Expressing 👍GOOD & BAD QUALITY👎 - English Addict - EXTRA - 🔴LIVE stream - WED 10th JULY 2024

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Expressing 👍GOOD & BAD QUALITY👎 - English Addict - EXTRA - 🔴LIVE stream - WED 10th JULY 2024

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English Addict with Mr Duncan


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I remember a couple of years ago.
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We used to play a little game called Spot the White Van.
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Well, today, I think if we were to play that game, it would be very easy to do.
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Because the view from my window is looking
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towards the mountain 54 motorway.
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And to be honest with you, at this time of the day,
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almost every vehicle on the motorway
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is a white van or a white lorry.
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In fact, you can see one going by right now in the distance.
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So that actually is the main road that links
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the Midlands to Wales.
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So those cars are going either
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towards the Midlands or towards Wales.
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Here we go. We are back together again.
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It is nice to see you.
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And yes it is English addict.
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Coming to you live from the birthplace of English,
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which of course is England.
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And? We
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are back.
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we are back together again.
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It's ever so nice to see you.
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Hi, everybody. This is Mr.
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Duncan in England. How are you today?
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Are you okay?
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I hope so.
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Are you feeling happy?
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I hope you are feeling good today.
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We have made it all the way to Wednesday.
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A very interesting week for many reasons.
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I have been busy making new lessons
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and of course preparing my live streams.
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You might notice, or you may have noticed this.
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I am now doing live streams twice a week.
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Again, a lot of people were asking Mr.
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Duncan, can we have your Wednesday live stream?
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So here I am in the middle of the week
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next weekend.
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By the way, talking of live streams, next Sunday
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it will be episode 300 of my Sunday English Addict.
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Can you believe it? 300 episodes.
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Not only that, next Monday
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is the eighth anniversary
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of my first ever live stream, not English Addict.
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So before English Addict I was doing lots of other live streams as well.
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So a busy weekend.
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We have episode 300 of English Addict and on Monday next Monday
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it will be eight years since I started doing my live streams.
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I can't believe that that is true.
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I really, really can't.
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Well, we are here again and as I said, my name is Duncan.
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I am an English addict.
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I have a feeling the reason why you are here is because you are
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an English addict as well.
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If you want to follow live captions,
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you can turn on live captions
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now if you want to follow along, you are more than welcome to do so.
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Learning things
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I receive the same question
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again and again from you, the viewers watching out there.
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How do I learn English? Mr. Duncan?
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What is the best way to learn English?
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How do I start?
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What do I need to learn
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when I begin learning English?
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Well, if you are here now, I would imagine that you already have
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maybe a good level of English.
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However,
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never give up and never stop learning ever.
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In your life.
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It doesn't matter how old you are, you never stop learning.
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Always learn something new.
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And to answer the question, you learn like a child.
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The first thing any child will learn.
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In their very,
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very young years will be shapes
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and colours before anything else.
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The most important things to learn when you are
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young are shapes and colours.
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And it's true.
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If you are teaching your
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young child your infant things around them,
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quite often there will be colours and shapes involved.
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And the reason why I say that is because when you are learning anything,
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including English, you always start
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with the simple things from the beginning.
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The basics.
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The most simple parts of that subject.
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I will give you an example.
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When I started to learn how to edit,
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I started with very basic things.
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Very basic things,
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methods, ways of editing, for example.
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And I will show you now the first thing I ever learned to do
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with editing with this.
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Fact is called a cut.
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The first thing you ever learn
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when you are learning how to edit videos or film
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is the simple cut, and that's what you just saw.
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So if you change from one thing to another,
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that is described as a cut.
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We often use a cut
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when we are editing to speed up the pace,
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to make something appear more exciting,
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you will cut from one thing to another.
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So that is the first thing I ever learned
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when I was learning how to edit.
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Cutting something, going from one thing to another.
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So that is the most basic thing.
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However, to this very day
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I still use that method.
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In fact, it might be the most common thing I do
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when I am editing a simple cut.
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And of course, the second thing I learned from editing
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is what we call the fade.
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And there it is.
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You fade.
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The fade is often used where we want to show
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that time has passed by.
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So those are the two things, the two first things.
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When I sat down to learn how to edit
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the first things, I learned how to do was to cut and fade.
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Also, when to do them.
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So you cut to show speed.
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You fade to show the passage of time.
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Or maybe the conclusion of something.
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So even though those were the
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first things that I learned when I started editing, I still use them now.
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And the same thing applies to learning English.
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You learn the basics because those are
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the things you will always do
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for the rest of your life.
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You might also say the same thing about any skill, any life skill.
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You start with the basics things, the simple things, and quite often
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they are the things that you will always do.
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You will always need those things.
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You will always need to know those things.
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So learning English
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is just like learning anything else.
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Whether you are learning the simple skills of life,
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you start with the basics.
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You learn as if you are a child,
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you learn from the basics and then you build on those things.
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Simple words, simple phrases.
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You build on those things.
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Because I had to learn the same thing.
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When I learned how to edit, I had to find
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all of the simple things the basic things.
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But remember, those are normally the most important things as well,
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because you will probably use them all the time.
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Hello to the live chat!
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I hope that's helped you.
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By the way, if you are wondering how to learn English, hello Vitesse,
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guess what you are first on today's live chat.
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I don't mind,
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I am always glad to see you all here.
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Whoever is first
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today it is Vitesse.
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Well done Vitesse.
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You have a very fast thing.
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without a doubt.
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You should probably enter the Olympic Games.
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They should have a sport of
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competition between people
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who are clicking their mouse to see who has the fastest finger.
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I have a feeling that Vitesse will win, to be honest.
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Who else is here today?
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Hello. Also, Beatrice.
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Hello to Beatrice.
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It's Beatrice, you are here today.
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It's nice to see you back.
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Palmira Zizic.
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Hello, Palmira.
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Hello, Zizic.
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it's nice to see you back.
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Mauricio is here as well.
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I was watching
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our rendezvous in Rome.
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I like to watch it.
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I like to relive those wonderful memories of when we met up.
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Also hello to.
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Oh, sorry I am late, but I have my granddaughter and her child here.
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Can I call him my grandchild?
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I don't know the name.
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Yes, you can have a grandchild.
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You can have a granddaughter or a grandson.
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It's up to you.
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But you are right.
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And of course, I am talking to Luis Mendez
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is here today.
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Hello, Louis.
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Nice to see you here as well.
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Today's subject.
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We are looking at quality.
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It's an interesting word.
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A simple word.
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You might say, Mr. Duncan.
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That is a very basic word.
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However, the word quality can relate
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to almost everything that exists, especially in your life.
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If you are trying to make your life better or easier,
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you might find that quality is an important thing.
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You want the best.
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You want something that will be reliable and will work well.
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We often think of quality as levels of
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standard
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from high to low.
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That is what we are looking at a little bit later on today.
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Who else is here?
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The live chat is very quiet by the way.
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I hope we are still on.
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Are we still on? I hope so,
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hello, Abdallah.
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Hello. Watching in Morocco.
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Nice to see you here as well today.
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Watching in Morocco.
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Here is an interesting word.
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You know, I love the English language very much.
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And I'm always interested in words
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that have more than one meaning or words
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that can be used in many different ways.
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And here is an interesting word.
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It might seem like a simple word, but this word can be used in many ways.
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It is a very expressive word.
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The word is appetite, appetite.
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It is a noun.
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It relates to the strong desire for nourishment.
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Quite often when we are talking about survival,
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we will often talk about eating, eating or drinking.
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You can get nourishment from both types of food, whether it is liquid or solid.
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The strong desire for nourishment
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to nourish yourself is to feed yourself,
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whilst at the same time you are also giving yourself
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those valuable minerals and vitamins and all of the things your body needs to survive.
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You might have an appetite for food, which is normal.
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I have to say. Sometimes
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I do have a very strong appetite for food.
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Sometimes I like to eat food even if I'm not hungry.
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To be honest with you, you have the desire to eat.
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You want to eat something.
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Your appetite is the feeling you get.
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It is a strange feeling.
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It is that that very odd connection between your stomach
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and your brain, because they are
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very closely connected,
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they are connected quite strongly and closely.
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So your your whole stomach quite often is
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communicating with your brain in one way or another.
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So your need for food can be described as your appetite.
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You feel hungry, you have an appetite.
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However, the word appetite
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can also be used in other ways as well.
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We can describe the hunger for something, generally
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a general thing that you want to have or you want to do.
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You have an appetite
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for that certain thing.
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You might have an insatiable desire.
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Now, I like that word.
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Another interesting word, insatiable.
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If something is insatiable, a person can be insatiable.
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You have a desire and need.
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It is very strong.
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You almost can't resist.
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It is a very strong desire.
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You might have an appetite for travelling.
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You might feel as if you want to explore the world and see lots of different places.
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I was talking to Steve yesterday about this very subject.
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We were talking amongst ourselves, not here, but privately.
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We were talking about travelling in the future.
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So I would say that both myself and Steve,
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we have an appetite for travelling.
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I feel as if I really want to do more travelling in my life.
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You might have an appetite for creativity to be creative.
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Maybe you want to create art,
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a type of sculpture.
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Maybe.
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Perhaps you want to write some poetry or maybe compose a song.
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It is all creative, so you might have an appetite
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for creativity as well.
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An appetite for adventure.
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You can have a strong desire for adventure
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generally in life when you are young.
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And I do remember in my young years I would say
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I was rather adventurous,
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certainly in my, my, my mid-twenties
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until my late 30s, I was very adventurous.
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I was always willing to do more, to travel more, and maybe to take more risks as well,
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because sometimes doing something adventurous
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can also have its own risks as well.
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It can.
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The word appetite is derived from Old French,
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originally from Latin,
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the Latin word for craving,
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which of course is a synonym of appetite.
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Your craving for something, your want,
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your need, your desire, the feeling
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you have because you really want to have that thing.
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It is a feeling
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maybe in your stomach
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if it is food related, or maybe in your heart
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if it is a desire of some sort.
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So even though this does appear to be a very simple word,
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it does have quite a lot of meaning.
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To be honest.
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Hello to the live chat.
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I don't want to forget you.
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Don't worry, I won't.
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Hello. Also to travel border.
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Hello, Bangladesh. Hello to you.
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Nice to see you here.
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I know that I do have a lot of people watching over in your direction.
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Definitely.
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I know, because sometimes I like to have a look
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and find out where people are watching.
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I have a lot of people watching in Italy.
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Vietnam.
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India,
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the United States as well.
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I do have viewers watching in the USA
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also here in England as well.
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I do get a lot of people watching me in England as well.
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Hello, I made
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who says I have an appetite
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for your speech when you explain words.
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Oh, so you want more information,
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you want more of that useful information.
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So when a person is telling you something or giving you information,
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maybe you become hungry for more.
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You want more of it.
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It sounds like you want more of it as well.
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Hello to soft gamer watching in the Philippines.
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Hello Philippines, I know your country and I hope you are having a nice day
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where you are as well,
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so it has been a busy period of time.
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I will be honest with you.
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I have had a rather busy few weeks and it looks as
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if things are going to stay busy because I am making lots of new lessons.
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I was out not yesterday,
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but the day before I was out filming some lessons, although yesterday.
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Can I just say I don't normally share my personal things.
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But yesterday I was feeling quite unwell
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with hay fever because there is so much pollen
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and so much dust around at the moment,
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from all of the pollen being produced by the grass and the flowers.
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That I was really unwell yesterday,
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which was quite annoying because I had to struggle
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to make another lesson
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and I was here in the studio trying to film
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some extra shots for my latest lesson.
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And I have to say, I was feeling so unwell.
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My eyes were hurting, my throat was so
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my nose was painful, I felt dizzy,
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I felt tired, and yet yesterday I still managed
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to finish the lesson.
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And I'm sure you've been in the same situation in the past.
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I'm sure at some point you have had to go to work
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or do something, even though you don't feel very well.
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Sometimes you have to just push yourself.
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So that's what I was doing yesterday.
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I really did have to push myself yesterday
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to try and get my new lesson
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finished, and it was not easy to do.
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If I was honest with you, it was not very easy to do.
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A few people have been asking about my email and also about my Facebook,
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so I will put this on the screen.
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So they're up there just over there
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you can see my Facebook page.
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Also you will see my email address as well.
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And of course if you want to make a small donation
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to help this continue, because I do this for free.
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For 18 years I've been doing this for free
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so you can send me an email.
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You can send me a friend request on Facebook
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or just follow me on there if you want.
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Or you can send me a lovely donation as well if you would like to.
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I would be very happy because
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I do all of this.
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Everything I do here, I do it for free.
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It costs you nothing.
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Mauricio has to go now.
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See you later, Mauricio.
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I hope you are doing something fun
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and you will enjoy it.
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Abdel says in French we say a.
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Yes, you might say.
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Say to someone in French.
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Bon. At Petit it means enjoy your meal.
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Bon appetit.
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Have a good meal.
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Enjoy your meal.
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I hope your appetite will be satisfied.
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And of course, I suppose that's another good phrase.
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So if your appetite is satisfied,
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it means you have eaten.
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Or you've done the thing that you wanted to do.
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You satisfy your appetite, satisfy yourself.
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You feel better after doing the thing that you wanted to do.
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We will have a quick break and then we will look
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at today's subject, which is quality.
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There are many things to talk about.
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Many things to look at as well.
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All of that coming up in a few moments from now.
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Don't go away. Stick around.
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There are still many other things to look at on today's live stream,
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and I hope you will enjoy it as well.
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I'm a big boy now.
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English addict is with you today.
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Coming to you live from the birthplace of English.
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There is the view outside.
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I think the sun is trying to come out even though it's not very warm.
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It's only 18 Celsius.
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For those asking, that is the temperature today.
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But at least we have a little bit of sunshine
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coming through as well.
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English addict and it is Mr.
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Duncan. That's me, by the way.
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I don't know who you are because I can't see you.
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But you can tell me if you want on the live chat.
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It is now up and running.
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Today we are looking at an interesting subject quality,
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and it is something that I suppose we think about quite a lot.
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The quality of something.
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How good something is or how bad something is.
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We judge the quality.
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We decide for ourselves how good something is.
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A thing can be promised
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as being good quality.
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So today we are looking at that particular subject
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and that is what we are doing until the end of the lesson.
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Quality work and phrase is quite often
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when we show that something is good, we will often give it
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the thumbs up.
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And that's why I've used that up there today.
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It seems like he's very happy with it.
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I'm very happy with it.
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It's good, good quality.
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Of course, it is not always the case.
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Sometimes the quality might not be very good at all.
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First of all, the level or standard
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or satisfaction observed of a thing
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made or a service given is quality.
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So when we describe quality, we are talking about the level of standard
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or satisfaction observed of a thing made or a service
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given, often expressed as a form of judgement.
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And yes, I think it is fair to say that
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when we talk about quality, quite often
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there is some sort of judgement taking place.
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Whether something is high quality,
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medium quality
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or low quality or poor quality.
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So it is possible to express quality in many different ways,
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especially when we are spending money.
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When we spend money quite often
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quality is important.
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The perceived quality of something is used as a point
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to decide whether to choose that thing or not.
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So quality is the thing that we are looking at.
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The thing itself, we have to make judgements.
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Or maybe we are already told that that thing
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is good quality or bad quality.
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So we are using quality to decide
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whether or not to buy something or to have something or to use something.
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So quality can be an item.
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How good a thing is or it can be service.
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Maybe you go to a restaurant, maybe you have very good food.
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You can say that that restaurant is high quality.
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If you go there, you will always get good service and good food.
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So quality can refer to almost anything
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we do, anything we have, anything
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we do generally in our lives.
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We have the perception of quality.
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So each person has their own view
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of the quality of something,
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even if it's very good.
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Another person might think it is not very good
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or it is not good quality.
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So quality of course, can be
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subjective between one person and another.
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And I think it is always fair to to remember that.
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So to judge
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whether something is good quality or bad quality,
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we might judge something as being high quality
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or low quality or poor quality.
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So we talk about high quality, something that's well made,
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something that is very tough,
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something that will last for a long time,
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and then we have low quality or poor quality.
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It means it is not very good.
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The quality is low.
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Something well-made
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or guaranteed will most likely
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be viewed as being high quality.
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So I think this is this is always a good point
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to remember if you are buying something.
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Not only is that thing good quality,
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but if it has a guarantee,
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then quite often that product
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will be of good quality.
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Because most manufacturers, when they make something,
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they will often guarantee that that thing will work.
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They say no, buy this.
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Take it away.
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You will have years and years of use from that thing.
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However, just in case it does go wrong, just in case there is a problem,
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bring it back and we will replace
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or give you your money back.
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We will replace it.
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We will give you a new one or we will give you your money back.
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So that is always a good sign of quality.
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If there is also a guarantee, I think the average guarantee
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these days is for 12 months,
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sometimes two years, sometimes five years.
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But I think it depends how much money you spend on that particular thing.
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So the more expensive something is,
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the longer the guarantee will be.
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So we often see guarantees
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as things to look for when you are looking for quality.
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The more you pay for something, then the higher
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the quality level should be.
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And I think this is something we all think about.
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If you spend a lot of money on something,
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you will expect it to be high quality.
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Of course, the opposite is true as well.
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So if you only spend a little bit of money
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on something, maybe it won't be so good.
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Maybe the quality will be poor
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39:53
and it won't work so well.
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39:58
Certain brands are often seen
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as being high quality, and I'm sure you can think of 1 or 2
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brands, especially things that we all own.
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And I can think of at least two things certain electronic devices,
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such as computers and cell phones.
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They often are made by, well, many different companies.
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However, some of the companies have a better reputation.
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They are seen
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as companies or brands that make very high quality products.
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So certain brands, I suppose you can think of
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cell phones, computers,
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maybe even cars as well.
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So the level of standard
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is normally higher with certain brands.
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Of course, there is a very important caveat to that thing.
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And when we add a caveat, it means a final condition.
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So there is always something that you have to do, especially if you want quality.
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So quite often these brands will also be known
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for selling expensive things.
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Their products will be expensive.
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So when you think about Apple products for example,
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the iPhone or the iBook
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or anything connected
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to Apple, quite often those things will be expensive.
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Even if you want to buy the most basic phone now in this country,
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the most basic iPhone is around
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41:58
four or maybe £500,
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which is a lot of money when you think about it.
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There are many phones you can buy that are much cheaper than that,
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but they might not be such good quality.
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Cars as well.
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There are expensive cars that are seen
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as better quality, and cheaper cars
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that are seen as not such good quality.
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So certain brands, certain products
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are often seen as good quality, but quite often
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they are also expensive.
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Beatrice says we pay a lot for anything in Argentina
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and it often comes with six months,
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a six month guarantee up to one year.
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I think one year is quite standard.
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So even in this country, if you buy something normally you have
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12 months guarantee, sometimes two years.
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But as I said earlier, it depends how much you spend on that thing
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in the first place.
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Good quality.
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So let's first of all take a look at the good quality
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things that are of high
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standard, good quality.
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We can describe them as well made.
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43:31
Something that is good quality is often well made.
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43:36
It comes to a high standard.
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It is something that is reliable.
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So that particular thing might be seen as being reliable.
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It will last for a very long time without breaking.
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So if you buy something that is good quality,
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it will last.
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Good workmanship.
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So here is an interesting phrase good workmanship.
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When we talk about workmanship, we are talking about how much trouble,
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how much attention and time has gone in
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to making that particular thing workmanship.
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How well that thing
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has been made or constructed.
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3003
44:31
We often think of good quality as being luxury.
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4254
44:35
We talk about luxury, something
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3020
44:38
that is nice, something that is high quality.
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3036
44:42
A hotel, for example, might be a very high standard.
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5789
44:48
It means that it
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3003
44:51
is probably going to be classed as luxury.
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3604
44:55
A luxury hotel.
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2695905
1501
44:58
Exclusive is another word that we often hear
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3770
45:02
when we are looking at things that we want to buy or something
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4504
45:07
we want to spend our money on, something
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3287
45:10
that we want to purchase that is good quality.
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2710536
3220
45:14
Sometimes we use the word exclusive
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3003
45:17
because that means only a few people will have that particular thing
603
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5672
45:23
because it's so special.
604
2723832
3003
45:29
Then we have bad quality.
605
2729872
2485
45:32
Of course, there are many ways of describing bad quality.
606
2732357
4888
45:37
We can say that something is cheap.
607
2737596
3003
45:41
So we are not just talking about the price.
608
2741717
3003
45:44
We are also talking about the quality of something.
609
2744953
3353
45:48
It is not very well made.
610
2748757
2669
45:51
The quality is poor.
611
2751426
2853
45:54
It is cheap.
612
2754279
2286
45:56
Maybe you buy something and you are expecting it
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4354
46:01
to be made of metal or something that will be made of strong material.
614
2761036
5939
46:07
But when you buy it, it is only made of plastic.
615
2767275
3988
46:13
It is cheap.
616
2773431
1318
46:14
It feels cheap.
617
2774749
2519
46:17
Something might be shoddy.
618
2777268
3003
46:20
So here is an interesting word.
619
2780772
1435
46:22
Yes, it is a real English word.
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2669
46:24
The word shoddy.
621
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1902
46:26
If something is shoddy, it means it is poorly made.
622
2786778
5455
46:32
It is not very well made.
623
2792801
2736
46:35
It is poorly made.
624
2795537
2218
46:37
It is not well made.
625
2797755
3003
46:41
It is
626
2801326
2369
46:43
shoddy.
627
2803695
2285
46:45
Unreliable.
628
2805980
1885
46:47
So we we aren't.
629
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935
46:48
We are now talking about the opposite of reliable, which is something you can trust.
630
2808800
5872
46:55
So something that is unreliable is something you can't trust.
631
2815089
5139
47:00
I would not trust
632
2820978
3003
47:03
that device.
633
2823981
2119
47:06
I don't think it will work.
634
2826100
2186
47:08
It is very unreliable.
635
2828286
2552
47:10
Something that works well is reliable.
636
2830838
3337
47:14
Something that does not work well, is unreliable.
637
2834592
5739
47:21
Of course, a person can also be described as unreliable.
638
2841048
5239
47:26
It is possible to be unreliable as a person.
639
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3787
47:31
Maybe a person who often disappoints you or let you down.
640
2851275
4621
47:36
We can describe them as unreliable.
641
2856614
2486
47:41
Then we have poor workmanship.
642
2861619
3003
47:44
So workmanship is the quality or the way something was made.
643
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4438
47:49
The amount of time taken and how carefully it was made.
644
2869810
5372
47:55
Then we have poor workmanship, which is the opposite.
645
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4588
48:01
So something was not made very well.
646
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2669
48:03
It was made quickly.
647
2883674
2219
48:05
It was made using cheap parts.
648
2885893
3003
48:09
Not very good, not very well made.
649
2889313
3236
48:13
We can say poor workmanship.
650
2893033
3120
48:17
It's not very good quality.
651
2897321
1835
48:19
I'm afraid
652
2899156
1768
48:20
something might be described as worthless
653
2900924
3003
48:25
or no good.
654
2905028
2136
48:27
You buy a thing, you take it home,
655
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3537
48:31
you use it for a couple of days, and then suddenly it breaks.
656
2911034
4955
48:37
It's worthless.
657
2917791
1518
48:39
It's no good.
658
2919309
2069
48:41
We sometimes say that something is not fit for the purpose.
659
2921378
5038
48:47
It is not very well made.
660
2927084
3003
48:50
It is poor quality.
661
2930504
1768
48:55
Cheap can also refer to the price of something.
662
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4404
49:00
So it can refer to the cost of something
663
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4588
49:05
or the quality of an item.
664
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3270
49:09
Something that was cheaply made.
665
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2953
49:11
It was made of cheap material.
666
2951992
2986
49:15
So instead of using high quality material, it was used.
667
2955228
4788
49:21
It was made using plastic,
668
2961217
3037
49:24
something that does not last very long.
669
2964971
3087
49:29
So we can say that thing has been cheaply made.
670
2969709
3520
49:33
It is not good quality.
671
2973646
3003
49:36
In the past, items made in certain countries
672
2976816
4471
49:41
were seen as poor quality and unreliable liable.
673
2981805
4504
49:46
Now, I don't want anyone to be offended by this, so please don't be offended.
674
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5639
49:52
But growing up when I was little growing up in the 1970s,
675
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4588
49:57
we would often assume anything made in China
676
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4939
50:03
or Hong Kong, normally Hong Kong.
677
3003226
3453
50:07
So anything made in Hong Kong, we would
678
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3454
50:11
in the past assume
679
3011050
3003
50:15
the quality of those items was poor.
680
3015138
3153
50:19
Not very good.
681
3019058
1568
50:20
Badly made.
682
3020626
1652
50:22
Cheap.
683
3022278
1652
50:23
So that was in the past.
684
3023930
1217
50:25
Of course, nowadays most of the things
685
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3571
50:28
we use come from China.
686
3028718
3003
50:32
Big companies, expensive products.
687
3032204
3571
50:36
These days are often made in Asia.
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3036158
3454
50:40
China?
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3040096
1384
50:41
Japan.
690
3041480
718
50:42
Of course, Japan are probably still the world leaders
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4971
50:47
when it comes to electronic devices.
692
3047169
3520
50:51
So things that are electronic cars, motorbikes.
693
3051524
5805
50:57
Quite often we think of Japan.
694
3057346
3003
51:01
So it is interesting to reflect
695
3061033
3387
51:05
that on the past.
696
3065921
1018
51:06
You know, in the past we used to see things made in certain countries as being poor quality.
697
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6390
51:13
But not anymore.
698
3073696
2519
51:16
Not anymore.
699
3076215
1168
51:17
Because most of the things we buy nowadays come from Asia either.
700
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5221
51:22
China, Hong Kong, Taiwan
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3637
51:26
or Japan.
702
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3003
51:30
So it just goes to show how things can change, especially attitudes,
703
3090078
5339
51:37
bad quality.
704
3097069
867
51:37
We might talk about poor workmanship, which relates to the lack of skill
705
3097936
3988
51:41
and care that went into making something.
706
3101924
3003
51:45
So again, as I mentioned earlier, when we say poor workmanship,
707
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4838
51:50
it is the lack of skill and care
708
3110616
4304
51:55
that went into making something.
709
3115454
3003
51:58
It was rushed.
710
3118640
2986
52:01
It's not very good quality.
711
3121877
3003
52:05
Something shoddy is poorly done or badly made.
712
3125597
4137
52:10
We can describe something that is not very well
713
3130302
3653
52:13
made as third rate.
714
3133955
3003
52:17
So again, this is an expression we often use in British English
715
3137709
4288
52:22
when we talk about something that is very low quality or poor quality,
716
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5221
52:28
we will often describe it as third rate.
717
3148003
3937
52:34
It is an insult.
718
3154309
1852
52:36
Basically.
719
3156161
3003
52:40
Bad quality.
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3160432
1184
52:41
When we want to describe something as bad quality,
721
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3003
52:44
we might use the word rubbish.
722
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3003
52:48
That thing is rubbish.
723
3168456
3003
52:51
It's no good.
724
3171609
851
52:53
It's junk.
725
3173978
2369
52:56
What a piece of junk.
726
3176347
2369
52:58
I bought this computer a year ago
727
3178716
3454
53:02
and already it stopped working.
728
3182687
3003
53:06
What a piece of junk!
729
3186107
3003
53:09
Something might be described as useless, a useless thing.
730
3189761
4738
53:15
You paid for this thing and now it doesn't work.
731
3195066
3904
53:19
It is completely useless.
732
3199270
3003
53:23
And the word at the end.
733
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3086
53:27
This is a word we often use in British English.
734
3207078
3003
53:30
That's something is tacked.
735
3210431
4288
53:35
It is cheap.
736
3215436
3003
53:38
Probably made of plastic.
737
3218856
2653
53:41
Not good quality.
738
3221509
1618
53:43
We can say that it is debt.
739
3223127
3153
53:47
It is worthless.
740
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2302
53:49
It is
741
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1719
53:51
junk.
742
3231052
2986
53:54
But quality can also be expressed as substandard.
743
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4871
54:00
A substandard thing is something that comes below what is expected.
744
3240161
5405
54:06
So you expect something to be good or high quality.
745
3246066
4054
54:10
But it isn't.
746
3250721
2886
54:13
We can say that it is substandard.
747
3253607
3570
54:18
It is below the standard that you were expecting.
748
3258012
4621
54:25
Good quality.
749
3265969
1469
54:27
Something positive now.
750
3267438
2185
54:29
Something that is well-made.
751
3269623
3003
54:32
Something that is excellent.
752
3272926
2853
54:35
An excellent thing is something that is well-made.
753
3275779
4171
54:40
It is good quality.
754
3280367
1885
54:42
You would describe it as excellent.
755
3282252
3003
54:47
Something might be described as perfect.
756
3287174
2586
54:49
It is perfect.
757
3289760
2385
54:52
The thing that I bought works very well.
758
3292145
3270
54:55
It is perfect.
759
3295449
3003
54:58
The quality is good.
760
3298752
2636
55:01
We can say that something is up to standard.
761
3301388
3003
55:05
It is up to standard.
762
3305058
2553
55:07
It is what you expected.
763
3307611
2719
55:10
I bought something and I expect it to be good.
764
3310330
4655
55:16
And it is.
765
3316269
935
55:17
It is up to standard.
766
3317204
3003
55:21
We can also say that something has a high standard.
767
3321224
3003
55:24
High standard, good quality.
768
3324828
3003
55:29
It is a thing that is well-made
769
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3387
55:33
or well done.
770
3333470
2986
55:37
A thing that costs a lot of money and is of a high
771
3337157
4404
55:41
standard, can be described as luxury.
772
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3720
55:45
We mentioned this word earlier.
773
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2102
55:47
Of course, there are many situations where you can use the word luxury.
774
3347917
4004
55:52
We can have luxury car cars, luxury hotels.
775
3352655
5956
55:59
You might go on a luxury holiday if you are very lucky.
776
3359195
5022
56:06
So there are many ways of describing high quality
777
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4471
56:11
or things that are very high quality.
778
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3387
56:16
Here are some phrases now
779
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2703
56:19
you get what you pay for.
780
3379132
2986
56:22
I think this is a phrase many people use,
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3320
56:26
especially when they pay some money for a thing.
782
3386839
3420
56:30
And then the thing does not work, or it
783
3390710
2686
56:33
or they are not satisfied with it.
784
3393396
2803
56:36
You get what you pay for.
785
3396199
3002
56:39
A cheap version of something will likely be poor quality.
786
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5873
56:45
And this is something that does happen nowadays.
787
3405708
2719
56:48
Many things that are expensive can also be made cheaply.
788
3408427
5673
56:54
Maybe they are fake.
789
3414617
2719
56:57
They are not the real thing.
790
3417336
2286
56:59
So sometimes it is possible to buy something cheap,
791
3419622
3270
57:03
but it is not genuine.
792
3423342
3086
57:06
It is not the real thing.
793
3426796
3002
57:15
You might have to spend more to get more.
794
3435437
3654
57:19
This is an expression we sometimes use if we spend more.
795
3439875
5122
57:25
Quite often you will get more.
796
3445280
2987
57:28
In this case.
797
3448267
1451
57:29
We are talking about quality.
798
3449718
2219
57:31
So the more you spend on something, the more expensive something is.
799
3451937
4788
57:37
Quite often the quality will be higher
800
3457009
4471
57:42
or better.
801
3462531
2986
57:46
We have the opposite.
802
3466869
1301
57:48
Maybe a place where you can go to buy things that are very cheap.
803
3468170
3987
57:52
We do have a lot of shops here in the UK
804
3472457
3003
57:55
where things are sold cheaply.
805
3475694
3003
57:59
There used to be a big chain of shops
806
3479231
3153
58:02
many years ago called the £1 Shop.
807
3482384
4087
58:08
Can you guess why?
808
3488407
2018
58:10
It's because everything in there
809
3490425
2670
58:13
costs £1.
810
3493095
2302
58:15
So you would go into the shop and everything in the shop was just £1.
811
3495397
5255
58:21
However,
812
3501219
3003
58:25
there are shops
813
3505190
1918
58:27
that are still there
814
3507108
3003
58:30
and they still sell cheap things.
815
3510378
3003
58:33
But now most of them don't sell anything for a pound
816
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5072
58:39
over £1, but not £1.
817
3519521
3987
58:44
So I suppose that's another example of how the the price of things have gone up.
818
3524292
4588
58:48
Even if you are buying something very cheap,
819
3528913
2369
58:53
we might talk about a bargain basement.
820
3533051
3003
58:56
Bargain basement refers to a shop selling cheap things
821
3536287
4955
59:01
and sometimes poor quality items as well.
822
3541576
4521
59:06
Bargain basement.
823
3546731
2436
59:09
There are lots of cheap things are sold.
824
3549167
3019
59:15
Now we have.
825
3555039
751
59:15
Well, oh, here's another phrase.
826
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1835
59:17
Can I just do this phrase as well before I finish?
827
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3003
59:21
You might have a cheap imitation.
828
3561829
3954
59:26
So if something has been made to look like an expensive thing,
829
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4939
59:31
we can describe it as a cheap imitation or
830
3571506
4454
59:37
a knockoff.
831
3577128
1702
59:38
When we say that something is a knockoff,
832
3578830
2335
59:41
it means it is a cheap copy,
833
3581165
4505
59:46
a badly made copy of something expensive.
834
3586571
3987
59:52
For example.
835
3592009
2987
59:59
Can you say what is wrong with this particular thing?
836
3599500
3370
60:04
At first glance, it looks like a PlayStation.
837
3604839
3270
60:09
However, it is not.
838
3609343
1769
60:11
It is a cheap version.
839
3611112
2218
60:14
It is called the police Station,
840
3614298
3003
60:18
not PlayStation.
841
3618619
2552
60:21
So if you bought this in a shop, maybe you would think,
842
3621171
3237
60:24
oh well, I think that might be a PlayStation.
843
3624858
3320
60:28
I will buy it and take it home, but when you get home you find it doesn't work.
844
3628729
4288
60:33
And the person selling it has has run away.
845
3633400
3003
60:36
They vanished.
846
3636620
1819
60:38
So it is a good example of something that is cheap.
847
3638439
3603
60:42
It is a cheap version of an expensive thing.
848
3642576
4238
60:47
Of course, when we think about
849
3647598
2903
60:50
things that are fake, we often think of watches as well.
850
3650501
3670
60:54
Fake watches or cheap watches.
851
3654371
3520
60:58
So here you can see here there is a picture
852
3658158
3003
61:01
of a very expensive Rolex watch.
853
3661395
3153
61:05
The only problem is that is not real.
854
3665565
3754
61:09
It is not a real Rolex.
855
3669619
2186
61:11
It is a fake Rolex.
856
3671805
2069
61:13
So it is possible to buy expensive things.
857
3673874
3303
61:17
They look expensive.
858
3677527
2586
61:20
They look genuine, but they are not.
859
3680113
3153
61:23
They are cheap imitations.
860
3683834
3153
61:28
This is a knockoff.
861
3688088
3003
61:31
It is something that looks like it
862
3691575
2519
61:34
but is not real.
863
3694094
3003
61:38
So I suppose there are many ways of looking at good and bad.
864
3698415
3920
61:42
How do you tell if something is good or bad?
865
3702736
4020
61:47
Well, of course, in life we often say that
866
3707207
3653
61:50
you get what you pay for.
867
3710860
3003
61:54
If you pay a lot of money for something, you normally get good quality.
868
3714197
4438
61:58
If you pay less for something, quite often
869
3718985
3487
62:02
the quality might not be as good.
870
3722472
4504
62:09
Of course, we like to show how good things are by rating them as well.
871
3729679
4771
62:14
You can see here.
872
3734684
1318
62:16
Here is a very good example of rating a thing.
873
3736002
3787
62:20
You might have low rating, medium rating.
874
3740206
5072
62:25
And over the far side we have
875
3745812
3003
62:30
high rating as well.
876
3750400
2769
62:33
So that is one way of showing how good something is.
877
3753169
3921
62:37
If you are looking for something on the internet,
878
3757490
2986
62:40
we often like to see some sort of school or some sort of rating.
879
3760576
5639
62:47
Quite often we will use
880
3767450
1952
62:49
stars as a way of rating something.
881
3769402
3687
62:53
So you give a star rating.
882
3773472
3003
62:57
One star normally is poor.
883
3777043
3603
63:02
Five stars is excellent.
884
3782782
3169
63:06
And then, of course, you have everything in between.
885
3786852
3187
63:10
So if you are buying something from the internet,
886
3790489
2686
63:13
maybe you are going onto a shopping site and you will look at all of the products.
887
3793175
6390
63:19
Quite often there will be some sort of rating,
888
3799582
4104
63:24
normally in the form of stars.
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63:28
One star from pull
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up to five stars.
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Excellent.
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Of course, you might also think of hotels as well.
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Quite often hotels will have some sort of rating system
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using stars.
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Have you ever stayed at a five star hotel?
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I haven't.
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I've never stayed at a five star hotel.
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I've stayed at lots and lots of three star hotels
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and sometimes four star hotels.
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But I've never stayed at a five star hotel.
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I might never. To be honest,
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who knows?
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That is almost it for me.
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For today.
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Partridge.
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Hello, Partridge.
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Partridge. Eves.
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I have not seen you for a very long time.
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What have you been doing?
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Have you been busy
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as life?
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Been demanding?
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I think so.
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Let's face it.
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It often is.
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It often is.
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So welcome back, Partridge.
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It's nice to see you here today.
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Thank you very much for joining us.
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The world is directing people
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or directing the trade towards
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changing devices regularly.
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When something becomes obsolete.
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Normally it happens or it used to happen over a very long period of time.
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So maybe you could buy something, maybe a phone or a certain device,
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something electronic for example.
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And normally you could use it for many,
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many years without having to replace it.
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These days it would appear that you have to replace things
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more often, sometimes 1 or 2 years
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after buying it new.
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So yes, I agree with you.
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It is quite possible and it does happen
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that things become obsolete.
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And it has been designed to work that way.
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So you buy something, you spend a lot of money on it.
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But two years later that thing will stop working.
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It will become obsolete.
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And then you have to buy a new one.
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I think that is one of the big problems with mobile phones.
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Cell phones?
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A lot of people do complain that they are forced
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into buying new phones or new computer devices
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too often.
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I think so.
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Thank you very much for your company today.
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I hope this lesson has been five stars.
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Don't forget to give me a lovely thumb
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if you like this, and I will be back with you on Sunday.
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We have episode 300.
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300 episodes of our Sunday English Addict.
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So next Sunday it will be episode 300.
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And I will be here.
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Mr. Steve will be here as well.
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Also look out for some new English lessons as well.
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I I've been so busy recently.
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Very busy in fact.
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See you soon.
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I hope you've enjoyed today and I hope you
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will join me again very soon.
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This is Mr.
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Duncan in the birthplace of English, saying thank you for watching.
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I hope you've enjoyed this.
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If you haven't,
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I'm ever so sorry.
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I will.
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I will try better next time, I promise.
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Is that.
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Is that a deal?
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Okay.
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See you soon. Take care.
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You can watch this again later with captions.
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We will see how long it takes.
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YouTube to process the video.
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So it might be tomorrow.
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Then the captions will be available.
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See you soon. And of course, until the next time we meet.
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68:07
You know what's coming next.
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I know what's coming next.
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Take care.
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68:12
Keep that smile upon your face as you walk amongst the human race.
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And of course...
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ta ta for now.
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See you on Sunday.
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