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  • - [Voiceover] Welcome to The Effortless English Show

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  • - Hello, I'm AJ Hoge,

  • the author of Effortless English:

  • Learn to Speak English like a Native

  • and this is The Effortless English Show,

  • the show that teaches you to speak English powerfully.

  • And I am finally back after a long break.

  • As some of you know

  • that what I was doing during my break

  • was walking the Camino de Santiago.

  • What is the Camino de Santiago?

  • Well, it's a walking path in northern Spain.

  • But it's more than just a walking path.

  • It's actually an old pilgrimage.

  • A pilgrimage is a spiritual

  • or religious trip or journey.

  • For example,

  • Muslims have a pilgrimage to Mecca, right?

  • They're not just going to Mecca for tourism.

  • It has a deeper meaning.

  • So that's what a pilgrimage is.

  • In India, Hindus have pilgrimages;

  • Buddhists have pilgrimages.

  • Well, this was an old Christian pilgrimage,

  • especially about, you know, thousand years ago or so.

  • People used to walk along northern Spain

  • because at the end, the end point of the walk,

  • the end of the Camino de Santiago,

  • there's a big church.

  • And inside that church are the bones,

  • the body of Saint James.

  • I'm not Catholic but I just did it as a

  • I don't know, still as a deeper journey,

  • an opportunity to walk across Spain,

  • as a kind of walking meditation.

  • I went with my good friend, Joe,

  • from Learn Real English,

  • so it was also a chance to travel with him

  • and have an experience with him.

  • So I thought, in this show,

  • I'm gonna do something a little different.

  • Normally, I talk about learning English, but

  • many people have asked me about my trip,

  • so I thought I would share some of the videos

  • that I took during my trip,

  • because during the trip, I took a few videos.

  • Every several days, I would take a video

  • and talk to the camera

  • and talk about what was happening.

  • So this is an opportunity for me to share

  • some of my experiences in Spain

  • just about a month ago.

  • Let's start with the first video.

  • The first video comes from France.

  • We actually started in a little town in France

  • just over the Pyrenees Mountains.

  • It's just a, like six seconds long;

  • it just shows me

  • the day we began, it's Joe and I

  • starting our Camino.

  • Here it is.

  • We're beginning the Camino.

  • Okay, well that's it.

  • We're beginning the Camino.

  • But you can see, this is a little town called

  • St. Jean Pied de Port.

  • I don't know how to pronounce it correctly in French.

  • But it's this little town and it's

  • one of the most traditional starting points

  • for the Camino de Santiago.

  • And this is just an old little town,

  • and this is where we started

  • and this was the morning we started.

  • The next video is several days later.

  • I can't remember,

  • it was day four maybe of our pilgrimage.

  • And it's a famous point on the Camino.

  • In the camino, you walk to these paths,

  • first we went up and over the Pyrenees Mountains,

  • which was a beautiful walk, that first day.

  • Then we went to the town of Pamplona,

  • and then finally, we reached this point called

  • the Alto de Perdon.

  • It has a nice sculpture.

  • It's on top of this hill.

  • If you ever see the movie, The Way,

  • there's a movie called The Way

  • with Martin Sheen,

  • it's about the Camino de Santiago.

  • So if you like, if this is interesting to you,

  • I recommend rent or buy The Way

  • and you can use my movie technique,

  • using that movie, The Way.

  • And my movie technique is described in my book,

  • if you don't know what the movie technique is.

  • All right, so this is the famous point along the Camino.

  • I'll show you the video now.

  • Hello, it's day four of the Camino.

  • We are at the Alto de Padron, I believe it's called

  • or Perdon,

  • Alto de Perdon,

  • which is a big top of a big hill;

  • very windy up here, there are wind turbines

  • you can see.

  • We're feeling really strong;

  • we had a nice rest day in Pamplona

  • and we are at the half-way point for today

  • onward to Puente de Reina,

  • which is our next stop.

  • And you can see behind us the statues,

  • the canvas sculpture, iron sculpture of

  • pilgrims, you know, walking into the wind

  • which is famous little

  • waymark, or landscape mark

  • on the Camino.

  • We're doin' well, havin' a great time.

  • So as you can see

  • that landscape was very beautiful,

  • these big, these green hills.

  • For most of the Camino,

  • we're walking through the countryside.

  • The beginning, we walked over the mountains.

  • For most of it, we were walking through

  • hills or plains, flat area.

  • And then every two or three hours,

  • we would walk through a small, little town,

  • a little Spanish town.

  • Most of them were beautiful towns

  • with the old stone buildings,

  • very old, 500 years old, a thousand years old,

  • very, very old stone buildings

  • from the Middle Ages and beyond,

  • and more recently, too.

  • But...

  • It was one of my favorite parts,

  • was number one, being out in nature

  • and walking around every day,

  • and then also going through these beautiful

  • old stone towns in Spain, was great.

  • Now,

  • in a journey like this,

  • this journey took 32 days,

  • we walked for 32 days.

  • And just as in life,

  • just as when you were learning English,

  • many times when you begin

  • and everything feels great and you're excited, right?

  • Maybe, you just started off with these English lessons,

  • you're very excited,

  • or you're doing anything that's new,

  • and it's very easy to be excited at the beginning.

  • But what always happens

  • for anything that's a little bit difficult,

  • a little bit long,

  • anything challenging,

  • there are going to be some bad days,

  • there are going to be some tough days.

  • And of course, everyday on the Camino was not easy.

  • I also had some difficult days.

  • And the next day, in the next video, I describe that.

  • (water rippling)

  • So it's early morning, maybe 6:30,

  • and I'm up because I can't sleep.

  • And I've to say that the first

  • miserable day and evening on the Camino.

  • Yesterday, walking was fine, no problem,

  • seemed fairly easy, actually, physically.

  • But then when we arrived into town,

  • I was just feelin' pretty good.

  • We arrived in this town, and the town is

  • honestly just horrible.

  • We walked through,

  • I guess, what is basically a Spanish gado,

  • so just a horrible neighborhood;

  • lots of these teenage kids standing around

  • doin' nothing, not even talking,

  • it was kinda weird.

  • They're zombies (mimics zombie groan).

  • And there's trash everywhere.

  • There's trash all over here,

  • even by the little riverside.

  • Just overall kind of depressing.

  • And that's sad because most of the towns

  • have been really pretty and nice and interesting

  • so this one, not so much.

  • And we got here and all the accommodation was full

  • because it's the first of May, May first, it's a holiday,

  • so it's lots of Spanish people are traveling

  • so we had a hard time finding a room.

  • Finally found one.

  • Then I woke up at 5:00 a.m.

  • 'cause Joe was snoring.

  • He snores every night and

  • usually, I can put in my iPod and kind of

  • get back to sleep, but

  • this time, even with the iPod on,

  • I could still hear it (sighs).

  • So anyway, pretty miserable

  • evening and night

  • and we'll see what happens today

  • because this day has happened.

  • Okay.

  • As you can see, I was not in a good mood

  • when I made that video.

  • I was tired, that was very early in the morning.

  • I got no sleep that night.

  • It was a tough day.

  • This happens when you're learning English.

  • You're gonna have some tough days.

  • You're going to have days where you feel like

  • you can't speak at all.

  • For a while, you're excited and you feel like

  • you're doing well and you're improving,

  • and you are improving,

  • but then you have some bad experience,

  • maybe you tried talking to someone

  • and you can't think of what to say

  • or you can't understand what people are saying

  • and you feel depressed and (sighs)

  • you know, it's quite tough.

  • Yeah, you're gonna have those days.

  • Now on the Camino, the thing is

  • because we had that big purpose,

  • right, it's kind of a deep meaning

  • like we're gonna go all the way to Santiago,

  • and I could feel that this was an old

  • walking path, very old,

  • and that thousands of people,

  • hundreds of thousands, I don't know,

  • maybe more than that,

  • have walked this same path for over a thousand years.

  • And so in my mind, it was this great big purpose

  • to get to Santiago, the end point.

  • And so because I had that big purpose,

  • I kept going.

  • It was easy to keep going.

  • I never had the thought to quit,

  • not one time did I think I want to quit,

  • I want to stop,

  • even when I had a miserable day.

  • I just got up in the morning and (sighs)

  • that felt bad but, of course, I knew

  • I was going to continue.

  • And that's why with your English learning,

  • you also need a bigger purpose,

  • because if you're just doing it for a test

  • or a grade in school,

  • if you don't have that bigger purpose,

  • then it's very hard to keep going

  • when you have the difficult days.

  • If you don't have a big purpose,

  • it's easy to quit.

  • But if you have a big inspiring purpose,

  • something that excites you,

  • something that is deeply meaningful for you,

  • I don't know what that is for you,

  • maybe it's to get a much better job using English,

  • maybe it's to travel the world

  • and be able to speak English to people,

  • maybe it's to study in a university

  • in the United States, or Canada, or England,

  • or something like that, I don't know what it is

  • but something that excites you and inspires you,

  • that will keep you going.

  • So when you have those bad days, and you will,

  • you'll be able to keep going;

  • you'll never have the thought of quitting.

  • Now let's go to the next video.

  • (strong wind blowing)

  • Huh, today we are walking from Santo Domingo

  • to Belorado, two very small towns.

  • And all day today, we have a very strong head wind,

  • meaning, the wind is blowing directly into our face.

  • We'll have to fight the wind as we walk.

  • You can probably hear it, it's very strong.

  • And during the day, it's getting stronger and stronger.

  • So, even though today we only have

  • I don't know, 22, 23 kilometers,

  • 12, 13 miles,

  • but it's a little difficult because of the wind.

  • Can't hear anything,

  • it's difficult to talk to each other.

  • On the other hand, it's cool,

  • not so hot,

  • the wind and the clouds are keeping things cool

  • so temperature feels nice but

  • 'tis tough walking in this strong wind,

  • directly into it.

  • That's our report from today.

  • Onward to Belorado, Spain.

  • All right. So...

  • On this part of the Camino,

  • we were in the mountains and the hills for a while,

  • then we got to this very flat part,

  • for maybe a week,

  • maybe a little longer than a week, actually.

  • The flat part is called the Meseta,

  • which means table in Spanish,

  • it's like a flat table.

  • So you climb up and there's just this long, flat part.

  • You could see there are really no trees

  • on the Meseta.

  • So we had, I don't know,

  • probably more like 10 days on the Meseta,

  • I don't know, seven to 10 days.

  • We're just under the sun and there's no shade at all.

  • Some days it was super windy like that,

  • blowing in our face.

  • And other days, there was no wind but then the sun

  • was just beating on us the whole time.

  • And some of those days were also quite tough physically,

  • especially when we're under the sun the whole time

  • without any shade, which you'll see in a later video.

  • Again, you know, these are challenges that

  • the Camino was a mix,

  • just like anything that's great in my life.

  • I've noticed, anything that's a great experience,

  • a really powerful experience,

  • something that I remember

  • and have deep feelings about,

  • always, there's a mix of challenge

  • and fun and excitement.

  • Right, challenge and enjoyment, we could say.

  • So on one hand, it's very enjoyable,

  • the Camino was enjoyable.

  • I loved being out in nature walking everyday,

  • it was great.

  • I loved meeting people;

  • we met so many wonderful people

  • during the Camino de Santiago.

  • And I'm still emailing some of them now

  • because they're just such wonderful people

  • and I want to keep that connection.

  • Going to the towns, it was great.

  • Meeting Spanish people was great.

  • I got to listen to Spanish almost everyday.

  • You'll see me wearing earphones in many videos

  • 'cause I was listening to Spanish lessons.

  • I got to chat with Spanish people

  • and eat the Spanish food, and all,

  • the whole thing was such a wonderful experience,

  • so enjoyable.

  • But with that, also,

  • there was also a lot of challenge, right,

  • difficult things.

  • The wind in our face at that whole day

  • was very difficult;

  • couldn't hear anything,

  • kinda made you crazy sometimes.

  • The sun beating down very hot

  • was difficult some days.

  • Just walking all those kilometers,

  • all of those miles,

  • because we were doing, you know,

  • on our long days, we would do 40 kilometers.

  • Short days, we would do less than that,

  • maybe 30 to 25 kilometers,

  • but every single day with a backpack.

  • That was challenging;

  • that was difficult sometimes.

  • As in the previous videos,

  • sometimes I couldn't sleep because

  • either I just couldn't sleep, I don't know why,

  • my body just would wake up or my mind would wake up,

  • or for a while, Joe was snoring a lot,

  • eventually we got separate rooms so that I could sleep,

  • but there were challenges like that constantly.

  • But it's overcoming the difficult things

  • and also enjoying the wonderful things,

  • that combination gives you such a wonderful

  • deep feeling of excitement and pride and...

  • It makes the experience deeper, I think.

  • If it was just all super easy,

  • maybe not as meaningful.

  • Next video.

  • So today, a very, very long day,

  • 36, 37 kilometers walking

  • under the hot sun with no shade.

  • In fact, most of the day today was just

  • along this long straight dirt road

  • with basically no shade.

  • And as the day went on,

  • the sun got hotter and hotter.

  • Today, no wind but it was very, very hot.

  • And it felt a little bit like one of those cowboy movies,

  • you know, the cowboy movies where

  • they're walking through the desert

  • for hours and hours, or days, and they're thirsty

  • and the sun's beating down on them

  • and they just keep going

  • and there's no towns, nothing at all,

  • that's kind of what today was like.

  • But we made it.

  • We finally came to this little town.

  • The town is down on the valley so

  • we never could see it when we're walking on the road

  • until we finally made it.

  • Long, hot, dusty, tiring day on the Spanish Meseta.

  • Time for a shower, time to get some food,

  • drink some water and relax.

  • Okay. So, again, the Meseta.

  • What's interesting is

  • you know, the meseta is a plateau, right?

  • You go up to it; we had to climb up to the Meseta

  • then it becomes flat,

  • and then it's just flat for a long time.

  • That's called a plateau in English.

  • What's interesting is, when you're learning

  • English, for example, or learning anything,

  • you will also experience a plateau.

  • What happens is,

  • you improve quite quickly at some points,

  • but then, after a time of improvement,

  • you'll notice that everything seems to be flat.

  • You will continue studying,

  • continue listening, continue practicing,

  • but nothing seems to be happening.

  • You seem to not be improving at all.

  • You're just going along,

  • and it's kinda like my experience in Meseta.

  • I can just feel like it goes forever,

  • like this plateau will never end.

  • You're just going forward, going forward, going forward.

  • You keep practicing, you keep practicing,

  • in my case, I kept walking, kept walking,

  • and it felt endless.

  • And the plateaus can be quite tough,

  • it can be difficult to keep going

  • when you feel like you're never going to arrive

  • at another point of improvement.

  • But the good news is, plateaus do eventually end.

  • You just gotta keep going.

  • Next video.

  • (heavy footsteps, plodding)

  • So we are a couple hours outside of Astorga,

  • and I spoke too soon today.

  • We have one final day on the Meseta.

  • Today has been a long, flat day.

  • And in fact, we've had no shade.

  • There are a few little bushes and small trees,

  • kind of near, as you can see,

  • but the path has no shade at all,

  • as you can also see.

  • And so you could see that I was expecting.

  • I thought we were almost finished with the plateau,

  • we're almost arrived to the next mountains

  • where we're gonna go up again, but

  • nope, still had to keep going;

  • it still continued.

  • And this can happen in your learning, too,

  • where these plateaus seem like they will never end.

  • And there's nothing you can do during that time

  • but just keep practicing, keep listening.

  • Continue moving forward.

  • I promise you, eventually the plateau will end

  • and you will start going up again.

  • (footsteps)

  • Well, it's the same day.

  • We have crossed up and over

  • the Cruz de Ferros,

  • the high point.

  • And we've been dropping, dropping, dropping now

  • for the rest of the day down into this nice valley.

  • Still quite dry here, lots of brush,

  • but again, lots of beautiful colors, wild flowers.

  • Again, just nice to be back in nature.

  • It's a hot day but

  • very pleasant day.

  • Little tough on the legs, though,

  • 'cause we're going downhill

  • and we have very, very rocky tough trails

  • which I'll show you now.

  • Okay. So you could see we got up,

  • and we went up over this high point

  • then we had to go back down.

  • And many times,

  • going down was more difficult than going up,

  • and especially with those rocky paths,

  • it was very difficult on our knees and our legs going down.

  • But as you can see, the best thing to do when you're,

  • when you have a rocky time, a tough time

  • is to try to enjoy your surroundings.

  • I was noticing the wild flowers.

  • And you just have to enjoy the moment,

  • even when it's difficult.

  • (water rippling, birds chirping)

  • So, we have seven or eight days left

  • on the Camino.

  • Today, we leave the province of Castilla y Leon

  • and we will be going into the province of Galicia.

  • For more than half of the day today,

  • we will be walking along this road.

  • But it's not a busy road.

  • And we also have this nice stream next to us

  • on the other side.

  • We're walking through these mountain valleys.

  • Again, we have lots of trees,

  • real trees this time, not the little bushes

  • from the Meseta or even yesterday.

  • There's clearly more water here.

  • The trees are bigger.

  • We're definitely in the mountains now.

  • We have fairly flat walk

  • today for about two thirds of the day,

  • walking through valleys.

  • It should be beautiful

  • and quite peaceful.

  • And then, at the end of our very long day today,

  • we have the steepest climb of the Camino.

  • Not necessarily the highest point but the steepest--

  • So, you can see this point where we've gone through

  • some hills again, and then getting

  • ready to go into a very tough, big climb,

  • a very tough climb.

  • Same day (panting).

  • I'm now in the mountains,

  • in the wooded mountains.

  • I think this is the

  • the first true forest we've been in

  • since maybe the first week.

  • This is nice, we're not near any kind of highway.

  • This is just a mountain path, a dirt path

  • through the mountains, through the forest.

  • This is now the steep climb

  • that I mentioned earlier.

  • Now we're climbing up to the town of O'Cebrerio,

  • or Cebreiro, something like that.

  • And then

  • our place is just a little bit farther beyond that.

  • And you can tell by the way I'm breathing

  • it's quite a steep climb,

  • but it's beautiful, this is what I love;

  • this is my favorite part

  • of hiking up the Camino.

  • It's joy being up in the woods,

  • away from all the cars and buildings

  • and people and noise,

  • just out in nature.

  • Fantastic.

  • So again I would point out

  • this great point that this thing, I loved it.

  • When we got to Galicia and all the trees,

  • and being out in nature walking,

  • at that point my body was quite tough.

  • And I didn't mind the tough climbing.

  • It really didn't feel that bad.

  • I was breathing heavily in that

  • video, but thoroughly enjoying the experience.

  • And I think that's just good in life in general,

  • that to learn how to enjoy those tough challenging times

  • 'cause they can be quite enjoyable.

  • So we sometimes get in our mind that it's so

  • it's painful, it's bad, but

  • you know, that was a tough climb,

  • physically, that was difficult, but

  • at the same time, I loved it, it felt great.

  • I loved the exercise,

  • I was very much enjoying that

  • 'cause my body was quite strong at that point.

  • I was enjoying all the trees,

  • I was enjoying just being out in the quiet of nature.

  • And you, too, can enjoy the process of learning English.

  • Even during those tough times,

  • it can still be fun, it can still be enjoyable.

  • You can love the experience.

  • And that really is the key

  • to achieving your big goals,

  • your big purpose, your big success:

  • learning to love the experience,

  • even the difficult parts.

  • All right. Next video.

  • This time we're getting up towards the top here.

  • It gives you a little scene of the top.

  • And then after that, we

  • went up and over the mountains.

  • It came a little more flat again, just little hills

  • and then we started getting very close

  • to our final point, Santiago.

  • That's a picture of the paths that we walked through.

  • Quite nice, huh?

  • (birds chirping)

  • So today is actually our last day on the Camino.

  • We have decided to push forward

  • and just do a long day in our last day.

  • We're both feeling quite strong.

  • The day is going quickly,

  • and you know, we're well-trained;

  • our fitness is very, very good now.

  • We were gonna stake near the airport

  • and then have a short day tomorrow but

  • we decided the airport probably is an uglier area

  • so anyway, we're on to Santiago.

  • We will arrive today and I'll do another video

  • when we arrive.

  • So my feelings today about the Camino,

  • sort of reviewing it,

  • really go back to the beginning

  • because the same things I mentioned

  • and loved in the beginning of the Camino

  • are still what I have enjoyed and still enjoying now.

  • So number one, the simplicity.

  • I just love the simplicity of

  • focusing on, you know, getting up, and

  • (foreign conversation)

  • just wakin' up and focusing on food,

  • walking each day.

  • None of the complications of city life

  • and all that.

  • I have hardly been online at all,

  • so, on a computer or anything.

  • So it's been fantastic.

  • Also, just being outdoors for most of the day.

  • So stop it there but

  • there you could see that's my last day.

  • I was feeling very grateful,

  • feeling a little sad, actually, too,

  • that the Camino was going to end.

  • And the point I said, that the thing I

  • still appreciated the most

  • was the simplicity of the Camino,

  • of just getting up everyday and walking outdoors,

  • meeting people, just chatting,

  • focusing on food, eating, walking,

  • it was not complicated.

  • For me, that was just absolutely wonderful.

  • It had a deep purpose but not complicated.

  • Simple. Getting back to the basic parts of life.

  • And I think this can apply even to learning English,

  • to keep it simple,

  • which is why when I,

  • in my book, Effortless English,

  • in the Effortless English system,

  • we try to make the system simple,

  • enjoyable and simple,

  • not a lot of complicated stuff.

  • You're not trying to memorize a lot of complicated grammar.

  • If it's too complicated, you can't actually use it

  • because it gets in your brain

  • but you can't use it during a real conversation.

  • So you want to keep your learning simple.

  • That why we focus mostly on listening,

  • lots and lots and lots of listening,

  • and that listening eventually leads to effortless speaking.

  • It's a very simple but powerful system.

  • And finally, you will arrive at your destination

  • just as I did, arriving here in Santiago.

  • (chattering)

  • So we made it, we are here.

  • This is the plaza, that is the church,

  • the Cathedral of Santiago.

  • Whoaa!

  • We're going to get our official compostela,

  • which is like the certificate.

  • We gotta go to the office and show them our

  • little stamps that we got all along the way.

  • So going there now.

  • (chattering)

  • All right, now I'll play one more video here.

  • So, here again in the plaza of Santiago.

  • That is the Cathedral of Santiago

  • and now I have my compostela

  • which is the official certificate

  • that you walked the Camino.

  • Joe and I both have them now, so

  • officially at an end.

  • It's officially done.

  • Whew, it's quite a feeling of relief and gratitude.

  • It's quite wonderful.

  • I don't know, don't quite know how to

  • state it at the moment.

  • We're gonna meet up with some friends

  • that we've met along the way tonight, celebrate.

  • We'll meet a lot more friends

  • that we've been walking with tomorrow

  • and celebrate again.

  • And then that's all.

  • Bye from Santiago. We made it.

  • All right. And my final video.

  • (chattering)

  • So I'm in the Plaza de Santiago again.

  • This is the next day after we arrived.

  • Today is the 26th of May.

  • And this morning, we're going to the Pilgrims' Mass,

  • where they have the,

  • maybe, they might have the big famous

  • giant incense burner that they swing over the crowd,

  • or maybe not.

  • We've heard they may or may not do it,

  • but anyway, it'll be exciting and fun to see

  • many of the people that we walked with,

  • most of whom are finishing today.

  • Like they just saw (audio drowned out)

  • they're walking with quite a while in a cafe.

  • They just arrived this morning.

  • So I'm so excited to see all these people

  • that we met and connected with

  • during the Camino.

  • And I think I'm gonna finish there because you could see

  • that my final thoughts on the Camino was

  • really about the people we connected with

  • in this amazing community

  • because we shared this

  • path with them.

  • We shared this journey with them.

  • We shared the difficulties and the challenges with them.

  • We shared the fun and the good points

  • and the excitement of the Camino with them.

  • And it's the same with your English learning.

  • Just doing it alone in your room or at home

  • is not as meaningful.

  • It's much more meaningful when you share

  • your journey with other people.

  • It's one of the great things about the

  • Effortless English community,

  • which you see on my Twitter page,

  • on my daily periscope videos,

  • in our VIP member program especially,

  • that there's this special connection between the people,

  • between our members,

  • that we're family

  • because we're all sharing this journey together,

  • the journey of, certainly of learning English,

  • or in my case, teaching it.

  • But also of just learning all the other things

  • that we learn in the Effortless English community

  • because we also learn strategies for success.

  • We also learn how to overcome difficult problems in life.

  • And we just create real strong friendships.

  • You know, after the Camino, I met my wife

  • and then we went to Barcelona.

  • And we had a member meeting there,

  • a VIP member meeting.

  • And we got to meet many of

  • our Effortless English members.

  • We met Mira and Julia and Jean Jacques,

  • and Tatiana,

  • and Gonzalo,

  • and Juan,

  • and just so many wonderful people,

  • Gloria, etcetera, etcetera.

  • And this is the super special thing,

  • the thing I love most about Effortless English

  • is the community.

  • And so it's important for you

  • to connect with other people

  • so that you enjoy this journey of English.

  • Because there are challenges, there are tough points,

  • and there's also excitement and great things about it.

  • And it's all more meaningful when you share

  • that journey with other people.

  • So please connect.

  • Get on my Twitter and connect with our other members

  • and make new friendships.

  • If you join our VIP program,

  • then don't just join and be silent.

  • Join and write on our VIP blog and

  • again, write on Twitter,

  • write on the Facebook page, whatever.

  • And if you can, come to a live Effortless English meeting

  • so you can meet face-to-face

  • because it really makes the experience

  • so much deeper.

  • And this was certainly the case for me

  • with the Camino de Santiago.

  • These wonderful people that we met

  • made the experience so much deeper,

  • so much more meaningful.

  • It was a life-changing experience for me,

  • one of the best experiences of my life.

  • And I loved it.

  • I'm gonna end the show here today with that.

  • Thank you so much.

  • Lots of love to you.

  • I'll see you next time.

  • Bye for now.

  • And go to effortlessenglishclub.com

  • for more information about

  • Effortless English courses

  • or to join our community.

  • Okay. See you soon. Bye.

  • (mellow music)

- [Voiceover] Welcome to The Effortless English Show

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