This Changed My Life and Made Me Fluent in English | How Learning a Language Can Change Your Life

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English with Veronika Mark


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when i was a little girl my dad used to tell  me veronica english is important you have to  
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learn english sorry dad i had to speak with a  russian accent for you he would read winnie the  
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pooh with me on summer vacations and i would cry  every single time because i hated english and i  
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hated learning in general but one day something  changed and i fell in love with english because i  
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discovered american youtube and i started watching  american youtubers all the time i was absolutely  
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in love with the platform and right now look at  me i'm a youtuber too i can call myself a proud  
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youtuber so i guess this video is going to be a  short story of how language learning has changed  
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me and made my life a thousand times better let's  start from the very beginning yes from the times  
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when i read winnie the pooh and cried because i  hated reading in english ellen alexander milne is  
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a great author but i couldn't really appreciate  his writing because i was like 12 years old and  
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i honestly did not care about english at all but  looking back i'm immensely grateful to my dad for  
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sitting me down every single day on summer  vacations and spending half an hour 20 minutes  
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15 minutes reading with me or more listening  to me cry and reading this book to me  
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because you know i definitely did enjoy crying  a lot more than i enjoyed actually reading the  
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book and actually guys to this very day i share  this passion towards reading with my dad and it's  
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crazy to think that it all started with a book  about a teddy bear fast forward to high school  
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the time when everyone has to pick where to go to  college what to study what job to choose in the  
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future and i was like i actually like languages  i actually like english so maybe i should pick  
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chinese i know it's kind of weird like i liked  english but i chose chinese i don't know why i  
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thought i was gonna like every single language  i was gonna study but fortunately i was right i  
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really enjoyed studying chinese but what actually  happened in college is that i discovered a true  
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love towards english because i started working  with english initially i only taught english to  
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little kids and it was my first job ever i felt so  great you know i felt like an adult having a job  
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teaching people english it was like a dream come  true because i was beginning to genuinely enjoy  
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english and life in college is pretty hard i had  a lot of chinese classes every single week i think  
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i had around six chinese classes per week it was  absolutely crazy and english for me was a way to  
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relax to wind down and to connect with the kids i  was teaching and what happened next and actually  
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i don't want to say changed my life but opened  up so many different paths for me is discovering  
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english speaking clubs so there's always a time  when you realize that you actually need to speak  
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the language right because you can do everything  on your own basically but speaking you actually  
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usually you need another human being to you  know talk back to you and i decided to go to  
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english speaking clubs first i attended one at my  university it was completely for free and then i  
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discovered another one where the people were just  like all around moscow all of them were russians  
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and for me it was you know pretty fun talking  to people in english and i genuinely enjoy this  
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interaction and i lack this human connection  and with the help of english i made so many  
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wonderful friends and this is actually i think  one of the reasons why i'm so passionate about  
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english speaking clubs and why i decided to  create my own english speaking club because this  
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is something that really helped me in the past and  i hope can help all of you guys as well after that  
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i started traveling a lot i visited new york and  then ukraine and then turkey and then i came back  
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to russia and now i'm in mexico so basically in  new york i didn't really talk to native speakers  
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a lot because i was a tourist what's even more  interesting is what happened in ukraine so after  
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new york i lived in ukraine for about three months  and in ukraine i started my youtube channel this  
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channel that you're currently watching this  channel that i hope you're subscribed to and  
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basically i think that's why ukraine has a very  special place in my heart because i remember being  
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so uncomfortable in front of my camera i didn't  even have a camera back then i only used my phone  
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i still remember the apartment where i live there  and how i try to you know film videos actually  
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guys all of those videos are on my channel i  did not delete anything like my very first video  
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is public on my channel so if you want to feel  cringy you can obviously watch it but it's like  
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every single time i watch it i want to cry  i want to laugh i feel weird but i feel so  
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happy that i actually started and basically  i can say that english helped me find a job  
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english helped me changed my life change my career  path and become a content creator and as we all  
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know guys creating content is all about making  videos and there is a great platform you can use  
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to create unique videos called doratune duratune  is a place where you can create videos with custom  
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animations backgrounds props etc and use the final  product in your studies in your job or even as a  
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hobby i especially love the fact that they have  a lot of different templates you can choose from  
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and you can customize them however you want to  if you want to create a video about business or  
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marketing or education or hr they have so many  amazing templates but i think i'm gonna pick  
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social media because this is something i use the  most and i think i'm gonna walk you guys through  
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the steps of creating a video on their platform  by using this video as an example so here we  
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just need to click edit this template by clicking  this button you can just preview the current page  
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and you can customize everything and anything you  want you can change the colors you can get rid of  
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everything for example let's try to get rid of  this background yeah so now we don't have this  
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background anymore again you can change the colors  of these leaves or completely delete them if you  
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do not like them anymore as for text you can  type anything else for example let me type skin  
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care you can also change the font and the style  of the lettering everything is super customizable  
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another thing that i really like is how you can  add dubbing and subtitles and this is something  
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that a lot of people use on their videos for  example i use subtitles on my youtube videos  
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and the fact that they have this tool on their  website is extremely handy and last thing  
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that i absolutely enjoy and that plays a very  important part in video production is choosing  
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music and they have a lot of different songs here  you can search by mood for example soothing or  
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funny or cheerful or you can just type in the  search bar whatever you want to to make your  
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video as interesting as possible because music  guys is a very important part of filmmaking and  
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you can see how many songs i always use especially  on my vlog channel so guys i highly recommend you  
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to check out doratune because it's a great tool to  help you create unique amazing videos completely  
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customizable with animations subtitles and music  so make sure to click the link below and give dora  
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tune a try so now let's continue with the whole  story how english has changed my life and i think  
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the whole idea of this video is to motivate  you to study languages because you know you  
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never know what's going to happen in the future  and there are so many great job opportunities  
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opportunities to meet people in general when  you speak foreign languages and through english  
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i actually met so many amazing and wonderful  students and some of them became my friends for  
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example here in mexico city a couple of weeks ago  i met up with a girl from my english speaking club  
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and even though her native language is spanish we  only spoken english which i'm so grateful to her  
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for nice to meet people from all around the world  yeah that's one thing that i especially love about  
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the club that like you meet a lot of different  people yeah that's cool okay so we're gonna order  
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right now and eat and i'll talk to you guys later  i know that i really should learn spanish faster  
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but guys can you even imagine this thing i am  from russia and i communicate with people from  
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mexico in english and english is something that  helps us establish this conversation so i guess  
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that's my whole journey of how i first absolutely  hated english hated languages in general actually  
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even though when i was a little kid even before  the winnie the pooh story i studied french and  
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to be completely honest i did not really enjoy it  at all either but because my parents didn't really  
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speak french they didn't push me but when it came  to english they didn't really push me either they  
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just showed me that english is important and my  dad being a great example he always read something  
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in english and one day was like maybe i should  read something in english too but obviously it  
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took years it took years of my parents being  always there for me it took years of me just  
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watching random videos on youtube and english and  falling in love with video production and content  
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creators and then one day i just could not stop  you know following their lives and watching their  
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videos because i like their personalities and for  me to understand their personalities more i had to  
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learn english so this is basically how i motivate  myself to learn english to a pretty high level  
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all thanks to youtube and so guys i think it's  going to be it for my little story i really  
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hope you enjoyed it because thinking back i am so  grateful for meeting so many wonderful people who  
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are always willing to speak english to me and  i'm extremely grateful to english for existing  
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because it gave me so many wonderful opportunities  again to meet people to have a different job and  
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to travel don't forget to check out doratune  by clicking the link in the description  
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and start creating your own videos and thank you  guys so much for watching as usual don't forget to  
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subscribe to my channel and follow me on instagram  and i'll see you guys in my next video bye
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