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Reading books is a hobby of mine, I read books 4 to 5 times a week. I have made a library in my room and I have made the best atmosphere for reading books😍 I’m absolutely a bibliophiles.

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Жыл бұрын

Nice work… I have a movie library 😆😉

@zakariyashakir4091

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@@EasyEnglishVideos you are a film library not a movie library😂😂😂😁

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@@zakariyashakir4091 🙌

Rishi Sunaking, I mean, hiking. 🤣🤣

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Moving this little car over the rocks seems to be an act of great finesse 👌 I like playing chess which needs a lot of learning and precision. My newest hobby is trying to learn Egyptian Hieroglyphs, but it's very difficult especially that I'm so bad at drawing 😅

@EasyEnglishVideos

Жыл бұрын

Wow! I’ve never heard of that hobby! I want to learn hieroglyphics! The rock crawling car was super difficult, I couldn’t even get the car off the floor and onto the rocks. 😅

I like very much, your vídeos. I'm learning english a lot. Thanks very much from Chile.

@EasyEnglishVideos

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching, what’s you hobby? Greetings to Chile 🇨🇱 🇬🇧

@isabelbriones5446

Жыл бұрын

@@EasyEnglishVideos One of my hobbies is learning languages is learning English.

I found the hobby with the little cars you have to maneuver over obstacles a bit too "out there", but to each their own :-). I'm a voracious reader (right now I'm reading a Jane Austen biography and am re-reading Mansfield Park). If I have some spare time, like during Covid, I might knit or crochet. And I like taking walks outside.

@EasyEnglishVideos

Жыл бұрын

That’s great! People who re-read books is something I haven’t understood yet, although I’m someone who has probably watched Jaws over 100 times 😂

@anjawright4609

Жыл бұрын

@@EasyEnglishVideos Re-reading books is just like re-watching movies :-).

Maybe a video of Mitch’s hobbies?

@EasyEnglishVideos

Жыл бұрын

Hahaha maybe a video for later, maybe myself and Isi can try each other’s hobbies

@MDobri-sy1ce

Жыл бұрын

@@EasyEnglishVideos Maybe even Mitch's and Isi's favourite English Netflix shows or something to learn English. I have been meaning to watch the Crown but haven't got around to it yet.

@EasyEnglishVideos

Жыл бұрын

That’s a good idea! I recently got hooked on The Last of Us! Such a great series, but a Netflix one is something we’ll do 🙌

@MDobri-sy1ce

Жыл бұрын

@@EasyEnglishVideos The Last of Us is on my list but not sure when, I will get to it. Probably not until the summer of fall of next year lol.

Oh this was great content! Very good conversation ideas. Brighton has beautiful scenery also! I would be at the beach enjoying the views and looking for shells and rocks. I have never seen such little cars. How did Mitch do going up the rocks? My hobby is sewing but I do not have a machine and I'm not very good 😅

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Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching 🙌 I also love to wonder around the beach finding weathered glass pieces. I was terrible at the rock crawling, couldn’t even get off the floor onto the rock, but I guess that’s how you get into such things, as I can’t stop thinking about how I’d do it differently next time. Good luck with your sewing… keep at it 💪

*Hello !* *I'm from India.* *Q : What is your hobby ?* *A : My hobby is reading newspaper.*

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My hobbies are reading books and studying English, I hope to pick up running in the future.

The hobby I wish I had would be traveling, swimming, but all I get to do is reading, watching TV and watching KZread videos. Traveling of a sort… 😊

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Thanks for the interesting video 👍and all these people are so friendly 🤗 my hobby is growing succulents 🌵

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Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching and good luck with the succs! My hobby seems to be killing succulents. 😆😅

My current hobby is doing CrossFit. In the future I’d like to pick up rock climbing 🙂

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Жыл бұрын

Nice! With tiny RC cars or just yourself? 😆

Besides language learning, where my latest love story is Swedish, another one of mine is playing the piano, I _love_ it since I was about 15 years old. On the other hand, you could say chess is something of a "failed hobby" for me. I found it very cool right off the start, but, like with maths, it was just to quickly find out I absolutely suck at it. As for a new one, I sure would like to try my hand at pool or car racing. And speaking of cars 😁, Mitch old mate, I was reading your attempts at getting one of those nice little wheels off the ground and up the rocks didn't go too well, which is just baffling to me, considering how simple those guys made it look like! Oh well, I guess it goes to show that when deception wants to be queen, she goes for crown, scepter, coat of arms, castle and the whole deal, eh? 😎 Big hug, mate!

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Жыл бұрын

So how long have you been playing piano for? I’m trying my hand at the keys as I’m in a new-wave synth mood atm… So I used the other (competition) car, which is has a bit lore weight and smaller wheels. It was so hard, you have to really observe the terrain, a bit like a golfer on the putting green. I’d defo get hooked if I could afford to buy one of these cars.

@ControlledCha0s

Жыл бұрын

@@EasyEnglishVideos About 15 years by now! It sure has been quite a ride, since my interest in any kind of music before I took up the piano was virtually nonexistent, and therefore I knew a bare handful of pieces of any genre. In my case it was classical music that got me really hooked up, and rather astoundingly, I might add, because pretty much no one in my family or in my (admittedly small) circle of friends and acquaintances ever had any strong interest in classical, but there you go. 😎 So I went from barely sort of kinda recognizing Mozart's ubiquitous "Rondo alla turca" and Beethoven's "Für Elise" to unearthing some absolutely mind-blowing gems and jewels that I never even suspected existed. I'm not terribly knowledgeable about new wave synth pop, but the little I know I really like, too! You sure have some nice taste, Mitch, old mate! 👍 And it's awesome you're willing to try your hand at it on the keys, much success and fun! You know, as for those little cars, as much as I think I might also enjoy giving that a try, I doubt I'd have the likely _enormous_ amounts of patience needed to pull it off. It reminded me of this PC game my old man and I used to play, _"Carnivores"_ , if memory serves well. It was about hunting dinosaurs in open environments such as jungles, mountain ranges, woods, etc, and with the help not only of guns, but a special map, scents to attract carnivores, and other things, and you also had to _really_ be aware of the surroundings and have tons of patience. My dad was just a pro at it, just like at chess, whereas I would almost invariably end up getting my butt eaten off by the first dinosaur I met faster than you could say _"not again, you fool!"_ ... 😅😁

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Жыл бұрын

Hahaha… you fool! I actually really love survival type things, I’m a proper outdoorsy camping type person but love playing extreme survival games so can completely identify with this Carnivores game… might look into it later 😆😆 I’d like to keep on with piano/keys, I can play the guitar quite efficiently but I feel like piano is the one instrument that isn’t annoying when someone spontaneously starts playing (as long as it’s played well, that is) Im a big fan of Ludovico Einaudi, do you know his classical type work? It’s a bit above me at the moment, but I’m really enjoying the knob twiddling of my MicroKorg synth.

@ControlledCha0s

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@@EasyEnglishVideos Hopefully you'll like it if you look into it! I was going to add that it may not be quite the case, since it's a very old game by now, but then I remain very much in absolute love with Doom 😈 myself, and that one's even older, so there you go! 😁 Haha, well I would say it can be cringey as hell when someone starts playing any instrument out of the blue, and I'm afraid that includes the piano, too! 😅 It's true that, if the person playing actually _knows_ what they're doing and doesn't go for one of those old chestnuts, then it becomes anything but annoying or cringey, and I've gotten to know a few amazing works that way myself. And yet if I had a penny for every time I've seen someone approach a piano and right away start -butchering- playing (in varying degrees of skill-lessness, sorry, I meant skilfulness 🙃) yet *one more time* _Für Elise_ or _Ballade pour Adeline_ , ...well, I guess I wouldn't exactly be a very rich man, but I might at least have enough to pay for a proper funeral for myself! 😆 I'm afraid I'm not very familiar with Einaudi's work. The little I've listened to has seemed to me something of a mixed bag, in all honesty, with some very nice stuff, at times somewhat reminiscent of the best of Philip Glass (whose work I adore), but also some duds here and there. But if you're enjoying it, then absolutely go for it! Just like with languages and so much besides, it will obviously always work out much better if you're having fun and are really interested in it. However, there's at least one classical (strictly speaking Baroque, rather) that I always recommend anyone who wants to learn piano, whatever the genre of music they're into: J.S. Bach! The sheer size of his oeuvre might be daunting, and at first you may feel like it's all just an impenetrable, head-spinning thicket of notes where you can lose your bearings in a second, but once you realize the sort of complex and almost otherworldly beauty that's there, past the surface, it becomes a deeply rewarding experience. Not to mention that most of his works require that you develop complete hand and finger independence, as well as a more attentive listening, so as to follow all the interwoven melodic lines at the same time, which means you also get to improve your skills _enormously_ with him. And in case "serious" and "heavy" works are not your cup of tea, or you suddenly just don't feel in the mood for that, there is still plenty of good Bach pieces that are lighter and a lot of fun, too, even playful ones. 😎 And even those are aesthetically but also technically rewarding! If my rather long-winded comment on his work didn't catch your interest, then just look up these 3 vids here on YT and you'll see what I mean: • Bach, J.S. -- The Art of Fugue, Contrapunctus I (andy fillebrown) • Bach Prelude and Fugue No.17 Well-Tempered Clavier (Paul Barton) • The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (English speech & subs) (stigekalder) [1:41-5:23] I wrote the channel names in parentheses, and in the last one I also included, in square brackets, the timemarks of the relevant bit, since that one's a full, long film. The first video is Bach at some of his most "serious" and sublime, with one of his many so-called _fugues_ , a piece where there are several melodic lines playing together the same motif in harmonic fashion, and "developing" it (expanding it, playing it faster/slower, inverting it, etc.). It is an enormously complex musical form, one of the hardest to write (and to fully appreciate right away), but also one of the most beautiful, as any mathematician could tell you. 😉 The second one is a pretty good display of Bach's lighter and playful side, while still being technically impressive and challenging. Finally, the third one is an extract from one of Bach's so-called _"Brandenburg Concertos"_ , the famous harpsichord solo from the concerto's first movement, and it shows more of Bach's improvisatory (and madman's! 😁) side. Hope you enjoy it, Mitch old mate!

Hey man love the vids. Can you tell me what equipment did you use for this video and how do you hold your camera? Thanks

@EasyEnglishVideos

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Atta 🙌 I have the mic on a little 30cm arm-rig that screws into the bottom of my camera and then I have a second mic on the top of the camera facing me. 😁

@uzbabo

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@@EasyEnglishVideos what camera are you using? Ps. I want to start a man on the street channel. I don't want to be in the video but stay behind the cam with a mic.

@EasyEnglishVideos

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Good luck Atta! Its a really fun thing to do… I use a LUMIX GH4 😊📷

3:42 How come you used "Yourself" and not "You" at the beginning of the sentence?

@EasyEnglishVideos

Жыл бұрын

It's technically wrong, but is used in spoken language as a way to sound more polite and formal. It's a shortening of "You yourself, ..."

I also have a wide portfolio of hobbies. I'm a writer, a photographer, I do rock-climbing and yoga. The last couple years I've been trying to relearn how play the viola. And of course I enjoy learning languages. I've learned French and I've dabbled in Portuguese and Arabic. I did briefly study Italian in lockdown which I would like to return to at some point

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Жыл бұрын

You have a great diverse hobby selection there, what is it you photograph?

I realised the pronunciation of hobby is kobby 😂

Why the first person uses so many difficult words?

You should maybe make sreet interviews at streets, rather than at beach xd :

I have observed you say movies a lot, movies is American film is British

@EasyEnglishVideos

Жыл бұрын

True… but it doesn’t really matter, both the words have merged between both dialects, I’m pretty sure I’ve heard Spielberg talk about his favourite films.

@zakariyashakir4091

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@@EasyEnglishVideos well I always stick with British English as I say films