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You've watched movies your whole life. They've made you laugh. They've made you cry. And maybe they've even changed a little bit of who you are. And yeah, it's no secret movies can help you learn English, too. But here's something you probably don't know. You're only scratching the surface with them. And by that, I mean, you're just using about 10% of the total potential a movie has to improve your English. If only you knew what you're missing, the other 90%, then every movie you watched would have a huge impact on your fluency. So today I have Ethan here in the global studio and we're going to be discussing how to use movies to build conversational skills. Not with exercises like
shadowing. Those are great, but we've already covered them in previous lessons. We're talking about practicing expressing yourself, putting your thoughts into words naturally, and building the confidence you need to chat with real people cuz that's what you need right now. All right, Izzy, I'm really excited to pick your brain today. So you've actually tried all these exercises yourself and as you were telling me they all are leveraging like the most cutting edge technology so that learners really can apply some of the best tools that are available nowadays to take their English to the next level, right? Break out of that intermediate plateau. So should we just jump right into the first one?
We should. But before we do, you said these uh you make use of cutting edge technology. What is that? Mhm. cutting edge is like super innovative. If you think of like the edge is maybe the place where it's like the very latest or the very uh border of where our technology is at today. It's like you know at the very on that line. Nice. I had never thought about it that way. Kind of makes it easier to visualize it. Anyway, so the first exercise uh I'm calling it the spoiler master. Why is it called a spoiler Izzy? Do you know? like when you tell a friend about a movie you've draw you've watched that they haven't because you're spoiling their experience, right? So, Ethan, uh this exercise is really great for warming up
your speaking. So, it's the best one to get started with. I'm going to explain now how to do this. It's very simple. There's three steps. First one is you're going to watch the whole movie or pick a movie you've recently seen. Then two, we're going to open Sesame. It's this AI app that allows you to practice speaking. It's really fun and it's the best one that I've found, you know, so far that uh really creates this experience that feels like you're talking to a person. Um, so you're going to open Sesame, log in uh with your Google account or Apple, and start a conversation. So when you do that, that's when you're going to give it this command, this prompt. So I recorded a
demonstration that we're going to watch right now. Check it out. Hey, Maya. Uh, I'm Ezy. I'm an English learner, and in this conversation, I'd like to practice by retelling a movie plot. I'm going to explain the plot of the movie Ice Age. And after I finish, please ask me at least three follow-up questions about any points from the plot that I missed. Ah, gotcha. Ice Age. Nice. All right, lay it on me. I'm all ears. And yeah, three follow-ups, no problem. Okay, so take on it. The movie tells the story of Sid, Manny, and Diego. They are these three animals. Sid is a sloth, Viego is a tiger, and Manny is a mammoth. And together, they find a lost human baby. And they decide they take on
this mission to return the baby to its human tribe. But it's a really long journey, right? Uh, and there's a problem. Uh Diego is actually secretly planning to betray them to ambush them with his tiger pack with his tiger friends. So as they face different challenges together, they go on his journey together. Uh Diego actually starts to bond with Manny and Sid. And in the end, he has a change of hearts. Diego uh switches sides, right? So he fights off his pack and he wins. He beats his uh tiger pack but gets gravely wounded. And uh he tells the he tells Sid and Manny to finish the mission. So they do.
Manny and Sid go ahead and deliver the baby to its father. And we see at the end that Diego actually survives. So they reunite and become the Ice Age trio we love. All right, that was a pretty solid overview. You hit the big beats. Okay, three questions. Let's see. First, you mentioned the challenges they faced on the journey. Can you tell me about one specific obstacle that really tested their teamwork? I think the scene with the birds, right? Yep. The birds. Go on. Okay. Yeah, the birds. Uh the do the dodos. Is that what they're called?
Yeah, dodos. They're not the brightest birds. Haha. Yeah. So, they kind of work together to fight them and beat them. Uh they're trying to grab this watermelon and so they're fighting for over the a watermelon and the dodo's kind of they're insane, right? So, they kill themselves. Really chaotic. That's what I remember. Totally chaotic. Yeah, that whole watermelon scene is pretty wild. You're right to bring that up. It's definitely a moment where they have to figure out how to work together when things are just completely bananas. Okay, back to the questions. What do you think was Yeah, and she continued asking me questions there, Ethan. So, she asked me, for example, if I remembered why Manuel was so depressed, you know, in
the beginning and everything and later we discover, right, there's his backstory later in the movie. So, it was really, really good conversation there. I think that sesame because I've used that tool as well. Like sometimes I use it to rehearse before these podcasts actually even as a native speaker, right? And the thing that stands out about it is that it really is uncanny how much it sounds like a real human, a real native speaker. Like even how the intonation, how it makes pauses just compared to other AIs that even have speaking futures. I like some of the expressions that she uses as well. Like I think it's great for English learners because she uses so many expressions. So for example
at there at the end that she said uh that things are bananas. That's a really expression. What does that mean if something is bananas? It's crazy. Yeah. Just insane. Crazy. And that she's quite sarcastic, right? Like she's like dodos aren't the brightest birds. Haha. Yeah. They're not the most intelligent birds. One thing I wanted to ask you actually about using this because I'm imagining for an English learner. We could even see there in the clip that at some point she says like, "Okay, you're
all right when you're you're explaining but you're not done explaining." So if someone if their English isn't quite as fluent and they're being slower, I could imagine them getting interrupted by the AI before they've finished their summarization, their summary of the plot. So do you have any recommendations to avoid that? I mean, you can always interrupt AI too, you know, and you can ask them, "Wait a moment. Uh, I'm still talking. I'm still thinking." And then they'll be like, "Okay, I'll wait." So, you can say that. Yeah. There's this whole question about being polite with it. I do need to say please, you know, do you need to say thank you? But yeah, you can just tell it what you want to tell it.
But what's more important, I think, that you do if you're using this is prep. Create a list of bullet points before you start. And I did that. Maybe you saw like if you're for guys who were watching, you saw that I was reading some parts, but because I was just like checking out like, okay, what's the next part of the story again? Okay, great. And then I continued and um if you do that and you practice, you see that you get more comfortable as you like the more you try it. And uh I did this a couple times. So this was the second time, you know, with another movie and I was already kind of feeling more like loose and able to do it. So, um, I bet that if you try it like several
times with the same movie, you'd really master the ability to retell it, right? I'd recommend even doing some dry runs. A dry run is that's what you and I do too before the podcast, right? It's like a rehearsal. You practice it before you're actually going to be recorded. So, that could be a good thing is to like already practice how you're going to be telling the AI, how you're going to be telling Sesame. They actually have names, right? I think the female one is Maya. How you're going to be explaining to her about the plot. And if you do that a couple times, then when it actually comes time to interact with her, hopefully it'll come out in a fluid way and you won't be getting interrupted too much. And you can adapt as much as you want.
Like if you feel like I want her to ask me more questions, you know, if she's done asking you because the prompt only gives her the instruction to ask you three questions, but you want more, you can say, "Ask me more questions. Ask me five questions. Say whatever you want. Like let's talk about this other movie. That's the beauty. That's the fun of AI. And uh if this is your first time trying it for you guys, uh this is a great way to do it. You have already uh a prompt that you can use and you got to start to test the waters there, you know, with AI and see what works for you. And by the way, guys, we are recommending some AI tools today. We don't have these capabilities on the app yet, but it's
actually something that we are at this moment. We're currently working on adding these and it's going to be obviously a far better experience because it be really personalized to you as an English learner and also for like interacting on a deeper level with our content so that you can really become that confident natural English speaker that you've always dreamed of becoming. So definitely make sure that you're using the app as much as you can and keeping up with the updates. Yeah, exactly. Like right now I'm working on a lesson with Ice Age, right? with this movie that I just talked about there in the recording and um with this feature of practicing with AI on our app, you'll have exactly that but
as you're saying much better um because it'll be embedded with the lesson. So you're watching the lesson, you're learning the vocabulary and then like you practice right from there. Right. And not to mention like there was a bunch of advanced expressions that Maya used there that we only me we only defined a couple but I bet there was uh several there that you guys didn't understand. So you have vocabulary flashcards for all those so you can remember them forever. You can learn them and remember them. All right, Izzy. So really amazing first exercise. I'm looking forward to hear what else you got for us. Lay it on me as Maya said there.
So the next one I'm calling it the vocabulary steel trap. Do you know guys know what a steel trap is? Like how would you define that? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe this is it's kind of gruesome. Like when people used to hunt for animals, it was like this thing that you see that has like very sharp metal teeth and it has like a disc in the middle that when an animal would step on it, it would like close around their leg or whatever. Yeah, it's kind of horrifying thing there. But the important thing about it, don't don't think too much about it, but just think about the fact that nothing
can escape it, right? And just like a steel trap, we're going to learn, we're going to practice now with an exercise where no vocabulary is going to escape you. No, no advanced word. And this is really great. This exercise is going to be really great for expanding your vocabulary, for improving your ability to talk about different things, for expressing yourself. We believe that learning the vocabulary that natives use, you know, that fluent speakers use is very important. Exactly. Because without those, you're going to be just like thinking like, oh, how do I say that word? And that's one of the reasons why people get stuck, right? Um, so learn the vocabulary. And we're going to do that now. Uh so this for this
exercise you're going to grab a notebook or use your phone for typing. Step number two, you're going to pick a movie, ideally one with more dialogues, you know, and you're going to watch it for 5 minutes. Step number three, as you watch the movie, you're going to write down all your expressions that you can catch. And probably you need to pause as you go, right? Because if you're writing, you may miss another expression if you don't pause. So pause. And step number four, once you're done, it's time to share your notes with AI. So AI again, you're going to open the Gemini app. If you're using Android, you have that already on your phone. If you're not, if not, you can use chatbt.
It's going to open the conversation already with the I and you can immediately just type this. Let me read the command, the prompt to you guys. In my next message, I'll share with you a list of expressions in English that I'm learning. Please explain it to me using simple words and real life examples when necessary. So, you're going to hit send and it'll be waiting for you just to send your list of expressions. Now, the cool thing about it is that you can simply take a picture of the list of expressions that you wrote or you can just simply paste the expressions there and hit send and it'll give you everything you asked. So, all the explanations and all the examples. So, we're going to read it carefully and process it. Once you feel
like you got everything now, try and watch those five minutes again and you're going to see the beauty of that. So, I thought that we could practice here and demonstrate how to do that, Ethan, and invite all of you guys watching and listening to do the same. We're going to watch a clip here from a movie Captain America. Love this one. The second one of the Winter Soldier. And in this clip, it's in the beginning where Steve Rogers, Captain America, he is just running. He's uh jogging, you could say. And this other guy who is also in the military, obviously he's not a superhero, so he can't run as fast and it just annoys him. And it's the first time they're they're talking to each other. They're seeing each other.
Um, so let's check it out. Need a medic. I need a new set of lungs. Dude, you just ran like 13 miles in 30 minutes. Guess I got a late start. Really? You should be ashamed of yourself. Should take another lap. Did you just take it? I assume you just took it. What unit are you with? 58th par rescue. But now I'm working down at the VA. Sam Wilson. Steve Rogers. I kind of put that together. Must have freaked you out coming home after the whole defrosting thing.
Takes some getting used to. It's good to meet you, Sam. All right. Oh, several expressions there. Uh, so let's see what you got, Ethan. Can you give me the your whole list and then we'll see what AI has? Yeah, that was a great scene. It was chalk full of expressions. So, we saw medic, new set of lungs, take another lap, her rescue, the VA, which maybe it's not so much vocabulary, it's more of a cultural thing, but uh AI can help with that, too. Freak someone out, defrost, takes some getting used to a ton, right? In what, 30 seconds? 35 seconds. So now we can just put these on AI and we're going to be showing on screen right now. If you're watching, you can see uh all the explanations and
all the examples. So if you just take some time to process everything and watch that scene again and go back and watch it right now, you're going to get everything right or at least the vocabulary, it won't be confusing to you anymore. So it's really great for that. So a thought occurred for me here because I have this own problem, this problem myself. uh that I use chatbt for example also with Portuguese anytime I'm watching something or talking to a friend and hear a new expression I'll whack it in there I'll put it in that tool because it's so much better than a dictionary but then it's just I have all these expressions and stuff there that they don't really get processed so I think something that can be useful is
there's different flashcard apps or like you can use a spreadsheet right and put like a column for the expression a column for the definition, a column, for the example, and so on. And this helps you to have them all organized in one place. That's better than just the chat history in Gemini or Chatbt. But that's why our app, the Real Life English app, is so great because we have, for example, so many lessons uh with different TV series and movies and celebrities and so on that you can go kind of like we just saw the scene there, right? Watch a clip and then you have like the all the definitions laid out for you. And then we've taken all the hard work out of making flashcards
for these that have examples and pictures and pronunciation and all this great stuff that really helps you to add them to your long-term memory. And really, it's going to save you tons of time. So, this is great like using the exercises you just gave. If you have anything that you're wanting to learn with, you should totally do that. But if you're wanting to save a ton of time then and you're like a busy like Izzy and I are then uh we've already created some great lessons to take the Yeah. grunt work out of it. Totally. And uh our library of lessons is really long at this point like you can find so many movies like uh in series. So as you were saying like if Captain America is not interesting to
you, you'll find other things there like comedy, drama, and so much. So yeah, go ahead and like click the link in the description right now to download it. All right, so the next exercise is called taking the leap. So taking the leap, that's collocation, by the way. It's an expression actually that means uh just being brave and like let think of like a bungee jump, right? You're you're taking a leap there and jumping uh being courageous. So have like a leap of faith is a leap of faith. Yeah. Or sometimes people will use the it's like a saying, right? Like jump and the net will appear. So it's a similar expression, right? Basically saying that if you put yourself out there, if you take the risk, then you'll, you know,
kind of figure out how to make it work. Yeah. So why is this one called taking the leap? It's because you're going to be watching a scene without any subtitles. even if you're not feeling like brave enough or that you have the ability to understand what you hear or everything you hear. But that's what's cool about it because this is kind of like an exercise. Uh it's kind of like an intense workout that you go to the gym but for your listening skills. So you're going to go to that point of that limit that breaking point. What is that called? That your point of failure, right? Where you'll be like I can't understand this. I cannot I don't know what he said. So that's great. That's a point. That's the edge, the
border of your knowledge. So then you have something new to learn. It's a good thing, right? So here are the steps of the exercise. You're going to pick a movie that you've already seen and put the subtitles in English. And it's very important that you've already seen this one. Uh because you don't want to be too concerned with like uh the context like what's happening. You just want to a you just want to be able to focus more on the dialogue, right? The lines and the words. Uh, so start watching and then when a good scene comes up, the one that you know that it's about to start, you pause and then you turn off the subtitles and that's when the game starts. So now we're going to hit play.
Yeah, exactly. So you're going to hit play and as soon as you hear the first line in the first sentence, pause. You're going to write that line down, what you think they said. Then you hit play again. Hear the next line. pause again and write it. And you're going to do this until you've reached the end of the scene. And you can go back if necessary. You know, you can um it's like a go back to listening to that line again, but don't slow it down. Keep it at one time speed. Um because you're practicing with the it's the real deal, right? This is the uh you're it's an intense workout as I was saying. So once you're done with the scene, now you can watch the you can watch it. So once
you're done watching it now, we can go back and go again, but this time with subtitles in English. And then you'll notice, you'll compare your notes with what they actually said. And it's really great for as I was saying. And this will allow you to identify exactly, you know, what where are your gaps, where are the mistakes in your listening comprehension. So I have here a clip, a 24se secondond clip that we're going to watch now, and it's going to be great for already trying this challenge. And remember to pause as you go. If you're on an app, you can do that. If you're on YouTube, you can do it, too. And let's get started. This is from the Wolf of Wall Street with Leo DiCaprio.
Hello, John. How you doing today? You mailed in my company a postcard a few weeks back requesting information on penny stocks that had huge upside potential with very little downside risk. Does that ring a bell? Yeah, I may have. Okay, great. Well, reason for the call today, John, is something just came across my desk, John. It is perhaps the best thing I've seen in the last 6 months. If you have 60 seconds, I'd like to share the idea with you. You got a minute? So, I found this really interesting because currently I'm watching my first nolla in Portuguese and it doesn't have subtitles in Portuguese. Like there's no probably because I'm watching it from Spain, there's option for Spanish
subtitles and English subtitles and it's too much. I don't want to like mix languages. So, I'm I just like took the leap to use that expression that you used and I'm watching it uh without any subtitles. And at first it was like really challenging. I noticed it depends a little bit too on the person. Maybe they have different accents. But there are some people that I just heard like a jumble of sounds. I'm like, is that even Portuguese? Like I don't understand any of that. Uh but over time I've noticed it's getting easier and I thought that this is actually like a really nice exercise to actually apply some deliberate practice that I could do this myself when watching that nolla fat fatal beauty.
Yeah. And little by little you become more uh capable of understanding everything you hear. So this is important. Uh I said that these exercises are good for your conversational skills. So it's important to understand and be understood. So this is really yeah effective for I imagine it helps a lot with your listening because you can start to identify patterns too where maybe you're missing things and for example a lot of it might be due to connected speech that you didn't hear something because two words went together. So it's like the first time you might not understand that and you put subtitles and you're like oh I remember he said like John I like he did a connected speech with John and the pronoun I like John I. And at first you
might be thinking like, "Oh, is the guy's name John?" Like, "That's that's kind of a weird sounding name. I haven't heard that before." And then you realize it was actually two words that got connected. There's probably a lot of examples like this that you can start to notice and it'll help your listening and your speaking, right? If you want to speak more natural. So anyway, as we promised, uh, now let's watch the clip again with subtitles and you can see what you got wrong and what you got right. Hello, John. How you doing today? You mailed in my company a postcard a few weeks back requesting information on penny stocks that had huge upside potential with very little downside risk. Does that ring a bell?
Okay, great. Well, reason for the call today, John, is something just came across my desk. John, it is perhaps the best thing I've seen in the last 6 months. If you have 60 seconds, I'd like to share the idea with you. You got a minute? All right, Izzy, we just have one more exercise. So, all right. This is the most advanced one and I saved it for last obviously because if you practice with these three enough, you'll be ready for this one. Um, calling it graduate to this one, right? Yeah. To Yeah. Graduate to clash of opinions. So, this one won't be so much about practicing like sounds or just like learning words. This is when you're going to use all of your knowledge to debate AI, right?
There's a video game called Clash of Titans, right? Like maybe Clash of Titans. Yeah. Like a mobile game. Mhm. Right. Yeah. So a clash of opinions like clash is a it's a battle, right? It's a fight. You know, literally like this like clash two things clashing together. So this is an exercise that I think most teachers or schools out there are not so focused on kind of giving you because um it's not about English per se like the words, but it is because this is real use of English. This exercise works your critical thinking and creative thinking in English using the knowledge you already have. So it's kind of similar to the first one but more advanced. So in the first one you
discuss the plot, right? And you ask your questions about the plot to kind of fill in like the gaps and that's great but what if the conversation evolved into a debate where you have your opin your own opinion. Maybe I uh wants to challenge that and you're going to have to explain, you know, what you're thinking and why you think that's the case. So, here's how the exercise will work. Just like the first one, you're going to pick a movie that you've already seen and you're going to start the conversation with Sesame. So, go to sesame.com. Uh, by the way, we're showing on screen right now if you didn't catch that in the first exercise, but we're showing on screen a lot of uh how to do
this, right? So, this is a good one for catching on our app. and go to Sesame and start the conversation and you'll tell Sesame this. So, I have another demo recorded demo that I want to show you that I made this week. Check it out. Hey, Sesame. I'm Izzy. I'm an English learner and I'd like to discuss the movie The Pursuit of Happiness with you. So, let's start uh the conversation with you asking me easy questions about the plot and evolving it into a real debate. Sounds good. Okay. So, easy one to start. What's the main thing Chris Gardner is really trying to achieve in the movie? You think he is trying to get a job to land a job at a financial firm?
Right. And do you think the film does a good job of showing why he's so driven to get that job? Like what motivates him beyond just wanting a paycheck, you know? Sure. Uh yeah, he is trying to provide for his son, right? uh they're really struggling financially and this I think the movie does a good job of showing that because it keeps showing him at the office and then back at home then at the office again and then he loses his home. Um and it's just that transition and uh he's always like pretending everything is fine at work. Right.
Right. That switching back and forth is really effective, isn't it? It hammers home that everything he's doing, every grueling hour, it isn't just about climbing the career ladder. It's t it's directly tied to Christopher's well-being. It's not just I want a better life. It's I want a better life for him. Do you think the film portrays the difficulties of homelessness realistically, though, or does it maybe soften the edges a bit? Good question. Uh, yeah. No, I think I think uh yeah, it's it does soften the edges a bit because those locations where the homeless people are and where they go to, they're kind of clean, right? They look pretty clean a lot
of times. Uh and I don't think it is like that in reality. Yeah, that's a really good observation. So, what do you make of that choice, you think? Like why do you think they went that route showing homelessness in a way that's less harsh maybe? So people noticed, I'm sure it was Sesame still, but it's a different voice. So that's Miles, I believe his name is. You have Maya and Miles. And man, that was really packed to again like just use so many expressions. Uh like some ones I took note of are like driven a paycheck to provide for someone to hammer home a point uh like every grueling hour, homelessness, harsh uh soften the edges. So, if you guys are watching the app, of course, you have vocabulary flashcards for all these or
you can tap on them on the transcript to get definitions. But I want to highlight one I liked a lot for everyone that's listening, which is hammer's home. Just because it's so visual, right, that it's like hammer's home. Like hammer is that tool that you use to put a nail in the wall, for example. And so you're thinking just like it kind of like pounds like it's in a forceful way. Uh it's making a point known, right? making a opinion or a point very explicit. Yeah, because home I can say like drive home. I mean maybe that's the more common expression which is ex exactly what you're saying but hammer makes it even more forceful and effective like impactful. Right.
One thing I wanted to comment on this exercise Izzy is that I think it's a very useful one if anyone is in a relationship with someone from another country and like English is the language that they use because anyone who's ever been in a relationship that's with someone who they don't speak their first language. One of the most challenging the thing that puts you to the test the most is when you get in an argument because that's when you really want to switch to your native language and you can't. So, I've I've had that experience myself and this exercise is really good for I'm sure there's other more positive uh situations where it'll be useful for me, but it just kind of situation.
You want to be understood, right? You want to make yourself understood like in an argument when you have those strong emotions and the words just won't come out. Yeah. or maybe at work, maybe it's a work meeting and it really matters that you're able to share that opinion or to give that idea and if you're not like that's going to suck. So really great practice here and you can practice whatever you want, right? I gave you the I gave you guys this prompt because it really makes it easy. If you have the right topic, it just works. Like if you don't have the right topic, you'll struggle. I struggle. I speak
English naturally. Like I could do this in Portuguese and I still struggle if you don't give me a topic. It would be like uh okay, what can I talk about? So, it's magic when you find the right one. And movies are great, right? Because we're so passionate about the ones we love and everything. I feel like that was a great tip, though. I know a lot of you that like are watching or listening, you're learning English for your job. So, it's like if you have a meeting coming up or a presentation and you're feeling a lot of pressure of it, it's like this is a great tool for that. Go and tell Maya or Miles like I want to talk to you about this idea for work. And that way, you're going to feel a lot more confident when
it actually comes time to use it with real people. There you go. Oh, and a final thing. If you're feeling intimidated by any of this, like, oh, like Miles, he's he's using all this lang and he's like speaking fast. You can ask him to repeat. You can ask him to repeat. Yeah, you can ask him to repeat um specific words, you know? It's like, what did you say again? What was the expression you use? I didn't catch that. And he'll say like, what does that mean? So, you can really treat it as a person. Like, it's not don't be afraid of it. It's your friend if it if you make it your friend. And we're like so excited to be having this actual sort of feature right on the Real Life English app, right?
Yeah, totally. Like there's so much that we can do and we'll we'll hear from you guys too like when we release it soon uh hear all the feedback and continue improving it. Oh yeah. All right. And these are the four exercises and it's so exciting to be using cutting edge technology as you said uh in these because it's really like a breathing this fresh air into English and language learning in ways that we've never seen before like uh how could one think that it would be possible to be speaking with a machine right and we do all of this for practice we're not saying that this is the end game this is where you're going to stop and this is
the final goal of your learning is to be speaking with a with AI, but you do want to practice so you can you know later when you're at work and an important meeting presentation uh with your partner from another country for traveling all these situations with real people you already have that practice right you already have the vocabulary the experience and these are really great tools um that we're offering you so Ethan it was a pleasure to do this lesson with you and I thank also want to and also want to thank all of our producers here in the studio. We have uh T Hbert and Fabia with us. Um and I thank all of you guys watching and listening today. And as we say in all of our lessons that no matter what divides
us, that which unites us is far greater. 1 2 3. Yeah, that was a lot of fun. Thanks so much for joining us today, guys. And I just wanted to give you a quick update. So, don't click away yet. We are only going to be publishing from now on the Real Life English podcast here on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcast, and other platforms once every 2 weeks. So, half as much as usual. But over on the Real Life English app, they're actually getting a lesson every single week. So, if you want to get those exclusive lessons and be learning with us every single week, then it's free for you to get started by tapping the link down in the description below. And if you're sticking with us here on YouTube, then a free way for you to support us is by
giving this video a like and subscribing and hitting the bell. That way you don't miss a single one of our new lessons. Might be a little bit more tricky to keep up now that we're only publishing every other week. And finally, you might want to check out this fantastic lesson next. And this is literally what I did. It took me 2 years, I believe. Yeah, like from 2010 to 2012. You know, in 2010, I was still watching with subtitles in Portuguese. The fact that you can understand some things is already all you need to start to understand more things. This learning process of discovering things on my own, I think gave me a lot
