How to Read Faster and Understand More in English | Tips to Improve Your Reading Skills in English

(mellow music) - I always say to people,

like among your friends,

think about the smartest person you know.

I guarantee you that person reads a lot.

And I felt really stupid,

'cause I didn't know any other language at all.

I think the English or the British mentality

is very much that we are the best.

- Hello guys, and welcome back to my YouTube channel.

Today you're gonna be watching

an interview with Olly Richards.

He's the creator of this StoryLearning method

that helped a lot of people learn foreign languages.

And guys, when I was younger,

I loved reading graded readers,

and this is something we're gonna be talking about

in this interview.

So make sure to like this video

and subscribe to my YouTube channel.

And now, let's begin.

Hi Olly, it's really nice to meet you

and I'm really happy to have you on my channel today.

We're gonna do like a quick interview

about you and about your StoryLearning method

that helps millions of people learn foreign languages.

So at first, could you please just

introduce yourself a little bit?

- Thank you so much for the invitation,

it's great to be here

and I'm a big fan of your channel as well.

So my name is Olly Richards, I'm from the UK.

I have a long background with languages,

I started learning languages when I was about 19 years old.

My first language was French,

which was kind of really hard to learn

because I didn't know what I was doing.

In the UK we don't really learn languages

so I had to just create own method really.

And then I went on to learn seven more languages after that.

I've lived in lots of countries around the world.

But I'm also a language teacher,

so I taught English for many years.

I've become a very highly qualified English teacher,

I taught English in Japan, in the Middle East.

So what I decided to do was

to combine my experience of teaching

with my experience of language learning.

So what I try to do now

is to help people learn foreign languages

and I do that with stories,

so I've got a unique method that takes stories

and helps you learn languages through stories.

Which is great,

because when you hear something in a story

it's much easier to remember,

it's much more fun and it's just good all round.

- Yeah, I agree.

And as a person who loves reading,

because I love reading books and stories

and different, just everything, I guess,

Yeah, we'll talk about your method a little bit later.

But first it's very interesting

because you just mentioned that in the UK

people generally don't learn foreign languages.

Why do you think that is?

Like, what is the reason?

- I think that there's kind of an island mentality.

There's a few reasons,

we have an island mentality

whereby we are kind of our own island.

There's a sea in between us and mainland Europe.

We also have this long,

hundreds of years of history of colonization.

We like to think that we are the country that goes out

and brings democracy to the rest of the world.

This kind of mindset that is hundreds of years old

and it's still in the country today

and we are just kind of,

I think the English or the British mentality

is very much we are the best,

we are the source of source of truth and all of that.

And then largely thanks to the presence

and the growth of the United States,

where now the way where they make,

you know, you've got Hollywood

and you've got American popular music,

and because of the popularity of that,

we kind of feel, all right,

if we want entertainment from other countries,

we can turn to the US.

And so it just kind of cements this presence of English

as the place where anything that matters is happening.

And so that's why I think English speakers

just generally don't look to other countries.

We have so much in the English language world

that it's kind of enough.

And it's very sad,

but I think that's why.

- It's also very interesting,

because in a lot of different countries,

people generally learn

British English at schools, for example,

like the government is all for British English.

And this is something that is happening in Russia right now,

because I live in Russia,

and in Moscow we only learn British English at schools.

All the textbooks are in British English,

but more and people actually wanna learn American English,

and yeah, this is something that is happening right now.

Yeah, and you mentioned, like the influence of Hollywood.

- I mean, that's also a question of perspective.

So for example, if you go to,

many countries around the world

where the English that they teach is American English.

So if you go to Japan, for example,

in Japan, it's very much American English.

The English exams that you take is the TOEFL test,

all of those things.

And I think that's because of the,

you know, Japan obviously has a long history with the US,

post-World War II and geographically closer as well.

So yeah, it seems to be that some countries

prefer American English, teaching American English,

some countries prefer teaching British English,

and yeah, everything else in between.

- And you mentioned that you started learning French

when you were 19, right? - Yeah.

- Why did you decide to learn French?

- It was very much like, outta the blue.

So I was at university in London studying jazz piano,

that was my degree.

And I'd never had any contact

with other countries, other languages.

And then a few things happened.

I took a job working in a cafe in London,

serving cappuccinos and things.

And in that cafe, there were people from all over the world,

France, Sweden, Spain,

and I noticed that these people

could all speak English really well.

Fair enough, they're in London,

so you might expect that,

but often they could speak each other's languages.

So the Italian could speak Spanish

and the Swede could speak some French.

And I felt really stupid,

'cause I didn't know any other languages at all.

So I felt like I was just,

something clicked inside my head and I thought,

hang on, there is a big world out there

and I really haven't got a clue about it.

And I felt bad being the English guy

who couldn't speak other languages.

And so I said, right, I'm gonna learn French.

I'm gonna try.

And then around the same time,

my girlfriend at the time broke up with me.

We'd been together for two years and I was 19,

so it was a big deal when she broke up with me

and I was really, really in a mess,

and I basically ran away.

I got on a train,

I bought a one-way ticket on a train to Paris,

I went to live in Paris for six months.

And I said, right, this is my new life,

I'm gonna learn French.

And so I was really kind of motivated to do it.

And I think that's, with language learning,

there are a few things that really matter.

Motivation is one of those things,

and I was really motivated.

- A lot of people tell me that, for example,

they're really worried that they didn't learn

any foreign languages then when they were kids,

when they were younger,

and they're worried that because of that,

they will never be able to learn

to master a foreign language.

And yeah, you just told everyone that it's not true, right?

Because motivation is something

that can really help you learn anything.

- Well, I mean, I was young though, right?

In my language company, StoryLearning,

we have a lot of students and many of them are older.

You know, they could be in their 60s or 70s

and they haven't learned a language since high school.

So it's been like maybe 40, 50 years.

And it's very common for people to think,

okay, I'm older, I haven't done this for 40, 50 years,

it's too late for me.

But what you find is that when you can motivate people

with a specific way of learning that they enjoy

and you try and you take the pressure off,

then they can do amazing things.

And one of the problems

with a lot of modern teaching methods

is it forces you to speak from the beginning, day one.

Learn this, now say it front of your class

and practice with your partner.

And that puts incredible pressure on people psychologically.

'Cause when we speak in a foreign language,

we lose our identity and we are now kind of like,

we are like adult children,

we can't express ourselves properly.

Very difficult from a perspective of social anxiety,

you know, lots of people get very anxious

when they have to speak.

So one of the reasons that I'm such a big fan

of learning with stories,

which basically kind of means learning through context,

through lots of reading and listening,

is that you don't have to speak at the beginning.

You can take your time to learn gradually,

and then speaking can just kind of come later,

can emerge from that.

So age really is,

you know, if you think it's a problem, it is,

if you don't think it's a problem, it's not.

It's all in your mind. - It's all in your head.

Yeah, I can completely agree with you.

And this is actually something that I did

when I was in high school I think.

Because I started learning English when I was a kid,

this is something that everyone does

when they're at school in Russia.

And obviously like when I was a kid,

I didn't like English at all,

I didn't real like studying that much to be honest.

But then when I actually started liking English more,

I was just reading everything because I love reading,

even in my native language, right?

So for me it was kind of like natural

to progress to reading books in English.

Yeah, now I just read everything,

I don't know, almost every single day.

- I mean, it is those things that,

it's not just very effective,

but reading, it also has the benefit

of being something you can do anywhere.

You can do it in bed, in the kitchen, on the train.

And so one of the things that you are always looking for

when helping people with languages,

like what can you do that fits into your life?

And if you insist on having a language class

or actually learning by speaking with somebody,

it's really hard logistically

to actually have that time to speak with people.

But with reading, not only is it very,

you know, having words on the page

is a very good way to study,

because you can go forwards, you can go back, you can check,

it's a very convenient mode for studying.

And then the fact that you can do it anywhere

means that if you can get yourself

to fall in love with reading, you've already won,

you've already won the game.

- I agree with you, because you said that, for example,

when we speak with other people,

sometimes other people are not interested

in the things we're interested it in, right?

But when you are reading something,

you can choose the materials you like.

If you wanna just read and relax,

you can, I don't know, choose like a fiction book maybe,

but if you wanna learn something new,

maybe like a non-fiction book,

like a non-fiction story will be better for you.

- Being able to choose your own material is huge.

So one of the,

I don't know if your audience is familiar

with the concept of comprehensible input,

it's the idea that we should read and listen to things

not that are necessarily at native level,

but at a level that we can understand,

that we are ready for.

So if you are an intermediate level in English,

then you should be reading material

at intermediate or upper intermediate level.

If you can understand,

you can understand the messages, then you will learn.

That's comprehensible input.

The other side of it is compelling input,

which means basically read and listen to stuff

that you are really, really interested in.

Because if you're really interested in it,

then you'll learn.

And so like you said, with reading, it's just great,

because you can literally learn from anything you want.

If you like gardening, read about gardening.

- Yeah, exactly!

- If you like Russian literature,

then why not read an English translation of Tolstoy?

That might be sacrilegious in Russia, I dunno,

but you get the idea, right?

You can follow your interests as far as the go.

- No, actually I read

one Russian book in English translation,

it was "Master and Margarita,"

and it was great because I love this book,

and I read it twice in Russian and I was like,

why not read it in English?

Like, I like this book.

- Well that's a fantastic tip right there for anyone.

Anyone who wants to start reading, try this.

Take a book you've already read in Russian

and then read the translation in English.

Because what happens there is you already know the plot,

you know what's happening,

which means when you then read in English,

you can map the language onto meaning that you already have.

Because often the difficulty with reading

is that you are reading new words and phrases

in a new language that you don't know,

but you also don't know what's happening in the story,

so you've got to consolidate those two things.

Sometimes you can read a word,

but not really understand how it's being used.

Well if you can read something that you've read before

you take care of the meaning,

which means then you can just focus on the language

and that's a really good thing to do.

Right now I'm actually reading a book by Higashino Keigo,

he's a Japanese author.

And I actually read the English translation first,

'cause someone gave me the book, and I loved it.

So I said right, I'm gonna go and read this in Japanese.

So I'm now reading the original Japanese

having read the English translation.

And it doesn't matter, just follow whatever you like.

If you got a book you like, just go for it!

- What do you think about reading children's books?

- The misconception is, it's a children's book

therefore it's easy, because it's for children.

but children's books are generally actually not easy at all.

They have lots of strange animals

and people who do weird, funny things.

The vocabulary is quite strange.

If you have a children's book that you love,

then of course you can read it.

No one should ever say don't do this thing.

But what you'll probably find if you read children's books,

number one, it could have quite a lot

of strange vocabulary in it which you don't need,

and secondly, you're not gonna be interested in it.

If you're an adult,

you're not gonna be interested in a children's book,

unless it's maybe Harry Potter

that the whole world seems to love.

So generally I'd say don't make the mistake

of thinking that because it's a children's book it is easy.

It's probably not.

If you want to try something easier,

then you can try non-fiction.

Non-fiction tends to be easier

'cause it's written in more simple language,

or you can go for graded readers.

Like I have my book of English stories for example,

which are written in English,

but they are graded to a A2 or B1 level.

That way you can start to read material

that's interesting to you,

but is at the right level

and it's not like reading Shakespeare in the original,

which is not gonna be easy!

- Yeah, I agree with you.

And right now I wanted to talk to you about graded readers,

because this is something that I used a lot

when I was an intermediate student and then also upper,

I don't know, even when I was a beginner,

like at all the stages of my English learning journey.

I still remember when I was still living

in a different Russian town,

I would go to like a library,

and sometimes we would even have them in libraries,

like different graded readers.

It was amazing, because this was the first time

when I felt confident in my English,

because of different levels.

Could you please tell us more about your graded readers

and your method behind them?

- Can I ask you a question first?

'Cause I'm curious, you said that you read

lots of graded readers when you were learning English.

Could you find graded readers that you actually liked,

that were interesting that you wanted to read?

- Yeah. - Really?

- Yeah, of course, yeah.

- What kind of things did you find?

- I mean, usually they were just like simplified books

that we already have,

they weren't like news stories.

I don't know, like any book really,

but just simplified.

Any maybe like classical literature, I don't know.

But obviously closer to the,

I think when it was a beginner it was still,

I don't know, like simple stories,

also the stories that we all know.

We all know them, we all love them, but they're simplified.

And then later maybe like even Shakespeare,

but also simplified.

- So often what I found when I was teaching English

but also looking at wanting to create

my own language material,

I noticed that all of the graded readers

seemed to be the things that you mentioned,

classical literature or folk tales or folk stories.

- Exactly, yeah! - Very old things.

- And if you happen to like that, well that's great.

But then for me, that gets boring quite quickly.

As much as I like classical literature,

I also want to read other things that are more fun perhaps.

And so I just noticed that that seemed to be

a problem in the market for graded readers.

There wasn't enough graded reader material

that was actually interesting,

that you actually want to read.

So about five years ago I started writing

my own books of graded readers.

And my goal was really simple,

my goal was to create fresh, modern, interesting

graded readers for different languages.

English is the language

where you have a lot of graded readers already,

but if you go to like Spanish, French,

there's not much, like there are some,

but they're also old and they're also boring.

And so I wanted like make

the Netflix equivalent of graded readers,

something modern and fresh,

and so I started writing these books.

And even from the artwork,

we try and make it very modern, you know?

So like something that's this kind of Art Deco style stuff.

And adding things like images

and illustrations to the stories,

like everything that you want

to make it more interesting and fun to enjoy.

So I set out to do that.

- And was it challenging?

So you had to write all of the stories yourself,

how many did you write?

- So the books themselves are,

from one language to the rest are translated.

So that's the first book I wrote was in Spanish.

I don't have a copy of it here,

but I write this book of Spanish short stories.

And there's only eight in the book,

I think I did 10 at the beginning and discarded two of them,

so we ended up with eight.

And then when we created the book

in the Italian or Dutch or Japanese,

they're translations and localizations of those stories.

So I think I wrote three sets of books.

One was beginner volume one, beginner volume 2,

and then intermediate as well.

But they're fairly short stories.

So, the stories are not,

it's not high literature, you know, these stories,

because they are graded readers

for beginners, for intermediate.

But I try to make them just fun and interesting.

I've been blogging,

I have a website called storylearning.com,

which I've had since 2013, it's eight years.

So on storylearning.com,

I wrote hundreds and hundreds of blog articles.

So I had a lot of people

that were subscribed to my newsletter.

And so when I started writing these stories,

I asked my audience,

hey, tell me, what kind of stories do you like to read?

And they would tell me, and I'd run these surveys and polls

and a few genres went to the top.

So they would say, everyone likes science fiction.

And I thought that's strange,

'cause I don't read science fiction.

- Yeah, me neither. - People like science fiction.

And you like crime stories.

Okay, more predictable.

Historical fiction.

And so I got this sense

of like the four or five genres that people really liked,

and then I wrote stories on all of these different genres,

so that there's something for everyone in the book.

And then we did some testing,

so I said, okay, go and read these stories.

Tell me, do you like them, do you not like them?

My audience would tell me what they like.

And it was really a collaboration

between me as the creator of the concept

and then my audience who would read them

and give me feedback.

And so in the end,

I think we ended up with a format

where everything from like how long each chapter is,

that was very scientifically determined.

Because if the chapters are too long,

it becomes too hard and you get bored.

So we had to make the chapters the right length.

And so, yeah, it was a very fun process to do.

- Wow, that's so interesting.

Yeah, I love historical fiction,

that's actually my favorite genre.

You were talking about different chapters,

and the length of each chapter.

And how long,

like as I understand for beginners,

usually the chapters are shorter, right?

- We have a different set of criteria for the beginner books

to the intermediate books, for example.

And to be clear, when I say for beginners,

the level is actually not complete beginner,

it's high beginners, kind of A2 level.

So I don't remember exactly the number

that we put on the length of each chapter.

But it's essentially like six pages,

so like that's the length of a page,

you can see here.

And there'd be one, two, three, four, five,

and a half pages. - Okay, yeah.

So what I want to do is give you the feeling of momentum.

I want you to feel like you're reading something,

yes, you have to push, you have to struggle,

but then you reach the end of that chapter

and you feel, yes, I've reached the end!

That's motivating.

So then you can take a break, or if you want,

you can carry on and do the next chapter,

and each time you're building this feeling of momentum.

And these things, these structural things,

are so important for the experience of the reader

and the student and the experience of feeling motivated.

- Yeah, I agree with you, I completely agree with you.

Because every single time you read a book with,

okay, maybe if you like genuinely

really, really like this book, it doesn't really matter,

but usually if the chapters are extremely long,

you're like, oh my God, I just wanna finish this chapter!

It really helps when the chapters are shorter.

You enjoy the book more.

- There's a lot more graded readers coming out now

and you can just tell

they haven't really been thought through that well,

because it could be like one page long.

And it just doesn't feel like

you are actually reading a real book.

With my books I want you to feel like

you are actually reading a book,

and not some silly study tool, but an actual book.

- And how many languages are there

in your graded reader series?

- Oh, I've actually lost count.

I think it's something like 15, 16,

and then we have intermediate.

Actually, it might be 20 now, I'm not sure, I lose count.

And we're releasing Japanese and Irish

in the next few months,

and I think we have like eight more languages

planned for the next couple of years.

So the books have been very, very successful,

even the publishers have been delighted with what it's done.

And so, one of my aims is to help people

learning as many different languages as possible.

So I want to do some Asian languages,

I want to do some African languages.

For me, it's not good enough to stop at French and Spanish

and all the typical languages.

I wanna do books in Hindi and Greek and Swahili.

But yeah, there are these

kind of commercial considerations as well,

so we have to think.

Okay, we spent a year making this one book,

but if it doesn't sell, then, you know,

it's a bit of a problem! (laughs)

- So in your series,

you have all the different levels from beginner to advanced,

or only from beginner to intermediate?

- So we have beginner to intermediate and the reason is

if you consider yourself advanced in English,

which we can say B2,

if you're a strong B2,

then what do you need to do at that point?

- Yeah, you just need to read.

And the original English. - It's real English, right?

- Yeah, real English. - Yeah, exactly.

So I want to kind of encourage people

to make the leap to real books at that point.

But actually, funnily enough,

a lot of people have been asking me for advanced stories,

and maybe it's because

you have people at the intermediate level

who just want to push themselves a little bit.

So I think it would actually be useful,

it would be useful to do.

It's not currently a plan, the plan to,

but I would like to,

but yeah, nothing just yet.

- If I talk about myself, for example,

I think I read a lot of intermediate books,

like for intermediate students when I read graded readers.

This was, I think for me,

was like the most popular level

and then I think once I was upper intermediate

I just stopped and I started reading real literature,

in English for English speakers.

- Because then you can choose the best stuff as well.

You go and read the best books

that you're most interested in.

- Yeah, yeah.

- Ultimately, when we are reading,

or doing anything in a language,

what we really want to try to do

is we wanna know where where we're trying to go.

And so the where we're trying to get to

with learning a language,

to be able to behave like a native speaker in that language.

So in other words, if I get you to read in English now,

I want you to keep reading

until you start to read like a native English speaker.

- Yeah, I love graded readers myself

and I, like on my channel,

I have I think like a couple of videos

where I talk about reading in English

and I always talk about graded readers

because I'm a huge fan of this kind of literature.

- Well I'm gonna send you some of mine in the-

- Yeah, that's gonna be so cool!

Like, I love books, so yeah,

it's gonna be really interesting for me.

- With your English,

it's no coincidence that your English is as good as it is

and you like reading.

I always say to people like, among your friends,

think about the smartest person you know.

I guarantee you that person reads a lot.

So it's very predictable really.

- Yeah, that's probably why.

- No surprise to me that you're a big reader.

- Yeah, that's probably why I like reading,

I wanna be smart, you know?

- There you go.

- Yeah, yeah, that's true.

And I think to finish off our interview

I just wanted to ask you this one last question.

Maybe you could, I don't know,

share some tips with my audience

on how they can read more successfully in English

or maybe even fall in love with reading,

because I feel like a lot of people really struggle

with the fact that they just don't like reading.

- It is true that there are people

that are not used to reading,

more and more now that we have smartphones

and the internet and everything.

I could keep saying how, you know,

reading is the most beneficial thing,

but if you don't like reading, then you don't like reading.

I think for some,

if people genuinely don't like reading,

then maybe the best thing to do instead

is listen to podcasts, watch TV.

I don't think that StoryLearning as I call it,

with how I teach it, is for everybody at all,

but I do think that if you can learn to love reading,

then you have a huge advantage.

And the key is, we talked earlier about those two things,

comprehensible input, compelling input.

These are the things to do.

So you've got to find material at your level

and then find material that is at your level

and really, really interesting to you.

And if you can find those things,

then that's how you get interested.

Because you might love watching Netflix

or listening to podcasts.

You can't get the experience of reading a book

anywhere else that's not in a book.

Reading books like are unique.

I would say think about the things

that you enjoy reading in your mother tongue.

Do you like reading football magazines?

Do you like reading the news?

Think about what you would read

and most enjoy in your mother tongue

and then try to do the same thing in English.

At least then you'll be really interested.

And if you're really interested,

you stand the best chance of continuing,

keeping it up, and learning.

- When people read,

they often like come across words that they don't know,

like new vocabulary.

Do you have any recommendations

on how they can memorize new vocabulary?

- I would suggest that actually the best thing to do

is not to try to memorize new vocabulary.

- Huh, interesting!

Because, if the goal is to read,

and if we believe that the way you're going to learn fast

is by reading often,

then we've got to focus on the habit of reading often.

Now if there's one thing

that's gonna stop you reading a lot

it is looking up words, memorizing words.

'Cause as soon as you start doing that,

you're doing something else now, you're not reading,

you're doing playing memory games, you know?

So you could read for 30 minutes easily

and then spend another 30 minutes

memorizing vocabulary from the book.

In my opinion, what's much better is to actually,

rather than spending 30 minutes memorizing vocabulary,

spend that 30 minutes on reading even more.

And there've been many studies that have shown

that if you have people who just read

versus read and memorize, or just memorize,

the people who just read, they win every time.

They remember more vocabulary, their grammar is better.

And the reason is that you learn naturally,

your brain learns stuff naturally.

If you keep reading, that word that you want to memorize,

it will come up again and again

and again and again and again.

And when you see it in the story or in context,

you start to get an intuitive understanding

of what that word means.

So what I always suggest to people

is the best way to learn and memorize a word

is to keep reading and seeing that word over and over again.

And if you don't, and people say,

well what happens if the word doesn't come back?

You will never lose this word.

If the word doesn't come back, well guess what?

It's probably not a very important word.

- Yeah, I completely agree with you,

because this is something that I had when I was younger.

So I used to have this like really big notebook

where I would write every single word that I didn't know.

And I think like a couple of, maybe like a year ago,

I found this notebook at my parents' house.

I opened it and I just realized that I know,

like right now, obviously I know all of these words,

but I didn't learn them.

I just wrote them down, yeah, I didn't memorize them.

I just wrote them down and then I forgot about them.

But there were also some words

they were just like, so weird,

like why would I even wanna learn them?

Yeah, they were too formal, maybe like outdated.

- But you can see all these words and you say,

okay, I don't know that word therefore I should learn it.

Not true.

If you're reading Harry Potter

and you're reading about Hogwarts,

why do you have to learn the word Hogwarts,

even though you don't need it?

And so, to the untrained eye,

every word looks like an important word

that needs to be memorized.

But just like we said earlier,

the best way to know whether a word is worth learning

is if it comes up again and again

and again and again in your reading.

And if that word comes up again and, and again, and again,

guess what, you're gonna learn it naturally.

So you don't need to memorize it.

Now, I'm being a bit extreme to make the point.

Sometimes it probably is helpful

to memorize something here or there.

But the problem is that most people,

because of the way we've been trained at school,

their default is memorize, memorize, memorize.

So what I try to do is get people away from that

into read, read, read.

- Wow, that's a really great tip.

Yeah, thank you so much.

It was really fun and interesting talking to you,

because I love reading and I could talk about reading

and books and stories all day long.

So thank you so much for being on my channel

and agreeing to film this interview with me.

And before we finish,

could you please tell my audience where they can find you,

like your YouTube channel?

- Yeah, so if you're on YouTube now,

go to my YouTube channel,

which is Olly Richards,

just search for Olly Richards or StoryLearning in YouTube,

you will find it.

I also have a website called StoryLearning.com

and you can practice your English by reading the articles,

blog articles that we have on the website.

And if you want to practice reading with graded readers,

have lots of books available,

well, in Russia, I don't know where they're available,

but I'm sure you can find them somewhere.

- Yeah, my audience is very international,

so I'm sure they'll be able to find your books.

- Fantastic.

- Yeah, so thank you so much, and have a great day!

- Same to you!

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I love reading!

I read almost every single day,

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