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Hey everyone and welcome back to
the understandable English 

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podcast. 
Today we are going to be talking

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about English language 
immersion. 

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Don't worry. 
If you don't understand exactly 

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what that means, I will explain 
in just a second. 

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Studying English can be a truly 
challenging task especially if 

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you don't have access to native 
English speakers in your daily 

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life. 
But don't worry. 

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If this is the case for you, you
can immerse yourself surround 

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yourself in the English language
wherever you are from your home 

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or your own country. 
English language immersion is 

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when the language learner 
surrounds themselves entirely 

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with the English language. 
This can usually be done for 

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living in an English-speaking 
country joining a language 

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Exchange program or simply 
increasing the amount of time 

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that you speak and listen to 
English on a daily basis. 

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However, with the power of the 
internet, you can Do this from 

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your home. 
You don't need to move to 

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another country or place. 
And today, I am going to give 

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you some tips for how you can 
improve your English language 

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immersion. 
So, the amount that you're 

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surrounding yourself with 
English, To start with you 

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should decide how much you want 
to do this. 

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For some people, they want to 
surround themselves in English 

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every single day, whether that 
is only reading in English, for 

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pleasure, only watching English 
TV shows for example or perhaps 

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you want to pick one day per 
week or two, perhaps at the 

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weekends. 
Where you only consume. 

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So you only use English media 
when I say media. 

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I mean TV shows movies, books, 
anything that you are consuming 

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with information on these days 
or every day, if you want to do 

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a little bit every day, you 
should also try to force 

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yourself to think. 
In English, make faults in 

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English and think about what 
you're doing, what you want to 

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do at first. 
This may seem very difficult but

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it will help you so much. 
As I mentioned, the simplest way

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for immersion. 
I always start with watching TV 

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shows and movies in English now,
I am sure that you already do 

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this to an extent, I mean almost
every day, most of us watch some

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TV or movies and changing these.
So you are watching more 

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English. 
Movies is a fantastic way to 

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surround yourself and immerse 
yourself in the culture. 

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Make sure you're watching movies
from the country that perhaps 

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Want to visit or move to. 
For example, if you want to come

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to the UK, try to watch a little
bit more of British shows and 

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movies. 
That way you will be hearing 

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British accents and British 
dialects. 

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British freezers are stuff that 
you won't really hear in 

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American shows so that might 
help the next way. 

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Way to immerse yourself in your 
daily life. 

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This is another simple. 
Basic point is listening to 

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English language, music and 
podcasts. 

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You're already listening to this
podcast. 

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So well done, that's a good 
step, but if you love listening 

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to music, why not try to listen 
to some more English music? 

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And when you're doing so look at
The lyrics, the words of the 

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song, open them up while you're 
listening and then the next time

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that you listen, you may be 
hearing the same words much 

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better and you never know, you 
might learn some new words for 

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this process, okay? 
So the third tip and these are a

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little bit more specific going 
forward, I told you the first 

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two were Opal. 
Because to be honest, most 

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people already do these tips to 
an extent but our third tip 

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today is reading news articles 
in English often. 

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We will check the news or maybe 
see an article on social media 

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about something that has 
happened. 

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Why not try and read some 
english-language news site. 

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So, instead of reading your 
usual news, there is a big 

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variety and you can read small 
articles dearly, which are very 

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relevant about today's topics. 
This can help you with your 

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speaking practice and give you 
topics to talk about which are 

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relevant and not simple, or alt 
or simply with reading one area 

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that most So, forget about or 
ad, don't use enough is 

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selecting articles or websites 
related to something that you're

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interested in in your daily 
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For example, if you like playing
video games, read some articles 

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about the latest video games, 
video game, reviews, Etc, in 

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English. 
It's a good way of spending your

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time on. 
And you already enjoy, but also 

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improving your language skills 
and understanding. 

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Okay? 
So now I'm going to share a tip 

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with you, which I think is 
fantastic and not enough people 

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do this and that is to use 
English, social media. 

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And it doesn't mean exactly what
you might think. 

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You might be saying all of Over,
I already use YouTube, I already

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use Instagram, I already use all
of these services, but what I'm 

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saying is make a new social 
media account. 

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So if you like YouTube, for 
example, I would recommend 

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signing up for a new YouTube 
account, and using it to watch 

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videos in English. 
Do not watch videos in your 

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native language. 
It's on this kind YouTube will 

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then begin to only recommend you
videos in English and this 

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exposes you to kindless English 
videos, comments, and 

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interactions. 
You can even try engaging with 

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native speakers in the comment 
sections there. 

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The point of this tape, is it 
exposes you to more and more 

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English? 
Jewish without showing you video

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options from your native 
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So if you're trying to almost 
force yourself to watch more 

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English, and to click the 
English options, if you have a 

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separate account for learning, 
you won't have the choice. 

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All of your recommendations and 
everything will be in English. 

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And my final point for today is 
quite a simple one. 

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Practice speaking with near div 
speakers. 

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I can see the audience 
demographics for this podcast 

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and we have people from over 112
countries around the world. 

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I can guarantee you that there 
are English speakers out there 

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on the internet that want to 
learn your language or are 

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trying to learn your language. 
Each and all you need to do is 

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find them and communicate with 
them and exchange language. 

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And as a result you will get 
three English-speaking practice.

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There are many wonderful apps 
and services out there such as 

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tandem, which by the way, is 
completely free to use. 

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This isn't a sponsorship and I 
used tan. 

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And before as well to practice 
Russian language. 

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So why not try and sign up to 
one of these applications and do

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a free language exchange? 
It's a great use of your time 

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and a good way to get to know 
different people. 

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You never know. 
You might meet a lifelong friend

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or someone that you can visit 
when you go to that country. 

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I have with people people and it
is a fantastic experience. 

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So that's everything for today. 
Don't make excuses. 

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When you might think I can't 
visit an English-speaking 

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country, it's so hard to 
practice because it has never 

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been easier with access to the 
internet and all of the options 

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that we have today in 2023. 
Three. 

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It has really never been easier 
and we are so so lucky as 

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language Learners. 
I wish you all the best with 

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your language learning and your 
English language immersion and I

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hope to see you in the next 
episode of understandable 

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English. 
I'll see you soon. 

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Have a wonderful day.