Take my ADVICE ➡ Learn ENGLISH Every Day - 🔴LIVE🔴 - Thursday 26th October 2023

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English Addict with Mr Duncan


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03:29
And here we are again, back
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live on Thursday.
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It's a lovely day here.
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I hope the weather is nice where you are as well.
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Hi, everybody. This is Mr.
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Duncan in England.
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Hello.
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oh there you are!
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Can I say hi, everybody?
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Hey, this is Mr. Duncan in England.
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How are you today? Are you okay? I hope so.
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Are you happy today?
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I hope you are feeling good.
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We are approaching the end of the week.
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Tomorrow is Friday. Today is Thursday.
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The weekend is approaching.
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Some people think that the week is going by very slowly.
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Maybe you are doing something that you don't want to do.
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Maybe you are stuck at work.
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And perhaps you are watching my stream in secret.
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Some people do.
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A lot of people, when they're at work.
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Maybe they are bored with the task they are doing.
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They might go to the toilet and take their mobile phone with them
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and they have a little look at the internet because they can't resist.
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So maybe at this very point in time right
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now, you might be sitting on the toilet watching me
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because you don't want to go back to work.
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And if you are well,
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you are more than welcome to join me.
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So my name is Duncan.
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I talk about English.
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You might say that I am an English addict.
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I love English.
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So much and I have a feeling
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that you like English as well.
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So that is the introduction. Out of the way.
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Please give me a lovely life as well.
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If you like me, please, Please like me.
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I know it sounds very desperate.
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That's because it is.
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Please. Like this.
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And then YouTube might actually let people
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see my material.
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Yes, it is.
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Has as hard as that.
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It really is that difficult to be seen on YouTube these days.
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By the way, just in case you're wondering why I am here on Thursday,
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I'm doing some live streams between now and next Tuesday.
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Every day I am with you.
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It's incredible.
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I know.
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Mr. Duncan, we can't believe that you are doing this every day for free.
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And it's true.
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I am celebrating my 17th year,
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17 years on YouTube doing this.
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I don't think there are many people left on YouTube
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who've been around for as long as I have
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right here on this platform.
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But I have, in fact, I'm going to let you in on a secret.
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I am the first English English teacher
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on YouTube.
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It's true.
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Hello to the live chat.
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Nice to see you here as well.
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very interesting.
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We have a very interesting situation taking place.
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Hello. To be true is.
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Hello there.
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Are you still in the mountains or have you returned back home?
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Congratulations.
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You are first today.
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Well done, Beatrix.
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It's very nice to see you here.
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First on today's live chat.
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It's lovely, Subsidise.
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It's obviously nice
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people in the north of England.
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They talk like this. Hello?
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They talk like this.
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People in the north of England.
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They sort of have this accent.
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People in Staffordshire, which is where I come from.
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Originally I was raised in a place called Stafford
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and we have an accent.
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Most people think that I don't have an accent, but I do have an accent.
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But I suppose most people are familiar with the Cockney accent.
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Yeah. Hello.
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Well, hi.
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My name is Mr.
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Duncan, and I live in London in chat.
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I like to go up the old apple and Paris to say the.
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The old lady.
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Her indoors.
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The wife.
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There's trouble in strikes.
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That's what I call my wife.
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She's my trouble in strikes.
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So I never that I wearing my throat out this week.
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By the way, I did almost lose my voice yesterday and I've almost lost it today already.
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And I've only been here for a few minutes.
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Hello.
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Also to who else is here today?
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Most soon, my roots.
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We also have Vitesse. Hello, Vitesse.
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It's so lovely to see you here today.
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Who else is here?
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we have Louis Mendez.
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Hello, Louis.
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Nice to see you back here as well.
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You are still in the mountains, Beatriz.
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Now, if I remember correctly, last Sunday,
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wasn't it your general election
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last Sunday?
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Am I getting confused here?
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I'm sure it was your general election in Argentina.
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So did you vote? I wonder.
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Cristina, you are the best English teacher on YouTube.
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Thank you very much.
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Well, I have had a lot of practice
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doing this 17 years.
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I mean, when you think about it, if you do something for 17 years,
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you really hope that you have become quite good at it
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or else what's the point when you think about it?
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Hello to Prem Premkumar.
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Hello to you.
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Nice to see you here as well.
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Yes, we have lots of people joining us. Olga.
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Hello, Olga, Nice to see you here as well.
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I feel as if it's been a long time since you've joined us
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and I have a feeling maybe today you are only joining us for a short time also.
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Who else is here?
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I will say two more hellos
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and then we will get on with today's livestream.
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Mustafa is here as well.
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Nice to see you back with us
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and we will have one more.
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Hello
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coming in a moment, Beatriz.
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Yes, we had a terrible result.
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I am making no comments.
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Indeed.
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Well, a lot of people didn't even hear about it.
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So I thought last week I thought I heard on the news
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someone talking about the elections taking place in Argentina.
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Now, I do like the guy that won.
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Is he the guy with the big the big mutton chops?
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That's what we call them.
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When you grow your hair on the side of your face.
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And you you have it very long.
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We call those mutton chops.
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It's true.
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Look it up, Google.
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Now, if you want,
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I can wait.
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I can wait.
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Shafiq is here as well.
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Nice to see you here, Shafiq.
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Very nice to see you here, in fact.
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So the reason why I'm doing this is because 17 years on YouTube,
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I've been doing this for over such a long time.
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I have to say, my legs really do ache.
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I've been standing here for 17 years,
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takes a long, a long time to become this
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tired, I can tell you now.
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Thank you for joining me.
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It's nice to see you here.
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I hope you are enjoying my daily live stream.
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Every day I am here
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with you between now and next Tuesday.
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Tuesday will be the day when we celebrate the actual anniversary.
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31st of October 2006 was when I started doing this.
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On Sunday.
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We will be celebrating with Mr.
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Steve, and I might also show some very old videos
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of me way back
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in 2006,
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all of fact.
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Coming up next Sunday with Mr.
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Steve as well, Who isn't here, by the way, Mr.
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Steve.
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Believe it or not, at the moment, Steve is at a funeral.
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What more can you say?
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Really?
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Hello to said hello, Mr. Duncan.
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I really like your lessons.
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They are interesting for me to use your teaching methods during my teaching.
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Thank you, said Amir.
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It's not Leslie, I have to say I do.
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Can't get a lot of messages from teachers.
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And also, I know a lot of teachers use my livestreams
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and also my old English lessons in their classrooms.
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You might be amazed to find out where
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my English classes are actually shown.
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You might not know this,
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but a couple of years ago I had an email.
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I received a message from someone in France
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and they were head of education
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in the French
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Prison Service
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and they asked if they could use my English lessons
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to teach the convicts in prison.
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I think they were using it as punishment.
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I think it was a type of punishment.
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If they were misbehaving, they would send them to a room
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and all that was playing in there on a very large
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TV screen for my English lessons.
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So maybe, maybe it was used as a type of deterrent.
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Deterrent. That's a good word.
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By the way, when we describe something as a deterrent,
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we are using something as a way of preventing
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a situation from occurring.
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It is a deterrent.
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It is trying to discourage someone
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from doing something quite often
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something bad or illegal.
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So it is true that many teachers
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use my livestreams and also
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my recorded videos as well.
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There are.
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I think at the moment there are maybe one over one,
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one and a half thousand videos on my YouTube channel.
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I think. So
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you have a very particular method of teaching.
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It is very useful.
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Thank you very much. I try my best.
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All I can do and all you can do is try your best.
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That's all we can do when you think about it.
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So I am here to give you some help with your English, to give you some advice,
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which just happens to be
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the subject we are talking about today.
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That is what we will be discussing on today's live stream.
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So I hope you will stay with me.
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We are looking at giving advice or maybe taking advice.
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Have you ever taken any advice from another person?
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Have you ever given advice to someone else?
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That is today's topic.
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2 p.m.
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UK time.
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I am with you quite a few times over the next few days
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and with you quite a lot.
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In fact, because I'm celebrating
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my 17 years on YouTube.
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Don't forget to give me a like as well.
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Please
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give me one of these and I will be ever so happy.
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I believe the best teacher in Mr.
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Duncan's way is his amazing ability to adjust his tones.
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He deliberately makes himself light
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your intake systems.
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so it is very easy to absorb what I do.
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I think that's what you're saying.
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Thank you very much. It's very kind of you to say.
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Isn't that lovely?
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So today we are looking at giving
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and also taking advice.
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You give advice, You take advice.
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Of course.
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A few moments ago I was talking about teaching and I suppose teaching is a type of advice.
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So you are advising, you are giving
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advice and information.
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So I would say that part of teaching
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is giving advice.
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I think it is true to say that is the case.
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So when we look at advice,
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we often give words of advice.
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So it's a great way of saying or stating that advice
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or information is being given
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as help.
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You are helping someone by saying something to them.
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Advice You give words of
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advice.
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Advice is something that is offered
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a person might offer advice.
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They are allowing you to learn something from them.
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They have some information that might be useful to you.
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I have something that I can tell you
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that might be useful,
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a useful piece of information that I give to you is advice.
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Advice is something that is offered
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a helpful hint
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or suggestion is advice.
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Hint. I love that word.
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Hint hint.
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You give a hint.
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It is normally a small piece of advice that is useful.
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A little suggestion.
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Sometimes you might not want to give someone advice,
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so instead you give them a hint,
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just a small piece of information.
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Or maybe you want someone to learn for themselves.
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So maybe you make a suggestion and then you encourage that person
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to go out and find out all about that thing for themselves.
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So want to give a piece of advice
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that can encourage someone to find out more.
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So I think there are many ways of expressing
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advice, many ways of doing it.
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So a helpful hint or suggestion
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is advice.
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You offer advice,
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We offer information.
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You are allowing someone to learn something from you.
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You are giving advice.
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You might offer advice as well.
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Of course, the opposite is also possible.
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You can receive advice.
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It doesn't matter who you are
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or how old you are or what your experience is.
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I think it is always possible to learn
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something from other people
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so you can also receive advice you can give and receive.
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So you might say that giving advice is an active
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action
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and receiving advice is passive.
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So you are saying that someone will give you
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information that might be useful to you.
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Maybe there is a question
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that you don't know the answer to that person might give you a suggestion,
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so they are advising you on something
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that you are not sure of.
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Maybe something you have to do.
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Maybe a piece of information that you want
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to be more clear about.
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So it is
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a good way of doing that.
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So you can receive advice as well.
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You offer advice, you receive advice.
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Both of those things can be very useful indeed.
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To give
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advice is to advise.
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So there is a difference between those two words.
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Advice is the thing that you give
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advice is
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the verb you are advising,
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someone you advise, you are helping someone.
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So when you advise us, you are providing help.
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You are helping that person.
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You are giving information to someone
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you advise is someone.
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Quite often people in power,
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people with senior positions,
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quite often have people around them to give them advice
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and they are often described as advisers.
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So advice is the thing that is given as a verb.
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You advise someone.
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So there is a difference between those two words.
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It might seem like a small difference, but if you are writing
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something formally, you have to get it right.
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Advice and
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advise.
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You aren't giving the information.
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You are offering advice
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by advising.
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The advice given is seen quite often
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as helpful to the one offering it.
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So the advice given is seen as helpful
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to the one offering it.
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So maybe I think that you need some advice.
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So the reason why a person will give advice to another person
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is because they believe it is useful or helpful.
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So that is one of the reasons why someone will try
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or they will offer to give advice.
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Not everyone likes to be advised.
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It is true.
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Some people don't like it.
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Some people don't like to be given advice.
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You might ask someone for advice
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or you seek a person's counsel
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you counsel.
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So if a person is giving advice, we can say that they are
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counselling another person.
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You seek counsel.
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So basically counsel means to help to advise.
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You are discussing maybe something with another person
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and you are trying to help them by giving them useful advice.
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Advice can be described
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as help assistance,
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information, guidance, instruction
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or recommendation.
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So I suppose if there is something you want to offer
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as advice, you can help that person.
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You are giving them assistance, you are offering them information,
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you are offering guidance,
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instruction, or maybe recommendation.
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You are recommending something.
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Maybe a person has nothing to do
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on Friday night and they might ask their friend
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if they know of anywhere to go or any place
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that is exciting to visit.
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So the other person will give them advice, they will give them
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some recommendation, maybe a place to eat.
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I know a great place
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where you can take your girlfriend on a date.
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A lovely restaurant.
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It's very romantic.
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So I am recommending something to you.
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I am offering you some advice
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that may or may not be useful.
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You might receive advice willingly.
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This is often described as solicited advice.
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So to solicit is to offer something
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or to put something forward
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as an offer to another person.
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So advice that you want to receive
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is given, solicited, or in a solicited way.
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You offer advice.
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It's a little bit like advertising as well.
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Maybe someone will come to your door and they will knock on your door
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and they will try to sell something to you on your doorstep
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that is not solicited, that is unsolicited.
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You did not ask for it.
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It was offered without your permission.
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You might receive advice
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unwillingly.
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So as I just said, that is the opposite.
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This is unsolicited advice.
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We often go to places for advice.
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We might go to an organisation.
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Maybe if there is a couple in a relationship or a marriage
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who are having difficulty with their relationship,
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they will go to see someone who will give them advice.
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I'm not sure if it happens nowadays, but I do remember
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way back in the 1970s and the eighties,
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there were a lot of people offering marriage advice.
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So you would go along and you would try to help your relationship.
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I think I think most of this started in the 1980s
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by people became more aware of their their social situations,
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especially in relationships.
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So there are many things that you can get advice about.
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Of course, you can go to a therapist as well.
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So maybe a person that you visit may be a person that you go
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to who will give you help, information, maybe therapy.
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I know in the United States, many people have therapy.
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They go to someone and they will sit down maybe for an hour
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and they will tell that person all their problems, all their troubles that they are having.
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Of course, not all advice is useful.
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You might find yourself receiving bad advice.
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This can happen in many different situations.
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One of the most common, I think these days
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is financial advice.
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Everyone seems to know the way to make lots of money,
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investing in shares,
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buying cryptocurrency.
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That's the big one.
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Although it would appear that that is not as popular as it used to be.
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But I know a couple of years ago
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everyone was talking about buying Bitcoin and cryptocurrency
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and then the value would go up and then it would fall again.
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Sometimes people would take advice from another person
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and they would lose all their money.
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So it can happen.
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It can happen.
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Financial advice, I think, is one of the trickiest
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because sometimes you might receive bad advice
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and you might actually lose money because of it.
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So not all advice is good advice.
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Sometimes you can receive
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bad advice or unhelpful advice.
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The person receiving bad advice
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might be described as being ill advised.
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So you can see the phrase just underneath my finger.
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You are ill advised.
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So we often describe this situation when a person has received
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or they've been the victim of bad advice.
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They were ill advised.
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It is a phrase we often use
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when we are talking about advice that was not helpful.
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In fact, it may have caused damage.
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You help someone, you assist someone.
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So we often see advice as a form of help assistance.
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You are offering information not to another person.
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You are giving them advice.
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I don't like to be advised, says Moustafa.
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I feel like we should change the topic.
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I don't make mistakes, but of course everyone makes mistakes,
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but with no confrontation.
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I think many people don't like this.
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I think it is human. Behave here.
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Sometimes we don't like to
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be told how to do something.
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I think maybe it is arrogance.
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Even I sometimes I have to say I will put my hand up
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and I will say that sometimes I don't like
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to be told how to do something
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because I think I already know how to do it.
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So I think we all have that problem.
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We all sometimes reject advice
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because we think we know better than that person.
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We think we already know how to do something,
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but Advice can be useful.
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There might be many situations where you need advice
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from someone and there is no shame.
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There is nothing wrong with asking another person for help or advice.
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You should never be ashamed of that.
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A professional adviser is often described as a counsellor.
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As I mentioned a few moments ago, a person whose job
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is to give advice
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normally connected to a way or the way
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a person behaves or thinks, or maybe two people in a relationship.
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As I mentioned earlier, they are often described as a counsellor.
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They also can be described
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as an adviser as well.
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So a person who is an adviser
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is, a person who gives advice
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normally in a professional way,
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you might have
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relationship advice,
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you see a relationship adviser,
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financial advice,
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medical advice.
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So there is one I haven't mentioned yet.
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You might have to go to see someone because you are worried about
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how to handle a certain health problem or health issue.
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It is true.
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So an adviser is a person
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who gives information.
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They are an adviser
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and you might notice their
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there are two spellings of the word adviser.
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So you can spell it in two different ways with,
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and e
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So there are two different ways.
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One, of course, is used in American English and the other in British English.
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You might also suggest
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something suggest I like that word.
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You suggest you suggest something to another person.
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You make a suggestion.
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So a suggestion is a piece of advice that you are offering.
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That is the advice.
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The advice is the suggestion.
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Shall we go out for a meal tonight?
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Let's go to that new place that's opened in the High Street.
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I suggest you make a suggestion.
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Maybe you make a suggestion as to what to watch on television tonight.
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Something like that.
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You make a suggestion, suggest something.
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You put forward advice or you offer
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something that can be accepted or refused.
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Some people find it hard to ask for advice
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and they see it as a sign of weakness.
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This might be true, but I would say, as I said,
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a few moments ago, there is nothing wrong with asking for help.
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If you need help,
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never be afraid to
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ask for help or advice.
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And also, as I said earlier, teachers
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are always willing to give advice
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that is their job when you think about it.
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So I would say that advice given in education
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is generally the way that teaching works.
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You are always giving advice.
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Can I say hello to Sash?
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Hello, Sash. Sash.
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Double sash.
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I haven't seen you for quite a while.
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Hello and welcome back. It's lovely to see you.
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Thank you for joining me on this Thursday afternoon.
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Here are some words of advice.
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Now, these are things that I like to offer when I talk generally
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about situations that people might come across.
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One of the things that you learn as you get older
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is that you can give advice to people.
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You can give words of advice.
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So I would like to offer words of advice.
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Today, if I may,
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perhaps my advice will be useful.
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Or maybe not.
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You have a choice.
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Never worry about the things you cannot change.
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There are things in the world that you can change quite often.
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You can alter certain things.
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You can change them.
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You can make them different.
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You can improve them.
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But you should never worry about the things
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that you cannot change or things you can't stop.
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For example, never worry about getting older.
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It's going to happen, so don't worry about it.
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Enjoy the journey.
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Don't forget old age is a privilege
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that many never get.
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Never worry about things you cannot change.
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Concentrate on your own goals and not the ones of others.
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It is very easy in life to become distracted
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by other people, the things they are doing.
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So instead of thinking about your own desires,
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or maybe your own path or your own goals that you want to pursue,
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you might become distracted by what other people are doing.
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It happens all the time.
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Maybe your
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neighbour is doing something that is distracting you.
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Maybe they are doing something to their house.
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Maybe they are buying new furniture.
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Maybe you feel distract it because that person appears to be doing more
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or having more success than you.
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In fact, you should never be distracted by that.
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Never allow yourself to be distracted by these things.
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Concentrate on your own goals
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and not the ones of others.
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Sometimes, of course, people will try to discourage you.
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They will try to put you off.
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They will say things that might be seen as negative.
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My advice is to ignore them
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worrying about what other people think
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will eventually become an unwelcome distraction,
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very similar to the previous one.
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If you worry about what people think about you,
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or if you worry about what people might think, if you do something,
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maybe you are afraid that they will make fun or laugh at you.
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Worrying about what other people will think
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eventually becomes or it will become
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an unwelcome distraction.
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It is very easy to become distracted by what people think.
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My advice,
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especially after doing this here on YouTube for 17 years,
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when I first started doing this, I received a lot of criticism
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and a lot of
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hate.
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Dare I say,
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way back in 2007 and 2008
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and also 2009.
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I used to receive a lot of criticism from people writing to me
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and telling me I was rubbish.
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My ways of teaching were nonsensical.
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This, I managed to ignore them all.
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Here's another piece of advice, some words of advice from Mr.
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Duncan.
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We all have a story to tell, but only a few of us
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have the courage to tell that.
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And this is something I firmly believe in.
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I think everyone has a story inside,
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a story that they could tell, maybe some things
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that they could write down and publish,
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or maybe you could produce a blog online
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or maybe a video log as well.
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You could tell people about your life experiences.
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So it is possible to help other people by by recounting
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or recalling your own experiences the way you made it through life.
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So I think we all have a story to tell,
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and quite often they can be interesting
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or they can be encouraging.
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But only a few people
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will have the courage to actually write their story.
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We all have a story to tell.
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We do.
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If you are going to write something
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and I know I receive a lot of questions
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about writing because some people love practice saying that
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writing skills because it is a very good way of improving your English.
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You can write about the things that interest you.
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You can express yourself through the things that draw your attention
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in a positive and meaningful way.
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So it is possible.
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It is possible to write
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something, write about things that you enjoy.
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Write about things that you know about.
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Shafiq says,
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I will not be distracted by what other people think.
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I will take your advice, Mr.
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Duncan.
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Well, I think it is good advice and this is advice that I've taken in the past.
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So the advice that I'm giving today is also advice
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that I've been given in the past, and it has been very helpful.
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Of course, in life we all have problems.
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Things come along, things come along
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to spoil our plans, to make life difficult.
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A bad moment is short lived, so don't let it spoil
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all of the moments that follow on from it.
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A brief of difficulty or unhappiness
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does not mean
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that what follows will be unpleasant.
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So a bad moment is short lived.
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It only lasts for a short time.
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Whatever that situation is, there is always a chance to move forward.
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There is always tomorrow.
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You can always move forward.
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I remember during the pandemic
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when I was doing my special live streams
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and I was here every day during the pandemic
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and I was giving similar advice.
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Light at the end of the tunnel
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was another thing that I was about.
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Finally, the next time someone calls you
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weird or eccentric,
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you reply with the following sentence I am not eccentric.
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You are boring.
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Not you, not you watching now.
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But if someone ever says you are weird, you are eccentric,
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I will say no, I'm not eccentric.
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I'm just
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not a boring person
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and that
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should keep them quiet.
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What about you?
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Do you ever offer or ask for advice?
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There is nothing wrong with doing either of those things.
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A person might be in a situation where they need help
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or maybe they need advice.
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Maybe they are too afraid to ask for advice.
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Hello, Brandon.
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Brandon Sanchez says it is my birthday today.
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Happy birthday.
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Very nice
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future.
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Sara Jian, Bijan.
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Hello to you.
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I like your design, by the way, next to your name.
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Very lovely.
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How should I learn new words?
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Learning new words is something you do
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slowly over time.
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So don't try to learn too much in one day.
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One of the things about my lessons and about my videos
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is you can watch them again
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and again as many times as you want.
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So even if you don't understand what I'm saying straight away,
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maybe some of the words on new.
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Never be afraid to write them down
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or to look them up on the internet.
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Have a dictionary nearby.
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And this is one of the best ways of improving
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your word power.
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That is almost it.
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my goodness.
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I can't believe I've been here for over 45 minutes already.
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Incredible.
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Today's live stream has gone very fast.
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I have to say.
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So the next time you find yourself
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in a difficult situation, never be afraid to ask for advice.
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Whatever it may be.
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Thank you very much for your company today.
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It's been lovely having you here.
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I'm going to try and end on something
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happy, something nice, something fun.
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Does that sound like a good idea?
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I think so.
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So I will see you tomorrow.
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Yes, I'm back tomorrow.
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Can you believe it once again?
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Friday. Tomorrow. Here.
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2 p.m.
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UK Time is when I'm back with you.
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As we do the special live streams between now and next Tuesday
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celebrating my long, long, long, long time on YouTube.
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Thank you very much.
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Thank you for watching.
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Thank you, Louis.
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Thank you, Beatrice Moustafa.
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Happy birthday to Brandon.
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Hassan is here as well.
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Hello, Hassan.
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Olga, also Christina
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V, Tess Beatriz.
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Thank you very much for your lovely messages and I will see you tomorrow.
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2 p.m.
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UK And of course, until the next time we meet here,
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which hopefully will be tomorrow,
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Friday, tomorrow.
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Are you excited?
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Do you have some plans for the weekend?
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I wonder what they are.
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And of course...
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ta ta for now.
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See you tomorrow
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I'm a big boy now.
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