I’m being asked about English speaking skills very often, that’s why this video. You want to improve? Here is hot-list: 1) read English books; 2) watch movies in English, with subtitles; 3) find someone to chat with online, not about work; 4) go to the United States of America and stay there for a few months; 5) make lectures or presentations in English; 6) write in English, like blog post or anything that someone else will have to read. This is what helps me to practice and not to be afraid of speaking English.
*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6de0RNdIIFk
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00:00:00 Введение
- Автор делится советами по улучшению разговорного английского языка.
- Подчёркивает, что английский не является его родным языком.
- Упоминает о типичной ошибке: попытке строить предложения на английском, как на русском.
00:00:57 Ошибка в мышлении
- Объясняет, что не нужно переводить мысли с русского на английский.
- Приводит пример типичной английской фразы, которой нет в русском языке.
- Подчёркивает важность мышления на английском языке.
00:01:49 Рекомендация 1 — чтение технических книг
- Рекомендует читать технические книги на английском языке.
- Отмечает, что технические материалы проще для понимания, чем художественная литература.
- Делится личным опытом чтения книги «Элегантные объекты».
00:02:49 Рекомендация 2 — просмотр фильмов и YouTube
- Советует смотреть фильмы с оригинальным звуком и субтитрами.
- Рекомендует искать образовательные и развлекательные видео на английском.
- Подчёркивает важность погружения в языковую среду.
00:04:34 Рекомендация 3 — общение с носителями языка
- Предлагает найти носителей языка для неформального общения.
- Рекомендует общаться на разные темы, не только о работе.
- Делится личным опытом общения с девушками в интернете.
00:05:31 Рекомендация 4 — путешествия
- Рекомендует путешествовать в страны, где английский является основным языком.
- Советует избегать общения на родном языке, чтобы полностью погрузиться в языковую среду.
- Подчёркивает важность использования английского даже в туристических местах.
00:07:27 Рекомендация 5 — чтение лекций
- Предлагает читать лекции на английском для коллег.
- Делится опытом чтения лекций в университете.
- Рекомендует организовывать лекции в офисе для практики английского.
00:10:16 Рекомендация 6 — написание на английском
- Рекомендует вести блог, писать книги и вести социальные сети на английском.
- Объясняет, что английский — международный язык, который помогает лучше передавать идеи.
- Подчёркивает важность практики для улучшения навыков.
00:11:15 Заключение
- Подводит итоги, подчёркивая важность практики.
- Гарантирует улучшение навыков при следовании советам в течение года.
- Прощается с аудиторией.
In this video
Intro
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Hey, morning all
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Today the question is not exactly about programming, not about computers
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But the question which so many of you keep asking, so I decided finally to record the video
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The question is about English, the speaking English, you know English is not my first language
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But some of you asked how do I learn English and how do I practice it
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So some of you may like my level of English, even though it’s not perfect at all
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It’s far from being perfect
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But some of you may potentially have something similar and you wonder how I practice myself, so I prepared
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Six points of recommendation for you to share and then you may use that and improve as well
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You know the problem with the language which was the problem for me when I was younger is that I was trying to construct
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Sentences in English the way I construct them in Russian
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Russian is my first language, and it doesn’t work that way and that’s the typical mistake people are doing, they are just
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Translating a Russian thinking into English thinking and it shouldn’t work that way
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You shouldn’t think in Russian and translat it, or in Spanish, in German, in your language and then go into English
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translating that sentences. It shouldn’t be that way
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For example, like I’m saying it shouldn’t be that way. I would not say that in Russian
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There is no such phrase in Russian, like it shouldn’t be that way
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We don’t say that. We don’t say it that way. We don’t have that way
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It’s perfectly English, you know phrase, in Russian, I would say it completely differently
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So if I would think it in Russian and I would say, how do I say I don’t do it like that
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Then I would say I don’t do it like that, but it doesn’t sound English. So I’m
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thinking in English immediately
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I’m not translating from one language to another and that’s important once you achieve that, there will be no problem
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so the problem is how to achieve that, how to break that language barrier, how to stop thinking in your first language and
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Start thinking in English
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Recommendation number one, I read technical books only in English
Read technical books
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about object-oriented programming, software development, design
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DevOps, everything, you can of course find them in translated versions
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Like you can find a translated version of Elegant objects, my book
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it is already published in Russian and it will be published in other languages and people sometimes keep asking me
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where I can find a localized version of Elegant objects and I point them to Russian shops and they go there and buy
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Even though I don’t understand why they’re doing that. I don’t think it’s the right way to go
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I think that you have to read in English as much as you can, especially technical books because it’s easier
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I cannot read for example
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Theodore Dreiser in English, it’s difficult for me. I will be bored to death to read, you know, fiction classic book in English
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I can barely read
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modern English fiction in English, because it’s difficult not my language and I will get through it quite difficult
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but technical stuff about Java, about programming, about DevOps, about computers having in mind that
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majority of those books are written by people who don’t have English as a first language
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Like myself, Elegant objects is written in English, even though it’s on my first language
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Second recommendation is watch movies, every time you have an opportunity to watch a movie
Watch movies
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English movie, many movies are English, actually made by
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Hollywood studios and made by America, try to watch them with the original sound, with subtitles
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maybe if you don’t understand English that well, but with the original sound
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It’s important that you hear how people really talk in English
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Not how teachers are teaching you to use English
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But you have to hear how Tom Hardy is speaking English, how Robert De Niro is speaking English. Sometimes they will use it
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Not the way you expect them to use it. Sometimes it’s not going to be the English from the book
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it’s gonna be a different language and sometimes they cut corners and sometimes they
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use the words which you would never expect to use that way and you hear that, you keep hearing that, you keep getting into the
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Environment where people use English, you keep diving into the English sound
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and also YouTube channels, when you have a chance to watch something on YouTube, educational
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entertainment, some jokes, some funny stories, something which you can watch over lunch, you know
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Just to entertain youself, trying to find something which is in English. That’s how you help yourself to
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you know, to get closer to people who speak that language
Talk informally
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Point number three — find somebody who can chat with you
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informally, in English specifically like a real native English speaker and preferably make sure that person is somehow
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interested in you and you’re interested in that person. I did that when I was younger
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I was constantly chatting with some girls online
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About different things, but not about work, not about computers, not about programming, but just about life, if you are a programmer
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you most likely have some customers. You have some people around your projects, try to find informal contacts with those people
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don’t talk with them only about Java programming, talk to them about something else, about weather, about politics
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about sport, about games, about live, sex, whatever
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any subject you find, but make sure this channel is informal and you keep talking every day
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you will seriously change your expectations about English language
Travel well
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Point number four
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When you travel, well of course point number four is that you have to try to travel to America
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and stay there for a few months and
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Never talk to anyone using your language, but only use English, that will seriously improve your skills. Be there alone
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Don’t contact anyone who is not
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English speaker and that will be very stressful for you
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But three-four months and your English will just jump very high, your English level.
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I had a chance to do that a few times in my life
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and that was really helpful for me and when you’re there, even try not to stay in touch with your family or contact them as
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infrequently as possible in order to
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Completely change the way you think, so you start thinking in English while you live there in America
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Maybe you can’t go to America. Try United Kingdom
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Try some other countries where English is also used and even when you travel to other countries
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Which have their own languages, English is the language for tourism
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When you travel there, they may understand your local language
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For example, you speak German and you travel to Turkey and in hotels
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They may understand German and they may try to speak it and you will feel comfortable using your own language
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Don’t do that, switch to English, every time you travel, every time you have an opportunity
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To speak English, use that opportunity, even if the person in front of you is not a native English speaker
Give lectures
7:00
Point number five, I’m getting from the easiest to the more hard is to try to
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give some lectures in English. What I’m doing is I’m recording this video. For example, I am speaking at software conferences
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I’m doing trainings for software companies sometimes and sometimes they’re in English
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So they invite me from different places in the world and I get there and I speak English, of course
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But I started that when I was a student
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I was like 17 or 18 years old and in the university
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I just volunteered to organize lectures for students in English
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Of course, I was studying in Ukraine and everybody were speaking Russian
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But some of students were interested to learn English as well and we together decided to organize sort of classes after
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normal classes, we just got together
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there were like 10 or 20 of us, just a small group, and we were
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One of us was giving the lecture, everybody else were listening
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It was allowed only to speak English during that one hour and a half
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That’s how I started when I was a student. You can do the same. I would recommend that inside your company
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You have some people in the office who also want to learn English
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So tell them, how about we organize lectures once a week, one of us stand in front of everybody else
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speaking English
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explain us how certain features work in Java
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just tell us something technical which is interesting to know
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So don’t tell us about the weather, politics, sport because they’ll be boring or not interesting or not relevant to us
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But tell us about the work we do,
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so explain, for example, what are you working on right now or explain the design of your solution, something which is relevant to our work
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But you have to do it in English
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That’s sort of you know training for all of us. You speak English. We listen to you
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Maybe we record that, then you get that video later, you can watch it later
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You can see how your English is good or bad
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But you practice it, so you practice by talking and the more you talk
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The larger the practice, the easier it will be for you. Don’t pay attention to mistakes you make
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just make sure people understand you. Don’t try to make it the right way
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Don’t try to say it the right way, but make sure people easily and fast
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Fastly, I don’t know if I can say that fastly but people understand you and that you know
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They say that you can really use the language, not only English, but any language if you can explain
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the meaning of any word using other words
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So let’s for example say that I forgot the word lamp
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So I have a lamp which is in front of me now, and I have to explain to you what it is
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I’m saying it’s a round thing which is standing in front of me and it’s connected to electricity
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And in order to make my face brighter for you, it gives me light. Do you understand what I’m talking about?
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And you say oh yeah, sure, lamp
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so I managed to explain to you using other words the meaning of
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Something which I forgot, you can do it with mistakes. You cannot be perfectly in grammar. That’s all secondary. It’s less important
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What’s important is that you can quickly deliver your thoughts
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quickly
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without any hesitation, without any bottlenecks, without waiting and hesitating and
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thinking and translating, but just delivering your words as fast as you can, that’s important and when you give lectures
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That will be a great
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opportunity for you to train yourself in that, to make sure that you can’t deliver, because people are sitting in front of you and they’re
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not going to wait for half a minute until you remember that specific word
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They will say okay, whatever just say, just keep going, we will get it later
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And then you will train yourself to just keep going that will be helpful
Write in English
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And point number six, you may want to write in English. Well, I write blog. I write my books
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I have Twitter channel. I have Facebook. I have Instagram and everywhere
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I try to write in English as much as you can. Sometimes I use Russian, but very rarely
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and not because I don’t like Russian as a language. I love it. I even have have a blog in Russian
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but because I need to practice, I need to stay in English as much as I can and
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I feel that more people will be able to
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Get my ideas, to get my thoughts, to read me if I use international language, English is an international language
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It’s not anymore the language of Shakespeare
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It’s not anymore a language like all other languages. It’s not the same as German, as Spanish and it’s not the English which English people
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know, we all know the English, which is very
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restricted, we know just maybe a thousand words from the English and just four or five tences
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or how do you call them? It’s not the language for writing fiction or for writing poems. Not at all
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Of course that English exists as well
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But I don’t know that language, all I know is just international tool to communicate with other programmers, with business people
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with people around me. So that’s all I wanted to say. That’s all I know to say actually
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Practice, practice and practice, I gave you six recommendations. If you follow all of them, in a year, you will be way better.
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I guarantee you that. Thanks for listening. Stay tuned. Bye-bye.