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Asking where someone is from

very good and if you're from another country i'd ask them what where they're from oh yeah first visit to brighton ah that's a good one we used to host uh students so um from oth...

Course: Confident real-life conversationsSection: Small talk topics and complimentsSubtitles: en

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very good and if you're from another

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country i'd ask them what where they're

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from oh yeah

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first visit to brighton

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ah that's a good one we used to host uh

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students so um

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from other countries so it's nice to

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know where they're from how long they're

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going to be here say i bump into a bus

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stop

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after we've sort of said hello to each

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other every sort of like catch up as eye

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contact do you first like go to

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something like oh nice day in it

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um usually to start off with

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in general i usually just like try

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complimenting people so i go oh my god

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that jacket that's really cool nice um

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where did you get that where can i get

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it oh it looks really good on you um

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like that kind of thing or like

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complimenting people's hair or like

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glasses or

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something it's interesting that you say

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that because my next question was going

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to be around kind of

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what is appropriate because

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i also would say that i don't mind if

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people give me a compliment but then

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what is like too much what is like when

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you shouldn't because you're saying

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about kind of personal character traits

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right which is kind of on the edge of

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maybe where the line is

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where would you think the line is i'd

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generally say if it's something the

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person is clearly personalized for

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themselves so not something that they

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can't change such as body type or skin

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color

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