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Hey guys, in this video I'm going to be talking with 
my boyfriend in 4 languages.

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We are going to be discussing about language learning 
topic.

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How, why we learned these languages.

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And how fun it is to learn languages.

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I hope you all have fun and let’s go!!

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Ok, so I know 4 languages: English, Spanish, Thai and 
Portuguese.

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But you know 10 languages, Right?

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Yea

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So why do you like learning languages so much?

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I love learning languages because it brings me to 
places I’ve never imagined I will get to go,

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things that I never imagined I will get to do.

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And also, I love communicating with people and, like, 
learning about them.

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Yea, that’s something I’ve noticed. For example, I 
remember one time in Thailand,

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you saw this French couple and they were speaking 
French,

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and you were learning French for like a few months by 
then and you just went up to them,

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you approached them and started speaking with them.

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Yea, aha. Because I think in order to learn languages 
and speak well,

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you have to get rid of your fear and think of 
languages as just a tool.

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So I don’t really care, I don’t care at all if I make 
mistakes or not.

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It’s not like I try to not care but I don’t think 
about it at all.

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Because the most important thing is your story and 
their story.

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And, like, creating good relationships, you know.

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Creating an image that you want to know about that 
person,

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that you are an interesting person through the 
language.

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Language is nothing but a tool for you to have fun in 
this life, seriously.

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Yea, that’s something I’ve learned from you..to not 
care about making mistakes.

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It’s something I kinda struggled with when I started 
learning Thai but now it’s like …

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I think about you and like… when you speak Spanish..

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and like…when you speak Portuguese and make little 
mistakes you just keep talking.

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It doesn’t phase you.

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So now we will talk in Spanish. 
How did you learn Spanish, Grace?

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I learned Spanish online in Thailand when I was 
working full time in a company.

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I started learning with books and also on youtube. 
Then I found a teacher online from italki.

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Then I started to learn with him. 

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And why did you start learning Spanish? Because I know
 that Spanish is used in many, many countries.

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In Latin America: Colombia, Chile, Ecuador…in many 
countries

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And what is the first Spanish-speaking country you 
have been to?

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Colombia. Yea? yea. with my boyfriend.

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And we were just traveling for only one month.

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You started learning Spanish before knowing me, right?

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One month before knowing you.

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I remember during this time, you were learning with a 
Spanish accent from Spain.

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And after you know me, you started to learn with the 
latin American accent, right?

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Yes, because your parents are Colombians and I want to
 “Do what the Romans do”.

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Do exactly what the Latin Americans do.

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Because of this I started to learn, I changed all the 
learning materials and started to speak,

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more or less, like the latin americans. I hope so :)

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And you also learned Thai, right?

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Yes, I have been learning Thai for about 4 years 
already.

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I started learning because I went to travel to 
Thailand with my Thai friend.

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And his family couldn’t speak English.

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So when I got back to America, I had a goal to learn 
Thai.

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Then you looked for teachers.

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I looked for online teachers and found Grace. That 
teacher is Grace.

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And I studied with Grace for one year. Then I went to 
Thailand to travel.

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But then we met up, right?

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Yea, we met up.

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We were still in a teacher-student relationship.

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Yea, we met up, traveled together, ate together. I met
 Grace’s friends, Aim and Mike.

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And we went to Kanchanaburi. And in Kanchanaburi we 
started dating.

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If you couldn’t speak Thai, we might not be able to 
get to this point

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because you will not be able to meet my parents.

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Now I get to talk to them. And talk to Grace’s 
friend’s that don't speak English.

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Therefore I think languages are very important, Right?

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Because you get to see my friends and create a good 
relationship with Thai people, with Thailand.

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For example, I can speak Spanish, so I could talk to 
your parents.

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Yea, because if you couldn’t speak Spanish, you 
wouldn’t don’t know my parents well.

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Yea, but now I’m really close to them. Two days ago, I
 talked to Edgar’s parents for an hour.

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Almost everyday.

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Yea, I talk to them almost everyday. When I cook, I 
always call Edgar’s dad.

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Edgar’s dad is a humorous guy. I really like him.

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And you also speak Portuguese too, right?

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Actually we started learning Portuguese together, 
right?

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How?

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We started(learning Portuguese) because we went to 
Brazil.

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And there, we had an opportunity to use Portuguese 
everyday.

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Because we rented a house. It was a private room in a 
house from Airbnb.

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And there, we get to know a Brazilian family. We 
talked everyday in Portuguese.

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And the first 2-3 months we watched videos about 
Portuguese (language).

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We found blogs on the internet and read about grammar 
in Portuguese.

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But after 3 months we … because we also know how to 
speak Spanish...

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Yea, it helped a lot

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So later, we just talked a lot with friends, with 
people on the street, with the family in the house.

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I think we learned very fast.

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In 9 months, I think I could already understand almost
 everything.

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We had a lot of experiences there, right?

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We went to hospitals, we went to outdoor markets, many
 restaurants, and beaches.

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So we had a lot of experiences talking about many 
things.

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Yea..But I think the only problem that we have is the 
accent.

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My accent too. I want to talk like the Brazilians but 
it’s so hard. I don’t know why.

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We tried but I think it’s because of our Spanish.

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But I think Grace has a better accent than me.

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I don’t know.

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The taxi drivers said so.

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But Edgar looks more like Brazilians so strangers 
always think that I’m a foreigner.

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But Grace passes for Japanese, right?

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Yea, because there are a lot of Japanese in Brazil.

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You also speak other languages.

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Actually I know a few words.

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Turkish and Chinese.

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Why did you learn them? How did you learn them?

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Turkish, because we went to Turkey, so I studied for 
about a month. But now, I don’t remember much.

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Do you remember some words like let’s say, “easy”?

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Starts with “K”

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Kolay

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Let’s say, a sentence. “I want to go to Turkey”.

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“Türkiye'ye gitmek istiyorum”

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Woo woo!

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What about, “I like Turkish, the language”?

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Turkçe seviyorum

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“Seviyorum”, yes I like.

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What about Chinese?

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Chinese, I also remember a few words and I think I 
studied for one month.

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I actually studied for one month before we went to 
Turkey.

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And then I switched to Turkish. Well after that we 
went to Brazil so then I just learned Portuguese.

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But I think you have a very good memory because you 
memorized all this without practicing.

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So how do you say my parents...my mom and dad are 
Colombians.

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“Wǒ de bàba māmā shì gēlúnbǐyǎ rén”

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“How do you say I’m American”?

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“Wǒ shì měiguó rén”

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I probably have a horrible accent.

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One more, I can speak Chinese. Can is huì

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“Wǒ huì shuō hànyǔ”

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I’m kind of impressed.

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Grace taught me for one month of Chinese and also one 
month of Turkish.

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Yea, that’s when we travelled and I kind of let it go.
 But I’m definitely going to pick it back up.

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So Grace, you know 10 languages but do you still want 
to learn more?

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Yea, I want to learn...I really want to learn...what’s
 that...Russian and Arabic.

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The reason is because it’s used in many, many 
countries. Like Spanish, used in so many countries.

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So I will have more opportunities to use it with more 
people.

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Actually today, in Quito, Ecuador, we met a Lebanese 
family

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and we were like we really want to learn Arabic right?

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That’s like something that happened really often with 
us.

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We want to learn, like, every language we come across.

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But I think it’s good because it really motivates us 
to learn.

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Yea, true.

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And you..you want to learn...what is your next 
language?

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I want to continue with Chinese mandarin but I also 
want to learn Korean. Well, yeah, I’m lucky because…

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I can help you

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Yea, I haven’t decided yet.

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Alright so final question. So out of these 4 
languages, which one do we normally speak in?

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Actually we normally speak in English and Thai. Two 
languages.

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So Thai, usually outside of the home, and inside we 
speak English.

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Actually we try to speak Thai most of the time but we 
always forget to and end up just speaking in English.

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So, yeah, learning languages is difficult. And it 
takes time.

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But if you stop thinking about time and just enjoy the
 process, I think you will get there one day, right?

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Yea, that's something I learn from Grace a lot.

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Because before I met Grace my only goal was to learn 
Thai.

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And now, after knowing Grace, I want to learn 10 
languages like her too.

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Yea, it’s super fun.

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Yeah, we spent hours every day studying.

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Yeah, at least an hour studying.

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Especially Grace.

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It became my habit to study, you know.

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So thank you guys so much for watching.

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So if you have any questions feel free to ask...to 
write in the comment and ask us.

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And Edgar will be there to answer and also I will be 
there to answer.

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So thank you so much and I will see you guys later, 
bye.