English Addict - Episode 341 - 🔴LIVE stream / LOVE is in the AIR ♥ - Chat, Listen and Learn English

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English Addict with Mr Duncan


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I know it feels very strange being here.
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I know it is Friday.
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And it does feel rather unusual to be here with you. Live.
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However, I do have a very good reason for it.
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All will be explained in a few moments.
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We have a rather dull, drizzly day.
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We've had rain today. four Celsius.
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It is a cool one.
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Here in the studio, everything is hot. Very, very hot.
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Because love is in the air.
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Love is in the air.
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This is English addict.
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Coming to you live and direct from the birthplace of English.
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You know where it is.
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We all know where it is.
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It is, of course, England.
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Thank you.
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And it is England.
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It is so nice to be with you today.
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How strange does this feel? Hi, everybody.
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This is Mr. Duncan in England. How are you today?
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Are you okay? I hope so. Are you feeling happy?
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I hope you have one of these on your face today.
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And if you don't, I will try to put one of these on your face.
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It is a pleasure to be with you on this Friday.
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I know it feels very strange.
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Very unusual.
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By the way, my name is Mr. Duncan.
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I talk about the English language. I've been doing this for quite a long time.
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So long.
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All of my hair has fallen out.
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And what hair remains has turned snowy white.
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I talk about English. I love the English language.
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You might say that I am an English addict.
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I am crazy about English.
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And I have a feeling maybe. Perhaps you are as well.
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There is a reason why we are here today.
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Because love is in the air.
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I am feeling it.
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Are you feeling it as well?
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It is Valentine's Day today.
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So first of all, I suppose we should mention the fact that love is all around the world will be sending gifts.
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They will be showing their love and affection for each other.
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Which is a coincidence, because today we are talking all about
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love words, phrases connected to this very thing.
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Love is in the air.
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Here in the UK, many people woke up this morning next to their loved one.
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Some people bought gifts, maybe a lovely card to show their love and affection.
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Perhaps something that happens quite often on Valentine's Day.
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Another thing that happens, of course, on Valentine's Day is lots of people will send messages
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to someone they like or someone they wish
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to know better.
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Maybe a person they are watching from far away.
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Maybe a colleague at work.
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Perhaps there is someone in your office, or maybe someone you know who you feel very strongly about.
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You might even describe it as love. Oh.
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Some people send messages, cards,
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or maybe a little gift to a person they admire from a distance, of course.
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I know we live in a very strange age where everyone is
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super sensitive to everything other human beings do.
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So you do have to be careful if you are sending messages or cards or gifts
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to someone who does not realise that you are in love with them, or maybe you are watching them from a distance.
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So these days you have to be careful.
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Not everyone likes to receive mystery gifts from strangers.
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To be honest with you, if you want my opinion, I am glad of any attention, any attention I can get.
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I have to be honest with you.
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If you want to send me a gift, a secret love letter, perhaps,
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please feel free.
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I need the attention to be honest with you.
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Here we go then. Valentine's day Friday.
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It is a very strange feeling to be with you on Friday.
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And yes, you can see I've even changed the letters
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at the back of the studio to show that it really is Friday.
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The only problem with this arrangement is, of course, I can only appear on days that have six letters.
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So if the day of the week, for example, is Thursday,
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then sadly I can't appear on Thursday because I can't put my letters behind me, you see.
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So it wouldn't fit.
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Thursday has too many letters, so I can only appear on Friday.
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Sunday,
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and I suppose Wednesday as well, even though technically that has nine letters.
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But let's not argue about that because there are enough arguments, enough
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fighting, and the situation is going on in the world without me adding any more.
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Hello to the live chat!
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I wonder who was first on today's live chat.
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If you are first on today's live chat, you will get a super
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big kiss from me.
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I wonder who was first on today's live chat.
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Let's have a look, shall we?
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First. Oh.
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A promise is a promise.
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That's what they say.
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They say if you promise something, you must keep your promise.
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Vytas.
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Well.
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You are first
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on today's live chat.
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I hope you don't mind that I sent you a kiss.
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Please don't be offended.
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In second place.
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Beatriz.
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Beatriz.
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Very nice.
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Is it somebody's birthday today?
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Is it somebody's birthday? On the live chat.
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If it is your birthday, please let me know.
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I'm not sure. Is it? Is it birth? Is it, is it is it, is it,
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is it Beatriz?
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Beatriz? Is it your birthday today?
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I wonder?
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Hello to
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who else is here today?
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Tzu zika, we have Claudia.
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Hello, Claudia. It's nice to see you here as well.
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Palymyra is here as well.
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Apparently.
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I'm not sure if I've got this right, but apparently it was
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Beatriz who was celebrating her birthday on Wednesday.
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Is that right?
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Can somebody please tell me?
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Who is it?
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Is it Irene?
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It might be Irene.
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So perhaps I've got the whole thing completely wrong.
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How embarrassing.
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So I think it's actually Irene.
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You are celebrating your birthday today.
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Happy birthday to you as well.
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Have a super day.
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Who else is here?
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Oh, oh, he is here.
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A big jolly hello and bonjour to Luis Mendez
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is here today.
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You are back with us as well. It's nice to see you here.
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Thank you for joining me. Hello. My coach.
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How is everything?
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Please, can you call me Rakish for one time on your live stream?
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Hello, Rakish.
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Or should I say hello? Rakish?
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I hope you are happy with that.
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Who else is here? We also have.
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Oh, Irene.
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Thank you. Irene.
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So apparently it is Irene's birthday.
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Happy birthday to you, Irene.
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I hope you have a super one
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you seeing now I want to know when Beatrice is having her birthday.
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So when is your birthday? Beatrice, please tell me.
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Maybe I will write it down so I won't make such a silly mistake again as I did earlier.
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It is Valentine's Day today.
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I did receive some lovely Valentine's gifts because of course it is the day of love, Saint Valentine's Day.
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A lot of people give presents to their loved one.
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I receive
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some very interesting gifts this morning.
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Would you like to see them? Oh, okay.
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Oh, Mr.
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Duncan, what do you have in your big bag?
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Well, I am sure you can guess.
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I would imagine you can guess what is in here.
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We have chocolates.
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Of course we have chocolates.
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How could there not be chocolate in here?
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We also have.
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Some chewy sweets.
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These are called wine gums.
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I know for a fact that Mr. Steve likes these.
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So even though he gave them to me, I have a feeling that they are actually for him.
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Do you have these in your country?
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Wine gums?
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They are
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chewy sweets that you put in your mouth and slowly they will get softer and softer.
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Quite often these get stuck in my teeth.
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I have to say I don't normally like these because they they get stuck between my teeth.
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Unfortunately.
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What else do we have in here?
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Ooh, something else to chew on you.
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Some lovely fruit pastilles.
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I love these Mr. Steve likes these as well.
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They are chewy.
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They are juicy.
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When I was a kid, when I was a child, I used to eat these all the time.
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They're really nice, actually.
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What else do we have? Oh.
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More chocolates.
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Oh, look at that, a chocolate orange.
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But this is no ordinary chocolate orange because this one has the flavour of mint.
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So even though it is a chocolate orange, it is actually mint flavoured.
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It's not lovely. Oh my goodness.
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All I can say
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is there goes my diet.
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There's more chocolate.
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More chocolate I love these, I don't know if you've ever tried them, but Mr.
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Steve bought some of these for me as well.
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Now, last week
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Steve was complaining that I was eating too much rubbish and now
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I have lots and lots of rubbish to eat.
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Thank you, Mr. Steve.
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At least the good news is that Mr.
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Steve will be.
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Eating these as well.
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So it won't just be me eating these.
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Mr. Steve
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will be eating them as well.
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So there you can see my little bag of
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Valentine's gifts.
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All of the things in here are food related.
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Very nice.
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Meanwhile, on the live chat.
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Oh, hello, Dick and woolly.
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Hello to you.
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It's nice to see you here as well.
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Louis, you are right.
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Of course.
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Beatrice has her birthday in June.
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Now, I don't know how I forgot that, but I did forget it.
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But I have a good excuse.
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I was not feeling very well on Wednesday.
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For those who were wondering where I was.
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On Wednesday, I was not feeling very well.
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I was taken ill on Wednesday and that is the reason why I didn't do my live stream on Wednesday.
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So I'm very sorry about that.
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But I am here today feeling much better.
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Thank you very much.
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Even though I am a little bit tired.
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That is all I'm saying about that. I am not saying anything else.
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Of course we have a busy weekend ahead.
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On Sunday it is Mr. Steve's birthday.
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Steve has his birthday. He will be another year older.
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I have bought
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a card for him and also a nice gift as well.
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So that will be happening on Sunday.
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Of course we will be live on Sunday from 2 p.m.
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UK time as well, so I hope you will join us then.
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It is Friday.
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It's an unusual day.
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I know that I'm not normally here on Friday, but guess what?
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I am here today.
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We have lots of words, lots of phrases relating to the big subject of love to be
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in love,
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to look for love,
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find love,
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have love.
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Make love.
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And of course, lose love.
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So for every person who finds that special one,
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there is someone, somewhere losing their loved one for one reason or another,
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which is always sad. I have to be honest with you,
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whatever the
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circumstances may be, sometimes they can be very unpleasant, and I do understand that sometimes relationships will break up.
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They will end for bad reasons.
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Maybe there is a problem within the relationship.
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Perhaps one of the couple has passed away.
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They say that love is a tragedy waiting to happen.
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So if two people are together and they are in love,
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we often say that it is the tragedy waiting to happen because one day
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one of those people will pass away, leaving one behind.
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Of course they might go at the same time,
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in which case that might not be so sad.
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I'm not sure.
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I'm not sure how to read that one, to be honest with you.
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But love is an interesting thing and we are talking all about it today.
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I hope you are having a good Friday.
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I hope Friday is going as well as it possibly can.
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We will be back in a couple of moments with
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words and phrases connected to the things that everyone is talking about today.
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That is of course, love.
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I'm a big boy now.
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I should mention that we will be
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meeting up in person on the 1st of June this year.
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If you want to meet up, please let me know.
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We can all get together
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We are here.
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We are live on Friday.
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It feels very strange to be here with the weekend just around the corner.
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So what about you?
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Have you celebrated Valentine's Day or are you waiting for your own special day that many people have around the world as well?
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We will be talking about all of those things.
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Yes, as I mentioned, we will be meeting up in Paris on the 1st of June.
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This is something we've done for the past couple of years, and yes, we will be doing it again this year as well.
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There is my email address if you want to write to me, so let me know if you are interested in joining us.
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I will add you to the list and later on, not yet because it's still very early.
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We still have four months before the event, but if you want to let me know to tell me that you will be joining,
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then please send me an email to that address that is on the screen right now.
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I hope you are having a good day today.
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Yes, we will be celebrating birthdays whilst we are in Paris.
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We have Christina your birthday because of course we will be in Paris around
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the 28th of May
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and we will be building up to the big rendezvous, which will be taking place on the 1st of June.
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That is when the Paris rendezvous.
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So this year will be taking place.
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And I hope you can join us for that. I really do.
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We are looking forward to doing lots of sightseeing.
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We are planning on going to two very big museums.
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First of all, the the world famous Louvre.
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The house that keeps all of those wonderful
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works of art.
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The most famous one, of course, is the lady behind me.
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You might be able to see her just over my shoulder.
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There she is, the Mona Lisa.
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Although that behind me is my own interpretation.
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So that is my own interpretation of the Mona Lisa.
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And next to her it says, kiss me quick, kiss me quick.
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I suppose that is a good thing to have, because it is Valentine's Day and we are talking about the subject of love.
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The other place we are going to in Paris will be the orangery, where they have
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the beautiful waterlily paintings by Monet, and they take up.
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Whole rooms.
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There is a huge area
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dedicated to the
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large Monet paintings.
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I am looking forward to those being near to me.
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I will try my best not to get too emotional about that.
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So we are looking at love. We are talking about the subject of love.
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I think it's an interesting subject because I would imagine that it's some point in all of our lives
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the subject of love will appear.
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So the things we often think of when we talk about love, normally we talk about family,
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people who are related to us in some way, maybe brother,
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sister, mother, father, maybe an auntie or an uncle.
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These are people who are in your family and quite often you, you will have some form of love for them
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because you have a strong connection.
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There is something that connects you together.
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So I suppose the first question must be what is love?
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What is love?
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It is a big question.
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People ask what is love?
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Can we express love
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in one particular way?
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Maybe we can.
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We will see over the next few minutes.
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So what exactly is love?
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Love is a word that is frequently used to describe the deep feeling of affection felt towards someone.
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So we often look at love as a feeling,
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an emotion.
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It is a deep sense of emotion.
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Some people might describe love as intense, strong, deep.
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They are feelings that are all connected to our emotions.
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So love is a word that is used to describe the deep feeling of affection.
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Now that in itself is a very interesting word.
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Affection is the feeling of care that is often expressed between people who are fond of each other,
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maybe people who have a strong connection in some way, be it
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family or friendship, or maybe in a romantic
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relationship, perhaps
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affection is what we call it.
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Affection is expressed through words and actions.
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So quite often we show affection by what we say through the things we do, and maybe things that we give
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affection to show affection towards someone.
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You show that you care.
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You do something as a way of showing that you care.
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Affection can be given
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and received, so affection can be given.
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You give affection and of course you receive affection from someone.
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There are many ways of showing your affection.
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Care given to someone or something is affection to be affectionate.
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So quite often we will use this in an adjective form to be affectionate.
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You might go to the local park and you might see a young couple sitting
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on a seat together.
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They are close to each other.
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They are holding hands.
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They are being affectionate.
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You will describe that couple as affectionate.
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They are showing affection to each other.
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Of course, you can also show affection or be affectionate towards something you care for.
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Maybe a thing
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you might be affectionate towards your new car, maybe you have a new car and you want to give it all of the care
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and affection
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to keep it nice and clean so it doesn't get dirty.
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So to be affectionate is the adjective form of affection.
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Affection can also be described as tenderness.
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We often talk about tenderness, a moment where love is expressed, where one person expresses their love
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for another person to show affection to a person
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to show affection towards
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an animal.
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You can, you can give your dog
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a cuddle or a hug.
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You can show affection towards your pet by fixing it.
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You stroke its fur, you give it a big hug.
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So it's not just human beings.
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Animals quite often will show affection to the person who is looking after them, or even to each other.
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Quite often you will see in nature animals will show affection to each other.
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Birds when they are about to breed,
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they normally show affection to each other.
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So I think that's a lovely word.
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The word affection.
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Love can be expressed through caring words and actions.
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So when we talk about care being words, we are talking about words that you use to make the other person feel special,
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valued, wanted, needed.
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A special word might be used between people who are in a relationship, people who are in love, maybe a couple.
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They might have special names for each other.
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We often describe this as a pet name.
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Pet name refers to a name that people give to each other, normally as a sign of affection.
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We often refer to it as a term of endearment.
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So when we say terms of endearment, we are talking about things that are said.
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They are expressed as a way of showing love and care.
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The word affection
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stems from Latin, meaning the state or disposition of one's mind.
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And let's face it, let's not pretend that love
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does not affect this.
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In fact, we often say that love is here, but I think also love is very much up here in your mind.
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It can affect your mind, your way of thinking.
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In many ways it can be a distraction.
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You might be distracted by someone because you love them so much.
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You care for them.
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You want to be near them.
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You want to see them.
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Maybe if you are a part, perhaps you miss them.
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You feel longing for that person because they are not around.
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Love is felt and shared in many different ways.
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The love between family members.
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Familial.
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So we often describe familial relationships, love, or relationships between family members.
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The bond or connection within the family unit so the group
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or the people involved or connected within a family.
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We often describe them as the family unit.
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When we say family unit, what we are actually saying is the family as a group,
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how they behave together.
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Love is felt and shared in different ways.
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Another way the love felt between parents and their young.
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Again, this does not just refer to human beings, but also between all animals.
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You will often see a close bond or connection between animals.
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The young and the adults.
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We often use the word maternal
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to describe the connection between the mother and her child, so the feeling is maternal.
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Maternal refers to motherly love, the connection between the mother and the daughter, or the mother and the son,
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the maternal feeling, the maternal emotions.
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And then of course, we have paternal.
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The paternal connection is, of course, the father.
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So maternal is mother, paternal is father.
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Love is felt and shared in many different ways.
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The love felt between friend is quite often.
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We will talk about friends.
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We will have friendships.
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Sometimes we have maybe friends who we are not very close to.
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So if you have a friend who you know but you are not very close to you, just see them sometimes, not very often.
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Now and again we describe them as acquaintances.
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So an acquaintance, someone you are connected to,
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but not in a strong way, someone you know from a distance is an acquaintance.
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However, quite often in close friendships there might be also
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some sort of bond taking place, a connection between friends.
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So you could describe friendship as a type of love,
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the love felt between friends.
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We often describe this kind of love as platonic.
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Platonic love.
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So you are close to that person.
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But the relationship is not physical.
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You don't.
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None of that.
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No kissing, no cuddling
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and everything else.
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So platonic love is friendship.
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You are friends, but nothing else.
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The relationship never becomes close or physical.
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Although sometimes it can.
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And that causes all sorts of problems.
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A non-romantic love is felt between those who wish to just be friends.
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You want to be friends with that person. You don't want anything else.
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You don't want romance.
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You don't want a physical relationship.
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You just want to be friends.
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Those who wish to be just friends and nothing more.
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Let's just be friends.
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This does happen quite often in relationships.
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Maybe two people who like each other
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and they want to be close to each other, but then they realise perhaps they will never have a relationship.
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They will never have a close physical relationship.
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So instead they agree to be friends.
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It's not an easy thing to do, especially when we are talking about emotions.
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You might realise I know I do.
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I realise that our emotions can control this
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quite often and sometimes we do very silly things because of it
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and understanding between friends to stay just friends and nothing more.
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Love can be described as liking, warmth,
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trust,
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feeling,
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affection.
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And understanding.
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And I think all of those things are probably
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there somewhere
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in a loving relationship.
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All of those things, I would imagine trust is a very important one.
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If you are in a close relationship, you really want to trust the other person
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you are giving yourself.
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You are giving your emotions.
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You are showing that person who you really are.
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So trust.
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I always think trust is a very big part of any relationship.
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I think so.
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To be in love,
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the feeling of deep affection towards one person.
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You fall in love.
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You feel attracted to that person.
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So there are many ways of describing love,
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although I think it's fair to say that there is only one word in the English language that means love, and that is love,
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which is one of the reasons why love is
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used so often in our day to day lives.
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You might even love a thing.
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You might love food.
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I love food, I love eating food.
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I love sweet food.
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So of course, love can also be used to express the the liking of something.
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Something that you feel as if you want, you need.
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You must have food.
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I love food very much.
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To be in love with someone, to be in love.
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Of course, some people say that love,
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that type of love, is losing control,
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losing control of your emotions.
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Your feelings are out of control.
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You fall in love with someone.
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We often talk about two people in love,
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a couple,
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two people who are together in a relationship.
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Perhaps they are just seeing each other.
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They are having a relationship.
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They are just getting to know each other.
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Relationships often happen in stages,
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so maybe you meet someone, you get to know them.
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You will meet them again and again.
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You will learn about them.
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You will find out who they are, what they are like.
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And then as time goes on, you will slowly find out all of those little things about them
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their habits, their behaviour, the good things
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and the bad things as well.
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Love is not just about accepting a person for their good things or their good habits.
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It is also about accepting someone for their bad habits as well.
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The faults,
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if you will.
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Then we have another phrase that is often used connected to love, unrequited.
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Unrequited love.
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When we talk about unrequited love,
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it is love that is felt
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towards someone but is not given in return.
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So you love someone you feel love towards that person.
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Maybe you want to get to know that person better. You want to be closer to that person.
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However, the other person does not feel that they have no feeling of affection
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for you.
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So love that is felt towards someone but is not given in return is described as unrequited love.
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The feeling is not mutual.
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The love is not reciprocated.
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Oh, Mr.
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Duncan, now there is an interesting word to Recip for Kate.
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If you reciprocate, it means you do something in return.
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As a response, you reciprocate.
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So unrequited love is love that is not reciprocated.
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It is not given in return.
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Here we go.
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Whenever we think of love, whenever we want to express love in some way,
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we will often use this particular symbol, the heart.
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Without the heart, we could not survive.
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Without the heart, we could not live.
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And quite often we use the heart as a way of showing
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love or devotion to another person or a thing.
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The heart is often used as a symbol of love.
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The heart represents devotion and passion.
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Now there is an interesting word passion.
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The feeling of wanting something, the feeling of wanting to do something.
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It is a pure emotion.
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Something that moves you, drives you
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passion.
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You might have a passion for a certain thing.
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Maybe you have a passion for English.
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You really love the English language. You might have passion.
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For someone
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in your life, someone you love dearly.
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You give someone your heart as an expression of love.
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Quite often, we will use this symbol to show that we love someone or we love a certain thing.
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We show it by displaying a heart,
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maybe something in the shape of a heart like that.
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Very nice.
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Something true is often described as heartfelt.
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So something you do, something you want to show
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through your emotions.
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We can say that it is heartfelt, heartfelt, a true feeling that is being expressed.
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You give heartfelt thanks to your lovely YouTube subscribers and I do all the time.
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I say thank you for watching me.
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I say thank you for subscribing.
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Thank you for liking me and my work as well.
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So everything I say when I when I say thank you to you, it is heartfelt.
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It comes from in here.
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It really does. Without you I would have nothing.
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So we often use heartfelt to show true feeling.
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Love is often expressed through words
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as in poetry or in song.
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Love songs. Oh my goodness,
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where do we start?
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There is so many love songs.
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I think the most common topic of
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all music
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in the world has to be love.
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I would imagine more songs have been written over the years about love,
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falling in love, losing love, looking for love,
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trying to hold on to your love.
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I would imagine the subject of love
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has been written about
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more than any other subject.
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I would imagine.
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So as a song, the term ballad is often used, so a song that might be slow, sentimental,
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or maybe if a group of people are singing a song together.
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We often describe that as a ballad, but more often
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a ballad is a slow,
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sentimental love song, quite often with some romantic theme.
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So it isn't unusual.
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It is not unusual if we talk about ballads,
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we are often talking about love songs as well.
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If you love love songs, I can think of lots of love songs straight away without even thinking about it.
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In fact, there was a song I was singing today at the start of the lesson.
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Love is in the air.
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Everywhere I look around and love is in the air.
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In every sight and every sound.
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So there is a good one way back from the 1970s, that song.
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Of course, we can also think of other songs lady in Red by Cristobal,
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popular song.
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A lot of people like to listen to that when they are feeling romantic.
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Maybe if your girlfriend or boyfriend is coming round for dinner, maybe you will put some romantic music on
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to listen to
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to get in the mood for love.
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Love songs,
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poetry.
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Quite often poems are written
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about emotion, certain types of emotion,
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the feeling of loss, the feeling of finding someone on the feeling of falling in love,
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the emotion of losing love, loneliness, heartache.
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All of these things are often written about in poetry
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and also expressed through song as well.
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Love can be felt,
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found,
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lost, given,
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taken,
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stolen,
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offered, bought.
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Oh, Mr. Duncan, we're not sure about that.
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Can you buy love?
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Is it possible
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to buy someone's love?
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That's a that's a difficult subject.
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That one. Very difficult.
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So you feel love.
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You find love,
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you lose love.
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Maybe your lover leaves you.
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Maybe they find another person.
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And they.
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They break away with them. They rather with someone else.
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Love can be given you give love.
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You give care.
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You show affection towards someone.
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Love, of course, can be taken. You take love.
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So maybe if a person is offering their company or maybe offering their affection, love can be taken.
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You offer love.
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You are telling someone how you feel and maybe another person who is receiving that love.
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They take that love
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they treasure the love.
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They keep it safe.
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Love can be stolen.
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It can.
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Another person might come along and take your love away.
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To offer love
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again, you might be looking for a person to spend your time with.
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Maybe someone you wish to know well. You want to get to know them.
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You wish to start a relationship with someone,
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and of course,
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buy love.
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Of course, there was a famous song by the Beatles, Money
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Can't Buy Me Love.
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Although some people might disagree with that.
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Are they right or wrong?
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Please let me know.
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Every year.
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And that is the reason why we are covering this topic today.
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Every year on the 14th of February, cherry lovers will present gifts to each other,
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while others will send cards to their secret crush.
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So maybe there is a person that you have been watching.
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You want to let them know that they are cared for or left.
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In the past
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it used to be very popular.
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However, these days some people don't like receiving things from strangers.
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They feel a little unsure about it.
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Crush.
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To have a crush on someone means you like them.
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You have feelings towards them.
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We often associate the word crush with a young person.
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Maybe at school you might find that you have a crush
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on one of your school friends, a friend at school.
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Maybe there is a girl in your class that you like.
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You have a crush on her, or you.
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There is of course also Lovers day.
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So today we are celebrating Valentine's Day here in the UK.
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But of course there is also Lovers Day as well, which falls at different times around the world.
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So each country around the world will have its own lovers day,
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a day devoted to those who are in love, in relationship, married,
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sharing some sort of emotional connection.
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We often refer to it as Lovers Day.
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And finally, my favourite part of this subject,
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to be honest with you, gifts are often exchanged between those in romantic relationships.
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Chocolates,
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roses,
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cute toy are often given
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as tokens.
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We often cool things that are given something you give to a person as a gift.
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Quite often we use the word token.
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It is a way of showing that you care.
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You want to show that you care for that person, so you give them something nice.
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You give them a gift.
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Chocolates, roses.
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Or cute toys.
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Like a teddy bear. Something lovely. Something soft.
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Something cute.
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Of course, roses are normally given by
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the man to a woman, so it is quite usual
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for a lady or a woman to receive red roses from her husband.
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It is done quite often
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that, as they say, is that a big subject?
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And I know there are things that I've left out, because, let's face it, there is no bigger subject
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in the world than the way we feel about each other, especially when
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we are talking about
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love.
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That is almost it for me for today.
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I hope you've enjoyed this special Valentine's Day English addict.
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You can watch this again if you've missed this.
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Don't worry, you can watch this all over again.
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There is a repeat of this on YouTube.
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They will put this live stream on YouTube and you will be able to watch it again as many times as you want.
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Don't forget.
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Also there will be captions as well underneath later.
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So come back later and there will be lovely captions.
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And don't forget, you can also choose your own captions in your local language.
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Something different.
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I know I'm not normally here on Friday, but I will be with you on Sunday.
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We are back together on Sunday from 2 p.m.
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UK time, Sunday from 2 p.m. UK time.
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It is myself and also Steve will be here on Sunday and
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it's his birthday on Sunday.
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So if you want to wish Mr.
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Steve Happy Birthday on Sunday, then guess what?
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You will have the chance to do it because we will be with you live on Steve's birthday.
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Thank you very much for joining me today.
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I hope you have enjoyed today's live stream.
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Something a little bit different for this Valentine's Day.
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Wherever you are in the world, wherever you happen to be watching at the moment,
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don't forget someone, somewhere loves you.
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Never forget that.
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And of course, until the next time we meet here, you know what's coming next. Yes, you do.
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Take care of yourselves. Enjoy the rest of your Friday.
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And of course, you know what's coming next.
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Yes, you do...
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ta ta for now.
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See you on Sunday.
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