Meeting Someone New in English | Introductions & Small Talk

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Hi everyone! Welcome back to another
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I'm in London at the moment and I decided to contact
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another English teacher who has a channel on Youtube!
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You might know her... It's Lucy from English with Lucy!
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We are going to meet together on camera
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so that you can learn a little bit more
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about how to introduce yourself in English!
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Hello! Hi! It's so nice to meet you!
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Lovely to finally meet you.
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How are you?
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I'm well, how are you?
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I'm good thank you. How are you?
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How are you finding London?
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So far it has been incredible, like I've been, you know,
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working really hard but also having lots of fun as well.
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It's just the weather that's not quite my cup of tea!
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It's not great! It's a bit grey at the moment.
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It's a little bit grey and a little bit drizzly,
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a little bit cold for me!
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I've spent a few days up in Scotland as well,
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which was even colder, so I guess now..
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What's it like in Australia?
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At the moment we're just going into summer
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so it's starting to get warm.
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I'm envious!
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I'm looking forward to getting back there actually.
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Do you live near the beach?
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I do, yeah! I live in Melbourne right near the beach. Yeah.
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And how long are you going to stay here for?
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Probably just another few days actually
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so I've been here for about two weeks already.
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Do you miss home?
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Not really! It's nice to get out and explore
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and see new things and meet lots of new
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people, like yourself! So yeah.
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Yeah I love travelling.
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Do you? So where have you been traveling recently?
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Well, I used to live in Spain. I got to see quite a lot
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of Spain. I haven't been traveling recently.
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I did go on a holiday to Spain this summer
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but I'm looking to move abroad very soon!
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Really?
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I'm looking to go back to Spain very, very soon.
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I would love to visit Spain! I've never been.
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Haven't you? No.
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Have you been to many other countries?
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I have been... Yeah I've travelled quite a lot.
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I've been to Greece, so you know, warm, beautiful
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beaches, lovely in summer - that kind of thing.
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I went to Greece this summer! I went to Kefalonia,
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one of the islands.
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It is such a gorgeous part of the world.
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The food! And the food!
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It's like a mix of Greek and Italian food together,
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just my two favorites!
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The European summer is lovely.
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It's a shame about the winter!
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I know! I'll make sure that I'm back here
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for the summer next time!
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And you need to visit Spain!
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Yes!
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Spain is my favourite country in the world!
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Yes, I know! It's been on my list for many years.
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And the food there - if you like like the Greek food,
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then you're going to love Spanish food!
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I'm a bit tired of eating Spanish food in restaurants
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anywhere else in the world except in Spain.
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It's just not the same! It's not the same!
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And I'm looking forward to having my first proper
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'siesta' as well!
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Have you never had one before? We need to correct that
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Not officially, no.
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So, I've seen on your channel that you quite like cooking.
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Yes.
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How did you get into that?
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Well to be honest, I learnt a lot of it
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from my my fiancé, Shah.
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So he is an excellent cook and I guess when you
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get in a relationship with someone,
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you have to kind of 'up the ante' a bit
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so he was a really good cook and I needed to
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impress him with my skills!
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Well, cooking for one just, it's not same, is it?
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Actually, I'm awful at cooking for one.
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I always make about six meals worth
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and then I have to end up freezing it,
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which is kind of helpful
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but I'm not good at cooking for one.
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Well I recently moved back with my parents
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for a short while before moving on to another country
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and the best part of it is is being able to cook
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for three other people
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I thought you were going to say that you
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the best part about it is you get like home-cooked meals
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every night!
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No! I make them myself!
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You do it yourself?
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Yeah! That's like my sort of agreement.
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You can have me here, and I'll cook for you!
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What's your specialty?
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Well I did travel in Italy a little bit...
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Actually, I didn't go to Italy, I went to Palermo in Sicily!
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And they taught me how to make a mean risotto!
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But I really like experimenting, so I kind of ask my
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dad and my brother because they're the most
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appreciative: "What do you fancy?" And then I try and
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do it but with a twist!
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So, if they want Mexican, then I'll do some sort of..
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I like to invent!
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We're quite opposite in that sense,
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I'm very much like a find a really good recipe
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and make the recipe.
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See I like to find a couple of recipes,
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take inspiration from them and then rewrite it myself!
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That sounds interesting and very exciting!
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So, what's your number one recipe then?
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I love cooking Thai food actually!
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I do love a Thai green curry!
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Yeah.
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But I find it hard to find a good paste.
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Well I make all of my pastes myself!
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So, that's why mine are so good! But yeah, it's
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all about the paste, right? So you cook that first,
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then you deal with the rest of it.
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So, you must have lived in quite a few countries then?
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I have, I've definitely travelled and visited a few
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I've only lived in... I was born in Australia
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and I've lived most of my life in Australia
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but I have spent some time living in Vietnam
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and also in Malaysia.
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I've never been to Asia at all!
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Haven't you?
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In fact, I have only ever left Europe twice.
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Once was to go to Jamaica
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and once was to go to Grenada
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Oh, really? You're a Caribbean kind of girl.
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I've lived in, just in Spain. I lived in Madrid
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and I lived in Seville.
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Beautiful part of the world!
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And London and the countryside in England.
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I'm from Bedfordshire.
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What's the countryside like?
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So green that sometimes when I get off the train,
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I have to put my sunglasses on because it hurts my eyes!
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It's beautiful! Lovely in spring and summer.
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Autumn is stunning
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because you get all of the fall of the leaves.
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Yeah.
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And winter's nice. It does snow, occasionally.
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Where I'm from it's quite flat, but if you go further,
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quite flat but if you go further,
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further afield you can go down hills and everything.
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Yeah.
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But I'm looking to live in some other countries, soon!
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Not sure!
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That's one of the things that I love most about teaching
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and meeting new people is there are so many
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opportunities to, you know, travel and go to
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different places, and places that you never really
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expected to go either!
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Yeah! I mean, it's journey, isn't it? You just end up
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doing things that you never, ever imagined
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and meeting lots of random people.. like you!
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Exactly!
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Running into you in London!
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Okay Emma! Well, I would love to show you
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my neighborhood so why don't we go grab a coffee?
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Yeah I'd love to have a little bit of a walk around.
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That sounds great! Let's do it!
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And have a chat? Continue chatting?
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Okay!
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Well, i hope you enjoyed that video about introducing
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yourself to someone that you've never
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met before!
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So there was lots of small talk and
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conversation topics that you can use
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when you first meet someone! So if you
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would like to continue the conversation
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with Lucy and I, she has another video on
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her YouTube channel: English with Lucy
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You can find the link underneath this
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video and in that video we're going to
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be talking about our jobs and what we do!
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