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আপনি কেন সফল না - How To Success Any Work in My Life | Motivational Video in Bangla (2018) - Duration: 8:20.

How To Success Any Work in My Life | Motivational Video in Bangl

In this video you can exactly known why you can not success in your life.

Some people spend their entire lives wondering how to be successful in life, but never figure it out.

Would you be surprised to find out that the secret really comes down to four key areas?

Well, it does. You see, personal success is achievable for anyone who practices the four areas – or keys to success as I call them.

Everyone wants personal success and to learn the keys to success. Everyone wants to have a happy

healthy life, do meaningful work, and achieve financial independence. Everyone wants to make a difference in the world, to be significant,

to have a positive impact on those around him or her. Everyone wants to do something wonderful with his or her life.

Over and over, I have found that the keys to success are a single piece of information, a single idea at the right time,

in the right situation, and change your life. I have also learned that the great truths are simple.

আপনি কেন সফল না - How To Success Any Work in My Life | Motivational Video in Bangla (2018).

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Nightcore - Heathens - Duration: 2:26.

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If You Have This Type of Car, You Need This to Prevent Damage to Your Engine - Oil Catch Can - Duration: 6:46.

rev up your engines, today I'm gonna talk

about something that you should put on

certain modern engines if you want them

to last a long time and run correctly

and that's an oil catch can I'll give

you a little history lesson to show you

why some modern cars should have them

put on if you don't want carbon buildup

on the intake valves now all internal

combustion engines build up pressure

inside the crankcase because as the

Pistons go up and down they're pushing

a lot of air up and down there's a

little blow-by of burning oil and gas

pressure, so pressure builds up inside

the crankcase of all engines and if that

pressure isn't released, it would build

up inside the crankcase it would blow

the seals, do damage to the engine of

course then all the oil would leak out

so it has to be vented somehow, now when

I was a young mechanic in the 1960s the

older cars just had a vent it was just a

hose that came up went behind the bottom

of the engine and when you're driving

down a road that vapor was just vented

and you'd see on older cars smoke coming

out of it, it just went straight to the

atmosphere, then later on they put a

little hose on the top and then they'd

run that to the beginning of the air

filter and there was a tiny little air

filter inside there that would filter

the big chunks out then the engine would

suck that in and burn it inside but that in

itself created problems and polluted

more so we have the modern PCV system

there's a PCV valve that vents it goes

into the intake and then this stuff is

burnt inside the engine, now on a car

with normal fuel injectors like this

Toyota where the injectors are on the

intake manifold and they spray gas

directly into the intake valves, now it's

a simple PCV system and the fuel

injectors on the intake it didn't cause

any problems because any of that crud if

it got on the valves the fuel injectors

are spraying gas then it goes right over

the valves into the engine and gasoline

is a very good solvent, so it kept the

valves clean and you don't have to worry about

them carboning up but then came the

GDI gasoline engines gasoline direct

injection, many companies made them

Volkswagen did it a whole bunch in theirs

and what they found out was the

Volkswagens with the GDI systems were

getting huge buildup of crud carbon on

the intake valves, since on these GDI

engines the injectors weren't here on

the intake, they're actually built right

into the block of the engine, then there

was no clean gasoline spraying on the

intake valves to keep them clean the

only thing that was going over those

valves was air being sucked in and the

mess from the PCV that was venting the

crank system, oil particles some carbon

particles, it would make a mess so all that

crud from the PCV system would bake onto

the valves and I've seen Volkswagens

they had to pull the heads off and they

had actually walnut blast all the

build-up crud cuz it was so thick and so

hard, you can't sandblast it cuz that

would ruin the valves, walnuts are softer

so they use walnut shells and they would

blast it off which is a very expensive

job to do, now some cleaners can get

thinner bits off but even there are a

lot of manufacturers warn people don't

use those cleaners because if it breaks

a chunk off and it's turbocharged that

could ruin a turbocharger, it could clog

up the catalytic converter, it could do all

kinds of damage so you want to prevent

that kind of buildup in the first place

and that's where the oil catch-can comes in

it does what it says, it catches the oil

and impurities before they get into the

engine, now this being a Toyota even

though it's got 240,000 miles on it, it

doesn't need one of these but here's

what you do if you wanted to put one on, you

simply remove the PCV hose and put this

in place, you put the in here and you put the out here on

the engine which would suck it in, the good ones like

these say in and out, and this one's so

cool it's got a little dipstick it's got

an oil dipstick in it, so you can measure it and

when it's getting full then you drain

this out, yeah this device is for people

who maintain their cars correctly

because you do have to empty it out

every once in a while, now these catch

cans you really would want to put them

on a GDI engine at least the older style

ones and you can also use them on old

junky engines that use a lot

have a lot of blow-by because this would

hold the oil, it would keep it from

getting any engine and messing with the

valves and also clogging up the

catalytic converter, now on a really

modern GDI engine you don't need an oil catch

can, you take a 2018 Toyota Corolla

those have a dual system, they have GDI

injectors that are built right onto the

block but they also have regular fuel

injectors that are in front of the

valves, so some of the times it sprays

them in front of the valves to clean the

valve so they don't carbon up but when

it's running most of the time it uses

the GDI injectors to get more power and

better gas mileage, many other

manufacturers have that new system the

dual system because they learned from

their mistake, you'd think that somebody

would have thought in the first place

hey gee if we use GDI the PCV valve will

put gunk and clog up all the intake

valves, but I guess they didn't test it

out good enough or they weren't thinking

ahead of time, because the newer ones you

don't need to put a catch can on cuz

they don't have that problem but there

are millions of cars out there with GDI

engines that don't have it, they have

just the GDI injectors and you really

need to put an oil catch can on them if

you don't want the valves to get carboned

up and as you can see from this video

it's a real easy thing to do, it's got a

mounting bracket you can put it wherever

you want, the hoses are pretty long so

you can put them on a firewall wherever

you want, just make sure you get a

quality one that does have baffles and

filtration inside, because if it doesn't

have baffles and it'll still suck the

oil in, you want something that's going

to keep the oil from coming up and

staying on a bottom and then every once

in a while like this one, you check it

when it's getting full you have to empty

the thing out, so now you know all about

oil catch cans, how you should use them

on the old-style GDI engines or if you

got a really old junker car, put one on

there they don't cost that much and they

can prevent a lot of damage down the

line,

so if you never want to miss another one

of my new car repair videos, remember to

ring that Bell!

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Where you can buy a home in NYC for under $500 psf - Duration: 1:51.

Homes for sale for under $500 per square foot

they exist in New York City

but get ready for long commutes if your hunting for a bargain.

Here are the zip codes where housing is the cheapest in the five boroughs

according to a new study from PropertyShark

10032 in Washington Heights is the only zip code where the average home costs under $500 per square foot.

But for most of the borough, get ready to spend double that.

In every zip code south of 96th street, median prices are above $1,000 per square foot.

Here's what you get for under $500 per square foot up in the heights.

The rule of thumb for Brooklyn and Queens

the closer to Manhattan, the more expensive the housing.

Many waterfront neighborhoods have Manhattan level prices,

While farther flung neighborhoods are generally easier on the wallet.

For the cheapest housing in either borough, hitch a ride to Rockaway Beach.

Arverne, Queens, zip code 11692, has a median sale price just under $200 per square foot.

Two boroughs are covered in green on this map, The Bronx and Staten Island.

Here every zip code has a median sale price under $500 per square foot.

But while these two boroughs have the cheapest housing,

they are on opposite ends of income in the city.

According to 2016 Census data, Staten Island is neck and neck with Manhattan for highest median income.

While The Bronx is well below the rest of the boroughs.

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If Cancer, Why Glyphosate? - Duration: 9:44.

Roundup. Glyphosate! Those have become very

scary words for some people. Lately we've been seeing a lot of talk about

Glyphosate, and there is no shortage of negativity about the subject. I mean we

could talk about the allegations that Glyphosate causes cancer, we could talk

about it being banned in Brazil. We could talk about the controversy surrounding

the IARC's decision to call it a probable carcinogen. Or heck, we could even

talk about Glyphosate residue in kids breakfast cereals. We could talk about

all that, and it still wouldn't answer the most important question of all that

leads to all these stories. Why do farmers use Glyphosate? And why do they

fight so hard to be able to keep using it? First, the broad-strokes.

Glyphosate reduces tilling. Tilling

essentially means turning the soil, loosening it up, and tearing through all

the weeds. Tilling is, among other things, basically just weed control, and a huge

benefit to using Glyphosate with crops that tolerate it is that farmers can

adopt minimum or zero till growing systems they don't need to rip up the

dirt for the sake of weeds. They can just spray it.

So why no-till? Are farmers just like, lazy and looking to cut corners? No.

Tilling to control weeds is really really bad for soil erosion. Like all that good topsoil?

Just blows away. Tilling also releases greenhouse gases from the decomposition of organic matter

in the soil, and it decreases the overall water holding capacity of the dirt.

Why do farmers use Glyphosate? Because tilling less is better.

That was a simple one. That's done. Easy one out of the way.

To get a little deeper into this, we need data, which I have. For two crops in one Canadian province

We're talking corn and soy in Ontario Canada.

So between Return of The Jedi and Frozen... Because I measured time in movie releases,

The total amount of herbicide used in field corn in Ontario dropped 39% because: Glyphosate.

Glyphosate is applied at a lower rate of active ingredient per acre

than the herbicides that it replaced, and total herbicide applied still dropped

even though there was an 11% increase in the area of field corn grown so more

corn, but less chemical. Sounds like a win.

And in that same 30 year period the corn increased by 74% while the use of

herbicide per bushel of harvested corn declined by a whopping 70%

So that's like a lot more corn for a lot less chemical.

So that was corn. Now soybeans.

Between Risky Business and The Wolf of Wallstreet, the amount of soybeans grown

in Ontario increased by a hundred and eighty eight percent and total herbicide

use increased too - but just by 47%. And just like the corn this is largely due to

Glyphosate replacing other herbicides, and it did that in spectacular fashion.

In terms of all the herbicides used in Ontario, Glyphosate went from accounting

for 2% of all of it, to 82% in that 30 year period. Soybean yield increased by

53% in that same time frame and the amount of total herbicides applied

per bushel produced declined by 67 percent so again the main question: Why

do farmers use Glyphosate? Because using Glyphosate means using less chemical overall.

But the Assumption nowadays is that Glyphosate is super bad for you, right?

So the next question to get a handle on is does less chemical overall,

but like way more glyphosate overall actually mean a reduced risk for farmers or consumers?

And how would you measure that anyways? We need more data.

Luckily Ontario also publishes a report on the environmental risk associated

with the pesticides they use there. Smart. This report uses an environmental

impact quotient, an EIQ, to estimate the hazard associated with the use of a

given pesticide. An EIQ is basically like an indicator of a pesticide's potential to cause harm and it's

important because once you've determined a pesticide's EIQ you can compare it with

other pesticides to get a sense of the risk of each chemical. Now there are a

few acceptable ways to figure out an EIQ the one used by Ontario in this

report is based on 12 different data points collected by testing pesticides in the lab.

Things like short and long term toxicity in lab animals, half-life,

does it leach into runoff? Does it tend to circulate through a plant's tissues?

How toxic is it to organism that it's not meant to affect. Like that kind of stuff

So you run the EIQ for Glyphosate and you get 15.3 which the tenth lowest EIQ of all the

pesticides measured in this report. And compared to other herbicides that it's

replaced like Atrazine or Metolachlor,

Metolachlor... Is that right?

Anyways Glyphosate is just a better choice.

Why do farmers use Glyphosate? Because the stuff it replaced was worse. But wait!

You say, CANCER! You yell. Yeah okay, let's yes let's talk about the cancer. So this Glyphosate

causes cancer things started with a 2015 report from the International Agency for

research on cancer the IARC, which in turn is part of the World Health Organization.

So the IARC classified Glyphosate as probably carcinogenic to humans.

and from there things got crazy.

Glyphosate has kind of been in a global downward spiral since then, but

when you look at this ruling by the IARC some interesting details begin to

emerge that frankly cast a little doubt on it. The IARC report took account of

only published toxicity data on Glyphosate even though more data existed,

some of which might have changed their ruling. The IARC report also did not

include a health risk assessment that would have taken into account how

Glyphosate is actually used. I mean alcohol is carcinogenic too but you can still

drink a little bit of it every day and still live a long fulfilling life and

have grandchildren and all that so how much glyphosate exposure over time is safe?

They never said. Interesting... Also interesting: The IARC had an early draft

of this report that contains some findings that didn't fit with their

carcinogenic conclusion, so they edited those out. Oh, and my favorite detail: One

of the IARC's advisors Christopher Portier didn't disclose that he was paid

160 grand by law firms bringing claims by cancer victims against the

manufacturers of Glyphosate. Like for example the law firms who will

potentially make millions from that recent 289 million dollar lawsuit

against Monsanto. Hmmm... That's like, the scandalous tabloid stuff. On the boring

data-driven side though there's more. It's pretty important to understand that

the department's that govern Glyphosate in a given country have access to like

way more data than the IARC does, and besides double-checking published

data, these government agencies also look at the huge body of toxicity studies

from other countries that use Glyphosate. There's quite a bit of double-checking

and confirmation happening across so many countries that if a problem did

show up, every country would know about it before the IARC would anyways.

Countries also update their information on all the pesticides they use on a

really regular basis, like Canada and the USA do so every 15 years and basically

all of the countries that have reviewed Glyphosate recently have reconfirmed its

safety in spite of the IARC's findings. So in March 2017 the European Chemicals Agency,

yes that's Europe as in the anti-GMO EU, they said that they didn't find

Glyphosate to be carcinogenic. Huh. In December 2017 the US Environmental

Protection Agency released a paper stating that it reviewed close to 170

epidemiological, animal carcinogenicity and genotoxicity studies and that the

data didn't support a carcinogenic label for Glyphosate. In April 2017 Canada's

Pest Management Regulatory Agency released its reevaluation of Glyphosate

and said that it's unlikely to pose a human cancer risk. When asked why their

findings differed from the IARC's findings, they said "...the level of human

exposure, which determines the actual risk, was not taken into account by the IARC

Now I'm not a regulatory expert but it seems as though the IARC has

fallen victim to fear-based rhetoric and bad science at best and like straight-up

bribery and altering of evidence at worst. I think I probably need to do a

video on this "probably carcinogenic" thing just on its own. Then again that

probably carcinogenic finding is also key in the recent US 289 million

dollar lawsuit against Monsanto that alleges that Roundup caused a man's

non-hodgkins lymphoma. So that's a video too... That lawsuit also fired up the EU's

Anti-chemical protesters too though, and that had a major impact on the EU's

recent decision to ban crops made with CRISPR technology and mutagenesis.

That needs its own video too - that's a lot of Glyphosate talk. But the timing is right

for Glyphosate talk, which is partially why the Environmental Working Group

recently pitted mothers against Cheerios with their suspiciously timely study that

alleges that there are dangerous levels of Glyphosate residue in kid's breakfast

cereals. That's a heaping pile of video That I need to make right there.

Okay, times are just generally tough for Glyphosate, it's getting squeezed all

over the world by people who just want to see its use discontinued. But banning

Glyphosate doesn't make weeds disappear. Banning Glyphosate doesn't stop farmers

from having to choose something to deal with weeds. So why do farmers use

Glyphosate? Because it works. Thanks for watching.

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S400齣口為何遭美阻撓？將暴露美武器核心機密 - Duration: 4:32.

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「打不死的小強」搖身一變，成了餐廚垃圾「清道夫」 - Duration: 9:01.

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LUYỆN NGHE TIẾNG ANH -10 Things That Will SHOCK You In The USA - Duration: 12:36.

hey guys what's up Stefanie the English coach here from EnglishFullTime.com

in this video we are going to talk about 10 things that will shock you about the

USA now some of you have never been to the USA before but others of you live

here and I am from the USA so all of this stuff is completely normal to me

but when I talk with my friends and people that I know that traveled and

visited the USA for the first time they go oh my gosh Stephanie I experienced so

much culture shock there were so many things that were different from where

I'm from so that's what I want to talk to you guys about in this video today

now a lot of this stuff is actually going to be about observations that my

husband made because he is from Argentina originally and when he came to

the USA for the first time four years ago he made some really interesting and

funny observations so I want to share that with you guys and in another video

I'll tell you about some of the observations I made in Argentina about

how that country and culture was different from what I knew in the USA

okay now before we get started I just want to let you guys know that you can

also find me on Instagram Facebook and on my website of course so I will

include the links in the description and I hope you join me there as well okay

let's get into it number one of 10 things that will shock you in the USA

toilet paper I know this sounds really silly and crazy but when my husband came

here one of the first places we went was to my sister's house and I remember he

came out of the bathroom and he was like oh my gosh the toilet paper was so soft

it was like a blanket and I was just looking at him like okay like to me that

was just normal and then I thought about it and I was like yeah you know when we

were in Argentina the toilet paper wasn't as thick I guess okay but in the

u.s. we actually have a couple words for the kind of toilet paper that we use

because a lot of it is really soft I mean depending on how much money you

spend on your toilet paper or what brand you get or what quality you want you can

get like really cheap thin toilet paper or you can get the other kind that's so

thick and it's like a blanket okay so the kind that's like a blanket

we call it quilted okay a quilt is a type of blanket you can google a

picture of that if you want to see what quilts look like but basically they call

it quilted toilet paper or they might call it something like two-ply two-ply

just means that there are actually two pieces of paper that are put together to

make that toilet paper extra soft okay all right the next thing

that will probably shock you about the USA is that the food here is extremely

sweet now this is not a good thing in my opinion because it just means that

there's a ton of sugar and unnatural products used in our food to sweeten the

food but again my husband made this observation when he came here he made a

sandwich he bit into his sandwich and he was just like whoa why is this bread

sweet like it almost tasted like dessert to him or something but it was actually

marketed as regular sandwich bread right and you'd you don't really normally

think of bread that you use for sandwiches as being sweet but anyhow

that's one of the problems he has with the bread here is that it's completely

sweet and you'll just notice that in all kinds of food too it's not just bread

it's also meat it's also the sauce we put on our food dishes there just there

is just so much sugar in the food and also there's a lot of obesity in the USA

so that's not even on the list but that's another thing that might shock

you when you come here and you see the size of people okay the next thing that

will probably shocked you about the USA is that the cars here there's such a

variety okay you can go down the street and see a Corvette here a really unique

car there okay I just full disclaimer I'm not a car person I don't know the

name of names of cars I'm like a Corvette a Mustang but the way I talk

about cars I'm like oh that's a cute blue car that's a really awesome red car

the way I distinguish cars is if it's a van or a pickup or a like four-door car

a sports car that's kind of like my terminology for cars is limited but if

you're a person that's really into cars you're gonna love driving down the

freeway and seeing all the different cars that are here okay cuz there's just

such a huge variety and I remember when I went to Argentina and I was like okay

so there's like five kinds of cars here I mean there's more

than that but because I was so used to seeing such a wide variety here in the

USA when I went to Argentina it just seemed like everything was all the same

okay so I don't mean any offense by that obviously these are just observation

next number five in the USA you can do almost anything over the phone you can

make an appointment book an appointment you know call a store and make a request

put an order in ask about something or send an email but it's more common to

just book things online like you can get a pizza delivered to your door just by

requesting one online you don't even have to call anymore but the reason why

I'm saying this is because in so many countries that I've traveled to if you

want to talk with a banker or something like that you actually have to go to the

bank stand in line wait your turn ask your

question talk to the person about it get the information that you need and then

you go home in the u.s. we just don't want to waste any time going anywhere

and asking questions when we can just you know use the technology that we have

to get the information that we need okay number six the next thing that might

shock you about the USA is that a lot of the bathrooms here are automated I mean

everything is automated the toilet flushes on its own you have to put your

hand under the soap dispenser and it will pop out a little bit of soap for

you then you wash your hands and then you put your hands under the faucet and

then the water comes on automatically and then you can either put your hands

in a drying machine what are these called hand dryers okay you can put your

hands in one of those or under one and it's all automated it's like you don't

have to touch anything and maybe that just represents that in

our culture were germaphobes I don't know or maybe people are just you know

trying to be more hygienic but this is really interesting although it can be

frustrating when something's not working because you're like what's wrong with

the Machine you're putting your hand in you're putting it out you're putting it

in you're putting it out and then as soon as you take it out then the soap

Falls but it doesn't fall on your hand so it can be really frustrating and I

guess I'm gonna have to talk a lot about ren in this video

my husband because he's just the one that you know shared all these

observations with me and gave me these funny stories but the first time he used

a bathroom like that and realized that he could just wave his hand in front of

one of the machines that would roll out the paper towel for him to dry his hands

he was just like whoa it's so cool now I know there are plenty of countries

around the world that are also you know advanced in this department but plenty

of them aren't okay so some of you guys might find this very interesting and if

you visit the USA and it's not like this in your country then you'll probably

find it shocking okay number seven something else that will shock you about

the USA is our measuring system our system frustrates so many people around

the world because we measure length in stuff like feet and inches and then we

use Fahrenheit and it's just so confusing because the rest of the world

is using the metric system which it's a great system you know you base it on the

number ten everything's really easy to understand and in the u.s. we're still

stuck on this other system if you grow up with our system it's perfect it makes

sense it's great and for us when we travel to your country and you're on the

metric system we're like no I don't understand but the same thing happens to

you when you come over here and you're just like okay it's gonna be 80 degrees

today what was that hot is that cold what does 80 degrees even feel like

right because you're used to maybe 40 degrees Celsius being really hot anyways

number eight another thing that will probably shock you about the USA is just

the sheer amount of multicultural people that we have living here there are just

so many people living here from all over the world and in fact this is one of the

reasons why you can live in the USA and almost never have to speak English

because there are subcultures that have formed within the community

for Russian speakers for Spanish speakers for Chinese speakers and there

are stores that are owned by people of these nationalities and you can go to

these stores and you can buy you know the Russian food that you're used to

buying where you live or the Mexican food or whatever it is and you can talk

with them in your language and you can do so many things

without needing English also if you ever make calls on an automated phone system

they might ask you oh do you want this call in a different language if you want

it in Spanish press 2 if you want it in this language press this or whatever so

we have just a lot of people here living from so many different cultures and some

of my students they say hey Stephanie I'm going to the USA but I'm gonna try

my best to avoid Brazilians because I'm with it I'm going there to practice

English or I'm gonna try to avoid Spanish speakers French speakers

whatever it is because I don't want to speak my language I'm going to the USA

to practice English since there are so many people here from different cultures

if someone sees that you're here trying to speak English and practice but they

can hear your accent and they're like oh they speak Spanish so do I

they might just speak to you in Spanish because it's easier and you might get

frustrated and go no I don't want to speak Spanish I'm here to practice my

English so anyhow if that happens just you know stick with English and say no

it's okay I'm here to practice my English and they'll change back for you

okay number 9 traffic laws in the USA are very strict when I say very strict I

mean you better know what the laws are before you start driving on the streets

so you don't get a ticket okay you have to stop fully at the stop sign wait

three seconds before you start going you can't tailgate people you can't drive

too closely you can't roll up slowly to a stoplight just because it's red and

you're trying to save momentum in your car I mean that's what my husband does

and I'm like no just drive up to the stoplight stop okay wait and then when

it's green then you can go he's like but if that's not fuel efficient I'm like

hey you know what we can't we can you just have to follow the rules you just

have to drive how people drive here and I know in other countries because I've

been to plenty of them that people drive differently all over the world some of

you guys drive really crazy okay but in the u.s. just take it slowly

be calm there will be that crazy guy every now and then that'll cut you off

or whatever but don't give him the middle finger unless you want to

practice your curse words in English you know but just take it slowly know that

the traffic laws here are really strict and just read up on what they are before

you come okay the last thing that will probably shock you in the USA

is that everything is big things are just big here I mean the country itself

is pretty big right it's pretty enormous the people we already talked about it

we've got our obesity problem so some of us are big also cars are bigger the

lanes that the cars drive in the roads are bigger food portions are enormous

they're like offensive practically you go out somewhere for lunch and they give

you enough food for like three people everything is just really big in the USA

from the cars the lanes the houses the people the the land itself you'll just

notice that quantities and portions are large so anyhow what I want to know from

you guys now is have you ever been to the USA and if you have how was it

different from your country how are things done differently how are the

people different what did you like what did you not like okay feel free to share

your experiences also if you've been living here for a while then think back

to when you first came what did you find shocking because by now you're probably

used to everything all right so let's have an awesome discussion about this in

the comments I look forward to reading what you guys have to say and if you

aren't already a subscriber on my channel don't forget to hit that

subscribe button so you can get more of my videos also if you are interested in

practicing your English with native English speakers and meeting us online

on social media Facebook Instagram etc go ahead and download the guide that I

have linked in the description ok it's a simple guide on how to practice your

English with native speakers and I'm sure you're gonna find it really helpful

that's it you guys and I'll see you soon bye

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Diversity in Brazilian Films Sucks Too! (Interview w/Sabrina Fidalgo) - Duration: 8:19.

Most black people in America and most

people period in America or even in the

world because there's other people

watching us, we probably know two films

that have like black people in it in in

Brazil. City of God and Black Orpheus

yeah I think those are the main two

films that most people have probably

seen yeah. Outside of that and I've been

watching a lot of black just a lot of

film in Brazil I'm not really seeing a

lot of black people in film in Brazil.

I've actually I've come to learn in the

last couple years that the film industry

is actually supported by the government.

So explain to me how Brazil can can be

more than 50% black but the

representation of black people in film

in front and behind the camera is not

there. I mean what do you think is if it

what do you think about the diversity. Oh

yeah problematic because yeah this is it.

And I like the fact that see you started

talking about the the two most iconic

Brazilian films. Actually they're

probably the most iconic films period. I'm

not even calling them black films

they're iconic films. It doesn't

matter if you like or

you don't like the films but the fact is

these are the two most iconic Brazilian

films ever

and they both of them have a huge black

representation in front of the camera.

And what does it mean? If you go outside

Brazil people we will talk about these

films and then people we will think that

Brazil -

lots of black people, mixed-race people and so

on. Nobody thinks about Brazil as being a

white country. You know like oh hey look

at blond people Brazil. No.

no no no. So what does it mean? It mean it means that films cinema

It's a very important thing for country

because when you when you make a film

you are showing your country you show

your culture. You show how

people used to be you show you know all

the other things regarding a culture. So

you can know a little bit of a culture

seeing films. The vast majority of all the

films produced in the last years with

public money are being are being

represented by white people. In front and behind.

It's a kind of

white supremacy in cinema and audiovisual.

Really. A 2014 study called the Face

of Brazilian cinema showed its extreme

lack of diversity. The study analyzed the

demographics of 218 Brazilian films that

were released commercially between 2002

and 2012.

First of all let's not forget that more

than 50% of Brazil is black and mixed

race. This study found that 80% of the

leading roles went to white actors and

white actresses and only 4% went to

black actresses. Black screenwriters made

up only 4% of the 412 screenwriters

.There were no black woman the diversity

of the 226 film directors was even worse.

84% of the directors were white men. 13%

were white woman and just 2% were black-

all men there were no black woman

directors. This shows that in Brazil the

diversity in front and behind the camera

is appalling. And black women are

underrepresented the most. All the taxes

we pay

in this country go somehow to the film

funds so the producers have that their

project selected and they receive money

from these funds, tax money you know

from the majority of people I mean from

black people. So we are we are paying for

films that don't represent and don't

represent us. In the last couple of years

what have you done to convince like the

Brazilian filmmaker

It's called Ancine. Agencía Nacional Cinema.

So this is the national organization

that basically supports, funds films in

Brazil. What what have you done in

other people to convince them like hey

you need to find more diverse films.

What did you what did you guys do

because you guys actually succeeded. What

did you do? Yeah I mean I mean not

not only me oh yeah everybody and we

were I mean as I am a filmmaker and as I

am space in the media to talk about my

films and myself and blah blah blah. I always

used this opportunity to talk about this

to the above the fact that we are not

represented on films on media in general.

And and to talk about this we are

talking about I mean we are paying for

to have a white supremacist audiovisual

With the data hand you guys

can basically demand what you wanted. You

wanted it more representation. Yeah, yeah it

changed when we have the data.

Yes of the black

people who are directing films that

include black people I have a feeling

that is a majority black women.

Am I wrong that of the

black people who have embraced filmaking

making, its majority black woman or am I

just. No. I just feel like it's mainly

black woman. There is a new wave now

since like 2015. No since the

last 8 years many black girls are

coming and studying films and making films

But all of us make only short films

or medium length films. You know. We don't

have yet the chance to direct a

feature film that go to the theaters. You

know. This is the difference because when

you when you make a feature film and

when your film is being screened at the

theaters, it's another level. And we are

talking about this level. How long do you

think it's gonna take before we see a

lot more black people making films in

Brazil. Like how long is this gonna be?

Feature films? Yes feature films. Aah

Feature films. Feature films. We

have some few black male directors okay

like Jefferson De like Joel Zoelzito Arãujo

for example. They have

they have been making a feature film

feature films. But we have only one black

woman until nowadays who had a feature

film on the theaters like over there

40 years ago. It was Adélia Sampaio and

afterwards we didn't have yet. Now we are

going in this direction I I hope that my

film will be finished next year. I hope

the films of the other girls will be

finished next year because I know I'm

not the only one who has a feature film

project. I mean the other black females

female filmmakers are working on it too.

So I think it to be this situation will

change very soon very soon.

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Why It Took Me 13 Years To Get Fluent & Confident In Spanish & how you can improve much faster! - Duration: 15:58.

Hey guys what's up Stefanie the English coach here from EnglishFullTime.com

in this video I am going to show you guys how I speak Spanish but I'm also

going to tell you about some of the biggest mistakes I made mistakes you

should avoid so you can improve your English a lot faster it took me a long

time to get fluent in Spanish and again it's because of these mistakes I kept

making so here's the deal I'm going to tell you about these mistakes that I made

in Spanish so you guys can hear how I speak so if you don't understand this

language please turn on the subtitles so you can follow along because you're

going to want to see this information after that I'm gonna share a clip with

you guys from a presentation that I gave back in 2012 when I was 21 years old in

one of my college Spanish classes so you will be able to see the evolution of my

language skills basically how I spoke Spanish back then when I was just

studying Spanish in the United States and you know studying it in high school and

college versus how my Spanish was after living for over five years in a

spanish-speaking country with that said though I want to tell you guys that in

order to achieve what I achieved in English you don't necessarily have to

live in an english-speaking country and this is gonna be related to one of the

mistakes that I made I basically thought that in order to learn Spanish I had to

live in a spanish-speaking country and there were just so many misconceptions

so many things that I thought were true that really weren't ok so turn on the

subtitles in English if you don't speak Spanish and let's get started OK

first I want to say that my family is from Argentina my parents were born there

but they immigrated to the USA before I was born

and since they knew many languages... German, English, Spanish, French...

they only taught us English because it was the easiest thing to do. And when I was 14 years old

I realized that I didn't speak the langauge of my family. So I "buckled down" and thought

no! I have to learn this language I want to be able to communicate with my family

I want to visit them one day in Argentina so

I started studying Spanish in a program that was for Spanish speakers, so for me

it was like an immersion program. I did 3 years in

that class. Later I went to college to continue studying Spanish. I thought that

the only way to learn the language and reach fluency was

to study it in traditional programs. So I basically didn't do anything on my own

to study. I didn't listen to music. I didn't watch movies. I didn't watch videos on

YouTube I didn't read books

I just relied on my classes and what the teachers

taught me. The second thing I did wrong was I never spoke Spanish.

In high school and in college, I had a ton of friends who spoke

Spanish, but I was too embarrassed to speak. So I didn't take advantage of any

opportunity to speak with them or practice. I was too concerned with

being embarrassed and messing up.... but you have to speak you have to

make mistakes because that's you you learn. And basically, during all

the years I was in high school and college -7 years total- I almost

didn't take advantage of any moment to speak with other people. And since I never spoke

it was always really hard to express myself. The third "biggest mistake"

is that I wasn't confident at all! I mean, I was learning something new

but it was like I expected myself to speak perfectly from day one or something. But that's dumb

because when someone is learning, they're not an expert! You don't know everything yet, you're going to mess up.

But I didn't have the patience with myself to go through that process. Honestly

it's really sad. Because I could have learned a lot faster. I could have

had better experiences. But I was so worried about messing up

or saying something wrong that I was barely able to enjoy the process

and after living 5 years in Argentina I realized that in this day and age it's not

necessary --seriously it's NOT necessary-- to go to another country to learn their language

I didn't have to do everything I did to get to the level I have today. I did

everything people think you have to do, traditional classes, studying Spanish

in college, going to a Spanish-speaking country. And now I realize that none of that was

necessary because there are a bunch of people who, for example,

learn English, get really fluent, and have a really good accent without ever going to

an English-speaking country! So my 3 pieces of advice for you guys are... 1.

You have to consume lots of information in English. You have to watch

videos in English. You have to listen to music in English. You have to do EVERYTHING in English.

Everything that you can do in English, do it. Follow meme pages on

Instagram, for example, read books in English you have to do as much as possible

in English. The second piece of advice, you have to speak! You have to speak the language and not

worry about your mistakes. Because you're going to mess up, that's for sure. So forget about

speaking perfectly and give yourself the time you need to improve and to get to a

good level. It takes time! I'm 27 years old. I started studying Spanish when I was

14. 13 years later I got to where I am today. And the third piece of advice, don't

worry about your mistakes. I worried so much about my mistakes for so many years that

I didn't start speaking confidently till last

year. And you know how I made that change? I got tired --SO TIRED-- of worrying about

everything... about, "oh, no! how do you say this? Am I going to say it well? I'm probably going to

mess up. They're not going to understand me" Can you guys believe that I worried about all of that with a

very high level of fluency. Your level has nothing to do with your confidence. They are

two completely different things. Think about it, when I had a really high level of fluency, with a

really good accent and lots of vocabulary, I still

lacked confidence. And I could barely talk with people I didn't know, or sometimes

even with people I DID know. Confidence is something completely different. It has to do with

your mind and how you perceive yourself and what you think about your abilities.

So, knowing that, you're not going to have more confidence by getting more fluent. You have to start

being confident now with the level you have. Because you already learned a lot and you're

going to keep learning and you have to put your confidence in that, that you will continue

to improve. Anyhow, I could keep sharing a lot more, but now I'm going to switch back

to English to show you guys the presentation I did 6 years ago

guys so hopefully you enjoyed those tips that I shared and you know everything I

shared about the mistakes that I made I don't want you to make these mistakes

because I want you to be confident I want you to achieve fluency faster than

I did like I said it took me a long time to get to the level that I have today

but it's because I didn't surround myself with enough Spanish I didn't

speak Spanish even though I had a bunch of opportunities to practice and I just

lacked confidence okay and remember you can just choose to be confident where

you're at today and realize that you're going to get better now let's watch a

couple minutes of the presentation that I gave six years ago and you guys will

see that my Spanish was nothing like what it is today okay and after you see

that presentation then I'm going to explain some things that changed in my

Spanish and we're going to do a little analysis of that so let's watch part of

that presentation

Um... last year I went to Mexico with sister and my nephew Giovanni

who was 3 years old and he's my sister's son

and we went to visit my brother in law's family and my brother in law

because her husband was living in Mexico during that time

and when I was in Mexico I learned a lot about Mexican culture

and about the people who lived in the village where I was staying

um and the village was called San Pedro

And it's near um Morelia, an hour from Morelia in Michoacan, Mexico.

This is just a picture of the landscape. Uh it reminded me a lot of California

because it had a lot of... it has mountains and it has a lot of the same trees.

Here is another one. And this is the "milpa"

And the "milpa" is where the corn plants grow

In that village they had a lot of "milpa"

la "milpa" again

Ok, I put this photo in the presentation because when uhhh I entered Mexico

One of the first things I noticed was that the advertisements

weren't on billboards like we have here in the USA

the advertisements are painted on brick walls

and they are full of color and very eye-catching

and I thought it is interesting because if someone wants to change the advertisement

they have to paint it again and it would be a lot of work

okay guys I hope you enjoyed that clip as far as the little analysis I said we

would do on this video the number one thing that I see myself doing here is

I'm using lots of fillers that are fillers we use in English like I'll say

a few words in Spanish and then I'll go uhhhh or ummm okay those are all fillers that I use

in English but those are not fillers that native Spanish speakers use a

native Spanish speaker might say ehhh or ahhh or something like that okay so the fillers

in languages are different and if you want to sound more like a native speaker

use the fillers that we use in English the next thing I notice in this video is

my lack of fluency I just pretty much had a basic vocabulary

to make complex sentences I mean sometimes these sentences aren't even

complex but because I learned Spanish through traditional classes and because

I was only able to speak with whatever grammar they taught me if I wasn't at a

certain level yet then I didn't know how to say something right and so in the

video I'm constantly searching for words I'm constantly searching for terms I

struggle to make complete sentences without really thinking about what I'm

gonna say I'm translating in my head I even have a piece of paper in front of

me with vocabulary in case I forget it and at one point in the video I even

have to look at it to remember a word that I was gonna say and be able to use

it because I had not internalized the Spanish language yet and internalizing a

language happens after years of absorbing that language and using that

language okay which I as you know from this whole video I didn't really do any

of those very much okay so the last thing I want to talk about regarding how

my Spanish has changed from what it used to be in this video clip that you guys

just saw to what it is now it really has a lot to do with my intonation the way

that I speak the quality of the sounds that I make okay and the vocabulary

after being surrounded with one type of Spanish Argentine Spanish for so long I

really adopted the Argentine way of expressing ideas and speaking so now for

example if I want to say the word bus I used to say "autobus" because

that's what I was taught from the textbook but nobody in argentina says

that in argentina they say "colectivo" or if they're gonna say bus you know using

the slang term they'll say "bondi" I didn't learn any of those in a textbook

ever so that is one way that my Spanish has changed my vocabulary my

intonation patterns everything is very Argentine but that's because I focused

on learning that Spanish now here's the thing a lot of you might think oh well

you lived in Argentina for five years so of course you were able to get good at

Spanish of course you were able to improve your accent of course you were

able to learn the vocabulary but that's not the reason why I achieved all of

this I achieved it because I made it a point to work on my

accent I paid attention to the vocabulary that they were using I

incorporated it I remember the first few weeks I was in Argentina and I would

hear words and I would go oh my gosh you know that's not what I was taught that

my teacher taught me something else and then I was confronted with a decision am

I gonna keep using the Spanish that my teacher taught me or am I going to adopt

the way that they say you know this word in this country and so I decided to let

go of everything that I was taught in my classes and to simply absorb the

language the way that it's spoken by the people that are from there now lots of

people live in foreign countries and they never acquire the accent they never

change the vocabulary they use they keep using the textbook vocabulary that

they learned even though they hear that other people don't speak like that

okay so there's a bunch of people that live in the United States and have lived

here for 20 years 50 years and they still don't speak English or they don't

speak it fluently or they have a heavy accent what you achieve really is up to

you it's what are your goals what are you trying to achieve

and how much do you work at it when I first got to Argentina and I didn't have

the accent that I have today I worked for this you know I really listened and

I would practice and it was so frustrating but I did not give up and

that's why I got to where I am today most people when it comes to

pronunciation they just give up okay one because it pushes you out of your

comfort zone and two because it's hard and you have to make sounds with your

mouth and with your tongue and your lips that you've never made in your entire

life it's hard okay so if you give up or if you just don't care about it you're

not going to get to that really high level that's just the truth okay so this

video is already long enough that's all I have time to share with you guys today

but if you want a guide on practicing your English with native speakers

because this is you guys like the one thing that's really really going to help

you practice your pronunciation pick up vocabulary from native English speakers

build your confidence if you want a guide on how to do this I have one on my

website and I'm gonna link it below okay in the description so check it out it

is the most popular guide on my entire website it's absolutely free for you to

download and it's going to give you lots of tips on how to meet native English

speakers using the Internet okay ways that I recommend ways that I don't

recommend how to get people to actually talk with you because people will talk

with you but you just you know you have to be strategic you can't just say hey

will you practice your English with me okay there are better ways to do this so

there's a whole guide on my website about how to do this if you want it it's

in the description and that's it you guys I'll see you in another video

thanks for watching bye

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Listening Skills Why You Don't Understand Movies, TV Shows, & Native English Speakers - Duration: 18:44.

hey guys what's up Stefanie the English coach here from EnglishFullTime.com

in this video we are going to talk about how to improve your listening skills in

English and the reason I'm making this video is because this is one of the most

frequently asked questions that I get you guys say Stefanie I don't

understand what's going on I understand you perfectly

but then when I watch TV shows and movies in English I have to turn on

subtitles because I feel like I don't understand anything okay so we're going

to talk about this and how you can improve your listening skills and what

some of the reasons might be that you're not understanding other people in

English but you understand me perfectly fine okay so to begin one of the reasons

why you understand me so well is because I speak well I have very good speaking

habits because as I was growing up I competed in speech competitions poetry

competitions I did public speaking I did acting classes I sang in choirs I

sang in jazz groups okay there are so many things that I did growing up that

really focused on helping me improve my voice and have a strong voice and the

voice that I have and also as I've become an adult I've really focused on

my voice because your voice is something that everyone has to listen to not just

you okay have you ever made a video and you're like oh I hate my voice well

think about it if you hate your voice what do other people think about your

voice because everyone has to listen to your voice right so I didn't want to

hate my voice I focused on improving my voice and I really just started

listening to my speech my patterns my speaking habits the tone of my voice

okay the sound the volume everything and I started paying attention to it anytime

you start paying attention to something and you're actively trying to improve it

and thinking why don't I like this what can I do to improve it you're gonna

start noticing things like if you listen to my voice and you ask yourself okay

why do I like Stefanie's voice you're gonna be able to identify specific

things about my voice that you like maybe it's the fact that I go up and I

go when I speak or something like that and

then you're gonna be able to incorporate that okay you you don't need a teacher

or somebody to show you how to do all of these things you can just identify what

it is and then start imitating the way that I speak or the way anybody speaks

whoever speaks in a way that you like maybe it's a famous actor or someone on

TV you can analyze their voice what do you like about it what do you not like

about it and then you can start to imitate them so going back to the good

speaking habits I was telling you guys about one of the things that I do is I

enunciate and I'm very expressive so I speak not just with my vocal cords and

my tongue and my mouth but I speak with my eyes I speak with my facial

expressions I speak in a way that communicates to you and helps make me

more understandable also the way that I pause when I speak or the words that I

emphasize when I speak all of that helps you focus on what I'm saying and be able

to listen to me for a long time and like I said I enunciate I don't

mumble I have good pronunciation habits again

these are just things that I learned how to do growing up because of the

experiences that I had I never had a teacher that really you know taught me

how to do all of this it just was something that I sort of had to do

because of the activities that I was involved in and I also taught in

classrooms for several years and I don't know if you have experienced you know

presenting in front of huge groups of people but if you're not entertaining or

if you don't speak in a certain way people will not pay attention to you and

so I have had to learn basically because of survival that if I want people to pay

attention to my message I have to deliver it in a way that's gonna hold

their attention right so just life experience has taught me how to present

in certain ways and this is why I present the way that I do and not

everybody's gonna like it and that's totally okay but a lot of you have

commented on my videos saying wow wow wow we understand you what's going on

okay so that's one of the reasons now the other reason you might understand me

more than you know TV shows and series and stuff

that is because maybe you're more familiar with my accent I grew up in

California so I speak like the way people speak in California and this

means that if you watch TV shows that are based in the US a lot of times these

shows have my same accent the people in there speak the way that I speak so

you're just very familiar with my dialect of English okay with my way of

speaking now if you watch I don't know the news in Ireland or in the UK or in

Australia maybe you're not as familiar with those accents because you have not

consumed as much material from those regions okay with their specific English

dialect and way of speaking another reason that you might understand me a

lot more than other people is because when I make youtube videos or videos in

general I am presenting so it's not that I'm trying to slow down I'm not slowing

down as you guys can see I'm speaking rather quickly right now actually right

now I'm speaking more quickly than I would in a natural conversation in a

natural conversation you guys I take my time I'm pretty slow I relax but when

I'm presenting all of a sudden I don't know what happens something inside of me

just wants to go faster and that might be you know me just wanting to keep

everyone's attention but as I go faster I'm also taking special care to make

sure I'm pronouncing words well so you guys can understand me

even though I'm speaking faster and I notice it because when I present in

front of a large group for an hour or an hour and a half oh my gosh my voice is

so sore and that's when I realize wow that I'm really putting a huge effort

into the way that I'm speaking so that I can be understood in natural

conversation I go slower I don't support my voice as well so when we say support

we're talking about the volume of the voice okay I'm really using my diaphragm

and my muscles in my diaphragm to project my voice and even though I'm the

only person in this room right now I'm speaking in such a way where if someone

was you know 50 feet away they would probably still be able to hear me that's

supporting your voice and projecting that's what I do it when I make these

videos because I am presenting and it's just this state

of being and it's just the way that I present it's how I do it so that's

another reason why you probably understand me so well now when you're

watching TV shows you're not watching people present you're watching people

act so people are acting but they're pretending to be in their natural normal

environment they're not projecting they're not pronouncing words in a way

so that anybody could understand them they're just talking okay this is also

why I've been making a series on my youtube channel about fast speech to

help you guys get more familiar with these ways of speaking with how native

speakers combine words in English so that you can start understanding us more

so yeah in these TV shows people are using slang they're using idioms maybe

they are mumbling they're speaking in ways that you don't necessarily

understand and you will learn to understand people in these shows I

promise you will but it really takes time you have to consume hours and hours

and hours and hours of TV shows over a long period of time okay this does not

happen in six months it could take a year it could take two years of

consuming material like that on a daily basis for you to really start

understanding everything that you hear and then there are always gonna be

things that go over your head okay when we say go over your head

that means there's always gonna be things that you don't understand and I'm

sure this happens in your native language too maybe there's a joke that

goes over your head and so if it happens in your native language it's also going

to happen in English and the better you get the more you're going to be able to

understand and the more you expose yourself to English the more you're

gonna be able to understand so now I'm going to share some stories with you to

put all of this into perspective I studied Spanish in Argentina for six

months then I ended up living in Argentina for several years right but in

high school and college I studied Spanish and it was my dream to study

Spanish abroad so I went to Argentina for six months and then I went back to

the USA and when I went back I was like oh my gosh this is so exciting

studied Spanish in Argentina my Spanish is probably so good you know because I

had that experience of being immersed in the culture and and in the language for

six months so I go back to the USA and I went to this outdoor market with a

friend and my friend was Mexican and there were lots of different booths with

people selling different items okay and I come to this booth and I noticed there

was a Hispanic man selling items and I was like oh perfect this is the perfect

opportunity for me to show off you know my great Spanish and how good I've

gotten etc so I asked about a product in Spanish - this Hispanic man and I said

hi wow look at this product it's beautiful whatever you know how much

does it cost and you know what he said he was like and I was like okay thanks

bye I did not understand anything that he said and I was just like oh my gosh

like this is ridiculous I studied Spanish in Argentina for six months why

don't I understand and then that's when I really learned hey just because you

studied in a country does not mean you're gonna now understand every single

native speaker okay it does not work like that because there are different

types of English you guys there are different types of Spanish and then each

individual person has a specific way of speaking you know younger people use

more slang older people use words that you know younger people never use so

there's so many different types of ways of speaking and this is why it can get

so frustrating for you guys as learners so my tip here is for you to be patient

with yourself and for you to be patient with your learning experience because

again just because you study a language for years or just because you're super

familiar with the American accent or just because you studied English in the

USA does not mean that now you're gonna understand every single native speaker

all the time right there are some specific comedians in Spanish that I

really like and I watch their shows and every single time I watch their shows

I'm like oh my gosh I've seen this show five times but this is the first time I

understand that joke or the first time I get that joke or the first time I hear

that word you can listen to the same thing multiple

times and pick up something new every single time because you're getting more

and more and more familiar with the language as you go now the next thing I

want to tell you guys about is how my sister-in-law Ren's younger sister okay

my husband's younger sister how she really improved her English when we

first met she understood some English but she really didn't speak it and then

she just watched so much TV in English and she listened to so much music in

English that now we can talk in English and have an entire conversation and she

understands everything it's phenomenal and I'm just like wow you've had such an

incredible transformation and I know exactly how she did it because I would

see her almost every single day and every single day she'd be watching TV in

English listening to music in English and then she would look up the lyrics

read the lyrics learn the lyrics and sing the songs she was extremely

involved over a four-year plus period with English to the point where now she

speaks it and she doesn't feel nervous when she speaks is she doesn't lack

confidence or anything her pronunciation is not perfect sometimes she messes up

her grammar is not perfect sometimes she messes up but still that is how she was

able to really learn English and improve her listening skills again constant

exposure day after day year after year now with that I want to end by sharing

another story okay this is the story about a guy I did a private coaching

call with back when I did private calls I do not offer private sessions

anymore but basically during this call he was like Stefanie I'm so frustrated

with my listening skills what you know what do I have to do to improve and I

was giving him all this advice like the best possible advice I could give

and then he would repeat himself and he'd say Stefanie I'm really struggling

with my listening skills you know what do I have to do to improve and so I'd

give him more advice and I'd tell him more stories and I'd explain in detail

exactly what he had to do and then he'd say Stefanie I'm really struggling with

my listening skills I really just want to know what I have to do and at that

point I was like oh my gosh yeah you really do struggle with your listening

skills because I've explained this to you a million different ways and I give

you the answer I have the answer and I've given it to you and you're still

asking the same question I like my mind was blown I was like is this what what

is wrong with this guy right now because he was understanding what I was

saying you know he really wasn't having trouble understanding me but he just

kept asking the same question because he did not like my answer that's literally

it he did not like my answer he did not

like what I was telling him he was looking for a magic solution and there

is no freaking magic solution I am so sorry to say it but it needs to be said

there's no magic solution people are always looking for a quick fix to do

this or to do that think about the things you have mastered how long has

that taken you okay if you're a doctor or whatever your profession is or

whatever you're good at if you're really good at chess or soccer I don't care

what it is what are you really good at right think

about how long it has taken you to master that skill and to get to that

really high level now English is no different listening skills speaking

skills are no different if you really want to master something you have to go

to a really deep level with that subject day after day year after year that is

literally what it takes and again there is no magic solution and when I talked

to this guy I asked him you know after he kept asking me the same questions

over and over again I was like okay wait stop let me identify what you have

actually tried because when somebody is struggling with something you really

have to figure out why they're struggling with it like what went on

what what have they tried what has worked what hasn't worked so I asked him

and I said okay how long have you been studying English for and I think his

answer was like three years or two years or something like that and he had been

living in the USA for one year and this was his big struggle he's like I'm

living in the USA and I'm struggling to understand native speakers so after

asking him all of these questions I discovered that he had been studying

English for about three years he had been living in the USA for about one

year but before going to the USA he was not very involved with English he was

studying using textbooks and he was not exposing

himself to the language he did not watch TV shows in English he did not listen to

music in English and then all of a sudden he came to the USA and he was

struggling with his listening skills and understanding native speakers and he was

like hey you know now I am listening to music every day now I am watching TV

shows every day you know but I'm still struggling with it and once I realized

the timeline that we were dealing with I was like okay at this point you're doing

everything you possibly can to improve your listening skills you're controlling

what you can control but there is something that's out of your control

that you can't control and that's time that's literally the amount of time it

takes your brain to absorb a language and to process it and to make it become

a part of you you have to assimilate the language okay so when he was studying in

English in his country he was not very involved with the language then he went

to the USA completely immersed studying 24/7 and at that point he had only been

in the USA for one year so that's just not enough time if he

kept doing that year after a year maybe in about two years he'd feel really

confident with his English and three four or five years definitely he would

feel confident with that level of study and immersion so anyhow I really hope

that this video answers your guys's questions about why you understand me

and why you don't understand other people I and hopefully you guys are

satisfied with these answers because this is the answer if you're here

looking for a magic solution or something like you have to listen to

English while you sleep for 30 minutes every day and then I don't know drink

some special brain juice and this and this and that I don't know there are no

magic solution so if that's what you were here looking for I'm sorry to

disappoint you but if not hopefully you find comfort in the fact that as long as

you are exposing yourself to the language day after day year after year

you're going to get to that level where you understand okay and not just me but

also where you understand TV shows all right so that's it thank you so much for

watching I just want to let you guys know that you should check out the

description because I always include links there to other thing

that you might be interested in and if you like these videos and if you want

more videos and more training from me I want to let you guys know that I run a

private online video platform this is not free but it is very affordable and

in this platform I put lots of training every single week to help you guys with

your English there's lots of videos there already lots of courses and

basically you can access everything ok it's just one monthly payment and you

can get a lot more support there with your English so if you like watching my

videos on YouTube and you want more feel free to join us in the private platform

because there's also a forum section integrated so you can get to meet the

other students a lot of times I give little assignments after each video so

you can participate as well and it's just a completely different learning

experience than on YouTube but it's also very

similar to YouTube so again if you like what you're doing here and you want to

keep improving your grammar your pronunciation your writing your fluency

your speaking your confidence everything I want to invite you to join us over

there on the private platform alright that's it you guys I hope you enjoyed

this video I hope you learned something please let me know what you learned in

the comments and if you are one of my more advanced subscribers okay and if

you understand TV shows and if you understand music in English and native

speakers who speak with different dialects please tell everybody in the

comments how you achieved that because I swear everybody's looking for the magic

solution I'm convinced that there is no magic solution there's just different

ways to improve your listening skills you have to do what you enjoy right but

please share what worked for you in the comments because people are going to be

able to learn from you to learn from your suggestions and I would just really

appreciate that so thank you thank you thank you for subscribing thanks for

watching my videos you guys I hope you're learning a lot and that's all I

will see you at another video bye

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Should You Be Factor Investing? | Common Sense Investing - Duration: 8:17.

Factor investing is currently one of the hottest terms used to sell financial products.

You may have also heard the term smart beta, which is referring to the same concept.

A simple way to think about factors is that they are quantitative characteristics shared

across a set of securities.

The reason that we care about factors is that those characteristics can be used to structure

an investment portfolio to outperform the market without the need to rely on stock picking

or market timing.

Factors are on the cutting edge of financial market research, but they are also being used

to market products that may be detrimental to investors.

Don't get me wrong, factors are more than a sales pitch.

They are the mechanisms that drive asset returns.

I'm Ben Felix, Associate Portfolio Manager at PWL Capital.

In this episode of Common Sense Investing, I'm going to tell you about factor investing.

Before we understood factors, researchers were noticing that diversified portfolios

of small stocks were outperforming diversified portfolios of larger stocks.

At the time there was no explanation for this difference, and the performance difference

may have been attributed to the skill of the portfolio manager.

As factor research emerged, it became clear that stocks with certain characteristics could

explain a lot of the differences in returns of diversified portfolios.

The reason that we care about factors is that those performance differences have been positive.

Capturing positive return differences exhibited by certain types of stocks has an obvious

benefit to investors.

Currently, factor models explain over 95% of the return differences between diversified

portfolios.

This is problematic for active fund managers because their ability to beat the market,

which was previously assumed to be due to their skill, can in many cases be explained

by factor exposure.

This is a big deal for investors because if you can get market beating returns with a

factor index fund as opposed to an active manager you will save a lot on fees.

Here is a concrete example to explain what I mean.

In a classic 2015 blog post, my PWL colleague Justin Bender took a handful of actively managed

market-beating mutual funds suggested by Globe and Mail columnist Rob Carrick and performed

a three-factor regression.

In other words, he used some analysis to show how much of their performance could be attributed

to factor exposure as opposed to manager skill.

In most cases the outperformance was fully explained by factor exposure, and in one case

it was mostly explained.

This means that while these active funds did beat the market, they did so by holding more

small cap and value stocks than the market, not by skillfully picking the right stocks

at the right time.

Holding more small cap and value stocks than the market is something that an index investor

can replicate at a fraction of the cost of an actively managed fund.

Research on factors emerged in the 1992 paper by Eugene Fama and Ken French titled The Cross-Section

of Expected Stock Returns.

In the paper, they observe that small stocks outperformed large stocks over time, and value

stocks outperformed growth stocks over time.

The explanation for the return differences is that stocks with these characteristics,

small stocks and value stocks, are riskier.

Investors must expect higher returns to own riskier assets.

In 1997, Mark Carhart added the momentum factor to the body of research, and later, in 2012

Robert Novy-Marx added the profitability factor.

This gave us five factors which together explain over 95% of the return differences between

diversified portfolios.

Fama and French came out with their five-factor model in 2014, combining market, size, relative

price, profitability, and investment, while ignoring momentum.

The ultimate factor model is unknown, but researchers continue to test new factor models

to increase the explanatory power of the model.

Factor research has become not only important to our understanding of finance and investing,

but a way for academic researchers to make a name for themselves.

After all, Fama was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2013 for his

work on asset pricing.

This academic competition for discovery of the next factor has resulted in many, many

research papers being published claiming to have identified new factors.

Duke University's Campbell Harvey, Texas A&M's Yan Liu, and University of Oklahoma's Heqing

Zhu have identified over 300 factors in academic literature.

This is problematic for investors.

Targeting five factors in a portfolio is hard enough.

What do you do if there are 300 of them?

Unfortunately for the researchers, and fortunately for investors, many of these factors do not

pan out.

In many cases they turn out to be a re-packaging of the original factors.

There is a sniff-test for investors to know when a factor is worth pursuing, and when

it should be ignored.

To be taken seriously a factor should be persistent, pervasive, robust to alternative specifications,

investable, and sensible.

It is worth digging into each of these characteristics.

For a factor to be persistent it must show up through time and not be limited to a specific

time period.

To be pervasive a factor must hold true across various countries, regions, and sectors.

Robust to alternative specifications means that the factor should not be affected if

you slightly change how the characteristic is defined.

Investable is extremely important - it means that if the factor cannot be cost-effectively

captured in portfolios it is not helpful to investors.

Momentum is an example of this.

The momentum factor meets many of the previous characteristics, but it is a high-turnover

strategy.

This makes it expensive to implement in a portfolio.

If there is no sensible explanation for a factor, then it may not be expected to persist.

Again, momentum is an example.

Unlike the risk explanation for small and value stocks, momentum does not have a sensible

explanation.

While many factor products have emerged, there are very few companies creating factor products

that get me excited.

One company that has done and continues to do an excellent job in this space is Dimensional

Fund Advisors.

The research on factors is a commodity - anyone can access it.

The difference between implementing factors well and poorly comes down to how the company

vets the factor research, who does the vetting, how they interpret the data, and their ability

to understand of the limitation of factor models.

The founder of Dimensional Fund Advisors, David Booth, has said "The research is out

there for anybody to access.

What distinguishes Dimensional is the way we implement the ideas."

While I do believe that a factor portfolio is optimal, Dimensional Fund Advisors' products

can only be accessed through specific firms, like PWL Capital.

Based on this, and with a lack of ETFs, especially in Canada, that are effectively capturing

well-researched factors at a reasonable cost, I think that DIY investors are probably better

off, at least for now, focusing on simplicity rather than pursuing factors.

The Canadian Couch Potato model portfolios used to pursue the size and value factors,

but Dan changed the models in 2015 to ignore factors entirely.

Part of his explanation was that "many DIYers make costly mistakes when they try to juggle

too many funds.

Meanwhile, there are exactly zero investors in the universe who failed to meet their financial

goals because they did not hold global REITs or small-cap value stocks."

I agree with him in full.

Have you tried to implement a factor portfolio?

Tell me how it went in the comments.

Thanks for watching.

My name is Ben Felix of PWL Capital and this is Common Sense Investing.

I will be talking about a new common sense investing topic every two weeks, so subscribe

and click the bell for updates.

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How To Get More Emails Opened - Duration: 2:06.

Hey what's up guys, John here.

And in this video

I want to share a quick tip

that you can add to your e-mails

to get more people

to open your email.

Super important,

as you know,

the more people open your e-mails,

the more people are going

to actually click

on the links in your e-mails

which means that more people

are going to actually

go land on maybe your sales page

or your sales videos

or your webinar registration

and therefore more people

are going to take action

which ultimately means

you'll make more sales, alright?

So getting more

people to open your e-mails

is extremely important

and something that you need

to focus on all the time.

Saying here's a tip

that you can use,

very easy,

nothing to it,

you simply want to add

an emoticon

in your subject line.

This is something that

works really well.

A lot of people are doing that.

So don't overdo it, right?

Don't do it at very single e-mail

otherwise its going to

lose its effectiveness.

But if you do it once in a while,

it's really powerful, right?

So for example maybe you want

to do it on the last day of a campaign,

on a sales campaign,

or maybe you have a special promotions,

or you want to say

something that is important.

Add an emoticon at the beginning

or at the end of the subject line.

It's going to stand out.

People are going to see it

in their e-mail inbox.

And that's the name of the game,

you want to attract their eyes first.

That is what the subject line

is all about,

getting their attention, right?

So now the emoticon will

allow you to do that

get their attention

and then obviously you want

to have a good subject line

that is going to engineer curiosity,

or motivate them to click

so they can open your e-mails.

So give this a try,

try it out, test it out

and see how it goes for you.

Alright guys, thanks all for watching.

I'll see you in the next video.

Take care. Bye bye.

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Incentive calculation in excel bangla tutorial - Duration: 11:33.

Ass sala mu Alaikum

I am Mohiuddin Hasan from Hasan Academy

How are You, I hope you are well

Today Lecture will be there How to calculate incentive

very easy to show

Here Some condition, If not less than 90%, then there will be no incentive

If 90% is equal to or higher then BDT Tk.1500 will get the money

If 95% is equal to or higher then BDT Tk.2000 will get the money

If 100% is equal to or higher then BDT Tk.2500 will get the money

If 110% is equal to or higher then BDT Tk.3000 will get the money

If there are conditions in this type that you are employees can get incentive on the target vs achievement

If they will achieve their conditions then they will get incentive

If there is more than one such condition, then how to do it

As such, here is a 102% achievement, so he got Tk. 2500 incentive

Meaning here the conditions here is that if the amount of 100% is equal to or higher then tk. 2500 will be given

If it is 100% or below 90%, then how much will it get

Tk. 0

Meaning of the conditions, if you get 90% below, you get Tk. 0

I want to show you this lecture today, How to do this things

Hopefully the lecture will look good from the beginning to the end

We are going to to the original lecture

When there are multiple conditions like this, we can use IF functions

When we use more than one, then it is called Nested IF

I have another lecture with IF functions, you can take it out

How to Use If Functions

If not less than 90%, then there will be no incentive

If 90% is equal to or higher then BDT Tk.1500 will get the money

If 95% is equal to or higher then BDT Tk.2000 will get the money

If 100% is equal to or higher then BDT Tk.2500 will get the money

If 110% is equal to or higher then BDT Tk.3000 will get the money

Here I want say, small techniques

If there are such conditions, then some techniques have to be adopted