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Hi everyone. I hope you're all good and

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welcome to a new episode of Easy

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English. So Easy and I are in our final

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few days in Müster. [music]

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So I thought I would head down into the

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city center and make conversations with

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non-native English speakers, Germans.

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Now Germans are known for having a very

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good level of English speaking. So I

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thought I'd go down and speak to various

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levels of from B1 to C2 English

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speakers. And for you guys, you'll be

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able to pick up on certain [music]

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vocabulary that they're using and maybe

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even get some good [music] tips and

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tricks for how you can improve your

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English speaking level. Uh, I hope you

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all enjoy. Don't forget to subscribe and

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here we go.

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>> Hello.

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>> Hello. Nice to meet you.

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>> Yes. Nice to meet you, too.

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>> Uh, how are you doing today?

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>> Uh, we are twists.

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>> You're tourists?

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>> Yes.

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>> Hi.

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>> Hi. [laughter]

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>> Nice to meet you.

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>> Nice. Nice to meet you.

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>> How are you two doing today?

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>> I'm doing great. Yeah, I'm doing great.

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>> Great. How's it going? How are you

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doing?

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>> I'm doing good. And you?

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>> Very good. We're just walking through

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through the streets and uh trying to

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enjoy some uh sun.

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>> Wonderful. And I'm good, thank you.

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Okay. So, hi. Okay. Hi. [laughter]

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>> How's it going?

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How is it going?

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>> Yeah. How are you doing?

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>> Very well.

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>> Yeah.

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>> And you?

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>> Uh, yeah. I'm a little bit cold, but I'm

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really good. I'm really good.

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>> It's cold.

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>> Little bit cold.

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>> Yeah. But today is warmer than

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yesterday.

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>> That's true.

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>> Yeah.

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>> It's also very English to speak about

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the weather.

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>> Yeah. [laughter]

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>> Hi.

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>> So, hi. Hi. How are you doing?

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>> I'm good, thank you. How are you doing

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today?

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>> Yeah, pretty fine. We went to Müster

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from our hometown, a small village.

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close to Muna. It's 30 km and yeah, just

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had a look here in the city and um just

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watch here on the market and get some

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Yeah. Uh something to eat.

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>> We're living in Sabulen Z

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>> in the near

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from French.

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>> Ah yeah. Really? Okay. Yes.

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>> Nice. And uh so do you speak French? Uh

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yes,

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>> we [laughter] I we I

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[laughter]

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>> Are you looking for anything in town

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today? Are you shopping? Are you just

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wandering around?

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>> I think both. Uh I think I was looking a

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bit a little bit for new shoes, but

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mainly just scrolling around and

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>> yeah, nothing special. If you come

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across something, then we will take it,

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but we're not searching for a specific

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item.

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>> Nice. Are you from minster?

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>> I'm I moved here for studying but

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usually I'm from Frankfurt and

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>> I studied in Frankfurt but I'm from the

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north coast of Germany.

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>> Okay. Nice. [snorts] Uh

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>> I visited like this how do you call it?

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Orizand.

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Yes.

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>> Really? [laughter] Wow. Okay. Yeah. I

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went to like

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really [laughter]

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>> Wow.

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>> I'm a shop barber shop here. Yes. And

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Yes. And now I do my pose.

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>> Ah, yeah.

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>> Pause.

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>> A break.

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>> A break. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yeah.

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>> Like a mux pose.

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>> Know me pose. Yeah. [laughter] I'll do

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it.

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>> Yeah.

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>> Thank you. You're also helping me.

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>> Yeah. Again. [laughter]

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>> And what are you doing today in the town

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center?

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>> Uh I'm here with my friends to drink

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some coffee.

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>> Nice. Okay. Yeah.

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>> Are you like on a mint pow?

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>> Uh, no. We finished university.

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>> Ah, okay. What are you studying?

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[laughter]

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>> You don't have to tell me.

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>> No. So, we're like doing um

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boring stuff. Yeah.

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>> Okay. That sounds suspicious. [laughter]

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>> Yes. Um, it's like a dual stu study.

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>> Okay.

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>> So, practice and now it's

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>> school kind of. And uh how long are you

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making this uh study for? Like three

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years, two years.

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>> Three years.

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>> Three years.

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>> And then you will go on to do what?

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>> Um we're going to work somewhere.

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[laughter]

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>> Why so secretive?

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[laughter]

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>> Okay. We we we skipped this bit.

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>> Yes.

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>> What in particular? Some like German

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cuisine.

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>> Um yeah, like potatoes. Uh smashed

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potatoes. Uh so uh my girlfriend likes

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uh the fish uh

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>> fish and chips. Uh so also here uh it's

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quite uh

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>> Can you get fish and chips in Germany?

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>> Uh not really. But um yeah um there are

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some some uh yeah offers where you can

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get like this.

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>> But did you ever have like uh the

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traditional English fish and chips

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before?

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>> No, not not now. Uh I went to London a

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few times but never had fish and chips.

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So

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>> no. [laughter] Okay.

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>> No, I have to try it. So uh when I um

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yeah visit friend uh close to London

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again next year maybe then I will try

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that.

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>> Nice. You should come to I live in

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Brighton.

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>> Have you heard of Brighton?

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>> Yes. Yes. Yeah. Brighton Aian. So the

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football club I'm uh Yeah. I'm good in

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football clubs and I love playing

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football. So

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>> yeah. We have a German manager right

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now. Ah yeah. Who who is it?

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>> Uh Fabian.

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>> Ah yeah yeah yeah. I think he was also

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in the Bundesliga.

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>> Are you learning English at the moment?

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>> Yeah, in the in the school. One year in

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the school and um

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>> for only one year.

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>> Only one year. Yes.

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>> Wow. Okay.

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>> But uh two months in England

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learning uh

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two

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>> Okay. [laughter] And so you were

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visiting England recently.

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>> Yes.

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>> And how do you learn English?

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>> Um

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I'm learning English uh with YouTube.

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>> Oh, with YouTube? Okay.

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>> YouTube? Yeah, just YouTube.

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>> Interesting. Do you practice learning

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English still or where have you learned

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English? I have learned English in

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school mostly. Um, and just now I don't

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really speak a lot of English. No. Um,

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no, but I watch a lot of English films

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[snorts]

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and movies um and stuff like that.

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>> And your English is really good, I must

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say.

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>> Thank you. So, I'm speaking a lot in uh

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in our office because we're an

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international company, Figal Logistics.

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It's also here a regional company and

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there are we have uh yeah often contact

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with uh international companies and then

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we yeah must speak English.

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>> And how about you? Are you

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>> I've learned uh English in school too

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and then after I finished school I spent

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a year abroad in Tanzania

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>> and so there I I was very happy that

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some of my friends could speak English

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so I could improve my skills a little

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bit but most of them speak Swahili. So I

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have I had to learn Swahili too. Wow.

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Really?

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>> Yeah. Oh, I'm very comfortable speaking

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English.

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>> That's really good. So, um, what advice

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as the last question, what advice would

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you give to people if they wanted to

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improve their English speaking?

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>> I think I maybe start like speaking with

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your friends. Maybe just start as a

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joke. I think I did it with like a

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couple of my friends. So we started like

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including it in our uh language but I

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think mainly start to watch it on via

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via TV series or movies and then with

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subtitles and I think that's the

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easiest. We we have uh talk with many

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peoples uh with our bad English

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uh but

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was no enough.

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>> Yeah, it is enough. I think your English

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is good enough to order drinks, order

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food.

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>> Yes.

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>> Buy tickets.

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>> What's not a problem? No.

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>> Um living and talking to people is I

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think more or better like just learning

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it on frontal. So exchanges or something

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are always a very good thing I think. Um

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if you already have a base like for your

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English. So if you already have learned

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English in school and then use movies or

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films to

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not forget the language then that's

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great. But I think also speaking with

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people is more of the way to really

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improve it and get better.

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>> Yes. And like in Tanzania the people

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they weren't native speakers too. So one

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of us made mistakes but that's totally

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fine because like we could have each

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other and everybody talks and but like

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even with mistakes everybody understand

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what you want to say. So it's totally

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fine.

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>> When I was younger when I've uh yeah

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played uh PC and like video games and so

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on. Yeah. Counter strike and some

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[laughter] World of Warcraft.

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>> Everyone says Counter Strike. Yeah.

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That's really uh I think the the games

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where you learn English when you're

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speaking with the others.

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>> And how what what uh recommendations

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would you give?

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>> So my advice would be bring yourself

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into a situation where there's no

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possibility to speak with uh foreign

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languages. So where only possibility is

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to interact with people from different

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languages and you are yeah forced to

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speak English. So, I think that's the

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best way to learn it

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>> in in the at the deep end of the pool.

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>> Yeah.

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>> Nice. I think that's a good idea, too.

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Yeah. Great. Well, thank you very much.

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Nice to meet you so much. Have a nice

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day.

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>> I hope you are visiting again soon. Nice

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to meet you.

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>> Yep. Nice to meet you, too. [laughter]

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>> Hi.

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>> Nice to meet you,

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>> both of you. Have a nice rest of your

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day.

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>> Yeah. Thank you. Have a nice day.

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>> Was nice to meet you.

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>> Yeah. Nice. Me, too. [laughter]

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>> Thank you for your time. We appreciate

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it. Have a nice rest of your day.

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>> Thank you.

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>> Thanks. Bye. [laughter] Great. Well,

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have a nice rest of your day. I hope you

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find your fish and chips.

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>> Yeah. Thank you.

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