Comprehensible Input English Native Speaker Conversation B1 B2 C1 South African Girl Istanbul — Transcript

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1. 0:00If you want to improve your English and
2. 0:04travel all around the world or to get an
3. 0:08international job, you need to speak
4. 0:10English fluently or at least at B1 B2
5. 0:15levels. [music] And the best way to
6. 0:17become fluent is to listen to [music]
7. 0:21and shadow native speakers. So, I'm
8. 0:25inviting you for a walk through one of
9. 0:28the oldest cities in the world,
10. 0:30Istanbul, with a native English [music]
11. 0:33speaker that I randomly met at a cafe.
12. 0:37Ready to improve your English? Hit the
13. 0:39like button below and let's get started.
14. 0:44>> Leila, good to see you. Oh my gosh,
15. 0:46amazing.
16. 0:48>> In Turkey, you guys go for two kisses,
17. 0:51right? Not for one.
18. 0:52>> Depends. You can go for two or maybe
19. 0:54three. Depends on how close you are to
20. 0:55the person.
21. 0:56>> Oh my gosh, that's interesting. I
22. 0:58>> I love how close you are with them.
23. 1:00>> And you're a native speaker. You're from
24. 1:02South Africa, right?
25. 1:03>> Yes, I am.
26. 1:03>> Were you born here or were you born in
27. 1:05South Africa?
28. 1:06>> I was born and raised in South Africa. I
29. 1:07came here about 6 years ago.
30. 1:09>> Six years ago. How come you speak
31. 1:10>> and a half?
32. 1:11>> Do you speak Turkish pretty well?
33. 1:13>> I would hope so. [laughter]
34. 1:14>> When did you learn Turkish? Um well to
35. 1:18my luck uh after I moved here 2 days
36. 1:21after the pandemic happened so I wasn't
37. 1:24able to go out much or do anything. So I
38. 1:27was stuck inside for about 2 years time
39. 1:29and then afterwards when I finally was
40. 1:31able to reach the outside world I was
41. 1:33like you know it's kind of sad cuz I am
42. 1:34half Turkish but I don't speak Turkish.
43. 1:36>> Yeah. Hamsat lets us know where we are
44. 1:39and lets us communicate with the outside
45. 1:40world. Yeah. This is the dolphin
46. 1:42translator here. So, I tried to make
47. 1:45Turkish friends and consume Turkish
48. 1:47media and just get used to hearing and
49. 1:50whatnot. And then I started Turkish
50. 1:52courses
51. 1:53>> until B1 and then the rest is on my own.
52. 1:56>> I took on this challenge on my own. I
53. 1:58needed to see it through on my own. No
54. 2:00handouts.
55. 2:02>> B1. That's cool. What's your level now?
56. 2:04B2 C1.
57. 2:05>> I would say you're on C1 if I'm
58. 2:07confident.
59. 2:07>> C1ish. [laughter]
60. 2:08That's pretty cool. Wow. Where are we
61. 2:10heading to?
62. 2:10>> You tell me.
63. 2:12>> I tell you. You're a local. I'm not
64. 2:13local. You show me the city. Show me the
65. 2:15best part of it.
66. 2:16>> The best part. Little controversial, but
67. 2:19I think uh
68. 2:21>> controversy,
69. 2:22>> of course. [laughter]
70. 2:22>> Let's go to Asia.
71. 2:24>> Exactly.
72. 2:24>> She was a big sex symbol. And this movie
73. 2:27was a little controversial.
74. 2:29>> I think that the Asian side is more
75. 2:31beautiful because it's more calm. It has
76. 2:34more greenery. Uh it's it gives more of
77. 2:38the proper Turkish stumble vibe of what
78. 2:42actual like Turkish people do. I think
79. 2:44that majority of the European side is
80. 2:47very much so fabricated towards tourists
81. 2:49and the tourist eye where whether it be
82. 2:52the food, the the prices, [laughter] the
83. 2:56everything.
84. 2:57>> You know, it's it's a it's a fabricated
85. 2:58story that we choose to believe.
86. 3:00>> Turkish people are very superstitious.
87. 3:02Superstitious. Tell me more. So, what's
88. 3:06the biggest biggest superstition in
89. 3:09Turkey? Is it a black cat crossing the
90. 3:11road? [laughter]
91. 3:12>> So, because of our cat culture,
92. 3:14>> my Mr. Spock
93. 3:16never took you for the superstitious
94. 3:18time.
95. 3:18>> First thing that would come to mind is
96. 3:21if your ears are ringing, it probably
97. 3:23means that somebody's talking about you.
98. 3:25>> Oh,
99. 3:26>> yes. [laughter]
100. 3:27>> Interesting. And from what I've seen,
101. 3:30more than half the time it's true. Maybe
102. 3:32it's a crazy coincidence, but [laughter]
103. 3:34>> wow. Possibly it is, but possibly not.
104. 3:37>> You never know.
105. 3:38>> So true.
106. 3:39>> Guess you never know [music] where
107. 3:40life's going to take you.
108. 3:42>> So, what got you into
109. 3:45YouTube or teaching English and the
110. 3:49whole shebang?
111. 3:50>> The whole shebang. I like the phrase.
112. 3:51[laughter]
113. 3:52You guys should also check it out. See
114. 3:54here,
115. 3:55>> doctor. I'd love to chat. tea, cake, the
116. 3:58whole shebang. But
117. 3:59>> well, I'm not an English teacher. I'm
118. 4:00just I'm a traveler. I've been mentoring
119. 4:03people for the last nine years how to
120. 4:06become a tech professional.
121. 4:08>> Mhm.
122. 4:08>> How to become a software quality
123. 4:10assurance engineer. I have a boot an
124. 4:13online boot camp located in Los Angeles
125. 4:15and we teach people all around the world
126. 4:18and I've been running the YouTube
127. 4:19channel of mine for the last six or
128. 4:21seven years. Then I was like, okay,
129. 4:24someone told me during the public speech
130. 4:26that I was public spill that I was
131. 4:29giving that Sergy, it's awesome that you
132. 4:31know TAC, but your voice sounds very
133. 4:34professional and
134. 4:35>> promotive.
135. 4:36>> Yeah. And I was like, interesting. And
136. 4:38then several more people told me the
137. 4:40same thing. I was like, you know what?
138. 4:42If people are telling me that, let me
139. 4:44continue working on my voice. And I and
140. 4:46I took a couple of public speaking
141. 4:47classes. I realized that I'm doing
142. 4:50better than my teacher does. I'm like,
143. 4:52okay, let me start teaching others how
144. 4:55to how to go for public speaking, how to
145. 4:58become confident.
146. 4:59>> The more public speaking you do, the
147. 5:01better it'll look for college.
148. 5:02>> And then I opened this YouTube channel
149. 5:04and I was first sharing with people how
150. 5:06to sound confident, how to sound
151. 5:08professional, how to articulate. And
152. 5:10then I realized that, okay, I'm not
153. 5:12getting much traction. So, I got to
154. 5:15change something.
155. 5:16>> I don't seem to be getting any traction.
156. 5:18Do you know what I'm saying? Traction.
157. 5:20And a friend of mine told me that, "You
158. 5:21know what? Why don't you try
159. 5:22comprehensible input English?" Okay,
160. 5:25>> just go through the street and show
161. 5:26people the whole world and describe it.
162. 5:28I recorded the first video of mine in
163. 5:30Switzerland.
164. 5:31>> Oh, that's amazing. We're in
165. 5:32Switzerland.
166. 5:33>> It was actually on the I don't remember
167. 5:35which side of the Geneva Lake.
168. 5:37>> Okay.
169. 5:38>> But it got like 2 to 3,000 views in the
170. 5:40first couple of days. Yeah, it got some
171. 5:42attention. And then I was like, hm,
172. 5:44okay. But then I quit doing YouTube in
173. 5:48this channel for like 2 months. But then
174. 5:50one day I started getting comments like
175. 5:52every hour like, "Dude, where are the
176. 5:54videos? We want to see more and more."
177. 5:55And I saw that that video picked up. It
178. 5:56got like 5 10,000 views.
179. 5:58>> I'm like, "You know what? Let me try it
180. 6:00again." And I did a couple of videos and
181. 6:02the New York City one got like 300,000
182. 6:04views in a couple of weeks. I'm like,
183. 6:06"Huh, [laughter] I kind of like it. Let
184. 6:08me continue doing that."
185. 6:10>> So would you say that you've had an
186. 6:12impact on people?
187. 6:13>> Absolutely. And that's the biggest part
188. 6:16of it.
189. 6:16>> It triggered an environmental
190. 6:18catastrophe that had an impact across
191. 6:21Europe.
192. 6:22>> Since I've been mentoring people for the
193. 6:24last decade, when I saw there are a lot
194. 6:26of people saying, "Oh, Sergio, oh my
195. 6:28gosh, your videos are amazing. You're
196. 6:29helping me so much. I'm picking so many
197. 6:31new words and phrases." I was like, "Let
198. 6:33me continue doing that since I'm helping
199. 6:35people to change their lives."
200. 6:37>> Captain, I am picking up his signals.
201. 6:40>> Excellent. And then more and more people
202. 6:43start asking me, Sergy, how can I
203. 6:44practice with you? I I don't have anyone
204. 6:47in my village to speak English. So
205. 6:48that's why I watch YouTube videos. I'm
206. 6:50like, you know what? Let me create a
207. 6:51platform so I could connect people from
208. 6:53all around the world so they could
209. 6:55practice English with each other and get
210. 6:57to know each other.
211. 6:58>> You know, most normal people get to know
212. 6:59[music] each other before they get
213. 7:00married. They date.
214. 7:03>> Pretty much it's a social learning. You
215. 7:06hang out with people from all around the
216. 7:08world. Just imagine guys, right now I'm
217. 7:10walking with a girl from South Africa in
218. 7:12Istanbul. [laughter] But yesterday I
219. 7:14talked to a guy from Angola to this guy.
220. 7:17I talked to a guy from Italy right here.
221. 7:19And I talked to people from Brazil,
222. 7:20Colombia, and Japan. And by the way, if
223. 7:22you want to practice English just like I
224. 7:25do on a daily basis, simply go to
225. 7:28foxw.com.
226. 7:30FOX. Just FYI. [laughter]
227. 7:32>> Thank you very much.
228. 7:36Have you ever felt like you're a local?
229. 7:39>> Um,
230. 7:39>> or do you still feel like you're a
231. 7:40foreigner?
232. 7:42>> The first four, five, four years, I
233. 7:44would say that I felt very foreign here
234. 7:48>> just because, you know, there are a lot
235. 7:50of cultural differences and uh very much
236. 7:55different types of communication styles
237. 7:58because in South Africa people tend to
238. 8:00be a little bit more blunt uh more
239. 8:02honest, say it how it is.
240. 8:05I think I say the wrong things.
241. 8:08I mean, I just I just say it how it is.
242. 8:12>> Turkish people tend to always have an
243. 8:15underlying meaning.
244. 8:16>> It has an underlying meaning that can be
245. 8:19[music] exposed
246. 8:22>> things that they talk about
247. 8:23>> hint you.
248. 8:23>> Exactly. But I never got the hints
249. 8:25because I'm not used to it. [laughter]
250. 8:27>> Like, yo, I'm I'm straight. I'm very
251. 8:29direct. Tell me what's going on.
252. 8:31>> Exactly. So I
253. 8:31>> So you're very Slavic, I would say, cuz
254. 8:33[laughter] that's what they do in Slavic
255. 8:34countries.
256. 8:35>> I think it's the best option. Honesty is
257. 8:37the best policy always.
258. 8:38>> And you're crazy.
259. 8:39>> No, I'm honest. I believe honesty is the
260. 8:41best policy.
261. 8:42>> All right.
262. 8:43>> You want me to be honest with you?
263. 8:44>> Sure.
264. 8:46>> And since you started learning Turkish
265. 8:48recently,
266. 8:49>> what would you say is the best way to
267. 8:52learn a new language as we have people
268. 8:54from all around the world? Um, I think
269. 8:56that the best way to learn a language is
270. 8:59to assimilate yourself with the culture
271. 9:02of the way that people tend to speak
272. 9:05their the meaning behind it.
273. 9:06>> Sorry, I tend to do that. I know it's a
274. 9:09thing. Trying to stop it.
275. 9:11>> Your ears getting used to the letters
276. 9:15one by one, the words one by one, the
277. 9:16sentences on themselves. I would say
278. 9:19that listening to their music or
279. 9:22understanding the internet culture as
280. 9:24well because I think that a lot of
281. 9:26textbooks usually tend to teach more
282. 9:29formal
283. 9:30>> ways of speaking whereas in real life
284. 9:32nobody speaks as such
285. 9:34>> whereas now you do imagine it but then
286. 9:36it was all natural
287. 9:38>> so true you got to learn real English
288. 9:40that's why you have to hit the like
289. 9:42button right below this video and you
290. 9:45have to subscribe to this channel so you
291. 9:47would not miss out on a useful content
292. 9:50like this
293. 9:51>> huge risk.
294. 9:52>> Of course, it was a risk, Ronnie, but if
295. 9:53you don't take any risks, you miss out
296. 9:55on so many good things in life.
297. 9:56>> And by the way, what the hell is it?
298. 9:59>> That is an amazing question that I don't
299. 10:01think I'd be able to answer. [laughter]
300. 10:03>> It's a sculpture that made out of bunch
301. 10:05of words with different colors and I
302. 10:08want to read them and I might ask you to
303. 10:10help me out if you understand this cuz
304. 10:13very
305. 10:14>> I would love to but I have horrible
306. 10:16eyesight.
307. 10:17>> [laughter]
308. 10:17>> I might give you my glasses if that's
309. 10:18going to help.
310. 10:19>> Sure, why not?
311. 10:23>> Ah,
312. 10:24>> did it help? [laughter]
313. 10:25>> Yeah.
314. 10:26>> Are you kidding me?
315. 10:27>> That's very hard to make out.
316. 10:28>> Those are just the glasses. There is no
317. 10:32vision.
318. 10:33>> I swear it's the placebo effect.
319. 10:34[laughter]
320. 10:36>> You've heard of the placebo effect, but
321. 10:39are you aware
322. 10:41of the noibo effect?
323. 10:43>> A lot of words, but I can't make it out.
324. 10:44I think it says Istanbul on the middle.
325. 10:47There is a white there is a flag right
326. 10:48there. Maybe these are the names of
327. 10:50different cities. There is
328. 10:51>> most likely
329. 10:52>> Hilfett. Is there a city Hilfett?
330. 10:55Constantinople.
331. 10:57[laughter] Oh my gosh. Of course.
332. 10:59>> Very controversial as I said.
333. 11:01>> Absolutely.
334. 11:02>> And have you tried Turkish coffee
335. 11:03before?
336. 11:04>> I just tried it two hours ago.
337. 11:06>> Is it? And do you like it?
338. 11:07>> It was cool. It was pretty. [snorts] It
339. 11:09was I don't know. There are a lot of
340. 11:10different kinds of Turkish coffee. I've
341. 11:13tried one where you pretty much uh you
342. 11:16can read the
343. 11:17>> palbak we call it in Turkish.
344. 11:19>> Yeah.
345. 11:19>> Uh I was just about to mention that. Now
346. 11:22we leave the grinds at the bottom after
347. 11:25we drink it. You swirl it and you turn
348. 11:27it upside down.
349. 11:28>> Craig, you were supposed to turn the cup
350. 11:30upside down before you give it back to
351. 11:32me.
352. 11:33>> If you want it to be more accurate, uh
353. 11:35you can [laughter] leave something.
354. 11:36>> I'm like, if you want it to be more
355. 11:39accurate,
356. 11:41tell me. You go. can leave something
357. 11:43that belongs to you on top of the the
358. 11:46mug while it starts cooling down. It
359. 11:48could be an earring, a necklace, a
360. 11:50bracelet, something that belongs to you
361. 11:52to put your energy into it basically.
362. 11:55>> And some people are able to read other
363. 11:58people's fortunes. It could be their
364. 12:00present, the past, the future.
365. 12:03>> But I do it again because among other
366. 12:05things, I read fortunes.
367. 12:08>> Oh my goodness.
368. 12:09And they make it out from the pictures
369. 12:12that they are able to read from inside
370. 12:15of the mug from the grass.
371. 12:16>> What I did, I took a picture of it. I
372. 12:18put it in in um I put it to chat GPT
373. 12:22uploaded to chat GBT and like yo
374. 12:24[laughter] read the fortune
375. 12:27from the Turkish coffee and it was
376. 12:29>> very inaccurate. Makes every Turkish
377. 12:31person mad.
378. 12:33Since Chad GPT knows your story very
379. 12:35well,
380. 12:36>> it integrates it into the answer. It
381. 12:39looks perfectly matching you and your
382. 12:41styles and your your lifestyle.
383. 12:44What have we here? Matching uniforms.
384. 12:49Oh, no. And I'm like, oh, I can see the
385. 12:52big travel, big trip in your life.
386. 12:54[laughter] I'm like, of course, cuz you
387. 12:56I ask you about it every single day.
388. 12:58>> So, you're just saying it's accurate,
389. 12:59right? [laughter]
390. 13:00>> Yeah, exactly. is very accurate. And
391. 13:03while you are enjoying this video, I
392. 13:06think you forgot to hit this big fat
393. 13:09thumb up button below to subscribe to
394. 13:12our channel and also leave a comment
395. 13:14below and tell me are you enjoying it or
396. 13:17not?
397. 13:19If the whole world would look at you
398. 13:22from the other side of this sea or from
399. 13:24this camera right here,
400. 13:25>> Mhm.
401. 13:26>> what would you share with them? I think
402. 13:29maybe it's a little random but I think
403. 13:30that taking uh other people's
404. 13:33perspective into account is very
405. 13:35important when making decisions uh
406. 13:38evaluating somebody or maybe even making
407. 13:41your own decisions and seeing the world
408. 13:42>> blood on top of her blood.
409. 13:44>> Yes. which is [music] my cue to admit
410. 13:47that I got it wrong because I didn't
411. 13:49take into account postmortem bleeding or
412. 13:51do an internship at NASA
413. 13:53>> because the world in your eyes is just
414. 13:56what you have seen your own perspective
415. 13:58of the world when that's what you have
416. 14:00made it up in your mind where other
417. 14:03people have experienced maybe the
418. 14:04complete opposite maybe something very
419. 14:07parallel
420. 14:08>> my life is the complete opposite of
421. 14:10everything I want it to be
422. 14:11>> it's very important to see what other
423. 14:14people also have going on and taking
424. 14:16that into account when making decisions
425. 14:18like I mentioned.
426. 14:19>> Wow, that's insane how wise it is. Do
427. 14:24>> you mind giving me two seconds? I'm so
428. 14:26sorry.
429. 14:26>> Take your time.
430. 14:27>> Crazy morning. Darling called in sick.
431. 14:29I'll get your cup to go.
432. 14:31>> No rush. Take your time. [laughter]
433. 14:33>> I saw you standing behind.
434. 14:36>> Hey, Sergi.
435. 14:37>> Bashka.
436. 14:38>> Bashka. Nice to meet you. Are you from
437. 14:39Turkey?
438. 14:40>> Yeah, I'm Turkish.
439. 14:41>> So, you you you're partially South
440. 14:43African, right? No, no. I'm fully
441. 14:44Turkish, but I lived in South Africa 12
442. 14:46years.
443. 14:46>> Oh, that's why. Did you guys meet in
444. 14:48South Africa?
445. 14:49>> No, we met in Estanul, actually.
446. 14:51>> Crazy.
447. 14:53>> Oh, wow. And how did you guys meet?
448. 14:54[laughter]
449. 14:56>> You can't explain.
450. 14:58>> No,
451. 15:01[laughter] no,
452. 15:02>> I feel like one of the craziest stories
453. 15:03of my life is meeting her.
454. 15:05>> Tell me, how did you meet her?
455. 15:06>> Uh, I mean, we met on Hinge, but you
456. 15:09know, we have such parallel lives.
457. 15:10>> Just saying. I was kind of joking about
458. 15:13the separate island thing, but doesn't
459. 15:15it seem like we've been kind of leading
460. 15:16parallel lives recently without a ton of
461. 15:19intersection?
462. 15:20>> Yeah, it does. She's lived there for 12
463. 15:23years. I've lived in South Africa 12
464. 15:24years.
465. 15:24>> Yeah.
466. 15:25>> Uh we both met here in Estumble, which
467. 15:27is also kind of strange.
468. 15:28>> Yeah.
469. 15:28>> Very similar experiences.
470. 15:30>> Stan was describing very similar
471. 15:33experiences.
472. 15:34>> Yeah. Life experiences. For example,
473. 15:36I've had a very odd funny story of a
474. 15:39layover that I've had in Ethiopia and
475. 15:41he's experienced the exact same thing.
476. 15:43>> No way. In Ethiopia.
477. 15:44>> I'm out of Hartsfield into IAD with
478. 15:47connection at OAD into SDF.
479. 15:49>> Oh, sorry.
480. 15:51>> Yeah, tell me about it.
481. 15:53>> How long's your layover? They got
482. 15:54multiples into SDF. [music]
483. 15:55Think you could push?
484. 15:57>> I was having a flight over from Cape
485. 15:58Town to IstAnul. Had the layover in
486. 16:00Ethiopia and I flew to Stumble. That was
487. 16:03fine with the layover, but then I was
488. 16:04coming back. Like I had my bags filled
489. 16:05with my uh prom clothes. So like I got
490. 16:08like a suit and everything, you know.
491. 16:09>> Yeah, we call it mreick in South Africa.
492. 16:11[laughter]
493. 16:12>> Like dance clothes. Um I have
494. 16:14everything. I'm ready. I get on the
495. 16:15plane. We land in Ethiopia. [laughter]
496. 16:18The plane's not taking off for 3 hours.
497. 16:20Now it's 4.
498. 16:21>> Yeah.
499. 16:22>> It takes off 6 hours later. I get there
500. 16:246 hours later. I get there. My bag's not
501. 16:27there. I have nothing. I have no
502. 16:28clothes. I don't have a single pair of
503. 16:30underwear next to
504. 16:31>> Did they rob you pretty much? Did they
505. 16:32steal your stuff or what? I thought that
506. 16:34was the case, but then 2 weeks later,
507. 16:36just one day before my metric, my prom
508. 16:38date, uh, the dance, my luggage like
509. 16:42magically appeared. It was in Ethiopia.
510. 16:44Yeah.
511. 16:45>> No, you won't. See, if I thought that
512. 16:47was the case, I never would have taken
513. 16:48the boy in the first place.
514. 16:51>> Maybe the superstitions are real.
515. 16:52>> Well, and now I'm going to ask you the
516. 16:54last question for today.
517. 16:56If the whole world could see you right
518. 16:58now through this camera right here, what
519. 17:01would you share with them? [laughter]
520. 17:03I would say patience is a virtue. Be
521. 17:06being patient is one of the greatest
522. 17:08things in life, you know.
523. 17:09>> Yeah,
524. 17:10>> I guess.
525. 17:11>> Absolutely. Thank you for your wisdom
526. 17:12and hopefully I'll see you someday in
527. 17:14Athopia. [laughter] I'm
528. 17:16>> just kidding.
529. 17:17>> When you measure your life in centuries,
530. 17:19patience is a virtue.