Advanced English: Can You Understand this Real Conversation? (Topic: 2020)

which I think vlogs are a good idea, um yeah I think it's good to do that, never watch

real

ity TV, someone says harry potter, forrest gump, oh forrest gump, that's also a great way to

understand

a specific period of American history ovaries, yes, but not like the '60s and '70s, because there are a lot of them in that context of the Vietnam War and the hippie civil rights movements of the '60s, um, that's pretty interesting, yeah, and Forest Gump, some of that was filmed here, right? If I did not know. that blue ridge parkway is cool when it's running oh

real

ly and I think also at the Biltmore Estate there's a scene there too that's interesting it's a fun trivia I see I've seen it so many times um let's see any other questions , keep the questions.

Come in, yeah, we'll go for a few more minutes. Can you practice Spanish in your city? Esther asks, it's a great question. Not as much as before. We could. Yes, we absolutely could. There are many Spanish speakers. we have friends who are um native spanish natives of spain um mexico and mexico that we can talk to um in colombia and colombia we end up speaking

english

by default yeah a lot of times we usually have degrees yeah and everyone only speaks

english

but I would . I like to practice more, yes someone says that I am a big fan of games and I watch all the content of the English gaming community.

That's the key, isn't it? Yeah, like finding what you like, finding your niche and then learning in that, because if you're trying to learn something new and you're trying to like something that you don't like yet, then it's going to be very hard work. Yes, I'm talking about finding things that you find interesting, but also things that you can

understand

because you know what. It's like if you start listening to something and you can't understand anything, you just don't, so I also like to increase listening, so listening to the news was a springboard for me to then understand other things.

Spanish and then I only listened to football podcasts mainly in Spanish, that's what I would like to do. I need to get back to that right now, get back to something, yes, and I do, although I need to speak Spanish again, yes, someone says no. I don't have the opportunity to practice English in my country, how can I improve my method of speaking fluently? Go to tofluency.com and then check out some blog posts too if you go to my channel homepage, embedded or pinned video. The video you see at the top is about that method.

Someone asked: do you have pancakes right now? I just made pancakes

this

morning, yeah, yeah, I guess if we mean the same thing by pancakes, yeah, I made them, I made pancakes for the kids and me. for breakfast

this

morning yeah, it's frustrating because Kate makes little pancakes and then I make a giant one and then flip it in a pan, have you seen me do it yet? No, I'm very good at it, I'm sure, but the first. At that point the kids were really impressed, now they just want little pancakes, I know, I mean they're really good, yeah wait until they want little pancakes, but that's fun pancakes, yeah in the UK we have pancake day pancakes, it's Lent time, and that's when I remember pancake day a lot, yes, my grandmother used to make them, I used to eat six pancakes or more and it was lemon and sugar, oh, lemon and sugar, more like a crepe-style pancake, yeah, well, we also have pancake day, it's called every day, yeah, um. and we usually eat our pancakes with a little bit of maple syrup, yeah, drizzle them, just drizzle them on top, just a little bit mm-hmm, there's a lot you can do with pancakes, pancakes are good, they are, someone says I'm learning english on my own. and I love your channel, thank you, what is your favorite foreign accent?

I will, yes, do it, I like it, I like Russian, mm-hmm, I like French too, I guess so, French and Russian are the two I think of. About you, I like all accents, I know, but yeah, do you have a favorite? Right now, I've been in terms of English accents, yes, people speaking with a foreign accent, yes, English, I know, but I'm probably trying. To think that I also like French accents and um, but I really and truly like most accents, yeah, and I think it's really worth saying that a lot of people want to get to a level, oh, battery dead, okay, so you can hear us but you can't see. us, so at this stage yes, we will say yes, finish, finish, but I just wanted to also say that it is important to say that if you have a foreign accent it is a good thing, yes, it sounds very good, yes, well, I also want to say.

I think there's a point where you want to try to achieve some of the sounds so that you're understandable, yes, but also in no way are we trying to erase people's identities or the way they speak. um, because what makes the English language so rich is that it works well with other languages ​​and words and yeah, no, it sounds good when you hear foreign accents, it's really good to hear you well, so what are we? What we're going to do is um, we'll finish it here, we'll do another lesson soon, what did we say? Movies and television shows.

Yes, movies and TV shows. We can watch some of our favorite movies and TV shows that we can incorporate. some dates too and testing each other I think it would be fun yeah but yeah if you're new here someone said who turned off the light the camera died but luckily we still have the audio yeah. Yeah, we're just saying goodbye, subscribe to the channel, hit the notification bell and then go to the description because there are links to get my book, the five step plan to master English, and also to join as a fluency member here on Youtube.

So yeah, thank you very much for being here and we'll talk to all of you soon. It's very dark here. Well, goodbye for now.