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well let's get into this lesson the
the first thing I wanted to talk about
about this is kind of a kind of a
a special thing in my heart you know
know something I've been thinking
thinking about for a really long time
time and this was maybe that you probably
probably have the same experience
experience happened I'd actually like
like to hear about that in the comments
comments if you can mention something
something about that in the comments
comments below what i like to hear
hear about is maybe something that
that you know you really liked as
as a child and you lost touch with
with that thing this is a great phrase
phrase to lose touch with something
something you kind of loot you have
have your connected with that thing
thing that you lose touch you're not
not connected with connected with
with that thing anymore so
so in this example this was a particular
particular book that i remember vividly
vividly really watching it and reading
reading it and looking at it over
over and over again so
so when I was a young boy in elementary
elementary school I went to the local
local school library and I found this
this really great book that i enjoyed
enjoyed it was about monsters and
and I check this book out so I rented
rented the book and we check the book
book out
book out many
many many times i would check it out
out and then give it back and then
then immediately check it out again
again because I enjoyed it so much
much but then I lost I lost touch
touch with the book and this is like
like 20 year almost maybe 30 years
years ago something like that maybe
maybe not that long but about maybe
maybe 25 years ago something like
like that but the book is still very
very like vivid in deep in my mind
mind and I'm always remember the images
images and trying to remember what
what what book what book it was because
because i looked for it for years
years and every now and then you know
know every now and then sometimes
sometimes every now and then i would
would go online and try to try to
to think about how could I find this
this book because I really wanted
wanted to get that book again so
so I was thinking wow you know maybe
maybe I can try to search for images
images but I couldn't really find
find anything I remembered some of
of the characters from the book some
some of the images it's a great it's
it's actually like a like a dictionary
dictionary kind of or an encyclopedia
encyclopedia where it's got from A
A to Z a listing of lots of different
different monsters and mythical creatures
creatures from all over the world
world because when i was a kid i love
love that stuff you know books
books about dinosaurs books about
about monsters and other things like
like that they were really interesting
interesting and this book in particular
particular that really cool art so
so we had really great kind of short
short stories and descriptions about
about what the different monsters
monsters and mythical creatures were
were but it also had a really great
great art so I really wanted to find
find this book again in four years
years
years I
I was really trying to look for this
this thing and maybe you probably
probably have a similar story a similar
similar thing like it could be a childhood
childhood book that you loved her
her childhood toy or something like
like that
like that now
now with the internet nowadays it's
it's really easy to go back and find
find these things but you know many
many years ago kind of before the
the internet was really difficult
difficult i mean how do you search
search for things like that but now
now with the internet you can and
and kind of as the years went by I
I would maybe every two years or so
so I would you know be thinking like
like hi I'm kind of you know it would
would pop up in my mind I would be
be thinking about what was that what
what was that book I was reading out
out i really really enjoyed that book
book and I wanted to try to find it
it again so i would spend maybe a
a few days online you
you know just periodically looking
looking for different things i would
would try to look by the images or
or maybe if I could remember the name
name of the book or something like
like that but then i would get frustrated
frustrated because i couldn't find
find it and then you know I just kind
kind of gave up and then I think well
well you know maybe in another few
few years it will come up in my mind
mind to get and i'll look for it again
again
again so
so recently I had that same idea it
it was like I want to like find this
this book again I don't know why it's
it's such a strong thing but it was
was such a powerful book for me as
as a child you know I wanted to get
get that and kind of reconnect with
with that get back in touch with that
that thing from my childhood you know
know it's just one of those things
things you know you got a special
special bond a special connection
connection with something like that
that again if you've got a similar
similar experience I
I want to hear that hear about it
it down below in the comments so anyway
anyway I actually took the time i
i went online and I found the librarian
librarian that I had back in the day
day when I was you know back at school
school and elementary school and I
I emailed her i actually found her
her on facebook that's
that's kind of like a separate issue
issue but i found this other teacher
teacher that I like I had a big crush
crush on this is like a really great
great thing i feel kind of embarrassed
embarrassed admitting to it now but
but I think she knew about it at the
the time but anyway there's a different
different teacher that i found on
on facebook now I feel actually bad
bad is kind of a separate separate
separate issue when I'm thinking about
about that now but you know when you're
you're you're like if you're a teacher
teacher now you have to be careful
careful about that because both like
like teachers and students are on
on Facebook together other things
things they can search each other
other online so you got to be very
very careful about what you put on
on there but my facebook account is
is great
is great actually
actually I don't really put much on
on there anyway but you know that
that kind of thing but anyway i'm
i'm getting you know I'm kind of getting
getting off track here i'm thinking
thinking about different stuff but
but so i actually found my school
school librarian on facebook i look
look for on the schools website was
was like well maybe she's on facebook
facebook and i found her and I contacted
contacted her and unfortunately she
she didn't know you know the the name
name of the book either she could
could kind of remember it but like
like was kind of recommending some
some other things or whatever they
they weren't really on the wasn't
wasn't the book i was looking for
for so i found i continue to look
look for images i went back I was
was like I was like screw it this
this time
this time I'm
I'm finding this book i was really
really passionate about I'm finding
finding this book so i was looking
looking through google images and
and I found some images you know I
I was trying to figure out the name
name of the author or the name of
of the the illustrator the guy that
that did the images and i couldn't
couldn't i didn't know either of their
their names i didn't know the name
name of the book or the author or
or the illustrator but I was just
just looking up images and i found
found one
found one I
I was like holy shit like this is
is like this is what I've been looking
looking for it was like that same
same image and all these memories
memories just started coming flooding
flooding back and I found you know
know I use that image to find the
the name of the book to find other
other things and i actually found
found the book and I have it with
with me today isn't
isn't that exciting anyway it's such
such a cool book and you know looking
looking at it now it's like wow i'm
i'm still like really surprised that
that I I was actually able to find
find the book but I you know usually
usually on youtube you'll see people
people like they buy something like
like a new camera or something like
like that and they have an unboxing
unboxing so it's like an unboxing
unboxing video where they you know
know show themselves actually opening
opening the box and taking that out
out but I don't really care about
about showing you the packaging that
that something came in it's
it's not really important to me but
but i did want to show you the book
book it's an important thing for me
me and I thought you would probably
probably enjoy it as well because
because it's got some really great
great images now this book was actually
actually hard to find but i'll put
put it up for the camera here i can
can see here that's called the encyclopedia
encyclopedia of legendary creatures
creatures and look at this like it's
it's like a cool dragon now maybe
maybe if you're an adult this isn't
isn't such an amazing thing but when
when you're like 10 years old this
this is awesome it's
it's amazing anyway look at the back
back cover here this is a victor and
and breast is the name of the illustrator
illustrator and look at the look at
at his art this is amazing now
now what's also interesting about
about this book i'll flip through
through some of the pages so you can
can look at some of this as well but
but when i was going online like other
other people were also you know in
in the same situation they were in
in the same boat they were trying
trying to figure out what was the
the name of that book because it actually
actually has it has a different title
title i think it's called the the
the book of legendary creatures in
in England this is the american version
version of the book it's basically
basically the same book but anyway
anyway so other people were also like
like you know they're in the same
same kind of eyes looking for this
this book specifically in their whole
whole websites for people that are
are like trying to find you know their
their book from their childhood or
or they remember this and its really
really interesting to read the descriptions
descriptions of some books so they
they say yeah it was a story about
about this and this other thing but
but anyway for anybody that's like
like looking for this book it's awesome
awesome and i highly recommend this
this book i'll open up a few pages
pages so just the the art itself is
is really interesting it's kind of
of like a an interesting like watercolor
watercolor with interesting details
details on it let
let me see here like look at that
that look at that guy and
and these aren't really the best way
way to display it here with video
video but trying to think of some
some uh some cool pictures like look
look at this guy this
this is called an al isn't
isn't that awesome just look at the
the image on that thing that thing
thing is amazing all
all right I'm going to read you one
one of these and I'm going to read
read it like a little bit slower than
than i'm reading now just because
because i read a little bit more slowly
slowly when I'm reading you know i'm
i'm reading out loud this kind of
of thing but anyway so look at this
this thing now this is from ma but
but we'll get into the the story of
of it but these descriptions are all
all you know actually quite a show
show you this guy again look
look at that thing I mean I wouldn't
wouldn't want to wake up and find
find that in my bedroom you
you know anyway so this is an hour
hour and this is a these are actually
actually you know different mythical
mythical creatures as i mentioned
mentioned from all over the world
world so i'll read you and this is
is my my like reading style you probably
probably know this like reading for
for little kids like the teacher holds
holds up the book you got the hands
hands like looking at it this way
way so the little kids can also read
read the story as well anyway so i'll
i'll just read it to you kind of showing
showing you the picture it's a little
little bit difficult to do that but
but I'll do my best here we go so
so Al's and hopefully i'm pronouncing
pronouncing it right out Al's
Al's were half-human half-animal creatures
creatures feared by the people of
of armenia a mountainous land that
that is now part of the Soviet Union
Union
Union Al's
Al's lived in damp watery places or
or sometimes lurked in the corners
corners of stables they were shaggy
shaggy with fiery eyes and sneaky
sneaky hair their teeth or iron and
and their fingernails were brass so
so these are kind of metals you know
know Al's were most dangerous to women
women who were about to have babies
babies for owls delighted in causing
causing a baby to be born blind or
or D formed to be deformed means that
that kind of like a crazy not like
like you've got three eyes or three
three arms or something like that
that so not formed properly be formed
formed to keep the dreadful creatures
creatures our way a woman had to carry
carry an iron weapon or tool and had
had to sleep what's
what's even more cool pictures over
over here had to sleep surrounded
surrounded by iron objects but even
even if a baby with a baby was born
born safely and Al might wait until
until the baby was seven months old
old
old then
then it would steal the child from
from its cradle and carry it off to
to the alkene to be eaten how
how fucked up is that man this is
is like it's just amazing to look
look at the the different you know
know the different creatures from
from mythology that people think of
of and now i can show you these a
a little bit more here this is a basilisk
basilisk
basilisk it's
it's like a like a chicken snake crazy
crazy thing I don't want to get getting
getting to like all these but there's
there's some really just like all
all the stuff flip
flip through some of the pages here
here the various creatures yeah i
i know i'm really doing like a bad
bad job is my my I don't do the the
the show it show and tell things with
with books like that on youtube so
so much but anyway I just wanted to
to share the book with you again it's
it's called the encyclopedia of legendary
legendary creatures the author is
is the thom McGowan and Victor ambrus
ambrus is the the illustrator so he's
he's written some other books or tawagan
tawagan has but also the illustrator
illustrator has done so a lot of other
other interesting books as well but
but it was something I thought I was
was such an amazing thing after all
all these years kind of searching
searching for this book i finally
finally found it so
so I wanted to show you that share
share that with you and i hope you
you enjoyed it for this advanced
advanced listening practice lesson
lesson with a little bit of slow English
English mixed in there as well so
so what I'd like to do is keep the
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series but also tell me about some
some experiences from your own childhood
childhood maybe you're looking for
for a book also or something else
else that you found and it was an
an interesting story when you finally
finally found that thing well
well i hope you enjoyed this and i
i look forward to seeing you in the
the next listening practice episode