If You Can Understand Him, Your English Is Incredible — Transcript

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1. 0:00If you can understand this video, then
2. 0:01your English listening skills are
3. 0:03incredible. That's because I'm going to
4. 0:05be telling you a story, but I'm going to
5. 0:07be speaking at a very natural native
6. 0:09pace. There aren't going to be any
7. 0:10subtitles, and there is going to be a
8. 0:12bit of background noise as well, as you
9. 0:15can probably already tell. So, the story
10. 0:17I'm going to be telling you today is
11. 0:19based on a very interesting concept
12. 0:21called the butterfly effect, and I'll
13. 0:24tell you what it is, and I'll tell you
14. 0:27how it may have shown up in your life as
15. 0:30well. And I'd like you to think about
16. 0:31that throughout my story, because I can
17. 0:33promise you in one way or another, this
18. 0:35thing will have also impacted you. So,
19. 0:37the butterfly effect is extremely
20. 0:39simple, and it's just this idea that a
21. 0:42very small, seemingly insignificant
22. 0:45thing that happened in the past can go
23. 0:47on to have massive, unpredictable
24. 0:50outcomes in the future. Okay, an easy
25. 0:52way to remember this is just imagine a
26. 0:55butterfly on the other side of the world
27. 0:57flapping its wings, and that causes
28. 0:59something else to happen, which causes
29. 1:00something else to happen, which causes
30. 1:01something else to happen, and eventually
31. 1:03that one butterfly causes a humongous
32. 1:06event to happen on the other side
33. 1:07[music] of the world as well.
34. 1:09So, here's my example, right?
35. 1:12This happened about 10 years ago. After
36. 1:14school, so I'm I'm 28 now. This was when
37. 1:16I was 17, so 11 years ago. After school
38. 1:19one day, I was going back home with my
39. 1:21friend. He was giving me a lift, and I
40. 1:23randomly had a seizure in his car. And a
41. 1:26seizure is basically
42. 1:29is basically when you collapse, and you
43. 1:31pass out, and you're like shaking on the
44. 1:33floor. It's not very pleasant. I
45. 1:35wouldn't really wish it on my worst
46. 1:36enemy, but
47. 1:38it's surprisingly common. You don't have
48. 1:40to be epileptic to have a seizure.
49. 1:42Normally, if you have seizures, you're
50. 1:43epileptic. You've probably heard of
51. 1:44that, epilepsy, but it's not uncommon
52. 1:47for people to be to have seizures
53. 1:49without being epileptic, and thankfully
54. 1:51that was the case with me as well.
55. 1:53Anyway, I had a random seizure,
56. 1:55and they took me to hospital. They did
57. 1:56some tests. They found out that it was a
58. 1:58one-off event, but they put me on some
59. 2:00medication anyway just as a precaution
60. 2:03to ensure that I didn't have any more in
61. 2:05the future.
62. 2:06So, I didn't really think much of it at
63. 2:08the time. I was like, "Okay, that's a
64. 2:09bit annoying. It's a bit weird, but it
65. 2:11seems like it's not going to be
66. 2:12something that influences my life going
67. 2:14forward." And I was right for quite a
68. 2:17long time until it did influence my
69. 2:19life. So, we'll fast forward
70. 2:227 years when I was 24, okay?
71. 2:25So, I didn't really know what I wanted
72. 2:27to do with my life at that point, and I
73. 2:29was running this one business reselling
74. 2:32um custom Levi's jeans, but I also had
75. 2:35recently gone on holiday to Korea, and I
76. 2:38absolutely loved it, right? So, after
77. 2:40that holiday, I was like, "You know
78. 2:41what? I think I would quite like to move
79. 2:43there." Sorry, I did
80. 2:45I did promise some background noise, but
81. 2:46this is a bit excessive.
82. 2:48I apologize. Anyway, I went to Korea,
83. 2:50and I was like, "You know what? I want
84. 2:51to move there." So, what is the easiest
85. 2:53way for someone to move to Korea? That
86. 2:55is to become an English teacher. So,
87. 2:57that's exactly what I did. I started
88. 2:59getting my English teaching
89. 3:00qualifications,
90. 3:02and I started the process, and I filled
91. 3:05out all the details, I made my
92. 3:06application,
93. 3:07and I just want to really emphasize it's
94. 3:11so easy to get accepted into these
95. 3:13public teaching programs in Korea.
96. 3:16If you are if you speak English and you
97. 3:18don't have a criminal record, they will
98. 3:20accept you. It really is that simple.
99. 3:23So, that's why I was so confident I was
100. 3:24going to do that. And I was getting
101. 3:25ready, I was saying goodbye to my
102. 3:27friends and my family. I was nearly at
103. 3:29the end of the process when one day I
104. 3:31wake up to an email saying, "Hi Dylan,
105. 3:34um we're afraid to say that you your
106. 3:35application has been rejected,
107. 3:37>> [music]
108. 3:37>> and you can't apply with us again for
109. 3:39the next 5 years. Sorry about that. We
110. 3:42can't give a reason at the moment as to
111. 3:43why your application has been rejected."
112. 3:46So, I was so confused. I was like, cuz I
113. 3:48had I In my mind, I I already there.
114. 3:51So, to just wake up one day and to be
115. 3:52told, "No, your plan's not possible
116. 3:55anymore. You're not going to be doing
117. 3:57that anymore." It's
118. 3:58quite disorienting, to say the least.
119. 4:00And I was just really confused, as well.
120. 4:02So, I spoke to my account manager
121. 4:04person, the one that was helping me with
122. 4:05this entire process. And I was like,
123. 4:08"I got rejected. Did you see it?" She
124. 4:09was like, "Yeah, yeah, I saw it."
125. 4:11"Why did I get rejected?" She was like,
126. 4:13"Um
127. 4:14I honestly don't know."
128. 4:15So, I went through the application
129. 4:16again, and we found out that it's
130. 4:18because when you fill out the forms, you
131. 4:20have to say if you are on any
132. 4:22medication, or if you have been on any
133. 4:24medication in the past.
134. 4:26So, this is when I mentioned, without
135. 4:28even thinking about [music] it, that I
136. 4:30was on a medication to prevent any
137. 4:32further seizures. But, I also said I
138. 4:35haven't [music] had a seizure in like 10
139. 4:37years, so it's not a big deal.
140. 4:40And it's because of that they rejected
141. 4:41me. I searched online, I went on Reddit,
142. 4:43and I found out that there are there
143. 4:44have been other cases in the past, the
144. 4:46exact same, where they listed one tiny
145. 4:49medication, and because of that,
146. 4:51sorry.
147. 4:53Koreans and their K-pop.
148. 4:55And now that I think about it, I
149. 4:56actually had a friend who I was learning
150. 4:57Korean with,
151. 4:59and she said that she had had some
152. 5:01mental health problems in the past, like
153. 5:035 years ago, and they rejected her
154. 5:05because of that, as well. So, now that I
155. 5:06think about it, they are extremely
156. 5:07strict. So, that is an example of the
157. 5:10butterfly effect. But, it gets crazier
158. 5:11than that, because
159. 5:12okay, you could argue this one thing
160. 5:14happening, fast forward like 10 years, 7
161. 5:16years,
162. 5:17and that's had a huge impact on my life.
163. 5:20I can no longer move to Korea.
164. 5:21Obviously, that would have completely
165. 5:22changed the direction of my life. Don't
166. 5:24look at that guy, sorry. So,
167. 5:26it's actually because of that, though.
168. 5:27That's the reason why I started my
169. 5:28YouTube channel, because it was a week
170. 5:30after I was rejected from teaching in
171. 5:34Korea,
172. 5:35that out of spite, I decided to start
173. 5:37this channel and teach online. I
174. 5:39wouldn't have done that if they hadn't
175. 5:40rejected me. I would have been living
176. 5:41here, and there would be no British
177. 5:43education. I wouldn't be making this
178. 5:44video right now. Who knows what my life
179. 5:46would have been like then, if I'd
180. 5:47followed that route. But it was because
181. 5:49of that one random seizure I had in my
182. 5:52friend's car 11 years ago, that's what
183. 5:54caused me to get rejected to career,
184. 5:56that's what caused me to start my
185. 5:57channel, and that's what caused me to
186. 5:58have this completely different life.
187. 6:01And if I have if you're new here,
188. 6:03probably not, but in the past if any of
189. 6:06my videos have influenced you in any way
190. 6:08whatsoever, that's because of that one
191. 6:10seizure I had 11 years ago. Yeah, I'm
192. 6:11sweating because it's like 32° today.
193. 6:14It's very humid. Anyway,
194. 6:17so that is just an example of how
195. 6:18something seemingly so small and
196. 6:20insignificant can have such a huge
197. 6:22impact not only on my life, but on other
198. 6:24people's lives as well.
199. 6:27God.
200. 6:27So yeah, I'd like you to think of your
201. 6:29That's the story, guys. I'd like you to
202. 6:31think of your own example of the
203. 6:32butterfly effect and think about how
204. 6:35this has influenced your life. And it
205. 6:36can be something small, and it might not
206. 6:38be done yet because I promise you that
207. 6:40something small can turn into something
208. 6:41bigger and bigger and bigger. So just
209. 6:43think about that, and if you have an
210. 6:44interesting story, please comment down
211. 6:45below.
212. 6:46Anyway,
213. 6:47that was the test. I
214. 6:50That was hard because I was speaking at
215. 6:51a very natural pace. I was rambling a
216. 6:53bit. I wasn't very succinct with my
217. 6:55words, so it was a very native realistic
218. 6:58conversation there. There was a lot of
219. 7:00background noise as well. So if you were
220. 7:02able to understand that, good job. Your
221. 7:03English is incredible. Now, I have a
222. 7:05couple of things to note. Obviously,
223. 7:07that will be testing your listening
224. 7:08skills, but I know that a lot of you
225. 7:11you're okay with the listening, but it's
226. 7:12the speaking that you struggle with.
227. 7:15So,
228. 7:16if that's is you, then I'd like to
229. 7:18invite you to join my private online
230. 7:20community. Here you will get seven live
231. 7:22calls every single week with me and with
232. 7:24the natural accent specialist as well.
233. 7:26So that will give you plenty of
234. 7:27opportunities to practice your speaking
235. 7:30skills with other learners. Okay, no AI
236. 7:33nonsense, real people.
237. 7:34And also, that's So the link to that is
238. 7:36in the top comment. Definitely join.
239. 7:37It's really fun. And also, I did post a
240. 7:39similar video a couple of days ago which
241. 7:41will be appearing here. So, thank you
242. 7:43again, guys, for watching. Hope you
243. 7:45enjoyed. Make sure to like, subscribe,
244. 7:47comment down below, and I'll see you
245. 7:48very soon with another video. Right.
246. 7:50Cheers. Mwah.
247. 7:51Adios.