Get English Conversation Practice on Hallo 📱 Speak with Jennifer

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English with Jennifer


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Hi everyone. I'm Jennifer from English with Jennifer. Would you like more
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language support, especially with conversation? Remember I have videos here
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on YouTube and on Instagram. In fact, on Instagram, all my videos
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target listening and speaking skills. I cover American pronunciation and US
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history and culture -- and it's free, so follow me on Instagram! Okay? So, I can
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help with my videos on YouTube and on Instagram, but I know what many of you
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are really looking for is speaking practice
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with teacher feedback. Hallo is an app, and it's free to download. I'm one of
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many teachers on Hallo. I use this platform to extend my teaching beyond my
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YouTube and Instagram videos. I give listening and speaking practice
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in real time. I've been going live two to three times a week. I have free lives for
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followers and premium lives for subscribers. Hallo allows students to hop
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on camera with me for one-on-one practice. Subscribers get priority, but I
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also welcome non-subscribers to hop on. Some non-subscribers request hop ons
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through small donations, but I've also given away some free hop ons. A live
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stream is about an hour, but often longer. I've covered grammar, vocabulary, and
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pronunciation, but the most popular live streams are those that allow for
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conversation practice. Here's an example of a conversation do-over. I let a
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student answer a question. I give feedback, and then the student gets a
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do-over, a second chance to answer the same
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question. It's a chance to do even better. It builds confidence and fluency. And it
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sounds like they just broke up recently, or they're in the process of breaking up.
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Is that right, Kit? No, they're still in
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the relationship. They're still together. But maybe they'll break up soon. "Break up"
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is a good verb. Okay? All right, Kit. So, I gave you some expressions about love... not
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loving in return. That kind of thing. I'm going to ask you the same question. You did
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really well the first time. I'd like you to do even better the second. Okay? So, Kit,
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tell us about your friend. What's going on with her? I have a friend, and she's a
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very loving person, but sadly right now she's nursing a broken heart because she
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she loves her boyfriend, but her boyfriend doesn't love her in return.
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She's trying her best to cope with the... with her difficult situation, and she's
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moving on, I hope. I hope. Kit, that was wonderful. It came out so much
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smoother, so much more smoothly. So very good do-over. That was an
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excellent do-over. Okay? We've also played conversation games on
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Hallo. These have become very popular. I'll let you listen to a few. Here's the
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"if" game. We create a chain of real or unreal conditional sentences. It
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reinforces the grammar. If you wear headphones, then you will enjoy music
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yourself only, and that's a good thing . If I enjoy music all by myself,
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I'll also dance all by myself. If you dance while listening music, it will be a
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really nice thing for you because dancing is a kind of meditation. It is! Just
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be careful. You're saying, "If you listening...if you dance while
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you're listening TO music. Okay? Okay. Now. Let's change it for the last minute. If I
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danced all by myself, people would think I'm silly.
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What is the past tense of "think"? Thought? Thought. Okay. If people thought that
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you...if people thought that you were silly, then I think people would be
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mistaken. Okay. If people were mistaken, I would forgive them. Mystery guest is a
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lot of fun. We take turns being someone famous from the present or the past.
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Through conversation, we have to guess who the mystery guest is. We don't focus
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on correcting mistakes. We speak to have fun. It's about listening to each other
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to understand. Hello. Who are you? Are you political? You don't know me? I am,
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like, so important. I am so important and so powerful, like,
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how do you not know me? Oh really? Are you a president? I'm bigger than a
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president. Are you male or female? A male, and I'm strong
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and I'm powerful. Yeah. Are you a king? Am I okay? Am I a king? I'm bigger than a
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king. Uh-huh. I'm an emperor, like I'm...yeah. Wow. Bigger than king. Big and
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powerful, like, you don't want to go to war with me. I've started wars, you
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know. Are you from Germany? No, I am very proud of... My country is not Germany.
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Uh-uh. Are Adolf Hitler? No. Who? Who's that? Because that might be
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from a different time. I I think that might have been after me. I don't know.
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After you. Oh! Oh, you're...so a long time ago. Um, um, wait, wait.
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I mean, I mean, my clothes are just so very...
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beautiful, and, like, I always wear this really nice hat,
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you know, because I like to look bigger than I am. Are you Napoleon Bonaparte?
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Oui. Yes.
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Oui? Oui. Je suis Napoléon.
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Really, Teacher? Are you Napoleon Bonaparte?
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Yes, I'm Napoleon Bonaparte.
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So are you bigger than a king and president? Yes. Right? If you think of Napoleon, wasn't he like the
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Emperor of France? Like, yes? Am I right with my history? Okay. Now my turn, Teacher.
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Can I? Yes. You have someone? Okay. Uh, hello. Hello. You know who...you know who I am?
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No. Um, do you live close to me in the United States?
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Um, yes. I think. You do. Yes, I think. I live in Massachusetts. Do you live in Massachusetts or
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a different state? Actually, I don't know from where. Okay. I'm a good singer.
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I'm famous singer. Wow. You don't know me? I'm sorry so to ask. I don't recognize your
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voice. Are you a man or are you a woman? I'm a woman. Oh. Now I hear. I'm beautiful and
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sexy. Oh, your voice is beautiful. Now I think I'm starting to recognize you.
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Do you make the kind of music that I dance to? Would I dance to your music?
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Mmm. Yes, yes. Do you give many concerts? Mmm...
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Yes. You do. I'm Latin. Oh, do you dance very well? And sexy.
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Do you dance very well? Uh, wait, wait. Is she dancing? No? I think yes. Yes. I think, um, so you might be
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close to me in age because I think you're a little old...yeah, kind of older,
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like me. I'm going to guess. Are you...is your first
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name also Jennifer? Yes! Oh! See! Yes. J.Lo, it's very nice to have you here. J. Lo. Yes, I'm
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Jennifer Lopez with the sexy body. Okay. So we share the same first name.
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Another recent activity on Hallo used short dictations as a way to start conversation. After writing down
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a short script, one student would hop on with me.
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We'd practice the script, we'd switch roles, and then we let the script develop
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into a natural conversation. So, students got listening, pronunciation, and speaking
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practice. Okay. You start. You'd be person A. I'll be person B. Go ahead. If time
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travels... would you do it? Would you possible do it? Liliana, don't skip the verb. If
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time were possible...Were? Were. I don't know how to pronounce that. Were.
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Yeah, July, I'm sorry. Yeah I'm getting to 10%. You're at 1%. Were. Were. Right?
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This is, um, hypothetical, so we don't say, "If time travel was..." We say, "If time travel
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were possible." Because we're imagining. If time travel were possible, would you do
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it? Would you do it? Okay. If time travel were possible, would you do it?
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Sure. As long as I could come back to my own time. That's good. Let's switch roles.
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Liliana, if time travel were possible, would you do it? Sure. As long as I could
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come back to my own time. Beautiful. Uh-huh.
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Let's link a little better at the end: to my own time. To my own time. Mm-hmm. One
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more time. Liliana, if time travel were possible, would you do it? Sure. As long as
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I could come back to my own time. Really? Would you not be scared? Or Would you be
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excited, Liliana? I'll be scared. I don't trust those things too much.
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If I promised you everything would be okay, would you do it? Yes. If you
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promised. Yes. I trust you. I promise. I would also go...I'll go with you!
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I'll go with you. Okay. Good. Hi Jennifer! Hey Andrea! How are you?I'm good. And you? Super. We'll leave
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Andrea at home so she can stay safe. Yes.
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She'll be waiting for us. Liliana...I learned a lot today. I found very challenging this for me.
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If you'd like to have speaking practice in a fun, helpful way, then joined me on Hallo. Visit my profile page
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where I post my weekly schedule. It's free to follow me, so try a live stream.
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If you like it, consider subscribing. Monthly subscriptions are very
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affordable. As always, thanks for watching and happy studies!
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