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Building confidence with media

Yeah, sure. >> [laughter] >> Yeah, the confidence. Yeah, sure. I was really bad until like I think 11th, 12th grade. Yeah. But then you start watching TV shows, films in English...

Course: Confident real-life conversationsSection: German students speak EnglishSubtitles: en

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Yeah, sure.

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>> [laughter]

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>> Yeah, the confidence.

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Yeah, sure.

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I was really bad until like I think

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11th, 12th grade. Yeah. But then you

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start watching TV shows, films in

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English. How old is that? 11th, 12th

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grade. How what kind of

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age?

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16, 17. So, it took some time to get

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going.

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>> I remember that we had like tests in

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vocabulary, and I had like two points

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Wow, yeah. out of 15, so

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I think we both have made a semester

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abroad. Oh, really? Yes.

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And that has Where did you go? Canada.

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To Canada, oh really? Nice. I was on

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Vancouver Island with a couple of

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friends,

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and also um

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like

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school teach me some kind of English,

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and

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at least to a certain level that um

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I was able to watch movies and and

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series. And I think that's where

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yeah, my English really improved. Nice.

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Yeah, same for me. Especially I think

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the semester abroad was really helpful

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because there were people from all over

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over the world. Yeah. So, we were just

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speaking English all the time. Are you

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doing speaking much English in your

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day-to-day? Um from time to time when I

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like

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