I'm really pleased for you so Louis is first on the live chat also Marwa blue
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thunder lad jl blues bird hello blues bird I haven't seen you on the live chat
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for a long time a kneebar says hello from Morocco
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my name is Hyatt hello to you hi act nice to see you here on the penultimate
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day of 31 days of learning English in October oh by the way there's something
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I forgot to mention it's not Monday it's not Tuesday today it's Wednesday
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just in case you're not sure what day it is it is Wednesday welcome to midweek
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for those who are looking forward to the weekend you still have two more days to
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endure if you endure something you have to take the pain you have to take the
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suffering you must go through the time when everything hurts so to endure means
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to suffer to go through the difficult period or time today we are talking
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about a very interesting subject by the way we are talking about dreams and
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ambition so when we talk about dreams when we talk about having a dream quite
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often we will think about the thing that happens when we are sleeping maybe
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something happens in your mind whilst you are unconscious so we think about
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dreams quite often is something that happens when you are asleep however
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dreams can also be the things that you feel as if you want to do something you
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want to do in the future something that you hope will come true so quite often
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we hope that a dream will come true dreams and ambition a thing you want to
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do maybe you have a fire burning inside you have a fire you have a desire to do
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something that can be your ambition something that you really want to do so
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much you can't control the urge to do it maybe a new career or maybe a particular
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job that you've always wanted to try or maybe something that you want to learn
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maybe a new thing that you want to learn how to do so
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yes dreams and ambitions and we will be taking a look at
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one particular big dream that a person had many years ago a little bit later on
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hello Marella oh hello mr. Duncan and everybody also business Wynn is here
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watching in Vietnam samer Palmyra ariana wow so many people hang cry
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hello hang cry hang cry Brahma good evening mr. Duncan I am from bodo
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land which is in India apparently I've never heard of bodo land never Kwang is
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here Anna also by Anne Luis Mendez thank you very much once again Belarus ear is
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here hi everybody I will not be with you today I have many things to do I wish
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you all a good day and we wish you all the best as well because you have a lot
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of things to take care of at the moment so all the best to you Belarusian a man
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says hello from Egypt hello to you and I love your photograph you look so you
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look so happy and cheerful I like it hello hi from Chile Hema Sun is here I
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have been watching the news and there has been a lot of news coming out of
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Chile at the moment for various reasons hello Syed hello also to Irene and
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crystal hello crystal nice to see you here today is the penultimate day
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tomorrow will be the final day of October and my special 31 days so I will
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be here today well of course I'm here today because
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you can see meaning no and tomorrow I will be with you the final days so I
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will see you tomorrow as well for the final day of 31 days of October and the
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reason why I'm doing this is because to it will be my 13th anniversary so
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tomorrow will be the 13th year that I've been doing this on YouTube I started
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making video lessons many years ago in 2006 and Here I am still doing it in
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2019 13 years later can you believe it would you like to have a look at what my
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youtube videos look like so here we're going to have a look at the size and
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also the definition of my early youtube videos and this is an actual size so now
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you can see the screen in front of you everything is big and clear however way
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back in 2006 this was the quality and also the size of the video so there it
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is so that's the actual size compared to the definition that you are watching me
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in now so it was very small and not very clear so that's what the youtube video
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quality was like way back in 2006 and there you can see on the screen I am
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standing in front of my lovely red curtains in China so that particular
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video was actually filmed in China whilst I was still there so there you
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can see just how poor the quality of YouTube videos were way back in 2006 and
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that's the actual video quality you were looking at now and also the size as well
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so the resolution the clarity of the video was not very good I hope you
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enjoyed that it was so small it was like a postage stamp so tiny we are up to
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date with the live chat hello to vine Jade hello vine I've never seen you here
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before is it your first time David hello David
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David is watching at the moment in tenerife I would imagine that
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the weather is quite nice there I think so
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G ow Fernando manaro says hello mr. Duncan I love your classes thank you
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very much don't forget the livestreams will not
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end so there will still be live streams the only difference is they will not be
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every day palmyra is here ciao hello Joe nice to see you here as
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well ha ha linty Hali helento Monta says thank thanks my best teacher you are
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welcome no problem that's why I'm here and for those who are wondering
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something I mentioned yesterday and I'm going to mention it again if you watch
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my videos later my live streams are recorded on YouTube and you can watch
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them later and you will also notice that I will add video time codes so these are
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very useful things that you will see on people's videos quite often in the
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comments so after this lesson finishes you can watch the video again and also I
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will post video time codes and that will allow you to skip to certain parts of
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the video maybe your favorite part of the video so you will often see video
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time codes and I will show you an example so there you can see an example
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so if you notice the blue numbers you can actually click on those under the
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lesson so on my recorded lessons and also on my recorded live streams so
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after the live stream has finished you can actually go to your favourite parts
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also one or two people have asked how do I get live captions you can have live
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captions by pressing that on your keyboard also
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if you are watching on your mobile device you can get captions also by
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choosing the settings in the corner of the screen as well so it is possible to
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do that as well if you want to if you want to and you can choose captions as
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well so if you are watching on a mobile device don't worry you can actually get
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the live stream with captions as well all you have to do is press those
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buttons it's like magic it really is so today we are talking
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about dreams and ambitions many years ago I had a dream I had a dream an
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impossible dream but the dream came true so I always wanted to teach in some way
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in some form and I had my chance to do that way back in 2003 when I went to
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China and also I was able to teach on YouTube
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in 2006 and that's something that I started doing way back then and I'm
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still doing now hello to Anna who says I love your love for adidas has never
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ended since 2006 that's right Anna can you believe it when I was at school I
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used to have an adidas bag as well so I've always loved that brand so I'm not
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being sponsored by them some people think I am I'm not it is just a brand
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that I've always liked since I was a teenager in fact
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hello Vitas mr. Duncan the vote on brexit was in the summer of 2016
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and most people were on vacation so now we have that result and now you need to
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vote only in winter and before Christmas because everyone is
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at home well this year during the general election we will be voting in a
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new government and many young people want to have the chance also to allow
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their voice to be heard so many young people want to get very much involved
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with this year's general election which will be happening now on the 12th of
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December can you believe it just a few days before Christmas I don't understand
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what is going on hello Julie just a quick hello because I'm busy so Julie
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has things to do that's okay you can always watch this later on we're now
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going to take a look at one of my October lessons we are going to go way
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back in time to October the 30th 2013 if there is one thing I have realized about
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life it's that change never stops there is always something new to deal with
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some of these changes are good while some are just plain awkward and annoying
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as time goes by I am finding that I want change to occur more frequently in fact
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a day without some change based challenge occurring is a pretty dull one
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for a while now I have made it a rule to learn at least one new thing every day
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quite often this involves changing the way I do something I have certainly
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experienced a few of those changes this month and I guess that is what is at the
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core of everything we do we experience new things and then we overcome the
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changes these experiences bring
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do you ever feel as if you are going round in circles this can come from
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doing the same thing again and again day after day with no sign of change
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sometimes things seem dull and uninteresting the repetitive nature of
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daily life can get you down sometimes we get into a rut
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everything seems mundane and boring of course this may not be real it could be
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self-inflicted sometimes it is tempting to see life this way because it is
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easier making those changes requires effort and hard work but before that can
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happen you need the most important thing of all motivation
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do you like change do you think change is a good thing they say that a change
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is as good as a rest for most of us these alterations keep the spice of life
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fresh and strong the thought being that regular change ensures that life never
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becomes dull that's what I happen to think as well with change comes
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adversity you cannot grow a flower without rain those hardships and
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setbacks are all a part of the process of change
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I actually became so distracted by that video I actually forgot that I was doing
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a livestream can you believe it so even I was engaged in my own lesson so we are
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back live on Wednesday tomorrow is the last day of October thank you very much
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to Julie isn't that very kind of you thank you very much for your lovely
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donation on the live chat so you can actually use super chat to make a
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donation and of course you can also make a donation directly on PayPal as well
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many people now using PayPal to pay for things and also to save money and to
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give donations for example so if you want to give a donation to help my work
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continue forever and ever don't forget I've given every day of October for free
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so it doesn't cost you anything to watch this but if you would like to make a
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donation you are more than welcome to do so and well who knows
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I might do this all over again one month maybe in December or maybe January who
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knows however my live streams will continue so I'm not ending my live
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streams but they won't be on every day just so people are aware once again
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thank you Julie I do appreciate your very kind donation I also have some
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lovely patreon donators as well so thank you very much to everyone it is very
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kind of you hello to Ahmed good day and good luck
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mr. Duncan have a nice day thank you very much isn't that nice
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so today we are talking about our dreams and ambition so the dreams you have the
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things you would like to do and also the ambition
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the feeling or as I like to call it the fire that burns inside you that makes
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you want to do something that really really plays in your mind again and
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again maybe something you really want to do with your life a new career maybe a
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certain job that you have to qualify for so maybe you will have to go to
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university or some sort of study so we are talking all about dreams and
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ambitions what I like to say is you should never be afraid to have dreams
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you should never fear dreaming dare to dream I love this expression and
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this is one that has helped me out of many tight situations especially when
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I've felt a little bit discouraged by the things that people say around me so
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sometimes you have to dare to dream sometimes you have to find the courage
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to do the thing that you want to do you have to be willing to dare go on take
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the plunge try it you never know it might be very successful so never be
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afraid never worry about doing this dare to dream
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also another expression that I like is there it is
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think big always think big never think small if you are going to do something
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think big always imagine the thing that you can do in your mind the thing that
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you want to do is the thing that appear you can do because you think big so
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quite often thinking big means to have big ideas but also to look at those
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things as being real and achievable so quite often you need to think big
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another thing that comes in very useful when you are dreaming about the things
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you want to do sometimes you might decide to do something that is very
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unusual or strange some people like to think outside the box if you think
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outside the box it means you have an unusual or different way of looking at
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things maybe your way of looking at something is unusual or maybe odd
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perhaps some people think that the thing you want to do is really strange and
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weird however sometimes it is good to think outside the box to be adventurous
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to think of things differently or to see things in a different way sometimes it
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is good to think outside the box many great inventions have been created
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because someone at some time in the past decided to think outside the box they
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saw things in a very different way a person will have a goal now this is
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something I mentioned briefly yesterday as well so your goal is the thing that
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you see ahead of you the thing that you want to aim for as I said yesterday your
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goal is the thing that you want the thing that you see ahead of you the
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thing that you plan to do is your goal so what is your goal do you have some
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plan do you have something that you want to do in the future do you have a goal
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so quite often we will use the word goal to mean the thing you want to do your
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aims again another word I mentioned yesterday your aims
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the things that you look at and you think one day I will do that your aims
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the things you want to do the things you want to achieve your aims here is a word
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I mentioned yesterday and I think this is a very important word when we are
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talking about the way we feel about ourselves the way we feel about the
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things we want to do with our lives your purpose everyone has a purpose even if
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you don't think you have one you do and that's the thing that you realize quite
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often in your life when it's too late so try to find a purpose try to find
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something that you can do maybe to help other people or maybe to provide some
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sort of service your purpose we all have a purpose even if we don't realize it we
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do hello to the live chat nice to see you on today's livestream Rolfie in
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order to achieve fulfill or accomplish any dream we have to be persistent yes
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brave yes patient and never be afraid of failure
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now failure is quite often the mother of success because quite often failure will
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push you even further so sometimes yes you will try something it might fail it
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might not work however that failure might push you even further it might
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push you into doing something better so sometimes failure is not necessarily a
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bad thing sometimes you have to try and try again
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like the expression if at first you don't succeed try try again
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just like learning English so a lot of people say mr. Duncan we can't learn
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English it's too difficult don't rush don't do it too quickly don't put too
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much pressure on yourself and this is something that many people do they try
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to learn too quickly so just like having any plan don't rush
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whatever it is you were doing don't rush it don't do it too quickly your aims can
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also be your target yes as I said yesterday target target is the thing you
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aim for just like a goal so goal is also the thing that you aim for you try to
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get your goal thinking big is not a bad thing however sometimes it might not go
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the way you planned sometimes the thing that you plan
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doesn't quite come off as you expected
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consider the story of a man who thought
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big with a plan to be remembered forever his name was Rex Humbard a TV
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preacher who lived in Cuyahoga Falls Ohio his big dream was to construct a
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huge Tower that had a revolving restaurant at the
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top thus giving the diners a panoramic view whilst eating construction of the
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huge Tower began in the early 1970s however the big dream of Rex Humbard
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never came to fruition after running out of funds for the mammoth project the
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partially constructed concrete tower stood abandoned for 15 years large metal
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beams at the top were removed and the tower fell into wrack and ruin the
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locals jokingly nicknamed the tower Rex's erection however years later the
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tower was purchased by a telecommunications company
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and the tower was put to good use by mounting transmitters and cell phone
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antennas on the tall tower itself so even though Rex never got his big dream the
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thing he failed to achieve did eventually come in useful for something
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so there it is a very inspirational story so even though the original thing
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did not come to fruition it still served a purpose so sometimes the things that
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we set out to do might not have the conclusion that you thought even if you
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fail perhaps the thing that you created might come in useful for something else
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I think so so it's live English and 31 days of
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English in October will be coming to an end soon it's not very nice really I
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must admit think big everyone think big we are talking about your dreams and
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ambitions during my childhood I had many dreams many things that I thought I
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might do most of them I didn't do some of them I am doing now so sometimes you
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have to wait for a while before your dreams come true however never give up
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on your dreams always believe that you can do them maybe not today but maybe
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perhaps tomorrow they will happen hello - s hi yep
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hello thank you very much also to Eric in history we can mark we can find many
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bright minds from England yes many inventions many things were created by
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people in England English men and of course English women we have to remember
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that we can learn from our failures yes I think so we can mr. Duncan what is
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your dream and your purpose well my dream is to carry on doing this for as
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long as I can even though quite often I will come across lots lots of obstacles
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lots of things that get in the way that stopped me from doing the things
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that I want to do so I would like to stay here on YouTube I would like to
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carry on doing these lessons I really want to carry on doing my live streams
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that would be super however it also means that I have to
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spend more and more time doing this and of course I always do it for free so I
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don't charge any money to anyone which is why I often ask for donations that's
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the reason why so then I can do this more and more and more so my dream and
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my purpose are kind of the same thing really so my dream is to teach English
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and my purpose is to continue teaching English so that's what I really want to
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do hello also to Irene my best my best house is in a part of the forest of
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Rambouillet oh I wonder where that is that sounds very nice actually
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hello mr. Duncan I live in Leon how are you Raziel hello rose Ciel Miranda nice
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to see you here on today's livestream we are talking about our hopes and dreams
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the things you want to do in your life the things you aspire to so when you
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aspire it's the thing that you want to achieve maybe later in your life
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something that you want something that you want to own something that makes
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your life better you have aspirations you aspire you want a certain thing to
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be a part of your life another word I mentioned yesterday was ambition the
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ambition is the urge the feeling thus the thing that you want to do your
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ambition is the driving force towards your goal so quite often a person will
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have ambition they see themselves having
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success in the future ambition is part of looking ahead and trying to aim for
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your goal you think big as I mentioned at the start of this part thinking big
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there is nothing wrong with thinking big many of the great inventors many of the
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people who have had success in their lives have always never been afraid to
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think big so never worry about thinking big if you
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want to have your own business if you want to employ lots of people if you
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want to have success in your life there is nothing wrong with thinking big never
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worry about it Salah Osman says hi mr. Duncan a special greeting from sahal
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Osman who who lives in Somalia hello to you and nice to see you here today lots
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of people joining in don't forget tomorrow is the final day of 31 days so
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tomorrow it all comes to an end however there
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will be more live streams so don't worry I will still do my live streams but not
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every day unfortunately let's have a look at an excerpt from one of my many
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English lessons that exists on YouTube and here is an excerpt from one of my
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full English lessons
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do you know what a buzz word is do you ever use buzzwords a buzz word is a word
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or phrase that is seen as being common and contemporary a fashionable phrase or
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word is a buzz word for example right now the word empower or empowerment is
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used a lot to empower is to give someone the strength or motivation to do
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something for themselves or to give someone a sense of independence and
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self-worth to empower the young or the poor to empower women to offer
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empowerment to those who are in need of help it would be safe to say that
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empower is indeed a buzzword for this period of time
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can you see what I'm doing here I appear to be running but I'm not moving
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anywhere I'm running on the spot to run on the spot means that you are actively
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doing it while staying in one place you can walk on the spot you can jump on the
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spot in these cases the spot is the place we
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are doing these things on the word spot can be used in other ways too you can be
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put on the spot this means that you have been placed in an awkward situation with
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no warning for example if a person asks you a question you were not expecting we
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can say that they have put you on the spot to find yourself in a situation
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that is hard to deal with we can say that you are on the spot then there is
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in the spotlight to be in the spotlight means to be the center of attention
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something is being watched carefully to scrutinize something or someone is to
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put it under the spotlight we can also spot something this means to notice or
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see something to spot someone in the street means that you notice them you
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have spotted them I spotted a woodpecker in my garden yesterday you can also go
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spotting for example Trainspotting or bird spotting this means that you are
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looking out for one particular type of thing perhaps an unusual design of train
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or a rare bird of course a spot can also be a mark on your skin a circular
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blemish or unusual bump on your skin can be called a spot teenagers tend to get
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spots some animals have in fact if you look carefully you will
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find that there are spots everywhere
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do you ever renege are you a person who sometimes reneged on a deal the word
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renege is a verb that means to go back on your word or to change your mind
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after agreeing to do something you say yes to something then later you change
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your mind so you renege on your promise to renege
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is to break your word and go back on your promise you have had a change of
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heart so the thing you said you would do has changed we thought the deal was on
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but then he came in this morning and Rene Don it the word renege originated
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in Latin and in its original form meant forcibly deny I hope you enjoyed that
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one of my full English lessons there are many lessons on my youtube channel all
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of them here just for you
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we are live for a few more moments another 10 minutes and then I am out of
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here a man says hello from Egypt hello Egypt
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how are you today is it nice and warm where you are unfortunately here it's
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been very wet although today the weather outside is looking rather nice to be
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honest we had lots of sunshine this morning
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but now looking out of the window right now you can see it's a little it's
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actually quite breezy out there although it's not very cold it's not as cold as
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it was yesterday yesterday was so cold we had to light the fire yesterday oh my
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goodness so the house was so cold we actually had to light the fire
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the fire was lit burning in the fireplace hello - can I say hello - can
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I say hello - Jay hello Jay how the hell did I end up here who knows who knows
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maybe your parents got drunk one night so that might explain that money chopped
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says hi to everyone hi to you as well by the way if it is your first time here
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say hello and say it's my first time here saying hello because I know many
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people watch but they are very shy so don't be shy give it a try or else
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you'll make mr. Duncan cry hello mr. Duncan my name is Kate please say hello
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to Katia from Ukraine hello Katia watching at the moment in Ukraine hello
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to you I suppose I can give you a round of applause if it is your first time
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I am assuming if you assume it means you make a guess so I assume I think I don't
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know I think it is your first time here hello to Lewis now Lewis is having a
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very interesting conversation with pal Mira talking about some of the local
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landmarks and some of the events that have taken place where they live very
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interesting Lisa hello Lisa Lisa Herrera I love your British accent
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I live in Chicago and it's a little different it's a little different type
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so it is a different type of American accent so an American accent is quite
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different from what people think as a British accent so there are differences
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however the English is the same don't forget there is only one English
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language but there are variations when it comes to accent so hello Lisa or Liza
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I am learning English with you thank you so much
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originally I am from Lima in Peru well you are more than welcome to join us
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today I will be going soon but I will be back tomorrow for the final day of 31
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days so for the past month I've been doing live streams every single day and
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the reason for that is because I want to celebrate my 13th year 13 years on
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YouTube can you believe it nadir nadir says when will I get a round of applause
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well Nadia you could have it right now I must admit I'm very being very
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generous today I'm being being very generous
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hello also to my lead hello Waleed watching in Qatar hello to you thanks
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for joining me today on Wednesday I'm back tomorrow from 2 p.m. UK time
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unfortunately it will be the final day of 31 days of learning English in
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October unfortunately what a pity however don't worry I'm not going away
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I'm not leaving YouTube there will be more live streams coming in November but
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not every day Oliver hello Oliver
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hello mr. Duncan it's my first time here however I have watched your videos since
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2008 hello Oliver and I suppose I should give you a round of applause as well
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hmm and getting sore hands my hands are becoming very sore from all of the
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clapping hello Pat you Oh today I have joined late don't worry at least you are
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here we are talking about dreams if you have a dream it means you have thought
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of something and to think of something means that you have ideas do you ever
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get ideas maybe something original maybe something that's never been done or
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created before ideas the things that you think that you can put into practice so
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ideas normally start up here in your brain so ideas the things that you would
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like to do maybe something you want to build or design like Rex. Rex who built
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his big rotating restaurant the only problem was it was never completed
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considered the story of a man who thought big with a plan to be remembered
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forever his name was Rex Humbard a TV
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preacher who lived in Cuyahoga Falls Ohio his big dream was to construct a
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huge tower that had a revolving restaurant at the top thus giving the
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diners a panoramic view whilst eating construction of the huge Tower began in
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the early 1970s however the big dream of Rex Humbard never came to fruition
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after running out of funds for the mammoth project the partially
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constructed concrete tower stood abandoned for 15 years large metal beams
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at the top were removed and that how I fell into rack and ruin the locals
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jokingly nicknamed the tower Rex's erection
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however years later the tower was purchased by a telecommunications
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company and the tower was put to good use by mounting transmitters and cell
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phone antennas on a tall tower itself so even though Rex never got his big dream
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the thing he failed to achieve did eventually come in useful for something
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so the moral of that story is sometimes a thing might seem useless it might seem
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like it has failed however it might come in useful later so you might describe
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that story as bittersweet so if a story is bitter sweet it means it has a sad
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story but also it has an uplifting end so maybe the story generally is about
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hopes and dreams but also maybe failure however the ending there is a little bit
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of hope at the end something nice happens at the end so yes sometimes you
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can have a bitter sweet experience I think so
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thanks for your company today thank you very much to Pat you thank you to Louie
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Louie fruition now there is an interesting word
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what does fruition mean well if something comes to fruition it means it
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comes to completion so something has come to completion it has been finished
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it comes to fruition a little bit like an apple growing on a tree
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it starts off very small and then eventually it grows into a full-sized
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Apple it comes to fruition so if you complete your plan if you achieve your
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goals if the thing that you imagine comes into reality and it becomes a real
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thing it has come to fruition it has been completed it has come to completion
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we could also use the word realize as well so if you rely
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something you make it real the thing becomes real and tangible so something
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that is tangible is something that you can hold something that is real so you
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realise the thing the thing that you dreamt of the thing that you imagined
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has come to fruition so I hope that helps you and finally never give up on
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your dream whatever it is I know in my life
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I have looked for people to give me help although I've never received it
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everything that I've done in my life I have done myself I've never really
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received any help so everything I've done I've done by myself and when I say
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that I mean the things that I dreamt the things that I thought of the things that
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I wanted to do with my life however since I started making these live
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streams I have realized that I have lots of people around me who want to give me
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support and help and encouragement and of course I'm talking about you so
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without you I would not be able to do this so here I am now standing a friend
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of you living my dream and a lot of it is thanks to you thank you very much for
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your company today I will be back tomorrow with the final day of 31 days
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of English in October and also I will tell you what is happening after October
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ends and when November begins sahal says hello mr. Duncan
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my name is sahaloh sahaloh san or Sahalar san I hope I pronounced your
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name right I am watching in Somalia recently I started watching your lessons
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and they are interesting I hope you will continue
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helping us to learn this language I will I I will continue for as long as I can
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whilst there is breath in my body I will continue doing this if you want to see a
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movie by the way because I know lots of you enjoy watching movies if you want to
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see a movie that is both funny and
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strangely inspirational can I suggest this film Napoleon Dynamite I don't know
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why but whenever I watch this movie I always feel strangely inspired to do
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something creative I don't know why if you want to see a movie that is both
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funny it has a very interesting story and I don't know why it's also very
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inspirational that is my opinion by the way you might disagree Napoleon Dynamite
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try and find the DVD or watch it on television or maybe Netflix and maybe
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one of the other services that are available to view things on Napoleon
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Dynamite it is a very good movie and also in my opinion quite inspirational
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please don't ask me why you have to watch the movie to work it out for
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yourself Anna is going by Anna by pachu by Luis
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by mr. Duncan see you tomorrow sadly for your last October livestream
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however next weekend will come and we will have other live streams I will give
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you the details tomorrow of what is happening after October ends there will
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be some changes so some things will be appearing and some things will be
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disappearing tune in tomorrow from 2 p.m. UK time to find out
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what will happen next after october ends thanks for your company thank you very
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much it's been lovely having you all here today i love spending my days with
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you i will miss it a lot of people are saying already mr. duncan we will miss
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your live streams can i just say i will also miss being here with you as well it
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will seem very strange waking up in the morning without having to plan my daily
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live streams however there will be more live streams more live lessons coming so
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don't worry thank you quite a loop thank you also to
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eric thank you two blues bird for your donation on super chat thank you very
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much that is very kind of you tomorrow you will have lots of opportunities if
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you want to make a donation tomorrow you are more than welcome to do so thank you
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very much blue birds and also to julie for your donation as well see you
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tomorrow from 2 p.m. UK time I can't believe
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tomorrow is the end of October I wish October could go on forever and ever
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now it's time to listen to the music yes it is I love this music I love it so
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much I don't know why whenever I hear that music
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I always feel happy I always feel as if I want to have a dance around the garden
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so if you want to have a dance now is the time to do it
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this is mr. Duncan in the birthplace of English saying thanks for watching me
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thanks for following me today and I will see you tomorrow
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for the final day of October and of course you know what's coming next yes you do...
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ta ta for now 8-)
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