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Get ready for a super special English lesson because I'm joined by the best English teachers
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on YouTube. Hello Eat Sleep Dreamers. Hey guys, it's Lucy from English with Lucy. Hi
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everybody this is Korean Billy. Hello everyone, my name is Anna English from English Like
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a Native. Hi, we're Joel and Lia. Hello everybody, my name is Elliott. I'm Sabrah from Love English.
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I'm super excited guys, I hope you are too, so let's get going!
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So I asked my favourite English teachers on YouTube for one golden tip that they give
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their learners about how to learn English. I'm sure you are going to find each tip really
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useful. Now once you have finished watching this video, I would like you to go and visit
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all of their channels, watch their videos, subscribe and give them some love. Alright
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let's get our first tip from Isabel and Philippe from Amigos Ingleses.
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Hello Eat Sleep Dreamers, how's it going? I hope you are well. So what is our golden
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rule for learning English Isabel? So the golden rule from Amigos Ingleses is to immerse yourself
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in the language. It's as simple as that, this is what Philippe and I did so now Philippe
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speaks fluent Spanish, I speak fluent English. So he came to live in Spain, I moved to Cambridge
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and this meant an incredible boost for our language learning process. Didn't it Philippe?
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All you have to do is get deep into the language and the culture. Yes, immerse yourself, but
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you don't always have to travel to immerse yourself. You could also immerse yourself
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from your own country and integrate English into your daily routine. So that means listening
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to music in English, going to watch films in English, going to meet-ups and meeting
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native speakers and practising your English with them. Using all the resources on the
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Internet to improve your English. So there's no excuse really, you can immerse yourself
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by travelling or staying in your own country. Yes and if everything fails and you are single
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just find yourself an English husband or an English wife. That's pretty convenient and
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cheap. I'm not cheap. Ok, everyone thank you. Thank you Tom and the dreamers. Take care,
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bye bye.
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Thank you so much Isabel and Philippe. Yes, I love that tip. Immerse yourself in the language
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wherever you are in the world. One idea that I always tell my students is to turn their
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phones from their native language into English so that they get used to looking at English
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all the time. Because how often do we look at our phones? I mean, too many times in the
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day and so if you've got your phone in English then you're having that contact with English
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every day, almost all day. Now it might be a bit tricky to begin with but you'll get
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used to it. I did that when I lived in Spain and Argentina. I turned my phone into Spanish.
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It was great, really useful. And yes, if all else fails, yeah. Find an English partner.
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Alright who is next?
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Hey guys, it's Lucy from English with Lucy. The top tip that I'd like to share with you
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today is fake it till you make it. If you feel shy or if you feel unconfident while
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speaking English, pretend that you are confident, pretend that you know what you are talking
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about until you actually do. It's something that helps me a lot with public speaking.
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I know have to speak sometimes in public and I always go up, I pretend I'm confident and
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slowly but surely I start to feel more confident. So that's my tip for you today, I hope you
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find it useful. Thank you very much Lucy, yes confidence is such an issue especially
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for learners of, well learners of any language but particularly learners of English. So this
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could be a really useful technique to help you gain more confidence and believe in your
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own ability. I often find practising in front of a mirror or into your voice recorder is
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a great way to begin to build confidence. And then when you are in a conversation, fake
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it till you make it. Why not! Fantastic, ok. Next one! Hi everybody this is Korean Billy
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and I'm running a YouTube channel called Korean Billy. So a piece of advice I would like to
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give you guys is start from where you are. So for example, maybe you are watching this
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video in your room holding your mobile phone or you are watching this video outside, right?
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So wherever you are, just look around your self and around you there are lots of kinds
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of things, right? For example, there could be a mirror or there could be a mouse then
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change everything you see from your native language into English. Some would be quite
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easy for you to change into English and some would be a bit difficult for you to change
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into English, right? Then start from there and by doing that you can kind of instantly
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feel that your English skill would be improved because you would be able to start to speak
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in English about things around you. So start from where you are and change everything around
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you into English and then move on to the next level. Well I hope my advice could give you
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an idea about learning English and thank you so much. Thanks Tom.
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Thank you very much Billy and yes start from where you are. I often tell my students to
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label things around the house with sticky notes. So let's say there's a word that you
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can't remember. Wardrobe for example, you can never remember the word wardrobe. Well
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use a sticky note, write the word wardrobe and stick it on to your wardrobe. So that
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every time you go to open it up to get some clothes you see that word and it becomes fixed
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in your mind. So start with the objects around and then move on from there. Ok, next one.
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Hello everyone, my name is Anna English from English Like a Native and my top learning
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tip is to use music. Now music is fantastic for getting information into your long term
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memory. So every couple of weeks, choose a few songs that you really enjoy, look up the
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lyrics, find out what all the words and phrases mean and then simply sing to your heart's
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content. And before you know it, you will have increased your vocabulary, you'll have
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a better understanding of sentence structure and grammar. So what are you waiting for?
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La la la.
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Thank you Anna, very much. Yes! Music is an amazing way to learn English. I've done a
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few videos on here with Ed Sheeran and Coldplay helping you learn English through those songs.
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I just think that the language in songs is fantastic. You are going to get interesting
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grammar structures, you are going to get new vocabulary often lot of sort of colloquial
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or slang language. You are going to hear such natural English and in a fun way. Yeah I completely
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agree with Anna, music is a fantastic way to learn English.
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Hi, we are Joel and Lia and we've got two tips because we are two people. So it's two
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for the price of one. Which is a saying we have in our super markets. So our first tip
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would be , don't be afraid to throw away the text book and look for alternate methods of
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learning like online. You are probably already in the right place. Don't be afraid to watch
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British TV, British vloggers and listen to real people. Yep, and my biggest tip would
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be not to ignore British culture. It's one thing to learn the English language really
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well but if you don't learn much about British culture then it's not really going to work
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because those two things come hand in hand. So chuck away the text book, learn about culture
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and you are on for a winner. Thanks for having us, bye.
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Thank you Joel and Lia for your fantastic tips. And yes absolutely guys, YouTube is
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an amazing place to learn English, you have all these amazing teachers at your finger
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tips. Start with them. And then also yeah, look at vloggers that you can watch to improve
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your listening and your vocabulary. Alright, next!
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Hello everybody my name is Elliott and I'm from a little channel called ETJ English.
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Now my piece of advice for you today is especially useful for those of you that want to improve
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your pronunciation. Now what I want you to do is try to learn things in small amounts
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but more often. And the reason why is when we try to learn loads of stuff in a really
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long session it kind of becomes a waste of time because we forget loads of stuff, we
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get stressed out and the learning process kind of becomes a chore, something we don't
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want to do. So next time you try to learn or improve something I want you to take anywhere
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between ten to thirty minutes but maybe two to five times per day, if you can obviously.
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And really dedicate this time to focusing on one or two important things that you want
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to practise or learn. And hopefully you should remember some more stuff, you won't get as
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stressed and also the most important thing English will become a part of your daily life,
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and that, that's what we want.
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Thank you so much Elliott, absolutely. Habit forming is so important when it comes to learning.
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Learning anything really, but yeah learning English, yeah. Creating habits for yourself.
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I totally agree, keeping it short and simple. It could be ten minutes or twenty minutes
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absolutely. Doing it every day, rather than learning for three hours on one day a week,
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learning in little bite sized chunks every single day. That way you are going to progress
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so much quicker. Great stuff, alright who's next? I'm Sabrah from Love English and today
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I'm sharing my hot tip with you all about how to personalise language so that you remember
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it more easily. Now learning a language means using your memory a lot. You have to remember
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the new grammar forms and the new vocabulary. However it's difficult to do that, we have
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to really think and use our memories all the time. But if you personalise the language
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you use, meaning make it relevant for you so make it about you. You will remember it
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more easily. And this is because we remember things which are about us which are relevant
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to our lives. So for example, if you learn a new adjective like to be hard-working you
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could think about the fact of are you a hard-working person? Do you think you are a hard-working
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person? Or maybe you think you're not. Maybe you are the opposite. Maybe you are a lazy
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person. So this process of you considering these things about yourself will help you
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to remember the vocabulary. You could even write a sentence like 'I'm not a hard-working
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person, but my father is.' And this way hopefully you should remember it more. Thank you very
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much guys, now handing over to Leila who is in Venice. Lucky her! And she's going to tell
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us a little bit more about this technique.
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Good luck with your English guys. Personalisation, talking about your experiences. The people
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you know, the places you've been. Let's looks at the present perfect as an example. I've
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been to Venice, where have you been? It's no good writing about other people's experiences
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because those connections here won't be made. The same goes for vocabulary. When you learn
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new words try and put it in a context that you can relate to. So tourist, crowded. There
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are many tourists in Venice. There were many tourists in Venice when i went there. It was
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really crowded. This method should help you develop your vocabulary and remember those
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grammatical structures. Hope that was helpful. Thank you Leila and Sabrah, I love that tip,
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personalising the language. So i remember learning a word in Argentina called 'Quilombo'.
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It's a slang word, it means a mess or a chaotic situation. Now I went to a football match
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where there was a riot, there was police it was very dangerous and I remember looking
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in the newspapers the next day and it said it was a quilombo, a disaster. And I have
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always attached that word to that moment that I experienced. So i was using my personal
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experience to connect to a word and they've been together ever since and so I won't forget
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that word because I remember that situation very clearly. And finally here's my tip for
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how to learn English. In my opinion the best way to learn English is to do it through your
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passion. To do it through the things that you love. So if you love yoga, go onto YouTube
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and type in 'yoga class' and find YouTubers that teach yoga in English. And watch their
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videos, do the thing that you love, which is yoga, and listen to English and you will
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pick up the important vocabulary, the topic vocabulary that's related to your passion.
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You'll get their accent, you'll get their pronunciation everything will be there. If
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you live in a big city, perhaps you could find a yoga class that's done in English.
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Right guys that was an amazing collection of tips to help you improve your English.
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I'd like you to do a couple of things for me. First thing is to go and visit all of
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those channels, go and subscribe to them, watch their videos. The next thing is I'd
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like you to go into the comments below and tell me which tips were new for you and that
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you want to try. Which ones are getting you excited. So let me know in the comments below.
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And finally if there is anyone you know that is trying to learn English please share this
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video with them because this is an amazing resource for anyone who is learning English.
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Thank you again to all of those English teachers for helping to make this video. For taking
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the time to film and send it over to me. I really really appreciate it. I love this kind
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of stuff guys, getting so many experts in one place to give you the best information
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possible. I'm so excited, i really hope that you've enjoyed it. So if you have please give
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it a massive thumbs up. Alright guys I'll be back again every Tuesday and every Friday
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as you know. Helping you take your English to the next level. Until next time, this is
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Tom the Chief Dreamer, saying goodbye.