Here are the words/phrase I've learnt : 意義深重 means quite a lot to sb. 省錢 cut cost 打下基礎 laid down a strong foundation of 心態 mentality 接收 met with 一瞬間 at the exact moment 竊竊笑 Giggling 揮之不去 liggering around and couldn't leave me 對*來說很嚴重 it was huge to 對*發言speak up in front of sb. 相對地 relatively 眨低某人 put sm. down 交流 intricacy 對*來說很丟臉 epic fail for 鼓舞 uplift 與*產生共鳴 Resonate with Thanks a lot for the encouragement by Torres Pit. He inspired me so much that I required myself to keep practicing on my poor English 💩, I hope the audience is also inspired by Torres and get your practice started!!! 🤘
As a Malaysian Chinese brought up in a 95% Chinese-speaking environment, I've been through the same in my childhood (well, teenage-hood too) Back then when China was not as economically great, most Bananas (Chinese who don't master their mother tongue) discriminated against other Chinese who don't speak English well. That's pretty common in urban areas in my home country. When I was 14, schooling in a Chinese private school, we had a weekly life skills workshop - girls usually in the kitchen, guys usually doing carpentry. One day, when girls needed a saw, I was assigned to borrow some from the guys' workshop. Apparently, the male trainer was English-educated, spoke almost zero-Chinese. When I greeted him at the door before entering, he couldn't hear me (I guess) as the machines were too noisy. Perceived that I was impolite, he took revenge by picking on every single grammatical and vocabulary mistake I made as I was politely putting up my request. He corrected me sarcastically in front of the class, interrupting me many times in each sentence to make the whole class laugh. Well, that was actually what motivated me to boost my English. As nearly zero Malaysians around me spoke English, I effortlessly adopted US/Au accent from the resources I found. I became someone who spoke bad English in a "high-class" (they said, not me) accent. I was then deemed a white worshipper - acts like a "gwai lou" (Caucasian) but can't master their language and culture. In fact, the "gwai lou" accent is my natural accent, and I need to "act" in order to sound local. Anyways, my English accent now finds me plenty of emcee opportunities. That accent stays while I am improving my English consistently (still not very good, but I can always script what I'll speak). All the best to all language learners and thank you, Torres for this video :)
I have the same feeling as you when I was 15ys old n tried to speak English in front of my friend, but they laughed at me as well because of what I said just now is incorrect and they didn't even correct my sentence... At that time I was like swear to god, I am going to stop speaking English with my other friends in order to avoid the awkward situation 😂😂, but when the time past, I started realized I should not care about them for those who laughed at me before, because they are bunch of people who stop you from moving. Now I speak English most of the time and I don't feel shame. Love your video so much ❤️❤️ keep it up I will always be with you Torres. I am from Malaysia
Dear Torres, Here's your fan from Taiwan. I wanna thank you from the bottom my heart. Your amazing inspiring videos have motivated me to keep learning English many times from time to time. Whenever I feel like I am stuck in a rut, I go to this channel for motivations. Merry Christmas ^^
hi torres, i showed this video to my french friend who is learning chinese, we just did a chinese/english learning today in London lol, hope I can catch you somewhere !
Lots of people say “is you” is the states especially black people. Some dudes say it on purpose just to be cool. It kinda became a trend now. Yea man I feel u just say wtever, I dun give a damn bout wt people think. That’s the right attitude 🔥
I didn’t learn English well in primary school too, but for different reason. I feel like I was still naive in primary school. Like, I didn’t find any fun in learning and I just studied for the sake of it at that point in my life. I only found my passion in primary 6 in the light of puberty (prob ?). The beginning of secondary school was when I started taking study seriously (I didn’t pass all my exams in school tho coz I simply don’t have what it takes to do well in some subjects). Sadly, I’ve never been a good communicator. I was a shy, socially anxious kid, but I still fear public speaking, presentations and recording my own voice now as a teenager (almost an adult).
(無錯，如果住係英文系既國家例如英國，加拿大，美國，澳洲或新西蘭等就唔會有人批評啦！所以有英文問題既盡量避免問香港華人! ) That's absolutely true, in most case, Majorities of Hong Kongers loves judging people with many ways more than encouraging. There's no way that anyone can communicate with any Chinese. I supposed that when you really want to boost your language proficiencies, just live in English speaking countries for at least whole year and then you will realise he differences.
@@ceciliasyd I think the reason is most of the teacher can't speak fluent English in the class even an English teacher.Also Hongkongers loves judging people in many ways.
lt's pretty nice to ecourage people to learn english whether their english level is. Because of the you, l would like to write something without using google translate. l just wanna tell you that l really love your video. You are one of the amazing person l have ever know. lt's hoped that you can keep going and always explore!!! Love from HK ps. guys don't blame me🤣
Very powerful video, truely respect the insight. Do believe a lot of teenagers faced this kind of culture, including myself when I was younger. It is so important to focus on ourselves and ignore stupid criticism from someone trying to put others down. Thanks Torres
I had such bad experience like you before when I was 10. That time, I was interested in English for a sudden so I constantly speak in English but my friends and English teacher always laugh at me it is because my level of English is so low that I can even don't know what's the meaning of intelligent. I am sad and impressed that I swear to not speaking English again until my mom advice me.
Thank you Torres for this video, you give me a lot of courage to start to speak more English, I always shy away because I feel im not good enough. Thank you for your honest support 🙏🏻 ❤️
Hey brother Torres, only recently I have been noticed your video is quite good and very interesting to me . I like your character and mindset , especially this video , it is really inspiring people .Not only it just talking about language study , but it encourages someone who often felt be lowered down or offended by other group of people be confident and positive and do what ever you need to do and dont let those people bring you down . Anyway wish your great success to your channel , also wish your best with your and your lovely girlfriend ~~~~if you ever come to Australian, me and my husband will bring the best curtesy to host your guys ~\~
