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Hi, I'm Ronnie.
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Nah, I'm not James, I'm Ronnie.
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I have a book - it's really cool.
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It's cool because when I was a kid, these were the books that we had to write in in
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our class, and it has a map of Canada, so if you want to buy this, just talk to the
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website ( www.engvid.com ) and you can buy it.
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I'll sell it to you for, like, ten bucks, cool deal.
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It has my notes in it too, so maybe twenty bucks, twenty dollars.
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So: I want to talk to you about something called friends.
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Do you have friends?
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I hope you do.
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If you don't have friends, that's fine too.
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It doesn't matter, sometimes you don't need friends.
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I like my friends, they're pretty cool, but I want to teach you something about learning
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vocabulary.
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So, many people say "Ah man, how can I learn vocabulary?
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Vocabulary's so important when you're trying to learn a new language.
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It's the basis of anything.
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The first thing that I would do if I was trying to learn a new language is learn some vocabulary
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words.
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Now, if you speak Spanish or Portuguese, or French, you are extremely lucky.
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Why?
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Because English steals or borrows a lot of words from Latin origins.
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This means that if you speak Italian, Spanish, French, and Portuguese, we're stealing a lot
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of your words, so you are at a huge advantage to people that don't have - don't speak a
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Latin language, and you have the same alphabet, so you are five steps ahead of anyone from
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countries that use a different alphabet or are not a Latin based language.
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We have these things in English called "friends", and I'm not talking about your mate, I mean
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friends that the words are so almost similar that it's ridiculous.
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But, there's one bad thing about your friend.
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Your friend has terrible pronunciation, so although these words are going to look very
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similar, the sound will be similar, you have to watch out for this pronunciation, the pronunciation
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of these words, so the lesson is "friends" of Spanish and Portuguese people, guess what,
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you get to play a game, okay?
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You guys get to see "Oh wow, oh my God, Portuguese, Spanish, super similar", okay?
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So, you guys listening or watching in Portugal and Brazil, you guys watching from Spanish
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speaking countries and America as well, anywhere you are, doesn't matter.
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If you're in Japan, Korea, but look at this, you can learn Spanish and English with me!
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I've done everything!
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You learn everything, it's amazing!
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So, the first one is - so, I've thrown my book and I need the book because I need to
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practice my Spanish pronunciation.
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The first one in English, we have "accident".
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Can you say "accident"?
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In Spanish, "achi-den-te", very similar, "achi-den-te", "el achi-den-te", we say "ax-eh-dent".
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Damn, that's close.
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The next one: "blando".
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Hey, guess what, you take off the "o", and you have the English word "bland".
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Bland means a mild thing, usually we use this to talk about food.
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For example, water is bland.
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It doesn't have a strong taste, it has a very mild taste.
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An accident is an "achidente", an accident is when you do something by mistake, maybe
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there's a car accident, a car crash.
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The next one, when you're telling someone to relax in English, we say "calm", and hmm?
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There's an "l", we don't say "cALm", we say "cahm", so this is a very, very strange pronunciation
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in English, it's like ".com", almost.
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Calm, hm.
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In Spanish, you say "Call-me".
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So, you guys have actually said it correctly.
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In English, we're just like "Nah, we're just not gonna say the "l" to make it difficult",
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so in Spanish you say "la calma", we say "calm".
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In Portuguese too, ahem.
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The next one, this is hard for me, check this out.
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"De-say-ent", is that right?
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In English, we say "de-cent", same word except look at it, just take out the "e", so you
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say "de-cee-ent-eh", I get it now, there's an "e", you guys say the "e", we don't.
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If something is decent, it means it's passible, it's okay.
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It's not amazing, it's alright, it's acceptable.
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But funnily enough, when I was a child, I had slang, and if I was like "Wow, that's
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decent, man!", that meant it was really, really cool.
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So, even when I was a child, I was changing our language and making things that were just
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okay really good, haha.
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It all started as a youth.
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The next one is "el"... mmhmm, "ex-treme-oh".
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El extremo, I can't say it.
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In English, I can say, in English, "ex-treem".
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You guys will hear things like "extreme sports".
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Extreme means something that's very, very strong, or very, very crazy.
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"Es-treme-oh", there you go.
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Something that's not normal.
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Look at this one, even has a bonus because it has the same spelling, yes!
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Except you guys say "Fi-nal" and we say "Feye-al", so again, it's not "fi-nal", it's "feye-al".
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We have to be careful in English with the "I".
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You guys pronounce it like an "e", we pronounce it like an "I", so it's "fine-al", it means
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"the end", but it's not the end of this ABC lesson.
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The next one: "La gas-oh-len-ah".
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Oh, this is easier!
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We just say "gas".
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Hey, I gotta get some gas.
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You've gotta say "Wow, ten la gas-oh-len-ah", we just say "gas", it's easy.
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Now, this might be a terrible pronunciation, the "h", honest in English, "Onest".
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You guys might say "hon-es-to".
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Are you "hon-es-to"?
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We say "Onest", we just take out the "o", easy.
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"La" hm hm hm hm "eh-de-ah", "la eh-de-ah", we say, again with the "I", we say "I-de-ah",
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not "eh-de-ah", we say "i-de-ah", so again we're changing with the "o" sound - with the
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"I" sound and the "e" sound, we're changing it in English, so you say "eh-de-ah", we say
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"i-de-ah".
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Be careful, the vowels, they will get you every time.
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The vowels are not your friends.
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You guys say "Ju ju ju ju-lio", but you say "hu-li-oh", me and Julio, and we say "July",
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so you guys have to be careful, remember if you have a "J", say "J", you guys say "H".
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Why do you do that?
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You're doing that because we're making it difficult for you to learn English!
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So, you guys go "Guess what?
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We're going to make Spanish difficult, we're going to write a "J" but we're going to make
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you say an "H" and we're not gonna tell you.", hey, that's fair, that is fair because "July",
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hm, "hu-li-oh", we're good.
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We have more difficult, I think, in English than you guys do speaking Spanish, so hey,
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bring it on.
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Kilometer, yeah, in English you say "kilo-meter".
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You guys might say "ki-lo-met-re", I don't know, how do you say it?
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Uh-huh, okay.
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And we say "kilo-meter", so we say it really fast, "kilo-meter", like you're killing a
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meter, ten kilometers.
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Legal, so I know in Portuguese, you guys say "le-gall" and that means "that's cool" and
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I thought "Oh hey, something's legal, that's good.", this is slang.
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"Le-gall" is the same in Spanish, you guys say "le-gall", we say "le-gal".
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If something is legal in English, it means it's okay for the law.
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If you do this, the police maybe aren't going to come and get you because it's legal, it's
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okay.
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It doesn't mean it's good, it means it's okay.
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"Ma-hee-co", guess what, we don't use accents.
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You guys use accents, I haven't figured those out yet.
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"Me-heh-co", that's Mexico.
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"Ma-hee-co".
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"Ma-hee-co".
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And we say "mah-gic".
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Oh.
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That's your new friend that isn't really your friend yet, but they're trying to be your
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friend.
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It's very different in the pronunciation but the word spelling is very similar.
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I think this one of the first Spanish words that I learned: "nes-sis-sar-io".
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I probably said that wrong.
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"Neh-say-sar-ri-oh" "Neh-say-sar-ri-oh".
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And we say "Nes-sis-sary", ours is shorter, but it has the same meaning.
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Again, if you can perfect your English pronunciation, you are going to ace this crazy language,
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so "Nes-sis-sary".
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Necessary.
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"Mah-gic".
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"Le-gal", we say it really quickly, and this is "kilo-meter", you're killing the meter.
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"La O-li-va", yeah, "Oh", "O-li-va", we say "All-liv".
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Again, in English, be careful.
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We never say the "e" at the end of the word, so we say "All-liv", you say "la o-li-va",
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we say "all-liv".
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Do you like olives?
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I do.
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When I was a kid, I didn't like olives a lot.
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I had them on pizza and I was like "Ew, who put olives on my pizza?
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Oh, it was me, okay", but now, I love olives!
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So, if you want to throw some olives at me, I'll... do it, let's go.
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La palma.
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Mm-hmm.
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English - "pahm", cool, again, we don't say the "L".
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In English, I guess we're just like "Nah, do you know what?
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That "L" in calm and palm, we're just not going to say it.
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You guys say it, but in English, we decided we don't like it", so "pahm", like a tree,
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you say "la palma", we say "pahm".
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"La re-ac-ch-i-on", Nah, that sounded French.
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La reaccion, that's French again.
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In English, we say "re-act-ion".
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So, your reaction is how you react to someone, or how something happens and you, what do
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you do?
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How do you react?
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How do you visualize what you're thinking?
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This word: "sah-ver-i-oh", hm, that sounded really good, just let me check.
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"Seh", no, it's wrong, "Seh-ver-io", we say "suh-ver", so if something is severe, it means
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it's very serious.
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Just like this.
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This is cool, oh, I like this one: "el taxi", Uh, no, yeah, it's almost the same: taxi.
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We say "taxi", you might say "Tax-see", same, good.
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"La oon-i-yon", that sounds like "onion", "La oon-i-yon", we say "you-yin", mmm.
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So, it's like "you-yin", union, you know, that sounds like "Ying-yang" now, so we say
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"you-yin".
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And the last one, this one's fun too: "La zon-ah", we say "zohn".
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Have you noticed that we don't have some letters on the board?
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Q?
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Hmm, we don't have X, and we don't have Y.
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Why?
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Because you guys don't have these in your language, so we actually get extra words,
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extra letters to put in our alphabet to make it even more difficult, but what I want you
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guys to understand is that learning English vocabulary can be easy, because we have so
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many words that are so similar, so how do you learn vocabulary in English?
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One very easy way is to look at "friends", words that are quite similar, have the same
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meaning, very same spelling, in English as your language, but be careful of the pronunciation.
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Let's do this one more time.
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"Zohn".
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"You-yin", "Taxi", "Suh-ver", "Re-act-ion", "Pahm", "All-liv", "Nes-sis-sary", "Mah-gic",
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"Le-gal", "Kilo-meter", "July", "I-de-ah", "Onest", notice we don't say the "H", we don't
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say "Hhhonest", we say "onest", "Gas", "Feye-al", "Ex-treem", "De-cent" "Cahm", .com, "Bland",
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and "Ax-eh-dent".
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So now, Spanish and English are friends!
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They're friends of language and Portuguese, you can hang out too.
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Everyone else in the world, I have a challenge for you.
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I want you to find words in your language that you think maybe are similar to English.
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This will help you a lot.
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Example, when I was in Japan, I had the - you guys have the "bimbo", "bimbo" means "broke",
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but in English, "bimbo" means a silly stupid person, a silly stupid girl, so I was like
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"Oh my, wow, I know this word!", even if the meaning is different, it doesn't matter.
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You have got this word that will help you achieve your English dreams and your English
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goals.
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I'm Ronnie, I'm out of here.
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If you have questions, ask me!