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Hello everyone.
Thank you for tuning into laying focus 

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TV.
I am your host Paul and today we're 

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going to talk about the difference 
between informal and formal language and

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which one you should focus on learning 
when you're learning a new language.

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We have two special guests with us 
today.

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They both happened to be cousins of 
mine.

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One is my cousin Fred and the other is 
my cousin Ivan.

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So welcome to both of you.
Yo,

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what's up?
Okay,

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so let's start off by talking about some
of the differences between formal 

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language and informal language and later
on we'll get into which one you should 

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focus on learning when you learn a new 
language.

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So far more frank,
I'd like to start with you.

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Would you tell us a little bit about 
formal language and how it differs from 

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informal language?
Formal speech usually mirrors the 

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written language,
so when people are speaking formally,

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they are speaking with the written 
language in mind.

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They might be seeing the sentences 
inside their head as they are saying 

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them.
They are keeping grammar and mind.

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They're conscious of grammar and they're
constructing those sentences carefully 

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to follow the rules of grammar that they
learned in school.

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And they might be using some vocabulary 
that they see written in books,

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but they don't usually use in casual 
conversation.

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And maybe the most important thing,
the most important differences that they

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are enunciating all of the words very 
clearly.

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So the people who find the formal 
language quite easy to learn are people 

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who are visual learners and people who 
are kind of analytical.

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So that gets them thinking about the 
different pieces of the sentence and how

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to put them together.
Those kinds of people learn the formal 

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language quite easily,
and they're typically tend to be quite 

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introverted.
So I'm this type of person,

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I'm this type of learner.

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I find it quite easy to learn the formal
language,

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well,
relatively easy to learn the formal 

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language.
I find it easier to learn how to 

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understand news broadcasts in a new 
language than I do to understand casual 

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conversations on the street.
That's the type of learner I am 

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naturally,
just because of my personality and my 

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learning style.
I'm a visual learner.

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I'm introverted and I'm quite 
analytical.

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Hmm.
That's all very interesting.

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So let's hear from informal.
Ivan,

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can you tell us a little bit about 
informal language and how that's 

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different from the formal language that 
frank described and the people who 

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learned a formal language really easily.