hey there guys this is drew badger
badger the world's number one english
english fluency guide and i am here
here with a brand new drone a drone
drone on a camera i guess a camera
camera on a drone i should say it's
it's got kind of flying up around
around here now I'm just kidding this
this isn't a drone at all I'm just
just holding onto a camera and pointing
pointing it out my window live on
on the 11th floor and I thought I
I would take this opportunity to do
do something a little bit different
different for this advanced listening
listening practice lesson so you'll
you'll forgive me if you can hear
hear the sounds of the street we've
we've got cars and trucks and things
things like that passing by but remember
remember that when you're in an actual
actual conversation it will always
always be able to or guess it will
will always be easy to hear things
things so as usual if you're new to
to this series i'd appreciate or probably
probably you would appreciate it if
if you go back and watch some of the
the previous lessons first so you
you can get used to the sound of my
my voice because i'll be speaking
speaking much more quickly in this
this lesson and it will be even more
more difficult because i won't be
be showing my face you just get to
to see you know kind of showing things
things around we've got the camera
camera and just kind of showing you
you my neighborhood because i wanted
wanted to talk about well little bit
bit about where I live and you know
know something about myself that what
what I hope it doesn't get too loud
loud with trucks and things go back
back anyway if you're ready to pursue
pursue and continue to go on with
with the lesson let's get started
started I wanted to talk about just
just kind of something that's uh I
I don't know I guess connected with
with the season and that's the weather
weather that's not so nice now it's
it's actually getting a little bit
bit clearer as you can see we're getting
getting some kind of blue skies coming
coming through here but for most of
of the past couple of days it hasn't
hasn't been very nice the weather
weather is actually been crap i should
should say it's been not rainy but
but here in Nagasaki we get and I
I guess the winners are just not so
so fun and you can see you know they're
they're some green on the trees left
left as its as it's fairly you know
know it's kind of a tropical place
place but in the wintertime it still
still gets kind of cold and great
great and as that I guess just a personality
personality thing for myself one
one of the things that I guess it's
it's been maybe I guess a blessing
blessing and a curse this is a really
really great English phrase to talk
talk about being blessed by something
something and it just means you know
know you're receiving something nicer
nicer to be cursed means you know
know something evil or awful has been
been put upon you that makes your
your life more difficult so
so to say that something is a blessing
blessing and a curse you can usually
usually talk about having something
something that's both good and bad
bad at the same time so something
something that's been a blessing and
and a curse in my life is a my understanding
understanding of space and son since
since I'm such a big fan of interior
interior design and exterior design
design and I love you know organizing
organizing spaces and keeping things
things neat and clean and tidy and
and it's been a good thing because
because it's you know help me control
control my environments and do lots
lots of interesting things like garden
garden design and you know meet different
different people and actually remember
remember when I was younger I used
used to organize the rooms like I
I would like clean my friends room
room
room you
you know if you can believe that that's
that's pretty funny actually really
really just enjoy doing that I would
would rearrange my room and I really
really have a lot of fun just doing
doing different things if with different
different spaces and seeing what was
was possible but the downside of that
that is that i'm also really affected
affected by the places i'm in so if
if the weather isn't particularly
particularly nice then i'm also not
not in a particularly good mood and
and I don't get angry or anything
anything but you know i just noticed
noticed uh like a genuine sense of
of you know kind of sadness and you
you know just a little bit of you
you know you could call it melancholy
melancholy I'm just I'm just not really
really feeling I don't know the the
the good japanese worth a lot of my
my friends actually use out here that
that are non-japanese people is genki
genki GE nki so this is not an english
english word but it's just a word
word in Japanese chinky that just
just means energetic so feeling lively
lively and energetic and you know
know happy about life that kind of
of thing so people talk about feeling
feeling danki all the time and you
you know wanting to feel excited and
and motivated and eager to you know
know do different things so one of
of the things that happens to me and
and this is kind of a weird thing
thing I'm gonna like revealing about
about myself i guess but usually around
around the around dusk so this is
is usually like maybe not dust it's
it's more about the evening dusk is
is usually like when the sun is finally
finally going down kind of around
around that time but usually around
around like five or six o'clock at
at night always feel kind of like
like a little bit sad i don't know
know why that is I think it's maybe
maybe just like just the the light
light or the environment or something
something like that and this has been
been everywhere it doesn't really
really matter where I'm in like what
what what city or town or part of
of the earth or you know wherever
wherever it is that happen to be but
but it's just one of those things
things that when the environment is
is not so great then it kind of affects
affects me so I've had to also develop
develop a pretty strong sense of being
being able to control the way i feel
feel you know after having a certain
certain environment that's controlling
controlling me in a certain way I
I have to think about you know what's
what's the best way to change that
that so i can not have the environment
environment control me all the time
time or figure out some way that i
i can change my environment now right
right now in my town my little section
section of Nagasaki that I'm living
living in you can actually see this
this is a part but
but I go to sometimes and all these
these trees over here if you've seen
seen some of my previous videos these
these are all cherry blossoms right
right here and these things they they
they get nice and bright pink in the
the springtime and i'll probably have
have to make another video right now
now it is the beginning of january
january so it's really cold and you
you know again it's just not so nice
nice outside but like I was saying
saying before we still have a little
little bit of blue sky coming up kind
kind of breaking through the clouds
clouds a little bit but in this environment
environment i really have to kind
kind of fight extra hard and imagine
imagine myself you know being on a
a beach or think about you know what
what I can do to try to make my environment
environment feel better or make myself
myself feel better in this environment
environment but this is the kind of
of important thing the reason i wanted
wanted to talk about this is because
because it really connects to fluency
fluency and a lot of people talk about
about being in a particular place
place and well I guess they can't
can't you know find a native speaker
speaker to practice with because they
they don't live in a place where there
there are native speakers or you know
know they have some other excuse about
about why they can't do this or why
why they can't do that and I could
could make a similar excuse and say
say that well because it's winter
winter time and I'm not relaxing on
on a beach on my own tropical island
island at the moment that I must not
not be able to you know correct that
that and change my behavior and getting
getting a better mood so let's just
just imagine right here this is a
a very concrete so concrete just like
like the concrete on the ground a
a concrete example of two different
different people being in the same
same environment but thinking about
about it in a different way so if
if I were feeling sad or letting the
the kind of melancholy pneus get to
to meet you know I could say that
that it's the environment or you know
know something else but really it's
it's me I'm the one making the decision
decision to you know feel sad or do
do not do something about that so
so while i'm scanning around here
here you can kind of see this is a
a regular kind of in every and every
every I don't know if this like little
little town in Japan here it could
could be anywhere in Japan it's you
you know fairly similar to a lot of
of little towns in other parts of
of the world I imagine the same thing
thing in America you've got maybe
maybe up a few little stores like
like this this is an antenna over
over here that's the name of this
this grocery store and
and you've got like a drug store over
over here and got a little like a
a real estate plays you got other
other little shops but there really
really isn't much in my town you can
can see actually there's just like
like a train station and a little
little park and little schools but
but it's mostly just you know places
places where people live so this is
is a bed town and that just means
means that people will live here and
and then commute to actually where
where they're going to be working
working so it could be you know what
what city north of here or south of
of here or something like that but
but that's just how my town is so
so while i'm sitting here and if I
I was you know trying to feel sad
sad or thinking I was sad in thinking
thinking that I couldn't really do
do much about my environment you can
can also take a look at this Park
Park over here now these kids down
down here are in the same environment
environment i am but they're thinking
thinking about it in a different way
way and there you know kids are coming
coming down to the park and enjoying
enjoying themselves and a lot of kids
kids come down to this little gazebo
gazebo over here and they play cards
cards or they you know like little
little card games that they get or
or you know them they'll play video
video games or something and this
this is a you know this isn't even
even like a very amazing part but
but it's a pretty popular place for
for you know kids to come and hang
hang out and people to come like parents
parents and their kids to come you
you know throw a baseball around or
or kick a soccer ball or something
something like that but in the same
same way that one person could be
be sad in an environment some other
other people could choose to do something
something and not be sad in that same
same environment and what I'd like
like you to remember about fluency
fluency is that even if you're living
living in a country where you think
think you can't meet native speakers
speakers like you could be sitting
sitting at home thinking oh you know
know I live in this country and there's
there's no native English speakers
speakers around how am I going to
to practice what you have to remember
remember is that there are other people
people in your same country or city
city or town or even area that are
are also finding ways to practice
practice with native speakers so at
at the end of the day you know this
this is a great phrase here at the
the end of the day it just means when
when finally when all is said and
and done is another great phrase these
these are just talking about you know
know after we've thought about everything
everything after everything has happened
happened we're going to make up final
final decision or there's a final
final outcome about something when
when all is said and done you are
are the one that makes the decision
decision about how you react to things
things or whether you get fluent or
or anything else so
so when you're thinking about you
you know making decisions about how
how do you know get fluent or how
how you think about practicing with
with people or you know even outside
outside of fluency like you're thinking
thinking about maybe i don't know
know i guess like trying to get wealthy
wealthy or healthy or find a relationship
relationship or you know anything
anything like that all these things
things are things that are under your
your control and this is what we talked
talked about in the previous episode
episode of this series talking about
about the first rule of fluency and
and the first rule of fluency again
again if you didn't listen to that
that one or if you didn't watch that
that video is to take responsibility
responsibility for how you learn to
to take responsibility for everything
everything in your life and the more
more you do that the more you decide
decide and the more you actually start
start to see you know the results
results that you want the actual results
results you can achieve but you just
just have to decide that that's what
what you want to do first anyway
anyway I thought you know sharing
sharing this with you would also be
be a great way to help me like even
even feel better so this is me again
again deciding to do something instead
instead of just sitting here and thinking
thinking well you know i'm not going
going to be so so like happy or genki
genki about where I am you know I'm
I'm just gonna feel sad or feel kind
kind of you know a little bit down
down or depressed or something like
like that i really want to feel excited
excited and so I decided to change
change myself first and because of
of that i can change my environment
environment and i'll probably see
see pretty soon maybe we'll get some
some some sun shining through these
these clouds and you know i can choose
choose to focus on maybe the part
part of the clouds that are maybe
maybe a little bit darker or I can
can choose to focus on the part of
of the sky that are you know having
having a little bit of blue coming
coming through over there so there's
there's always different ways of looking
looking at things but it depends on
on you and what you're deciding to
to do so it's all about your responsibilities
responsibilities so remember that
that first rule fluency and you know
know if you're thinking you're not
not in a great environment than either
either change your environment or
or change the way you think about
about it
about it well
well I hope you've enjoyed this episode
episode i look forward to seeing you
you in the next one once this gets
gets over 10,000 views we've got some
some interesting things coming up
up in future videos and i look forward
forward to seeing you in those as
as well
as well anyway
anyway sorry I didn't appear in the
the video but again i'm trying to
to do something that's a little bit
bit more challenging for people and
and it's much more difficult when
when you can't actually see my face
face but hopefully you enjoyed this
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