31 Days of Learning English - Day 1 - Hi Everybody! It's time to improve your English - introduction

oh here we go Oh are you excited are you as excited as

I am I hope so welcome to thirty-one days of English

hi everybody this is mr. Duncan in England how are you today are you ok I

hope so are you happy I really hope so here we

are then it is 31 days of October yes we are here with day 1 and if you are

watching list Sunday you will know that I am doing something very special during

the month of October because this month I will be celebrating my 13th year here

on YouTube so I thought why not why not do something special for the month so

I've decided to do something that but for some people might seem a little

crazy in fact one or two people have already

said mr. Duncan we think what you are doing is crazy there is no way you are

going to be able to do thirty-one livestreams but I will try my best

anyway that's all I can do all I can do for you is try my best first of all the

weather outside is terrible there it is right now a live view outside I'm not

sure if you can see anything at the moment but the rain is falling very

heavily it is a horrible day outside for those who are wondering I am NOT outside

today I am in the studio and for 31 days I will be mostly in the studio except

for the weekends of course at the weekend I will still be outside as long

as the weather is ok but there it is right now looking out the window the

rain is falling very heavily it is a horrible day but here in my studio it is

lovely and dry and I hope you are feeling good today oh you eat are you

excited can I just ask you now how are you

really excited so on a scale of one to ten one being

not excited and 10 being very excited what are you at the moment

are you excited or not excited well I'm pretty excited lots of things coming up

on today's live stream here we are day one of 31 days of October yes every day

for 31 days I will be here live from 2 p.m. UK time that is from Monday to

Friday and then of course on Saturday it's the normal time 12 p.m. and then on

Sunday once again it's 2 p.m. I'm sure over the

next few days you will get the hang of it

if you get the hang of something it means that you get used to it

or you understand how to do something so I'm sure over the next few days you will

get the hang of my super duper 31 days of learning English during the month of

October but why am I doing this why am I doing this especially for October I hear

you ask well here is the reason why

video isn't exciting well it's been another busy week and of

course as usual I've been in the school teaching English that's my job I think

one of the most common questions I'm asked during my time here in China by my

students is how can I improve my English

there's one thing I've noticed my fingers have gone dead look my fingers

have got a strange ready blue purpley pink color not very good I think I think

if I stay outside much longer I think they will fall off hi everybody this is

mr. Duncan in England how are you today are you okay I hope so are you happy

I hope so welcome to the very first episode of my series of English teaching

videos you know the world of English is a fun and exciting place to be I'm so

glad you could join us for another lesson why do we need phonetics the

reason why we need a phonetic code is because some English letters have more

than one sound and because some letters when joined together in a word actually

create a new sound of their own also there is the silent letter that can

appear within a word

so there is a small clue as to why I am doing lessons all the way through

October yes at the end of this month I will be celebrating my thirteenth year

thirteen years my youtube channel is almost as old as YouTube itself I'm not

joking

it is true and we are here on Tuesday the 1st of October 31 days of English

lessons I will be chatting with you all the way through October every single day

but the big question is who has decided to join me today on the live chat well

let's have a look shall we oh we have quite a few people already on

the livestream chatting to me live hello there - Olivia hello Olivia

guess what Olivia you are first on today's live chat and that means you get

a round of applause

congratulations Olivia you are first on the first day of October we've another

30 still to go by the way if you want to see the live captions you can look all

you have to do is press that now I know what you're saying mr. Duncan your piece

of paper is upside down well this is especially for people who are in

Australia you see for people who aren't in Australia I will have it this way up

so there you go press this to get live captions it's true you can actually have

live captions by pressing C on your computer screen by the way today is a

special day for many reasons first of all it is International Coffee Day and

here in the UK there is a certain brand of coffee that is available from lots of

restaurants called Costa and today they are giving away free coffee can you

believe it I can't believe it sadly I can't go and get my free coffee

although I did have one here today would you like to see my cup of coffee as a

way of celebrating International Coffee Day there it is so this is the actual

cup of coffee that I drank earlier and all there it is and as you know I like

my coffee to be lovely and foamy foamy I like to have a nice layer of foam on top

of my coffee so there is my cup of coffee that is actually the one I had

this morning whilst preparing this live stream I hope you are feeling good today

I am very exciting we have something very unusual coming up soon

think very unusual we are going to go into another room in the house because I

have had two deliveries today two special deliveries so in the next room

let's have a look shall we there it is you can see two boxes so you can see a

large box and also a small box both of those boxes were delivered today

to my house although I haven't opened them yet so a little bit later on we are

going to have a special live unboxing I know a lot of people on YouTube like to

make unboxing videos so when you unbox it means you take something or you

unpack something from a box and there you could see two boxes so I will be

opening those boxes a little bit later on so stay tuned for that and the big

question is what is in the box well of course now there are two boxes

so I suppose instead we should say what are in the boxes so what are in the

boxes find out a little bit later on oh very interesting back to the live

chat because that is the reason why we are here today hello to gwyllyn are

Grillin are welcome to my live stream on Tuesday the first of October 2019 thanh

thuy is here also actor actor furna or actor fan I hope I pronounced your name

right I have a feeling that might be Cyrillic so forgive me if I got it wrong

also O'Dare is here as well also Andrew hello Andrew nice to see you here and a

Kobe is also on the live chat welcome Meeker is here now

you might notice today that I have made some of my live chat participants actual

they are actually going to be on guard today looking out for any abuse that may

occur so we have some moderators Mika you are a moderator today also

Belarusian is also a moderator and just in case

Pedro appears you can also be a moderator as well and Luis Mendez is

also a moderator today so thank you very much for your help to be honest with you

no one knew that I was going to do that so I don't I hope you don't mind being

my moderator today to make sure that everything is all right on the live chat

I must admit this feels very strange for two reasons first of all I don't

normally do a livestream on a Tuesday and the other reason is I'm back inside

the studio and I must be honest with you it does feel very strange being back in

the studio very strange indeed clay Dare is here also

zu zu zu CCAP hellos a seeker nice to see you here on the live chat Belarusian

says hello mr. Duncan I'm only staying here for a minute I want to wish you

good luck with your new lessons Thank You Bella rusia that's very kind of you

also Tuan is here as well watching in Vietnam yes I have a lot of people

watching in Vietnam I asked you to judge whether you are unhappy or happy today

one being very unhappy and ten being very happy and the reason why I hope you

are happy today is because I'm doing a livestream

every day in October also Vladimir hello Vladimir nice to see you here today

shouldn't you be running Russia at the moment Vladimir Putin now I have a

feeling that isn't really Vladimir Putin I think so we will see what happens

hmm Lewis says what you are doing is unique I think so I don't think anyone

has ever tried to present a live stream every single day for one month

especially when it comes to teaching English so so this might be the first

time that anyone has ever done this I don't know maybe maybe not

I'm not trying to be the first person to do it I just thought it would be a good

idea because October is my anniversary month of course it is also a month we're

here in the UK something is happening you may have heard about it on the news

on the very same day as my anniversary we will also be leaving the European

Union here in the UK so lots of things happening on the last day of October why

are you doing it for 31 days well this year it is my 13th anniversary so if you

reverse the numbers it becomes 31 so that's one of the reasons why I am doing

this for those who are wondering hello - morose

hello morose watching in Poland thank you for joining me today live from

England and at the moment outside the weather is terrible the rain is falling

it is quite miserable I hope where you are the weather is better but today it

isn't very good at all I'm afraid

also we have Andrew who says good memories from your video compilation

compilation now there's an interesting word when we say compilation we mean

things that have been put together to form another thing so maybe a

compilation can be a group of things that have been put together normally to

display or to show to other people so for example there is a compilation of my

video clips from all of the lessons or some of the lessons that I've made over

the past 13 years I can't believe it I must admit I feel a little excited my

heart my heart is fluttering at the moment

hello Mika hello I am okay thank you have you had a busy day oh I think that

is actually a message 40s isn't that lovely one of the things I always love

about doing the live streams is that everyone joins in together so people

will actually chat to each other on the live chat as well so I love it

I love all of that it makes me feel very happy indeed Maria hello Maria Oh

apparently Maria wants to give me a round of applause for my 13 years

teaching on YouTube okay then why not

thank you thank you so much for that round of applause oh isn't that nice

hello Anna are these boxes mr. Steve mr. Steve's gifts no they're

not now as you know quite often I will ask you very nicely to make small

donations and the reason why I do that is so I can carry on making my free

lessons so everything I do here I do for free it doesn't cost you anything so

sometimes you might see the occasional advertisement but for most of the time

everything I do is free so it doesn't cost anything so I thought today it

would be a good chance for me to show you what happens to your donations so at

the weekend if you remember I was outside doing my livestream and it was

very windy and there was some actual damage caused to some of my equipment so

I have managed to order some replacements and that is what has

arrived today that's what's come today so that's what

we're going to have a look at in a little bit in my other room you can see

there are two boxes so just to show you that the donations that I receive do go

towards equipment or things that are bought to replace other things that have

been broken and this does happen sometimes one of the things about having

a very busy studio environment especially when you are moving things

around is that sometimes things break there are breakages and that is one of

the reasons why your donations always come in useful because it allows me to

replace things that have broken and that's what we're going to have a look

at today just to show you that you donations are put to very good use so

who else is on the livestream I wonder Abdul Rahman is here as well

thank you very much for joining me today yes I am in the studio today I'm not

outside so from Monday to Friday you can find me right here on YouTube from 2:00

p.m. UK time every day on Saturday 12:00 p.m. and on Sunday 2:00 p.m. as well so

during October I am here every single day

unbelievable the big question is will I survive will I make it all away to the

end of October hi mr. Duncan I am writing a comment for

the first time on YouTube live because I really want to celebrate your 13th year

on YouTube with my whole heart sincere congratulations thank you to kaffir bow

kaffir guess what if it's your first time here and if it is your first time

saying hello on the live chat how about a round of applause

Thank You kaffir and congratulations for it being your first visit and also the

first thing you've ever written on the live chat hello to Cambodia

hello EDM music hello also to Zahra SAFF SAFF VAM I want to speak English well

you have come to the right place because not only can you hear English being

spoken you can also see it on the screen as well all you have to do is press C on

your keyboard and then there will be live captions incredible hello to

Mahmood from Pattaya in Thailand it is the last day of my holiday and I would

like to say hello to the best teacher in the world Thank You Mahmood that's very

kind of you hello mr. Duncan how are you how is the

weather Ramsay Nora the weather today is not good it is rainy rainy the word

rainy means the weather in general is wet it is raining the weather is rainy

outside it is raining it is a rainy day there is actually a phrase a wonderful

phrase that we can use in English you can save something for a rainy day so if

you save something for a rainy day it means you put something aside in case

you need it for some sort of emergency so quite often we will put some money

aside we will put it aside for a rainy day so I'm going to save this money and

I'm going to keep it for a rainy day just in case there are any emergencies

so that is a phrase we often use in English you save it for a rainy day you

save it for a moment when you will really need it Joel hello Joel nice to

see you here today

yes I think mr. Duncan's favorite color is red and purple right well I always

like bright colors and I always think that red is a nice color because it's

fun it's exciting it is very vivid talking of red today is the first of

October which is the first of the month but also in China it is the National Day

so this is the day when the People's Republic of China was formed and I

suppose that is a good excuse for me to show you a photograph of me in China

there I am so there I am way back in I think this photograph was taken in 2006

during the National Day celebrations so this photograph was actually taken 13

years ago so there I am in China because I did spend a few years working as an

English teacher in China and there you can see standing in front of Tiananmen

Square the famous photograph of Chairman Mao and yes today today is the

anniversary of the formation of the People's Republic of China

so just in case you are watching in China happy national day oh by the way

here is something for me to mention as well today is the International Day of

the older person so I think that is quite suitable for my first live stream

in October it is also the anniversary of

the independence of Cyprus can you believe it

so happy Independence Day to Cyprus also to Nigeria as well anyone watching in

Nigeria happy Independence Day and also Palau and a place called

Tuvalu Tuvalu formerly known as Ellis Islands so yes a few independence days

being celebrated today as well hello to cash trailers mr. Duncan I've discovered

this channel a few moments ago great Channel

Thank You cash trailers for joining in today yes during the month of October I

will be celebrating my 13th anniversary mica says I am a little bit sentimental

today because my granddaughter has gone my son's family have moved away after

staying with us for a year since before my granddaughter was born so a slight

sad day slightly sad slightly melancholic even so mica is feeling a

little sentimental today so when you feel sentimental it means you are

looking back into the past you are reflecting on things that have happened

you are feeling not necessarily sad but maybe sometimes when you think of the

things that have happened before maybe sometimes you you might wish for those

days to return maybe you feel a little longing for those days to return anyway

mica you are in good company today we are all here and we are sharing our love

of English Oh dere is here I think mr. Smith is

inside the box I have no idea who mr. Smith is I don't know

so oh hello - India joy tea says hello from India nice to see you here I know I

have a lot of people watching in India I really do

also too - fam watching in Vietnam Wow I must admit the live chat is so busy I

can't even keep up with it it's incredible

thank you very much for joining me today hello Anna

hello also too - Pham who says what is the difference between drop in and drop

off if you drop off it means you leave something in a certain place so maybe

you drop off a parcel at your friend's house or maybe you take your daughter to

the school and you drop her off outside so to drop off means to go somewhere and

leave something or deliver something so you might drop off a letter to your

neighbor you might go round to their house and give them a letter so you drop

off the letter drop off can also mean fall so you might drop off to mean fall

drop in means call round so if you drop in if you drop in to see someone it

means you call round you go to someone's house quite often unexpectedly so maybe

it is a call that you're making to a neighbor so you drop in you go round to

their house you drop in we can also say drop by so

drop by or drop in mr. Duncan you make us cry no mr. Duncan you are a young man

sometimes by your behavior I think you are a teenager well they always say you

are only as old as you feel and to be honest with you I don't feel as if I've

aged at all since starting my youtube channel to be honest maybe doing YouTube

keeps you young maybe I have found the secret of eternal youth during youtube

pitbull hello pitbull hello mr. Duncan thank you for all your

videos very nice I've learnt a lot thank you very much as well Sergio is here

hello Sergio and everyone also mr. Duncan

thank you very much Sergio nice to see you back

also Zoran Zoran hello Zoran longing if you are longing or if you longed for

something it means you you wish for it to return you wish for something to come

back again you long you feel a great desire for something to come back or

maybe it is a form of missing someone as well

so if you long for your lover you are missing them you want them to be with

you you are missing them very much I long for my days in China to return

something like that hello to Mela Noah hello mr. Duncan I hope you and all your

viewers have a lovely day me too yes it would be very nice here is a very

interesting question mr. Duncan what do you think about dark matter in space

well this is something I'm not an expert on this by the way but I am interested

in those types of subjects I I do like reading about and listening and also

watching TV documentaries about science so dark matter is the invisible parts of

space that you can't see but apparently they exist so I'm very intrigued I'm

always interested in finding out new scientific discoveries Wow

it's really been 13 years the time has passed so quickly yes it's true it's

true have you ever dropped out of school me no no I haven't I've never dropped

out of school you'll be pleased to hear we would love to have this wet and

horrible day in Brazil says Turkey Oh or tercio really now as I understand it

there is a lot of hot dry weather occurring at the moment in Brazil so can

I send my best and I will try my best to send some of this weather because at the

moment the rain has been falling all day it is really wet here in the UK and to

make things worse yesterday we actually had some some wood delivered some some

longs for bit for the fire as winter approaches so can you believe it just as

the rain started falling yesterday or all of these logs all of the firewood

was delivered outside the house so I had to cover it up so it didn't get wet why

do you do your livestream outside why do I do it outside well it the weekends I

always like to go outside to do my live streams because it's fun that's why

Belarus ear says Meeker what you are suffering from is something called empty

nest syndrome empty nest syndrome oh yes I've heard of this

now this often happens when parents have to say goodbye to their to their

offspring or their children so maybe their children go off to university or

maybe they leave home permanently and then the parents are left at home on

their own and we call this situation the empty nest syndrome it is a situation

where the house is now empty it is only the mother and father living at home now

empty nest Zorin says you don't recognize my name I

am watching you for the thirteenth year can you believe it

thank you siren you might be one of the longest viewers of my youtube channel oh

my goodness cache trailers says mr. Duncan what is your favorite movie

do you like horror movies I was talking about this a few days ago I was talking

about horror movies because last month in September the 13th of September was

on a Friday Friday the 13th so yes I like horror films I like science fiction

so there are many different types of films that I like watching to be honest

where are you live I am now in my little studio in a place called Much Wenlock

which is in England so I'm broadcasting live to you now from England as it says

right there on the screen live from England at 2:48 p.m. on a

Tuesday afternoon and don't forget I'm here tomorrow as well

and for the rest of the week and next weekend and for the whole of October can

you believe it so now it is time to do something very unusual I hope this works

we are now going into the living room because I have to do some box opening so

I hope you will bear with me as we go next door to open some boxes doo doo doo

doo - thank you Anna your garden is amazing and is really beautiful for your

live streams thank you Anna I'm now going into the other room because I want

to find out what is in those boxes and you are more than welcome to join me

dude welcome to my living room just in case you've never been in here before

this is the room in which I watch television I normally sit relaxed on the

sofa over there and normally I spend many hours watching television I like to

watch all sorts of television shows including Law & Order Rick and Morty

South Park Family Guy and The Simpsons even though the Simpsons isn't very good

anymore do you agree with me I don't think the Simpsons is very funny anymore

oh and also the Big Bang Theory as well you see I am also a fan of the Big Bang

Theory some people say that I'm very similar to Sheldon Cooper I don't know

what they mean by that should I be offended I don't know so I hope you can

hear me I hope you can hear what I'm saying so here we have two boxes that

have been delivered this morning but I haven't opened them yet and I'm going to

do that right now so please bear with me now of course there is something that

I've forgotten I haven't got a knife so I need a knife so I can open the boxes

so please excuse me for just one moment you can talk amongst yourselves do

where is my knife dude do I have my knife this will come in very useful for

there it is I have my knife very useful

for opening the box so first of all I will open the small box so this small

box was delivered just before I started today's livestream in fact this box is

responsible for me being late today so for those who are wondering why my

livestream started slightly later than normal it was supposed to be 2 o'clock

but I was late because this was delivered to my house and that's the

reason why I was late so let's open the box I'm sure you are

feeling very excited to find out what is in the box

so first the small box apparently a lot of people on YouTube enjoy making videos

where they take things out of boxes things that they've bought or ordered

what is in the box oh my goodness in the Box is another box in fact there are

four boxes in this box so now I have to open another box

do you like my knife skills I have some lovely knife skills so inside this

package there are actually four boxes here you can see there are four boxes in

this package but what is inside these small boxes I hear you ask let's have a

look shall we oh yes now this is something I was talking about a couple

of weeks ago I have some new clips can you see them so there are some new clips

and these are very useful things these are very useful things they are used for

clamping clamping things so if you happen to have their own studio you will

know that these are very useful things if you have a studio where you have to

keep your things secure especially when you are hanging things up so these are

actually some new clips to replace the ones that were broken on Sunday in the

wind because the wind was very strong on

Sunday and unfortunately it did damage quite a few things quite a few things in

my studio or should I say quite a few pieces of my studio equipment were

damaged outside not very good

so the big package we are now going to open the large package what is in the

big box is this exciting are you excited maybe not so I will get

my knife once again do you like my knife it actually matches

my hat and t-shirt ok by the way if there are any children watching don't do

this ok only big people only grown-ups like mr. Duncan can use one of these so

if you are using a knife please be careful I have to say that so I don't

get sued I love these these are things that you put in packages to protect them

but they feel all they feel all nice against your skin so there is the

packaging but really we're not interested in this are we we're not

interested in the packaging however we are interested in what is inside the box

so this is going to replace the thing that was damaged the other day

I've actually ordered two of these so now I'm going to open the box if I can

oh okay good it says here what is in the box so that's good at least I know that

I've ordered the right thing now it is time to see what is inside the box

so as I mentioned earlier in the weekend unfortunately due to the strong winds

some of my equipment was damaged unfortunately so I've had to order some

replacement equipment some equipment to replace the damaged equipment and in a

moment you will see what is in the box

yes if you haven't already guessed

the thing in the box is a new tripod to replace the one that was broken on

Sunday because the wind destroyed part of my gazebo if you are watching on

Sunday you will know that the the wind was terrible

the wind was blowing very strongly so this is a new tripod which will help to

support my gazebo when I'm doing my live streams outside so that is perfect ah I

am so pleased look at that Wow so that is okay yes that's exactly

what I wanted I wanted a new tripod and that is exactly what I've got

so now you know what was in the box and also this is a way of showing you that

your donations are actually used so this particular piece of equipment this

tripod was actually purchased using your donations so because of your kindness I

am able to replace this piece of equipment and if you would like to make

a donation you can also click underneath this video there is a link under the

video where you can make a donation to my paypal if you want to so that's it

let's go back into the studio and see what your comments are I will be a

couple of moments please wait

did-did-did it did to do and we're back we are back in the studio yes I hope you

enjoyed that something a little different so now you know that all of

the donations that you send and do actually go to a good use and as you can

see there there is a good example of that right there I will be going in a

moment so I'm only on for one hour every day during October so just to let you

know that I will be going soon hello are you there I'm just back from work says

Palmyra hello Palmyra nice to see you here today

mr. Duncan has ordered some tripods yes tripods are very useful things if you

have a studio they are very useful for mounting lights also mounting cameras so

when you mount something it means you put one thing on another normally

securely so tripods are something that are very useful in a studio and thank

you very much for your lovely donations because of your donations I was able to

repair or should I say replace my tripods because on Sunday two of them

were broken because of the strong wind mr. Duncan's mr. Steve will have to

clean up the living room after your unboxing yes maybe maybe he will no not

really I will tidy up after the live stream has finished

I see Anna I thought it would be great to be a friend with you on Facebook so

Anna Rita and Mika are now going to join on Facebook and be friends social media

does get a lot of bad publicity but I think social media

is pretty cool to be honest because without social media we wouldn't be here

today together hello also to Nadine hi mr. Duncan

I'm so excited when I'm watching your video Thank You Nadine E or Nadine eshop

thank you very much I am going in a moment I hope you've

enjoyed this I have been with you for one hour and don't worry I will be back

with you again tomorrow as well and I think tomorrow we might be going into

the kitchen to do something Ana Rita says I really don't have any paper on my

desk it is very quiet today and yesterday we had a holiday so everyone

looks tired oh hello to sue Kat I didn't see you

here on the live stream so hello to sue Kat and apparently it was a special day

yesterday so you had a free day yesterday what did you do on your

holiday mm-hmm what did you do I have two people now at home one is cleaning

and the other is fixing a machine and I was also cleaning my oven so Belarus ear

sounds like she has her hands full it sounds like you have a lot on your plate

at the moment Belarusian to be honest hello Zoran again hello also to cache

trailers I would like to dedicate a poem to all of you box lovers I've never

heard a poem about a box before to be honest

hi mr. Duncan from Cardiff now you have your new tripod yes because

unfortunately last Sunday some of my equipment was destroyed in the strong

wind yes it's true I'm not joking

it caused quite a lot of damage in fact hello also 2sl does anyone know how long

the livestream will take thank you a cell I will be with you every day for

one hour so I am going in a moment but I will be back with you tomorrow 2:00 p.m.

UK time so tomorrow you will be able to watch this again and I will be live with

you every day during October so today tomorrow the day after right until the

end of October to celebrate my 13th anniversary here on YouTube and of

course the reason why I'm here generally is to help you improve your English so I

know there are many people out there who are learning English from the beginning

or maybe there are people who are intermediate and of course there are

many people who watch whose English is very good

so it's great to see you all here and you are more than welcome to join me

again tomorrow I am here every single day 31 days of learning English Thank

You pal Mira Thank You Sarang I will see you tomorrow from 2 p.m. UK time

apparently sooo cat didn't do much yesterday because I have a pain in my

leg oh I'm sorry to hear that what is the cause of it what why is your leg

hurting maybe you should go and see a doctor bye mr. Duncan I hope we can be

here for the whole month yes Eric thank you very much yes I'm back tomorrow from

2 p.m. UK time Thank You Renan thank you also Louie Louie

oh hello Louie Louie can I say a special hello to Louie Louie because Louie has

been very active on my youtube channel watching all of my very

the YouTube videos so Thank You Louis it's great to see you here and I'm very

pleased that I have a chance to actually say hello to you live on YouTube thank

you also to Ramsey Nouah thank you very much thank you also to Meeker Luis

Mendez watching in Paris and a Kobe and I will see you tomorrow I think the rain

has actually stopped now oh yes it looks as if the rain has subsided when

something subsides it means it eases off it starts to go so fortunately the rain

has gone and I am going to go as well this is mr. Duncan in the birthplace of

English on the first day of October saying thanks for watching I will see

you here again tomorrow for day 2 of 31 days of English in October and of course

you know what's coming next until tomorrow

ta ta for now 8-)