Cambly English Conversation #5 with Lovely Tutor from Scotland | English Speaking Practice | Havisha

this bhagavad gita has pretty much introduced to me

the bhagavad gita's word bhagavad gita as i mentioned it is just

introduced to me so i like the facts that come across me that in history

there are some ancient books about that i think oh really tell me more about

that sounds really interesting the ancient books like rigveda which is

one of the most um ancient books in history that that

type of study i like hi

hello hello

how are you i'm good how about you i'm very good

thank you what's your name my name is Havisha

lovely to meet you where are you from Havisha

i'm from the southern southern part of india where are you from

i'm from scotland so i'm from the north of scotland so i'm from an island which

area are you from because i actually know a little bit about indian geography

so i know kerala i know chennai

are you from near there i'm from karnataka

and karnataka is a city called bangalore it's from bangalore yes i know bangalore

yes yes i know uh the garden of india they call it right

yeah yeah cool i'm sorry i just noticed that you have a really cool room you

have like uh is that ganesh

no that is uh krishna

yeah that's krishna and who's the is that

bambi or

that is a cow this month

yeah did you paint that yourself no that was a it is a wallpaper that is

a cow inside him that is so nice so tell me about

yourself what you know are you student are you at

school are you learning english for fun are you

learning english for future work

i am i'm a student right now in sixth

standard and i

want to learn english for uh future work

okay cool so how old are you what what year are you in

i am i'm 11 years old oh wow you're very like

confident and like mature that's very cool are you the oldest child

yeah i'm the oldest child in this house but in my

grandmother's house i'm a beverless when someone is older to me oh you have a lot

of cousins yeah

[Music] cool so what do you enjoy studying at

school i

uh could you repeat a question what's your favorite uh subject school

oh um my favorite subjects in school is social science what about you when he

was i loved history i loved art

and i loved uh literature so what do you what do you

like most about social science uh it is new to me as i'm in sixth

standard it is just introduced to me so i like the facts that come across me

that in history there are some ancient books about that i like oh really tell

me more about that that sounds really interesting

the ancient books like rigveda which is one of the most

um ancient books in history that that that type of study are like

and what are the names of these books it's a really one of them i know is big

bad others i don't know much but i know one of them do you know this one but uh

there's one called the i'm going to pronounce this wrong but

it's called the bhagavad gita

this one you know this one

yeah i know what is that because we don't learn about this stuff in in the

west it's like the oldest one of the oldest

books right yeah the oldest book of hinduism right

yeah it is from school

so do you like reading about history politics this kind of thing

i have to read about ancient books and ballet

so you're interested in like ancient books in ancient history

that's really cool and how long have you been oh yeah

and bhagwati has been introduced to me this bhagavad gita has pretty much

introduced to me the bhagavad gita

yes

yes yes this is a very famous book i i don't know anything about it because we

don't learn about this stuff in our culture

um but we have a lot of like ancient you know one of the things we have in

the uk is we have something called the ah i forgot what it's called uh

there's an ancient manuscript that we have

that's called the uh

book of have you heard of this it's called the

book of um i forgot the name it's called the

have you heard of the voynic manuscript i have not heard about that i'm gonna

send it to you because it's so cool it's like this manuscript that's written

in this language and nobody knows what the

language is nobody really knows where it came from

and it it i'm going to send i've sent you the

wikipedia but it's basically it's a mystery it's a it's like a

historical mystery um and it it's called the voynich

manuscript which is named after the man who found it

and basically it's it was written in this

unknown writing system and it's about it's about 600 years old

um but people still do not really know

what it means like thousands of people have studied it

code breakers have looked at it trying to work out if it's a code or something

and it's so cool and it it's it's the illustrations in it are really unusual

they're kind of like they're kind of they have all these

weird sort of illustrations and it's

nobody really understands what it's all about but it's it's like 600 years old

so maybe one day you can have a little read about that if you find this sort of

thing interesting because it's quite cool

ah that's great yeah i think you would find that really interesting

so you're really interested in like ancient history and archaeology

yeah i'm a bit interested in ancient history that's so cool that's really

cool would you like to study history when you're older

i would

you would like you would like to study history i would like to study history

till i'm old but i don't know i'm animals will managers change or not

will what did you say but i i would like to study history july

mode but i don't know after i moved my interest will be more in it that i'll i

could become an historian or i could be less so i don't know about that

yes i don't know exactly what will interest you in the future

but being a historian studying history is a really good way of

like there's a lot of like i know a lot of

people who studied history at university and they went on to do very different

things some of them became lawyers some of them became

worked in politics some of them went and worked in like the

arts and film and stuff like this because it's a very

good thing to study because it really trains your mind to think

in a really smart way

so i think that um it's a good i would if you i think it's a really good thing

to study you tell me that all this book in uh

in india what's it called

the oldest book yeah the oldest book in india

it's called the sutra

what what is it it must be the

it is one of the most one of the most ancient book is i just

now in the beginning i told and i like that it is

the way that and in india we know it and it is

which i think it is very popular and it is very

okay cool um

and so you you're really interested in books

what's your favorite book do you like to read

my favorite book i like to read i like i like all spiritual books and spiritual

histories also there what kind of spiritual books

i like uh spiritual books this time i mentioned bhagavad-gita that

cool so what what is spiritualism to you do you

are you a very spiritual person i am a sir

well i my mother is a past lady so i can say i'm past but

i cannot read the word my mother is a pious lady oh the highest

lady okay cool and what does a pirate your hindu right

yeah yeah what is a pious hindu what does the pious hindu do

it i can say it worships god it follows the

rules reads books and

does what is nice for him to attract to get a spirituality i can say so i like

that if someone wakes up has a good bath and then goes to read some spiritual

books that's what i like is that what you do how often do you

read spiritual books i can say when i was

uh 10 years old no yeah i can say from this age from 11 or 10 years old i

started reading it then that's really cool can you tell me something about

hinduism that i don't know what's what what's a what's something

you love about your spiritual religion

i love that my spiritual religion is in the spiritual religion it is not that uh

religion based if you are a muslim you can't if you're a christian you can't do

it doesn't matter that whatever you are you can do

interesting so it's just about connecting with god

yeah yeah cool and one of the things i think that's really cool about

uh hinduism is that it there's a lot about like nature isn't there

when respecting nature and respecting animals and

you have like people i think hindus don't eat meat do they

oh no they don't eat meat yeah because it's about respecting and loving animals

and nature and this stuff like this yeah do you have any pets

no i don't have any pets would you like cupcakes

i would not like much dogs and cats i would like cow which is also how oh yeah

very holy animal very cool you'd like a pet cow

i would like in my grandmother's house and we have a pet

cow what's it called

i don't know it's real name but yes we had two one cow so it was different

names i think or something like that about the yeah but i see that the cows

get changed some were sold but yes it is there what's the personality of the cow

like they're very gentle aren't they

yeah they are very innocent and they don't harm anybody

they just you know they don't harm and they're

innocent i can say yeah they're very innocent animals i used to know a baby

cow like i used to visit a farm my friend lived on a farm growing up and

they had a pet cow like not not for eating just a pet cow and his name was

brambly and he was a very innocent gentle animal

uh he had sort of like his fur his hair

like his fur it was sort of like dark red he was sort

of like a dark ginger cow and he was very sweet and very

loved to play with other cows and stuff so it's

so cute um that's pretty cool so

tell me a little bit about we've got one and a half minutes tell me a little bit

about krishna

krishna okay he's the young boy right yeah he's a young boy who had appeared i

think a long long time ago and then i can say 5 000 years ago more than it

was very long ago he appeared and the village when he appeared there and that

village it was very beautifully surrounded lotus flowers was

booming it was blocked rotors were blossoming around in the lakes and

rivers and everyone it was uh it he took birth in mathura he had he has two

mothers one the one who gave birth to him and

another was named yasuda who took care of him

i think till he was 14 or 15 years old he then then again to it was a demon who

was his uncle it was it was a demon named [ __ ]

so he had to beat him it was not good so he had to kill him so

he had to go from randall and while he went it was a very terrible time for for

the people who would live up [Music]

in those 14 or 15 years oh no i'm gonna read about it i'm gonna have a

little read about krishna um

he's the main most important one right

yeah the most greatest i can say he's the

most who is the most important vishnu is also

very important

i know you told your friend you're not okay

and tell me what's

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