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Be beautiful, good, and true. Be beautiful, good, and true. That's our topic today. Letting the live viewers come on. Takes a minute usually for everybody to join.

Speaking of beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful day today in Osaka. Warm... But not hot. And the air is very dry. In fact, the last few days here in Osaka, it's actually felt more like fall, like autumn.

You know, really dry, dry air. That kind of dry air. So the visibility, you know, the air is so clear. It's like super clear. You can see a long, long way.

Like you can see very far, right? That's not usual in the springtime. Spring is usually a little more humid, right? More water in the air. And there's pollen and things in the air usually in spring.

So, you know, it's usually the visibility, you know, the distance you can see. The air is not quite as clear usually, right, in the summer too. But it's been a bit strange the last few days. It's been more, like I said, like early fall.

I'm not complaining. It's really perfect weather. This is Hawaii weather. It's my favorite kind of weather. Like I said, warm but not too hot. Kind of dry air, so in the shade.

Out of the sun, it's nice and cool. I had a beautiful day. Just went out walking. As usual, I took my daughter out and... We just went to the park and walked around.

She took a little nap and we played in the dirt. Went to the swings, played in the swings at the playground. Then we came back home, had some lunch, and went back out again here in our apartments and ran around and played and had a great time again in the late afternoon, early evening. So really, really fun.

And then I played with my son indoors. in between those times. Just a wonderful day. Perfect, perfect day. All right, well, why don't we get into our topic, and then we'll come into comments and questions as usual.

I'm just cleaning my reading glasses. Okay, so I've got another Thoreau quote. Maybe you realize I like Thoreau... Just a great writer. American. Wrote just before the Civil War in the United States.

So let's look at another quote of his, which is about our topic today. And I'll share on my screen. And this is some quote website. Okay, here's the quote.

It says, If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.

Excellent. As always from Thoreau. Let me explain the vocab. If you were to convince a man that he does wrong. Okay, convince is like persuade. It's the same idea, right?

Change someone's mind. Change their opinion about something. So let's say, you know, you see there's a man, you know, a person that is doing something wrong. You believe they're doing something wrong, right?

And you want to convince him. You want to tell that man, you're doing something wrong. You know, this is wrong. What you're doing is foolish. What you're doing is wrong.

What you're doing is bad, right? So he says, what should you do? How do you do that? He says, do right. So in other words, lead by example, the topic we've talked about recently.

Do right. Do what is right. Show, don't tell, is another way to say this. He says, do not care to convince him. Do not... It's a little bit of old style writing here.

It means do not try to convince him. Don't worry about convincing him. Don't try to change his mind with words. Don't try to persuade him. That's what Thoreau is saying.

And why? And this is why. Men will believe what they see. What's interesting is this is also good advice for storytelling and public speaking. But in life in general, for persuasion.

Men will believe what they see. So that's why. Men don't believe what they hear. And this is absolutely true. If you study persuasion at all, right? sales, marketing, persuasion.

People, most people, are not persuaded, they're not convinced by logic, by logical words. They are not. They are not. Men believe what they see, and that is absolutely true.

men, people are more convinced, more persuaded by seeing something. Now, this is why television is so powerful. This is why movies and TV shows are so powerful in a negative way, propaganda, because they're not... You know, they don't just directly say things, right?

If they just directly said, trying to use logic, well, it would never work. No one would believe them. You know, kill babies and just party and kill babies, right? They're not going to say that.

If they said that, everyone would say, oh, that's terrible, right? So no, they're going to think they use stories and words and emotions and and images to show you the sex-in-the-city lifestyle, to show women the sex-in-the-city lifestyle, and make it look fun and amazing and free.

And that's true for almost anything. But it's also true on the good side. If you're trying to convince someone... to change their mind, to do something good.

It's the same idea, just telling them, you know, you're doing something wrong. Nobody likes to hear that, right? Nobody likes to hear it. And most people ignore it or fight against it.

They argue against it. Men believe what they see. They believe what they see. So again, he's saying, show, don't tell. Show great behavior. Show what is right by doing it, by living it, right?

By demonstrating it. Let them see, he says. Let them see. Rather than hear, let them see. And this is just good advice for persuasion in general, but also just for changing people's minds about anything.

Again, in storytelling or in public speaking, the idiom, the phrase is show, don't tell. Show, don't tell, right? It's also good for writing. Good writers.

They show, don't tell. What does it mean? They don't directly tell you what they want you to do or what is good or what is bad. They show it with images, with a story.

Sometimes the images are in your mind. They use words to describe a story, to create the images in your mind. Or sometimes, if it's video, of course, they show you directly. Um...

Or in real life, you do it by being a good example, right? By being a good example. So, you know, recently I talked about, you know, fearlessness and being brave. Well, what's the best way to do that?

Not by yelling at everybody and saying, don't be afraid, don't be afraid. You know, you're afraid and I'm not. You're afraid and I'm not. I mean, you can say it, I guess, but even better is just to show it.

Just to demonstrate. Just to be relaxed and strong and courageous and during your day, you know, in difficult situations. You're just calm, and you're brave, and you're relaxed in those situations.

People see it, they feel it. And that's convincing. That is more persuasive, right? In general, again, people are persuaded more by nonverbal things. This is also true, again, with public speaking, nonverbal traits, nonverbal communication.

So, you could have two public speakers, for example. Two people give a speech. The same topic. One is very, very, very, very, very logical with lots of facts.

But the other one, but maybe he's kind of a bad speaker. He's nervous. He looks down. He kind of says, doesn't look sure, doesn't look confident. Lots of bad nonverbal communication.

The other speaker, Only a few facts, a lot of emotional language, but appears very strong, very confident. Head up, great eye contact with the audience, good movement, great energy, strong voice.

Who will be more persuasive? We all know it's the one who has the strong nonverbal communication that is showing confidence with their body movements, with their voice,

and some other things too. This is just human nature. This is just the truth. We like to imagine that we're all very logical and rational. We're not. We're persuaded by non-verbals.

We're persuaded by emotions. We're persuaded by what we see, not what we hear so much. So this is something to think about. It's the same in a job interview.

This is another thing. In job interviews, it's the same idea. You have a job interview. And most people, they worry so much about their answers. Oh, what will I say?

What's my greatest strength? What's my greatest weakness? What will I do in five years? All that nonsense. and they worry, worry, worry about thinking of some perfect answer.

The truth is, the answers are not very important. What you actually say to those questions, the specific details of what you say, it's not very important, as long as you don't sound completely stupid.

What is important, what is far more important, is how you say it. That you appear, again, confident, confident, Strong, relaxed, friendly, all of these qualities that will come out in your voice, in your eye contact, in your body language.

And it's that confidence, that overall nonverbal communication of confidence and friendliness, you know, these other traits, these other characteristics that you show through the whole interview...

That's what gets you the job more than anything. Yes, of course, you may need some specific job skills. And, of course, if you want to do computer programming, you need to show that you can actually do that. Of course, that's obvious, right?

But still, there are probably hundreds of people with the same skill who are also interviewing. So what's the difference, right? You have a lot of people who have the skill. They can do the job.

So which one gets hired? It's the one that has that best nonverbal communication usually, right? Another way people will say it in English, they'll say intangibles.

Intangibles. Tangible means touchable, something you can touch. It's physical, something physical, right? Physical. In makes it negative, so it means not physical.

It's something you cannot touch. It's not something you can see. It's something that's not obvious. Intangible. Right? It's the emotion. It's the body language.

You can see body language. It's not actually intangible. But it's subtle. It's not obvious to a lot of people. Right? Tone of voice. the way you shake hands, how you're dressed, how you sit during the interview.

how you interact, you know, just basic social interactions. All of these kinds of things are very, very, very, very, very powerful and very important in communication. And it's any kind of persuasion. So Thoreau is exactly right.

It's in your personal life, this is true, but it's also true in any kind of situation. where you need to perform, where your communication is trying to persuade or convince someone to do something. Maybe give you a job, maybe clap for you at the end of a speech, whatever.

So it's very important. This is why in Effortless English I talk about emotion, emotion, emotion a lot, and motivation and things like that, because these things are actually even more important than the method you use.

So it's very important then to develop, you know, in your communication, whether it's in English or your own language, if you need to use communication to persuade, to convince, to be a leader, a manager, any situation like that, then you must, must, must work on showing, not telling.

It's not your words. It's not a lot of word tricks. A lot of people think this, that persuasion is mostly about tricky words. Not really. Not really. I mean, yes, there are some little techniques of persuasion with words that are quite clever and can be useful and can be effective.

But more important is how you say things rather than what you say. What you say is can be effective, but only if how you say it is powerful. All right, we'll get into the comments in a second.

You know, it's interesting because I just posted on my Gab, if you follow me on Gab, gab.com, I posted what's kind of, it's supposed to be a funny video. Some comedians made it about TED Talks.

And it's basically every TED Talk, right? There's a formula. And there is something we, I don't, I personally actually don't like TED Talks. I find that they have just a formula and it's a bit fake.

Just my opinion. All right. And anyway, this video by the comedians kind of shows the formula and is laughing at it. But on the other hand, I will say that what they show in this video, this comedians' video, is actually a lot of, it shows the power of nonverbal communication.

And because a lot of what you'll see in the video is how the person walks, how they look at the audience, right? The tone of their voice. because in this funny video, there's no content. He's not actually talking about anything.

He's just using the techniques, mostly nonverbal. He's just basically using the techniques, the formula, without content. And it still does. It sounds exactly like a TED Talk.

It looks exactly like a TED Talk. He looks like a very confident, powerful speaker, even though he's saying nothing at all. So, it's... It's surprising how powerful this is.

Some call it rhetoric. It's nonverbal communication plus emotion. If we talk about the larger topic, which is just emotional persuasion. then it's often called rhetoric.

So that includes your nonverbal, and it also includes the words you use. But again, what words are most persuasive? What words are most convincing? Not logical words.

Emotional words. Yes, this has a very negative side, because it means that truth often loses. Truth often loses in arguments. because the person who changes people's emotion, they win the argument, even if they are actually wrong.

That's one reason I don't like arguments very much and arguing with people or debating because it's never about truth. It's always just who's better at persuasion, who's better at emotional language. That's who wins the debate. That's who wins an argument.

You can see this in political debates. It's all the news talks about. Nobody focuses on what they're actually saying. It's all how they look, how they say it.

It's all the emotion. So, if we look at it on the positive side, be beautiful, good, and true. So, this is getting back to maybe a little bit of the stuff we talked about with the whole plandemic that's happening now and all the nonsense.

What's the best way to deal with that? Be beautiful, good, and true. What's the best way to be an amazing leader in your life? Be beautiful, good, and true.

Be beautiful. I mean, internally, inside. Be a beautiful person. A good person. Virtuous person. And true meaning honest. Right? So just do that and show it and demonstrate it.

Live that. And you will persuade people. You will get respect without saying anything. You don't have to say anything at all. Just by doing it. And that's Thoreau's point.

A very good point. All right. Getting some comments. And Leonardo Parigi says, sometimes it's really tough to figure out that 80% of learning depends on psychology, 20% on method.

There's a lot of things, but I'd say, you know, certainly with communication and persuasion, yeah, absolutely that's true. Method meaning words. And then psychology meaning the emotions.

Amir asks, is it the right thing to help people when you can't even deal with your own problems? It really depends on what you're talking about. I'm not sure.

But overall, you know, probably need to deal with your own problems first and at least get some of them figured out. But, you know, it really depends. I don't know what you're specifically talking about.

Yeah, like there's the famous idiom, Shaker says, an image can persuade more than a thousand. We say a picture's worth a thousand words. Right. Right.

Okay. Okay. Shamal says, how can you help a person who is depressed and doesn't see any beautiful things in life? Well, they have to help themselves. There's not much you can do for them, right?

They have to help themselves. I'd say that's the main thing. Ah, Zobede says, a mentor works with TED speakers for three months before their speech. Well, that explains why they all sound the same.

They're being coached for three months using the exact same techniques. People have asked me, have you ever done a TED talk? No. Do I want to do a TED talk?

No. Like I said, it just feels fake to me. Yeah. You might not notice it. I know there's some nice topics, but there's just something about it. It feels like robotic.

It feels like a formula. There's some censorship they do. I don't know. It's okay, I guess. I don't find their formula great. It's not bad. The speeches sound good.

That's why they're popular. But... Like I said, they're lacking emotion, real emotion, sincerity, is my feeling. Slavica says, the media uses body language and the emotions of the viewers for manipulation.

Right. Then he convinces them that black is white and almost everyone believes in it. Oh, it works. It works. It's very, very, very effective. Yes, exactly right.

People, they get you into a strong emotion and then they lie to you and almost everyone believes it. Exactly correct. Exactly correct. And what's really funny is most people think, not me.

It works, guys. It works on all of us. People are bringing up porn again. We'll talk about porn another time. Okay, I'm just reading through the comments.

Bear with me. Vanu says, when someone is true, it inspires confidence. Yeah, I think that long term, truth, honesty, and sincerity are powerful. But it's long term, right?

In the short term, it's easier to manipulate using a lot of different techniques and emotions and body language. That's just true. It is true. But then long term, you build trust with sincerity and honesty and goodness, especially in real life, not media, in real life, face to face with real people.

That's where the power is, really. Shah Mahdi says, AJ, most traditional schools don't care for students to study communication or public speaking or how to win job interviews.

That's true. Even how to observe things around them. That's why we prefer homeschooling. 100% correct in all of those. That's right. They don't. And if they have a speech class in most schools, the speech class sucks.

They don't know what they're doing. It's terrible. So, yeah, you're right. Job interviewing. Why don't they teach job interviewing? Like really decent job interviewing.

These are important skills, very important skills for getting a job. for career, for lots of, not all careers, but for many. And, right, they're not taught.

Sarah says, sometimes we need to hear words instead of seeing actions as a woman. Yeah, but even then, the words that you hear, I find with women, they like to hear emotional words. Again, it's emotion, emotion. Emotion is what convinces people.

Did I dye my hair? No. Is it darker looking? C. Prince Knowledge says, I think there's nothing special in anyone's life. Anyone who achieved their goals did this by controlling their emotions and doing hard work.

Well, those two things certainly help. Some luck helps. Skill and talent helps. You know, there are many things that can help. But, yeah, two things you can control.

Controlling your emotions and doing hard work are helpful. Yes. Yes. How to not say beautiful words... Let me see if I understand this. How to not say beautiful words in a good way...

This is asthma. When we need to say those nice words to raise up a person when talking to him. So again, it's emotional language. If you're trying to encourage somebody, right?

so you're trying to encourage somebody let's say someone is kind of they're feeling bad and you want to encourage them right it's your emotion that's again it's always your emotion that's going to do it what you say eh how you say it is more important right if you're really strong and confident and energetic and enthusiastic and you can get that across to them and then say positive things to them about them and get them that's more motivating than if you're just talking quietly you know you might say very nice things but you're just kind of have low energy

that higher energy enthusiasm will generally work better so it's a little tricky you know you're trying to persuade one person there you kind of really more if you want to get more detailed you kind of start at their emotional level and then you raise it up and take them to move them in the direction you want them to go it's called pacing

But in general, strong, positive, confident emotion is more persuasive than less. It's more important than the specific words you say. Yeah, Anis says, I think if you have virtue and wisdom, it makes you good and beautiful. Well, right.

When we say good, good and virtuous, we're talking about the same thing. You're following natural law. You're following dharma, right? Logos. Yeah, right.

That's what I mean when I say beautiful. Exactly right. Francisco Sanchez, would you talk about theater and your experience or knowledge of it? Theater?

I was never in theater, so I don't know. I took an acting class one time. It's all just about, you know, trying to pull up emotions. Like if you're doing a scene and you're talking about you need to be angry, then you're trying to remember something in your life or you try to pull up a time in your life when you're angry or just bring up that anger in you.

That's what's called the method where you're actually trying to feel the emotion so then it looks natural. That's my very limited experience with it. And he says, I'm outside right now doing a little walk.

Not at home anymore. Everyone exploit this wonderful weather. Yes. Hopefully you have wonderful weather. Ours is great here. Really great. Okay. Amin Lamerat says, I understand you very well.

My problem is in speaking. I don't read all the vocab in English. It's huge. four million it's too much to learn well you don't need to know four million words yikes um you know on the positive side you need something like yeah you'll see different numbers but two to four thousand two to five thousand words that you know very well that you can use quickly and that's kind of what's called normal you know fluent

conversational level vocab, just the common, everyday words we use. In fact, it's not a huge number. It's certainly nothing like four million. I mean, most native speakers, I don't have four million vocab.

I don't know where that number comes from. But you don't need a giant vocab for good speaking. Not at all. In fact, you need a fairly small, limited vocabulary, words that you know.

You just need to know them well. You need a huge amount of repetition. And then just speak simply using simple vocabulary. Now, for understanding, for listening, it depends on what you're doing.

Again, in normal, kind of casual conversations, it's not as much. But then you might have to deal with idioms and other things. So you need to understand more than you need to use, if that makes sense. Active versus passive.

Hey, Maddie, good to see you again. Maddie with great advice. Learning English is all about being in love with that language. It's all about getting up at the crack of dawn and never giving up.

Yes, I agree. Omar Farooq says, would you help me how to become a good man and a good speaker and also a good listener? Well, that's quite a question. I want everything to learn.

So that's three big things. A good listener is just listen a lot. I don't know if you mean just by meaning listening in English. Or listening socially.

But let's just say English. So you've got to put in lots of hours of listening every day. And how do you do that? You have to listen to things that are interesting and understandable to you.

That's the main thing. If it's not interesting to you, you'll get bored and you won't want to do it anymore. If it's not understandable, you get frustrated and you won't want to do it anymore. This will help your speaking eventually.

It takes some time and then eventually... You will start to be able to use those words more and more that you're learning from listening. And then you just want to speak as much as you can. Try to talk to people as much as you can.

How to be a good man. That's a giant topic. You know, I don't know. Study a traditional, you know, religious or philosophical system and follow it. Sanatana Dharma.

Traditional Islam. Traditional... Christianity, Buddhism, you know, they all teach about this. Yeah, like Yusuf, and we've kind of mentioned this before, but based on a principle of psychology, to train good habits to kids, parents must do the same thing, then the kids notice.

Exactly. And the opposite is true. Like, I'm just realizing my... Babies are starting to watch me now. And they're paying attention to me and what I say and do.

And now I realize, oh man, I have some bad habits I have to be careful about. I don't want them to copy me. So now I've got to try to work on those for that reason.

Could you recommend a book to improve public speakings? Ask Salvador Sanchez. Yes, Dale Carnegie something public speaking. Just search Dale Carnegie public speaking.

That's the best one I know. Francisco Sanchez, if you could talk to anyone in history, who would it be and why? Without thinking about it too much, I would just say Thoreau.

How about our author today? I'd love to talk to Thoreau and talk to him about his life and how his life in Walden. Great. One of my favorite people from history.

Writers. Fernanda says, There are people that have a very mean way of saying things. This is very awful. Even if they say something true, we don't want to hear from them.

We don't trust them. This is true. This is true. And this is where they, you know, some people can use truth as a way, you know, they are, they're not nice people.

And they're using truth to hurt, right? And so, right, they're using it to be mean and what they say may be true, but they're doing it in a very harsh way, right? So again, the emotional part.

And also their motivation. We know that their motivation is not to be helpful or kind or good, but the opposite. So, yeah, again, how you say things is very important. How you communicate, not just what, not just the words, not just the content, but how you do it is at least equally important.

In terms of persuasion, it's more important. Okay, let me try to catch up. Araz Kevorkian says, Hi Jay, I'm reading the Bible. Do you think it's difficult for me to learn English or is it a way to improve my English?

I would recommend, it's fine, but I would recommend a, I would not recommend the King James Bible for the purpose of learning English. Because, again, it's a very... I find it difficult.

Right? The King James Bible... The style of English is very old. It's not modern English that we use today. Okay? And... I find some of it, the way it's written, the way the translation was written, uh, is not communicated very well, honestly.

It's confusing. So, um, I would not recommend the King James Bible, but there's lots of other, uh, more modern, uh, translations that for English learning would be better, that use more modern sentence structure, use more modern common vocabulary, more kind of just direct sentences, um,

you know, without the Shakespearean type language that you find in the King James. So, I'm not talking about, you know, what's the better translation for a Christian, I don't know, but I'm just saying for the purpose of English, you want something that's more modern, right? One of the more modern, simpler translations in English would be better.

It's still the Bible, right? But it would just be much easier to understand it in English if you do that. And much more useful to your English. Let me see if I can pull up an example of this.

Let's see. Oops, that's the Bhagavad Gita. Where is the Bible? All right, I have the King James Version, so let's take a look, and I'll just give you a quick example of this.

Yeah, like, just the way this is written is just confusing. I mean, you know, just like this... And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.

So we don't talk this way. This is not modern English, right? Spake unto them. We don't say that. We would just say, Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, All power is given to me, not unto me, just given to me, in heaven and in earth.

That would be a direct, simple, modern translation, right? So this is kind of, this is hard. I think, go ye therefore. We don't use ye anymore. You get the idea, right?

So not so good for learning English. The same problem with Shakespeare. Shakespeare is also not useful for you to learn English unless you are super advanced and you're already great and super fluent. and you just want to enjoy Shakespeare, fine.

But, you know, reading Shakespeare, reading Beowulf, that kind of stuff is not going to help your English now. So, getting modern. New World, thank you. New World Translation.

Petrosian says, the New World Translation of the Bible is very understandable. There you go. Thank you for a specific recommendation. New World Translation.

Okay, yeah, Vladislav says this is true. This is true. This is in dating or men attracting women or the other way. At pickup trainings, pickup meaning guys picking up girls, attracting girls, like dating, like in a bar.

They teach you the same truth. Words you tell to girls are not important. Your emotions are. It's true. But for most guys, those trainings don't work.

Coaches just want your money. But it's absolutely true. The women respond to the confidence. So this is why the idea that there's a pickup line, there's some cool thing you can say to a girl, and she'll go, oh, wow, you're so cool because you said this cool thing.

No, not really. They're responding to the confidence, the eye contact, the feeling, all of that. What the guy is actually saying doesn't really matter. He can just say, Hi, my name is John.

How are you? I'm being funny, but you get the idea, right? You can just say his name. How are you doing? He doesn't have to say a bunch of crazy stuff because he's so confident.

She feels the confidence. She feels the attraction. She'll maybe say some stuff, go away, I'm not interested, and he'll still stay solid, strong, confident. And those are the guys that do really well with girls.

And they may have some clever, funny things to say also, but really, mostly it's about the emotion and the nonverbal and all that stuff. Slavica says, in my language, we say it's important who said something. That's also true. It depends if you already know the person.

Of course, then it depends. That depends a lot. What he said and how he said it. If someone tells the truth by shouting, no one believes him. That first one, that's a good point.

And that's where what Thoreau's saying is actually quite powerful. And this is something that's a little more long-term, right? Is someone's reputation or you knowing them? So let's say there's just someone in your life you trust them, right?

You've known them for years and years and years. You trust them. You respect them a lot. And then they say something to you to persuade you, right? They say, oh, this is bad.

Don't do that. Do this. Even if they say their emotions, there's no emotion, right? Even if the words are not strong, if who they are is super powerful to you, you'll still listen.

But that takes time, right? That's kind of what Thoreau is saying, though. Be beautiful, good, and true. Do right. Show that long-term, you build that reputation, you build that respect, then the technique doesn't matter at all.

People will just listen no matter how you say it. Or really, it doesn't matter so much because you've built, you've created so much strong trust over time.

And that's probably the most powerful way to persuade, but it takes the longest. It's slow. It takes months or years. Yeah, this is not bad, actually.

Imitate Trump. Repeat after him. You'll learn a lot of good English, plus his speeches exude confidence. Yeah, he's an excellent, excellent, excellent speaker, and this is right.

And he uses simple language, simple, straight, direct language, powerful. Yeah, he's really good, and he had a lot of training, you know, in TV first, which is probably why he's so good.

Is there a Shakespeare translation to modern English? That's an interesting question, Vladislav. Probably. I've never seen one. The problem with that is a lot of the art and beauty would be lost.

What makes Shakespeare great is how he says things. It's not so much what. So, translating Shakespeare into just direct, simple English... This is a case where a lot of the art and the poetry would disappear, and the beauty of the language would disappear, and you would understand the story more easily.

It would be easier to understand, for sure, but then the beauty would be lost. So, for that reason, maybe, you know, I'm not sure. I'm sure there are translations. I mean, you know...

versions that have been changed to modern language. It would be interesting to see, actually. Curious now. Yep, yep. People are still recommending about the pornography topic.

Yeah, I'll do it. I probably should research it a little bit more in terms of what are the specific psychological problems caused by it. I mean, I just know it's bad in general, but I haven't thought in detail about it.

So I might do that and we could talk about it because it is bad. Just don't do it. Okay, we're almost done. Amir says, people always ask me about Friends.

Why is that one so popular? Did somebody make a video somewhere on YouTube recommending the Friends TV show for English learning? Because everybody asks me about Friends. It's always that one.

There's nothing really special about it. in terms of English. It's okay, I guess. It's a sitcom, so it has little jokes and things. You might miss some of that.

I mean, it's okay, but there are hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of TV shows. If you're wanting to do an American TV show for the purpose of learning English, something like a sitcom, situation, comedy, then...

Yeah, Friends is fine if you like it, but there are many, many, many, many others you could use that also would be totally fine. In general, though, I would not recommend sitcoms because comedy is a little bit more difficult. I think dramas actually would be better for English learning purposes. And even like, yeah, yeah.

Just, I think those, or like, you know, shows like on Discovery Channel, things like that. Or the Food Channel, where it's more people just, it's more kind of a conversation where they're just chatting with you about like a talk shows, things like that. They're talking about food. They're talking about, I don't know, some fish or some, you know, some nature thing or those kind of things actually might even be better.

Someone said, I don't like Friends. It's a little stupid. Yeah, it's definitely stupid. But, I mean, that's just the kind of show. All those kinds of shows are kind of stupid.

Oh, nice. English Speaker says, thanks for your videos and podcasts. I listen to them every other day. You have an interesting opinion about different things.

Respect from Russia. Thank you and respect to Russia. Abdenabi Agbi says, I'm so euphoric. Nice word. I mean, super happy. Because of listening to your podcast and shows, I became fluent in English speaking.

Furthermore, I enjoy listening, especially Animal Farm, The Alchemist, Dumbing Us Down, Brave New World. Oh, nice. You've done all of our book clubs. Very nice.

Great. You're learning some vocab. Euphoric. Good use of vocab there. Nice. And congratulations to you. That's great. Oh, hey, Jermila. Jermila just joined.

Some people are mentioning different shows. Any show you like is pretty much, it's fine. Mohammed Batiste says, what do you think of memorizing sentences?

In general, I don't recommend it. Just, yeah, I don't recommend it. Because then you're going to be, how do you know you're going to use that sentence?

Right? Because then the real conversation happens. Maybe you need to say something a little different. Or I'm going to say it differently. So by trying to have a bunch of memorized sentences in your head that you have to then remember like a menu and use them, it's just not very natural.

Sounds stressful. How to stop learning? Which level? You mean like when to stop learning English? It's when you want to. There's no point where you have to stop.

You can learn your whole life if you want to. Some people really try to go close to perfection. On the other hand, you could... you know, just become like low intermediate, just enough to travel and survive.

If you're happy with that, if that's okay, then you can stop. It's up to you. Okay. All right, I think that's it. think we've got all the comments most of the comments at least all right well summarize do right be good beautiful and true show don't tell right emotion nonverbal communication these things are more persuasive they're the most important things and demonstrating demonstrating

good behavior, goodness, beauty, and truth. Demonstrating, showing it is the most powerful thing, rather than talking about it. All right, then. Lots of love to all of you, and I will see you next time.

Have a great day or evening. Bye for now.