Speak with Vanessa on Skype Testimonial from Douglas
hi i’m vanessa from speak English with
vanessa calm today you are gonna meet
one of my awesome english students in
this video i’m gonna talk with the
student on skype and we’re going to talk
about that students english experiences
how they’ve learned english the things
that have been useful or maybe some
things that haven’t worked and i hope
that you will learn a lot from other
English learners experiences let’s get
started i’m glad we can finally meet
douglas i know we’ve been talking on
facebook for a little bit so now it’s
finally live together can you remind me
which part of brazil do you live in i’m
living some paulo in fact i’m living in
a small city next to san paulo
it’s called some Chi turn of the zoo
it’s 5 minutes from San Paolo oh that’s
great so does that mean it’s a little
bit calmer and more relaxed relax there
is little people oh that’s good not too
many people kind of yeah yeah it seems
like it’s probably better for daily life
than living in a big city that’s always
loud and moving a lot yeah but I work in
Sao Paulo match to the most most famous
have any college I mean the Paulista oh
so your office is there it’s yeah off of
that Main Street that’s really cool
though your job you mentioned before is
to be a coder yeah yeah I’m a software
developer oh stop teaching you there’s a
lot of names sure lots of titles you
could have and it’s for an American
company yes for medical company called
NCR it’s a big
only they sell software/hardware a lot
of things cool so what does that mean
that you need to speak in English at all
or do you ever receive emails sometimes
I receive some emails in English but
almost never okay so maybe the Brazilian
side works in Portuguese mainly joy so
cuz you don’t really need it for your
job on a day to day basis
tell me about your goals why are you
interested in learning English then
because you seem really motivated you
really participate in our group and talk
with other people so yeah what’s your
goal well I try to learn English since I
was 17 I think I try some regular
schools - or - time is and I was feeling
like I’m not she proving at all the
classes are so boring stressful right
and finally decide is to give up school
after that I didn’t study English for
about just five years
meanwhile and I met my wife who I
already knew English French German she
was the one who knew lots of languages
yeah we start to travel abroad
I wasn’t feeling good because the fact
that I couldn’t speak English and I
needed to rely on her to talk to other
people to translate things for me so
it’s actually English bouncy pop yes do
it once and for all and that way -
you’re not completely dependent on your
wife to translate things and she can
relax on vacation a little bit - yeah so
have you ever visit
in english-speaking country you said you
guys traveled together yeah I did visit
us check times first time I went to New
York and Washington see and the second I
went to fraud is no boys oh it’s a
Disney World wonderful what did you
think about two places it’s so different
the culture and the climate and
everything I liked a New York better
because I like a shop called bhg they
sell electronic light cameras computer
it’s a big shot very famous yes that was
the reason why you like New York better
you could go to that
Chucky’s Network two times Wow
two times so it must have been awesome
because you wanted to come back yeah the
first time you I didn’t expect it so
much but it was awesome I really though
it was kind of surprising the first time
that it was actually great yeah it was
great what sure
so you visited the u.s. New York mmm
Florida and there was another place you
said you went yes I make sure London
next month
I’m painting on them all very cool so
after you went to the u.s. you went to
London for 10 days what did you do there
just travel around or make he some nicey
places a great place to sightsee and see
something completely different
historical beautiful building a museum a
lot of shops - right right lots of
places to go and probably a pretty
different culture
from what you’re used to in Brazil like
the US UK Brazil long don’t it’s similar
to some power because there is a lot of
people true but I think the match search
of London people is very different the
mindset is different okay like people in
Brazil maybe you’re Brazilian so you get
them you understand that mindset yeah
it’s very stressful at the Oh
so you think maybe all the people in
Brazil are more stressed or maybe your
experience in London there were more
stressed in Brazil I think is much less
yes well interesting interesting I feel
like that kind of breaks the stereotype
of Brazil being kind of laid-back and
relaxing but when you have a job and
day-to-day life it’s probably not so
relaxing yeah it depends on if you are
on the beach maybe it’s just relaxing
having a beer or something like that
it’s cool but in my daily life feel it’s
stress not so cool I don’t if you’re on
the beach it’s probably vacation or the
weekend so it’s a great time to relax
yeah a good time yeah so because of your
wife’s knowledge and because you wanted
to travel and wanted to be able to speak
for yourself you decided I’m gonna learn
English I’m gonna do it for myself
yeah yeah and as an adult it’s pretty
different like you tried to go to
schools for English when you were a
little younger and now what kind of
things are you doing I know you’re part
of our our course participating in that
what kind of English things are you
doing to help you learn and improve
oh I start to look for I’m course
I’ll try some of them I didn’t like but
I began watching vigils I found a bunch
of good teachers and chewing they chew
on their YouTube suggest me your channel
great YouTube thank you after looking at
hundreds I realized that you should be
my Institute oh well I’m glad that those
YouTube videos helped you and it led you
to this place yeah yeah so now that you
are watching those YouTube videos and
participating in the Facebook group and
the course tell me about your experience
in that group or in the course what has
been useful to you or what have you been
doing with that well first of all I
think the community is amazing the
people are so nice each other yeah I
feel more comfortable to try new things
on Facebook co-manage that’s great I
think when you have other people to
around you it does feel more comfortable
because they’re doing the same thing
yeah yeah though using that yeah yeah
and the last song it’s amazing I enjoy
watching your videos training new
expressions it’s very very nice great
tonight today is a special day the day
that we’re talking together cuz it’s the
first day of the new set so I just yeah
I just receive our mail and I didn’t
know yet but I’m excited rates great
today’s the first day so you’ll get new
conversation vocabulary grammar
pronunciation and the story the update
for this month yeah yeah yes lots of fun
stuff and it’s awesome that
you’re sharing with other members of the
group a hue post things and comment on
other people’s materials that’s good for
you to use English but you’re
encouraging them to yeah yeah yes thank
you for your participation in that it’s
awesome thank you
yes yes and thanks for chatting today
too I really appreciate your courage and
bravery to speak and to share your story
with other people yeah it was nice very
very nice
I hope that the anxiety or stress has
left a little bit you feel a little
better yeah I mean better known and we
were supposed to talk with another
friend but it didn’t work out so you
spontaneously said it’s okay let’s just
talk one-on-one so good for you so why
not yes you’re here you just took the
chance took the opportunity and ran with
it awesome well thank you
Douglas for your your patience today and
courage I hope we can continue to talk
together and in the group participate
together yeah yeah sure yes well have a
wonderful day I hope we can talk again
soon the next time thank you have a nice
day
Thanks see you later Douglas I thanks so
much for watching this testimonial video
with one of my English students this is
a great way to know which methods work
and which methods don’t work I hope in
this video you realized that natural
learning is the best method that has
worked for each of my students and for
myself as well if you’d like to continue
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you there bye