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People and counting basics

people is plural two people yep one person two people three people four people ten people five people a thousand people yes very good um yes a long time ago we were so when you...

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um

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people is plural

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two people yep

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one person two people three people four

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people ten people five people a thousand

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people

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yes very good

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um

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yes a long time ago we were so

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when you say so

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i'm i'm 30 years old

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i'm 31 years old i don't know how old i

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am so oh my god i'm 31 years old um

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so

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i'm not

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young i am older

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and how do you say though when a man was

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younger he was

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it's a word that starts with a b

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and how about for women

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yeah when a woman was younger she was a

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that word starts with a g

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do you guys know

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so that would be

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boy

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and

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girl

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so a young man is a boy

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a young woman is a girl

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earlier i realized we didn't go back to

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say what the short version of thank you

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was you're right so the shorter the

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another way to say thank you is just

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thanks

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yep it's a little um

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it's still polite

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um but thank you is a little more formal

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you say the whole word yeah

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all right so

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we have person becomes people

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the plural of boy and girl girl or boy

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is just girls and boys so you just add

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an s

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to the ends of both of those words

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um all right

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and now moving on to

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let's see

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should we move on to numbers

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yeah we could do some numbers i think

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that would be nice yeah do you wanna do

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you wanna take go ahead with that okay

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so

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let's get started with numbers are you

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guys ready

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so

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does anyone know how many this is

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i do you know

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my goodness

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one

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one

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two

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three

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four

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