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first question can you speak English um

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yes well I studied to to be an English

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teacher you obviously studied English in

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school I think studi is big word for for

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what I did SCH yes I spent uh time 6

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months in India when I was young wow

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when I was a

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hippie I like British people I like the

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language so some things you say sound

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quite British really British English um

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is a little bit how say more eloquent oh

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thank you I think we we speak British

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English not American yeah yeah I think

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we speak stter

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English I think you are maybe British

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yeah exactly yeah you're like a sponge

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or something yes sponge I tried to fit

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in that's British English oh yes that's

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good ha welcome to a new episode of easy

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English so as you can probably

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hear I'm in the city of monster in

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Germany and I want to know can Germans

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speak English it's time to find out

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let's

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go can you speak English yeah I think so

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simple question can you speak English

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yeah a little bit not too good not too

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much but yeah I think it's okay A little

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bit a little bit I can speak uh actually

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school English yes I can yes a little

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bit a little bit okay and do you know uh

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what level your English would

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be could you guess I think my school

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grade says B2 B2 B2 yeah okay so

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conversational level if if someone

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asking me on the

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street where can I find this where can I

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find that I I could tell I could help

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the people yeah okay I think it's like

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B2 or something like this yeah okay and

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are you comfortable speaking English

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yeah usually yes yeah I think I am once

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I'm in a bit of a like habit of it yeah

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my my brother lives in London so when

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I'm visiting him or like his girlfriend

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after one day or something I feel quite

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comfortable

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but like being in Germany I never speak

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English so yeah that's a little bit of a

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different thing that's interesting

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though that you kind of you need to get

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up to speed or something it takes you

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like a day or or 24 hours have to get

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warm yeah are you comfortable to make

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conversations with English people a

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normal conversation is possible a

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special conversation uh uh in special

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terms it's very difficult how often

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would you say you are speaking English

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oh not very very often during vacation

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sometimes or when I get in touch with

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International students like in a week I

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speak like 100 words I don't know I

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can't say maybe every half a year once

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or two a year once or twice a year one

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or twice a year uh in Holiday yeah okay

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oh you go to England or no not to

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England but it's it's uh over the world

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it's English our uh sister-in-law

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daughter-in-law daughter-in-law yeah the

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the wife of my of our son yeah she's

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Japanese okay so uh we speak most

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English with her okay maybe like three

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to four times a week on a regular basis

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but not that intense well I study to to

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be an English teacher so

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um yeah four five times a week yeah

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I can hear it on the weekday yeah I can

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hear it the way you

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do you know if you are speaking British

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or American English no I don't know I

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think we we speak British English not

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American yeah yeah I think we speak St

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English I guess rather American English

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I don't know because some things you say

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sound quite British really I'm a foreign

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uh talker so I I don't really know the

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most things I consume are sadly American

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so I guess I would talk in American

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sadly yeah I think the British uh

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British accent or the British English um

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is a little bit I to say more eloquent

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oh thank you it depends on who I'm

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talking to because I think you are maybe

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British yeah exactly yeah you're like a

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sponge or something yes I'm a little

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sponge I try to fit in

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do you think you are speaking with more

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American vocabulary or wow I never

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thought about that actually I don't know

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maybe kind of a mix Yeah okay or I I

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guess it's just a hard German

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accent yeah German English German

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English yes what is this object that

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people think is a vegetable but is

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really a fruit and is red I would say

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Tomatoes Tomatoes this is this is

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American English American okay yeah in

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school it's in the books we had that

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like uh they said we are learning

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British English but everyone like the

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yeah the pronunciation is American

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tomato ah this is American English Okay

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tomato do you do you mean a tomato yeah

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that's British English oh yes that's

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that's good uh yeah tomato tomato not

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tomato okay but you know it you know the

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difference very good we visit uh London

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once with my school yeah and I really

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had uh problems like I just wanted to

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order a burger by McDonald's at

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McDonald's and yeah like if they speak

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uh fast it was hard for me to understand

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right because it's not like in the books

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yeah yeah yeah true and even our teacher

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had like the American pronunciation yeah

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you obviously studied English in school

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I think study is a big word for for what

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I did in scho yes okay study in

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quotation marks are you doing anything

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to improve your English now or after

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school sometimes I watch English movies

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or yeah or sometimes I try to read

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English books oh really um but not very

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often because I don't have a lot of time

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I've learned English through traveling

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around a okay yeah during my holidays

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and during work as well a little bit I

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think the the vast majority of media I

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consume is in English oh really when you

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say media you mean social media or

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Netflix or something no yeah I mean like

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movies and shows and uh like sometimes

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podcasts and streams and stuff like that

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the most English actually I learned from

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watching movies and even video games

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like playing with people from other

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countries like Le of Legends I played

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this a lot okay yeah lot of games only

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in English the most Comm ities are

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talking in English so more in that way I

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play a lot of video games of that counts

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so I do speak a bit English I'm guessing

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you mean online gaming where you're

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talking to people who are all over the

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world and English is the universal

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language what games and Russian and

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Russian like Cisco or something like

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that Cisco what's this CS go color

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strike ah okay wow really people are

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still playing this yeah wow I'm very old

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by the way me too I played at in

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University and that was yeah over 10

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years ago I spend uh time 6 months in

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India when I was young wow when I was a

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hippie and Sri Lanka and I spoke for six

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months just English so um it was a good

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school yeah you have still have a good

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level now because of then it's okay yeah

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I think so it's okay my my wife is still

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learning yes I'm learning busy okay with

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uh Duo oh really yes what advice would

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you give to people who are trying to

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improve their

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English I would advise them to just

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really speak it and noways we have a lot

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of avatars for example so you can make

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conversations directly with your mobile

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phone yeah and your avatar on the mobile

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phone yeah and I think that's helpful

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to um

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yeah to improve constantly so I think

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it's important to surround yourself with

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the language like in form of uh films

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movies books um try to get in touch with

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native speakers what advice would you

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give to someone or what could you

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recommend someone to help them improve

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their English that's maybe not a

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traditional way oh not traditional um

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yeah maybe try speaking English with

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your friends sometimes okay I did that

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in school uh that was pretty fun you

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would also recommend gaming or actually

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yeah and watching movies with uh yeah

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English subed or DED yeah yeah okay more

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helpful than actually learning in the

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school I don't know in school we learned

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like the the gra grammatic thing yeah

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the correct way which is super important

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like he esos

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SMI and uh yeah like this was the base

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and everything else is like you get this

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from yeah actually talking with people

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thanks for watching this week's episode

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let us know in the comments below how

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much English you're speaking on a

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day-to-day basis and any advice hints or

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tips you can give for improving your

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English outside of school in a

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non-traditional way and as always we'll

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see you next time trra

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