ENGLISH in your EAR Live / CHIT CHAT / Thur 11th April 2019 Outdoors with Misterduncan in England

Oh hello there what a lovely day for standing in the garden

I couldn't resist coming home live I thought I would do a short live stream

today because it's a beautiful day it's very cold but it's so sunny and I really

couldn't resist coming outside so let's see what's going on shall we on the

livestream oh let's see what's happening shall we

okay get my phone to work if it will

that's better I got a little worried then I thought I wasn't going to be able

to talk to you live on the chat but there it is

just like magic so hello there hi everybody its mr.

Duncan I hope you are well today I hope you are happy I'm feeling rather happy

it's a very busy day here lots of people doing all sorts of things you might be

able to hear some noise in the background there is a lot of noise a lot

of action taking place around me because the farmers are driving around in their

tractors they're doing lots of preparation some of them are putting

fertilizer on their crops so there's a lot of things going on at the moment

around me also behind me someone is having some work done in their garden so

if you hear some noises that is the reason why the reason is because of that

oh it looks as if the live chat is very busy already I can't believe it thank

you very much for joining me today my name is mr. Duncan and I live in

England and that is where I am right now talking to you live on YouTube it's a

very windy day it's chilly in fact this morning it was so cold we had frost on

the ground it was minus three last night very cold and this morning we had frost

it was freezing and even now it feels a little chilly there is a cold

wind in the air the live chat is now up and running let me just connect it to my

to my charger so we don't lose the power we don't want to lose the power I I've

also brought some water today I have some water with me I will explain why I

have the water in a moment so let me just connect my phone there it is that's

nice we should be okay now with the live chat so let's see who is on the live

stream shall we my phone is being awkward

it won't stay still come on right let's have a look

Oh cabby mode hello kappa mole where are you watching at the moment cabby mode

nice to see you here today also we have Kaiba is here as well on

the live chat hi Kaiba nice to see you as well

sub-zero appears to be getting very excited why are you so excited I think

maybe you are excited because the live stream is now on YouTube once again so I

couldn't resist doing it now normally I am here every Sunday so if you want to

follow my live streams you can catch me every single Sunday did you like that I

was covering up the fact that my phone keeps slipping down so that's what I was

doing then for those who are wondering why I keep playing with things under the

camera PF says love you oh thank you very much for that also guadeloupe is

here oh I love this surprise it is a nice surprise

normally I'm not here on a Thursday but I couldn't resist doing it today I

thought why not why not so here I am Zhora is here watching in Serbia a big

hello to Serbia and well yes this is now live on a Thursday it is

just coming up to ten minutes - for a three o'clock here in the UK can you

believe it and already I need a drink of water I've only been on for a few

moments and already I need a drink of water excuse me so I will explain why I

need some water something incredible this happened something strange has

occurred I have got hay fever I've actually started showing signs of having

hay fever now normally at this time of year I don't get hay fever at all I

don't get it in any way whatsoever but today I am really suffering from hay

fever and I don't know why it would appear that there is a lot of pollen in

the air at the moment also the fact that many of my neighbours at the moment are

cutting their grass so maybe there is some pollen escaping from that but it is

very strange that today I'm really suffering from hay fever now normally I

don't get hay fever until much later in the year around June I normally get hay

fever but today I'm really suffering so you might find that now and again I

might sneeze for which I apologise also we have sorry hello sorry sorry 2019

says hi teacher finally I have joined one of your live streams I am very glad

for that well hello there sorry and welcome to my special English in your

ear there are so many things going on around

me I think I have picked a very busy afternoon to be outside in the garden

what normally happens is many of the neighbors many of the people living

around here go outside and they cut their grass and they have maybe other

people to come and do the gardening for them so there is a lot of activity

taking place around me today although I don't think it will disturb it so don't

worry about that Lazar is here hello Lazar nice to see

you here on the live chat it's mr. Duncan that's me by the way if

you are wondering

if you are thinking to yourself who is that strange man on my computer monitor

my name is mr. Duncan and I am here with you now live is live can be also we have

row sorry oh hello Rosario Rosario is watching in Spain how are you I hope you

are having a good afternoon have you ever been to Afghanistan I've

never been to the Middle East ever I suppose the nearest I've ever

been to the Middle East is Turkey I've been to Turkey twice I have been to

Turkey in the past so I suppose that's the nearest I've ever been to the Middle

East hello from Morocco little crow tumor

yeah babe Orca tumor I hope I pronounced your name right there hello from Morocco

pal Meera is here lots of regular live streamers here today I picked a really

good day to do this what is hay fever asks Mohammed nee brass hay fever is a

type of allergy it is when your nose in your eyes in your throat become very

sensitive to pollen pollen that comes from the planets and flowers so when a

flower comes out it produces pollen and some people are very sensitive to pollen

such as me so I'm very sensitive to pollen when it goes in my nose and in my

throat and in my eyes and it makes me sneeze

and every year I suffer from hay fever but the strange thing is this year I'm

getting it very early so normally I don't get hay fever until June or July

but today I'm suffering from hay fever and it's only April very strange mr.

Steve said yesterday perhaps I'm allergic to grexit maybe my my allergy

is because of brexit oh by the way have you heard the latest about bricks it

apparently now they have postponed they have put off leaving the EU until

October the 31st now that day to me is very special it is actually a special

day to me because that's the day I created my youtube channel can you

believe it why would they pick that day so the 31st of October is now the date

when we will be leaving the European Union and it also happens to be the day

when I created my youtube channel way back in 2006

lilia is here oh hello Lilia nice to see you here as well on the live chat

goodness it's freezing cold in my flat now I've wrapped up very warm so I can

feel comfy and cozy in the sitting room or in the sitting position whilst

watching your stream it's very chilly here today I'll be honest with you

I'll be honest with you it's freezing cold here today

I really should put a coat on hello from Egypt

hello maloca hi nice to see you here today it looks like I'm losing my my Sun

shield wait there

the wonders of live-streaming anything can happen

and today anything is happening is the weather like a summers day in England

well not today it looks like summer but it doesn't feel like it it is absolutely

freezing cold

I don't quite know what's going on behind me but all I know is it's very

noisy where is mr. Steve I miss him mr. Steve

is out there working mr. Steve is out there working busily away somewhere so

sadly there is no mr. Steve today I'm sorry about that this is really going

well excuse me

okay I'm back if you haven't already realized I have something shading my

face from the Sun because I don't want to get too much Sun on my face or else I

will get sunburned and my skin will become damaged so that's the reason why

I keep moving away to adjust my sunshade that's the reason why oh hello mr.

Duncan I really love your garden thank you my laughs for your lovely message

it's nice to see so many people here already you said it was windy over there

where you are while the sky is getting dark and heavy clouds are coming to the

place where I am now with the possibility of heavy rain as has been

mentioned oh I'm sorry to hear that the weather is a little gloomy where you are

well the Sun is out the sky is blue as you can see Burt it is rather cold it's

a little chilly a bon jour from lali lali hello Bonjour from France

hello lali lali nice to see you did Halloween have anything to do the fact

that you created your channel on the 31st of October no it has nothing to do

with that when I created my YouTube channel I was

still living in China so it has nothing to do with Halloween but it is a

coincidence it is coincidence so the anniversary of my YouTube channel

is on the 31st of October also Halloween is on the 31st of October

and this year brexit yes the day when we leave the european union that is also

going to be on the 31st of october can you believe it I can't believe it

hmm so it is just a coincidence just a happy coincidence

hello mr. d'Ancona from tan trang mohammed hey gosh says all nice hats mr.

Duncan I wearing my hat today to protect my face and my head from the Sun and

that's why I have a Sun Shade as well so there is a Sun Shade covering me even

though the wind keeps blowing it away which is rather annoying maloca says I

really hope that I can meet you one day that's very kind of you to say it's very

lovely thank you maybe one day you never know in this

crazy thing called life you never know yes apparently according to roe sir I

think Rosa has been checking on the internet apparently the temperature here

at the moment is 9 Celsius yes it is a little chilly today it was freezing this

morning I had quite a shock when I woke up and it was so cold

hi I was born on the 31st of October says to Mara Beebe really oh my goodness

what a what a coincidence amazing so the 31st of October seems to

be a very busy date many things happening the anniversary of my youtube

channel also Halloween also brexit day and also it is your birthday as well

fantastic I like your correction rather than reading as you read it thank you

sorry well I am very good at reading things and correcting them at the same

time now that that is of course experience because I've been teaching

for many many years over 15 years I've been doing this in fact it must be about

16 16 years I've been doing this so I'm very good at correcting what people

write down as I read it I suppose you might call it a skill I don't know

thanks to goob oh hello GU would you like to visit

Somaliland one day well it's not a place I've ever been to if I was honest I've

never been there in my life

wait there a moment

I'm starting to regret coming out here today I thought maybe it was a bad idea

and I'm starting to think it was a student asked me today and I didn't know

what to say as an answer what do we call a person who is very eloquent but in a

negative sense someone who lubricates the truth but never speaks it directly

I suppose if a person if a person says something but they don't want to offend

another person they might sugarcoat something you might say that if you have

to say something that might upset someone we can say that you sugarcoat it

sugarcoat

I might have to go and get something to hold this in place because it keeps

blowing away in the wind how annoying so yes if you want to say

something in a way that won't offend someone or upset someone you want to say

it eloquently without hurting them without saying something too direct we

can say that you should coat something you should go coach you you break

something to a person gently because you don't

want to upset them or shock them I hope that helps

quite a lupus here hello Guadalupe welcome to my windy garden it's very

windy out here today and lots of things were going wrong just the wind was

blowing everything away I'm going to visit a place where there isn't any

internet connection it is because it is a place very close to the mountains so

if you don't see me watching that is the reason why thank you quite a loop for

letting me know so I hope you have a good time in the

mountains sounds very interesting oh it's Pedro here I didn't see Pedro

here is Pedro oh there he is hello Pedro mr. Duncan I would like to

see your bedroom really and your closet so in American English we say closet but

in British English we say wardrobe so American English it's closet closet and

in British English we tend to say wardrobe wardrobe I have lots of clothes

I will be honest with you I have many t-shirts many shirts many different

types of clothing so yes my wardrobe has quite a lot of clothes having said that

I don't buy new clothes very often so I don't always go shopping for new clothes

so many of the clothes in my wardrobe are actually quite old but I love them

so much mr. Duncan is that Steve soaring the wood no the sound you can hear is

not mr. Steve it's someone else it's one of my neighbours far away but no Steve

isn't here he's busy working today he's out and about out and about

hello to Olga hello Olga I haven't seen you for a while

hello mr. Duncan long time no speak how is it going oh hello Shira blade nice to

see you here again on the live chat what a lovely surprise pal Mira is here

plenty of sugar coats around I like that yes I think it's a very interesting

thing in life quite often when we have to say something to a person and maybe

maybe the thing we have to say is very unpleasant maybe it is something that

might seem rude or maybe something that might be shocking

so sometimes we we say it in a certain way we sugarcoat something we we say it

without offending the other person so yes the other word you can use is tact

so you can be tactful you can use tact teacher I wonder why I can understand

everything you say well I'm very pleased to hear that when listening to you but

when I hear other people I don't I can't well maybe it's something to do with

accents so there are many different types of accents around no pheasants

today well yes there is a pheasant in fact there is a pheasant just just over

there it keeps walking past watching me

no wonder your students are interested in your private life mr. Duncan even if

you're following someone for professional reasons you'll get them

interested as a person I reckon yes I think maybe you're right Lilia I think

this is one of the things I used to get the same thing in China I used to get

people following me around when I was in China because they they'd seen me in

their school or they'd seen me on TV because I ended up doing

TV shows and talking on television and judging English speaking contests so I I

did eventually end up on television in China which was very embarrassing

because people kept bothering me every time I went shopping someone would come

up to me and say they would say oh hello I know you I saw you on the television

it's horrible don't be famous never be famous it's horrible Pal Mira

oh hello pal Mira it's nice to see you here I would like to see your bedroom

and your personal belongings says Pedro oh really what sort of personal

belongings I don't know what you mean I'm getting very embarrassed now and

going red can you see and it isn't the Sun it's not the Sun making my face red

its embarrassment I wonder if those pheasants are ate or

are they wild they are wild pheasants but I can tell you something about the

pheasants the birds the large game birds the birds that are around here they are

bred they are bred especially to be eaten can you believe it so that they

they fly around in the open they are wild but at certain times of the year

farmers will come and they will hunt they will shoot the pheasants so that's

the that's what happened there there is a black bird watching me it seems very

interested in me personally I would love to learn more about your TV experiences

there is a clip there is a video clip on YouTube with me on Chinese television so

there is actually one on my youtube channel and in that video I'm actually

singing live two to hundreds and hundreds of people on television in

Chinese as well so I'm actually singing in Chinese oh I see it looks as if

guadeloupe also likes Pedro's idea about showing my personal belongings

a lot of my clothing is very old I can let you in now on a secret a lot of my

clothing is very old even the shirt that I'm wearing now is very old

this shirt is actually falling to pieces it's it's actually starting to to fall

apart around the back

so around around the back of the collar this is the collar collar so this

particular part of your shirt is called the color color and the back of the

collar is actually fraying so all the material is starting to come apart

because it's so old so I do have a habit of keeping my clothes until they

completely fall to pieces yes that as I mentioned just the pheasants are wild

but it's certain times of the year they are hunted especially the males

especially the males mr. Duncan you've been helping me improve my English for

many years thank you Val Val immers Val I'm seer of Valencia

thank you very much for that do you speak Chinese would Jung War II D&E and

that's actually Chinese by the way oh my god is the video clip still on your

channel yes it is yes there is a video on my youtube channel and it is me on

Chinese television talking to hundreds of people and then I sing a Chinese song

I am happy to see you enjoying the pleasant weather however it is

sweltering sweltering in Pakistan I'm sure it is Thank You asthma Khan for

that I would imagine that it's very hot at the moment in Pakistan

what is the secret of your clothes lasting for such a long time I don't

know but uh but I always have favorite clothes I'm sure everyone does I'm sure

you do as well so everyone has a favorite item of clothing so I do and

most likely you do as well but the thing is if I if I like something if I like to

wear a certain item of clothing then eventually I will wear it out and this

shirt is a good example because I love this shirt

I really like the color of this shirt I think it really suits me so I like this

shirt but sadly it is now starting to fall apart it is starting to

disintegrate

teacher does the word inscribe can be used instead of right we don't normally

use inscribe unless

I would try a game we don't normally use the word inscribe unless it's something

that is being written in a permanent way such as into stone so if you are putting

something permanently normally if you are carving something or writing

something in stone you will inscribe so quite often the word is used formally

but most times if you are writing something on paper or writing something

using a computer you you write it but inscribe is to write something that will

be there permanently inscribe mr. Duncan do you know my country Algeria I have

heard of Algeria yes Vietnamese call the caller the co owl I

hope I pronounced that right so yes this part of your shirt here is called the

collar and and this part here is the cuff

let me just show you cuff so there that is called the cuff

so we have cuff

kerf and color color mm-hm

I've heard a lot about England your people there but can I know about your

family a little can you tell us about you I really want you to introduce

yourself Thank You true in train Tring a lot of

people are very fascinated by my life I don't know why my life is fairly average

I didn't have a wonderful amazing childhood it was average so I think

everything about my life is fairly average it's true

do you speak Vietnamese no I don't I've never been to Vietnam and I've never

really learned a language to be honest high teacher in Europe it is a wonderful

spring however in Brazil it is very hot hugs for you and for everyone around the

world Thank You Stanislaw thank you very much that's very kind of you to say well

it is freezing today it's actually freezing cold so even though everything

looks lovely everything everything looks everything

looks so nice look everything is lovely it looks like summer is here but it's

still very cold

it really is still cold so it looks nice but to be honest my fingers

hello mr. pheasant my fingers are actually quite cold

Ernesto says Mr Duncan today it is my birthday ah

Ernesto it's your birthday yes today it's your birthday hip hip hooray

well done Ernesto you have managed to stay in this world for another year well

done and thanks for following me and I hope you have a great birthday you have

to admit you're an interesting person so we have interest in curiosity about your

personal life for example what will you do after the lesson do you mean today

well after this lesson finishes I will go into the house I will prepare to make

mr. Steve a cup of tea so when mr. Steve comes home I always like to make a cup

of tea so I make a cup of tea for mr. Steve and I make a cup of tea for me and

then we drink our tea together and then we talk about our day so Steve will tell

me all about his day and I will tell Steve all about my day and that's what

we do we have a little chat and then Steve will do some work in his office

and maybe I will watch a little bit of television but tonight let me think

Thursday Thursday normally on Thursday we go into town and and we take a

Chinese meal back home with us so quite often on Thursday we will normally go

for a Chinese meal so that's what we're doing tonight so we will go into town we

will buy the food and they will we will bring the food back home we will have a

Chinese takeaway I choose mr. Duncan and the chatez

company rather than watching TV or surfing the internet oh thank you

Palmyra thank you so you would rather watch me than watch television

Thank You ow Wow I feel I feel great that's Wow thank you I don't know what

to say I'm almost speechless I guess you are going to prepare another live stream

for example thus the one on Sunday yes I will be preparing some some bits for

Sunday don't forget I am here every Sunday so every Sunday from 2:00 p.m. UK

time I am here live on YouTube every Sunday having said that mr. Steve is

going to a party at the weekend so I'm not sure if he will be here on Sunday to

join us so we will see

a lot of people asking about my money situation I can tell you a couple of

things now about my situation my situation is very unusual in the fact

that my youtube channel has become a very big part of my life so I have been

doing this on YouTube for 13 years

honestly I'm not joking 13 years I've been doing this so it has become a very

big part of my life but sadly over the years making a living earning money from

YouTube has become more difficult so I have a slight problem in the fact that I

love doing this for you and I love doing it for free but I also have to somehow

make a living as well we all have to live so that is the one thing I always

find slightly annoying or upsetting about doing this I would love to do it

all the time I would love to be here with you every day like this but sadly I

can't but I would love to I would love to I really want to watch mr. Steve I

have never seen him live I watched the last video that you published he looks

so funny and a respectful figure thank you sorry

everyone loves Steve they really do mr. Steve is one of the loveliest people

that you could ever meet in your life in real life Steve is very popular

sorry about that my little Sun shield

it keeps blowing away sorry about that so yes mr. steve is such a lovely person

he has so many admirers so many people who love him in his work he has a lot of

fans where he works everyone loves Steve and he is also very

good at his job

ro sir says I think the word the word for this part of your shirt is cuff see

you F F maybe I can type it here so let me just put that on the live chat there

we go so there it is the word is cuff cuff and this is collar

there it is so there is the word collar collar cuff cuff curse collar and this

part of your shirt is called the sleeve sleeve sleeve

I will spell that for you there we go

do you only have one friend mr. Steve I

would love to explain all of that to you but it would take too long what does mr.

Steve do ah well I can't tell you where he works or what he does but he does

work in sales there we go that's all I'm saying a

certain type of sales highboy says you have a lovely garden if he's great

oh thank you very much there it is there is the garden looking rather nice today

so you can see the garden is looking lovely two days ago

I actually did a live stream outside and I showed you around the garden but today

we are we are not going to walk around the garden I'm going to stay in one

place which is here so there it is

mr. Duncan has many admirers many admirers around the world thanks for

that that's lovely Thanks I don't know how

many people admire me I know that some people don't admire me mr. Duncan I

think you would vest a lot of money into your channel yes I do I have spent

thousands and thousands of pounds over the years I would like to be a donator

but I don't have a credit card but could if you could tell me how to donate I

would be grateful that's very kind of you

well there is an address underneath here if you look underneath there is an

address you can use PayPal PayPal and also you can make a live donation right

here on the live chat now I know this is a very strange thing to do I'm not here

to beg for money I'm not here to hold my hand out and say please help me please

help a poor youtuber that isn't what I'm doing so I just want to make sure that

we're very clear on that that isn't why I'm here at the moment I was simply

asking or answering a question mr. Duncan

is your beautiful cherry trees still in blossom

sadly the blossom has gone now but there are some lovely leaves some lovely

leaves now every time I see you I feel very happy you certainly appear on the

live stream mr. Duncan Thank You Connell I'm glad that you enjoy my live streams

sometimes I do worry I get very worried because I think maybe maybe the Sheep of

running around on the field so sometimes I get very worried very afraid that my

live streams might be boring I don't want to do that so I always feel a

little worried that you might become bored listening to me talking to you mr.

Duncan you should also make a podcast channel I would love to I would love to

do that but just like doing this it takes up a lot of my time a lot of time

unfortunately

does the word Cerf and cough have the same pronunciation no they don't

so Cerf is oh cough is OH cough cough so that is your cuff and

this is cough cough I hope that helps you Fabiana with your

question there

have a nice afternoon live from Vietnam oh thank you tow an - an vu that's very

kind of you to say I think I have a lot of people watching in Vietnam so can I

say a big hello to everyone watching in Vietnam on this Thursday afternoon it is

Thursday it is just coming up to half past three in the afternoon

here 3:30 and it is the 11th of April 2019 yesterday it was announced that

brexit that is Britain's exit from the European Union will now take place on

the 31st of October which happens to be the same day as my YouTube channel was

created the 31st of October a big thank you from Morocco Thank You hircine a

scene kickboxer kickboxing I've seen kickboxing actually take place it's it's

actually quite exciting I get the feeling you have to be very fit you have

to be very agile to actually do kickboxing it's that there is a lot of

this going on

I don't know if you could see that could you see that no okay well that was a

waste of time hello for a Madeleine how you la la

jandreau alejandro nice to see you here today on the live chat tunisia is here

tunisia hello to tunisia who is who is in tunisia i've lost your i've lost your

name where is it oh I can't read it I can't read it because it's in Arabic I

can't read Arabic I'm sorry about that I like British people they are very

sarcastic we have a very dry sense of humor I think this is what people often

say about British humour British humor is very dry so quite often we will say

things in a serious way but really we are joking we have a very dry sense of

humor Saudi Arabia is here now a noose hello to you hello anise and a7 nice to

see you here I love your kickboxing impression oh could you see it did you

see it on the camera could you see it oh thank you

maybe I could be the next Bruce Lee oh very nice when will the next live stream

be hello LuAnn LuAnn the next live stream will be this Sunday so the next

live stream is Sunday I will put it on the chat Sunday and the time is it will

be at

2:00 p.m. and don't forget UK time so there it is so the next the next live

stream will be on Sunday 2:00 p.m. UK time that is when the next live stream

will be I will be here mr. Steve might be here on Sunday but he is going to a

special party before I attend a regular school

I paid tuition now I can't attend school but I have your free lessons to help me

thanks a lot for that Thank You Gwen a loop well that's the reason why I do

this this has always been the reason why I do this

and a lot of it comes from my time in China because when I was living in China

I used to go to some of the poorer areas of the area in which I was working so we

used to visit lots of different schools and some of the schools were in areas

that we're living in in now I'm going to say this now sometimes when I talk about

this I get I get very upset because I have some very fond memories of that

time but I did visit some areas where there was a lot of poverty and people

were living on very small amounts of money so I did visit those places and I

used to give talks to the teachers and also to the students as well but yes and

I can safely say that those experiences affected me a lot

and I realized that there were many people out there who wanted to learn

English but could not afford to have private classes so that's why in 2006 I

started making my youtube videos so the reason why I do this has always been the

same and that is to teach English for free

to everyone to everyone since my graduation in 2005 oh I see you you

graduated in 2005 in linguistics and that comes from Hussein kickboxer oh I

see so is that how long you've been kickboxing is that when you started

kickboxing 2005 maloca oh dear maloca you are making me feel very old I

started watching you when I was 9 or 10 now I am 17 have I been doing this for

so long oh my goodness I'm so proud that you see my message thank you for making

me happy well maloca maloca loco you are more

than welcome I'm glad that my lessons were helpful to you and it looks as if

you've been watching me for around eight years I can't believe I've been doing

this for so many years this year it's my 13th year on youtube mr. Duncan why

don't you practice some exercise like caliphates what's calisthenics

is that where you move your body around is that where you stretch your body you

stretch your legs and you stretch your arms you stretch your body okay

calisthenics I'm sure mr. Steve will know all about

that I want to improve my English speaking can you help me how to speak

English fluently well my simple answer to that question

is practice get used to listening to English try to make it a part of your

life the more you use it the more you learn the more you learn

or you enjoy doing it in fact you might say that learning anything follows those

rules hi just saying hello to the pheasant the pheasant he's saying hello

to again hello to the pheasant I don't get shot

hello mr. Duncan I love your lessons me and my kids have learned a lot through

your videos we have followed you for seven years I am really starting to feel

old hello mr. doe kid we have followed you

for seven years says Lia Lia Vila oh my goodness

I feel as if I have taught a whole generation of students in fact Oh Lilia

Lilia says the same thing you are so nice thank you and I know or nor and on

nor I hope I pronounced your name right Arthur left hello Arthur left hi from

Peru which city are you in now it looks nice and quiet well normally it's very

quiet here I live in the countryside in England so yes I am now talking to you

live from England how are you today at the rational Academy hello the rational

Academy would you describe yourself as a rational person rational logical

sensible

Pedro no no I'm not going to do calisthenics which means you use your

body to get results like push-ups and chin-ups oh I see so you lift yourself

up I think that's the idea yes I get I understand what you mean

there is no way that I'm doing press ups no way I think I would injure myself

definitely I have just discovered your lessons about one year ago but since the

first time I watched you ice I've stayed hurt Wow thank you very much so you are

addicted to my lessons thank you very much quite a loop what

are the light topics to speak with foreigners quite often when you meet a

foreigner if you want to talk to a native English speaker try to keep the

conversation simple don't use technical words and also sometimes if you meet a

native a native English speaker you must let them know that you are learning

English and then they will understand that they have to speak a little slower

so if you meet a person and you want to talk to them and they are a native

English speaker then you can introduce yourself and you can say oh hello my

name is Eduardo and I'm learning English do you mind if I talk to you for a few

moments there are people watching use for many years that shows that you are a

lovely individual thank you sorry Wow so many compliments today I'm really

starting to to go red with embarrassment honestly the live chat has gone off wait

there a moment I need to I need to reset a live chat what I love about this is

sometimes it takes ages to set up come on live chat where are you

I am watching whilst I am running on my Kappas rule on what is at APIs rule and

I am fascinated so are you running on an exercise machine so maybe you are

running on your exercise machine I'm tired already how old are you mr. Duncan

that's a great question a lot of people ask how old I am I am

older than you I'm pretty sure that I am older than you

I remember your hat mr. Duncan you bought it when you were in Turkey is it

the same hat yes Connell this is the hat that I bought when I was on holiday in

Turkey I bought this in 2011 so I've had this hat for many years once again

proving that I like to keep my clothing for a long time

Ashwin says you are looking young today oh thank you very much for that but I am

I am I'm not a young person a lot of people think I am but I'm not I'm

probably I'm probably the same age as your father

can I ask quick can I ask a question excuse me

I'm going to have a drink of water do you mind that's better

can I ask a question which is better in your opinion learning English on your

own or in a classroom setting personally I'm a classic self-study specimen

classrooms have never worked for me now I am in the middle I'm in the middle

because I think that being in a being in a classroom situation is a good way of

learning how to concentrate because sitting in a classroom listening to a

teacher talking it can be a little boring but also if you can do it

successfully it is a very good way of improving your concentration so I think

both are good so I think self teaching but also teaching in a classroom

environment have their have their good sides and their bad sides okay I've got

the Sun on me now excuse me

that's better I don't want too much sunshine on my

face because I might get I might get sunburned thank you very much for your

big efforts and time thank you has seen it's very kind of you I live your

lessons because they have a great mix you speak and explain all that we ask

and mr. Steve makes us have more questions about the language this makes

us grow up in the language thank you both

that's okay Guadeloupe I think that's a very good point because listening to two

people talking together and especially with myself in mr. Steve because we

speak in a very different way so yes I I like to think that my live lessons will

help you to to learn how to listen to English and of course you can learn some

new words at the same time come on Duncan raise your hands if you love

Duncan oh dear and getting very embarrassed now I started watching your

videos in 2005 Wow Mohamed new brass you've been watching me for nearly 14

years that's incredible well I started doing

my English lessons in 2006 if you love mr. Duncan raise your hands oh I see I

see I think Pedro is trying to create a fan

club I think so I have a problem with the surprise small talk Fabiana now when

we talk about small talk maybe it is conversation that is very informal so

something that's informal or maybe light it is a type of conversation that we

describe as being small talk I taught myself English I depend on myself to

learn English the mistakes that I have done is focusing on grammar too much yes

I think sometimes people spend too much time worrying about grammar when in fact

you can listen to English being used and then you can learn the way in which the

words are used you can learn the rhythm of English English has a certain rhythm

a way of being used a sign has to go I must leave now I'm I have to feed my

boys and then I will come back thank you Hussein and I hope you are you

are making something nice to eat mmm I wonder what it is I always get very

excited when people talk about food

please answer this question a moet tiger asks what does it mean the expression

they have fought they have fought tooth and nail if if two people fight tooth

and nail it is an idiom it is an expression that means they have fought

vigorously they have fought for something until they they have used up

all their energy so if you fight tooth and nail it means you fight without

giving up you don't stop you use all your energy you put everything you have

into the battle so yes to fight tooth and nail means you fight vigorously you

fight energetically I need to be prepared to speak English well

this is a pretty good place to be because you can listen to English being

used live by a native English speaker so you can't say better than that I think

it's pretty good by the way some of you will have subtitles today you will be

able to see subtitles Pedro is going because his phone needs charging oh I

see you are running out of power on your phone thanks sir I have to learn the way

to describe sunlight in my face or sunlight on on my face if you have too

much sunlight on your face you might get sunburned sunburned it's very bad if you

get sunburn on your face it looks like the Sun has gone around now I can move

this away because the Sun has now gone

ah yes the Sun has now gone around the corner which means that I don't have to

worry so much about the sunlight

sometimes when I talk without thinking about grammar people correct correct me

and I feel ashamed no don't don't worry if someone corrects you that's a good

thing so sometimes it's good when someone

corrects you or they put you right on something because that's a good thing so

we all make mistakes I've made many mistakes in my life and when someone

corrects me I accept it so quite quite often it is good to be

corrected so never feel worried about it it's a good thing not a bad thing I have

to go mohamad knee brace is going as well oh well I will see you later I will

be going soon as well for two reasons one I have to make a cup of tea for mr.

Steve because he will be back from work soon

also I'm I'm freezing cold it's very cold you speak English and I

hear it very clearly and I'm understanding you

but others I can't understand why is that well as I mentioned earlier one of

the reasons might be the accent so there are many different types of accent and

in many types of language in many languages there are different accents

and English is no exception I speak English fast natives understand

me but Arabians don't is that a problem because they keep asking me to speak

slowly but I can't well once again

there are many different ways of using English some people like to speak

quickly some people speak slowly some people speak medium speed but yes

sometimes if if a person isn't used to it so if you don't always hear English

being spoken then it can be hard to understand games Shan asks mr. Duncan

how many different types of English accent are there there are many

different accents of English numerous numerous that means many so yes there

are many different types of accents as you go around the UK

you will hear English being spoken and used in many different ways I'm

preparing myself for my son's graduation in the USA so I need to practice Oh

Ernesto that sounds very interesting and congratulations to your son on his

graduation what time is your dinner and who cooks the dinner in your house

Fabiana well tonight neither of us because we're going out

we're going to have a Chinese meal so we will go to the Chinese restaurant in

town and then we will we will bring the food back here o connell is baking some

cookies nice very nice I'm baking some cookies for tea right now and after your

lesson I will have a cup of tea me too I will have one with mr. Steve when he

gets back home I think I'm coming towards the end of the livestream

because I've been here now for about 1 hour and 20 minutes about an hour and 20

minutes or 10 minutes so I am going in a moment I couldn't

stop watching your live video I love to listen to you free talk Thank You

Muhammad for that it's very kind of you I will be here on Sunday from 2 p.m. UK

time that is when I'm back and that is when I am normally here on YouTube live

so I am live every Sunday from 2 p.m. UK time ever Estrada

thinks that I'm drinking vodka can I just say that this is not vodka this is

water not vodka how can I speak for a long time

I can speak well for a short time Bert for a long time it is a problem graph

graph Shinde or Shin yes well can I just reassure you can I say something to make

you smile speaking for a long time it's very difficult in any language so even

if you are a very good English speaker you might find speaking English or using

English for a long period of time can be difficult so it doesn't really matter so

a lot of people find speaking or talking for a long time to be very difficult so

don't worry about it don't worry sometimes we think too much about these

things we we make them into very big problems in our minds but in reality

they're not they're not

whilst listening to mr. Duncan try writing down words that you like and

then practice saying them to yourself yes that's good advice Lilia I think so

and then you can put them into sentences and say those sentences out loud that is

a very good way of self studying so if you want to do some self-study a good

thing to do is to listen to English being used and maybe there are some

words that you don't understand or maybe something you want to write down and

then later you can check you can find out what the word means so there are

many ways of improving your English so many ways but can I say you do need

motivation you need enthusiasm and most importantly of all you need time give

yourself plenty of time don't rush learning English don't rush

don't try to do it too quickly now I am listening to your live stream and I am

writing down some words to improve my English yes some people can actually see

live subtitles now so if you are very lucky you can actually see live

subtitles on the screen I was washing the windows whilst listening to this

lesson and already one balcony is finished that's great Olga when you

finished yours can you come and do mine please because my windows are very dirty

at the moment and says please give my love to mr. Duncan oh thank you very

much maybe you mean mr. Steve I will send your love to mr. Steve when he gets

home I will do that just for you thanks for your reply and tell me how do I read

English please send me some information rakesh well Rakesh reading just like

learning everything takes time so maybe don't try to rush the thing that you're

learning a lot of people make this mistake I've mentioned this already and

I will mention it again a lot of people make mistakes they make mistakes when

they try to learn something and one of the biggest mistakes is to try and learn

something too quickly you put too much pressure on yourself I can listen to

English well but when I'm speaking English it is not because there are few

native speakers to talk with in my place ah yes well this once again is a very

common problem with people who are learning English in certain countries

because sometimes there aren't many people to practice English with so I

understand your problem but maybe you can join a local group maybe an English

corner or maybe you can create your own group so maybe you can find other people

who share an interest in English as well

how do i improve public speaking in English English is my third language

guru-guru can I say that public speaking is one of the hardest things to do in

the world it is most people are afraid to speak in public now if you give a

speech in public it is a very hard thing to do not many people can do it

successfully but with practice and plenty of time and confidence-building

you can do it there is a lesson on my youtube channel where I talk all about

giving a speech and how to prepare yourself

giving a speech your white hat is cute thank you very much

I think mr. Steve mr. Steve has just appeared yes

mr. Steve has just arrived oh I can see his car coming up towards the house

that's good so I'm going to disappear I'm going now

you are so great for me thanks so much I can't go whilst you are here I will stay

till the end well the end is coming right now because I'm

about to go mr. Steve is back home and I will make a cup of tea for Steve and

also for myself because I'm freezing cold it's so cold out here so I will

leave you now I will go thank you very much for your messages thanks for

joining in on the live chat I'm going now I will be back on Sunday 2:00 p.m.

UK time this is mr. Duncan on a very sunny but

cold day here in England saying thanks for watching and I will see you later

this video will be available later on with subtitles so I'm going now I will

see you later and of course you know what's coming next before I go into the

house and make a cup of tea for mr. Steve

ta ta for now

and see you on Sunday