Listening practice overview

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Hey, everybody. Welcome to this A1

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English listening practice video. You

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can use this video to practice your

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listening and comprehension as I speak.

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So today, I'm going to talk about the

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English language. This is an important

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topic for all of you because you're all

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learning English. In this video, I'm

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going to give you some interesting facts

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about the English language. This should

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be fun. Okay, so the first thing I want

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to talk about is how many people speak

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this language. Well, almost 400 million

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people speak English as their first

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language. These people are native

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English speakers. Most of these speakers

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are in the US, of course, but there are

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many other English-speaking countries.

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Obviously,