ENGLISH WORDS | Learn how To Use English Words In Real Life

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Hey, welcome to episode two of our, how to use English words in real life.
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Now, in today's episode, I'm going to teach you five English words that
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you can use in real life to sound more like a native English speaker.
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Are you ready?
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Welded I'm teacher.
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Tiffani let's jump right in.
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Now the very first word is provoke.
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Good again after me.
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Provoke.
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Excellent.
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Last time provoke.
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Great job.
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Now.
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I want you to listen to this story and see if you can guess
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the meaning of the word pro.
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A few days ago, I was online and I watched a video.
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There was a monkey, a big monkey and a cage, and he was sitting down relaxing.
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And then a man walked.
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And the man started to provoke the monkey.
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He started trying to mess with him and the monkey, all of a sudden got angry.
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And the monkey as the man was putting his hand to try to provoke
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him again, stuck his arm through the cage, through the gate.
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And he grabbed the man's shirt.
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All of a sudden the man started to panic.
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He had been provoking the monkey and now the monkey was.
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So, what do you think the word provoke actually means?
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Well, provoke actually means to stimulate or give rise to a reaction
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or emotion, typically a strong or unwelcome one, just like in the story,
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the man was provoking the monkey.
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You caught it right now, the man was okay, but he was extremely scared,
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but he had been provoking the monkey.
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So you can use it again in real life.
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Now here's the first example, sentence, dairy products may provoke allergic
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reactions in some people provoke or give rise to something that's unwelcome.
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For example, I can't eat cheese.
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I have a cheese allergy.
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So just like this example and then says dairy products may provoke
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allergic reactions in some people.
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Now sentence number two, such a decision may provoke a
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backlash from their supporters.
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Again, such a decision may provoke a backlash from their supporters.
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And number three, the article was intended to provoke.
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Thought to make people think.
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Now, remember typically it's an unwelcome one, but in this situation,
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provoking thought is a good thing.
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So again, in English we say provoke.
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Now, I want you to think of a way to use this word at least one time today.
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Now word number two is RA.
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RA good last time after me RA.
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Excellent.
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Now again, if you need help with your English pronunciation, don't forget to
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download my app English with Tiffani.
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The link is in the description and it can help you because I have tons
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of lessons on English pronunciation.
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Now this word rave.
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Let me tell you a real quick story.
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You see several weeks.
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I received some messages from family and friends because they
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know that I love Indian food.
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Yes.
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Indian food is delicious.
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And they said, TIFF, listen, there's this amazing Indian restaurant.
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This restaurant is in Virginia.
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They have a buffet.
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And the food is absolutely amazing.
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They were raving about this Indian restaurant.
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Now the restaurant's name is Aditi a D I T I.
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So since they were raving about the Indian food, I decided to go.
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And when I went, I understood why they were raving about the restaurant.
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The food was so good.
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Now, do you know what the word rave means?
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I think you got it.
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The word rave simply means.
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Talk wildly to talk wildly or incoherently as if one word delirious or insane.
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Now this can be used in a negative or a positive way.
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The story that I told you uses it in a positive way.
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So for example, when my family and friends were raving about the restaurant,
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they were saying, TIFF, listen, all we can say is it it's really.
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So they were sometimes speaking a little bit.
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Incoherently talking wildly because it was so delicious.
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The food there we say, rave in English.
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So here's an example sentence.
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Now I understand why travelers rave about Bali.
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B is so beautiful, right?
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Sentence number.
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Her performance at Madison square won RA reviews from the
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critics and sentence number.
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The movie received rave reviews on all social media blogs.
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Everyone was saying how good it was.
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So again, in English we say rave, and now you can use this word in real life.
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Now word number three is also very important.
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Word.
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Number three.
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I want you to repeat after me reflect good again after me.
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Reflect.
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Excellent.
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Last time reflect great job.
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Now, what does this word reflect mean?
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Let me tell you, you see, uh, several weeks ago I was watching my nieces.
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One of my nieces is 12 years old and the other one is five years old.
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Now the five year old, she's a cutie.
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They're both very cute girls, but the five year.
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She has a mind of her own sometimes.
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And she doesn't wanna listen.
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Sometimes she wants to do what she wants to do.
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So one day as I was watching them, I saw her hit her sister and I saw
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her continue to hit her sister.
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And I said, no, no, no, no, no, don't do that.
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I need you to stop.
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She said, what did I do?
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I said, oh, I need you to go, go to your room, go, go ahead.
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And I need you to reflect on what you did and then come back
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down and tell me what happened.
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I need you to think deeply about what just happened.
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So go to your room, reflect on what you did, and then come back and tell me what.
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You did explain to me why you hit your sister.
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I need you to think about it.
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Go and reflect in your room.
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Now, what do you think the word reflect means?
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yes.
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The word reflect means to think deeply or carefully about now.
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Of course, she came back downstairs and everything was fine.
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This happened actually more than a few weeks ago, a long time ago, but again, it
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just means to think deeply or carefully.
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Now here's an example sentence.
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You have to reflect on how to answer his questions before you get home.
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I need you to think deeply about his questions and how to answer.
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Sentence number two, for those who went the distance, it was time to
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reflect on their achievements to think about their achievements deeply.
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And finally, the start of a new year is a good time to reflect
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on the many achievements.
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Of the past in English we say reflect.
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And again, you can use this in real life, just like I did to explain to you what
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happened with my niece in the story.
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Now word number four is also another one.
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That's so important.
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Word.
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Number four may be tricky, but I want you to repeat after me squeamish . I
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told you it's tricky again.
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Squeamish.
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Excellent last time.
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Squeamish.
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Great job.
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Now, let me tell you this.
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This happened about, mm, five years ago, five years ago, my mom, my dad
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and I, we decided to take a walk.
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This is when I was staying with my parents and I was home
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from Korea for a little bit.
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And we were taking a walk in the neighborhood and my parents just
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happened to be behind me talking.
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And as we were walking, I saw something in front of me.
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It actually was a deer and unfortunately the deer had died and
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I, I saw the deer in front of me, but I wanted to get a closer look.
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I was curious.
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So I walked close to the deer.
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My parents said, Hey, what, what you doing?
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I said, oh, I just wanna see this deer.
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They said, okay.
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And I heard something in their voice, but I didn't know what it was.
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And as I got closer to the deer, I saw maggots everywhere.
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I was so shocked.
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And ever since that day, I have been squeamish.
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Whenever someone mentions maggots or has a picture or a video with
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maggots because after seeing literally millions or hundreds of thousands of
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maggots everywhere over the body of that deer, I literally was shocked.
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So now I'm squeamish.
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I can't really look at any pictures or any videos where there are lots
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of maggots after that happened.
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Now, did you guess what the word squeamish.
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I think you got it.
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Squeamish means of a person easily made to feel sick, faint or
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disgusted, especially by unpleasant images, such as the sight of blood.
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So for me now it's the sight of maggots because of what happened
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when I was walking with my parents.
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Now here's an example sentence.
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She's really squeamish and can't stand the sight of blood again.
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She can't stand the sight of blood sentence.
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Number two, many amateur chefs are squeamish about adding live shellfish into
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the boiling water and sentence number.
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I was squeamish about seeing the terrible accident on the bridge.
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Again, made to feel sick fate or disgusted usually by the side of
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blood, or it can be other things as well in English we say squeamish, and
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now you can use this word as well.
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Now word number five is another good one.
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Word number five is substantial.
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Good again after me substantial.
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Excellent.
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Last time after me substantial.
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Great job.
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Now, when I was in Korea, this happened probably about, mm, maybe six years ago.
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Maybe five or six years ago.
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So at that time there was a big hurricane in Puerto Rico.
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So maybe it was only about four or five years ago, but anyways, there was a
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huge, a big hurricane in Puerto Rico.
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Now, one of my closest friends, her family is from Puerto Rico.
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Actually her and her husband's family.
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And at that time, her family experienced a lot of difficulties
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because of the hurricane.
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So our friends and I that were living in Korea at that time as missionary English
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teachers, we decided to help her out so that she could send money to her family.
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And initially we tried to only get together a small amount of
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money because we were a mission.
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But we were able to collect a substantial amount of money and we were able to
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give the money to her so that she could help her family in Puerto Rico.
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It was a very difficult time for Puerto Ricans at that time
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because the hurricane was so bad.
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But we were so happy and we praised God that we were able to collect such a
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substantial amount to help her family.
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Now, what do you think the word substantial actually means?
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All right.
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The word substantial literally means of considerate importance.
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Size or worth.
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So we were able to collect a lot of money.
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All right.
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Here's the example, sentence.
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Best of all, she could save a substantial amount of money for
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a down payment on her own place.
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She was able to save a lot of money to get her house sentence number.
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Only people who have made substantial contributions will be considered only
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those who have given a good amount, a large amount of money would be considered.
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And finally at the end of the year, the bills totaling a substantial
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amount could be donated to charity.
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Again, a large amount in English.
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We say substantial.
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Now, I hope you enjoyed this lesson.
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And I hope you realize how easy it is to use the five
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words we learned today in real.
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Now, don't forget.
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If you want to keep studying with me, if you wanna keep improving your
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English, all you have to do is go to www dot daily English, lessons.com.
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These lessons that I've prepared for, you will take you from the intermediate level.
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All the way to the advanced English level.
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So go to www.dailyenglishlessons.com.
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And I'll talk to you next time, but as always remember to speak English.
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You still there you?
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Nope.
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What time it is?
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It's story time.
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A, I said it's story time.
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All right.
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Now today's story is actually about one of you.
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I have something right here with me on my phone, and I want to share it with you.
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So today I told you quite a few stories to help you understand the
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words that we learned and the words that you can use in real life.
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But a long time ago, I told you that I prayed and asked
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God what he wanted me to do.
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I had two choices to become an art professor or to continue teaching English.
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And God told me very clearly that he wanted me to continue
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teaching English online.
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Now I think, you know me well enough, you know how passionate I am about
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helping you achieve your English goals.
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But sometimes, sometimes you really surprise me.
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You see one of you, one of my students sent me a message and these
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messages are the ones that hit home.
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They touch my heart so much because remember I started doing this because I
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wanted to help people around the world.
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So when I get messages from you, all, I really cherish your messages and I've
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gotten a substantial number of messages.
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You caught that, right.
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Substantial.
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Right.
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So I want to kind of reflect on some of the things you guys have said to me
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specifically on this message right here.
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So I wanna read it to you, this message and I'm reading it right.
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From a student named YNY V YNY is one of my students, uh, in my academy.
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Um, and again, YNY says, hi teacher.
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I really appreciate the time that you dedicate to us.
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I'm actually subscribed to your YouTube channel.
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And I always click the like button on your videos.
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Thank you.
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YNY I appreciate it.
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And now, Tiffani, thanks to all your guidance and everything
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I've learned from you.
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I have been able to start working at a bilingual call center, and
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now I'm feeling so confident when I speak to native English speakers.
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I wanna stop real quick.
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Now, Yi is confident has gotten a better job simply from the lessons that I've been
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delivering to you guys here on YouTube.
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And in my academy, literally this warms my heart.
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Because every day, I'm getting up during the week, thinking about you,
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how can I help you achieve your goals?
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My goal is to help you achieve your goals.
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So when I get messages like this, they literally just make me smile and
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make me wanna work harder for you all.
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Again, she continues.
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I'm no longer nervous around English speakers.
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And even though they notice my accent, they tell me that
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they understand what I say.
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And they actually have no problem.
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Speaking with me.
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I'm so happy to see my improvement teacher, Tiffani.
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I know that I'll still make mistakes, but I don't mind anymore.
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Every single day I'm improving my English skills.
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Thank you teacher.
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I love you.
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I love you too.
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YNY and I'm so happy that your confidence went up.
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I'm so happy that you got another job.
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I'm so happy that other native English speakers are aware of your improvement.
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Continue to study hard.
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And for you not YNY for you.
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I want you to experience the same thing that YNY did.
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So keep studying hard, keep following these weekly lessons again.
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If you wanna study more with me again, you can always join
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[email protected], but I want you to remember the
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fact that I am here for you.
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I want you to be confident.
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I want you to achieve your English goals, and I believe that you can
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and will I'll talk to you next time.
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