Learn ENGLISH (almost) EVERY DAY #8 - L I V E - from England / Tuesday 19th APRIL 2022

I want to say I feel better, but I don't.

Hello. Welcome.

Here we are.

Yes, it's a lovely day.

It's very nice outside.

The sun is shining. The birds are singing.

And I'm here in my studio feeling pretty awful.

I don't normally exaggerate.

I don't like hyperbole, but today

I feel like crap.

I think that's it.

That's the best way of summing up how I feel today.

I hope you are feeling good, though. Here we go.

It is a short.

Definitely short Live stream.

Whilst I can still stand on my own two feet.

Here we go. Yes, it's English addict. It is.

In fact, it's whatever you want to call it. Really?

Coming to you live from the birthplace of English, which is England.

Mm hmm.

Hi, everybody.

This is Mr. Duncan in England.

How are you today?

Are you OK?

I hope so.

Are you happy? I hope you are feeling good today.

I'm here right now live on YouTube.

And I hope you are as well.

Wherever you are watching in the world, I hope you are feeling good today.

I am still recovering from my brush with COVID.

Myself and Mr. Steve.

We are still recovering.

We did something yesterday. We went out for a walk.

Maybe that was not a good idea, but we went out for a walk.

We couldn't resist going outside because the weather yesterday was gorgeous.

And of course, it was a public holiday because we are all celebrating Easter.

In many parts of the world, including here.

So we went out for a lovely walk.

Very nice day, actually.

We got back home, both of us completely tired out.

And today, we both feel

pretty unwell.

I think that is the way the way I'm going to describe it.

I have been coughing, sneezing, blowing my nose.

I'm still recovering from the dreaded loogie.

And if you've had it, you will know exactly how I'm feeling at the moment.

One of the worst parts, of course, is I need my voice.

This has to work, you see, for me to be able to work

so well without my voice

and my ability to.

To think.

Because when you feel unwell, it also affects the way you think.

Your brain does not work as it should.

But I will try my best.

I'm only going to be here for a short time, so please make the most of it.

You will not have my

bright, radiant face on your screen for very long.

Today.

Hello to the live chat.

Nice to see you here as well.

It's. It's.

I tell you something.

I can't remember the last time I felt this ill.

In fact, I can I can remember

the last time I felt this ill.

It was when I was still in China, working in China.

And I got salmonella from an egg,

and it left me ill for a very long time.

I spent about four days constantly

I know this is going to be a bit gruesome.

I had diarrhoea non-stop for four days.

It nearly killed me.

I've never felt so ill in all my life.

But this

comes close in second place.

For feeling really crappy.

So I am not well.

I will not bore you too much.

I know you have your own problems.

The world is not a perfect place.

All sorts of horrible things are happening.

So it would appear that my.

My brush with coronavirus is probably

a very small thing and quite insignificant

when you think about all the horrible stuff happening in the world.

Anyway, we have made it all the way to the second day of the week.

It is the second working day.

Although here in the U.K., a lot of people have gone back to work

after their long bank holiday weekend.

Yes, it's Tuesday.

And you may.

Remember, Ed, today, today.

BP, BP, people.

I don't know what that was. Oh,

I'm out of breath just doing that.

How sad.

I can't believe it. I'm out of breath.

I just did that.

I made that silly noise and it's actually tired me out.

That's how bad things are.

Hello.

Live chats hello to the 39 people watching.

I'm so glad that I crawled out of my deathbed

to to come and do this.

I'm really pleased

that so many people have decided to tune in.

Thank you.

YouTube, your wonderful algorithms are working

so well at the moment. Wow.

Thank you very much. YouTube.

What I love about YouTube is they always manage to make sure

that all of my viewers know when I'm on live.

By the way, that's sarcasm.

There's one thing I have noticed that when you have coronavirus, you also have

an inability to control your sarcasm.

I don't know why

I seem I seem more sarcastic.

I seem more willing to be sarcastic.

Now I've got COVID.

I don't know why.

I think it's one of the side effects, to be honest.

Hello to the live chat.

As I said, yes.

Thank you for joining me today.

Two dozen people

I know I shouldn't complain.

You are going to say, Mr.

Duncan, we are here and we love you.

Anyway, let's not talk about that anymore.

Hello, Z. Task Force Vitesse.

You are here first.

Along with Paolo. Hello, Paolo.

Nice to see you here as well.

Also so and so checklist.

Hello to you. As well.

Thank you very much for joining me.

I am not feeling very well.

It is very hard to do this when you are feeling fit.

100% healthy.

This is difficult.

So imagine trying to do this

when you feel like you want to go back to bed.

Hello.

Also, Richard, we also have Palmira.

Hello, Palmira.

Also Sid Sica.

Thank you very much for joining me today.

I have nothing planned.

I have nothing prepared.

So you might just have to listen to me talking.

Sometimes it will make sense and sometimes it will be completely incoherent.

Oh, I like that word.

So at least we have some interesting words to look at.

Incoherent.

If something is incoherent, it is hard to understand.

Or maybe it makes no sense.

You are listening to something, but you can't understand it.

It makes no sense.

So perhaps today from time to time, I will be a little incoherent.

You won't be able to understand what I'm talking about,

although some of you might say that's nothing new, Mr.

Duncan.

We normally we can't understand what you're talking about.

That's nice.

Oh, we also have Luis Mendez.

He's here today.

Hello, Luis. Thank you for joining me again.

And I am still feeling a little under the weather.

I don't know why it would appear that it is not as easy

as it seems to to push that covered out of your body.

It would appear it's. It's a little difficult.

Hello.

Also, Claudia nice to see you here.

By the way, I have to call my dentist

today and cancel my appointment.

I have an appointment for the dentist.

On Friday, but guess what?

I will not be going to the dentist on Friday

because I'm feeling unwell.

So I won't be doing that.

On Friday.

I I like your T-shirt.

Thank you very much.

It is the t shirt that was hanging up

next to me in the studio,

so I haven't gone to any special trouble.

I haven't gone to any special

I don't even know what the next word is going to be.

I don't know.

I love your echo.

Thank you. Very much.

It would appear that you love everything.

You love everything. Thank you very much.

Hello, Jagdish, who says under the weather is unwell?

Yes, I am feeling under the weather.

There is no such thing is on the weather or over the weather.

You you would think that there would be an opposite of that.

So if you can feel under the weather,

why can't you feel over the weather?

We never say that

but yes, I am under

the weather, still recovering slowly for my

my adventure with coronavirus

And Mr.

Steve also has been suffering as well.

He at the moment, Steve is actually asleep

He's lying down fast asleep, feeling rather unwell.

Hello to Florida.

Thank you, Florence. For joining me today.

Oh, we have Benidorm here, I think.

I wonder what the weather is like in Benidorm.

It's probably quite nice

Hello, Benidorm.

Nice to see you here as well.

Hello.

Also to Mm.

Hmm. Mm hmm.

I tiff. Hello. A tiff.

A TIFF card who has been watching since 2008

I can.

I can feel my head filling up with something.

It feels as if someone has left the tap

running.

There is water running into my head,

and it feels like it's slowly filling up with water.

Very strange feeling.

The good news is, some of my taste has returned.

I was eating a meal last night with Mr.

Steve and I noticed that some of the food I can actually taste again.

So it would appear that my sense of taste is slowly coming back.

However, at the moment, my eye,

my other things, like my sense of smell have not.

So I can.

I can cannot smell anything Can I say hello to dunya?

Daniele.

Hello to you.

Where are you watching?

Are you in Ukraine?

Can I say hello to Ukraine?

And everyone watching there?

I know I have a lot of viewers in Ukraine.

So welcome.

You are more than welcome to tune in.

I hope you still have your Internet connexion.

I did notice last week that it's much harder now.

And we were talking about this yesterday Mr.

Steve and myself when we were having our lovely walk

outside.

We were talking about the fact that in the future

it might be harder for governments

or maybe if there is a natural disaster,

it will be harder for the Internet connexion to be cut off,

because nowadays we have lots of other ways of receiving an Internet connexion.

I suppose The one that I always think of at the moment is the starling,

which is up above the earth, floating around

lots of little transmitters

and receivers, and they are sending

and receiving internet signals

and they are dotted all over the place, floating around.

Mr. Elon Musk has been very busy

launching his starling satellites into space.

So I think it's much harder now

to cut off the Internet connexion.

I would imagine in China they must be very worried about it

because they like to control their Internet in China.

I know very much about that

because I used to live there and they will often censor they will often cut off.

They will often block or ban.

Well, lots of different types of Internet service in China.

And I would imagine in many other countries

the same thing also happens as well.

But I think in the future, because of StarLink,

which is something that is based not on this planet,

not with cables, but it's up there with satellites.

And I think it's a lot harder to block satellite signals.

I'm not an expert on that, but I think you will find it is a lot harder to block

satellite signals than it is to to cut someone's wire,

especially when you have the controls.

If someone else has the controls, then it's much harder to

to cut it off

Hello, Danielle.

Actually, yes, we do have the star link in Ukraine.

Mr. Musk gave it to the Ukraine.

Uh, to receive the stations.

I think that's a great idea.

And the other thing, of course, is you can move the star link satellites around.

So if you want them to move over there, you can.

If you want them to move over there, you can do that as well.

So I suppose we should say that in this particular situation, technology

has proved to be quite useful

during difficult times.

So I think, yes, I think it will be much harder in the future

to control the way people transmit

and also receive information because of the changes in technology.

Hello, Colonel.

Colonel, this here Hello to you.

Very nice to see you here.

I'm sorry if I seem unwell,

and that is because I am

Hello also to.

Oh, hello. EDA.

EDA Morillo, who is watching in Ecuador.

We appear to have people all over the world

watching today, not the whole world watching.

That would be very nice.

Maybe one day I will come on to do my live stream,

and perhaps the whole world will be watching,

because they've become so bored with everything else.

They have all decided that the only person they want to watch is me.

Wouldn't that be lovely?

Imagine that.

Hello.

Also to Beatrice.

Nice to see you here as well.

Very good to see you.

Strong view.

Or should I say Jan

says hi.

I think maybe you are in Vietnam.

Are you in Vietnam?

I hope so, because that's what I've just said.

So maybe you are.

Would you like to have a look?

I did take

two very short

video clips yesterday whilst out walking, and this is what I did last night.

I was rendering my video clips.

It took me a very long time

because I couldn't remember

how to do it.

My brain had stopped functioning.

And fortunately, I hate that feeling I hate that feeling when you're trying to do something

and your brain just won't work.

Anyway, here it is.

This is some video footage that I filmed yesterday inside

my little mobile phone Hmm.

So there you can see I was going to have some music.

You see,

I haven't got any music, and I didn't put any music on

I didn't put any music on the video.

That's very good.

Mr. Duncan.

We like your video.

Views when they have music, but this one doesn't.

It doesn't have any music.

So we just have to imagine

what the music would sound like.

If you

Mm hmm.

Mm hmm.

They did it

to mm hmm.

Mm hmm.

Nice.

Nice music.

DVD and

be DVD.

So it was yesterday we went for a walk

up to the top of Winlock edge,

and the weather was gorgeous,

as you can see from the video you're watching now.

It was very nice.

Lots of bluebells,

lots of beautiful, colourful flowers,

and all the birds were singing, even though you can't hear them

and there isn't any music,

because I didn't put any music on the video.

Uh, there I think I explained that far too much.

Hello, Paolo.

Who says for me, you are not only my English teacher,

but my life teacher as well.

Well, maybe today I will need some of your advice

for my life.

I think so, yes.

The little birds are starting to grow everything is coming out.

Everything is looking rather nice at the moment.

And one thing that I'm

very struck by at the moment is how

everything suddenly looks so colourful.

It really is very nice.

I have to be honest with you, as you know, I love nature.

I love nature very much.

I love the plants, the flowers, the trees,

and especially the little birds.

It feels.

Oh, lovely animals,

lovely robin, lovely trees,

lovely everything.

For those who just tuned in.

Hello, welcome.

This is my special season of English

live streams that I had intended

to be here

almost every day during April, but unfortunately as you know,

quite often the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry,

and they have this month.

What I did not intend to do this month was catch coronavirus,

which of course, I have.

We like it when you show us your nature.

Thank you very much.

Danielle asks

Do you like video editing or do you do it

just as a common thing?

I love filming.

I love making videos.

Years ago, when I used to make my really long video lessons,

sometimes it would take me two weeks

just to make one video

because I would film hundreds of things

and then I would have to edit all of those things and I would do it all by myself.

I always have.

I don't have anyone else to help me do this.

I do it all myself.

There are no producers no directors,

no editors, not just me.

I have to do it all by myself.

Yes, I do like nature I love nature very much.

I like going outside and enjoying the sounds,

the sights, and quite often the feeling as well.

Of being outside.

Oh, by the way, we have cows at the moment.

At the back of the house there are four towels.

I'm not sure they might be bulls.

I still haven't worked out.

So they could be bulls.

I think they might.

They might actually be bulls, actually.

The bulls.

But I haven't been very close to them at the moment because they are rather shy.

They've only just arrived. You see,

hello, Hamed.

Hello to you as well.

Thank you very much for joining me.

Very nice to see you here.

I'm not going to stay very long because I

as you may have noticed,

I'm not feeling very well

due to the dreaded Luigi.

Unfortunately,

let me guess, was the

the video that you filmed yesterday, was it on an iPhone?

Yes, it was.

Well, I often use my iPhone instead of carrying all my camera equipment,

because I do find that nowadays an iPhone

can produce some rather good images.

So that's the reason why quite often I will film with my iPhone

and then I will put it into my little video

editing software and make some small changes.

And it's amazing nowadays what you can actually do with video phone footage.

You can actually make it look rather nice and dare I say, cinematic

hello to Vietnam.

I didn't love English before until I found you when I was 14.

Oh, thank you very much. That's very kind of you.

I'm glad that I'm making your

your learning of English and your enjoyment of learning the English language.

I'm glad I'm making it a little bit more fun.

Although I'm not sure about today.

I'm not sure if I'm making it fun today.

Because you are staring at a person

who is not feeling very well.

I'm not sure if I will be back with you tomorrow.

Because as soon as this is finished, I'm going back to bed.

I didn't get up until 12:00 today, so I got up at midday

and then I decided to do this and here I am now doing it.

And then in a few moments after I finished doing this,

I think I might go and lie down on the bed again.

Thank you very much for your company.

It's been short.

Mr Duncan have you lost weight?

Have I really?

I'm not sure if I've lost weight.

I certainly put weight on during lockdown.

When we were all locked in our houses,

I was, I was eating a lot of food, but maybe I have maybe I've lost a little bit of weight.

I don't know. I don't know.

Please, Mr. Duncan, try to rest.

I will do that right now because I'm going

thanks the company for these few moments.

I hope you've enjoyed it.

I'm going to bed

because I feel unwell.

Mr Steve also sends his best regards as well,

even though he is also feeling a little under the weather as well.

As we slowly

recover

from the dreaded allergy

Thanks for watching.

I hope you've enjoyed this. It's been short.

I'm going to guess that you've learnt nothing

today from me.

Normally I have a lot more information

for you to be honest, but today it's a very strange one.

I probably won't be here tomorrow.

I think I'm going to take another rest tomorrow and try to get myself 100%.

Well,

I will try my best.

That's all I can do when you think about it.

Thanks for your company. I'm going now.

This is Mr.

Duncan.

Very short and very sweet saying thanks for watching.

See you soon.

And of course, until the next time we meet.

You know what's coming next.

Yes, you do.

Ta Ta for now.