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1. 0:04Okay, so Harvey, tell me about your
2. 0:07work. I remember you recently told me
3. 0:10you have a new boss from Germany.
4. 0:13>> Yes, that's it.
5. 0:15>> Tell me about your your boss and your
6. 0:17work at the moment.
7. 0:19>> Yeah, yeah, right now
8. 0:23my company
9. 0:25have
10. 0:26have bought to to to a man for for
11. 0:31Germany.
12. 0:31>> Okay, [laughter]
13. 0:32okay.
14. 0:33>> And tomorrow
15. 0:36I I have a meeting
16. 0:39with with with him.
17. 0:42And other colleagues in the company. All
18. 0:46in English.
19. 0:47>> [laughter]
20. 0:47>> I have a big problem.
21. 0:50>> Sure, it'll be fine.
22. 0:52>> Yeah. [laughter]
23. 0:53And [snorts]
24. 0:54well, my my work is
25. 0:57is a art director of animation for for
26. 1:01for the kids.
27. 1:03>> Wow, cool.
28. 1:05>> I I prepare the pre-production, the
29. 1:09backgrounds, character props, and other
30. 1:12things.
31. 1:13Um
32. 1:14>> Mhm.
33. 1:15>> And
34. 1:17I check the the storyboards,
35. 1:21animation for the other animators.
36. 1:25>> Mhm, yeah.
37. 1:27>> Well, this is my
38. 1:29my work. My job.
39. 1:30>> Is it your work? Okay, very nice. Let me
40. 1:33share my screen with you, Harvey. So,
41. 1:37can you see the documents?
42. 1:39>> Yeah.
43. 1:40>> Wonderful. So, just to
44. 1:43note a couple of corrections there. So,
45. 1:46just was writing these as you were
46. 1:47speaking. So, you said my company have
47. 1:50bought a German company, more or less.
48. 1:53Okay?
49. 1:54Um when we talk about company in
50. 1:57English, even though it's a lot of
51. 1:59people, we're talking about it as a
52. 2:01singular entity. Okay, so one thing. So
53. 2:06if it was a singular entity like one
54. 2:08person or one thing, what would be the
55. 2:11conjugation of has here? Have?
56. 2:14>> Ah, okay.
57. 2:16>> What would it be?
58. 2:18>> Yeah, has.
59. 2:19>> Has. Yes, I gave the game away there,
60. 2:20didn't I? My company has bought a German
61. 2:22company. Fantastic.
62. 2:25And you were describing your skills at
63. 2:27work.
64. 2:28Um,
65. 2:29and
66. 2:30I'm not sure if you said this sentence
67. 2:31correctly or not. There was maybe it was
68. 2:33pronunciation, but I think you said I
69. 2:35produce the background. Is that right?
70. 2:39Okay?
71. 2:39>> Yes.
72. 2:40>> Okay.
73. 2:41So can I hear you say produce?
74. 2:44>> Produce.
75. 2:46>> Okay, let's try again. It's It's quite
76. 2:48hard to to hear over um
77. 2:51over online. Let me just go here. So
78. 2:54listen, produce.
79. 2:57>> Produce.
80. 2:58>> So we'll go
81. 3:00>> Okay.
82. 3:01Produce.
83. 3:03>> Produce.
84. 3:05>> Produce.
85. 3:06>> That's it. It's It's definitely a bit
86. 3:08more difficult. It's produce. So it's
87. 3:11only two syllables. Okay?
88. 3:13>> Produce.
89. 3:13>> [clears throat]
90. 3:14>> And the d u, so if we look at the word,
91. 3:18just go back to the screen for a second.
92. 3:21The d u here is more like a j sound.
93. 3:25J produce.
94. 3:28>> Okay. Produce.
95. 3:29>> Produce.
96. 3:32>> Produce.
97. 3:33>> Okay, getting there. Getting there.
98. 3:34That's all right. We'll keep practicing.
99. 3:36We'll keep practicing. Don't worry.
100. 3:38Produce.
101. 3:39All right. Um
102. 3:42So now you're with a new German company.
103. 3:44Tell me about your new boss, who I
104. 3:47understand is German.
105. 3:49>> Um
106. 3:51Uh I know
107. 3:54a few things.
108. 3:56>> Okay.
109. 3:57A few things or not many things?
110. 4:03Which do you think it is?
111. 4:05>> A little
112. 4:06>> positive or negative?
113. 4:08>> I don't know.
114. 4:10Tomorrow is the first time
115. 4:13>> Okay.
116. 4:14>> [clears throat]
117. 4:14>> Mhm.
118. 4:16>> I think he's he's very
119. 4:20>> [laughter]
120. 4:20>> He's very what? Sorry, I didn't hear
121. 4:22you. Very
122. 4:23>> young young
123. 4:24>> young
124. 4:25young
125. 4:26>> young very
126. 4:27>> Very nice. Very young. Very good.
127. 4:29>> very young
128. 4:32He's lucky that
129. 4:33>> [laughter]
130. 4:34>> Good.
131. 4:35>> because
132. 4:36he [snorts and clears throat] has a lot
133. 4:37of money.
134. 4:39>> [laughter]
135. 4:40>> Um
136. 4:42and I I
137. 4:43don't know
138. 4:45Um because tomorrow is the the first
139. 4:49meeting.
140. 4:50>> Right. Okay. One second.
141. 4:55And so um
142. 4:57what do you expect to happen at the
143. 4:59meeting, Javi?
144. 5:01>> Uh
145. 5:03I don't know. I expect
146. 5:05honestly so much.
147. 5:08>> We'll see well. You will be fine.
148. 5:11>> And only listening
149. 5:14>> What makes you most nervous about
150. 5:15speaking in English?
151. 5:18>> nervous
152. 5:20>> Yeah, what makes you most nervous about
153. 5:23speaking in English?
154. 5:25>> because
155. 5:27I don't have a fluent English but I have
156. 5:31a
157. 5:31for me
158. 5:32is is only only
159. 5:36uh
160. 5:36take you know
161. 5:38drink a water
162. 5:39>> Okay.
163. 5:41>> Uh
164. 5:42is is a is a good for for relaxing.
165. 5:47>> That I think very good. Very good. Let's
166. 5:49have a look at this um phrase here.
167. 5:54So, you said, "I don't have fluent
168. 5:55English." I think that was the phrase
169. 5:57you used there, Harvey. Okay? So, what
170. 6:01is the um
171. 6:02What is the verb that we need to to talk
172. 6:06about
173. 6:07being fluent?
174. 6:09What are we doing when we're trying to
175. 6:10be fluent? We are
176. 6:13What is the action?
177. 6:16>> Fluent to to speak, no?
178. 6:18>> Speaking, exactly. Yes. So, you can say,
179. 6:21instead of I don't have fluent English,
180. 6:23what could you say here instead with
181. 6:25that word?
182. 6:26>> Ah, okay. I don't speak fluent.
183. 6:30>> There you go. I don't speak fluent
184. 6:32English or I don't speak
185. 6:35What could we say? English?
186. 6:38>> Fluent.
187. 6:40>> Fluently, okay? Because then we're
188. 6:42describing how we speak English, okay?
189. 6:44So, I don't speak fluent English and I
190. 6:46don't speak English fluently. But what
191. 6:48what's do you describe then as a fluent
192. 6:52English speaker?
193. 6:55>> Um
194. 6:56Well, well, well, when a person has a
195. 7:01skill to
196. 7:02to speak
197. 7:04fluently.
198. 7:05>> Mhm.
199. 7:06>> And [clears throat]
200. 7:08and and he he can understand understood
201. 7:15all all conversation.
202. 7:18And
203. 7:21and respond
204. 7:23the answer well. And
205. 7:26and make new new good question
206. 7:30for the other person.
207. 7:33>> Yeah. I think that is a great And what
208. 7:34about grammar and vocabulary? What do
209. 7:36you think
210. 7:37people need to have to be able to speak
211. 7:40fluently?
212. 7:42>> Um
213. 7:43in the uh grammar. Well,
214. 7:46to know all
215. 7:49all all times, all
216. 7:52present, present perfect,
217. 7:54future, past.
218. 7:56Um
219. 7:58another
220. 8:00times, I I don't know what is the
221. 8:02correct
222. 8:03>> Yeah, tenses. Tenses. You know the
223. 8:05tenses.
224. 8:07Okay, without the tenses.
225. 8:09So, you're like the future, the past,
226. 8:11and the present, and conditionals, and
227. 8:13things like that, yeah?
228. 8:14>> Yes, and the formula to to make
229. 8:16questions.
230. 8:18So, in the
231. 8:18>> Okay, nice. Okay, good.
232. 8:21And what makes you think you are not
233. 8:24there yet, Heavy?
234. 8:27What makes you think that you are not
235. 8:28fluent?
236. 8:30>> For example, when when
237. 8:34I must to to to
238. 8:37to ask questions.
239. 8:39>> Yeah?
240. 8:40>> Um sometime
241. 8:42uh well, sometime
242. 8:44all time.
243. 8:45I confuse the
244. 8:47the the formula
245. 8:49for example,
246. 8:50in past
247. 8:52to have or
248. 8:54would you
249. 8:56Well, I confuse in my in my in my brain
250. 8:59when the future.
251. 9:00>> You confuse sometimes between some of
252. 9:01the tenses and the use of the tenses,
253. 9:04yeah?
254. 9:04>> Yes.
255. 9:05>> Okay, okay. Well, that's normal.
256. 9:08That is part of the process, isn't it?
257. 9:10When you're not fluent, you have to keep
258. 9:12practicing to get to to that fluent
259. 9:14stage. And it can be frustrating when
260. 9:18you're talking to a native speaker or
261. 9:21somebody like
262. 9:22a German speaker who speaks pretty
263. 9:24fluent English as well.
264. 9:26Um I'm sure it's frustrating. Okay.
265. 9:29Let's just take a look at a couple of
266. 9:31things here you said earlier. You said
267. 9:32he can understand the conversation.
268. 9:34That's great. You were describing
269. 9:36um how the the person can speak.
270. 9:40Now, we don't necessarily know it's a he
271. 9:43if we're talking in general, okay? So,
272. 9:46it could be he or it could be she,
273. 9:48correct?
274. 9:49>> Yeah, um,
275. 9:51what is the
276. 9:55What is the
277. 9:56what what
278. 9:57when you speak
279. 9:58>> Mhm.
280. 9:59>> you say she or or it or what what what
281. 10:02is the
282. 10:04>> It's a more of a general one here. Let's
283. 10:05see if you can guess. It is four
284. 10:08letters.
285. 10:11And it's more general.
286. 10:12>> They.
287. 10:13>> That's it, exactly. Yeah, so they can
288. 10:16speak. Well done.
289. 10:18Or they can understand the conversation.
290. 10:20So, we can use they
291. 10:22to just talk about people in general
292. 10:24when we don't want to be specific or we
293. 10:25don't know who we're talking about,
294. 10:27okay? And we can use it for they as in
295. 10:29singular or they as in plural.
296. 10:32So, that's absolutely fine.
297. 10:34And then we have the word answer.
298. 10:38>> Answer.
299. 10:39>> This is the pronunciation that you you
300. 10:41said earlier. This is very typical um,
301. 10:44error in pronunciation in general, okay?
302. 10:46But it's for English learners because we
303. 10:48have this really annoying W here
304. 10:53that we don't pronounce.
305. 10:55That we don't pronounce. So, go again.
306. 10:57>> Answer.
307. 10:58>> Answer, exactly. Yeah? So, earlier I
308. 11:01think you said answua, which is very
309. 11:03typical um, because we often see Spanish
310. 11:07speakers pronouncing every letter,
311. 11:09obviously, because that's what you do in
312. 11:11Spanish. Um, but in this case the the W
313. 11:13is silent.
314. 11:16>> Okay, answer.
315. 11:17>> Thank you for the session today and um,
316. 11:21I will see you in class anyway very
317. 11:23soon, okay?
318. 11:24>> Okay, thank you.
319. 11:25>> All right, thank you Harvey, take care.
320. 11:27Bye-bye. Bye.
321. 11:28>> Bye-bye.