5 Lovely English Proverbs

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hello and welcome back to english with
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Lucy today I want to talk to you about
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programs but do you know what proverbs
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our programs are usually short level
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sentences that natives will use in
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conversation without even realizing it
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they often offer good arguably arguably
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good life advice today I'm going to talk
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to you about five proverbs and their
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meaning and what we would use them the
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first probe that I'd like to talk to you
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about is the grass is always greener
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this means that you shouldn't be jealous
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of what other people may have or may
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appear to have because they could also
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be looking at what you have and feeling
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jealous as well so quite literally this
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is probably talking about a neighbor
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looking at his neighbor's garden and
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thinking his grass is greener that my
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grass but it could just be his point of
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view his neighbor may be looking in his
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garden and thinking oh god his grass is
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greener than mine so basically means
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don't be jealous because it might not be
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what it seems the next proverb is don't
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judge a book by it's cover
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this is another proverb that teaches us
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that things are not always as they seem
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the probe tells us to not judge someone
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by their appearance or the way they
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dress or just generally how they look or
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act a really old dirty book could have
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an amazing story to tell inside or a
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really beautiful book could be really
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boring inside and so this proverb is
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talking about books but relating it to
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people
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somebody might have a mohawk and
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lots of scary makeup and spikes all over
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them but they might also have a kitten
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fan page or Instagram you never know so
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don't judge a book by it's cover the
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next proverb is when in Rome do as the
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Romans do
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and this means that when you are
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visiting somewhere you should try and
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act as a local person is considered
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respectful and polite i love this one it
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means that when you travel you need to
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adapt to the culture whether that's
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covering your skin or adapting to their
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meal times I think it's really important
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to respect and adapt to culture a lot of
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people could learn from that one
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actually the next proverb is practice
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makes perfect and this one sort of
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speaks for itself
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you're not going to pick up a violin and
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play like velde you need to practice the
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more you practice the closer you are to
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achieving perfection and the same goes
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for your English practice makes perfect
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the last proverb is actually my personal
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favorite and it's about determination it
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is where there's a will there's a way
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it means that if you want to do
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something enough then you will find a
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way of doing it
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nothing is impossible there is always a
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way I used to say this one to myself a
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lot because when i started the English
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with Lucy youtube channel i had no idea
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how to work a camera a funny story is
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that my dad let me a small amount of
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money to buy a camera and a tripod so i
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bought the boat secondhand and when they
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arrived they didn't work so I found out
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the company and I said look you've sent
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me the camera you've sent me the tripod
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but it's not feeling anything and they
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told me that I haven't bought a lens but
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I went from not knowing anything about
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cameras photography video production
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anything to being able to make videos
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three times a week and every time I come
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across a problem whether it be with
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filming lighting editing noise
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a lot of obstacles in my way I always
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say to myself well as well as a way if
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you want to do this Lucy you will find a
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way of doing it so I hope that motivated
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to a little bit right guys that's it for
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today's lesson
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don't forget to connect with me all of
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my social media and remember that i have
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my three live pronunciation lesson every
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sunday at four thirty and i will see you
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soon for another lesson
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