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[Assistant] Tom lived with his Aunt Polly in a small town. Aunt Polly was a good woman.


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[Assistant] She loves Tom and only wanted good for him. But Tom was a naughty boy.


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[Assistant] As the weekend came, Tom looked at the fence and was shocked. What?


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[Assistant] More and more boys came to paint, and soon the whole fence was done.


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[Assistant] I can't imagine anyone else knowing more about Lilius Trotter than Miriam.


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[Assistant] We'd be getting ready for bed and I'd say, now am I with Miriam or Lilius?


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[Assistant] I like lamb, but my husband doesn't.


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[Assistant] No thank you. My husband likes steak, but he doesn't like chicken.


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[Assistant] I like lamb, but my husband doesn't.


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[Assistant] I literally just got home. Literally just got home. Going down at the end. Why? Because we finished speaking or finished our statement. So I literally just got home.


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[Assistant] Almost. Okay, so for example, someone could ask me, Elliot, have you finished your project yet? Pretty much. Now that simply just means,


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[Assistant] Dr. Martin Luther King, the apostle of nonviolence in the civil rights movement, has been shot to death in Memphis, Tennessee. Dr. King was standing on the balcony.


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[Assistant] What nationality are they? Where do they come from? I'm Australian, I come from Australia.


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[Assistant] He's Austrian. He comes from Austria.


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[Assistant] She's Indian. She comes from India.


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[Assistant] She's Indian. She comes from India. You're Japanese. You come from Japan. You're Japanese. You come from Japan. I'm Korean. I come from Korea. I'm Korean. I come from Korea.


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[Assistant] We are Nigerian. We come from Nigeria.


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[Assistant] We are Nigerian. We come from Nigeria.


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[Assistant] They are Polish. They come from Poland.


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[Assistant] They are Polish. They come from Poland.


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[Assistant] Don't tell. Just my luck, of course I get to the, uh, hotel scene, which if you've read


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[Assistant] Buy boyfriend material. Most certainly did, didn't steal it, so there's that. This I saw Talia Hibbert talk about. She said it is one of her favorite books. I don't know, she showed a very annotated copy on TikTok.


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[Assistant] Which apparently is where I get all of my book recommendations at this point. Talia said read it, and obviously I'm gonna listen to her because she knows more than I do. I also got It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey. Now, this is a little scandalous, this is a little uh-oh because I have


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[Assistant] Uhm, but it's not about a couple who's building a house, so that's already giving it points in my book, because part of the problem I think with the past series by Tessa Bailey that I read is the fact that I so don't care about construction, and those books were like,


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[Assistant] Weirdly, very about construction and I did not give a flying fuck. Not to mention the one sex scene in Tools of Engagement that took place in an unfinished house where there was like


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[Assistant] No biggie. Hello. It's basically 8am on a Tuesday. I have specifically arisen early so that I can finish the love hypothesis because I know that if I don't finish the love hypothesis, I won't be able to focus on the two assignments I have to write. I am at about 80%.


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[Assistant] So this is my first Mafia romance. The thing that I've noticed the most about it is that when we're in the girl main character, Elena's point of view,


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[Assistant] Uhm, he arcs me. He's like a mafia boss, and I realize that, you know, he's...


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[Assistant] Do you like coffee Anne? Yes, I do. Do you want a cup? Yes, please Christine. Do you want any sugar? Yes, please. Do you want any milk? No, thank you. I don't like milk in my coffee. I like black coffee. Do you like biscuits?


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[Assistant] Do you like coffee Anne? Yes, I do. Do you want a cup? Yes, please Christine. Do you want any sugar? Yes, please. Do you want any milk? No, thank you. I don't like milk in my coffee. I like black coffee. Do you like biscuits?


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[Assistant] And by now, we are well into our journey of creating our dream life. So today we're talking about the journey and its obstacles because there's no doubt that you will face some challenges along the way. There will be things that will come up. It will get difficult at times. So today I'm just going to share


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[Assistant] So the first thing to remember is it's all about stamina. It really is about how long can you last in this game. I'm a firm believer that as long as you keep trying, then you're going to succeed. You're gonna get somewhere because you're in motion. The only way you fail is if you stop and if you give up.


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[Assistant] Experience is the best teacher, so you have to not be afraid to make mistakes and just take action, make those mistakes, learn from them, and that's how you're going to get better.


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[Assistant] At some point in your journey. So you have to get through those hard parts. Number three is to practice something I call conscious steering. So steering the direction of your life.


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[Assistant] There's a quote that I really like that says, Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. So you really have to be honest with yourself and ask yourself like,


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[Assistant] Am I just doing the same thing, expecting my life to be different or expecting the outcome to be different? And if so,


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[Assistant] Number four is to learn to be amazing at self-forgiveness. This is very important in your journey because otherwise, when you're going through hard times or challenges, you're going to beat yourself up and it's going to be a struggle for you unless you are your own best friend. So self-love, self-forgiveness,


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[Assistant] I see it as hand in hand. It's so important. What I mean by that is if you fail, if you fall, if anything hurts you, if you go through a painful or challenging time,


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[Assistant] Forgive yourself, let it go, pick yourself back up, and move on. The faster you can forgive yourself, the easier you will have it because we're all going to make mistakes, but the hard part about the mistake is


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[Assistant] Not the mistake itself. It's the aftermath. It's like the negativity we put on ourselves for making that mistake. The best thing you can do is just try to release the emotional aspect of that and just put on your problem-solving hat and just


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[Assistant] Number five, remember that comparison is the thief of joy. So focus on yourself, focus on your own path. Know that your path is unique and different from everybody else out there. I know we tend to just compare ourselves to our peers or people we see on social media, and it always makes us feel bad. It always makes us feel smaller, insignificant, like we're not good enough.


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[Assistant] Make sure that you nurture yourself, nurture your journey. Do what you can to feel strong and feel confident in your journey. And when you see others succeed, try to find it in your heart to just support them and give them love, because everybody's going through their own


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[Assistant] Battles and challenges, you don't see it from the outside, but just know that everyone's path is so uniquely different, you can't compare any two.


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[Assistant] If you do find yourself still envying others, then one thing you could do to turn the negative into a positive is to study them and ask yourself,


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[Assistant] Why do I envy this person so much? What is it that this person has that I want? What part of their life do I want?


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[Assistant] So like I said, bring the focus back on yourself. It becomes a self-reflection exercise where you kind of pick the pieces that you like from their life.


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[Assistant] Put all the power back into yourself because this is where you have all your control. You really can't control other people's lives and what they do. That's them. Let them live their life. They have nothing against you. There shouldn't be any competition or negativity. We should really be supporting each other.


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[Assistant] We see from each other. We can always learn from each other. I see everything as a learning experience. So in your journey, you will encounter some obstacles, but the most important thing that I want to emphasize again is to just keep going no matter what. And remember what I said in number three with the conscious steering? Keep going, but do it in a smart way.


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[Assistant] Reflecting, reevaluating yourself, learning from your past, learning from whatever you can in order to be creative and try new things, try new ways to make it work, basically. Like if this way doesn't work,


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[Assistant] These are like, you know, the cozy books that make you just want to snuggle in and read or they're like the spooky books that are perfect for Halloween. They're the thrillers that have the spooky vibes or even like the dark academia kind of books because I do think those are perfect.


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[Assistant] Not dark academia vibe, but definitely like dark school vibes. And these two best friends become extraordinary humans, which basically means they're like superheroes kind of, but also one of them might be kind of more villainous. And this one really asks the question of


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[Assistant] This book is so perfect if you're looking for something that's like a really light fantasy magical kind of book to read at this time of year.


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[Assistant] This one would probably be perfect to read around like Thanksgiving time, you know?


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[Assistant] It's a good one. It's such a good one. Alright, next up is going to be the thriller category of thrillers that I think that are perfect to read during the fall.


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[Assistant] Because it does take place in November 1991, and so it does take place during the fall, and so for that reason alone, I think it might be a good one to read during the fall. I think, uh, The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware is another one of my favourite spooky thrillers that I think would be absolutely perfect to read at this time of year, because this one also involves a smart house that may or may not be haunted, and it also follows this woman who's a nanny to these children,


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[Assistant] And the reason why I say that is because this book actually does take place on Halloween night and we follow these four really famous well-known horror authors as they're going to stay the night in America's most well-known haunted house called Kill Creek.


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[Assistant] And while they're staying there, it's going to be getting live streamed to the public. And this book is just the most fun. It's so much fun. Like this premise is so cool.


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[Assistant] And then, you know, the taking of Jake Livingston, this one involves ghosts, you know, it involves time travel, it involves...


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[Assistant] And then this last stack of books that I have are all gonna be books that kind of have a dark academia vibe to them, or at least they take place on a college campus, and I just think they'd be perfect to read in the fall, specifically because of that reason, because I don't know about you,


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[Assistant] I don't know why that is, but uhm, the first book I would recommend is If We Were Villains. I think in general this is like the perfect book to read for fall, but especially because of the like dark school vibes, you know? This one definitely has those secret history vibes, you know, where we're following this group of


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[Assistant] Gonna be the students that are like the best in the school or like running for valedictorian or something like that. And then they start getting these spooky anonymous messages from this person who calls themselves aces. And this school just has a whole lot more going on. This school is just very spooky for them and just very not cool. And it's, you know, this book is a wild ride. I think it'd be perfect to read in the fall.


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[Assistant] Man, his like moral compass is just so skewed, and he's just such an interesting character to follow, and I think just because this book follows like on a campus, you know, for most of the book, it all takes place at a school, I think it's perfect to read during the fall time, okay? It just is.


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[Assistant] Who all call each other bunny and they have something very strange going on. They're almost like a little cult or something. And this book is just wild. It's one of the most wild books that I've ever read.


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[Assistant] This book is like everything I've ever wanted in a book for the fall time. I just, ugh, I'm so sad that I didn't read this book in the fall personally, but also I want to reread it again so badly that I might just pick it up again this fall to be honest. And this book is the perfect, you know, like dark academia vibes because we're following these six students who


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[Assistant] Now they are 10 years out of college and they're going back to school for their 10 year reunion. But 10 years ago when they were in college, one of their friends was murdered and one of their friends was accused of doing it. It's been years since they've seen each other, since they've last spoken to each other. They're coming back to the school 10 years later to try to figure out what really happened that night.


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[Assistant] It's everything. It's everything. I love this book so much. There was even a love triangle in this book that I genuinely cared about. Like the romance in this book was actually really good for a thriller novel. I was so impressed. So yea, this has it all. This is the perfect fall read. You're welcome. Alright, so those are all of the fall book recommendations that I have for you today.


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[Assistant] I have, you know, a few books that I'm looking forward to reading this fall that I think will have great fall vibes, and that includes like The Ghost Tree by Christina Henry. I also have White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson.


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[Assistant] And back here I do have House of Leaves, which is one that I'm planning on getting to this fall. And of course, it would be super sick.


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[Assistant] To get to, and then there were none by Agatha Christie or The Haunting of Hill House, because those are two books that I've also had on my TBR for literally forever. Yeah, I have a massive, massive TBR for the month of October, so I'm just so excited to get to everything. And yeah, thank you so much for watching as always, and I will see you very soon with a new video. Bye!


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[Assistant] And it's more than anger, it's hatred. And I want society to hate him.


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[Assistant] Hillary Clinton began to feel very much a victim of, you know, as she described it, the vast right-wing conspiracy.


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[Assistant] And builds up a set of resentments that I think she's, she's carried to this day.


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[Assistant] She's talked about it only in guarded ways, but in ways that suggest that she went through a terrible, terrible time as a result of that, and lives with that today.


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[Assistant] I think that the surprising factor was that yes, that she would leave the White House before he left the White House and chart her own very singular


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[Assistant] You know, you don't understand. She's a rich, but an unfortunate princess.


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[Assistant] I think we're making contact.


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[Assistant] I came back of my own free will to help an old family friend.


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[Assistant] We will hear him! We will hear him speak! Your profession? Prisoner!


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[Assistant] By my first witness, you have his letter before you.


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[Assistant] Carlton. I am here. You are late, memory. You are late. Late am I?


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[Assistant] You did well there. I've made it a rare point, Sydney, that you brought to bear on that identification. When did it strike you? Well, I thought he was a...


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[Assistant] I am always sound though, am I not? I don't even see it. What's roughened your temper? Here, put some punch in it.


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[Assistant] You learned well enough at my hand. Eh, maybe, maybe I did. But look at me!


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[Assistant] You know, I rather thought at that time that you sympathized with the golden haired doll and were quick to see when the golden haired doll nearly fainted away in the courtroom. Quick to see. If a girl, doll, or no


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[Assistant] I swear, I swear it. The mob makes too much noise, too much disturbance. I care not a hoot for the price of bread, nor, nor yet the price of shoes. And they care nothing for that item either, I'll swear. For they wear none. Ha ha.


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[Assistant] He is always dull, Miss Manette. Take no notice of him in this mood, Miss Lucy.


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[Assistant] Well, then I have reason to celebrate a little. We will have more punch.


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[Assistant] Perhaps make you think me not quite as shrewd as you usually think me. Oh really?


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[Assistant] I'll have this out with you, sir. You have been to Dr. Manette's house as much as I have, or more than I have. No, I've been ashamed of your moroseness now. Silent, silent hangdog upon my soul, I have been ashamed of you, Sidney.


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[Assistant] Sidney, I know you don't mean half you say, and if you did, it would be of no importance. I make this preface because you did once mention the young lady to me in slighting terms. I did? In these chambers. A golden haired dog, you said. Ahhhh. The young lady is, Miss Manette.


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[Assistant] Now, have you been a fellow of any sensitiveness or delicacy of feeling I might have had a little resentment of your employing such a designation? But you are not. You want that sense altogether.


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[Assistant] Well, now you know all about it, Sydney. I don't care about fortune. Just a charming creature.


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[Assistant] I've made up my mind to please myself. From the whole I think I can afford to please myself.


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[Assistant] She'll have a man in me already pretty well often, a rapidly rising man, a man of some distinction. That's a piece of good fortune for her. But she is worthy of good fortune.


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[Assistant] You astonished? Should I be? You approve. Why not?


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[Assistant] You'd take him more easily than I fancied. You wouldn't have less mercenary on my behalf than I thought you would be. But then, you know, you're ancient chum.


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[Assistant] What about you and your prospects, Sidney? Now, old boy, you're in a bad way. You really are in a bad way.


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[Assistant] You don't have the value of money, you live hard and you'll knock up one of these days and be ill and poor. You have to think about a nurse. What?


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[Assistant] Look it in the face as I have in my different ways.


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[Assistant] I will decide when to offer her my good self. During the week before Michael must come, be best?


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[Assistant] Who will I say, sir? Mr. Lorry knows me. To be sure he may, sir, but I do not, and Telson's Bank has its way, sir. Your name, if you please. Darnay. Thank you, sir. If you'll follow me, sir. Uh, Mr. Darnay, sir.


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[Assistant] What time the mail coach lumbered, jolted, rattled, and bumped upon its tedious way. Happen he dreamed a night.


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[Assistant] Money wrestling. Money chattering. Money chasing money.


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[Assistant] Paris, Mr. Telson? Paris, Mr. Lorry. In extremis, of course. To be sure, in extremis. The long-standing connections we have, Mr. Lorry, it will take your tact, your certain knowledge to, uh, unravel, Mr. Telson? Exactly so. For favoured connections,


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[Assistant] On account to be removed, on account of, eh, local difficulties, Mr. Telson? Exactly so, Mr. Lorry. We will keep an eye, an ear, to the... The ground? Indeed. I am not as young as I once was. But you are equipped, I think. We think we would be obliged if you would oblige us. In extremis, of course.


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[Assistant] A gag in his mouth made him look as if he laughed. It was tied so tight.


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[Assistant] For those of you who don't know who I am, I'm Elliot from ETJ English. I teach British English and pronunciation. Southern British English, if you must. The first thing I want to tell you before we kind of start the lesson today, uh, is can you please watch this video until the end? Because at the end of the video I have a special announcement to make.


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[Assistant] Regarding some great news that I had this week about this channel.


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[Assistant] Okay. So, the information will be at the end of this video, but the lesson today, I want to talk about two different ways that you can say the word really. Now firstly, let's talk about the word really. Pronunciation. Really. Really. Really. If we say it fast, two syllables. Really.


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[Assistant] Really? Now there are actually two different ways of pronouncing this word to show two different reactions. So this word is really commonly used when people are talking and we're listening.


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[Assistant] And we're reacting to what they're saying. So if someone's talking to me and maybe my reaction would be, oh really? Really?


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[Assistant] But somebody could be talking about something else and my reaction could be, really? Really? So we've got really and really. So we'll start with the first one. Really? Really?


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[Assistant] Tells me in a lesson, Elliot, I have some fantastic news. I'm getting married next month. My reaction? Oh, really? That's great. Really? Really? That's great.


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[Assistant] So my tone is going up, so we're using that stress on the first syllable to go even higher. Really? Really?


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[Assistant] Okay, now that's just my tone of voice. Everybody has a different tone. I have a funny sounding voice. Uhm, so, really, that's how I would do it. And that would be my reaction to show that I am excited or happy. So, when we do this up


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[Assistant] Down. Okay, rise, full tone. Really?


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[Assistant] That shows that we are very excited or we have some kind of emotion.


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[Assistant] Okay, so it's an emotional tone.


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[Assistant] That we use in English. Okay, and we'll often use it on words like this.


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[Assistant] To show a reaction. My reaction? Oh really?


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[Assistant] Really? So imagine my student has a really normal job.


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[Assistant] Right, really normal job, and he's, he's, uh, you know, he works in a bank, for example.


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[Assistant] And then one day he says to me, actually you know what Elliot, I don't think I want to work in this job anymore. I think I'm gonna become an astronaut. And then me thinking, an astronaut.


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[Assistant] Really? So in this situation, I'm not doing really. I'm doing really.


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[Assistant] So it's, instead of being an up and down, this time it's a down up. Really?


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[Assistant] Now this tone doesn't, obviously, because it's a different tone, it doesn't show excitement, it doesn't show emotion. This tone actually shows that we're confused. We're not sure about.


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[Assistant] What this student is talking about, it's kind of weird.


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[Assistant] It's, it's a weird, you know, it's a very strange situation where this student has a very normal job, he doesn't have any qualifications to become an astronaut, and he's just randomly decided that he wants to become an astronaut. I would be a little bit confused, so I would say, really? Really?


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[Assistant] And that's to show that I'm confused, I'm a bit unsure, and I don't really understand. Really? So we use really.


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[Assistant] When we're showing happiness or emotion and it can be made stronger.


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[Assistant] If we want to make it stronger, and it would be more of a, really? Really?


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[Assistant] Okay, but we can also show confusion or that we're unsure or we don't really know what they're talking about with a down-up. Really?


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[Assistant] Really? So those are two interesting ways of showing that we're both happy and confused with the word really. Some other reactions that we can use are phrases like, are you joking?


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[Assistant] Or, are you serious? Or even, you're having a laugh. You're having a laugh.


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[Assistant] Okay, so we do have other ways of kind of reacting to stuff. Uhm, but that's kind of the intonation rule for the word. Really.


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[Assistant] So that's the lesson for today. Uh, the last thing I really want to tell you now is, uh, about my announcement. So.


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[Assistant] This week we reached 100,000 subscribers on this channel. For me, that is one of the most amazing, amazing, fantastic, brilliant, fabulous, fantastic things ever. I am so, so, so happy about that.


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[Assistant] Uh, thank you to everyone who has supported me, who supported this channel. 100,000 subscribers is unbelievable.


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[Assistant] So really, what I wanted to say firstly is thank you, and secondly, because of this, because we've now reached this many subscribers, I have decided that I will now do weekly videos. Every Thursday. Same as today, every Thursday, a new video from me, and hopefully


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[Assistant] You're happy about this, I hope. Um, and that's all I really wanted to say, just thank you so much and I hope you enjoy all of the videos I have to give you.


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[Assistant] Thank you for watching this video. Please give me a thumbs up, give me some love, tell me how much you enjoyed the video if you did, and if you have any questions for the next video, any ideas, please do let me know.


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[Assistant] Don't forget you can book a Skype lesson if you want to in the description box below. Follow me on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, all that kind of stuff. And I will see you in the next video next week. Cheers.


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[Assistant] This is the accent I teach, and it's my accent. It's a modified RP, modern RP British accent. So if that's the accent you want, then my videos are for you. If you want a Scottish accent, go and find a Scottish YouTuber, okay? So, just a disclaimer there, for those of you sensitive people.


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[Assistant] The letter t, the t sound. Firstly, let's check that you can pronounce it. Let's say a word like two. Two.


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[Assistant] Now, in the beginning, if you find it difficult, you might find that you're spitting the sound out quite a lot.


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[Assistant] Now the T is extremely important to British English. Make sure you're pronouncing your T's between vowels. Woah, this is really important. Let's take a word like city. Okay, city. So city.


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[Assistant] The T is surrounded by two vowels, right? So you have the T and then you have two vowels.


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[Assistant] So make sure you can pronounce those t's firstly and then make sure that between two vowels you're pronouncing that t. Now there are situations where we can use a glottal t. I could say, for example, I live in a city.


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[Assistant] City. This is what we call the glottal T. Now, lots of people think that they can just remove the T and that's a glottal T, but it's not. Okay? Or it's not. The glottal T is actually a sound, but it's not a sound at the same time. Si-y.


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[Assistant] Iiiih. Imagine you have a long iiiih, and then you want to cut the sound out. You have to do it with the tightness in your throat. Siih. Siih, siih, siih.


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[Assistant] So that's how we do the glottal T. It's tightening the throat, really tensing it and cutting a sound out to replace the T.


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[Assistant] It's very advanced and it's very difficult and lots of students say to me, Elliot, I can do the glottal T. I say, okay, send me a recording. They send me a recording and it's not right. So it is really, really advanced and it's really difficult. In my suggestion,


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[Assistant] For now, if you don't feel like you're a very advanced British English speaker, start by pronouncing your T's, and then eventually if you want to, you can start using the glottal T and learning about it. Because it's a whole new sound, it's not just a technique, it's almost like a sound. So just a few other words, Americans would say, whatever.


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[Assistant] Now the difference here is of course the T but also the vowel sound and I'm going to talk about vowels a bit later on. Water. But it also happens between words. You heard me then, I just said, but it. But it also happens between words. Now an American would say, but it.


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[Assistant] But it also, but it also. We say, but it also. We have to pronounce that T, or we drop it with a glottal sound. But it, but it.


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[Assistant] But it, but it. Those are the British way. American, but it. They use a D. So when we have a T, which is between two vowels, whether it's in a word or it's between two words,


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[Assistant] In kind of the bend of your mouth, feel your tip of your tongue reaching up there. Look at my lips. Red.


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[Assistant] So if you see a word and it has an R followed by a consonant sound, then you know it will be replaced by a vowel. So that vowel could be uh, like for example, work. It could be or, for example, course. It could be the R sound, for example, party, party.


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[Assistant] So you need to know all of the British vowels to understand when they replace the letter R. But just remember, we only pronounce the R when there is a vowel sound after it.


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[Assistant] So, there are lots of complex kind of reasons for when and why we use the schwa sound, but you need to know about the schwa sound if you want to sound British. It's so important to British English. For example, as I said before, an American might say teacher, we say teacher.


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[Assistant] Whenever a word finishes with er, we pronounce it with uh.


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[Assistant] But it happens in lots of other situations. I'd be here all day if I had to explain it for you. And that's why there is a whole chapter in my course about the schwa sound. It's that important. I guess just a few kind of important mentions I need to give you.


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[Assistant] You need to learn those because they will make you sound really British. Again, they are kind of sounds which replace the letter R. So make sure you know your diphthongs and you've started learning them. But learn your vowels before you learn your diphthongs. A sound which is really important, as well as the schwa sound, to sounding extremely British. Oh.


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[Assistant] In a word like hot, not pot. So an American would say ha, we say hot.


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[Assistant] So if you do need my personal help and you want to learn more secrets and more ways of sounding more British, you could become my student and talk with me with voice messaging on WhatsApp whenever you want or WeChat.


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[Assistant] Well, I'm afraid you've been ignoring us, Charles. We've been counting on your appearance. Mr. Stryber was here, and Sydney Carton, both of them. Yesterday, they said you were in London. I am obliged to them for their interest.


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[Assistant] Wait, wait, wait. Is Lucy the topic? She is.


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[Assistant] No, well, young men never do, perhaps. Was there anything else?


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[Assistant] When I ask you if your suit prosper, tell me on your marriage morning. Promise me? Willingly.


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[Assistant] Alive, dead, mother alive, dead, and a daughter who would grow to a woman.


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[Assistant] I have pictured her, my daughter's perfectly forgetful of me.


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[Assistant] My dear child, other moonlight nights affected me with a sorrowful sense of peace. I imagined her coming to my cell and leading me to the freedom beyond the fortress.


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[Assistant] When they passed a prison of the state they kept from its walls and spoken whispers. She could never deliver me.


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[Assistant] Laurie! Good morning! You're an early bird, huh?


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[Assistant] I think that the relapse you have described, dear friend, was not quite unforeseen by its subject. Was it dreaded by him?


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[Assistant] I think, I believe that there were some intense associations vividly recalled.


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[Assistant] Oh, I, I, I can't help you with- Oh, please. You must. Would it not be best to remove the forge?


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[Assistant] He may need to feel secure with it, safe with it. Maybe it's an old companion.


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[Assistant] Never did the moon rise with a milder radiance over great London than on that night when it found them still seated under the tree and shone upon their faces through its leaves. Lucy was to be married tomorrow.


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[Assistant] We waited, the beautiful bride, Miss Pross and I, to go to church. So, so it was for this, my sweet Lucy, that I brought you across the channel. Such a baby.


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[Assistant] You think there might have been a Mrs. Laurie any time these 50 years? Almost? Not at all. You think there never might have been a Mrs. Laurie?


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[Assistant] They are moving in the next room and before your father and your, uh, uh, and child come out, Miss Pross and I, two formal folks of business. Two formal business folk are anxious to tell you


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[Assistant] That you leave your father in hands as earnest and as loving as your own. During the fortnight you are in Warwickshire, Tellson shall go to the wall. Well, comparatively speaking. And when he comes to join you in Wales for your next fortnight, you shall say we sent him to you in the best of health. Now, let me kiss you and give you an old fashioned bachelor blessing.


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[Assistant] The doctor came out of his room, deadly pale. No colour was to be seen in his face.


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[Assistant] There was no change in his composure, save what a man of business and experience may have seen. An air of avoidance and dread, as if something had been said in that room that chilled him to his very bones. Charles Darnay and Lucy Manette were happily married.


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[Assistant] Will you be kind enough to make me a cup of tea and I will be down presently. You are not to worry.


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[Assistant] His shirt opened at the throat as it used to be when he did that work.


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[Assistant] Look at me. You know me friend. My dear friend. Think. This is not your proper occupation. Think, dear friend.


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[Assistant] No further word from him. He worked and worked and worked.


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[Assistant] And words fell on him as on an echoless wall or in the air. We had to keep it secret from Lucy.


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[Assistant] Miss Pross wrote to tell her that her father had been called away professionally.


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[Assistant] She invented lines from letters he wrote to her purportedly


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[Assistant] I made arrangements to be absent from Telsons for the first time in my life.


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[Assistant] And so I took up post by the window of his room. I made no effort to talk to him. He became worried if one had talked. I wrote or read and was there for him to observe freely. And when he had finished in the dark of the evening, will you go out my friend? Out for a walk with me. Why not? He did not come.


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[Assistant] The secret was well kept and my heart grew heavier as the days passed.


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[Assistant] He grew steadily, dreadfully more skillful with the work under his hands as the ninth day wore to its end. On the morning of the tenth day,


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[Assistant] I'll just deliver my message to Miss, ehm, is she downstairs? I've no idea. I'll go down and be back presently.


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[Assistant] Recovered and then suffering a slight relapse. For how long? Nine days and nights.


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[Assistant] Spoke of a daughter. It has been kept from her. I hope it always will be. That's very thoughtful, very kind.


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[Assistant] I need to know, my dear Manette, if it recurs, what I am to do for my friend. I want guidance.


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[Assistant] Perhaps I would not keep it. I would recommend him to sacrifice it. Give me your authority, like a dear good man, for his daughter's sake.


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[Assistant] Miss Pross and I destroyed the shoemaker's bench and the tools and I felt like a murderer. And Miss Pross holding the candle to light the work said she felt as if she were assisting.


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[Assistant] When the newly married pair came home and settled back into their life in Soho, we were all lucky, for we were always welcome.


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[Assistant] One of the first people to appear, however, was Sydney Carton.


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[Assistant] They have not been at home many hours when he presented himself, not improved in habits or in looks or in manner.


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[Assistant] But there was a certain rugged air of fidelity about him which was new to the observation of Charles Darnay.


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[Assistant] When he was gone, and in the course of an evening passed with Miss Pross, the doctor, Lucy and myself, Charles Darnay made some mention of this conversation in general terms, and spoke of carton as a problem of carelessness and recklessness.


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[Assistant] A bachelor with a family to surround and cosy his old age. In that wonderful corner, a corner for echoes, as someone has remarked. Where the doctor lived, I was always welcome.


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[Assistant] And Lucy sat and listened to the echoing footsteps of the years in tranquility.


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[Assistant] She sat in her muslin dress, as pretty as a picture, and worried her pretty head about nothing.


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[Assistant] And I thank God for that. I understand figures. Business. Imagination, dear Lucy, I leave for you.


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[Assistant] The bank allows no flights, no imagination. And yet when little Lucy lay on her bosom, I allowed a little fancy, a little imagining.


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[Assistant] This joy that came to her and to Charles, this child who bound Miss Pross in strings of affection, chains of love.


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[Assistant] Who chattered in the tongues of the two cities that were blended in her life.


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[Assistant] He would arrive in that oasis perhaps half a dozen times a year at most. He would sit quietly with them and never heated with the wine.


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[Assistant] Carton was the first stranger to whom little Lucy held out her arms, and he kept his place with her as she grew. The child saw beneath that silence, that sadness, with an instinctive delicacy of pity for him.


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[Assistant] As for Stryver, he graced the quiet corner with his presents for a time, and then married a rich widow. I saw him one midday. He was never a quiet man.


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[Assistant] And he sat there so pleased and happy and full of air.


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[Assistant] And the world went on, and Charles and Lucy, the doctor, my friend, and the child were wrapped in peace. But there were echoes indeed, soft and faint.


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[Assistant] But echoes that rippled over the sea and even into the city, even into the dull doors of the bank.


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[Assistant] I remember the time, mid-July it was, and the city stank in the summer heat.


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[Assistant] 1789 it was. I sat with my friends at the open window, and even the night air was hot.


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[Assistant] Do you remember that night we saw the lightning? I do. It was a night as hot as this.


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[Assistant] Why? What on earth is happening? It is Paris.


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[Assistant] Would a game of backgammon suit you, my friend? I don't think it would, if I may speak my mind. I'm not fit to play tonight. Lucy, is the tea board there still?


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[Assistant] Is the precious child safe in bed? Sleeping soundly. Good that's right. Safe and well.


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[Assistant] There is more. He writes more here.


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[Assistant] A remorseless sea of turbulently swaying shapes, voices of vengeance, and faces hardened in the furnaces of suffering, until the touch of pity could make no mark on them.


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[Assistant] Seven faces of prisoners, suddenly released by the storm that had burst their tomb, were carried high overhead, all scared, all lost.


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[Assistant] All wondering and amazed, as if the last day were come.


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[Assistant] Those who rejoiced around them were lost spirits. Seven faces there were, carried higher. Seven dead faces.


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[Assistant] Who's drooping eyelids and half-seen eyes awaited the last day. Seven prisoners released. Seven gory heads on pikes.


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[Assistant] Some discovered letters and other memorials of prisoners of old time, long dead of broken heart. The echoing footsteps of the mob.


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[Assistant] The court, from the exclusive inner circle to its outermost rotten ring of intrigue and corruption and dissimulation, was all gone together. Royalty was gone, had been besieged in its palace, and suspended when the last tidings came over.


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[Assistant] Who can say that Paris may not be set afire today, or sacked tomorrow?


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[Assistant] And, uh, what is the message to the unfortunate Gabriel in prison? It is simple.


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[Assistant] There is a fair in the market today. Why don't you sell this horse? We should get a fair amount for him.


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[Assistant] Do you want to trade your foul for this rotten sack of apples? Well of course. This is all I have


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[Assistant] How thoughtful! Her wool will keep us warm in the winter, but, uh,


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[Assistant] I hope you have a good fantasy selection today. Let's hope someone dropped off a lot of good book.


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[Assistant] Say, gimmick, I wonder why the remote device didn't shrink like we did. Hmm, that is curious.


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[Assistant] Wow. It looks as big as all of Grundo itself. Indeed. What an adventure. Now aren't you glad you decided to come along, Grubby?


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[Assistant] There's beauty there for us to discard.


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[Assistant] And share it all with one another. So take a good look at the world.


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[Assistant] There's beauty there for us to discover.


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[Assistant] Wow, try chewing on the end of that, would ya? There are so many wonderful things to see. We should thank Gimmick for giving us the opportunity.


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[Assistant] Grubby, grab a piece of that tape over there and fasten the thread to the tabletop.


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[Assistant] And you found out what one of the crystals from the hard to find city does. I can't wait to find out what the others do.


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[Assistant] I had suspicions and kept an eye soon after. You see things, my lord.


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[Assistant] Arranging clothes like you do if you're in my station. Seat lists and such in pockets and on desks.


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[Assistant] Now where did you leave those diamonds we stole from Gimmick's house? Yeah, they're in the wagon, twiz.


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[Assistant] So where's the crystal you misplaced?


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[Assistant] Yesterday you analyzed your voice, either yourself or with a good friend you can trust. You now know at a very basic level the types of issues that need to be dealt with over the coming weeks.


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[Assistant] Over the 30 days, we'll cover all the important areas of voice and communication training, some of which will be more important than others to you.


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[Assistant] There might be some aspects where you feel you are fully confident and au fait with, and you may even want to skip subsections or even a whole day's worth of videos, and that's fine, as long as you are totally confident that you can skip things. But replace the day by repeating exercises from a day where you really do need the help.


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[Assistant] As I mentioned in the introduction video, each of the days from now on is going to be split into four. I'll give you theory training and tasks to do in each of the four areas to give you variety.


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[Assistant] And it's up to you as to where you put the emphasis for your own situation. For example, in one of the four training points, there may be some area where you are poor. So you'd put your full concentration into this. We'll ring the changes to make it interesting, but also cover the whole subject over the course.


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[Assistant] So today is day two, this is part one. Our first segment today looks at posture.


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[Assistant] What's this got to do with a good powerful resonant voice? It has an awful lot to do with it.


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[Assistant] You see, when you're slumped over, your ribcage gets in the way of decent breathing. It's obvious when you think about it, yet most of us go around slumped over, both sitting and also standing as well, and constantly looking down at our digital devices doesn't actually help.


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[Assistant] Now I want you to stand up right now, and I mean really stand up, as if you were pulled up like a puppet on a string.


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[Assistant] So, many of us these days are hunched over screens, we get stuck in a certain position. And that position isn't good for a deep, powerful voice.


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[Assistant] This sort of position also gives out negative body language signals saying to other people we don't have much confidence in ourselves. So we can kill two birds with one stone by improving posture.


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[Assistant] You'll look more powerful and strong, you will look more attractive and authoritative, as well as giving the physical ability for your voice to be strong and authoritative.


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[Assistant] So stand up, pretend you're being pulled up by a puppeteer's string from the top of your head. Now keep that position, but now you're probably very tensed up.


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[Assistant] Without reducing your height, just relax your shoulders. Bring your shoulders down and try to take your shoulders back a little bit. Just a little bit back and down. Just stay where you are. Make a mental note of how you feel at the moment.


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[Assistant] It shouldn't feel uncomfortable. Just look straight ahead, monitor your body. Where else can you feel the tension?


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[Assistant] Well, as you're there standing, there are muscles in your body obviously keeping you standing. That's fine to keep them as long as they are. But a bit down in your abdomen region, you've got tension there.


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[Assistant] Have you ever heard interviews from top bodybuilders because there are so


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[Assistant] Obsessed with tensing up all their muscles and that includes around the diaphragm area and their voices often sound bizarrely weak. So you don't want to be like a bodybuilder with a weak high voice. Just relax the diaphragm area in your lower tummy area. Don't tense them up, but you don't need to completely forget about your diaphragm because that's where the magic happens. Take a deep breath in right now.


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[Assistant] Do some low humming exercises and just keep humming low, as low as you can.


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[Assistant] Now, I obviously can't hear you, so I don't know if you are engaging a diaphragm effectively or not, but you can find out yourself by thinking about an amusing incident or a joke.


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[Assistant] You see, when we laugh, a good belly laugh, that diaphragm is used a lot. So, you may not be in the mood now, but...


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[Assistant] Later on, do this exercise when you have something good to laugh about and feel that diaphragm move. And then when you repeat the low humming exercises and do any speaking, you will find your voice transformed magically. So we're trying to identify your diaphragm. Laughing does it.


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[Assistant] So what we're doing now is something that needs to be repeated regularly.


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[Assistant] So, once more, unless you're still standing there, stand up with your hands by your side, think puppet on a string, shoulders back and down, relax every part of your body that isn't used for helping you stand up, and then identify your diaphragm. Do some deep


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[Assistant] Chuckling, if you want to identify the diaphragm, then you'll find that your speaking voice will be naturally resonant. We'll come back to this subject later on in the course.


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[Assistant] Most of us are very lazy when it comes to breathing.


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[Assistant] But the more oxygen you get into your system helps you feel more alive with more energy and vastly improves the voice quality.


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[Assistant] Now I want you to take a deep breath for me right now. And if you're near a mirror, could you look at yourself taking that deep breath?


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[Assistant] Very probably it was a very light breath and you only filled your chest area.


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[Assistant] You see proper deep breath is from deep down in your diaphragm area. So you need to be aware of where this is by doing various exercises. Now there are loads of breathing exercises you can do. I've selected the very best of them coming up in this course.


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[Assistant] But a very well established technique is one called 142. Sounds like a locomotive deal, isn't it? 142, basically you inhale through your nose for one second. You hold your breath for four seconds and then exhale through your mouth for two seconds, like this.


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[Assistant] Okay, doesn't have to be exact in timing, but try doing this.


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[Assistant] Now let me repeat what I'd like you to do. You're going to inhale through your nose for one second, you're going to hold that breath for four seconds, and then exhale through the mouth for two seconds. Then repeat that two or three times.


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[Assistant] Okay? Pause the video, then unpause me once you're done.


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[Assistant] Okay, how do you feel? If you feel lightheaded in any way, just give it a rest for a minute. If you do feel okay, let's continue. We're going to double the timings now.


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[Assistant] But still keep the ratio exactly the same. So it's one for two in ratio, but you're gonna spend two seconds breathing in through the nose, eight seconds holding the breath inside, and four seconds exhaling through the mouth.


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[Assistant] What you're doing is controlling the breath, and breath control is one of the key aspects of learning to improve your voice quality. It really, really is. By breathing deeply and effectively


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[Assistant] And that's going around your body, giving you more energy. And by doing this as well.


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[Assistant] You're also training your lungs to increase its capacity. Not just increasing the oxygen you're taking in, but making it possible for you to give more power to your voice.


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[Assistant] There are other important health benefits, but I won't bore you with this, but just take it from me. Good breathing is really important to learn.


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[Assistant] So you ready? Pause the video and it's the 1-4-2 ratio but this time 2 seconds breathing in through the nose, not the mouth, 8 seconds holding the breath and 4 seconds exhaling through the mouth. Pause the video now and give this a go.


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[Assistant] Welcome back. Now, if you're absolutely certain you're not lightheaded, then try the third part of this exercise, which takes it one step further. You may not be fit enough to be able to hold your breath longer than that, but you will if you do this regularly. I will prompt you throughout the 30 days to do this exercise again if you don't remember.


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[Assistant] Right, do you want to have a go on your own? Pause the video and unpause it once you've achieved this for a couple of times. But don't do it if you're lightheaded.


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[Assistant] Now a resonant voice doesn't necessarily mean a deep voice, but the two do go hand in hand. A resonant tone of voice gives an assured sense of authority in both the male and female voice.


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[Assistant] Resonant voice also means you don't have to use as much energy to make the same volume and it will strain your vocal cords less once you develop some resonance.


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[Assistant] The actual depth of the voice is determined by the size of the vocal folds and of the chest cavity sizes that the vibrating cords resonate in. So generally a larger person will have a deeper voice. But that's not always the case.


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[Assistant] One thing you can be sure of is that most of us can easily improve the resonance in our voice.


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[Assistant] So between now and tomorrow, a part of your homework is to do low humming. And as much as you can. Now, you can do this in a loudish environment, like a train or when you're alone in your car.


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[Assistant] Maybe doing it all day at your desk in a quiet office shared with others is not a good idea.


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[Assistant] But why low humming? Well, you see, low humming helps to relax the throat and the general area where the voice is produced, helps to relax the mind as well. People generally hum when they're happy. And funnily enough, humming when you're unhappy often reverses their mood.


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[Assistant] The other reason why I'm asking you to do very low humming is that you may discover parts of your body that have hardly been used before.


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[Assistant] So many people speak from the throat area and their voice sounds thin and often strained. These sorts of people get regular sore throats as well. If you feel you fall into this category, relax and try to get your voice.


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[Assistant] It's just like getting a guitar string from the music shop. It doesn't sound like a guitar. Put it on the acoustic guitar body. It sounds like a guitar, doesn't it? Put it on a little ukulele. It sounds thin. The bigger the instrument and the more cavities you use, the better it sounds.


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[Assistant] So put your hand on your upper chest area and do some low humming now for a minute or two and see if you can feel your hand vibrating.


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[Assistant] Don't worry if you can't get it right at this stage. We'll try again later in the month. I promise you will get better and better at low humming and feeling the vibrations in your hand on your upper chest. So pause the video now please. Do some really low humming.


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[Assistant] Go as low as you can, where you've still got some sort of energy there, because obviously you can get extremely low, but you can hardly hear you.


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[Assistant] It's a cross between the lowness, the depth of the hum and the volume as well. So take some deep breaths and hum and just experiment and see if you can get your hand to vibrate. Pause the video now please.


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[Assistant] Welcome to part four, clarity and enunciation.


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[Assistant] Now there's no point having a nice resonant voice if the clarity of speech isn't there as well.


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[Assistant] Clarity comes from using the tongue and the teeth well. Clarity comes from dipping the volume between each syllable slightly, as well as between each word, so it isn't a total mess of sound. It gives the listener a fighting chance of understanding what you say, even if you are speaking fast.


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[Assistant] So here's the first clarity exercise. First find newspaper, magazine, anything you want. Open it at a random page. Speak 30 seconds of a paragraph.


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[Assistant] Okay, then I want you to find a pencil or a thin pen.


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[Assistant] And put it between your teeth. Make sure it's a clean one, please. Health and safety, you know. Find the same paragraph and speak it again.


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[Assistant] Obviously, it's gonna be a bit of a challenge like this.


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[Assistant] Means you have to over-annunciate in order to get the meaning out.


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[Assistant] So read the whole of the 30 seconds and then take the pencil out.


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[Assistant] And reading again without the pencil that was preventing free movement will suddenly make you sound fantastically clear.


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[Assistant] You've simply taken your mouth muscles to the gym. And we'll be doing more exercises like that over the course. So try that. That's the end of this day. Find that pencil and do that for me as well as the other tasks from today. And I'll see you tomorrow.


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[Assistant] You didn't tell me adventure-seeking would be this hard on my feet. Yes, Grubby. You do have a lot of feet to worry about. So this is the land of Grundo.


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[Assistant] It sure is strange looking. It certainly is a lot different from Melonia. I'll say, Teddy.


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[Assistant] And now that we've seen it, maybe we ought to go back to where we came from.


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[Assistant] Gee, I guess that does sound like fun, if you like that sort of thing, which I don't.


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[Assistant] But at least let's stop and rest. My feet hurt.


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[Assistant] That happens to be my foot, but it's nice to meet you too.


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[Assistant] The forward line is cast off. Same goes for the out line gimmick. Just love all this botox.


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[Assistant] Well, you better start thinking fast, gimmick, cause we're heading for that big tree over there.


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[Assistant] Hey, would you look at that? What is it?


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[Assistant] Teddy, there's a little secret I have to let you in on. What's that, Grubby? I hate adventure!


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[Assistant] And today's lesson is on the verb to be.


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[Assistant] Which I'm sure you're familiar with already, but because it's an irregular verb and it changes a lot,


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[Assistant] There are lots of different words, they don't look like this B, which is the base form.


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[Assistant] They look completely different. You may think you know it, and perhaps you do, but sometimes under pressure or whatever, you might just forget.


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[Assistant] So, this is just to go over the details of it for you to be sure that you really do know this verb.


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[Assistant] Really well, because the thing about the verb to be is that it's used all the time.


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[Assistant] The equivalent in your own language, I'm sure you use all the time, the equivalent verb to be in your language. So, in English, too,


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[Assistant] It is, is used all the time. Okay? So, here we go. Let's have a look at the details. Right, so the infinitive, the base form, to be, okay? And then in the present tense, am, are, and is for the different


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[Assistant] People, first, second, third, person, singular and plural. Okay? So, I am.


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[Assistant] First person. You are second person.


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[Assistant] And then in the plural, we are, first person plural, we are, you are, second person plural, and they are.


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[Assistant] Third person plural. So, ah is used in all of the plural forms, so that's easier to remember.


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[Assistant] Okay, so uhm, uh, is are the options in the present tense. Okay? So then, when we move to the past tense, it changes completely. So, it's was and were.


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[Assistant] So, you might think, is that really part of the verb, to be? It looks completely different, but it is. I was, you were.


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[Assistant] Okay? Was and were in the past simple past tense.


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[Assistant] Okay, and then, for the future...


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[Assistant] It's very, very easy. The future tense for all English verbs is very easy, because you just use this word, will, plus the base form of the verb, will be.


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[Assistant] So, where some verbs in some languages, you change the ending of the verb.


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[Assistant] In English, we just add this word in front, will, will be.


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[Assistant] We'll sing, we'll eat, we'll drink, we'll talk, it's just will, so that's nice and easy. Okay. But it's the base form from the infinitive that you use with will, will be.


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[Assistant] Right, and then we come to the present participle, the ing form, which is b.


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[Assistant] Ing, so that's easy. You've got the base form, plus ing, which is just like a lot of other... All the other verbs, ing. Drinking, eating, talking. Right?


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[Assistant] So somebody, you could say, oh, the shop assistant is being helpful, or uhm,


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[Assistant] A friend of mine is being silly.


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[Assistant] Or being difficult or whatever. So, in the present.


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[Assistant] Uh, participle, a sort of continuous activity of being helpful or being silly or being difficult. Okay? And based on this present participle, you can also use it as a noun. A being is a person.


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[Assistant] It's a strange word for a person, really, a being. It's when you think, oh, is that


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[Assistant] Being, we do have the term human being. That's quite a normal.


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[Assistant] Okay? But beings in the plural often suggests aliens from some other planet, beings from Mars or something like that. Okay? So you can use it as a noun.


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[Assistant] Right, and then finally in this part of the lesson, the past participle is been, been. Okay, so you've got be and en added. And with the past participle, you have to use the auxiliary verb have or has, has been.


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[Assistant] It has been a really good day. We have been


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[Assistant] To the seaside, something like that. We went to... On holiday, we have been somewhere really nice today. The weather has been really good. Okay? So that's the past participle. And again, just like here, you can have a noun.


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[Assistant] He's just a... Oh, he's a has-been. It may be someone who's had a really good career, but now he's finished. He's passed his best.


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[Assistant] So, it's not a very nice way to talk about somebody. Uhm, oh, that old has been, you know, and it's like just thinking somebody's finished and...


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[Assistant] So, it's not a very nice thing to say about anybody who has been successful in the past.


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[Assistant] But they're really not achieving anything now for some reason, so.


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[Assistant] Okay, right, so that's an overview of all the forms of the verb to be, just to help you to clarify, make sure you know them all well, and you know where to use them, and you can recognize them.


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[Assistant] So in the second part of the lesson, I'm just going to give you a little quiz on some quotations and song titles.


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[Assistant] Uh, with some gaps to fill in. Okay, so here's a little test for you. Uhm, so in the gaps are forms of the verb to be for you to fill in. So some of these are song titles and others are quotations from famous people. So, the first one is from Shakespeare.


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[Assistant] The English playwright who wrote a play called Hamlet.


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[Assistant] A tragedy called Hamlet, you may have heard of, and this is a very famous line.


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[Assistant] From Hamlet, the character called Hamlet says this, so he says, uhm, uhm, or not, uhm, uhm, that is the question.


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[Assistant] Okay, so I'll go through all of these first and then we'll go back and fill in the gaps. So, next one is a French philosopher called Descartes.


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[Assistant] And so he wrote something philosophical about thinking, because philosophers do a lot of thinking. So he said, I think, therefore I... Something. Right? Also the verb to be, coming from the verb to be. Next one.


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[Assistant] Is a song title. You may know this pop group, Queen.


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[Assistant] Who were very popular, still are very popular. So, one of their famous songs, we, mmm, the champions. So, champions are people who win something. If you're in a sport or a competition, you win.


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[Assistant] So, we, uhm, the champions, like a football, uh, competition, something like that.


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[Assistant] And then the Beatles had a song called Let It Mmm. Right. And then finally we have a more modern song by Bruno Mars, and it's mmm, amazing, just the way you mmm.


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[Assistant] Right, so let's just go back now and fill in the gaps. So, have you thought what this could be? Mm-mm or not? Mm-mm.


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[Assistant] That is the question. So, this is


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[Assistant] You may have guessed the infinitive, so.


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[Assistant] That is the question. He's very unhappy, and he's trying to decide.


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[Assistant] Whether he wants to go on living or not, to be or not to be, that is the question.


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[Assistant] Do I want to continue with my life or not? Okay. I told you it was a tragedy.


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[Assistant] Okay. Right, so, Descartes.


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[Assistant] I think, therefore I, so what form of the verb, to be, goes with I. First person singular.


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[Assistant] I am. Right? I think, therefore, I am. He's proving that he exists. If he thinks, that sort of proves to him that he is real, that he exists in case there was any doubt. Okay. Right. So then,


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[Assistant] We, what form of the verb to be goes with we in the present tense.


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[Assistant] We are the champions. Okay?


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[Assistant] Good, and then the Beatles, now this is a bit of an unusual


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[Assistant] Phrase, but people use this, it's not just a song title, this is used sometimes in everyday life.


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[Assistant] Meaning just leave it, leave things as they are, let it be, just don't interfere.


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[Assistant] Don't do anything, just leave it. Let it be.


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[Assistant] Whatever is going to happen will happen, let it be. Okay? And then finally, Bruno Mars, so he's singing to somebody who he thinks amazing.


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[Assistant] Just the way you, so this is to you, so what form of the verb to be do we use with you and you?


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[Assistant] Okay, so I'll write it here first. U, present tense, r.


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[Assistant] You are, just the way you are, and here you can see from the apostrophe that it's an abbreviated form. So here, we just put


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[Assistant] R-E, because the A is missing.


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[Assistant] Because it's an abbreviated contracted form.


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[Assistant] It's pronounced you're amazing. You are you're. You're amazing.


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[Assistant] So, you don't have to change.


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[Assistant] And thanks for watching, and see you again soon. Bye for now.


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[Assistant] In 1988, 1989, 1990, 1981,


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[Assistant] In 1988, 1989, 1990, 1981,


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[Assistant] Dusted the cupboard, painted that bookcase, waited at the bus stop.


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[Assistant] Like man, the rest of the gang. Ain't we, man? It's been real. Come on, fella grunges. Like enough of this, Gavin. We've got some serious surfing to attend to. Like, wow.


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[Assistant] Hey, what's up, how's it going? Welcome back to my channel, my name is Gabi, and today I'm gonna be doing my August wrap up.


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[Assistant] And she finds out that there's a pretty good chance that she could also inherit this. So it kind of gives her this look on life, like she wants to...


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[Assistant] Feel like you understand the chronic pain even if you don't which, you know, I'm not here to say if this is accurate representation or not because I personally don't.


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[Assistant] It's like all these kids are like throwing pelting eggs at their house and like throwing gas bombs and like they feel like they're being attacked. Like something is happening in this neighborhood, you know, and it's just very shady.


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[Assistant] Untrustworthy and she's not that great of a person and she is just the most interesting person to follow in this book because you're just like


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[Assistant] But also like, there's just like genuinely a really good romance in this book happening too that I just cared so much about.


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[Assistant] One dimensional to me, like I don't know. And maybe it was because of the fact that it was like a Cinderella retelling that I just felt like I know this story so well that it was just like nothing was very surprising or different. It was just kind of the same thing. I mean at this point I've read


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[Assistant] And then like their romance was just fine. I feel like I'm probably judging this book too harshly though because I had just read, like right before I read this book, I just read The Charm Offensive, which is another book that kind of deals with this like bachelor-like premise. And I enjoyed that book so much more than this. So I feel like if you're looking for a book that has like a bachelor-like


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[Assistant] And so of course I re- I re-read one of my favorite romances of all time and this is actually my third time re-reading this book. We don't have to talk about it, but I just-


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[Assistant] That I ended up reading for a video that I just did called Reading Your Thriller Recommendations.


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[Assistant] And it's interesting because both of these main characters, Buddy and Ike, are actually ex-cons themselves. This book really does have it all though, because not only does it have


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[Assistant] It's sectioned into six chapters and in each of the six chapters we kinda get like a different perspective on something that's happening, but in the first chapter we're following this woman who's this teacher and she's talking to a class full of students and she's basically saying that she's gonna be retiring soon and then she goes on to explain why she's gonna be retiring soon and then that kind of


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[Assistant] And also kind of repetitive at times because by dense I just mean like it was like pretty bulky, you know, paragraphs were pretty long, like there was not a lot of dialogue to cut it up, so it took me a long time to get through this 200 page book. And also I do think this book is kind of repetitive at times because, you know, we do get the six chapters, but in each of the six chapters we kind of


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[Assistant] But holy crap, I feel like this plot has gotta be one of the most original and unique thriller plots that I've ever read, and I was just like amazed by where this story ended up going. This book has a really, really great plot twist at the end of every single chapter, and at the end of this book my brain was just like,


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[Assistant] I just don't know how I feel about this. I'm so torn on how I feel about it. I feel like I'm mostly, uh, confused about a lot of things in this book because of the whole, like, death loops and the, like, the talk of, like, time traveling and just...


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[Assistant] Like it was just kinda confusing, it felt to me like it kinda wanted to be like a Donnie Darko type of storyline, but it just didn't quite get there for me. I also just found the writing to be kind of just dull and like not that engaging.


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[Assistant] We do get this other guy Sawyer's point of view who was like the school shooter.


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[Assistant] And she meets this guy named Dante who's a chef and he has a daughter named Eda and she just finds herself becoming a part of their lives, you know?


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[Assistant] I was very excited to read this book, and in this book we're following this teacher named Teddy who works at this prestigious private school named Belmont Academy. And at this school, uhm, people keep dying.


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[Assistant] Let me know what you think of this kind of like cozy night setup, you know, cause it's actually night time right now while I'm filming this. And I don't know how I feel about filming at night, but you know, I feel like as we get towards uh, fall and winter months,


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[Assistant] In blankets and like hanging out with me. Anyways, please let me know how many books did you read in the month of August? What was the best book that you read in the month of August? What was your least favorite book that you read in the month of August? I think for me, for my favorite book that I read this month, it is a hard tie between In My Dreams I Hold a Knife and Razorblade Tears.


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[Assistant] Oh my god, those books are god tier. Thank you so much for watching as always, and I will see you very soon with another video. Bye!


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[Assistant] A lesson, a party. A holiday, a good time.


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[Assistant] Airplane. Wush.


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[Assistant] Car. Vroom.


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[Assistant] Police car. Wii U.


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[Assistant] Pity those who don't feel anything at all, Sarah J. Maas. I forget if that's from Durn of Us or from the, uh, Akhtar series, but...


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[Assistant] So I don't know who these are inspired by, but they're really, really cute. So this is the first one.


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[Assistant] And it says the huntress on it, which is like the main characters, uhm, like.


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[Assistant] Oh my god, so this is a replica of Poppy's dagger in the book. That is so pretty.


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[Assistant] Main characters, if you can see that. Super, super cute. Oh my god, okay, the next thing is this beautiful art print. Look at that. Oh my gosh.


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[Assistant] This is a story of a man that is born with a very acute sense of smell. We follow him from birth to adulthood and how


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[Assistant] Nonfiction account of Audrey Hepburn's life through the Nazi occupied regions of where she lived. And this is basically her story living through World War II, surviving how she helped in the resistance and her role in the war. And it's amazing because we just see her as this


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[Assistant] Number 8 is The Lady of Shalat by Waterhouse. It represents the ending to Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem from 1832 with the same title. The painting represents women's inherent value


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[Assistant] Who, through different events, she grapples with her purity and how other people perceive her purity and if she can be loved.


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[Assistant] And this book, this play, is all about a four way love triangle. It is about silliness and nature and fairies and it's just one of those plays. It's beautiful to watch visually but it's also amazing to read. You don't get


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[Assistant] This book is about love and deception and friendship and loyalty and Russian society as a whole and how society influences people and, um, country versus city. It's just, it's...


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[Assistant] And it was great inspiration for Leo Tolstoy when writing


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[Assistant] And groundbreaking things aren't really happening in Edward Hopper's paintings, and I feel like you can say the same thing about Mrs. Dalloway, but at the same time, they're not in your face, but they are very subtle. They are these groundbreaking things, but they're quiet about


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[Assistant] The way that they are powerful. So I think that that perfectly matches Mrs. Dalloway. Uhm, my favorite character is Septimus Warren Smith.


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[Assistant] And they all have very, very different stations in society. The bests are quite poor, the schlegels are middle class but a bit more wealthy, um, higher middle class, and then we have the wilcoxes which are quite


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[Assistant] The events that take place in the story, it's kind of a catalyst to other things happening. So without an umbrella, some of the events of the book would never have happened.


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[Assistant] But also just the setting, the way that E.M. Forster writes nature descriptions, this also takes place at a house called Howard's End, which is a beautiful, beautiful country home.


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[Assistant] Ian Forster does the same things, but he does it with words.


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[Assistant] And she takes a trip to Florence and it's about the people that she meets in Florence on her trip and how they eventually play a very major role in her life in the future. It's also about society, it's also about class, it is also just


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[Assistant] Dealing with the human condition and also evaluating your life so much so that you kind of


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[Assistant] Alright, we are at number one, finally. If you have made it this far, thank you so much for sticking around. And this is the most beloved painting that you guys told me was your favorite painting. Number one is, of course, the infamous Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh.


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[Assistant] This is a nonfiction all about Van Gogh's life, but it is not only about Vincent Van Gogh, it is also about his brother, Teo, and they had this really really special close bond as brothers and


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[Assistant] If you just want to learn more about them and you're interested in the paintings, of course you can see his brushwork from Starry Night is also


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[Assistant] Taking place and is found in this painting- in the book cover. And that is Teo's hat in the painting of Teo. This is of course Vincent's hat in his self portraits.


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[Assistant] Starry night and Van Gogh, but in particular if you love Van Gogh's sunflowers. And that is Tin Man by Sarah Winman. Now of course on the cover we have Van Gogh's sunflowers in their most beautiful form. I mean,


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[Assistant] This is a really really beautiful beautiful book.


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[Assistant] I hope you are having a wonderful day and you have enjoyed this video, learned maybe a bit about some art history, and also have gotten some book recommendations.


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[Assistant] This video makes me so happy because it is combining my two loves and I love sharing that with you. So I hope you have enjoyed. I'll see you soon in another video. Best wishes and happy reading!


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[Assistant] Remember to work fast in the beginning guys. The first thing I start doing is making my biscuit base.


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[Assistant] My raspberry inserts are frozen. Now it's time to coat them in melted cocoa butter.


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[Assistant] I need to make sure that my raspberry centre is just like Ashley's. It has to ooze out when you cut into the lamington. It's the whole theatre of the dish.


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[Assistant] I'm blitzing my ganache with the stick blender and it's looking so nice and shiny. Do you think that's smooth enough or keep going?


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[Assistant] I feel like I'm so focused. I'm the first one to get my lamington assembled with the rum mousse and I'm so happy it's set. Oh, that looks delicious. It's now time to unmold my lamington. I've got to blow torch it so I can carefully get this mold off. Move your finger down. As I'm getting my lamington out of the mold,


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[Assistant] It comes out so nice and cleanly. I'm so happy with it. I think it looks great and I'm just ready to get it rolled in the coconut and sprayed.


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[Assistant] I've damaged the shape of the lamington. Ashley's lamington was so perfect. I need to make sure mine's exactly like his.


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[Assistant] Gary's just spoken about the cryback machine. I've actually just read that myself. And yeaah, I'm just looking at it and it's gonna take a while.


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[Assistant] The cryovac machine sucks all of the air out of the liquid, so you've just got a really, really smooth gel. That's a really important step, so I wanna make sure I have enough time. Nice work, Nicole.


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[Assistant] G'day. Catherine, proud? I'm so proud. I'm kind of shocked but not surprised. I've just been overcome by the sense of self-belief in Tess. Has she always been so competitive? Yeah, she's competitive, yeah. I have no idea where she gets it from.


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[Assistant] Come on, Nush. You have to catch up on this stage, so just push yourself.


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[Assistant] Going T-bone. How we going?


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[Assistant] Come on Nicole, you're doing amazingly well. So calm, it's awesome.


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[Assistant] Okay, Clarissa, Simon, Tessa, come, quick.


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[Assistant] It's always interesting watching you come in on a day like today because some of you steely and determined, others, Leah, big smile on your face. It's about mindset, regardless of whether you're dressed in black or not. But what a week to be in a pressure test. Nigella week.


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[Assistant] So, you have 90 minutes to bring us the perfect roast chicken with two sides of your choice. They just have to be hot.


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[Assistant] The recipe for the roast chicken is at your bench. Everything else is up to you. Nigella, will you do the honours?


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[Assistant] These potatoes are very, very crispy. Does anybody want a little garlic? Yes please.


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[Assistant] Look, I love it. The sauce is great. The roast flavour's there. It's roast chicken. I think she's done a smashing job, I really do. It's a very uplifting plate of food.


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[Assistant] So we all know that roast chickens are regular at your dinner table. Are you pleased with the spread that you've put up?


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[Assistant] Love the potatoes because they are crisp deliciousness. But look at the carrots, it looks just a bit washed out and I kind of know what to expect, which is a shame.


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[Assistant] Look, the star on the plate for me is the potatoes, cooked in duck fat. They're crispy, they're crunchy, they're light, they're fluffy, absolutely yum. Some real delicious things on the plate. A couple of things that could be a little bit better.


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[Assistant] The gravy is a bit bland and by thickening it with the cornflour at the end it's actually compounded the problem. So it's a little, it's a little washed out.


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[Assistant] Look, I agree, I think the chicken's delicious. And I mean, the overall flavor of the meal is definitely roast chicken. There's plenty of roastiness.


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[Assistant] I mean these potatoes, there's no way they're not going to be crunchy and full of flavour, is there? That's beautiful, that golden skin there. That looks really nicely cooked.


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[Assistant] You know when we talk about Masterchef it up, this is a proper restaurant dish. It's sophisticated, the sauce is delicious, it delivers in spades.


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[Assistant] It really is delicious. My chicken is spot on in terms of cooking and I thought it was going to be slightly underrated.


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[Assistant] But because the gravy's so good, it kind of makes up for everything.


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[Assistant] Now it comes down to the three of you. Larissa, Mandy and Monica.


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[Assistant] You all put up one standout element.


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[Assistant] But you also all made mistakes that stood out.


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[Assistant] Mandy, your gravy was bland.


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[Assistant] Larissa, your fennel was undercooked.


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[Assistant] We felt that your potatoes weren't as crispy and as delicious as they should have been.


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[Assistant] But Monica, there was also an underlying bitterness and sourness to your gravy. And I'm sorry. That's why you're going home.


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[Assistant] If you don't get that chicken in the oven in time to get nice and golden and roasted, it's pretty much your ticket home.


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[Assistant] As soon as I rush to the pantry, I grab those blue swimmer crabs, bring it on. I can cook an awesome chilli crab, so for me it's kind of a no-brainer.


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[Assistant] I love Asian food, so as soon as I saw that pantry, that was exactly what I was gonna go for. I'm making a blue swimmer crab in a chilli sambal. Last time I made chilli crab, I almost killed George.


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[Assistant] So, I might go a little bit lighter on the chilli this time. How good.


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[Assistant] So far, I've got my crab segmented. I have my base for the chilli crab done. There's so many aromatic smells coming out. It's just so punchy. I just thought chilli crab, something I can nail the flavours with.


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[Assistant] I need to knock it out of the park with this cook because I really want to be in those semi-finals.


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[Assistant] Yeah, as soon as I saw those blue swimmer crabs I was just thinking I really feel like cooking with crab again. Good on you. What's the dish? It's a Thai style blue swimmer crab in a chilli sambal with coconut rice.


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[Assistant] Hello, welcome to Day 13. Now the first item on today's menu is about hoarseness in a voice. There are two elements to this, the physical way of correcting a hoarse voice, and then the emotional or psychological way.


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[Assistant] If you have a hoarse voice generally, and not just because you're ill, it could be that you're simply dehydrated all the time and trying to use your voice when it hasn't been lubricated. And the poor vocal folds you have are just wry creating a harsh voice.


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[Assistant] Drink a small glass of water every hour or two and breathe moist air. You can use one of those steamer things if you like. Don't just breathe steam from the kettle. It's very hot and it'll hurt you. You will burn yourself from breathing it. So don't put your head above a kettle.


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[Assistant] You can from a pharmacy buy a little pot with a nose shaped apparatus and hot water you can put in with some menthol if you like.


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[Assistant] Now another reason people have a harsh voice is that they're breathing in polluted air, and in particular smoke.


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[Assistant] If you are a smoker or a vaper you really have to stop as soon as you can and not just to improve your voice, obviously. The other thing to do is to stop the habit of coughing to clear your voice. As this does harm to the vocal folds. A lot of people think, what's wrong with coughing?


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[Assistant] If you really have to clear your throat, a small little uh, uh, uh.


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[Assistant] It may seem rather strange. Oh, I don't want to do it. That may seem strange, but honestly, it's true. Do not whisper. If you want to speak softly, speak softly, but don't whisper because it uses a different part of the throat and it's bad for it, okay?


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[Assistant] So, they are the physical factors that may cause a harsh voice, but on the psychological side.


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[Assistant] As we said when we talked about onomatopoeia in day four, are wonderment words. You can colour words and make them sound smoother. In other words, not harsh.


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[Assistant] Here are three sentences on the screen. I will say them in a harsh way and then say them in a smooth way.