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hello this is 6 minute english from

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bbc learning english i'm nail

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i was a boy i wanted

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to be a fireman when i grew up

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how about you bested you have any childhood

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dreams

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i wanted to be an astronaut

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and fly to the moon

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when we're young most of us have

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big dreams and plans for the future

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unfortunately as we grow up

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these childhood dreams often get

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lost in the adult world of jobs

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money families and careers

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but not for everyone

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daisy from new zealand and

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how men from argentina a

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to people who decided to follow

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that childhood dreams they wanted

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to world's to become a utopia

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a perfect ideal society

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where everyone is happy and gets along

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with each other in this program

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will be hearing how daisy and herman

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made their dreams come true

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not by changing the wells but

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by changing them falls and

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as usual will be learning some new

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vocabulary to

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that's a before that i have

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a question for you best following

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your dreams can be tough but not

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following them can leave you regressing

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all the things you wanted to do that

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didn't in twenty twelve australian

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nurse brawny were wrote her best selling

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book the top five regrets of the dying

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after interviewing terminally ill patients

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about their life regrets so

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what do you think that's hop regret was

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regret was a i wish i hadn't

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worked so hard

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the i wish i had followed my

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dreams or see i wish i'd made

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more money

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well

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they wish they'd

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follow that during

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okay bath i'll reveal

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the correct answer at the end of the program

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the first dream out we're going to meet lives

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in riverside a peace

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loving community in new zealand where

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everyone says everything riverside

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members works of a communities businesses

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including a farm a hotel

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and a cafe the

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money they earn is collected

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and shared between everyone equally

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they they who was born in east germany

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joined riverside and two thousand and four

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here's he explains her belief and sharing

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to bbc world service program the

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documentary

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what i think i always believed in

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is that the sharing of resources

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and can provide a group of people were quite

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a great advantage but it doesn't

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matter how many hours you work or what

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work you do everyone is getting the same

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amount and that is something

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that many people outside of herbicides

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really struggle with and where they

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are often getting this communism label

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arms attached to us on

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because it's so it's seems so outlandish

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for people

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aside isn't a communist

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community in fact people

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that many different political views

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live there but days he froze

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that local people struggle with

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the idea that everything is sad if

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you struggle with an idea you

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find it difficult to access or

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think about it

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daisy also says some local people

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cold riverside outlandish

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strange and unusual

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our second group of dream as our

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family the in

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three thousand childhood sweethearts

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herman and candle areas that bullets

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a vintage car and sets of from argentina

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to travel around the world with

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less than three and a half thousand dollars

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in their pockets twenty

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two years and three children later

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they have visited over a hundred

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countries meeting with com people

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and experiences on the way

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here herman zap explains

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to bbc world service is the documentaries

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how following his dream has changed

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him for the better

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i am so happy with a herrmann the right now

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did i know now the only one

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who went to conquer war by the one

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who was conquered by the war

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i learned so much from people and

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it's amazing how the more you meet

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people the more you know story how much more

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humble you become because you notice

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that you are a beautiful tiny

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piece of san but

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am very important piece of sound like everyone

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is right

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after many years traveling meeting

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new people and hearing best stories

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herman is more humble not

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proud or arrogance he

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no longer wants to conquer the world

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to control it by force rather

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he has been conquered by his experiences

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herman compares himself to a

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beautiful but tiny piece of sand

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and uses the phrase a grain

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of sand to describe things which are

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insignificant in themselves but

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at the same time or an important

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part of the whole

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the and ham and of their examples

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of dream is who follow their dream

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and found a happy life lived without

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regret which reminds me of your

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question nail

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yes i asked about ronnie

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where's books the top five regrets

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of the dying what do you think

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the number one regret was fast

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i guess it was be not

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following you dream

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which was the right answer

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not having the courage to follow

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your dreams was listed as the

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top life regret at

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least we have people like daisy and herman

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to remind us dreams can come true

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okay let's recap the

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vocabulary from this program starting

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with utopia a perfect

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world where everyone is happy

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if you struggle with an idea he

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find it difficult to access the

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adjective outlandish means

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strange and unusual to

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conquer something means to control it

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by force

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someone who is humble is not proud

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or arrogance

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and finally the phrase a grain of

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sand described some things which is

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both insignificant yet somehow

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important

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