Live English / Saturday 14th September 2019 / With Misterduncan in England

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English Addict with Mr Duncan


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wait a moment I'm not quite ready just give me a few more seconds and then I
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will be with you don't worry nothing is wrong I am still alive
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yes I think we're ready it sounds like I'm at the dentist
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but I'm not honestly I'm definitely not at the dentist okay I think we are ready
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to go are we ready yes I think we are look at the view
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isn't it a lovely day today it certainly is so my neighbours are
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cutting their bushes with their noisy machines
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I have aeroplanes flying over in fact everything is going on today but it
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doesn't matter because I have my coffee in front of me I have my lovely fresh
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cup of coffee very sweet very strong with just a little bit of milk just the
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way I like it but look the view today is very nice it
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is a lovely day everything is okay and I hope you are happy and feeling good
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today as well but the big question is where are you mr. Duncan where are you
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Here I am hi everybody this is mr. Duncan in
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England how are you today are you okay I hope so are you happy I really hope
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you are happy it has been chaotic here today so first of all mr. Steve was
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doing lots of things in the bathroom I don't know what he was doing but he was
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in there for ages this morning and I was waiting to get ready to do my livestream
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so that's one of the reasons why also he's not here today he's gone to see his
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mummy so he's gone to get his bottle filled when you get your bottle filled
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it means you go to your mother and she gives you lots of cuddles and lots of
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love I wonder what that feels like and I'm here once again yes I was here
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yesterday as well can you believe it I've been doing so many live streams
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over the past few days and here it is just to prove that I am good to my word
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look at that there is my lovely foamy of coffee so I might be drinking my
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coffee first of all I need my little boost this morning because hmm
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apparently a lot of people say that I make the best coffee in the world I
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don't know how true it is but apparently I do make the best coffee in the whole
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world it's true hmm oh that is actually quite
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nice hello to everyone on the livestream oh we have someone first on the live
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chat I'm being attacked by insects hello to whistle hello wizal zai zai dee
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wizal ID hello to you and you are first on the live chat I will put my
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coffee down so I can give you a lovely round of applause
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can you see how generous I am I am even willing to give up my coffee just so I
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can give you a round of applause so I hope you enjoyed that also tea asses
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here hello T s nice to see you as well today on the live chat it's lovely to
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have your company mika is here as well don't forget this is just a short
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live stream today short live stream today long live stream tomorrow yes I am with
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you tomorrow you can catch me on Saturday and Sunday every weekend with
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my live lessons so don't forget every weekend I am here with you and I am back
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tomorrow as well and if you want to follow me on Facebook you can also you
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can email me and if you would like to make a lovely donation to help my work
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continue forever and ever don't forget I do all of this for free
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so I don't charge you for it it doesn't cost you anything so if you would like
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to make a little donation there is there is the address right there and of course
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we are here today with you on the live chat I was out and about yesterday I was
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taking a lovely walk yesterday I decided to go out into the countryside and I had
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a lovely walk and yes I did a live stream as well yesterday
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it was rather nice I was standing in a large field on my own
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talking to the world and it was very exciting
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hello also to Mika hello Mika grace chin nice to see you with me again also Luis
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Mendez is with us all again lots of regular viewers of course if it is your
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first time here today don't be shy give it a try
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say mr. Duncan it's my first time here on the live stream so don't be shy give
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it a try you never know you might like it thanks also to Abdi hello Abdi hello
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Omer Martha is here in Poland nice to see you here as well let me just have a
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look down the live chat wow so many people on already
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hello also to pal mirror as usual you have some great greenery behind you when
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we say greenery we mean nature especially things that have leaves so
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quite often we will describe this sort of environment as greenery greenery and
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as you can see behind me there is lots of greenery hello Louie also my father
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and murmur are ok my mum and father are ok Thank You Bella rusia for letting us
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know I'm always interested to find out what is happening in your life hi dear
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mr. duncan live from the heart of England yes I am in my little garden in
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the UK talking to you live on a Saturday I will be going into town later on even
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though mr. Steve isn't here today I will still be going into town I have to go
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and collect the bread because we we always buy our bread locally we like to
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try and support local businesses if we can so we always buy our bread from the
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local shops mmm that is a gorgeous cup of tea the other thing I prefer when I
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have coffee I don't like to have skimmed milk
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skimmed milk in coffee is awful so what I like to have is is full milk so we
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always buy some full cream milk from town and then you can put that in your
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coffee and the coffee tastes delicious it really does hmm Pat you is here hello
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Pat you nice to see you here again today I still can't understand movies and some
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documents so I suppose by documents you mean things that are written down
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documents so Janelle well you can understand this if you can understand me
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and if you can read the captions don't forget there are live captions live
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captions there are so if you click see on your keyboard
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you will find live captions I love it I really do mica says what a lovely view
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it is it's lovely here today and I had a nice time yesterday as well talking to
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you live on my lovely walk hello pal Mira yes also Janelle says thanks a lot
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how do I do well in IELTS I failed it well the problem is if you fail your
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IELTS it doesn't mean that it's over forever
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it doesn't mean that's it it doesn't mean you will never pass quite often and
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I know this from experience from talking to students in the past that some
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students do fail their il or their TOEFL and they go back and do it again and
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maybe they are not successful the second time so they do it again and maybe the
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third time they do succeed I think the most important thing is understanding
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your weaknesses so try to find out where you
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week in English the things that you need to improve and then concentrate on those
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things hello Kunal nice to see you pal Meera is
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here also where is the origin of tea well a lot of tea originally came from
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China Pat you thank you very much for saying hello as well ts is here also
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peat ash is here is well nice to see you here again mr. Duncan not too bad
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yes my coffee is lovely I need my cup of coffee today because I was feeling a
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little sleepy a little tired this morning and then I was rushing around
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because mr. Steve was in the bathroom I don't know what he was doing in there
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but he was in there for ages so I was knocking on the door I was saying come
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on mr. Steve hurry up I have to get ready for my livestream
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so anyway I'm here even though there were some technical problems but that
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was my fault because I was rushing and that is one of the problems when you
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rush when you try to do things too quickly you know what happens you make
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mistakes and that's what was happening with me this morning I was trying to do
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everything quickly I was rushing around and you know what happens you always
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make mistakes and that is something that we can all learn from because we all
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make mistakes we sometimes fail we sometimes get
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things wrong but that doesn't mean that you give up no it doesn't Shiraz is here
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hello Shiraz where are you watching at the moment
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hello - Michael good morning could you make another lesson about a
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psychological subject in the past you've made very good lessons about stress and
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worry that is true we were talking about this yesterday on my live stream in the
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field so yesterday I was walking and talking to you from a lovely large field
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and we were talking about my lessons the lessons I've done in the past and some
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of you were saying Oh mr. Duncan we like certain lessons we like your your
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psychological lessons we like your lessons where you talk about emotions or
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things that have a very deep meaning so yes I have done that in the past I do
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like talking about things that are very deep and meaningful sometimes I worry
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and this is another thing I said yesterday sometimes I worry that I might
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be a little bit boring so that's one of the problems especially when I realize
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that maybe I don't have many people watching hmm maybe that's something to
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do with it maybe I am too boring for YouTube what do you think hello also -
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bill bill AL hello bill al how can we improve English you improve English by
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practicing repeating improving your listening and as I said yesterday you
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have to create an environment where you have English around you I know sometimes
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that isn't easy but it is a very good way of improving your English and also
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getting used to the sound of English some people say the hardest part is
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actually
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some people say the hardest part of learning English is speaking the
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language because you need to not only develop your your sense of cognitive
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sense so when we talk about cognitive sense we mean the way you think the way
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the brain and the rest of your body is acting so quite often we need to to use
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lots of things in our body lots of parts of our body to do something so speaking
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involves many things speaking involves using this but also using this at the
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same time and sometimes that is not easy even I have problems doing that
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sometimes hello to Hamid greetings mr. Duncan can you clarify the use of
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compromise in the in a sentence well compromise or compromising is a very
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interesting part of life sometimes you can't have what you want in this world
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sometimes you want this but unfortunately you can only get that so
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you have to compromise so when you compromise it means you settle for
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something that isn't quite what you want you want gold but you can only afford
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silver so you have silver you compromise you compromise so maybe you agree to do
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something that isn't quite what you want or something that isn't quite up to your
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expectations a good example of course is when you look for a new house or when
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you look for somewhere to live so if you are looking for a place to live quite
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often you will have to compromise you will have to make compromises so maybe
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you want a large house with a swimming pool and a big garden
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but maybe you can't afford that or maybe you can't find that particular house so
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sometimes you have to compromise you have to make adjustments to fit the
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circumstances compromise so quite often in life we have to make compromises you
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will have to compromise when you are spending money maybe you want to spend a
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lot of money but you don't have a lot of money so you can't spend a lot of money
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so you must compromise you must compromise so to compromise means to
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settle for something that's slightly less or something that is not up to the
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standard that you really wanted you shine hella you shine watching in
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Myanmar I am Burmese yes a lot of people still
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call Myanmar Burma especially here in the UK so you might hear a lot of people
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in the UK talk about Myanmar but they will actually say Burma instead because
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that is the the previous name of the country so now it is known as Myanmar
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hello to you shine and a big hello to everyone watching in Myanmar
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hello also to tell out hello tell could you let me know if there is an app or
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program for practicing speaking with automatically reporter oh I see I think
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what you mean is there an application that can judge
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your English I'm not sure if one exists there are many apps that you can buy to
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to look for words and definitions and of course you can hear the word being
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pronounced but I'm not sure if there is an English app that you can get that
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will actually score your English certain when you're speaking anyway certainly
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when you are actually talking I think it's very difficult but maybe if you are
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writing or answering questions that are written then I think maybe yes but I
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think spoken English I still think that is a very hard thing to judge because
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you really do need a human being to listen and judge how well you speak and
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how clearly you are speaking and whether your grammar is correct or not so yes
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maybe that is something for the future maybe in the future you will have a
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virtual teacher on your computer screen not a real one like me so at the moment
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I don't think there is anything hello also 2ts I'm happy because you do
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a livestream almost every day I'm happy because I can watch your lessons at my
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leisure during my leisure time and I'm happy because I have so many or so much
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I have so much leisure time nowadays I have a lot of free time I have a lot of
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leisure time so yes tears and glad you are enjoying my regular live streams I
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have been doing quite a few hello Ram Zanu hello again mr. Duncan I couldn't
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watch you yesterday I couldn't watch your live stream yesterday however just
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before I watched it's very useful and I learned many new words thank you very
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much and don't forget you can have live captions so if you are watching live now
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on Saturday at 25 past midday in the UK you can actually have live captions so
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as I speak you will see the words come on the screen which i think is fantastic
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it's an amazing piece of technology I must say
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I never search for captions but on my phone or iPad I don't know where it is
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but I think I have no need because mr. Duncan speaks perfectly Thank You pal
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Mira well you can also have captions on your iPad or on your Android device you
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have to go to the settings which are in the corner so normally the settings for
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your smartphone are normally up there in the corner
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so normally up there so normally there are settings on your smartphone and then
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if you go to the settings you can actually activate captions amazing sassy
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or sassy is here hello mr. Duncan I hope you are fine I'm
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not too bad today not too bad a little tired which is why I'm drinking my cup
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of coffee right now hmm it is starting to go cold
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by the way today the weather is lovely last night it was freezing but today the
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weather is quite nice but last night I was absolutely freezing my poor feet
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were so cold hello rose rose bush hello rose mr. Duncan I am from Egypt and you
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look great as usual do you have a happy emoji on your shirt yes I do a lot of
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people like this t-shirt I will show you I will stand back and let you see my
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t-shirt so there it is
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and as you can see the weather is gorgeous today we are having such a
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beautiful day here in the UK it is very nice can Oh Khan can Oh Khan is here
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hello to you where are you watching at the moment Thailand I think maybe you
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are in Thailand by Hannah or by Anne I have a question
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can you explain the past participle tense I don't understand it clearly in
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school well when you participate it means do so if you participate in
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something then you are doing it but of course if you are talking about
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something you've done in the past that is when we use the past participle so
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something that you are doing now you are participating in hence the word so a
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participle means something that you are doing at that time so it is a word that
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describes you're doing something and the past participle is something you have
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done in the past so I hope that explains it but when you participate so the word
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participate literally means take part you are active in a certain occupation
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or a certain hobby or a certain sport you are taking part in it you are doing
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it
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Hawaiian call us that is a very interesting question by the way
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let me just see if I can understand the question I have a question for you all
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are you the owner of your minds Oh your mind can you can you not think
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like monkeys now you are thinking in what animal then are you the very owner
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I'm not quite sure what you are asking there but I think the basic question is
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are you the owner of your own mind can you think for yourself maybe that is
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what Kwan is asking I think so I'm not sure about monkeys I'm not sure about
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that but sometimes I think we should all think a little bit more we should think
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a little bit more about the world around us maybe we should think a little bit
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more about each other as well khari asks mr. Duncan hello from France
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a big Bonjour do you writing is the hardest part of an IELTS I only got five
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well from when we are talking about writing maybe you are writing something
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as an answer to a question to something that you have listened to so again this
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is another part of the IELTS test which can be very difficult and sometimes it
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can catch people out so don't forget during an exam they don't just want you
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to show that you know English they also want you to show that you can use
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English you can use English so from here to here and also to here so English is
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not just about knowing words it is a little bit more complex than that
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so the that they give you is to see how well
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you understand the use of English so knowing words is is great it's
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wonderful but you must know how to use them mr. Duncan oh you are not boring
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you are no run-of-the-mill I love that expression if something is
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run-of-the-mill it means it is very ordinary it is
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something that is not special so something that is run-of-the-mill not
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special not outstanding average something that's average when you take
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an IELTS test for the first time it must be like when you take a driving exam it
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is difficult to get it for the first time yes as I mentioned earlier it is a
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little bit like learning to drive a car or learning to do anything in fact think
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about maybe in the past when you have started a new job when you started doing
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a new job at first it is difficult there are so many things that you have to
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learn and remember but then over time it becomes easier and easier I remember I
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remember many times in my life where I've done things for the first time and
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I was hopeless really I was absolutely hopeless so everyone
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has to learn everyone has to start it is one of those strange rules of life pachu
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asks oh this is interesting something about British culture what are
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the popular magazines and newspapers in the UK we have many newspapers the most
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popular ones are the ones that we call tabloid tabloid newspapers tend to have
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big headlines so tabloid relates to the way in which
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the stories are shown they are shown in very large letters quite often the
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stories are very dramatic or very controversial so tabloid so tabloid
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newspapers and we have quite a few of those here in the UK we have tabloid
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newspapers such as the Sun so the Sun is a newspaper we also have the Daily
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Mirror and also the star although not many people take the star very seriously
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it is it is not a not a paper that's taken very seriously but yes there are
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many newspapers that are popular although having said that not many
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people buy newspapers anymore I think the the readership of newspapers has
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actually dropped quite a lot over the years mainly due to the internet because
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people can get their news now from the internet very easily so this is
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something that newspapers have been fighting for many years the fact that
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people can get their news from so many different places nizam if someone wants
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to speak English fluently I can recommend listening to mr. Duncan
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and if someone wants to write correct and academic English then they must
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first read a good English book this is something I mentioned yesterday so
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learning English is not just about remembering words there are other things
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other things involved getting those words into here and here and also
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getting them in here as well learning how to listen so listening
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speaking writing and of course reading let us not forget reading because
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reading is very important you definitely need the reading definitely I will keep
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an eye on the time because I will have to go a big bonjour from friends hello
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Pierre Bonjour Pierre Jim Appel Monsieur danke wonderful country Myanmar I love
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it says curry thank you very much it is one of the countries that I've always
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been intrigued by I've always been very intrigued by Asia and also South America
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to parts of the world that I would like to visit one day if I get the chance I
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have been to Asia I've been to Southeast Asia I've been to Malaysia so I've been
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to Southeast Asia I've been to China of course because I lived there for many
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years I am Potter
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hello Potter from India would you please tell me how to keep keep sang froid I
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don't know what sang froid means maybe you mean confident would you please tell
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me how to keep confident while speaking to the audience well there is actually a
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lesson on my youtube channel all about all about giving speeches and how to
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speak to an audience so one of the best ways to speak to an audience first of
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all is if you can choose your topic then choose something you are interested in
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so that will make it very easy so if you talk about some things that you are
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interested in something that you have some knowledge of first of all that will
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make doing it very easy much easier and don't forget to write something down
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and of course in case you forget so always have notes nearby if you are
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going to give a speech always have notes nearby and of course never be afraid to
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practice in front of the mirror practice in front of the mirror look at yourself
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get used to the sound of your own voice record your voice record your voice on
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your mobile phone and listen to it so all of these things will help you to
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boost your confidence Pierre what are you drinking coffee or tea I have just
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had a lovely cup of coffee and as I said earlier I make the best coffee in the
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world I do maybe one day I will make one for you but I do I make the best coffee
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in the world okay hello Kay hi mr. Duncan how are you
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doing I am not too bad I wasn't feeling very well during the week I was feeling
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a little unwell I did explain yesterday what that was
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but I won't tell you again today because maybe you are not interested
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hi mr. Duncan I am pretty sure you are doing fine could you please explain for
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me what does closure mean especially if we talk about relationships closure now
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closure is again something that happens quite a lot in life especially when you
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want to forget something that has happened in the past that is
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troubling you closure means you you bring maybe a situation or maybe a
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relationship to an end but you do it in a very clean and tidy way so if you end
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something if you come to terms with the end of something maybe a relationship
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maybe you have been going steady with your lover from
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years or many months or many weeks and then suddenly one day your partner says
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I'm sorry I'm sorry III I have to break this relationship up and then well you
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might feel it little disappointed by it you might feel very upset by it because
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the person has broken your heart but you have to try and bring all of that to a
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very tidy a very neat a very structured ending and that is what we call closure
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so it is a way of getting over something by coming to terms with it sometimes you
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have to talk to the other person so maybe you need to sit down with your
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ex-partner and talk about things you need some sort of closure some sort of
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resolution I like that word so if you bring something to a close you have
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closure you have some sort of resolution it resolves it resolves the situation
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has been resolved but it doesn't necessarily mean that you'll be happy so
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closure is just a way of ending something in a very clean and tidy way
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and quite often this particular thing is involved with relationships especially
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when they break down but I suppose you could also have closure after a person
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has died so maybe someone in your life has passed away and you have to have
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some sort of closure you have to come to terms with it because these sorts of
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things can stay in your brain for a long time especially if you don't get over
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them so if you don't get over something quickly it can stay in your brain for
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many many years and eventually it will cause lots of problems so yes closure
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michael says or there are some interesting subjects you can talk about
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maybe depression or autism yes I think these are two very interesting topics
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because we do hear people talking about this a lot nowadays people seem a lot
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more free and open when it comes to talking about mental health and I think
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that's a good thing it is part of curing yourself maybe a cure is the wrong word
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but maybe helping yourself is to talk and I think talking is one of the the
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greatest ways of getting things out of your head and also out of your soul so I
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think talking is a very good way of
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relieving your stress how you how you hang hello how you hang I think you are
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watching in Vietnam mr. Duncan do you have a blog please is it possible to
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outline your episodes it isn't easy to find a particular lesson I previously
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watched thank you in our yeah yes that is a very good idea now a few years ago
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I did have a blog in fact I have had Blanc's in the past but normally and
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this is something that has happened twice to me I've actually created blogs
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but then the site that I had the blog on went out of business
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so that's one of the problems
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participles do not show tense they come after the verb to have to to make a
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tense I have studied
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well I'm not saying that participles do show tents but I am saying that a past
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participle shows pest tents there is such a thing as a pest participial but
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thank you for telling me
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rosebush wow it is so beautiful your t-shirt thanks a lot my pleasure I will
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be going soon because it is now quarter to one I will be leaving soon to go into
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town I'm just being nosy mr. d'Ancona which is correct I'm going up on stairs
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or I'm climbing up the stairs you can you can actually say both but you need
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to correct the first example the first example is wrong I am going up stairs or
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I am going up some stairs I'm going up some steps I'm going up stairs I'm going
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up some stairs I'm going up some steps or you can say I'm climbing up I'm
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climbing up the stairs I'm going up the stairs I'm going to bed I am going up
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stairs i am going up the stairs so one describes direction you are going up
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stairs and the other one describes the actual action itself I'm going up the
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stairs mr. Duncan you are my treasure your lessons have become part of my day
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I really need to improve my English for my studying and every lesson I get a lot
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of new information and you are not boring at all I'm very pleased to hear
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that although I think the YouTube algorithms think otherwise I think maybe
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someone at YouTube has pressed button that says mr. Duncan boring
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boring which isn't very nice really is it is that how you thank me for doing
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this for 13 years in my opinion says Lewis the best newspaper in the UK is
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the Guardian there is there is a little joke
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concerning The Guardian newspaper and that is the fact that quite often they
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have spelling mistakes in their stories sometimes they get the words wrong or
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maybe the spelling wrong or maybe sometimes the sentences don't make sense
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because the person has started to edit what they wrote and this is a problem
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when you write something one of the one of the most common problems when you
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write something on a computer is if you go back afterwards to edit you have to
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make sure that you edit all of the words that you've replaced because sometimes
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you can forget and sometimes you leave words in the essay or in the document
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that shouldn't be there because you've edited it but you forgot to take parts
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of it out so yes the Guardian newspaper is very
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well known for having spelling mistakes in hit in its publications Sergio says
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as dr. Fraser crane used to say hello world I'm listening kunal to speak
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English fluently you have to memorize not single words but sentences at least
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two useful sentences every day yes I think so Connell try to learn at least
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three or four new words and even better try and learn those words by putting
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them into sentences so this is something you have to work on every day you can't
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do it just once a week you can't just do it once a month you have to make it
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part of your life language is something you use all the time so to learn it you
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also have to use it all the time Anna I enjoy so much reading English books it's
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a pleasure that improves my knowledge of the language
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I love reading dictionaries even now I love I've got this amazing dictionary in
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my studio and it's huge and sometimes I just love opening the dictionary opening
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it and going through turning the pages slowly and having a look and sometimes
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you find interesting words in the dictionary
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maybe words that you've never seen before so even for me as a person who is
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used English for over half a century
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Louis the bridge on the river kwai oh yes that's a famous book and also a film
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as well with Alec Guinness I won't tell you what happens at the end but the
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ending is very dramatic a very good movie we will go up to date now because
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I will be going soon so now we are live on the live chat we are now up to date
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so if you want to say something say it now Palmero says I read the daily mail
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maybe it is a bit well the daily mail is very
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sensationalist and also a little bit a little bit right-wing as well that's all
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I'm saying now that's not my own opinion but that
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is the opinion of people who have an opinion about the daily mail did you
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know that the daily mail was a supporter of the Nazis
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I'm not I'm not joking I'm not joking they were a big supporter
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of the Nazis the Daily Mail they used to write big articles in their newspapers
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saying how wonderful Hitler was and also in they were encouraging people in the
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UK to become Nazis I'm not joking that is actually a real thing
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it happened so yes to say that the Daily Mail is slightly right-wing is an
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understatement hi mr. Duncan how are you
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Naruto I'm okay I am not too bad I sometimes miss your
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live streams but the good thing is I can always watch it later that is true you
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can always view my live streams later you can always look at them later and of
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course there will be captions as well if you are watching live you can also have
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captions it's amazing I love technology so much I really do hello Sally nice to
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see you here better late than never that's what I say I will be going soon
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very soon in fact because I have to go into town I have some chores that I have
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to do I have to go and collect the bread from the local bakery because they
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always keep some nice bread they always keep it back for us to pick up in the
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afternoon so I have to do that I have no choice I have to go soon another minute
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or two and then I'm off oh okay Sally says I started watching mind your
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language series two weeks ago and I'm learning a lot of it in addition to the
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fact that it is really hilarious well I love mind your language I used to watch
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it when I was a child so mind your language there are episodes available on
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YouTube and some of them also have captions as
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well so yes mind your language Sergio says yes this is true this I I did know
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this did you know mr. Duncan that the Nazi uniforms were created by Hugo Boss
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yes I knew that and this is something I always find amazing
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whenever you see Hugo Boss advertised on television and I always think they're
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the people that made Hitler's uniforms and no one cares why why isn't anyone
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protesting or making a fuss about it and what about VW Volkswagen VW means
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the people's vehicles and Hitler was a big fan of Volkswagen in fact the
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Volkswagen Beetle was designed by Hitler
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what a crazy world we are living in isn't it crazy so yes and also the
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Mercedes Benz Mercedes was Hitler's favorite car he
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always drove around in Mercedes Benz isn't it correct incredible incredible
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what a strange world we live in sometimes we fuss about tiny things and
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other times we ignore big things a very strange world we live in I am going in a
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moment I also like reading the dictionary you know the word which you
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start you know the word with which you start but you can't imagine the word
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that you end up with yes I love looking in the dictionary I love it I love
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dictionary browsing browsing through a real dictionary there is nothing like it
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if you don't have a dictionary then I suggest you get one because they're
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great fun you could spend hours and hours looking through a dictionary I
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hope I haven't I hope I haven't upset anyone by what I've just said but these
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things are true they're not made up they are actual facts I say rosebush says yes
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I I also like watching mind your language it is hilarious
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thank you very much to Corey who also watches mind your language
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Belarus says parting is such sweet sorrow
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Sergio I'm not going to repeat what you wrote there no I'm not going to
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don't forget tomorrow you have the puddle dense oh yes tomorrow I am back
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so don't forget yes I am back tomorrow don't forget Sunday 2:00 p.m. UK time I
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am back here on YouTube and if you want to send a donation or maybe follow me on
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Facebook or send me an email you are more than welcome to do so even if you
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just want to say hello you are more than welcome so no problems there I'm going
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now see you tomorrow from 2 p.m. UK time thank you so much
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teacher see you tomorrow thank you ts Thank You Martha Thank You pal mirror
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and yes I will include the puddle vents tomorrow because a lot of people want to
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see it so I will show it tomorrow ok see you tomorrow at 2 p.m. UK time
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this is mr. Duncan in England saying thanks for watching I'm going into town
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now to get some bread and of course until the next time we meet here on
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YouTube you know what's coming next yes you do
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ta ta for now 8-)
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