hi there. do you kind of have a hardtime speaking english? so maybe you've studied english in your hometown,or at a school, or online at www.engvid.com, and you think that your grammar's pretty good, and...you're just shy. and maybe you live in a country and you don't have english speakers around you,and you don't know how to practice speaking. so, there's one really wonderful resource-it'snot a textbook, it's not a webpage, and it's not on youtube-it might be living in yourhouse. it could be beside you, it could be next door, or it could be in the park.do you know what this is? it's a child, or children,
and we like to say "kids". so, i'm going toteach you how to improve your speaking without really doing too much orspending a lot of money. this is the trick: talk to kids. they areamazing. kids will always want to talk to you, because they are fun, amazing guys. so,it's really easy to talk to kids, because first of all, they choose the topic.you maybe are: "i don't know what i'm goingto say to this person", so if you... if you see an adult, or someonewho goes to your school, and think: "i don't... what...? what am i going to talk about?i... i... i don't... i don't... i don't know." kids just choose the topic, they just talk toyou about whatever they want, so that's cool.
another thing about kids is if they're learningenglish, if you're in canada or an english-speaking country, luckily enough, children are learningvocabulary and they're learning grammar. now, their brains are like sponges. they learn,the teacher corrects them. their grammar is absolutely perfect, with a couple exceptions.they will learn and they will be able to correct themselves. so, their grammarand vocabulary is amazing. it might be a little bit better than mine.a little bit, not that much. and the last thing is children know, thissays: "a lot of slang". if you look at a lot of new videos or music, kids listen to thismusic, and that's where we get slang from; we get it from performers who make new words.so, kids know a lot of slang, and to you,
they know new words. one of the big problemsthat a lot of people have when they come to an english-speaking country is that they'velearned older words. maybe they learned from an older person, or they have old textbooks.what happens is we don't use those old words anymore, and when we do, the personkind of looks at you weird because that's a really old word. so, what you want to do is you want to finda child. oh! where could i find a kid? here's a kid now. hah. huh.what's your name? mohamed: mohamed. ronnie: oh, hi, mohamed.where are you from?
mohamed: libya. ronnie: wow. i've never been to libya.how is it? mohamed: it's pretty sunny, and it's prettyextremely hot there. like, it's pretty hot. like, you can go to thebeach every single day. ronnie: no way. mohamed: it is actuallypossible, if you want. ronnie: how's the beach? mohamed: it's, like, i can swim therefor 25 hours, and i will be tired. ronnie: 25 hours, that's a lot. andwhat about the water? is it clean?
mohamed: yes. ronnie: it's really clean? mohamed: yeah. ronnie: yeah? mohamed, if somebody talkedto you and they said: "oh, hi, how are you? how are you? how are you?"how do you feel about that? mohamed: that's annoying. ronnie: oh, oh, okay. i'm sorry. and... andwhat if somebody told you what to do, like: "hey, you, sit down. stand up. what are you doing?"how do you feel if someone said that to you? mohamed: that means they're justbossy people that want attention.
ronnie: oh, that's a good point, yeah.do you like people like that? mohamed: no. ronnie: no. would youwant to talk to them? ronnie: okay. mohamed: i would like to have betterfriends that actually do good things. ronnie: yeah, that's a good idea. doyou know people that do good things? mohamed: yeah. like, pretty much allof my friends, and mostly my mom. ronnie: oh, your momdoes good things? ronnie: aww.
mohamed: yeah, she doesa lot of things to me. ronnie: yeah? that's awesome. mohamed,what's your favourite colour? mohamed: my favourite colouris phosphoric orange. ronnie: glow-in-the-dark,florescent orange? ronnie: like your shoes? ronnie: cool. you gotsome cool shoes. mohamed: thank you. ronnie: they're kind of like my shoes. andwhat's your favourite sport? do you like sports? mohamed: yeah. my favourite... i have... i likea bunch of sports. they're mostly baseball,
basketball, soccer, and sometimes football.like, maybe. ronnie: why sometimes? mohamed: because it's... like, ithink it's a pretty rough sport. ronnie: mm, you don'twant to get hurt. ronnie: right. who's yourfavourite baseball team? mohamed: the blue jays. ronnie: oh, good choice, good choice. toronto!do you know the toronto blue jays' song? you know what they sing? ronnie: what is it?
mohamed: it's... it goes like this:"let's play ball." that's in the end. ronnie: oh. do youknow the beginning? mohamed: so: "blue jays!blue jays!" ronnie: yeah, it sounds like that.that's good. ronnie: and who's yourfavourite baseball player? mohamed: i forgot his... it starts,like, with an "r" or something. ronnie: ra-ra-ra-ra? ronnie: oh, not ra-ra-ra-ra. i don't know.i know bautista. mohamed: yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.i... when i was in childcare, a bunch of,
like, months ago, they were watchingthe baseball game, and they're like: "i'm cheering for bautista." ronnie: yeah, that guy's good. and who'sthe guy that hits really long...? or hits really well? joe...joseph, josh... josh... mohamed: yeah, joseph josh. ronnie: joseph josh. [laughs]that's our favourite guy. mohamed: or whatever his name. ronnie: we don't remember. good. okay.mohamed, what do you like to do for fun? mohamed: i like... i sometimes, if i'm, like,tired and i go home, i sometimes want to play
video games for like 30 minutes or sometimes,like, one hour. and then i get off. ronnie: ah, what kind of videogames do you like to play? mohamed: i play, like, those video gamesthat have a bunch of guns in them. ronnie: cool. bang, bang, bang.bang, bang, bang. do you...? do you have a favouritevideo game that you play? mohamed: gta v. ronnie: gta v. and do youhave a youtube channel? mohamed: yes, i do. ronnie: no way. what is it?
mohamed: it is:"mohamedgta5gamerahmed_bay96". ronnie: awesome, mohamed. check out mohamed'syoutube channel, check out my youtube channel. we'll see you again soon. bye. mohamed: bye. ronnie: i do caution you: there's one thing thati've forgotten to tell you that's quite important. the first one is that not all children likewhen adults talk to them. some kids are shy. now, mohamed, jump up here. he'snot shy. he likes to talk to people. ronnie: but you have to be careful. so, somekids don't want to talk to you. so, we're going to go over some things that you shouldn'tdo when you talk to a child. the first one
is: don't talk to them in a baby voice. so,a baby voice is... would be how you talk to a baby or a dog: "hi. how are you? whatare you doing? oh, you're so cute." mohamed: please stop. ronnie: [laughs] sorry. okay. the other one is: don't talk down to them.now, they might be shorter than you, but we don't want tomake them feel bad or you don't want to make them feel like they're not very good people.so, if you tell kids what to do all the time, you want them to feel comfortable. youdon't want to tell them what to do. go get me some coke.
mohamed: no, i'm not. ronnie: oh. mohamed: please doyour own things. ronnie: okay. i will. and the last one is:we have to respect people's personal space. it doesn't matter if it's a child or an adult.you have to be careful not to touch children, and i mean that in a lot of ways. but there'sa thing we have called personal space, so even adults, kids, they don't like it when youtouch their head, or: oh, you're so cute. this might happen. you don't wantthis to happen on the subway. okay? so be careful. and we're gone.okay. bye.
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