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Hello and welcome back to English with Lucy.
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Today I want to talk to you about proverbs.
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But do you know what proverbs are?
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Proverbs are usually short, clever little sentences
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that natives will use in conversation without even realizing it
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they often offer good arguably arguably good life advice.
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Today I'm going to talk
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to you about five proverbs and their
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meaning and what we would use them.
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The first proverb that I'd like to talk to you about is
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the grass is always greener
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this means that you shouldn't be jealous
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of what other people may have or may
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appear to have because they could also
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be looking at what you have and feeling
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jealous as well so quite literally this
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is probably talking about a neighbor
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looking at his neighbor's garden and
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thinking his grass is greener than my
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grass but it could just be his point of view
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his neighbor may be looking in his
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garden and thinking oh god his grass is greener than mine
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so basically means don't be jealous because it might not be what it seems.
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The next proverb is
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don't judge a book by it's cover
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this is another proverb that teaches us that things are not always as they seem.
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The proverb tells us to not judge someone
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by their appearance or the way they
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dress or just generally how they look or act.
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A really old dirty book could have
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an amazing story to tell inside.
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Or a really beautiful book could be really
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boring inside and so this proverb is
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talking about books but relating it to people.
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somebody might have a mohawk and
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lots of scary makeup and spikes all over
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them but they might also have a kitten
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fan page or Instagram you never know
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so don't judge a book by it's cover.
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The next proverb is when in Rome do as the Romans do
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and this means that when you are visiting somewhere
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you should try and act as a local person is considered
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respectful and polite i love this one it
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means that when you travel you need to
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adapt to the culture whether that's
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covering your skin or adapting to their
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meal times I think it's really important to respect and adapt to culture
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a lot of people could learn from that one actually
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The next proverb is
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practice makes perfect and this one sort of speaks for itself
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you're not going to pick up a violin and
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play like velde you need to practice the
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more you practice the closer you are to achieving perfection
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and the same goes for your English practice makes perfect
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the last proverb is actually my personal
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favorite and it's about determination
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it is where there's a will there's a way
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it means that if you want to do
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something enough then you will find a way of doing it
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nothing is impossible there is always a way
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I used to say this one to myself a
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lot because when i started the English with Lucy youtube channel
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I had no idea how to work a camera a funny story is
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that my dad let me a small amount of
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money to buy a camera and a tripod
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so I bought them both secondhand and when they
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arrived they didn't work so I found out
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the company and I said look you've sent
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me the camera you've sent me the tripod
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but it's not filming anything and they
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told me that I haven't bought a lens
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but I went from not knowing anything about cameras photography video production anything
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to being able to make videos three times a week and every time I come
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across a problem whether it be with
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filming lighting editing noise
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a lot of obstacles in my way
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I always say to myself where there's will, there's a way
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if you want to do this Lucy you will find a way of doing it
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so I hope that motivated to a little bit right guys that's it for today's lesson
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don't forget to connect with me all of my social media
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and remember that I have my free live pronunciation lesson every sunday at four thirty
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and I will see you soon for another lesson
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