Practice your English by speaking with KIDS!

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English with Ronnie


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Hi there.
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Do you kind of have a hard time speaking English?
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So maybe you've studied English in your hometown, or at a school, or online at www.engvid.com,
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and you think that your grammar's pretty good, and... You're just shy. And maybe you live in a country
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and you don't have English speakers around you, and you don't know how to practice speaking.
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So, there's one really wonderful resource-it's not a textbook, it's not a webpage, and it's
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not on YouTube-it might be living in your house. It could be beside you, it could be
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next door, or it could be in the park. Do you know what this is?
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It's a child, or children,
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and we like to say "kids". So, I'm going to teach you how to improve your speaking without
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really doing too much or spending a lot of money.
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This is the trick: Talk to kids. They are amazing. Kids will always want to talk to
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you, because they are fun, amazing guys. So, it's really easy to talk to kids, because
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first of all, they choose the topic. You maybe are:
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"I don't know what I'm going to say to this person",
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so if you... If you see an adult, or someone who goes to your school, and think:
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"I don't... What...? What am I going to talk about? I... I... I don't... I don't... I don't know."
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Kids just choose the topic, they just talk to you about whatever they want, so that's cool.
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Another thing about kids is if they're learning English, if you're in Canada or an English-speaking
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country, luckily enough, children are learning vocabulary and they're learning grammar. Now,
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their brains are like sponges. They learn, the teacher corrects them. Their grammar is
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absolutely perfect, with a couple exceptions. They will learn and they will be able to correct
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themselves. So, their grammar and vocabulary is amazing.
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It might be a little bit better than mine. A little bit, not that much.
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And the last thing is children know, this says: "a lot of slang". If you look at a lot
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of new videos or music, kids listen to this music, and that's where we get slang from;
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we get it from performers who make new words. So, kids know a lot of slang, and to you,
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they know new words. One of the big problems that a lot of people have when they come to
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an English-speaking country is that they've learned older words. Maybe they learned from
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an older person, or they have old textbooks. What happens is we don't use those old words
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anymore, and when we do, the person kind of looks at you weird because
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that's a really old word.
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So, what you want to do is you want to find a child. Oh! Where could I find a kid?
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Here's a kid now. Hah. Huh. What's your name?
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Mohamed: Mohamed.
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Ronnie: Oh, hi, Mohamed. Where are you from?
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Mohamed: Libya.
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Ronnie: Wow. I've never been to Libya. How is it?
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Mohamed: It's pretty sunny, and it's pretty extremely hot there. Like, it's pretty hot.
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Like, you can go to the beach every single day.
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Ronnie: No way.
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Mohamed: It is actually possible, if you want.
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Ronnie: How's the beach?
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Mohamed: It's, like, I can swim there for 25 hours, and I will be tired.
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Ronnie: 25 hours, that's a lot. And what about the water? Is it clean?
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Mohamed: Yes.
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Ronnie: It's really clean?
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Mohamed: Yeah.
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Ronnie: Yeah? Mohamed, if somebody talked to you and they said: "Oh, hi, how are you?
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How are you? How are you?" How do you feel about that?
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Mohamed: That's annoying.
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Ronnie: Oh, oh, okay. I'm sorry. And... And what if somebody told you what to do, like:
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"Hey, you, sit down. Stand up. What are you doing?" How do you feel if someone said that to you?
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Mohamed: That means they're just bossy people that want attention.
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Ronnie: Oh, that's a good point, yeah. Do you like people like that?
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Mohamed: No.
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Ronnie: No. Would you want to talk to them?
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Mohamed: No.
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Ronnie: Okay.
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Mohamed: I would like to have better friends that actually do good things.
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Ronnie: Yeah, that's a good idea. Do you know people that do good things?
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Mohamed: Yeah. Like, pretty much all of my friends, and mostly my mom.
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Ronnie: Oh, your mom does good things?
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Mohamed: Yeah.
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Ronnie: Aww.
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Mohamed: Yeah, she does a lot of things to me.
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Ronnie: Yeah? That's awesome. Mohamed, what's your favourite colour?
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Mohamed: My favourite colour is phosphoric orange.
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Ronnie: Glow-in-the-dark, florescent orange?
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Mohamed: Yeah.
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Ronnie: Like your shoes?
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Mohamed: Yeah.
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Ronnie: Cool. You got some cool shoes.
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Mohamed: Thank you.
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Ronnie: They're kind of like my shoes. And what's your favourite sport? Do you like sports?
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Mohamed: Yeah. My favourite... I have... I like a bunch of sports. They're mostly baseball,
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basketball, soccer, and sometimes football. Like, maybe.
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Ronnie: Why sometimes?
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Mohamed: Yeah.
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Ronnie: Why sometimes?
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Mohamed: Because it's... Like, I think it's a pretty rough sport.
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Ronnie: Mm, you don't want to get hurt.
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Mohamed: Yeah.
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Ronnie: Right. Who's your favourite baseball team?
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Mohamed: The Blue Jays.
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Ronnie: Oh, good choice, good choice. Toronto! Do you know the Toronto Blue Jays' song?
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You know what they sing?
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Mohamed: Yeah.
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Ronnie: What is it?
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Mohamed: It's... It goes like this: "Let's play ball." That's in the end.
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Ronnie: Oh. Do you know the beginning?
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Mohamed: So: "Blue Jays! Blue Jays!"
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Ronnie: Yeah, it sounds like that. That's good.
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Mohamed: Yeah.
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Ronnie: And who's your favourite baseball player?
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Mohamed: I forgot his... It starts, like, with an "R" or something.
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Ronnie: Ra-ra-ra-ra?
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Mohamed: No.
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Ronnie: Oh, not Ra-ra-ra-ra. I don't know. I know Bautista.
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Mohamed: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I... When I was in childcare, a bunch of,
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like, months ago, they were watching the baseball game, and they're like:
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"I'm cheering for Bautista."
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Ronnie: Yeah, that guy's good. And who's the guy that hits really long...?
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Or hits really well? Joe... Joseph, Josh... Josh...
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Mohamed: Yeah, Joseph Josh.
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Ronnie: Joseph Josh. [Laughs] That's our favourite guy.
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Mohamed: Or whatever his name.
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Ronnie: We don't remember. Good. Okay. Mohamed, what do you like to do for fun?
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Mohamed: I like... I sometimes, if I'm, like, tired and I go home, I sometimes want to play
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video games for like 30 minutes or sometimes, like, one hour. And then I get off.
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Ronnie: Ah, what kind of video games do you like to play?
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Mohamed: I play, like, those video games that have a bunch of guns in them.
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Ronnie: Cool. Bang, bang, bang. Bang, bang, bang.
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Do you...? Do you have a favourite video game that you play?
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Mohamed: GTA V.
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Ronnie: GTA V. And do you have a YouTube channel?
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Mohamed: Yes, I do.
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Ronnie: No way. What is it?
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Mohamed: It is: "Mohamedgta5gamerahmed_bay96".
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Ronnie: Awesome, Mohamed. Check out Mohamed's YouTube channel, check out my YouTube channel.
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We'll see you again soon. Bye.
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Mohamed: Bye.
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Ronnie: I do caution you: There's one thing that I've forgotten to tell you that's quite important.
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The first one is that not all children like when adults talk to them. Some kids are
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shy. Now, Mohamed, jump up here. He's not shy. He likes to talk to people.
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Mohamed: Yeah.
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Ronnie: But you have to be careful. So, some kids don't want to talk to you. So, we're
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going to go over some things that you shouldn't do when you talk to a child. The first one
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is: Don't talk to them in a baby voice. So, a baby voice is... Would be how you talk to
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a baby or a dog: "Hi. How are you? What are you doing? Oh, you're so cute."
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Mohamed: Please stop.
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Ronnie: [Laughs] Sorry. Okay.
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The other one is: Don't talk down to them. Now, they might
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be shorter than you, but we don't want to make them feel bad or you don't want to make
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them feel like they're not very good people. So, if you tell kids what to do all the time,
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you want them to feel comfortable. You don't want to tell them what to do.
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Go get me some Coke.
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Mohamed: No, I'm not.
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Ronnie: Oh.
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Mohamed: Please do your own things.
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Ronnie: Okay. I will. And the last one is: We have to respect people's personal space.
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It doesn't matter if it's a child or an adult. You have to be careful not to touch children,
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and I mean that in a lot of ways. But there's a thing we have called personal space, so
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even adults, kids, they don't like it when you touch their head, or: Oh, you're so cute.
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This might happen. You don't want this to happen on the subway. Okay?
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So be careful. And we're gone. Okay. Bye.
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