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Let's start off by talking about celebrities. Who is your favorite celebrity? >> Oh, that's interesting. Um I would say Angelina Jolie, um Viola Davis. Oh my god, I love her movies. She's She's incredible. She's just incredible. Yeah, I think mostly like um actors. >> Would you like to be a celebrity in the future? >> This is amazing question. Uh I dream to be celebrity all my life, like since I was childhood since my childhood. Um I would be like tell my mom that one day I will be on TV and I will be famous. I always wanted to be famous. So, that's why I started like being acting or modeling like being connected. It's a tough way, tough road journey, but yeah, I love to be on a light, you know, like there. I I love to be like famous, but I understood now by like growing that uh you don't have to be on a TV or particularly like actor to become famous. You can do so many other things and with our time with internet and everything like you can become famous so quickly and in different field. >> Would you prefer to be wealthy or famous? >> Before, like maybe a year ago or two, I would tell you I would prefer to be famous, but now I came to the point where I don't really care until I'm wealthy. >> [laughter] >> If I If I make it, if I succeed succeed, um I don't mind if people doesn't know me. Like before I used to say uh I want to come to the point in life when I'm like old and people talk about me. People know me. Uh they know my name, but now I'm wealthy, I'm fine. >> [laughter] >> That's all. >> Now, let's talk about clothing and fashion. What is your favorite item of clothing? >> I don't think I have like favorite one in anything. I think I don't have a favorites. I think uh something comfortable like some loose pants and some t-shirts, crop tops. Um I'm I never been very fashionable. Uh I I think it took me very long time to find my style or something. I don't think even I I found it still. Yet, sorry. Uh but like I'm trying something, but I more come to the point where I like whatever is comfortable and I feel nice in does the important. That's it. >> Were you interested in fashion and beauty when you were a child? >> Not really. Actually, when I was around 13 years old, that's when I became wanting to become a model and uh actress. I started watching some uh show on TV about it, but like I don't think I had um this available like doing makeup or get a makeup or some different clothes as much in our time. So, I think I'm really wasn't in it. But like yeah, by the time as I grow I I start loving it. I even went to the point where um on a COVID time, I studied makeup. And I just learned everything about it and I want to become makeup artist, but life changed plans, >> [laughter] >> I guess. >> Do you think your style or your fashion will change as you get older? >> Yeah, for sure. Everything changes. It's like you grow. You Like I used to love short dresses and >> [laughter] >> high heels and just go all like show myself and just be out and loud. Now like as I grow I don't feel more like I don't feel that comfortable to be like that anymore. I want more like longer dress, um, closed everywhere. Like, I don't know, it's just more comfort, I think, and um, I would prefer not wear something like loud and open, um, and more be comfortable in something even if I go out. >> Now, let's talk about colors. What colors do you like? >> Uh, >> Just jumping in to give you our free gift. We analyzed hundreds of Bun 789 speaking performances, and we analyzed the vocabulary. We've put all the best words, phrases, idioms into one PDF for you. If you would like that, go to the description, click on the link. It's our gift to you. You can download it 100% for free. >> I like pink, purple. Purple been my favorite color. >> Always. >> But, I have nothing in purple. >> [laughter] >> That's such weird thing, yeah. But, I'm very girly, like, you know, pink, purple things, like red and all that. >> In your country, are there any colors that are more popular than others? >> I think, like, it depends on the season, like, which season we are in. Like, um, if it's a fall, you know, you will get a very orangey color of the country because everything is like the trees is falling the, uh, leaves. So, it's kind of everything dries out. Um, winter is all white everywhere, almost. >> [gasps] >> So, it's so much of snow, um, and like grayish color, I would say, even, because there's not much sun. And summer, it's a green, green. So, yeah, it's like, I think it's a seasonal, more. >> And do colors affect your mood? >> Of course. Yeah, I think, yeah, because, like, even if it's, um, in a, like, outside, and it's sunny it's like all beautiful weather and beautiful sky of blue clean obviously you will feel very nice >> [laughter] >> in that and if it's like grey like in one part of my country where my family actually lives right now it's very greyish most of the time in a year it's rains and it's like it's really grey and I don't like to come there because it's just depressing >> [laughter] >> so yeah it's affects you >> Now let's talk about your future career. Do you think you will change careers in the future? >> I just changed my career right now so I would love to stick what what I'm doing right now with with it and just make my world out of it because I know it's can be possible so for me it's very difficult to understand what I'm good at in a way like working because I studied law so I tried to be a lawyer I didn't like to sit in the office and just be in one place I tried to be real estate it didn't work it wasn't my journey but through that time I was in the modeling and acting so that was my passion but again I came to the point where I will choose the world than being famous so now I'm just seeing where I can make that world make the money more than like become what I really wanted you know so I wish to not change the career and just stick to what I'm doing right now and make my life out of it >> So do you think that you'll be doing this career for the next 5 or 10 years? >> Yeah I wish I wish it gets to that point because in this career like as you do it like for longer, you become better and you make more. Like you just become better because it's like um language or skill you have and that's what it requires only like the skill of doing it. So, it's basically a practice. So, as long you go, the better you become. >> And what is your current career? >> Uh I'm in trading, but I've been just studying it and doing it for past like 4 5 months, but I already became profitable. So, I'm really proud of it. >> [laughter and gasps] >> Uh but it's still long long long journey to go and I just want to stick to it, learn it, and just you know, like a language, just speak it. Like look at it and I know everything about it. >> Do you think AI will affect that career in the future? >> I mean, there is already in some way um I wouldn't say it's affects badly. Uh it's actually helps because some people uh created systems with the AI or like um how does it calls? Like uh indicators which helps us to actually trade. For some people it doesn't help, but yeah, it's like in some way it helps, but I don't think AI will like affect it badly that we cannot use it and work in it. It's not kind of it's not going to take our job. So, describe difficult tasks that I have succeeded in doing as part of work or studies. Um I think I will come to the trading which I start just started. So, it's kind of just right now. One of my tasks was to come to the point where I can make $1,000 in I don't know 1 week and it was hard and I did it. So, uh but it took so much nerves mentally, especially the mentally like it's so hard. Um because like sometimes you see your money just going away from you >> [laughter] >> in your account and you're just sitting there and just like it's okay. And you have to be zoned and I think the the biggest advantage in it is to be still, control your emotions. I think emotions, yes, because I'm very emotional person and I'm very like loud and outgoing with the feelings and all. So, for me to just not react on certain things is very difficult and in trading you have to be still. You have to just control that emotions. When you win, when you lose, it doesn't matter. You win, you have to look at it and like it's okay. Very good. That's it. Like no emotions, nothing. Same when you lose. No crying, no screaming, no breaking computers, nothing. Even if you want so much, you have to like control yourself and just be in that feel of I'm okay with it, whatever is happening. So, I think that's the biggest task that I have achieved that I'm just look at it and like okay. It's fine. >> [laughter] >> So, we've been talking about a difficult task you worked on. We're going to continue to talk about difficult jobs and careers and things like that. What do you think are some of the most difficult jobs people can do? >> Doctors. I think it's very difficult because lives of others depends on you. So, like I think mentally it's very hard sometimes for them. And it's a big responsibility. Also, one of the biggest biggest work in our world is being a parent. >> [laughter] >> Um mother, apparently like most you know, raised another life, another human. I think it's a biggest task in this life. >> Why do you think there are some people out there that actively choose to do very difficult jobs? >> They believe in themselves. They capable, they passionate about it. I know people like from my um class from the school who went to be a doctors um or something with physics, you know, and they loved it for the very beginning. Um and when you're looking at it and you're like, I don't even understand what's happening, but they're like their mind works in that way. So, for them it's kind of easier uh to understand everything, so they they laugh. Like I love to go for um lawyer because I went to study it. And that time I was I wanted so badly to become a uh policewoman or like um child service to help the kids and families. Uh so, I had a choice to go for a law and I was just passionate about it. Even though I I don't work with it anymore. >> Some people think that there are certain careers that are easy. Do you think that easy careers actually exist? >> I don't think so. There's nothing easier. Like it's all about how you put it in your mind. Like from the side view it might seems easy, but maybe that person is struggling to get where where they are the point. So, they they took time, they studied, they did hard work to get where they are. And no, there's there's nothing easy. Everything requires studying, mind, learning all the time, dedication, time, which is like time is the resource that we never can get back, so it can be easier. You're losing something, so >> In order to be successful, is it always necessary to work hard? >> I don't believe um in like hard work. You need to work smart. When you work smart, you can achieve something faster uh than if you would be hard because you would go hard on yourself, on the studying, or like whatever you are doing. You just would be so hard that you pushing it pushing it too much that it just um it's not happening until you questioning like, "Why it's not happening? I'm doing everything." No, just chill. Like, be smarter. If it's not happening, just let it go for a sometime, come back to it. Like, see what what's happening wrong, change something, you know, so yeah, I think you just like need to be smarter with the with it than hard with it. >> Do you think that the most successful people in the world are also the happiest people in the world? >> I could not say because I don't know all of them and especially um I mean, personally, you never you really never know the how people feel because behind the closed doors, you never know what's happening. So in some ways they are successful and they are happy that they are like successful and it's make their life easier, but like their life is even harder because they have more responsibility and the level where they are, they trying to support that level for the rest of the life and I think that's the harder to just stay there or even be more than that and not lose anything. Because like when you have so much to lose, it's harder when you have nothing to lose. >> That's the end of the speaking test. How did you feel about that? >> Good. >> Good? [laughter] Yeah? >> Yeah. >> If you would like your speaking assessed one-on-one, we We offer that as part of our VIP package. To thank you for watching the video, I'll offer you 10% off. All you have to do is just go to the description, click the link, and you can get 10% off today. So, I'm going to give you some advice for part one, part two, part three, talk about how you did in those parts, and then talk about your band scores for vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and fluency and coherence. So, part one, really, really good development. I could throw lots of questions at you and any topic you'd be able to handle them and talk about them. You seem naturally good at speaking. >> [laughter] >> You don't seem like a shy person, which which is which is really, really good. When I've worked with people like you in the past, the only weakness that someone like you can have is and you don't have this, I'm just bringing it up, is people who are naturally good at speaking and like to speak a lot, they can often go off on tangents and and not answer the actual question. So, they just talk about stuff. You didn't do that. So, that [laughter] was good. All right. But, I can imagine being in a coffee shop with you and you doing that naturally. Not a bad thing in a coffee shop, but in a an exam situation, it might be. So, just I don't think that's going to be an issue for you, but I thought I would bring it up cuz that's people watching might be like, "Oh, I'm really naturally good at I love speaking." That could be an issue for some other people. Similar with part two, I had to stop you. You got to two minutes. That And I don't mean it in a negative way. I don't mean it like [laughter] that. Cuz you got you got to the two minutes and you did you did it you talked about that difficult task. The thing I really liked was that you picked something real. So, you could tell that that was a real thing that you were actually going through. It's just so much easier to speak about things that are actually happening to you. Some people don't like to speak about their personal life. It depends on the topic. Like some people are just I've I don't feel comfortable using my own real experience. For you, I think that worked that worked really well. And but it depends on the topic, but as I say, I don't think there's too many topics that could come up in part two that you wouldn't be able to talk about either personally or just talking a little bit more abstractly about it. Part three, again, you had no problem talking about any of those things. You had no problem developing those [laughter] things. You're full of ideas. You're full of relevant ideas. You're full of explanations and examples and things like that. And some of those questions were quite difficult. You know, they're they're they're quite philosophical questions that I threw at you. >> I felt [laughter] so bad. >> but you explored them quite well. You I I like the way you "Well, some people might feel this way or be like this, but then other people, you know, for example, this are successful people happy? Well, some of them aren't happy for this reason, and some of them are happy for this reason." That really that's an excellent strategy for part three. I really like the way you said like know any of these people personally." Like some people would say something like that like "I don't know any successful people." And then not answer the rest of the question. You didn't allow that to stop you talking. You're like, "I don't know any successful people personally, but I have to if I guessed, there are people because they achieve success, they're very very happy. But then there are other people they have so much responsibility and so much stress that they're going to be You know, you speculated on on on on that. But I think you're overriding logic is like everyone's an individual and some of them aren't are happy and some of them It depends on the individual. And you expressed that really really well. Let me give you feedback on so fluency and coherence, grammar and vocabulary, pronunciation. Uh two things are quite good. Two things we can work on. I'm not saying they're bad. It's because English isn't your first language. We're not You know, we're not looking for perfection here. So please don't take what I'm saying um as criticism. It's just these are areas that you could work on. And none of the areas you can work on are bad. They just need a little bit of a little bit of work. So, your strength, your biggest strength, is fluency. You are extremely fluent. You can speak at length on topic without any hesitation, without any, you know, there's a nice flow to what you're saying. You speak quite quickly, and I think that's because you are enthusiastic. I would never suggest that you could should slow down your speak your speech or anything like that. >> Cuz it's not causing any issues, you know? Be yourself. Yeah, your fluency is your biggest asset. So, uh, um, how long have you been speaking English? >> I've been like around 6 years only. >> 6 years? Well, amazing. That's [clears throat] 6 years. >> it like in foreign countries. So, I didn't learn English from books. >> Uh-huh. >> Basically, I learn it from people from the very, very beginning. Uh, when I went to India, I lived in India, and there it took me like around maybe 1 and 1/2 year, 2 years to start getting more fluent. And now, like as time goes by, like I get better and better. >> The next area that I think is quite good is your vocabulary. It doesn't matter what topic I throw at you, you have enough vocabulary to deal with it. You do make some errors from time to time. Um, but they're not major and they're not frequent. You have a wide enough range of vocabulary to to talk about most topics. So, it's it's very, very good. You could improve it, but it depends on your life goals, it depends on what you want to do. That's not the thing that I would work on the most. The two areas that I would work on the most um, would be pronunciation and grammar. Now, I don't think that you're going around mispronouncing everything. >> [laughter] >> 99, 98% of the words that you say are clear. They're easy to understand. Every now and again, you mispronounce a word and it sometimes changes the meaning of that word. So, for example, you said >> lives of others depends on you. >> The lives of others is that of the lives of others. >> And you have to be zoned. >> You said zone instead of zen. You have to be zoned instead of zen. >> All beautiful weather. >> You said weather instead of weather. It's like little things that gotten sometimes it changes the meaning, but I as I said, if we looked at a transcript of what you said, the vast major like more than 95% if not more than it 98%, 99% of the words are 100% clear. That is why if you move to an English-speaking country, you would have no problem uh living and working there. Everybody would understand you. Every 10 or 15 minutes, somebody might like, "Oh, zen." But they'd be able to figure that she said zone, she meant zen. Okay, I can figure that out. >> Yeah. >> So, you wouldn't get one of the really high marks for pronunciation because of that because to get one of the higher marks, really 100% of the words need to be clear and easy to understand. It is just occasionally, very, very occasionally, that happens. So, there's two routes that you could go down if you wanted to improve that. Um one would be to work with a a teacher and they would if if you did a lot of work with them, they would be able to identify problem sounds that you have. You're a native Russian speaker. >> Mhm. >> Did you grow up speaking Russian? >> Yeah. >> So, there are common um sounds that Russians have a problem with. Every language has when they try and speak English and vice versa has an issue with that. So, for example, Germans will say weather instead of they'll their W's and their their V and they'll say the magazine Vogue instead of Vogue. They'll get those mixed up. Um, Spanish speakers will say video instead of video. They'll get the v and the b mixed up. By identifying those common signs that you have a problem with, it means that you don't have to completely change your pronunciation. It's like fixing an engine. So, if my car breaks down, you don't replace the entire car. You find the piece, like it could be a a broke a tire is a a new fix that tire. You don't throw away the car. That would be my approach for you with pronunciation. Is if you really want to go down that route of like really cleaning it up and and it being perfect, find those common signs because English is made up of many signs. Russian is made up of many signs. What are those common problems? And then work on those signs. And it it's more like going to the gym than going to school because your your lips, your tongue, your jaw is what makes the sound. And because you've never made those sounds before because you're a native Russian speaker, that's the problem. It's not your brain. So, you would have to literally train your face. >> I've never thought about it like that. That's interesting. >> Another way to easily do it is um if you have um like a notes app um and you change it to English, it will write it incorrectly. So, if you said um zone and and you're trying to say zen, it will pick up on that and it will write zone. So, you could actually speak into the notes app and it will write out exactly what you say. And if there's errors in it and you see common errors, that's how you could do it for free. >> Mhm. >> But it's it's totally up to you. The big issue is we very commonly see this with with Russian native speakers. You do not have articles the, a, and in Russian. >> Mhm. >> So, again, it's kind of like it it's not about that you're bad at speaking English. It is just you're not used to using that type of grammar. So, you say things like >> I dreamed to be celebrity with internet. I'm very emotional person. >> If you're not living in a native English-speaking country, articles you can get away with making those mistakes because it doesn't affect meaning that much. It does affect meaning from time to time, but you can get away with living in somewhere where English is spoken, but not uh uh to the level of native English speakers or very high English learners would would use it. So, again, it depends on your goals. Do you want to get a very high IELTS score and move to an English-speaking country or do a career where you need a high IELTS score or maybe go um to university again to do a master's where you would need to to fix this. The problem with articles is they're in in every sentence. So, we would call this a systematic error that every time you're using that system, you make that mistake or nearly every time, and you're completely unaware of it. So, nearly every sentence has a grammatical error in it, and it's not just articles. There's some other areas of grammar that articles is your biggest issue, um but you also have small little problems in other So, the examiner is listening to you and extremely fluent. They can understand nearly everything you're saying. The vocabulary is very good, but nearly every sentence more than 50% anyway has a small a a small grammar mistake in there. That means that the maximum you can get for a grammar is six for a a band six. Same with um pronunciation. To get a band seven, eight, or nine, the examiner needs to understand 100% of what you're saying. At the moment, 99, 98%. So, you're getting a band six for pronunciation as well. Your fluency is very good, and your vocabulary is very solid. So, you'll be getting a band seven for those. So, overall, you would get 6.5, which is about the average. So, you've only been learning English and not formally for about 6 years. You didn't learn it as a child. 6.5 is very respectable. It means 6.5 is the score that most university students need to go to university in an English-speaking country. >> Okay. >> you wanted to do law in the UK or Canada or Australia, 6.5 would probably be enough because it means you can speak, people can understand you, your reading and listening scores are probably much higher than 6.5. Your writing we would need to work together on that. Most people their writing is is lower than their speaking. So, you're probably at around about six for writing. Uh I would guess. But overall, you would, you know, if we take your listening and your reading into account, you're probably overall at around about seven, which is is quite which is what I would guess for you. Um which means that you can easily operate in an English-speaking country. You can understand everything, you can understand what people are saying, you can read everything, you can communicate through speaking, you can send text messages and and emails and people can you'll make a few little grammar errors, but people will generally understand you. So, it totally depends on your goals. If you want to go and do a master's, your English would need to do probably need to to increase if you wanted to be a lawyer in an English-speaking country, you would need to fix those those problems. But the good news is is that they're very fixable. Like 3 to 6 months we could dramatically improve those things because we're not fixing everything about in the grammar book, we're not fixing every sound in pronunciation, we're being very strategic and like what are what are the what's the flat tire? >> Yeah. >> Replace the flat tire. Find the weakness, turn that into a strength, and and we could really help you in in a very short period of time. >> All right. >> Well done. Thank you. >> much. Thank you.