Saturday Live English / 31st August 2019 / Improve your listening with the live chat

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English Addict with Mr Duncan


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oh my goodness I cannot begin to tell
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you how bad the weather is at the moment it is absolutely throwing it down the
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rain is falling very heavily and there is water leaking all over the place so
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at the moment it is raining heavily and I'm in the garden try my best to stay
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dry and I hope I will be able to stay dry because it is absolutely throwing it
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down at the moment good afternoon to you hello this is very strange by the way
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because the rain is coming down very heavily in fact it's exactly midday can
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you believe it just as I was about to start my livestream the rain decided to
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come down literally at the same time I can't believe it so we are at the moment
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having a very heavy shower and all I can say is it is really putting my gazebo to
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the test I mean look look over there you can see
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in the distance that is actually a live view at the moment and it's pretty awful
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the rain is coming down very heavily but where is mr. Duncan I hear you ask where
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are you mr. Duncan we can't see you Here I am hi everybody this is mr. Duncan in
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England how are you today are you okay I hope so are you happy are you happy on
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this rainy day well it's raining here in the UK anyway I hope it's good where you
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are I hope it's nice and dry but here in
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England we are having some late August showers let's just say it is absolutely
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throwing it down at the moment but the strange thing is there is blue sky in
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the distance so we have rain at the moment but there is blue sky hiding
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behind those dark clouds so don't worry I think this ray
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we'll stop in a moment I love being outside whatever the weather but as you
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can see today we are having some pretty horrible weather at the moment so I do
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apologize for this now I knew it was going to rain but I didn't think it was
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going to rain as heavy as this so there is water flowing everywhere all around
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me at the moment I think I can take this off ah that's better
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okay I'm alright now oh hello there I hope you're OK today I hope you are
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having a good time I just got absolutely soaked my shirt is
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wet at the moment in fact everything is wet my script is wet by the way if you
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are watching on your computer device or mobile device you can press this button
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and you will get live captions I'm not joking so all you have to do is press
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this button here on your keyboard and also you can activate live subtitles on
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your mobile device as well yes it's incredible I have my glass of water here
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although I think now there is probably this much rain water in my water so this
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is a combination of water that I got from the bottle but also it is a
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combination of rainwater as well so these two things have been combined
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thanks to mother nature so here we go again hello there welcome for those who
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are late don't worry better late than never that's what I
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always say so I am slightly thrown by all of this I'm slightly thrown by the
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fact that the the rain decided to throw it down just as I was about to start my
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live stream can you believe that I didn't believe that that actually
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happened I really don't
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anyway what day is it it's Saturday and it's the last day of August it's almost
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time to say goodbye to August bye-bye August and August for me was a very busy
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month because I had my birthday I had my lovely surprise treat for mr. Steve as
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well so yes August for me was rather busy
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what about September is September going to be a busy month for you do you have
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any plans for September maybe something special is going to happen in September
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for you so if it is I hope you have a great time whatever it is you are doing
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hello to the live chat of course we can't have the livestream without the
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live chat and hello to khyber also Alamgir Julie Luis Luis Mendez nice to
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see you back again oh thank you very much for your lovely email is well
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during the week I had lots of emails some interesting questions some
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interesting questions about the English language which is why we are here just
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in case this is your first time the reason why I am here is to teach you
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English to help you with your English and being here is a great way to improve
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your listening as well even though at the moment there is water dripping all
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around me so hello to Heber hello Heber nice to see you here today I am okay not
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too bad I am a little bit wet because we've just had a heavy downpour of rain
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but right now there are blue blue glimpses little
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glimpses little gaps in the gray clouds and behind those there is blue sky very
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nice hello - Alan here hello also - surah geralt Julie what is
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the difference between commerce and trade well when we talk
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about Commerce we normally mean a business so something that helps a
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business to run maybe the practice of actually having a
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business or maybe promoting your business so commerce normally involves
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everything to do with running a business so general commerce is business and also
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the way you run your business the way you promote your business and then we
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have trade which of course is when you deal with another company or a customer
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so trade is normally an exchange in fact that's what the meet the word means when
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we say trade it means exchange so you exchange one thing for another quite
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often it is a product so you supply the product and then the customer gives you
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money you trade so quite often trade can be used in many ways as my scripts blow
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away so there are many ways of using the word trade so commerce is just the
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general practice of running a business or selling things promoting things
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commerce you will hear that particular word used a lot at the moment good
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morning everyone mr. Duncan I need your suggestion what is better for me
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studying English every day for one hour or two hours every five
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days well I always say that give yourself an hour every day
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so in our every day you give yourself some time to yourself
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don't rush what you are trying to learn that is something that I always say to
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my my students and my viewers so don't rush what you are trying to learn take
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your time but I think one hour a day or if you have time
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two hours maybe you can practice your English in the morning for one hour and
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then maybe later on you can practice again for another hour
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so really quite often you have to fit learning into your schedule so some
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people have lots of spare time some people only have a little spare time so
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you will find as you begin learning as you begin practicing you will find that
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you have your own pace or your own way of doing things
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but my suggestion is always at least one hour every day and always try to learn a
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new English word every day at least two or three new words try to get them to
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stay in your head I know it's not easy learning anything can be very difficult
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in English is no exception can I just pick my script up off the
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floor because it's now sitting in a puddle that's nice
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by the way click this button if you want to have the live captions isn't that
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nice mr. Duncan isn't YouTube amazing it really is everything is so wet see I
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thought I had covered myself but there are little gaps where the rain has come
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through so now I have wet paper I have wet feet I have wet clothing everything
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is wet at the moment hello also to tell al hello mr. Duncan hello also 2jc Jordi
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Olivia also Belarusian hello Belarusian and I'm
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pleased to hear that your mother is back home that is very good news let me just
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adjust my camera slightly it is 8 a.m. in Argentina and I'm having my breakfast
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right now I hope you are enjoying your breakfast it is early in the morning it
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is now 8:15 or 816 in the morning in Argentina hello Olivia
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hello Sora Taco Bell or took bear hello Alamgir I
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can hear the raining sounds and the big problem is when I hear that sound
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I always feel sleepy huh I know what you mean
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if you look around on YouTube you will find lots of videos that have nothing
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but the sound of rain on them so you can play maybe a four hour maybe five hour
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or sometimes ten hours of one particular sound quite often it is a sound that is
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supposed to soothe you to make you feel calm and relaxed so yes you are right
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the sound of rain falling can make you feel very sleepy in fact a lot of people
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use the sound of rain falling to help them to get to sleep at night they will
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listen to the sound of the rain and then it will make them feel sleepy but don't
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fall asleep today please Tanya says yes we have rain as well it would appear
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that a lot of countries are experiencing heavy downfalls of rain at the moment
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hello neo nice to see you here as well Alamgir hello Alamgir by the way if you
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want to catch me every week you can and here are the details live English every
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Saturday 12 p.m. midday so just after lunchtime in the UK and also on Sunday 2
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p.m. UK time yes I will be back here tomorrow as well it is the first of
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September tomorrow and every Wednesday well for at least the next two
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Wednesday's there will be a full English lesson and full English number 39 will
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be with you next Wednesday so there will be a new recorded English lesson
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available next Wednesday and if you want to get into
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you can contact me through Facebook I have my own Facebook page can you
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believe it and also my email address is there as well and if you would like to
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make a donation it is the final day of August I have had a very busy month if
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you would like to send a donation for my work that I've done during August you
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are more than welcome to do so it's up to you to be honest with you it's up to
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you you don't have to but if you do it will help me to continue doing this
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forever and ever and ever Maria Larry is here hello Marella don't
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forget it is a short one today just a short live stream today and then
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tomorrow I will be with you for a very long time tomorrow mr. Duncan you look
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very cheerful despite the rain well I always say whatever the weather whatever
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it is whether it's raining or shining always try to keep a smile on your face
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so thank you very much Lilia I wish I could visit your lessons more often but
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I've got so many things on my plate that means that Lilia has a lot of things to
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do if you have a lot on your plate it means you have many things that you have
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to do you are a very busy person happy to see you again are you ready for the
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new season yes tomorrow is the first day of autumn
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summer is always over it's all it's almost over can you believe it I can't
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believe that summer is now coming to an end so from tomorrow its meteorological
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autumn tomorrow so officially it's autumn even though it will be a few
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weeks before the leaves start falling off the trees so even though autumn
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arrives tomorrow it won't actually feel like autumn not yet anyway helena is
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here hello from the Bell dish Bell Gish coast where
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the weather is wonderful well you are lucky did you see what happened at the
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start of today's livestream the rain was falling so heavily and I got soaking wet
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so I'm standing here at the moment in wet clothes I got a little bit wet
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Alamgir says how is your how are your days going and my days are okay
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Oh Alan Gere is saying hello to pal Mira that's nice I do like it when my life
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checked my live chat participants talk to each other very lovely it's that nice
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hello everyone I am driving now ooh I'm supposed to stop chatting yes don't
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drive and text at the same time it's very dangerous you will have an accident
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or even worse you will get caught by the police and then you might lose your
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driving license and we don't want that do we we don't want that at all no we
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don't hello also too kübra where are you right
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now mr. Duncan right now I am in my garden it is a very strange day we've
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had lots of rain and now the Sun is trying to come out so let me just change
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my camera slightly yes so now the Sun is trying to come out behind me so we are
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having a very mixed day as far as the weather is concerned so right now I am
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in my garden outside and I'm in England the birthplace of the English language
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hello Maria Maria as our nice to see you here today
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also we have gilt Gillan ah hello Gillan ah nice to see you here today as well I
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have a feeling that you like the music that plays at the start of the
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livestream a lot of people say how much they love the music
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at the start of the livestream it is a nice jolly piece of music in fact I've
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heard that some of you like to dance during the music so quite a few of you
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are dancing around I think so Agnieszka hello mr. Duncan I will start my
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horticultural course Holt horticulture that is the study of plants horticulture
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so if you study plants the way things grow nature all of the things that grow
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from the ground the subject is horticulture horticulture we often call
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gardening horticulture as well so you might be interested in doing your garden
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you might be interested in taking care of the plants and we can call that
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horticulture so it is the subject connected to plants hello mr. Duncan it
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is my first time here hello ESMA nice to see you here today now normally I give
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some applause so I'm going to see if my applause works because earlier earlier
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it wasn't working so let me just see if I can get my applause to work right now
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so congratulations to Asma Faisal who says it's my first time here and here is
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a big round of applause just for you
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is it working
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I don't know why my applause wouldn't work earlier how strange and now the Sun
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has come out can you see that now the sunshine is is glaring on me I wish the
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weather would make up its mind I really do hello also to our mad Jawad what is
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the difference between must and have to well to be honest with you they are the
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same thing if you must do something it means you have to do something you must
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you have to you have to have at least eight hours sleep at night you must have
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at least eight hours sleep at night so must and have to are basically the same
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thing you have to do it you must do it it is imperative oh I like that word
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hello to Olga hello Olga yes Olga Horticultural means things to do with
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plants things to do with all of this behind me all of the things growing
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behind me in the garden we we call the subject horticulture hello to Alamgir
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again Wow a lot of people on the live chat let's bring it up to date let's see
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who is on right now mr. Duncan I am very pleased that you mentioned the ambient
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rain videos my favorite sound videos are train journeys and thunderstorms now I'm
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very surprised by that because I wouldn't think that thunderstorms would
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be very relaxing I really wouldn't so I wouldn't think
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that a thunderstorm would be a relaxing thing to listen to so I'm quite
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surprised by that to be honest hello to Belarusian again Belarusian others back
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home that is good news and I'm very pleased to hear that can you make a live
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stream in the garden well I am right now I
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in the garden right now so at the moment I am in the garden and I can prove it
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watch this
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there here is a lovely flower just for you isn't that lovely
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can you see a freshly picked flower and I've picked it just for you how lovely
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so at the moment I am in the garden I really am in the garden let's have a
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look who else is on at the moment I'm not even sure if I'm still on am I still
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on have I have I been taken off something very strange is happening here
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I hope I'm still on I knew something would go wrong today I had a strange
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feeling that something would go wrong today and I still aren't are we still
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connected to the Internet I hope so not quite sure what's happening here nothing
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is working at the moment my screens have gone blank maybe the water has got in I
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don't know but something very strange something very strange is going on here
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apparently there is no internet connection and I don't know why her
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strange I hope you can still see me and hear me I know how is having some
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technical problems earlier and I don't really know what's happening there this
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is very bizarre I don't know why nothing is working suddenly I can't get any
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connection anywhere from anything and to be honest with you I really hate it when
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that happens I really really hate it if you can still
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hear me and see me just a moment I am trying to sort things out here because
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there would appear to be a slight problem for which I don't know the
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reason I had a feeling that something would go
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wrong today I don't know why I really did have a feeling I blame mr. Steve
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because mr. Steve is upstairs at the moment watching Shirley Bassey so I have
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a feeling that it's mr. Steve's fault I think mr. Steve is stealing my
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internet he's taking it from me okay let's see if this is working now please
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work please work this might be a very short live stream okay I think we're
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back now oh yes we're back now sorry about that all of my all of my
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screens and also my phone went completely blank then I don't know what
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happened it all stopped working for some strange reason I think it might have
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something to do with my 4G connection I think so anyway we're back now yeah I've
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had one or two technical problems today and I don't know why maybe the rain has
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gotten to my to my wires I think so hello dr. Victor hello dr. Victor dr.
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Victor first Sauve who is an entomologist beekeeper
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that's very interesting a beekeeper best wishes and greetings from the Ukraine
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who takes care of your garden do you take care of it I don't I must be honest
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with you I don't take care of the garden I don't really have green fingers mr.
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Steve takes care of the garden and I just sit in the garden and enjoy the
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view so that's my job mr. Duncan now we can hear you clearly that's all right I
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don't know what happened then something very strange happened I don't think it
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was a connection problem with the stream I think it might be a problem with the
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actual monitor that I'm looking at here in front of me so I have something in
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here in front of me here that I'm looking at
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and another problem is I'm losing my voice I don't know what's going on
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everything's going wrong today yeah it's not fair
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so did did you actually lose me that's what I'm interested in
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did you actually lose me serene is here how are my two favorite gentlemen on
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YouTube it sounds like you are getting a lot of rain like we did last year well
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we had a lot of rain earlier just as I started my live stream it started to
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rain and it came down very heavy and I got soaking wet mr. Duncan we can hear
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you clearly thank goodness for that I'm very pleased to hear that
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hello to Rakesh oh hello Rakesh where is Steve Steve isn't here at the moment he
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is upstairs in his private room watching Shirley Bassey I don't know why mr.
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Duncan I didn't lose you either I don't think anyone did oh okay then the
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problem is if you are presenting a live stream sometimes it is very hard to know
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if you are actually still broadcasting so sometimes it is hard to tell whether
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you are actually going out or not so that is one of the strange things about
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doing this sometimes you don't know if you are actually connected to YouTube is
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this normal water I think actually my water today is about 50 percent water
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from the bottle and 50 percent water that's come from the sky I think so
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Hoshino does Greenfingers mean a talent for gardening yes it does so if you have
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green fingers it means you have a talent for gardening
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you are very good at gardening so I would say that mr. Steve definitely has
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green fingers I think so I think mr. Steve definitely has green fingers so
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yes if you have green fingers I think in the United States they say green thumb
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so in the USA they will say green thumb but here in the UK we often say green
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fingers you have green fingers why do you always blame mr. Steve the reason
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why I blame mr. Steve is because quite often it's his fault
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it's true I'm not joking by the way do you like my tie a lot of people ask mr.
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Duncan where are you so today I'm wearing my tie so you know that I am
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coming from the republic of the UK have you heard that we are we're no longer a
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sovereign nation we no longer have democracy here so we're now in our
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republic so we have a president now we don't have a Prime Minister anymore and
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we don't have Parliament anymore so that's the biggest news that I've got
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to tell you today apparently the UK is no longer a democracy something very
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strange is happening in this country something very strange is happening on
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the 31st of October have you heard about that terrible Alamgir
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I heard that YouTube has changed the live-streaming system and the software
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as well yes there are many changes taking place on YouTube they are at the
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moment updating their analytics so you might notice if you check your your
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analytics if you check your YouTube statistics you will see that there have
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been some changes made on on YouTube and also I think there will be some change
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made with the way you livestream as well so as I understand it they've got rid of
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the the Google Chat so there used to be a thing on Google that you could chat to
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people with but I think that's gone now so YouTube are making many changes at
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the moment the 31st of October is also the Independence Day of Malaysia yes so
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congratulations for that so the 31st of October is going to be a
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very busy day there are many things happening including brexit Malaysia is
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Independence Day and also it will be 13 years since I first started making
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videos on YouTube 13 years so the 31st of October this year is going to be a
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very busy day for many people I think so now Ruto says it's funny how you wore a
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tie with your t-shirt thank you very much yes it does look unusual I hope it
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doesn't look stupid I will try my best to look sensible as I always do so yes
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the 31st of October is a busy day because here in the UK it is actually
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now going to be the day when the UK leaves the European Union it leaves the
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European Union so a lot of things happening in October yes her Hoshino
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says someone has asked the Queen to suspend the UK Parliament yes there are
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many things going on at the moment you may have heard the word prorogue used
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prorogue prorogue means a suspension of parliament so basically you suspend all
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of the activity in the UK government so this has happened in the past
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but it will be happening over the next three or four weeks because we are
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leading up to the second attempt to leave the European Union we are supposed
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to leave you Europe in fact we were supposed to leave it on the 29th of
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March but it didn't happen so now apparently we are going to leave the
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European Union maybe on the 31st of October but to make sure that that goes
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through to make sure that it happens the prime minister of this country is going
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to suspend Parliament so people won't have a chance to debate it so I think
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that's basically the reason why I hope I explained that very well and it's called
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prorogue Palmyra I have got a real English flag is it unpacked oh I see you
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have an actual English flag now don't forget there is a difference between the
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English flag and this flag so this flag is actually a combination of the English
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flag the Scottish flag and also Wales as well so this particular flag is called
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the Union flag so this is a combination of many different flags together but the
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English flag is just the Red Cross on a white background
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so that is the difference so this particular flag is called the Union flag
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some people call it the Union Jack as well so it is a flag there is a
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combination of all the UK countries the United Kingdom England Scotland and also
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Wales as well so they are all included in this so yes it is the English flag
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which is just the Red Cross the Red Cross
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Theresa Mae's spoken English was very easy to understand and glad you
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understood it because many people here in the UK didn't understand what she was
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going on about whatsoever I didn't get a notification for today's livestream
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really is that true okay then it does happen sometimes
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YouTube doesn't let you know when I'm on or when I post a new lesson so this is a
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big problem that I've had for some time where I make something new but YouTube
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doesn't tell my subscribers so not very good really it's very disappointing in
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fact I will be going in around about 10 minutes so today is just a short one
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just a short one mr. Duncan what does brew goog mean I've never heard of that
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word what is goog I don't know what boug means I've never
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seen Br oh oh oh gee I think I have a feeling that you might be spelling the
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word wrong hello to Lilia who is saying some very nice things today to my other
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chatters yes I love it I love it when people come together isn't it nice that
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there is a place in the world where people can come together and share their
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thoughts and ideas without fighting isn't that nice Pat you Pat you Yadav
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says can you please tell us something about Boris Johnson Oh what do you want
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to know about him well he is now the prime minister of this country so he is
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now the leader of this country he was also for many years the mayor of
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London so this is not his first big position so in the past he's also being
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the mayor of London twice so he has a long
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political background but his main job in the past was actually journalism so he
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used to write for various publications he used to be a writer a journalist so
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that is one of his jobs that he did in the past before he entered into politics
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so right now we have a new prime minister who appears to be taking care
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of everything at the moment everything incredible mr. Duncan what is the
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meaning of bit binomials binomials I'm not sure if you're spelling that right I
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have a feeling you might be trying to catch me out very naughty
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this happens sometimes you always get someone who asks a question and they
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know that I might not know the answer but they still ask it they ask it on
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purpose because they like to see my confused face hi Chow Pham could you
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please tell me how to improve my comprehension listening when foreigners
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speak very fast well this is something that I answer every week and I will
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answer it once again when you are listening it is something you have to
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practice you have to get used to listening to English being spoken so
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there are many ways of improving your listening skills you can watch movies
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you can listen to the radio you can watch videos on YouTube and another
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thing that will help you of course is to listen and also read the subtitles so
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that is something you have to do over a period of time you have to spend time
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concentrating and listening so this is something that you can't do quickly you
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can't improve your listening quickly it is something that you do slowly over
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time I hope that helps you
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what does it mean an educationist well an educationist is probably a person who
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supports the idea of education so an educationist is a person who who is a
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great believer in educating people mr. Duncan has much Wenlock a mayor or
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anyone we have leaders here in Much Wenlock we have a small council and I'm
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going to sneeze hello what a strange day this is turning out to be sorry about
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that hmm I think I have a bit of hay fever
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today I don't know why so we don't have a mayor here but we do have a leader a
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council leader so there are counselors here in Much Wenlock could the word that
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the other person is trying to say be been oral-b Norrell oh I see yes one
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sound oh I see you are listening to one particular sound yes if you're listening
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to one sound so oral just means sound a you are a el oral not oral as in your
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mouth that is spelt differently but also there is hearing as well sound going
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into your ears Anna says I agree with you mr. Duncan your live chat is so
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lovely the conversation among the viewers is really kind yes well the
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problem is sometimes if you watch the news too much you can start to believe
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that the world is a torrid terrible place you can start to believe that
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everyone is horrible when in fact the truth is the opposite most people on
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this planet are actually lovely and nice so sometimes I think it's very
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refreshing to have a moment of time where people are just chatting and
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enjoying their time
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mr. Duncan you offer the opportunities of improving my English skills thank you
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you are welcome Hoshino and oh I can see your faces well it looks like you're
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wearing a tie on your photograph is that true so it looks as if you are wearing a
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tie as well mr. Duncan you speak Oh Lilia
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well Lilia is also an English teacher did you know that
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so it's Oh Lilia also teaches English but also Lilia likes to join in with my
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live stream as well so that's the reason why so hello to everyone who is joined
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the live stream I am going in a few moments
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it is a short one today however I will be back tomorrow and here are the times
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tomorrow you can see that I am with you from 2 p.m. UK time and you can catch me
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every Saturday as well things were a little bit confusing today because the
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weather was really bad I wasn't expecting all that rain to be honest and
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you can follow me on Facebook you can email me and if you want to make a
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donation you can please to help my work continue everything I do I do it for
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free it doesn't cost a single penny as you can see it looks very bright out
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there now I don't know what's going on there
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with that camera but it looks awful and that one as well
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I wasn't expecting sunshine today that's the reason why I wasn't expecting any
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sunshine I am very shocked to see the Sun out
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today I have learned about the political system of the UK and I'm excited to know
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more really well there are many ways of finding out more about the way the
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United Kingdom works or doesn't work sometimes it works very well sometimes
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it doesn't work very well at all can you guess which period we're going through
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at the moment it's not so good to be honest with you things aren't great
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right now here to be honest I will be busy tomorrow says Naruto that's okay no
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problem you can always watch a live stream again later but not this one
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please don't watch this again because I think today this was a bit of a disaster
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to be honest because we had a very heavy downpour of rain a really heavy
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rainstorm and I wasn't expecting that the other thing I wasn't expecting was
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the Sun to come out so it's a very strange day we're having some really
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weird weather here today in the UK how can you speak English fluently and
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confidently well you are kind of answering your own
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question you are answering your own question so to speak English fluently
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and confidently you must be confident so I think that speaking English or
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speaking any language for the first time means that you have to build up some of
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that confidence and as I always mention every week there are two ways of
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improving your spoken English you can listen to yourself
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record your voice or another good one you can actually practice talking in the
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mirror have a look at yourself in the mirror get used to the feeling of
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speaking English get used to the feeling of speaking English so look in the
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mirror you can record yourself record your voice hallouwe or look in the
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mirror so that
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Julie G is going and I'm going in a moment as well it is almost time for me
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to go into town to have my Saturday lunch yes not sue not not not far away
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it will be soon hopefully I won't get caught in the rain tell al I didn't
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understand the word of count couch I don't know what word that is this is the
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problem sometimes when you hear a word you might actually not hear the word
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properly so when you write it down the spelling might be different from the
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real word that I said so for that I apologize
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thanks a lot for a beautiful live stream mr. Duncan by no means was it a disaster
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thanks thanks everybody it was nice to interact with you well I will be back
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tomorrow from 2:00 p.m. UK time right here on YouTube right here live and
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hopefully tomorrow I won't get wet dr. Vicktor for so says many English Gardens
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usually have lovely flowers are there many flowers in your garden
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there are many flowers but to be honest with you I don't really know the names
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of all of them some of them I do but others I don't now I think mr. Steve is
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actually the expert when it comes to identifying the flowers and of course
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you might notice that there aren't many flowers left in the garden now because
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we are coming towards the end of summer
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summer 2019 is coming to an end it's not fair isn't that terrible
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thank you very much for that what does it mean ain't ain't means isn't it isn't
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it ain't quite often you will hear this used
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British English or if the person is speaking with maybe a cockney accent in
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London they might say ain't but the meaning is isn't it isn't it ain't it
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isn't it ain't so it's basically the same thing it is not it isn't it ain't
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until tomorrow see you later says Helena thank you very much thank
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you very much for your lovely comments today can I wish you well I am going in
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a moment I will say goodbye in a moment to you I hope tomorrow we have better
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luck with the weather because today the weather was pretty awful I can't believe
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this is the thing I can't believe there was no rain this morning until exactly
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midday that the very moment that my live stream was due to start the rain started
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coming down really heavily so I can't believe that thank you very much bye bye
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- Irene and also thank you very much for your lovely messages today I will see
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you tomorrow from 2 p.m. UK time and of course tomorrow is the 1st of September
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do you have anything planned for September maybe something special is
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going to happen during the month of September who knows so tomorrow you will
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have a chance to talk about that we are going to talk about American English and
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British English tomorrow so we're going to have a look at some of the
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differences and take a little look into the reason why certain things in
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American English are different from British English and that is coming your
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way tomorrow this is mr. Duncan in the birthplace of
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English saying thanks a lot for joining me today thank you to neo thank you to
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Lewis see you tomorrow Thank You Bella rusia Thank You Eunice
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it's very nice to see we'll hear today did you have a hot
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summer yes the summer was quite hot but also very
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wet so I think I think we've just had the the wettest August ever here in the
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UK we've had more rain this August than any other August that has ever happened
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that's incredible thank you very much to Catherine also
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thank you to Rakesh Beatriz tell al neo see you all tomorrow
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I am going now before it rains again this is mr. Duncan saying thanks for
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watching I hope you've enjoyed this despite the one or two problems and of
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course you know what's coming next yes you do until tomorrow 2:00 p.m. UK time...
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ta ta for now
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This site will introduce you to YouTube videos that are useful for learning English. You will see English lessons taught by top-notch teachers from around the world. Double-click on the English subtitles displayed on each video page to play the video from there. The subtitles scroll in sync with the video playback. If you have any comments or requests, please contact us using this contact form.

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