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Full video: Can English People Speak Foreign Languages? | Advanced Listening Practice

Course: Accents and language differencesSection: Learning foreign languagesSubtitles: en

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you're watching real English with

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teachers real teachers today we're

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asking the British public yes go on

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guess French it was a deep friendship it

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goes very well it does and that's the

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trick to keep practicing have you ever

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tried to learn a foreign language not

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since school putting a little bit of

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French world words phrases but otherwise

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day nope and with friends the only

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language only friendship yeah and why

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have you not been tempted to try and

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pick up another one

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um I don't we travel a lot route really

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to be honest so I've never actually I've

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seen the need to yeah I could speak

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Gaelic I've walked on and let him you

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could speak laughing well I could I was

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because I was a Catholic and I said go

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to the mess when I was young right you

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know I know I've got to learn now

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nothing to it to be able to go into that

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ultra-right you know and serving it

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except altar boys that would be called

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and now I like learning German at school

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if I had more time in the future maybe

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maybe I'd learn Spanish have you ever

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tried to learn a foreign language well

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not since school okay right and what why

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is that cuz we're all lazy and think the

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English is the international language

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and everybody should speak English and

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you know if we had to we would but

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certainly if I emigrated to another

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country my first priority would be to

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make sure I could speak that language

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not expect everybody there

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to speak English have you ever tried to

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learn a foreign language only at school

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yeah and it's called French which was

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expanded okay so other than that no I

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haven't any reason for that

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laziness no need it's about it really

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never needed it but I do like when we go

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to different places looking up local

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phrases and yeah I like can I have the

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bill please

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have you ever learned a foreign language

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no I took Latin in school and I know

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little bits of French but I and I was in

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South Africa and I speak tiny little

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bits of Zulu okay but I've never really

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taken a foreign language in that sense

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you know number of reasons really I went

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there for I was very ill at the time and

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I went there for the sunshine

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you know I stayed in Johannesburg for a

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while and then then Durban you know I

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had a number of things going on there

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but it really was to improve my health

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if I could get my health improved so

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there was suffering from magic fever

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which has got a lot to do with dampness

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you know than the damn weather and how

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did when you were in the church how did

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you have to use laughing just just for

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reading or reading to the prep the

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priest would say something and then you

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would have an answer to it like you know

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in Latin I you know what uh I was a long

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time I go like I don't for any well I do

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I still do but remember quite a bit a

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bit but ER

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I wouldn't know that and a rigmarole

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I know a certain part like you know okay

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to the video yeah I think if you go and

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yourself in a situation where you

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couldn't communicate without English

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well the trouble is that most countries

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they do teach English from such a young

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age

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and I think ice Popp it's great but it

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makes us lazy so I've never been abroad

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and not being able to get by with a

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phrase book I'm afraid we're colonial we

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expect it's because of America you know

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America wants to communicate in American

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English so the rest of the world's got

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so yeah particularly Trump well I used

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to tell people OFF word speak Australian

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and use that just called her the women

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or they used to Sheila's than that I

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think that's an Old Gaelic Irish name

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they as I guess it's a well known name

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she I know you know sir but then they

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put to their debt they're called out

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there there's women that was a bit

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derogatory like I was it my Sheila no

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it's a bit naughty really I know I

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admire people who are multilingual and

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there

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out there but no it's not something that

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interests me because I'm lazy as well

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and I think when we go abroad we should

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speak the native language but English is

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so universal it makes us all lazy

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doesn't it yeah do you give it a go when

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you go away right yeah yes yeah I do try

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don't go abroad very often to be perfect

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