Childhood regrets

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So, when we make mistakes, Neil, sometimes we then have a regret

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or we regret the thing that we did.

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That means that we feel bad about it.

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Or we wish that we'd done something differently.

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Do you have any regrets?

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Yeah. When I was a kid, I guess I was probably 12 or 13.

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I had some piano lessons, and I quit as soon as I could.

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My parents gave me that choice.

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And I regret that because I love music and I play guitar,

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and I think I would have enjoyed playing piano.

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I always think, to be honest, you shouldn't have any regrets,

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because whatever you've done, you've learnt something from it.

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Even if something bad happened, then you know for next time.

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And it's a kind of self-improvement thing.

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That is a very positive attitude to mistakes, Beth.

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Yeah, I think it's important to learn from your mistakes.

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And that's a common expression in English – to learn from your mistakes.

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Let's recap the vocabulary we've learnt in this podcast.

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Starting with 'mistake', and a mistake is an action that is wrong.