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- Hello, everyone.
Welcome back to English with Lucy.
You might notice that I'm in
a slightly different location today.
I'm actually in the studios of Los Cuarenta,
and I've got a very special guest.
His name is Uri Sabat and,
well, Uri, introduce yourself.
- Yeah, how are you doing?
Nice to meet you guys here.
I'm Uri Sabat, I'm from Spain.
I work here in Los Cuarenta, which is a radio station,
the number one radio station in Spain,
and tonight, we had Lucy as a guest star of our show,
and she's quite good at Spanish, at least.
- Thank you.
You're making me blush.
- [Uri] Ah, really good.
- No, it was really, really good fun,
and I'm going to leave a little link
down to that interview in the description box,
if you want to check that out.
But I thought, today, since so many of you
have been asking me about
presenting and presentation skills,
who better to ask than Uri,
who does it every single day of his life?
Would you mind sharing a little bit with us?
- Of course, yeah.
Well, the thing is that,
well, I do it every day here on the radio.
We have the chance to interview big artists
such as Justin Bieber, Coldplay,
Ariana Grande, One Direction.
- I saw you interviewed Justin Bieber.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it was funny
'cause he was here, sitting here,
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- [Lucy] Oh my god.
- Yeah, don't steal the chair, Lucy.
- Well, I can't promise anything.
- Okay, so yeah, we have the chance
to meet really interesting people,
and the fact to present or to speak with artists or whatever
is just be prepared, know the people you have in front,
is a really important thing.
If you have to present something,
or if you have to interview someone,
you should know that person.
- So how do you research them?
- Oh, if it's someone really known,
you just Google it, and there's a lot of information.
Also, there's a lot of interviews.
Then you can get some ideas from there.
But the thing is to create a good connection
with the person, you know, 'cause maybe
I'm talking to you, and if I ask you
some weird questions, or if I go too straight
to some aspects that maybe you don't like,
then, on the first, you cover yourself, and you don't ...
- Yeah, you put up a sort of wall.
- [Uri] Yeah, of course.
- Well, when I came in here, I felt so welcome immediately.
Everyone said hello, and it made me
want to answer the more particular questions.
- Yeah, your answer that you had ...
Well, I don't want to say anything, okay?
- You can say whatever.
I can just cut it out.
- Okay, you should see our video in Spanish
and translate it. (laughs)
- No, guys, don't.
No, do, do, do, do.
So, what I want to know is,
so many of my students have trouble with confidence,
especially when speaking in English.
How do you deal with that, and have you found yourself
getting more confident as you go along?
- Yeah, the thing is that
if English is not your first language,
then maybe you ...
For example, you're not confident if you have to speak
in front of a lot of people in your own language.
Imagine if you have to do it in another language, right?
The main thing is that, everybody see that
you are not an English speaker,
so don't worry about doing any mistakes
'cause it's not your first language,
and the crowd will accept that, right?
The main thing you have to think about it is,
try to express yourself as much as you can,
not just with words, but with your body.
Maybe you can think about, if you are doing a presentation,
or if you are talking to an audience,
maybe you should take something to show them,
or give some key things that help you
to present your subject or whatever.
- Yeah, okay.
Have you ever had any bad experiences speaking English?
- Oh, yeah, well,
the thing is that, I will tell you that, guys,
we met Lucy in a YouTube event in London.
She was wonderful with us, yeah, of course.
We had to speak in English in front of an English crowd,
and first of all, my colleague, Miguel, and me,
we were like, "Okay, we will try our best,"
and maybe we did some mistakes,
but we didn't care about it.
- It was excellent.
It was really, really good.
- So in fact, if you are in front of an audience,
and you do some mistakes, the first thing is
not to collapse, and then try to go away from that path,
because if you are blocked or whatever,
and you keep pushing there,
then you will fail for sure.
So take a breath, stay calm,
and try to go on the other way.
- I completely agree with that because,
as you guys know, I've just had
my first ever presenting experience,
the Unleashed Conference, and when I walked out there
for the first time, I felt really, really nervous,
but I started thinking,
"These guys aren't here to see me fail.
"They're here to see me succeed,"
and that really, really helped.
I felt like I had a connection,
that they were there for me.
- Of course.
I think that the first minute or the first five minutes,
maybe, you can be a little bit scared,
or nervous, or whatever, but then,
you have to be confident, think that you know the subject,
you are the best person to be there,
and you just need to be yourself
and try to explain everybody what you have in your mind.
Relax, try to enjoy it, and go ahead.
- Okay, wonderful.
Can I ask you how you learned English,
how you got to this amazing level?
- Well, I think you always can improve more,
and be more confident with your English,
or Spanish, or whatever you are learning,
but the thing is that, for my job,
I had to work with the English language so often,
so I tried always to see English movies.
I studied on the school also.
I went to London, I lived there
for a couple of months or something.
- Oh, cool, where did you live?
- I lived in the centre of London.
I was 18 years old,
and yeah, I went there to ...
I was a waiter in London when I was 18 years old.
- Which restaurant?
Can we ask?
- Yeah, it was called Zizi.
- Zizi, oh my god, yes.
- I was a pizza guy, and I had a lot of fun.
We enjoy it, and then,
if you go abroad and you go to the country
where you're learning the language,
then you can begin, and then practise, practise.
- See, I think that's so cool,
that you were working as a waiter in London because,
at the moment, when you go to London,
it's full of Spanish people, and Italians,
a lot of Spanish and Italians,
there's a lot of other nationalities as well,
going there to improve their English,
but in the end, they end up socialising
with other Spaniards, going out with them,
working with them, living with them,
and they don't seem to improve.
Did you find that at all?
- Yeah, well, the thing is that I went
with my friends, so we went, five guys.
I remember I went there with 300 euros,
and the last day, the 15th day,
I just had 20 bucks in my pocket,
and I said, "Wow, my friends have job,
"I don't have anything.
"I will have to return to Barcelona."
And I said, "No, no, I have to stay here,"
and then I got that job, but finally,
you socialise with English people,
and you spend all the money you earn every night,
so it's funny. (laughs)
- Wonderful, and very important question,
do you have a favourite word in English?
It's difficult, I know.
- It's difficult, but there is a word.
It's a little bit strange word,
but I learn it last day.
It's obnoxious.
- Oh, that is a good word, obnoxious.
- Yeah. - Nice.
- Yeah, yeah, obnoxious.
It's not a good thing to be, obnoxious,
but it's a really ...
I don't know, everyone but this word.
- And my last question for you
is an extremely important one.
What do you think about English food?
Since you lived in England.
- Okay, nice to meet you, Lucy.
Bye-bye, yeah, it's been great.
No, okay, I'm Spanish, right?
Our food is amazing.
I think English ...
English food is different.
- Different, okay.
I'm not too offended.
- No, no, no, no, no, but I've been quite a lot of times
in England, and I've eaten good,
but I prefer tortilla, jamon, and these kind of things.
- I see, gumbos.
- Yeah, gumbos, pulpo, and these.
- Yeah, no, I totally agree.
- Paella, sangria, ole!
(speaks in foreign language)
- Si?
- Yeah, Cruzcampo is from the south.
- Yeah, I thought, normally,
people from more northern areas, they like it.
All right, guys, that's it for today's lesson.
I hope you enjoyed it.
I hope you learned something,
and massive, massive thank you to Uri
for coming on my channel.
Don't forget to follow him on his Instagram.
- Yeah, thanks, thanks for all.
You can find me @urisabat, thank you.
- It's been an absolute pleasure to have you,
so thank you, and I really hope
you apply those tips to your confidence
and your presenting skills.
That's it for today.
Don't forget to connect with me on all of my social media.
I've got my Facebook, my Instagram,
and my Twitter, and I will see you soon for another lesson.
(blows kiss)
(speaks in foreign language)
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