Actually I was Born in Hawaii
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Mark: Elder Tiave, that is not a common English name. What is your ethnic heritage?
Elder Tiave: No, I am part Filipino. I am Samoan and Hawaiian.
Mark: Wow!
Elder Tiave: So I have nothing to do with Cambodia.
Mark: But you are a Mormon.
Elder Tiave: Yes. I am a Mormon.
Mark: And your whole family is Mormon?
Elder Tiave: Yes, my whole family.
Mark: And you are on your mission? You are here for two years?
Elder Tiave: Yeah. I just recently came out to Cambodia and started my mission here in Cambodia.
Mark: Mhm.
Elder Tiave: I started learning the language, Cambodian language in Utah and then from there I came out here and just started teaching the the people here (about my church). I have been in this country for about three months and it is a challenge sometimes but I am starting to get better at the language. Yeah.
Mark: Do you speak Tagalog or Filipino or Hawaiian?
Elder Tiave: No, I really don’t know any Filipino language but my grandma does.
Mark: So you were born in the States, grew up in the states; you are pretty much American, now.
Elder Tiave: Yeah, I am actually from Hawaii.
Mark: Right but your ancestors are all mixed?
Elder Tiave: Yeah. All mixed.
Mark: It is starting to rain so lets get out of here.
Elder Tiave: All right.
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I think, it really doesn´t matter how old we are. Everyone is special person and the most important thing is to feel young, be healthy and keep fit. In my opinion everyone can always be young, it´s only up to us.
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Hi!
I noticed that speaker uses questions sentenses without inversion
Is it common in real spoken english?
Iv never been educated like that!
Jarek
Yes Jarek. That is quite common in English.
“You are Czech?”
“Are you Czech?”
Both are possible. The second one is more common though.
To me it has been something especial to listen your lessons.They are a mean very important for the learner of english as a second language.
I do not miss a lessona and that listen it every day .
I thank you for that impontant effort to help many people that strugle for to learn english .
Thanks for all.
Alejandro
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Mahmood from Afghanistan
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Thank You very much, i enjoyed the conversation..it is good, very good..
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I feel my English is not good. Your lessons is excelent and I enjoy study it. I am waiting further lesson. Thank you for your lesson
great lesson..i start to learning more about English, real conversation from native speakers is really helpful.. i am Malaysian and so many different ethnic here..thanks!! God bless..:)
Tell us more about the official ethnic groups in Malaysia. How many peoples are there? Who are they? How many languages are there? What are they? How many cuisines are there? How do they taste?
I have really enjoy your lesson and they’re very interesting…..I have learnt a lot…..in lesson 4 there was a topic that called my attention ,the one related to age….I think the most important thng is the experience we are able to get during the years…..the age doesn’t matter…..there’s no age for doing specific things…..any age is good for everything…..thank you for your lessons.
thanks alot it is excllent job. i learnt the meaning of two words. thanks very much
I´m wonder about these small lessons. I will explain why : 1 – Very simple (not always the audio, but the idea.), 2 – native speakers, 3 – It seems real. For example here in my island I had a opportunity to know some elders and go to a mormon church, this text brought me all that good memories I had. Congratulations for the teachers.Special thanks for Mark White.
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