English Success: Tell Me Your English Learning Story

56,506 views ・ 2019-04-02

Learn English with Bob the Canadian


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Hi Bob the Canadian here welcome to this video.
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I thought today I would do a little bit of a different sort of video.
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I was actually not feeling well today and I wasn't going to make a video.
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I ended up staying home from work sick today.
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I had a sore throat and just a bad headache and a stuffed up nose.
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But I had a nap, a really long nap, and I feel a bit better and I had some throat lozenges
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so my throat feels a little better.
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So I thought, when I was thinking about how I was feeling it made me wonder how all of
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you are feeling.
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Not in terms of whether you're sick or not, but I was wondering how all of you are feeling
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about learning English.
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How, I was wondering how it was going for you learning English.
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I know from having learned French that learning a language is a difficult, difficult thing
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to do and it takes a lot of time.
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In fact sometimes you'll see videos or, or books that promise that you can learn English
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in 30 minutes or learn English in 5 minutes a day, be fluent in 30 days, and we all know
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that doesn't work.
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So I just was really thinking about all of you and wondering how things are going.
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So I thought in this video I would ask some questions and I'm gonna ask that you answer
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in the comments below.
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First questions is just, "How is it going?", like do you feel like you're making a lot
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of progress.
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I know a lot of you spend a great deal of time outside of Youtube, outside of my videos
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reading, studying, making notes, etc.
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So I'm just curious, like, is it going really good?
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Is it going badly?
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Just give me a general sense of how it's going learning English because I, I am curious,
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I want all of you to succeed at this, this incredible challenge that you've taken on.
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So, so let me know.
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And then I have a few more questions,more specific questions.
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So the first one would be, "What's the last thing that you read in English?"
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So let me know below again.
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So question, "What is the last thing that you read in English?"
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So maybe the last thing you read was a newspaper.
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Maybe the last thing you read was a recipe card, you made, you made something in the
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kitchen.
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Maybe the last thing you read was a webpage or a news article online.
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Maybe some of you have read an entire book in English, that would be really cool.
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But yeah, let me know.
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What is the last thing you read?
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I'm curious.
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Again, as most of you know, I respond to every comment eventually, so let me know below what
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is the last thing that you read.
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And then a follow up question would be, "What's the last thing that you watched?"
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What's the last thing you watched in English.
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Did you find the time to go see a film in English?
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Did you find a television show and watch a number of episodes in English?
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Again let me know below what is the last thing that you watched in English.
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Maybe it's just a Youtube video.
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Maybe it's, maybe it's my Youtube video.
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Maybe the last thing you watched was a Youtube video.
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But whatever it is, let me know, so what was the last thing you watched.
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And then, the next question, "What was the last thing you listened to in English?"
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So maybe it was podcast.
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Maybe you just listened to people talking in English.
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Or maybe you have a favourite song that you have been listening to recently.
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Again let me know below.
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What was the last thing that you listened to in English.
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And as we do this I think it will help people, 'cuz you'll see people comment about a certain
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song, an English song that they really like, and other people can look at that, or someone
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might say, "You know I found a really good website where they have the news in English
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and it's really easy to understand."
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So let us know below.
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And then here's, it gets more difficult right?
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What's the last thing you've written in English?
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So maybe you've written a comment below, I know a lot of you do that, and I do appreciate
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it.
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Maybe you wrote a short email to someone.
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Maybe you have a friend where you text to them in English.
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Maybe you wrote a entire letter to someone in English, that would be really cool.
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Or maybe you're in a class right now and one of the pieces of homework that you had to do
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was to write something in English.
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And then here's the big one, right, here's the big one.
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When's the last time you spoke English and how did it go?
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Maybe the last time you spoke English was just by yourself in the car.
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I know I've recommended that a number of times that the easiest way to speak a foreign language
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is by yourself while you're driving.
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But maybe you had an actual conversation, maybe you have a speaking partner, let us
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know below, that you meet with online via Skype of Facetime.
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Maybe you have a friend in the city you live in who is helping you learn English and you
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were able to have a conversation with them.
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But yeah, let us know, when is the last time you spoke English?
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So and then there's bigger questions right, like:
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Were you able to find an English course?
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Have some of you found a local place you can go to where you can actually take an English
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course and how is that going?
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Maybe some of you have found an online course and you're taking that.
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Let us know how that's going as well and what you're experience is there.
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I'm just really curious because my goal in doing Youtube channel is to just help you
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learn English.
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I don't have any dreams of doing anything more than making a video once a week and doing
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a live stream on Fridays.
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And I know that helps a lot of you, but I'm just curious what else all of you are doing
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to help learn English.
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And then the last questions is a lot like the very first question.
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I'm just curious, how are you doing?
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Like how is it going?
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Like how are you feeling?
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Are you feeling discouraged?
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Are you feeling excited?
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If you have felt discouraged or if you have felt that it's, it's just taking too long
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or you're not enjoying it anymore and if you found a way around that let us know as well,
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but it, for sure leave a comment if, maybe it's not going well at all, just leave a comment
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and I'll, I'll try to post a word of encouragement for you to help you kind of regain your energy
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and, and then anyone that has any tips, any recommendations, how to, how to schedule your
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week, post it below, how to, how to stay motivated to learn English.
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Post it below.
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Anything that you have learned along the way that has helped you learn English.
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Post it below.
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So anyways, a bit of a different kind of video.
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Often I talk to you and you listen.
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I'd really love to hear back from you in the comments below.
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So, my dog running up here, so post a comment even if it's just to say, "Hi!"
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Post a comment below I'd love to see it.
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And then for sure let's start to help each other a little bit.
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Be really fun to see some good recommendations below for books, or movies, or TV shows, etc.
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Things that you're doing just to help you along the way.
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Anyways.
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Bob the Canadian.
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You're learning English with Bob the Canadian.
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I just hope it's going really well.
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I hope that you can power through and learn lots of English every day that you study it
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and I'm happy to help so leave me a comment and I'll see you in the next video.
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