Advanced English Speaking Practice || Mastering the American accent ft. @RichiEnglish5

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Summary

TLDRIn a detailed conversation, Rich, an English teacher and YouTuber, shares insights on language learning, particularly English. He emphasizes the importance of consistency, listening, and vocabulary over solely relying on grammar books. Rich addresses common learner questions about achieving fluency and sounding like a native speaker, suggesting that with dedication, it is possible. He recounts his personal journey of learning English, highlighting the role of media and conversation in his development. Rich recommends various shows for improving fluency and stresses the significance of pronunciation and context in mastering the language.

Takeaways

  • 👨‍🏫 Rich is a certified English teacher with over three years of experience.
  • 📺 Content creation is Rich's main hobby, leaving little time for other activities.
  • ⏳ Consistency is key to language learning; results take time.
  • 📚 Grammar is important but should be learned in context with vocabulary.
  • 🎧 Listening to native speakers helps in acquiring accents and pronunciation.
  • 🗣️ Speaking practice is essential for fluency; engage in conversations.
  • 📺 Recommended shows for learning English include Sneaky Pete and Breaking Bad.
  • 🔄 Retaining vocabulary requires practice and usage in conversation.
  • 💬 Public speaking can boost confidence in language skills.
  • 🌍 English connects you with people globally, making it a valuable skill.

Timeline

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    Rich introduces himself, clarifying his name and background as a T-Soul certified English teacher with over three years of experience. He shares his passion for teaching and content creation on YouTube, emphasizing the time-consuming nature of video editing and content production.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    Rich discusses common questions he receives from students, particularly about the time it takes to become an advanced English speaker and the possibility of sounding like a native. He stresses the importance of consistency in learning and suggests that while fluency takes time, significant progress can be seen in 3 to 6 months.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    The conversation shifts to the challenges faced by students who focus solely on grammar without achieving fluency. Rich explains that grammar is essential but should be learned in context, alongside vocabulary and pronunciation. He encourages students to engage with contemporary vocabulary and practice speaking to improve their fluency.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:20:00

    Rich reflects on his own language learning journey, noting that he began learning English at a young age through speaking and listening rather than formal study. He emphasizes the importance of consistent exposure to English and the role of listening in developing language skills.

  • 00:20:00 - 00:25:00

    The discussion continues with Rich sharing his experiences with public speaking and the challenges he faced early on. He highlights the importance of practice and gradual improvement in building confidence, particularly in public speaking situations.

  • 00:25:00 - 00:33:08

    Finally, Rich offers advice on acquiring accents, suggesting that learners should immerse themselves in their target accent by minimizing exposure to other accents. He emphasizes the importance of consistent listening and pronunciation practice to develop a desired accent.

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Video Q&A

  • How long does it take to become an advanced English speaker?

    It usually takes about 3 to 6 months to start seeing real change, but fluency takes longer.

  • Can I ever sound like a native English speaker?

    Yes, with consistent practice and listening, it's possible to sound like a native.

  • Is grammar important in learning English?

    Yes, grammar is important, but it should be learned in context along with vocabulary.

  • What should I focus on to improve my English fluency?

    Focus on listening, speaking, and expanding your vocabulary, especially contemporary vocabulary.

  • How can I improve my accent?

    Minimize exposure to other accents and focus on listening to your target accent consistently.

  • What shows do you recommend for learning English?

    Recommended shows include Sneaky Pete, Breaking Bad, and Maid.

  • How can I retain new vocabulary?

    Practice pronunciation and use new words in conversation to help retain them.

  • What role does listening play in learning a language?

    Listening is crucial as it helps with pronunciation, accent, and understanding the language in context.

  • How can I practice speaking English?

    Engage in conversations, practice public speaking, and use language exchange platforms.

  • What challenges did you face while learning English?

    Challenges included initial lack of awareness and confidence, but consistent practice helped overcome them.

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    For sure, Ni. First of all, I am very
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    happy to see you. Thanks for the
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    invitation and the invitation is open
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    the other way around as well. We can
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    have a chat sometime for my lesson. So,
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    uh uh for my introduction, my name is
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    Rich, which I have to make clear every
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    time I go on to introduce myself because
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    I call myself Richie on both YouTube and
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    Instagram. Some people are confused.
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    Maybe her name is Richie. My name is
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    Richa and I'm a full-time student and um
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    I also give lessons which is part-time.
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    I am T-Soul certified to teach English
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    and I've been doing it for more than
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    three years at this point. I started at
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    the age of 19. It's been smooth sailing
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    and I have a pretty diverse bag of
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    experience teaching students from around
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    the world. Really enjoying it and I
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    started my YouTube career some time
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    back. So if you ask me about my hobbies,
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    my only hobby these days is creating
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    content for YouTube because when you
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    have a YouTube career, you literally
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    don't have any time left on hand to do
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    anything else. Would you agree? Yeah,
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    that is true. I mean people ask me as
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    well like what do you do in your free
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    time? I edit videos. That's what I do in
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    my free time. Yeah. And it's it's very
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    difficult actually. I mean when you um
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    actually start making YouTube videos
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    yourself that's when you get to know
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    that it's more than just speaking in
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    front of the camera. There are a lot of
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    things you have to come up with the
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    content. Um you have to write captions.
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    You have to edit videos. Also when
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    you're posting it the processing takes
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    so much of your time. Um, exactly. Yeah,
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    there are so many things. All right. So,
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    because um you're the most qualified
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    person that I've had on my channel yet,
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    uh, to talk about a language, deep
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    diving into a language, how do you learn
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    it? And especially talking about the
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    English language, um, because you have
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    taught so many people from all across
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    the globe, you would be the perfect
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    person for that. So, what are mo some of
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    the most common questions that people
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    have when you're teaching them um that
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    you've come across? Yes.
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    Yes. Yes. So, it's definitely hard for
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    me to give you an exhaustive list of the
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    questions that I get on a regular basis.
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    But when you ask me this question, two
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    questions directly come to mind. The
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    first is how long will it take for me to
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    become advanced speaker? And the second
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    question is, can I ever sound like a
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    native? Those are the most common
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    questions. So I really encourage my
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    students to ask me such questions so
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    that we can have some level of clarity
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    on day one so that we are on the same
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    level going forward. So my answer to
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    that is that obviously it completely
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    depends on the person how fast you
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    absorb things because teaching is one
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    thing. So you like you take in a lot of
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    knowledge but how are you able to
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    process it? How fast do you keep
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    forgetting things that is also a thing
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    in which is completely natural to forget
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    new things that you learn? You know what
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    I mean? So it all brings me to the main
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    point. The only thing that holds the key
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    here is consistency. How consistent you
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    are and to sound like a native and to
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    speak with a neutral accent. That is
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    very much possible. I'd say I've never
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    traveled to the US and um I like to
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    speak with this accent because this
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    makes me stand out uh certainly and um I
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    acquired this accent purely by
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    listening. So these benefits that you
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    hear entirely credits to my listening
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    experience that I've had so far. So
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    these are the two things that I keep
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    suggesting all of the learners that they
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    should do is um listening to more videos
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    if they want to acquire an accent and
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    staying consistent because it is very
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    possible to become an advanced speaker
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    and to sound like a native. But then how
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    much time will it take there? There are
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    no hard answers that I can give in here.
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    No hard or discrete numbers that I can
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    give without listening to the person.
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    But it usually takes about 3 to 6 months
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    to start seeing the real change to cross
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    a level. Definitely not to get to that
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    final level of fluency but to cross a
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    level 3 to 6 months. Right. Exactly.
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    Because um thank you for giving a
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    genuine answer actually cuz I see so
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    many videos like click on this link and
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    um you'll learn English in 10 days. Like
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    that does not happen because it's a
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    completely new language. thinking of
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    having that native fluency, but that
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    takes so much time because um they've
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    been speaking this language since
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    forever. So obviously, I mean, if I were
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    told that you have to learn French, it's
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    obviously going to take time. It's not
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    going to happen overnight. So that's
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    something that I want viewers to
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    understand that it takes consistency. It
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    takes time, but the results are
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    fruitful,
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    right?
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    Yes. So the most common type of
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    questions that I get in my comments is
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    that there are people that have mastered
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    grammar standard they have read grammar
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    books so many times these standard
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    grammar books yet they are still not
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    fluent um for whatever reason. So what
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    would you suggest for these people?
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    How to become fluent after reading a
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    bunch of grammar books. Yeah, stop
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    reading those grammar books because they
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    ain't helping. But you know what? I fall
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    in the exactly opposite camp on this. I
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    believe grammar does play a big role for
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    people who come into my lessons and say
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    directly to my face that I don't want to
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    learn grammar. I almost hate grammar. I
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    have had this hate relationship with
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    grammar since school. So for them I have
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    to structure my lessons pretty
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    differently. So I try to teach them
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    grammar in context still you cannot
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    escape that part that is everywhere.
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    Yeah. So when you think of the language
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    as a building, grammar is the cement
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    part. You know what I mean? It will
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    stick everything together. vocabulary is
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    the word. So you need the glue to stick
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    it all together, you know, to tie it all
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    in. So grammar is definitely important.
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    But then only learning grammar, I have
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    yet to come across a person who only
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    learns grammar because his grammar is
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    not all that interesting. And if you ask
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    me a question about the most interesting
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    part about English in my opinion, I'd
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    say that is accent because you have a
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    lot of fun. You have practice and you
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    also like get real-time feedback by
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    listening to yourself immediately. Do
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    you know what I mean? Yeah. So only
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    learning grammar is definitely not going
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    to fix up your problems because that is
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    not the only thing that makes up the
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    language. But then grammar is definitely
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    important combined with some
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    contemporary vocabulary bank. You know
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    you have to keep adding words to your
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    vocabulary and also phrasal verbs is
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    something that you must have in your
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    vocabulary. In today's time if you
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    listen to native speakers they use a
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    bunch of phrasal verbs. They like keep
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    throwing phrasal verbs here and there in
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    the conversation everywhere. And that is
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    the single most important thing in
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    today's vocabulary like the contemporary
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    style of vocabulary. Why? Because that
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    will not only make uh help you
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    understand other people but also make
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    your speech more relatable. Other people
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    will have like an interesting ear going
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    toward you. Do you know what I mean? So
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    for that reason, not just grammar. If
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    you want to keep the routine pretty
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    short and I'd say you should learn
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    grammar in context. Plus, you should
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    definitely focus on some vocabulary,
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    preferably contemporary style vocabulary
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    presented with accent and pronunciation
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    because if you only learn words from
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    reading, and I've met some so many of
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    those people who have learned their
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    entire English from reading books, you
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    know what I mean? And their accent or
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    their pronunciation in general happens
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    to be not so good because of obvious
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    reasons because they've learned the
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    language from books or written material.
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    So, this is what I recommend. So like
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    it's like a short routine that people
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    who are grammar freaks can follow. Yeah,
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    definitely keep keep going with your
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    grammar routine but that is not going to
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    help you single-handedly. You have to
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    pair it up with a bunch of vocabulary on
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    a daily basis. I don't ask people to
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    memorize all of those words but as many
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    words as you can come across. For that
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    you have to do a bunch of reading,
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    listening and also then the output is
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    speaking. Plus get some pronunciation
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    practice. Every time you come across a
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    word from your listening, from your
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    speaking or from your writings, I want
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    you to go on Google and practice the
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    pronunciation right then and there. That
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    is how you develop an ear. Do you know
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    what I mean? Because people say, I learn
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    a bunch of vocabulary every day, but I'm
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    never able to use it because you forget
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    it instantly. If you learn something,
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    you don't repeat it. You forget it on
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    the spot. This happens to everybody,
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    right? And so if you practice the
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    pronunciation of the new things that you
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    learn, it will stick longer and you'll
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    be able to use it at the time of
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    conversation, which is like the whole
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    goal of doing it all, right? Yeah,
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    that's a beautiful answer. Um hopefully
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    that would answer the queries of people
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    that they usually have. Um but obviously
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    I mean listening to you, people are um
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    going to have so many questions about
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    your English learning journey. So I want
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    to talk about that. What were there any
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    challenges that you face initially when
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    you decided to learn this language or
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    was it natural? It just happened
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    naturally. What was the case for you?
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    Yeah. So thinking makes all the
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    difference here Nati. If I think look
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    back and think about my journey, I
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    definitely find some challenges that at
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    that time I did not really think about
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    you know they did not make their
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    presence felt to me because back in the
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    day I was a child 11 years age when I
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    started learning English and also I got
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    this initial push which has helped me
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    ever since I started speaking to some
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    Americans very like in my early days as
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    a learner of the language and at that
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    time obviously I did not recognize the
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    importance of learning this language
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    going out there using it having an
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    impression on people although those
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    things were like far away from my mind
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    and my thinking and that is why I think
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    I wouldn't say it it all came naturally
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    you know I did not have to go through my
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    share of challenges or anything but then
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    I didn't think about it because I did
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    not have the awareness so when I started
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    learning English it um happened purely
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    through speaking and listening and that
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    is why I'd say it was some something
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    sort of a subconscious process for me we
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    can also use the word natural or organic
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    But it was mostly because I did not have
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    much awareness or knowledge about how to
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    use the thing that I'm learning. Yeah.
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    So that was it. Then um after that I
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    think I've talked about it so many
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    times. Once again after some time that
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    talking partnership came to an end and
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    then I was all by myself. So I took care
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    of my own language. I've maintained it
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    all by myself ever since. And then I
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    started to take interest in reading.
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    Okay. Then I fell off track for like a
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    couple of years because I was focusing
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    heavily on my academics. Got back have
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    stayed consistent ever since. But I
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    never I never stopped listening to
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    English. That is one thing that has
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    saved me and most of the credit goes to
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    listening. That is why you know I speak
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    very highly of listening while learning
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    a language. Yeah, I kind of resonate
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    with you because uh for me also when
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    people ask me like how did I learn
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    English? there was no pressure on me
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    that I have to learn this language. I
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    never took it as homework burden
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    something that I have to do. Um for me
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    also what happened was that when I was
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    13 I came across US-based content
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    um friends the office US and um
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    obviously I'm I'm very much into songs.
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    So I started listening to uh the famous
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    pop artists of the time like Selena
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    Gomez, Justin Bieber and I was truly
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    fascinated. So that's now because of
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    that I completely understand what you're
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    saying. Listening plays such a crucial
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    role cuz for years and years I did not
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    speak I just listened to them and um
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    obviously I mean there was this basic
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    necessity to talk a little bit in
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    English at school. So that's what I
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    would do but apart from that I never
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    really uh and like just like you I never
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    really realized the importance of this
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    language. Um people need to understand
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    how important it is in today's time that
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    you learn English because as soon as you
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    step outside your house um there are job
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    interviews you might come across some
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    foreigners and what happens is when you
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    are just speaking your native language
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    you kind of confide yourself in a space
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    um that is true. Yeah because English is
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    the most spoken language in the world
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    and it's so helpful. it instantly as
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    soon as you learn English language it
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    instantly connects you with gives you
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    access to so many people all across the
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    globe. So that's fascinating and um if
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    that doesn't motivate people I don't
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    know what will because
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    what I hear from my friends also um some
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    of them had some difficulty getting
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    placed in college just because they were
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    not fluent in this language and that's
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    when I started realizing that okay it's
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    kind of important that you know this
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    language. So for me I was I'm just
  • 00:12:20
    purely grateful to my hobbies that you
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    know just coming across American content
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    and UK content at the age of 13. Also
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    like you, I started reading. So for me
  • 00:12:30
    it was uh reading fictional novels. I
  • 00:12:33
    genuinely enjoy reading them a lot like
  • 00:12:35
    Agatha Christie and a lot more popular
  • 00:12:38
    authors. Um
  • 00:12:41
    uh basically my genre was murder mystery
  • 00:12:44
    and stuff like that but I know it's kind
  • 00:12:45
    of weird but that's
  • 00:12:49
    Yes. Yeahress. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That
  • 00:12:51
    one. Um that's the most popular one.
  • 00:12:54
    I've also read a couple of couple more
  • 00:12:55
    of her books. I cannot remember them
  • 00:12:58
    because um I had them in my library,
  • 00:13:00
    school library. So other students were
  • 00:13:04
    picking out car magazines and stuff like
  • 00:13:06
    that and this is what I was um you know
  • 00:13:09
    attracted towards and yeah I'm grateful
  • 00:13:11
    to that. I mean um for me it's that I
  • 00:13:15
    have studied in English medium school
  • 00:13:18
    did my schooling from over there but
  • 00:13:20
    still it's quite difficult if you I mean
  • 00:13:24
    give complete credit to school obviously
  • 00:13:27
    I'm grateful to my school but I feel
  • 00:13:28
    like a student has to put in that extra
  • 00:13:30
    effort of listening and speaking like
  • 00:13:32
    you said if they want to achieve a
  • 00:13:35
    certain level of fluency and uh was
  • 00:13:37
    there any turning point for you though
  • 00:13:40
    like when you felt like I now feel
  • 00:13:43
    confident. I might actually be fluent.
  • 00:13:45
    Like this is the definition of fluency
  • 00:13:48
    to me and now I have achieved it. Was
  • 00:13:50
    there a certain point where you felt
  • 00:13:51
    like or was it a smooth transition? You
  • 00:13:54
    didn't realize when it happened.
  • 00:13:57
    Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So I guess letter is
  • 00:14:00
    my answer. like I didn't really realize
  • 00:14:02
    when I transitioned into a fluent
  • 00:14:04
    speaker who's able to speak English uh
  • 00:14:06
    almost as well as Hindi because I can
  • 00:14:09
    speak without thinking and I've been
  • 00:14:10
    able to do it for quite some time but
  • 00:14:12
    obviously nothing comes so easy you know
  • 00:14:15
    what I mean when the first time I was
  • 00:14:16
    put on stage I was in fourth grade my
  • 00:14:18
    teacher trusted me with a big
  • 00:14:20
    responsibility to go on stage and
  • 00:14:22
    deliver the morning news items okay and
  • 00:14:25
    I was pretty confident like yeah I can
  • 00:14:27
    pull this off but uh in the morning
  • 00:14:29
    because I did not have much practice
  • 00:14:30
    because and also the newspaper arrived a
  • 00:14:32
    little late and I was always late to
  • 00:14:34
    school. I was always late. So I was like
  • 00:14:36
    10 minutes late and then I was a bit
  • 00:14:38
    rushed. My high heartbeat was racing and
  • 00:14:41
    all that. I directly went on the stage
  • 00:14:43
    and everything went south. Everything
  • 00:14:45
    haywire and whenever I remember it now I
  • 00:14:48
    can laugh about it. But that time it was
  • 00:14:50
    a nightmare for me and so that was a
  • 00:14:54
    turning point for me I'd say because
  • 00:14:55
    that broke my confidence, shattered me
  • 00:14:57
    to pieces. But then after some time I
  • 00:15:00
    gave it a break. You know my teacher did
  • 00:15:02
    not say anything. I'm very thankful to
  • 00:15:04
    her that she did not me beat she did not
  • 00:15:06
    beat me after that because I was already
  • 00:15:07
    beating myself after that beating myself
  • 00:15:10
    enough. So I kind of decided to take a
  • 00:15:13
    long long break a break of a year and
  • 00:15:15
    next year when I was in fifth grade I
  • 00:15:16
    again got this small opportunity. So I
  • 00:15:18
    started to take baby steps at public
  • 00:15:21
    speaking because my first experience
  • 00:15:22
    went so badly that I probably would have
  • 00:15:26
    never returned to it. You know what I
  • 00:15:28
    mean? But then I decided I'm going to
  • 00:15:29
    take a long break. And you know what
  • 00:15:31
    happens? Time is the biggest healer.
  • 00:15:33
    Your wounds start to close up with time.
  • 00:15:36
    So I only gave it time. Next time I went
  • 00:15:39
    on stage in fifth grade, I only had to
  • 00:15:40
    deliver the thought of the day. I don't
  • 00:15:42
    know if you had the same thing at
  • 00:15:43
    school. So like one or two lines. Yeah.
  • 00:15:46
    One or two followed by one or two lines
  • 00:15:47
    of explanation. So like five lines in
  • 00:15:49
    total. I did a nice job. And from there
  • 00:15:52
    uh my confidence start to build. So, you
  • 00:15:55
    know, I never stopped doing public
  • 00:15:57
    speaking from there that point on. But,
  • 00:16:00
    uh, unfortunately in my school, rarely
  • 00:16:02
    did we have the opportunity to debate.
  • 00:16:04
    You could like have this speech
  • 00:16:05
    competition every so often in the
  • 00:16:07
    morning assembly, but debates were few
  • 00:16:09
    and far between, like two or three
  • 00:16:11
    debates in a year. I wanted it to be
  • 00:16:13
    more than that. Not because I thought
  • 00:16:15
    like I was the best debater or uh I had
  • 00:16:18
    nothing stopping me or anything like
  • 00:16:19
    that, you know, but uh I really
  • 00:16:22
    recognized the importance of becoming
  • 00:16:24
    good at debates and public speaking and
  • 00:16:26
    stuff like that pretty early on in my
  • 00:16:28
    life and that is why I was always on a
  • 00:16:30
    lookout for opportunities.
  • 00:16:33
    Right. Yeah. Okay, that sounds good. And
  • 00:16:37
    actually that's quite impressive. I mean
  • 00:16:40
    in fourth grade we are like what 9 years
  • 00:16:42
    old and if that would have happened to
  • 00:16:44
    me I swear to God I would have quit and
  • 00:16:47
    I wouldn't have been here like talking
  • 00:16:49
    in English language I would have
  • 00:16:51
    completely given up but you know um you
  • 00:16:53
    came back after a year of break even at
  • 00:16:55
    10 at the age of 10 I mean that's that's
  • 00:16:58
    amazing I don't know how you did it but
  • 00:17:00
    you did it and now you're five lines
  • 00:17:02
    five lines you know like five lines but
  • 00:17:06
    the second time when I got the
  • 00:17:07
    opportunity I made it a point to
  • 00:17:08
    rehearse Rehearse and rehearse and
  • 00:17:10
    rehearse. Okay. So I rehearsed so many
  • 00:17:12
    times that it it was imprinted into my
  • 00:17:15
    memory. I didn't have this piece of
  • 00:17:17
    paper on hand. I've always gone wrong
  • 00:17:20
    with reading. Always. And the fact of
  • 00:17:22
    the matter is that I've always had a bad
  • 00:17:24
    eyesight. Okay? And I did not take note
  • 00:17:27
    of that until 10th grade actually. And I
  • 00:17:30
    did everything until that point without
  • 00:17:32
    having glasses. And I really desperately
  • 00:17:35
    needed glasses. You know what I mean?
  • 00:17:37
    Since I was 5 years late on this,
  • 00:17:39
    whenever they handed me a piece of
  • 00:17:40
    paper, it was 10 there. Try to read
  • 00:17:42
    something. I'd pretend I'm reading, but
  • 00:17:44
    I'll come prepared. You know what I
  • 00:17:46
    mean? But my teacher, they would force
  • 00:17:47
    me because you are young, you are small,
  • 00:17:49
    you might forget. You might forget. Have
  • 00:17:51
    it. Yeah. In case you forget. It's like
  • 00:17:53
    even if I forget, I cannot read from it.
  • 00:17:56
    If I want to read, I have to bring it
  • 00:17:58
    here. And if I do this, that's not what
  • 00:18:00
    you want, isn't it? That's not good for
  • 00:18:02
    me. That's not good for you. So, don't
  • 00:18:04
    give me the paper. But instead of
  • 00:18:06
    arguing, because teachers do not like
  • 00:18:08
    kids who argue, you know what I mean?
  • 00:18:10
    Like, okay, give me the paper. I'm still
  • 00:18:12
    going to memorize it and speak from
  • 00:18:15
    memory and improvise if I forget
  • 00:18:18
    something, but because looking at the
  • 00:18:19
    paper is not an option for me,
  • 00:18:22
    right? No, I kind of relate. I mean, um,
  • 00:18:25
    I myself wear glasses. So what what
  • 00:18:29
    would happen is like students uh had
  • 00:18:31
    such strong eyesight that they would be
  • 00:18:33
    sitting in complete opposite corners and
  • 00:18:35
    they would be able to cheat and I'd be
  • 00:18:36
    like I can barely see what's written on
  • 00:18:39
    my question paper and what do you mean
  • 00:18:40
    you guys are cheating from all across
  • 00:18:42
    the room. So yeah completely relatable
  • 00:18:44
    and what the thing that happened with
  • 00:18:46
    you happened with me as well. I mean
  • 00:18:48
    when it comes to you know like teachers
  • 00:18:51
    encouraging us to read from a piece of
  • 00:18:54
    paper and then speak I wouldn't do that.
  • 00:18:56
    I mean I would pretend that I'm doing
  • 00:18:57
    that but I wouldn't because what happens
  • 00:18:59
    is I would like to just change words
  • 00:19:03
    here and there and speak in my own way
  • 00:19:06
    um compared to exactly speaking word to
  • 00:19:08
    words. So what happens is if I'm
  • 00:19:10
    occasionally glancing at the paper the
  • 00:19:12
    word obviously is going to be in a
  • 00:19:14
    different place from where I hoped it
  • 00:19:16
    would be and then I would mess it up. So
  • 00:19:19
    yeah in that way yeah that's kind of
  • 00:19:21
    relatable.
  • 00:19:22
    Okay. So, um now coming to the topic
  • 00:19:26
    that obviously people would be waiting
  • 00:19:27
    for is how to achieve
  • 00:19:31
    the accent that you have. Whatever
  • 00:19:34
    accentu maybe somebody wants the US
  • 00:19:37
    accent, the UK accent, Australian
  • 00:19:38
    accent, um so many out there. So, how
  • 00:19:42
    would you encourage somebody because
  • 00:19:43
    mother tongue influence is a real thing
  • 00:19:45
    because um in Hindi we say are but in
  • 00:19:48
    American accents are. So it's kind of
  • 00:19:51
    difficult to switch uh back and forth
  • 00:19:53
    between the two. So how how do you do
  • 00:19:55
    that? How did you start that? And uh
  • 00:19:57
    what would you suggest to somebody who
  • 00:19:59
    really wants to get into accents?
  • 00:20:02
    Yeah. Directly to the heart of the
  • 00:20:04
    answer. The only thing that you have to
  • 00:20:06
    do in order to acquire the accent is
  • 00:20:08
    minimize your listening time related to
  • 00:20:11
    any other content. Stop listening to any
  • 00:20:14
    other content for the time being. for
  • 00:20:16
    the first three months. I'd say if you
  • 00:20:17
    want hard numbers on this and only focus
  • 00:20:20
    on your target accent. If in any case
  • 00:20:22
    you want to learn the American accent,
  • 00:20:24
    you have a bunch of movies and shows and
  • 00:20:26
    podcasts available. You know, just start
  • 00:20:29
    listening to that and stop listening to
  • 00:20:31
    everything else as much as possible.
  • 00:20:33
    Obviously, when you're having family
  • 00:20:35
    time, you're watching TV with them, you
  • 00:20:37
    cannot avoid Hindi content, but that's
  • 00:20:39
    not part of the point. The part of the
  • 00:20:40
    point is that you don't watch Pey
  • 00:20:42
    Blinders while you're trying to learn
  • 00:20:44
    the American accent because it's going
  • 00:20:45
    to mess with the American accent real
  • 00:20:47
    bad. And that is exactly what I did.
  • 00:20:49
    Again, unknowingly, right at the start
  • 00:20:51
    of my journey, I started to pick this
  • 00:20:54
    accent only by listening to my friends
  • 00:20:56
    who spoke directly to me. So, those were
  • 00:20:58
    one-on-one conversations. So, not
  • 00:21:00
    everybody can have those one-on-one
  • 00:21:02
    conversations, especially every single
  • 00:21:04
    day for hours on end. I know that even
  • 00:21:06
    now if I want it I I don't think I'll be
  • 00:21:09
    able to uh you know access those
  • 00:21:11
    conversations as easily as I was able to
  • 00:21:13
    back in the day. So that is definitely a
  • 00:21:16
    problem of having oneonone chats but
  • 00:21:18
    then it's it's not the only thing that
  • 00:21:19
    is going to help you improve your
  • 00:21:21
    accent. You need to pull as much
  • 00:21:23
    listening as possible and that can be
  • 00:21:25
    done from various sources. Only make
  • 00:21:27
    sure that you are consistent. You listen
  • 00:21:29
    to the same accent every single day and
  • 00:21:32
    you're not flipping between accents.
  • 00:21:34
    Don't flip between accents because then
  • 00:21:35
    you're going to get a farago. If you
  • 00:21:37
    want a farago, go for it. It's not a bad
  • 00:21:39
    thing. But um like a pre-step to
  • 00:21:42
    learning a neutral accent is to
  • 00:21:44
    neutralize your native tongue a little
  • 00:21:46
    bit. If for example you speak in English
  • 00:21:48
    and you sound like let's say a a Tamil.
  • 00:21:52
    You don't want people to know that
  • 00:21:53
    you're from Tamil Nadu from the way your
  • 00:21:55
    accent sounds. That's not a way of
  • 00:21:57
    introducing yourself. And this is what I
  • 00:21:59
    keep telling my students that you want
  • 00:22:01
    to sound like an Indian, no problem. But
  • 00:22:03
    why would you want to sound like a
  • 00:22:04
    Bihari while speaking English? If at all
  • 00:22:06
    you want that, no problem. I'm nobody to
  • 00:22:09
    say anything to that. But generally
  • 00:22:11
    speaking, that is not why you would
  • 00:22:13
    learn English to sound like a Bihari.
  • 00:22:15
    You know what I mean? You can sound like
  • 00:22:16
    a Bihari or you can sound like a Tamil
  • 00:22:18
    when you speak Hindi or when you speak
  • 00:22:19
    your native tongue, isn't it? So that is
  • 00:22:21
    something that you need to work on
  • 00:22:23
    first. Pronunciation plays a big role as
  • 00:22:25
    well. You have to perfect the
  • 00:22:26
    pronunciation as much as possible before
  • 00:22:28
    jumping into this whole accent game. And
  • 00:22:30
    it is not like a whole different ball
  • 00:22:32
    game altogether. It's not like that.
  • 00:22:34
    Pronunciation accents are definitely
  • 00:22:36
    related. But then again, the accent is
  • 00:22:38
    mostly the the part of the sentence
  • 00:22:41
    where you're not speaking the rhythm,
  • 00:22:43
    the flow, the musicality. So those
  • 00:22:46
    things come with time. And that is why I
  • 00:22:48
    don't recommend taking any accent
  • 00:22:50
    lessons if you don't have like a
  • 00:22:53
    deadline lurking in front of your eyes.
  • 00:22:56
    If you want to improve your American
  • 00:22:57
    accent or to get one really fast as fast
  • 00:23:00
    as possible, then courses are
  • 00:23:02
    recommended. If not, if you have all the
  • 00:23:04
    time in your world or you can, you know,
  • 00:23:05
    like let it go, take it at its own pace.
  • 00:23:08
    Then I recommend only listening to
  • 00:23:10
    content in that accent and that will
  • 00:23:12
    definitely show results. Plus, keep
  • 00:23:14
    watching for the wrong pronunciations.
  • 00:23:17
    The pronunciations that you use, keep a
  • 00:23:19
    watchful eye on that. You can monitor
  • 00:23:22
    your own mistakes. You know, you're your
  • 00:23:24
    best judge. Yeah. Because when I came
  • 00:23:26
    across your channel, I at first I
  • 00:23:29
    thought maybe you are studying in the
  • 00:23:30
    US, maybe you are an NRI, maybe you were
  • 00:23:32
    born there. So um then I got to know in
  • 00:23:36
    one of your videos you kind of made it
  • 00:23:38
    clear that you are not from the US,
  • 00:23:40
    you've never been to US. So that's when
  • 00:23:42
    I really got fascinated with the way you
  • 00:23:45
    talk.
  • 00:23:47
    Is it?
  • 00:23:49
    Yeah. I mean that's the whole point of
  • 00:23:52
    it because that that's I mean people are
  • 00:23:55
    highly attracted to the way you speak
  • 00:23:57
    and um they they just really want to
  • 00:23:59
    master the fluency and also the accent
  • 00:24:02
    which I think you're a really good
  • 00:24:04
    teacher for that and like you said
  • 00:24:06
    obviously we shouldn't specifically be
  • 00:24:08
    taking lessons um for accent it all
  • 00:24:11
    comes down to listening I mean okay for
  • 00:24:14
    imagine if somebody goes to US from
  • 00:24:16
    India and if you talk to that guy after
  • 00:24:19
    10 is he's going to have that little bit
  • 00:24:21
    of influence. Um the way people speak in
  • 00:24:24
    US, you you could be able to hear that.
  • 00:24:26
    So like you suggested I mean stop
  • 00:24:28
    watching the content that you're
  • 00:24:30
    watching right now and focus maybe you
  • 00:24:32
    want to practice British accent,
  • 00:24:34
    surround yourself with British accent
  • 00:24:35
    for 3 months. I mean subconsciously
  • 00:24:39
    you'll be able to just you know
  • 00:24:41
    pronounce some of the words in that way.
  • 00:24:44
    That happens. That is a real thing.
  • 00:24:47
    That is true. Yep. So did you ever try
  • 00:24:50
    for any other accent or was it like
  • 00:24:52
    maybe this is the simplest one according
  • 00:24:54
    to you? Cuz I am highly fascinated by
  • 00:24:56
    British accent but I think it's very
  • 00:24:58
    difficult to master.
  • 00:25:00
    Is it? No, I never had any interest in
  • 00:25:04
    learning any I never had an interest in
  • 00:25:06
    learning any accent in the first place.
  • 00:25:08
    I told like you said this is the natural
  • 00:25:10
    accent with which you're speaking right
  • 00:25:11
    now. This is my natural accent with
  • 00:25:12
    which I'm speaking right now because
  • 00:25:14
    like I said I never did any courses on
  • 00:25:16
    it. I never thought about it. All the
  • 00:25:18
    things that that has happened in my life
  • 00:25:20
    related to English, they've happened on
  • 00:25:21
    the background, I never noticed it. So
  • 00:25:24
    with time, I acquired this accent and
  • 00:25:26
    people making fun of you. I wouldn't say
  • 00:25:28
    it's never happened with me, but you
  • 00:25:30
    know, I've been kind of lucky. The
  • 00:25:32
    people around me, they did not make fun
  • 00:25:34
    of me as much as somebody would expect
  • 00:25:37
    them to. I don't know how to put it, but
  • 00:25:39
    you know, like not a lot of people have
  • 00:25:40
    been mocking me or laughing me or asking
  • 00:25:42
    me to change. But one very influential
  • 00:25:45
    figure in my life wanted me to acquire
  • 00:25:47
    the British accent if any neutral accent
  • 00:25:49
    at all. That was my English teacher.
  • 00:25:51
    Highly highly influenced by her even
  • 00:25:53
    today. She happens to be the most fluent
  • 00:25:57
    person most accurate English speaker in
  • 00:26:00
    my life to date. To date I've talked to
  • 00:26:02
    so many native speakers and I think like
  • 00:26:04
    her husband completed his masters from
  • 00:26:09
    the Oxford University. I think I'm only
  • 00:26:11
    guessing, you know, I vaguely remember,
  • 00:26:12
    but she was a super she was super
  • 00:26:15
    accurate with speaking English and you
  • 00:26:17
    know, she she could pick mistakes from
  • 00:26:18
    your speaking no matter you thought your
  • 00:26:20
    English is 100%. So she when she she
  • 00:26:23
    started listening to my accent, she's
  • 00:26:25
    like, "Okay, she's leaning more toward
  • 00:26:26
    the American accent." She was not happy
  • 00:26:28
    with it. She was like, "Rucha, speak if
  • 00:26:30
    you want to learn any accent, it should
  • 00:26:31
    be the British accent." She never could
  • 00:26:33
    she could never explain herself why
  • 00:26:35
    because perhaps she did not have a solid
  • 00:26:37
    reason for that you know like this inner
  • 00:26:39
    inclination yeah this like inner liking
  • 00:26:41
    for the British accent since she was a
  • 00:26:44
    school teacher she couldn't speak with a
  • 00:26:46
    British accent because the other
  • 00:26:47
    students they wouldn't understand and
  • 00:26:49
    accent was not something that the school
  • 00:26:51
    was meant to teach so that is the reason
  • 00:26:53
    I think that she had to suppress her
  • 00:26:55
    interest in learning the British accent
  • 00:26:57
    she wanted to paint it upon me and um
  • 00:27:00
    it's difficult to say hard yes or hard
  • 00:27:02
    nose as you were when you were a child
  • 00:27:04
    because you're not so decisive, you know
  • 00:27:05
    what I mean? Definitely had an impact on
  • 00:27:08
    me. Uh but it only had an impact. I
  • 00:27:10
    never took any steps in that direction.
  • 00:27:12
    So I saved myself. Uh back to your
  • 00:27:15
    question like can I do any other
  • 00:27:16
    accents? No, I'm not an accent artist.
  • 00:27:18
    This is my only accent. From time to
  • 00:27:20
    time, if I increase my American
  • 00:27:21
    listening time, I'll start to sound more
  • 00:27:24
    like an American. Right now, because I
  • 00:27:26
    listen to a combination of shows, so my
  • 00:27:28
    dominant accent is definitely American.
  • 00:27:30
    Since I'm an Indian, I've kept the
  • 00:27:31
    Indianness alive. Some people have some
  • 00:27:33
    questions about it. Happy to answer. I
  • 00:27:35
    also sound slightly British, slightly
  • 00:27:37
    Australian at times. And um yeah, so
  • 00:27:40
    this is the like the whole mix of accent
  • 00:27:42
    that I carry and I like to carry it
  • 00:27:44
    because uh I never had this aim of
  • 00:27:46
    sounding like an American since I gained
  • 00:27:49
    the consciousness like the my
  • 00:27:51
    consciousness phase started at the age
  • 00:27:52
    of 14, 15, you know what I mean? When I
  • 00:27:55
    started to feel like my own person, I
  • 00:27:57
    never decided I wanted to sound like an
  • 00:27:59
    American. Exactly. I want to sound like
  • 00:28:01
    many people in the world. Barack Obama
  • 00:28:03
    for example, I would love to imitate his
  • 00:28:05
    style because of how confident he is on
  • 00:28:07
    stage, but for anybody's accent, nah,
  • 00:28:09
    that's not enough for me to interest
  • 00:28:11
    him.
  • 00:28:13
    Okay. So, are there any shows or movies
  • 00:28:16
    that you would recommend um to your
  • 00:28:19
    students that are trying to dive into
  • 00:28:22
    the fluency of English?
  • 00:28:25
    Oh, 100%. So I actually happened to put
  • 00:28:28
    out a post yesterday if you had seen it
  • 00:28:30
    maybe not and I put out five but you
  • 00:28:33
    know uh Nati coming to this lesson I was
  • 00:28:36
    thinking of this answer because I kind
  • 00:28:38
    of knew that you were going to ask me
  • 00:28:40
    this and something popped in my mind
  • 00:28:42
    yesterday when I was putting out the
  • 00:28:44
    post I forgot this one web series that
  • 00:28:47
    I'm absolutely maniacal about. It's
  • 00:28:49
    called Sneaky Pete. Obviously the
  • 00:28:52
    English is amazing American English. the
  • 00:28:54
    American show, all the American
  • 00:28:55
    characters, but the story is so good. So
  • 00:28:58
    good in the sense that it will keep you
  • 00:29:00
    guessing, you know, keep you at the edge
  • 00:29:02
    of the seat and you'd not know what to
  • 00:29:04
    predict and at what time. Also, they've
  • 00:29:06
    injected a bunch of humor into a very
  • 00:29:08
    seriously made story. The story line is
  • 00:29:10
    fresh. The protagonist is an excellent
  • 00:29:13
    actor. The delivery, all of it is great.
  • 00:29:15
    So, Sneaky Pete goes on top, which I
  • 00:29:17
    forgot about yesterday while making out
  • 00:29:19
    the post. Uh, number two is Breaking
  • 00:29:21
    Bad, which I still watch and like
  • 00:29:23
    rewatch sometimes and um I like whenever
  • 00:29:26
    I talk about Breaking Bad, something bad
  • 00:29:28
    happened with me at that time. So,
  • 00:29:30
    whenever I say Breaking Bad, it kind of
  • 00:29:31
    opens up old wounds for me. Yeah. So,
  • 00:29:34
    Breaking Bad uh plus Maid
  • 00:29:38
    that is on Netflix I guess. Yeah, it is
  • 00:29:39
    on Netflix and a good show. And um what
  • 00:29:42
    else? Dexter, if you like, you know,
  • 00:29:45
    adventure stuff, Dexter is there. You
  • 00:29:47
    can watch Suits. But again, Sneaky Pete
  • 00:29:49
    is on top.
  • 00:29:51
    Okay. Yeah, I've watched none of these
  • 00:29:54
    shows, but I've heard of them. Breaking
  • 00:29:56
    Bad especially, I think it's uh called
  • 00:29:59
    the best Netflix series to ever exist. I
  • 00:30:02
    I don't know if that's true or not, but
  • 00:30:03
    that's what I hear. So, it's it's been
  • 00:30:05
    in my watch list for a long time. Yeah.
  • 00:30:07
    But what I do is I just um for example
  • 00:30:10
    if I watch the office I'll start
  • 00:30:12
    repeating it again and again if because
  • 00:30:15
    you know you have to give time and
  • 00:30:17
    commitment to a completely new series
  • 00:30:20
    and then you kind of question yourself
  • 00:30:21
    like is that going to be worth it? Is
  • 00:30:23
    that going to be worth your time? So
  • 00:30:25
    that's why because I love the office.
  • 00:30:26
    I'm the biggest office fan so I just
  • 00:30:28
    keep watching it on repeat. I just
  • 00:30:30
    finished uh nine seasons uh last year
  • 00:30:35
    and then I'm back into it. finish nine
  • 00:30:37
    seasons again and I'm back into it
  • 00:30:40
    cyclical.
  • 00:30:42
    Yeah, that's what's happening. But no,
  • 00:30:43
    thank you for the recommendations. It's
  • 00:30:45
    going to be very helpful for the viewers
  • 00:30:46
    as well as for me because um I'm also
  • 00:30:49
    trying to watch a new series. So, I'll
  • 00:30:51
    definitely watch these. Um and also also
  • 00:30:54
    list out in the description all the
  • 00:30:56
    shows that you have mentioned so that
  • 00:30:57
    people can watch them. Um
  • 00:31:01
    all right, so I think we can wrap up the
  • 00:31:02
    session now. Um it was fun talking to
  • 00:31:06
    you and it was very insightful. Um love
  • 00:31:09
    the way you speak and admire that a lot.
  • 00:31:12
    Anyway, have a great day ahead and thank
  • 00:31:14
    you so much for being here. Thank you so
  • 00:31:16
    much for taking out the time from your
  • 00:31:17
    busy schedule to be here. I'm truly
  • 00:31:19
    grateful for that. I appreciate every
  • 00:31:22
    bit of it, Nati. Um and um thanks for
  • 00:31:26
    having me on. You know what? Like I had
  • 00:31:28
    a really full day today. I told you my
  • 00:31:30
    weekends are pretty full. My Fridays are
  • 00:31:32
    also starting to be like that. And
  • 00:31:34
    today, the crazy day, I have to give uh
  • 00:31:38
    excluding hours, I have to give seven
  • 00:31:40
    lessons. I already done four and I have
  • 00:31:43
    three more to go after this. So, this
  • 00:31:45
    was like this I thought like this is the
  • 00:31:47
    time when I'm going to sit back, relax,
  • 00:31:49
    and have like a chitchat conversation.
  • 00:31:52
    Really looking forward to it as well.
  • 00:31:53
    And I think uh it went very well. Can we
  • 00:31:55
    agree? Yeah, it did. Probably one of the
  • 00:31:58
    best videos that I've ever made for
  • 00:32:00
    sure.
  • 00:32:02
    Definitely. So have a great day ahead
  • 00:32:05
    and um relax a bit. Maybe listen to
  • 00:32:07
    music because you have to recharge for
  • 00:32:09
    three more sessions. Can't imagine. I
  • 00:32:11
    mean if I conduct two sessions then I
  • 00:32:14
    you'll the next minute you'll see me
  • 00:32:16
    sleeping in bed. It's it's just it takes
  • 00:32:19
    a lot of energy. Oh I'm the same. I'm
  • 00:32:22
    the same. You know to divide the load
  • 00:32:24
    equally throughout the week but
  • 00:32:25
    sometimes it's not possible. Yesterday I
  • 00:32:26
    had one session and that is why I
  • 00:32:28
    initially gave you yesterday's time but
  • 00:32:30
    then you said like I had a burnout like
  • 00:32:33
    yes I did well sometimes I go insane and
  • 00:32:35
    then I have so many sessions back to
  • 00:32:37
    back and then I just can't work for the
  • 00:32:40
    next few days cuz I'm not a full-time
  • 00:32:42
    YouTuber so there are other things that
  • 00:32:43
    I have to do as well. So I can imagine
  • 00:32:46
    for you I mean you're a full-time
  • 00:32:47
    student so obviously there are exams
  • 00:32:50
    every six months. I don't know how
  • 00:32:52
    you're handling that. Hats off to you
  • 00:32:54
    for doing the things that you're doing.
  • 00:32:57
    Really appreciate that. I needed
  • 00:32:58
    somebody to say that to me.
  • 00:33:01
    Okay, have a great day ahead and yeah,
  • 00:33:04
    see you soon.
  • 00:33:06
    Yeah. Okay.
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