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[00:00:00]Ooh, how about you? Where are you in the world right now?

[00:00:08]I am in Mexico.

[00:00:12]Mexico's not that far from my hometown.

[00:00:18]My hometown is in the United States, Nebraska.

[00:00:24]Mhm.

[00:00:25]Mhm.

[00:00:26]>> Wow.

[00:00:27]And >> question. Sure.

[00:00:30]>> And where in Vietnam? What city in Vietnam?

[00:00:34]I am living in a city called Da Nang.

[00:00:38]Da Nang. Da Nang is on >> beautiful.

[00:00:42]Have you been to Da Nang?

[00:00:45]>> Mhm. Yes. Yes. I love Da Nang. I love Vietnam. It's my favorite country.

[00:00:55]Wow.

[00:00:56]Awesome.

[00:00:57]Maybe in the future you can fly to Vietnam. Mhm. Yeah, I hope so.

[00:01:07]We can make a video in person. Yeah, yeah. Together in person.

[00:01:13]Sounds good. Mhm. Could you share with me a little bit about Mexico? Maybe the food, the weather, the people, the language. Tell me about the culture.

[00:01:32]The food in Mexico is delicious.

[00:01:37]It's the best >> Mhm. in the whole world.

[00:01:42]It's spicy.

[00:01:44]Mhm.

[00:01:46]It's greasy.

[00:01:49]A lot of meat. In the south of Mexico, the weather is hot.

[00:01:57]But in the north of Mexico, it's a little bit colder.

[00:02:03]Mhm.

[00:02:04]Mhm.

[00:02:06]And in Mexico, they speak Spanish.

[00:02:11]We speak Spanish. Mhm.

[00:02:14]The people are very loud and very warm and inviting.

[00:02:24]Mhm.

[00:02:25]And Mexico's a beautiful place to visit.

[00:02:32]Mhm.

[00:02:33]>> You should come.

[00:02:34]I would love to visit Mexico.

[00:02:39]>> [laughter] >> Can you tell me a little bit about Vietnam and the culture in Vietnam?

[00:02:46]Mhm. Sure.

[00:02:49]The culture in Vietnam is very different than the culture in the UK, in England.

[00:03:00]One thing is about the weather.

[00:03:04]Here in Vietnam, the weather is very humid.

[00:03:11]It's very sweaty.

[00:03:13]It's hot and it's wet.

[00:03:18]It's wet, like water.

[00:03:20]There is lots of water in the air and it's very humid. It makes me sweat.

[00:03:28]The food is wonderful. It's delicious.

[00:03:34]They have my favorite food now, which is called pho.

[00:03:40]It's spelled p h o, pho. Mhm. And maybe you know, but pho is a bowl of noodles with broth.

[00:03:55]Broth is like water but with more flavor. Mhm.

[00:04:03]Mhm.

[00:04:05]And one more thing about Vietnamese culture is that they are very friendly, very smiley, very happy people and they always want to to help you.

[00:04:22]They want to show you their country, show you their food. They are very open open and >> Mhm.

[00:04:32]warm and welcoming.

[00:04:35]Mhm. That's what I loved about Vietnam.

[00:04:40]Mhm. Is that it was similar to Mexico.

[00:04:46]It was similar because the people are so happy and helping, friendly.

[00:04:53]Yeah. I loved Vietnam because it's very similar to Mexico.

[00:04:59]Mhm. Uh-huh. And how is Vietnam different from your hometown?

[00:05:06]Um How are the people different?

[00:05:10]Sure.

[00:05:11]In England, in my hometown, people are more closed.

[00:05:19]They are more closed off and >> maybe narrow-minded. They are focused on their day, their tasks, their work.

[00:05:31]In Vietnam, people are more open, as I say.

[00:05:36]They are just much more friendly and warm towards you. Mhm. Yeah. Yeah. Narrow-minded, that's a good word. Mhm.

[00:05:49]>> [laughter] >> Yes, the opposite being open-minded.

[00:05:53]Exactly. Yeah. Mhm. That's where you are in the world.

[00:05:59]I like to use real-life objects in my videos.

[00:06:08]What about you?

[00:06:11]I am the same.

[00:06:14]I also use real-life objects like this mug of Yorkshire tea.

[00:06:23]>> [laughter] >> Yorkshire is That won't focus.

[00:06:27]Let me cover my face.

[00:06:29]Let me get a tap focus on that.

[00:06:31]If you put your hand in front of it. Oh, yeah, you're right.

[00:06:35]Oh, yeah.

[00:06:35]>> Oh, sorry, I did it.

[00:06:39]There it is.

[00:06:39]>> Yorkshire tea.

[00:06:41]>> [laughter] >> This is tea from my county, Yorkshire.

[00:06:47]And this is a mug.

[00:06:51]These are sunglasses.

[00:06:56]I'm wearing the sunglasses because it's bright.

[00:07:02]And this is a bell.

[00:07:08]And I'm ringing the bell to ring the bell.

[00:07:12]Oh.

[00:07:14]Speaking of ringing, 1 second. Somebody is ringing me now.

[00:07:20]Hello there. It's great to talk with you today. What's on your mind?

[00:07:26]Well, what's on my mind? I would like to know how can I improve my English speaking?

[00:07:35]That's a great question. I think the best way to improve your English speaking is by practicing a lot. You could try watching movies or TV shows in English or listening to podcasts.

[00:08:00]It helps you get used to the sounds and rhythms of the language. What do you think about that?

[00:08:13]Well, Miss Honey, I think that that is a fantastic answer. You have helped me.

[00:08:20]Thank you. Bye-bye.

[00:08:23]Wait, what?

[00:08:25]Were you talking to me?

[00:08:29]Or me?

[00:08:32]I was talking to not you, but you.

[00:08:39]That's so cool. I love it.

[00:08:42]I give [laughter] really good advice.

[00:08:46]You do. That was fantastic advice.

[00:08:49]It's going to help so many English learners to practice speaking.

[00:08:55]So guys, I worked with Jay to create an AI an AI conversation partner that sounds exactly like me, Miss Honey.

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[00:09:55]Hello, Tiyana.

[00:09:58]It's great to talk with you today.

[00:10:02]What's on your mind?

[00:10:05]Hey, Miss Honey. It's great to talk to you, too.

[00:10:08]Um what's on my mind? I'm really excited to introduce this AI so that my students can start practicing speaking every day.

[00:10:19]That's wonderful, Tiyana. It's a great idea to use AI to help your students practice speaking. Repetition is so important for learning. What do you think they will enjoy most about practicing with the AI?

[00:10:48]I think they'll enjoy speaking with someone who sounds just like me and who speaks slowly and clearly.

[00:10:58]Thank you.

[00:11:00]That's great. It sounds like you're saying that your students will enjoy speaking with the AI because it sounds like you and speaks clearly and slowly. It's wonderful that you're thinking of ways to make learning fun and accessible for your students. What It's kind of creepy to hear my own voice and speak with myself, but hopefully, you guys enjoy speaking with my AI.

[00:11:46]I have one, too, and at first, it was weird. It was mind-blowing.

[00:11:54]It's so accurate. Accurate.

[00:11:59]And it sounds just like you. She sounds just like you. Yeah.

[00:12:07]She does. She does. And so does yours.

[00:12:09]He sounds like you, too. He sounds just like me. Yeah. I think it's so cool.

[00:12:14]Okay. So, we both create videos.

[00:12:22]I want to know, why did you start?

[00:12:28]What made you want to start making videos? And was it hard? Or was it scary?

[00:12:38]I started making videos randomly one day.

[00:12:46]>> [snorts] >> I was watching a video.

[00:12:51]I was learning Chinese on a YouTube channel.

[00:12:57]And she was speaking slowly.

[00:13:02]Very slowly.

[00:13:06]And finally, I was able to understand what she was saying.

[00:13:16]I was able to understand Chinese for a second.

[00:13:23]And I thought, "Wow, my students would a slow English podcast from myself.

[00:13:36]They always told me, "I hate practicing listening to podcasts because everyone speaks too fast and unclear."

[00:13:54]So, I thought "I'll make some slow English videos for my students to practice with."

[00:14:05]And I sat down, I recorded a Tik Tok, and everybody loved it.

[00:14:13]>> [laughter] >> It went viral.

[00:14:16]After that, I just started making YouTube videos and more Tik Toks. Mhm.

[00:14:25]It wasn't very scary because I was just doing what I always did, which was speak English and talk about interesting topics, like the different types of intelligence, the meaning of colors, the best parts about traveling, just different topics.

[00:14:59]>> So, instead of teaching students through online meetings, Mhm. I would just do the same thing in my videos.

[00:15:12]Mhm.

[00:15:12]>> And it was even more fun because now I was connecting with thousands of people instead of just one.

[00:15:27]So, it was it was very fun. I never felt scared.

[00:15:32]I think.

[00:15:32]>> Wow, okay. Amazing.

[00:15:35]Did you Did you ever fail with that or did you succeed from the beginning?

[00:15:42]I think I succeeded since the beginning.

[00:15:45]Okay.

[00:15:46]But it depends on what you consider a failure.

[00:15:53]>> [laughter] >> Maybe I got a lot less engagement on something that I was really excited and proud of.

[00:16:03]And then on something that I didn't think much of, it went really viral.

[00:16:11]It really depends. Sometimes you don't expect it.

[00:16:16]Sure. Yeah.

[00:16:18]I think your approach, the way you make your videos in such an accessible way, it's easy for learners to understand, to comprehend.

[00:16:34]I love your hand gestures. Mhm. You make it so easy to watch, easy to listen to, and very valuable, very valuable for learners. Thank you. I even got my nails done Wait. because I'm always showing my hands. So, I thought >> [laughter] >> I need to have my nails done.

[00:17:01]I haven't got my nails done.

[00:17:03]Not yet.

[00:17:04]>> [snorts] >> Not yet.

[00:17:05]>> Yeah, very soon. Yeah.

[00:17:07][laughter and gasps] After this, I'll paint them.

[00:17:10]Yeah.

[00:17:11]You should. You should. Now, what about you?

[00:17:16]I like you.

[00:17:18]I was an English teacher and I still am. In the past, I taught online on my laptop for many years.

[00:17:30]7 8 years. I taught children in schools, adults in person and online.

[00:17:42]But when I moved from England to Vietnam I started making social media videos.

[00:17:55]Like you, I started TikTok.

[00:18:01]I made one video every day.

[00:18:08]But in the beginning the videos didn't get views.

[00:18:17]People didn't watch the videos.

[00:18:23]For maybe 6 months I made videos every single day.

[00:18:33]Nothing happened. Day one, day two, day three, day four, nothing happened.

[00:18:39]But I kept going.

[00:18:42]I knew I knew that I couldn't fail if I kept going. Mhm.

[00:18:54]Eventually one video took off. It took off. It blew up. It exploded.

[00:19:03]It went viral like yours. Not quite as viral but it went viral and then the rest is history. Mhm. From there I made the rest of the rest of it gone. It's all history.

[00:19:19]Yeah, so for me it was actually quite a lot of failure, but I think that's that's okay. Like I think it's okay to fail if you just keep going.

[00:19:33]It doesn't matter.

[00:19:34]Brush it off.

[00:19:36]Keep going. Mhm. And it's failure.

[00:19:40]But at the end it was success, so Mhm.

[00:19:44]can you even consider it failure?

[00:19:48]Exactly.

[00:19:49]Mhm. Yeah, sure.

[00:19:51]>> Mhm.

[00:19:51]Okay, so we have just talked about our stories about becoming content creators from English teachers.

[00:20:06]Now, I would like to know was this your dream when you were young? What was your dream when you were young?

[00:20:22]My dream when I was young was to be a marine biologist.

[00:20:31]Wow.

[00:20:31]>> I loved the ocean, um animals, sea animals specifically.

[00:20:40]And I was very interested in anything that had to do with the ocean.

[00:20:50]And what about you? What was your dream as a child?

[00:20:56]>> As a child, like you, similar to you, I wanted to work with animals, Especially monkeys.

[00:21:11]I don't know why, but as a child, I loved monkeys.

[00:21:21]I used to have many soft toys. This is a soft toy. I had many soft toys.

[00:21:34]They were all monkeys.

[00:21:37]I had maybe 26 soft toys of monkeys.

[00:21:44]They had uh sticky hands, so they would stick together, and you could hang them [laughter] on my bed.

[00:21:52]It was always my dream to see an orangutan.

[00:21:59]An orangutan is the man of the jungle or the human of the jungle.

[00:22:05]And they live in Indonesia.

[00:22:10]They are big orange apes.

[00:22:15]I still to this day, I still haven't seen one in real life.

[00:22:23]But I will.

[00:22:26]You will. That's the important part. I will.

[00:22:28]>> You will.

[00:22:30]Interesting because um so are monkeys your favorite animal?

[00:22:38]Mhm.

[00:22:41]Are they my favorite animal?

[00:22:43]What is my favorite animal?

[00:22:45]They have to be.

[00:22:47]They have to be. Yeah. [laughter] If you have 26 26 stuffed stuffed monkeys, they have to be.

[00:22:55]>> [laughter] >> Yeah.

[00:22:56]Um as as a kid, as a child, they were my favorite animal.

[00:23:04]Now, I'm fascinated by cats.

[00:23:10]Any type of cat.

[00:23:13]So, recently, just yesterday, I was watching a documentary about lions, leopards, and cheetahs.

[00:23:29]Cheetahs are the fastest land mammal, the fastest animal on land.

[00:23:36]And for me, I love how cool word complex, how complex the cats' character are.

[00:23:46]Yeah, you've got a better gesture.

[00:23:48]Complex.

[00:23:50]They are really cool to watch, observe, and yeah, they're just so successful around the world.

[00:24:00]Wow, interesting. I would have assumed that monkeys were your favorite animal.

[00:24:08]>> [laughter] >> Because I'm going to mention this little bit. Okay. When I was a little girl, I had tons of stuffed animals, but they were elephants.

[00:24:24]>> [laughter] >> Wow.

[00:24:25]>> Even today, I have two stuffed elephants.

[00:24:31]But, I love elephants.

[00:24:35]Since I was a little girl, I don't know why, either, but I've loved elephants. And I always dreamed of seeing an elephant. And just like 3 months ago, I saw an elephant Wow.

[00:24:56]>> in real life for the first time.

[00:24:59]And yeah, it was a dream come true.

[00:25:03]Amazing. How did you feel when you saw that elephant?

[00:25:08]I felt very connected. It was almost like I already had seen an elephant Mhm.

[00:25:16]because I watched videos all the time. I I always dreamed of it, so Mhm. it was just like it was it was just coming true.

[00:25:27]Aw, how lovely.

[00:25:29]Yeah.

[00:25:30]They are very intelligent animals.

[00:25:34]Very, very, and and seeing their eyes and Mhm. you can just feel the the wisdom Yeah.

[00:25:44]>> and everything that is inside of them.

[00:25:47]You can feel it.

[00:25:48]>> Mhm.

[00:25:49]Yeah, I love that about animals. Like they make us present. Mhm. future, past.

[00:25:57]We think in the future and the past, but animals bring us here and now. They make us present. So, we've talked about our dreams, about monkeys, elephants, and cats.

[00:26:12]And now besides animals, what do you like? What are you into?

[00:26:22]What are you interested in?

[00:26:25]I'm very interested in dancing.

[00:26:31]Mhm. Since I was a little girl, Mhm. I love dancing, anything. Wow.

[00:26:39]Putting on music and dancing in my room is something that I've been doing >> [laughter] >> since I was 5 years old.

[00:26:53]And whenever I feel overwhelmed or stressed or even just sad, Mhm. I'll just put on music and I'll dance and I'll feel happy again.

[00:27:08]So, dancing anything.

[00:27:11]Salsa, cumbia, modern dancing, ballet.

[00:27:17]When I was a little girl, I would watch Dance Moms.

[00:27:21]Have you heard of Dance Moms? I have never heard [laughter] of Dance Moms.

[00:27:27]Okay.

[00:27:27]>> Enlighten me.

[00:27:28]>> to You'll have to look it up, but >> Okay. I'll look it up.

[00:27:31]>> It's um it's this crazy series where these little girls, they dance and their moms are always just getting into fights >> [laughter] >> with each other Okay.

[00:27:50]because they're like, "Ah, my daughter's better than yours. Your daughter's being mean to my daughter. My daughter should have gotten this solo."

[00:28:00]They're very competitive, the moms.

[00:28:03]But the daughters, they're just there like, "Oh." They're good dancers. Yeah.

[00:28:07]>> Uh-huh.

[00:28:08]They're good dancers, but yeah, I I think it was probably a traumatic show for the little girls, [laughter] but I bet. Yeah, when when I was little, I loved watching Dance Moms. It was >> [clears throat] >> my favorite because the girls were such good dancers. Mhm. Um Maddie Ziegler, Sia, you know Sia? Mhm. I do.

[00:28:36]Sia has a dancer who dances in her videos all the time. Mhm.

[00:28:42]>> And she's from Dance Moms. She found her on Dance Moms. Okay.

[00:28:47]>> So, >> they're very famous now. It's very interesting, but it's like my childhood.

[00:28:53]That's >> Mhm. a hobby that I have had since my childhood.

[00:28:59]How wonderful.

[00:29:01]Yeah. Do you dance every day?

[00:29:05]Mhm.

[00:29:09]I normally dance once or twice a week.

[00:29:15]Okay.

[00:29:16]Is it >> Mhm. official?

[00:29:18]Or is it more just as you please?

[00:29:23]As I please. As I please.

[00:29:27]>> [laughter] >> Put on the music and start doing a bit of salsa.

[00:29:31]Exactly. Yeah. I mean, I go to a salsa class once a week. Mhm.

[00:29:39]I go to a modern dance class once a week. Wow.

[00:29:44]>> And then, I just dance in my room alone twice a week.

[00:29:50]Nice. That's good amount of practice.

[00:29:54]Yeah. Yeah.

[00:29:56]For sure.

[00:29:57]>> And um what about you?

[00:30:01]What do you like to do?

[00:30:04]Mhm.

[00:30:07]I like to dance, too.

[00:30:09]But >> not officially.

[00:30:12]Mhm.

[00:30:12]>> I I just I like to move my body. So, that could be dancing, it could be gymnastics, it could be running, walking, playing tennis. I like to move. I like to stay active.

[00:30:33]It's important to me. It makes me feel good. Makes me feel strong. It keeps me sharp. Sing.

[00:30:43]Mhm.

[00:30:45]As well as that, I love music.

[00:30:50]I have my guitar over there.

[00:30:54]I have a piano.

[00:30:56]And I like to sing and rap.

[00:31:01]I enjoy many things to be honest. I love making videos.

[00:31:08]I really like being creative. Anything that I can make something, create something, I absolutely love.

[00:31:17]Mhm. So, yeah. I'm I have many hobbies and just like I change from monkeys to cats, Yeah. I like to change my hobbies and keep things fresh and keep a variety of different things. Mhm. Yeah, that's a good point. Mhm. A good point, I guess.

[00:31:44]Um because anything creative, it just feels liberating. It's like, ah, >> Yes. I'm finally relaxed because I got my creative juices out of me.

[00:32:00]Uh-huh. That's a good phrase. Your creative juices. Yeah.

[00:32:05]>> We say our creative juices meaning just like our creativity. Mhm. Yeah.

[00:32:10]And actually, I love to rap, too. It's so much fun to me to find the rhymes with a friend. It's just like going back and forth. I think it's really good practice even for developing your your speaking.

[00:32:29]Absolutely. Yeah. I I do that with like in an improvised way. Like So, one game that I love to play, which maybe I can share with your audience and you maybe to improve my English and my speaking is the word association game.

[00:32:47]So, maybe we can play as an example. So, I will say a word and then you say a word that's connects or relates to that word.

[00:33:02]And then we go back and forth like ping pong, like table tennis.

[00:33:08]So, you want to try?

[00:33:10]Yeah, yeah. Let's do an example.

[00:33:12]>> Okay. Let's do an example. Okay. And usually guys, I start with something around me. So, a bell.

[00:33:24]Okay. So, I find something that's related or something that rhymes.

[00:33:31]Something it can rhyme or it can be related. Oh, okay.

[00:33:35]>> Whatever your first thought is. If it could be bell, hell or it could be bell, ring or it could be bell, school.

[00:33:43]And then we go back and forth.

[00:33:46]Okay.

[00:33:47]School.

[00:33:49]Children.

[00:33:51]Books.

[00:33:53]Harry Potter.

[00:33:56]Library.

[00:33:59]Reading.

[00:34:02]Words.

[00:34:05]Lexicon.

[00:34:06]Dictionary. Mhm.

[00:34:09]Definition.

[00:34:12]Sentences.

[00:34:13]Mhm.

[00:34:15]Construction.

[00:34:18]Comprehension.

[00:34:21]Understand.

[00:34:22]Think.

[00:34:24]Speak.

[00:34:26]Talk.

[00:34:28]Chat.

[00:34:29]Learn.

[00:34:31]Joy.

[00:34:33]Laugh.

[00:34:35]>> [laughter] >> Okay.

[00:34:39]That's a good transition.

[00:34:41]>> [laughter] >> Um so, you see we went back and forth.

[00:34:46]We can play this with ourselves to practice our English speaking, too.

[00:34:52]Yes.

[00:34:53]>> I can say pen, pencil, rubber, erase, school.

[00:34:58]Yeah, or even to find words that are similar to others. Like comprehend, think, understand.

[00:35:08]Mhm. Yeah, these synonyms, similar words. synonyms Synonyms, nice. I need to I need to learn from you with your hand gestures.

[00:35:18]>> [laughter] >> Yes, synonyms.

[00:35:21]Cool.

[00:35:22]Um I wanted to talk about one more thing that's close to me.

[00:35:28]As an English teacher, I also love languages.

[00:35:35]You are a mix of American and Mexican.

[00:35:40]Is that correct?

[00:35:42]That's correct.

[00:35:43]So, do you speak languages? Which languages do you speak? I do.

[00:35:49]I speak English and Spanish.

[00:35:52]What about you?

[00:35:55]I speak English, obviously, Spanish and French.

[00:36:03]When I was in university studying, I learned Spanish and French translation.

[00:36:13]I love to learn languages.

[00:36:18]That's actually a big reason why I started my YouTube channel.

[00:36:24]It's why I I before.

[00:36:27]And it's why I started Sprout which is my English platform which helps non-native speakers like you guys to improve your English to become better and to immerse yourself in the English language through watching listening and speaking.

[00:36:54]To learn in a natural way.

[00:36:58]That's how you learn a language.

[00:37:02]Mhm.

[00:37:02]>> By learning naturally.

[00:37:05]By watching, learning, listening and speaking.

[00:37:10]Mhm.

[00:37:11]And remember guys, if you want to practice speaking with Miss Honey AI then click the link in the description and you'll get 7 days trial.

[00:37:26]For free.

[00:37:33]All done.

[00:37:34]Thank you for watching guys.

[00:37:37]Thank you so much. Thank you Miss Honey.

[00:37:40]Thank you Tiana for for having me.

[00:37:44]Thank you Jay for being on the Slow English podcast.

[00:37:48]It's my honor. It's my pleasure and I'm excited about future collaborations to continue working together.

[00:38:00]Thank you for watching guys.

[00:38:02]Thank you guys. Bye-bye. Bye.