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  • Hi and welcome to a new episode of Easy English.

  • I'm Rebecca, and we're here today in Kensington Market in Toronto.

  • Toronto is one of the most multi lingual cities in the world.

  • So we're going to ask people today if they can speak another language.

  • Ready?

  • Let's go.

  • The question today is Do you speak another language?

  • Yes, I did.

  • And which language do you speak?

  • Vietnamese.

  • You can speak Russian and Ukrainian.

  • Um, I speak Bengali.

  • I speak English.

  • I speak a little Hindi.

  • A little bit of friends.

  • Do you speak with at home?

  • Yeah, well, like when we go back to visit family.

  • And so, yeah, nieces and nephews.

  • It's good to get started toe.

  • Speak another language as well, for sure.

  • Yeah.

  • Not much.

  • With friends.

  • So what language do you speak together?

  • Always speak English.

  • I speak Russians.

  • My first language.

  • I just speak English.

  • Vietnamese.

  • I learned English when I came here.

  • How did you learn?

  • I took courses at home and then I went to Vancouver for language courses.

  • And then I came here for university.

  • So you studied English before?

  • Yeah.

  • I used to live in night.

  • Would you like to learn another.

  • Uh, yeah.

  • I'd like to learn Japanese.

  • Yes, Japanese and Portuguese, Japanese and Polish to any plans together to go to depend way.

  • Want to teach English in Japan?

  • Actually, everyone.

  • I'm an English teacher too.

  • If you had to learn another language, would you for shirts.

  • I need you to um maybe it's like I feel like it's way harder to learn languages at our age when we were younger.

  • Are you learning Russian?

  • I'd like to learn Ukranian as well, because my mother is also you could What are you studying any other language at the moment?

  • German.

  • What are your reasons for?

  • Um Well, my mom speaks Portuguese and all her relatives, so I think would be pretty awesome to communicate with them cause otherwise, Like, we can't really have a relationship by polish.

  • I'm half polish.

  • So my mom and let people make family our influence.

  • I want one their language to communicate because my step dad and my mom speak German.

  • I can understand a little bit, but I can't do this.

  • Okay?

  • It's kind of dodge todo do you code switch with your family?

  • Uh, code switch code switch between English Village the legend.

  • Think in English.

  • Subtitle thinking.

  • Bengali switches.

  • Interesting.

  • Am speaking.

  • Sometimes it's even with our parents is well, we kind of mix code switching.

  • What helps you to learn a language?

  • Well, I guess, like the absolute plunge into the foreign culture.

  • Like when you go somewhere.

  • And, uh, when you feel that there is no one speaking English because this is the best case scenario to learn.

  • What's the best way to learn a language, go to the street and talk this danger?

  • Honestly, the best thing is just so like speak it every day, of course, and they convey in my rent That's the best you can do.

  • Practice, I guess, because this is the most important thing.

  • Not only like to read books, but actually to talk to people.

  • And there are lots of, like, free speaking clubs.

  • And we met actually this speaking or fall in love, right s.

  • So we hope you enjoyed today's episode.

  • We found people who speak Vietnamese, Russian, Polish, Ukrainian, Spanish and many more languages.

  • And they also had some good language learning tips for you.

  • We look forward to making more episodes for you soon.

Hi and welcome to a new episode of Easy English.

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