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Our next guest is sitting in the audience right now.
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And it could be you.
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Everybody stand up.
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All right.
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And you have to be honest here.
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Stay standing if you watch my show every day.
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Every day.
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You should be ashamed of yourselves.
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Stay standing if you have written me over 30 letters.
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Stay standing if you're originally
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from the Dominican Republic.
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Stay standing if you've learned English by watching my show.
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Diana, come on down.
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Hi.
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Diana Aquino, right?
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Yes.
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Hello.
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Hi.
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Hi.
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I love you.
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I love you, too.
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I love you, too.
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You're very sweet.
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So, first of all, it was a great way
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to find out who watches my show everyday.
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So when did you move here from the Dominican Republic?
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I moved here on May of 2011.
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OK.
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And you didn't speak any English at all?
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No.
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I literally speak two words.
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It was hello and goodbye.
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The most important words here.
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Really.
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Of course.
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All right.
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And so you learned English from watching my show.
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And how did you do that?
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Oh.
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OK.
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That's a funny story.
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I was just flipping through the channels,
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just flipping through it.
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And I just came up to your face.
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You were there I asked my mom, "Who is that?"
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And my mom was like, "She's Ellen.
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She's really funny.
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Just watch the show.
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You will love her.
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I was like, "But I don't understand what she's saying.
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She was like, "Me either.
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But just watch it.
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She's hilarious.
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And then I was like, "OK.
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I watch it."
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I didn't understand anything you were saying, literally.
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I'm sorry, but I didn't.
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And then, at the end of the show, it was like,
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there was just this word that you say.
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You say, "Be kind."
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And then that word stuck with me.
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You know when you get this word that you really
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want to see what it is.
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I got my dictionary.
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I looked it up.
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And I kept looking at the wrong word,
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with the C instead of the K. Oh, my God.
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But I got it.
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And I saw how the word kind, and it means kindness,
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to be good to other people.
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And that stuck with me forever, because I'm loud.
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I'm affectionate.
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I like to be kind to everyone.
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So that just stuck with me to be who I am, with myself.
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So yeah.
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That's so sweet.
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I love that.
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I love that.
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So you said that you're very affectionate.
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I know that our culture is not as
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affectionate as your culture.
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Right?
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Yes.
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Y'all are very affectionate, and Americans are very uptight.
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Over there in Dominican, we are so loud.
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And we know everybody.
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We know every neighbor by name.
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We hug.
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We kiss in the cheek.
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And we hug you no matter what.
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If we meet you for the first time, we will still hug you.
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We still crazy.
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So I just keep doing that.
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Yeah.
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You keep doing it.
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You keep hugging them.
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You kiss them in the cheek.
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Of course.
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I do it.
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All right.
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And so you're putting yourself through college.
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You're a math tutor, And what else do you Do
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I'm a math tutor right now and I'm a cashier, sixth floor,
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in a retail store.
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In a retail store.
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So all right.
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So I have a gift for you, because you
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said you learned English watching me.
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So I have the Ellen DeGeneres Dictionary.
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All right.
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Thank you.
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All right.
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So Let's see.
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All right.
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The first word of course, it starts with an Andy.
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And it's a noun.
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And the definition is an average human.
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OK.
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I love Andy.
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He's so cool.
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I love Andy.
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I love him, too.
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And then we have a Bachelor.
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And that's a noun, a television show Ellen tries not to watch
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but inevitably gets sucked back into every season.
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It's OK.
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Me too.
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I know.
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They pull you in.
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And then we have glitter.
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It's a noun.
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Tiny pieces of sparkly material that make me an absolute mess
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and should be illegal.
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Oh, my God.
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Right.
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Then we go further back in the dictionary we have Shutterfly.
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It's a noun.
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It's an incredible company that loves sharing life's joy
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and wants to help you with your education
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by giving you a check for $10,000.
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Oh, my God.
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Thank you so much!
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You're welcome.
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Hi.
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I'm Andy.
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Ellen asked me to remind you to subscribe to her channel
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so you can see more awesome videos, like videos
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of me getting scared or saying embarrassing things,
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like ball peen hammer.
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And also some videos of Ellen and other celebrities,
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if you're into that sort of thing.
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God!