- Hello, this is Jack from ToFluency.com,
and in this English lesson we're going to look at
how Unai Emery learns English.
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If you don't know who Unai Emery is,
he is a football manager from Spain who
currently manages Arsenal, in the English Premier League.
And the English Premier League
has a lot of foreign players and managers.
Some come over and learn great English,
so they speak really well,
they understand everything
and they do this very quickly.
Others, never get there.
So there are certain players who have been playing
in the English Premier League for years,
but they still have an A1 or an A2 level of English.
Recently, Unai Emery, who joined Arsenal in the summer,
talked about how he is learning English,
and we're going to look at the three things
that he is doing to help him improve his English.
But first we're going to look at some quotes
he made in a recent press conference
where he talked about his passion for football,
and I'm just going to correct some of the things he said.
Talking about his passion for football, he said
"It's my work, but I don't think every day
that it is my work, it's my best hobby.
I feel very big the passion.
I am doing my work with my desire.
I can stay with my family, my son, and my friends."
Now there are quite a lot of mistakes here,
or some of this doesn't sound very natural,
but you can understand the general meaning.
He loves what he's doing, it's his favorite hobby,
he is very passionate about football,
and he's also spending time with his family and friends.
So let's just make a couple of changes.
Firstly, "I feel very big the passion."
It's better to say "I'm very passionate about football."
So I'm very passionate about football.
I'm passionate about politics.
I'm passionate about whatever subject
you are passionate about.
And the last one,
"I can stay with my family, my son, and my friends."
It's better to say
"I can spend time with my family and my friends."
So, to spend time with people.
So what he's saying is even though he's very busy
in what he's doing, he can still have time
for his family and friends.
Let's now talk about the three ways he is learning English,
and the third way is a great way to learn
and we're gonna obviously take about that later.
But first, he talked about
how he has taken intensive courses.
So I can't find anymore information about this,
but he has said somewhere that he takes intensive courses
in order to learn English.
And I've talked about taking intensive courses
and studying at an English-speaking country before,
so be sure to watch that video.
I'll leave a link in the description.
Secondly, and I think this is really important,
is he's always speaking in English.
Now, like I said before, some players and managers
come over and they use a translator in press conferences,
or they speak in their native language while they're around
other players from the same country.
But Unai Emery, from day one,
has only spoken English at press conferences.
And like you saw before, the English he's using
isn't perfect, it doesn't sound completely natural,
but you can tell by watching his press conferences,
and I'll leave a link below,
that he enjoys speaking in English,
that he finds it fun.
And also, that he's not worried about making mistakes.
So, that's a great lesson to learn here,
is that you need to practice in order to learn
and to overcome your fear of making mistakes.
The third way he's learning
is by watching certain TV series.
Here's what he said:
"Now I am watching English series to improve my English.
Peaky Blinders. It is good
but it is difficult to understand, from Birmingham,
and it's very aggressive. But it's good, it's good."
I'm going to put a poll up here asking a simple question,
"Have you watched Peaky Blinders before?"
So be sure to leave your answer.
Now if you don't know what Peaky Blinders is,
it's a TV series set just after World War 1,
in Birmingham, and it's this gangster family TV series,
which my wife and I started watching
but we only got up to episode three.
Because it's set in Birmingham,
most characters have a brummie accent, a brummie accent.
Now I'm not gonna try using a brummie accent here,
but there's an old joke that says,
"If you say kipper tie out loud, it sounds
like you're saying cup of tea in a brummie accent."
So just try it:
Kipper tie, kipper tie.
Going back to Unai Emery,
it looks like he's taking his obsession for football
into learning English too.
So he is doing all the right things,
he's taking courses, hopefully the right ones
that will help him improve.
He is surrounding himself in English
which obviously is easy to do if you are
in an English-speaking country,
but again, not everyone does this.
Some people want to isolate themselves with people
who speak their native language when they move abroad.
But he's different. He seems like he's surrounding
himself with the right people and is also
making an effort to speak English
even in these stressful situations like press conferences.
And finally, he is watching TV.
And like I've said many times before,
watching TV is a great way to learn English.
I'll actually leave some tips if you want to learn English
through TV, in the description.
So, questions of the day is,
"Which TV series has helped you learn English the most?"
So leave your comments below, and also,
let me know if this is a good recommendation
for other learners.
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Speak to you soon, buh-bye.
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