Let's start off by talking about social media. How often do you use social media? >> I actually just started using social media like two years back during I think like right after co.
So I wouldn't say I'm active as such but I'm trying to get into it like a full-on hobby but not really into it as of now. >> Which platform do you use most often? >> Um I don't know if I can say this but right before co we had musically which is like the prior name for Tik Tok.
I was on it for sure. I was binge watching it every single day and yeah, I think if you go back you can find my old videos. So that was the first ever platform that I use but right now I think I'm mainly focusing on Instagram because of university and everything.
So it's between both those two mostly. >> Do you ever post content on social media? >> Yeah, I actually post a lot of dance content cuz that's something I'm really passionate about.
So on Instagram it's mainly dance or like places that I visit or with friends. Tik Tok is just random things that we record as you know uni friends and all of that. >> Now let's talk about your studies.
>> Okay. >> What what are you studying at university? >> So I'm doing my bachelor's in marketing.
That wasn't really my first choice cuz I wanted to do psychology and prior to that I wanted to do aviation. So it keep like it kept going back and forth between those two. But I finally decided on marketing.
>> And do you like marketing? >> I love marketing. I feel like it was meant for me.
It it's almost like it chose me. Yeah. It's not like I chose.
It chose me. So, it just feels like I belong. >> What career would you like to do in the future with marketing?
>> Uh, really haven't thought about it cuz when they told us to choose a degree, I didn't know what to choose cuz, you know, I was barely 17 or 16 when I had to apply for university. So, I just thought that choosing marketing meant that I would be in this really broad platform and the degree is so vast that, you know, you can go into any career you want. But as of right now, I really want to get a name for myself and create a business or something.
So, probably having a business of my own one day. >> Now, let's talk about fruit. >> Okay.
>> What's the most popular type of fruit in your country? >> Oh, so where we come from, there's mainly mangoes, but I think uh in south of India, they really love jackf fruit. They basically involve it in every single thing, in every drink, in every food and curry mainly.
So yeah, it's jackf fruit, mango, those two for sure. >> And what's your favorite fruit? >> Mango any day.
>> Are there any types of fruit that you really don't enjoy? >> I don't know. I mean, there's nothing that I hate as such, but I feel like dragon fruit does not really have much flavor.
I don't know. Maybe it's just my experience, but I think I might like it if I try it again. It's been a few years.
So, >> do you like eating cooked food that has fruit in it? >> Um, that could be a controversial topic. It really depends on what like you can't if you're saying pizza for example, I hate the whole concept of pineapple on pizza.
I feel like it ruins it completely. But overall, yeah, I guess why not go have a little bit of risk-taking, you know. >> And where you live, uh, where do people normally buy their fruit?
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It's our gift to you. You can download it 100% for free. >> So, where I'm from in India, people usually buy from street vendors.
I feel like it's also really affordable, but it depends on which, you know, class you come from. If you're more on the higher side, people do go to malls and shop from there. But like middle class and lower class, it's always on the street.
It's just better for all of us. >> Now, let's talk about walking. How many steps do you normally get in per day?
This is is it like before university start or after? Cuz it's going crazy right now. I think I walked 20,000 average every day.
Yeah. >> And when you were in school, did you walk less than now? >> I mean, we did have school transport, right?
So, comparatively, yeah. But I also was really involved in a lot of physical activities. I was on the athletics team and all of that.
So, it really depended on the everyday thing cuz athletics was like twice a week or something of that. But right now, as I'm walking every day, obviously the steps just keep on increasing. So, yeah.
>> Do you like to live in a place that is walkable? >> Oh, I love it. Right now, where we're living, I feel like everything is very accessible.
There's metro nearby. There are malls and university is also not really far. So, I feel like just having that sense of, you know, accessibility is always good.
This is an Indian movie. It's called Zindugi Namiki Dubara, which is a Hindi movie. And I think that was like one of the first movies I saw if I'm being very honest.
But the thing is back in the day. It had a lot of meaning and I don't think I would have, you know, understood that cuz it was a really deep meaning. But I I remember watching it like 2 months ago and I feel like I missed out on so much just because, you know, that age difference was there obviously and it speaks a lot about how you live such a small life and you know time goes by really fast and you meet all these people and there's so much to the world that you don't really see.
So yeah, Zindagi Zindugi Namei Dubara was obviously something that I wish I could rewatch for the first time again and with friends. It's just such a beautiful movie that talks about, you know, these three guy friends who go to Spain as a vacation trip and they come across a lot of fun activities and they just have a really amazing time. So I'm pretty sure that's something that really uh would have encouraged me and my friends to, you know, take up now.
It really did change my mindset on life and I think that's the main reason why I wish I want to travel the world and experience every culture and see how people you know are in every country and what they like about themselves and yeah just overall I just want to learn a lot of new things and experience new cultures and travel with my friends. Yeah. So probably that um what else I would say that oh there were a lot of scenes which involved um you know where they were talking about this is one friend that was really scared to take risks and towards the end of the movie he loved experiencing new things.
He was very adventurous and I feel like that's something that you know really teaches you to take risks in your life cuz you never know you might actually have fun doing it and yeah so I think that's probably going to be my favorite movie. So, we've been discussing a movie and we're going to continue to talk about the theater, plays and and acting in your country. Do people uh often go to the theater or plays?
>> 100%. I feel like a huge part about our culture and just our country in general is the movie, the art, the music. I feel like it really plays such a huge role and it's not just locally.
I feel like even internationally, our movies hold such a big value. So, yeah, you can really see that, you know. um curiosity and eagerness to watch those new movies and that excitement that people have built up and that energy, you know, you can really see it through the audience.
So, I think it's a huge huge huge part of our country. >> Is it easy to get tickets to big shows? >> Um, it really depends.
If you're it's like first come first serve. So, if you book early, you're lucky. Otherwise, you do have to wait in the line for sure.
Maybe watch it like three months after it's released or on Netflix or whatever television platform that you have. Yeah. >> Do you think that tickets should be cheaper for younger people?
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All you have to do is just go to the description, click the link, and you can get 10% off today. I wish it was free, you know, cuz back in the day when I was like two or three years old and my dad would have to pay the tickets even then cuz I would usually fall asleep in the theater. So, I do wish that, you know, it would be free for at least until like 6 years old and then after that, yeah, you can do the regular payment for sure.
Yeah. >> Now, let's talk about acting. >> Mhm.
>> Why do people want to become actors? >> Oh, this is funny cuz as a kid, I would love to act. I remember, you know, sitting in my room, I wouldn't let anyone know.
I would be recording like audition videos and I would pretend like I was the casting director as well as the auditioner and I would record videos and I think the huge like the main reason why is cuz obviously who doesn't want to be seen on the big screen. So that's surely one of it. Just knowing that you're a star and many people across the world are going to be seeing you and are going to be in awe of you and you know just that whole idea of being famous and being loved by so many people.
I think that automatically just brings so much energy into you and um yeah I just feel like it's such a great experience. It's very different. It's obviously very saturated as well now cuz there are a lot of people there but I feel like it's really competitive and if you get through it it's great.
It's amazing. It's your life is set pretty much. >> To become a successful actor, what are the qualities someone should have?
>> Patience for sure. I feel like you do have to keep auditioning again and again until you know you find a role that's suitable for you. And obviously talent, but I feel like you can build upon talent.
No one's born with talent. So, it's just a lot of hard work just really training yourself to, you know, go through every day and practice and patience and resilience basically. >> And do you think there are any drawbacks to becoming an actor?
100% at least now at least in my country I feel like there is a lot of drama you know within the society and within the career degree whatever I feel like it can be very um bad in terms of mental health I've seen a lot of cases where actors have cuz they've been going through a lot of backlash and all of that. So I feel like it can be bad sometimes, but also if you avoid all that negativity and you avoid all those bad commends, which is obviously difficult, but if you somehow do manage to create that barrier and that wall and if your guard is really high up, I think you can get through it. >> So let me give you some feedback on part one, part two, and part three of your test >> and then we'll talk about your scores and how you could improve.
Overall, very, very good. Part one. The thing I love about your performance is you're so enthusiastic.
>> Like you were a little bit nervous before the test, but that I could not tell >> at all. Maybe it was the nervous energy coming out. What did you >> Yeah, I had butterflies in my stomach throughout the whole thing, but got through it.
>> Some people when they're very nervous make lots of mistakes. You didn't. I I was really admiring your performance because you were enthusiastic and speaking quite quickly and and and with enthusiasm.
But what normally happens when somebody does that is they can make a lot of fluency errors or they can make grammar and vocabulary. That wasn't the case. It was someone speaking at a very high level enthusiastically.
So that that's great. >> I've been told that when I get nervous I speak really fast. you.
So you're from [laughter] India. Yeah. >> And it is a not a common weakness.
I wouldn't call it a weakness. This is a common trait of many Indian speakers. I think when you're speaking your native language, you speak very quickly >> and that you translate that to when you're speaking English.
If someone has a very strong Indian accent and they speak very very quickly, it can affect the examiner's ability to understand you. You do not have that problem. So you're speaking a little bit quickly.
Mhm. >> But I don't mean too fast. I just mean in general quickly and you're speaking clearly, which is very, very good.
Believe me, if you are speaking too quickly, I would tell you to slow down. I'm not going to say that to you because if I tell you to slow down, you're going to be thinking about that in the test and you're going to be conscious of that and we don't want you to be thinking of of that. We want you just to naturally answer the question.
So, do not worry about that. It's it's very very good. >> Part two, you didn't make any notes.
I just I noted that down. >> I was doing it in my head. >> So if you can do it in your head, >> you have an 18y old brain.
I do not. So I have a 43y old brain. I cannot do that.
My I could do it when I was 18. I can't do it. But if you can do that, that's fine.
But I would recommend as you say, I'm making you feel comfortable. Yeah. >> You seem like a nice person.
>> Nice people when they meet people who are not nice to them >> normally can be, oh, what am I doing? and get a little bit nervous. >> I'm not saying every examiner will be that way, but it is a possibility.
It is a possibility that they are tired. They are grumpy. Not everyone will be that way, but it could happen.
And they're not doing their job wrong. If they're doing maybe they're just tired and they're really focusing and it's it takes energy to be nice to people all day. [laughter] >> It does.
Um, so they might just be lacking in energy and they need that the last of their remaining battery to to do your scores accurately and the the smiles are not not coming. If that happens, I would recommend for part two making a few notes of like what are other things that you could talk about, add a few more things. So describe a play like what was the play about or what was the film about?
How did you feel about it? Um what happened in it? Are there any actors or actresses that you really admire in there?
What do they like? Just add a few notes of like easy things for you to talk about. So, if you run out of things to say, you can just look at your notes and start talking again.
I think you'll be fine. But the uh >> No, I did kind of forget what I had planned. So, I I understand.
>> But you talked about that for uh for for nearly 2 minutes exactly. Um so, no problems for part two. Part three, again, you developed your answers really, really well.
Um, you expanded on your answers, you gave examples. Um, I would have no no problems with part three. Um, you handled those question.
Are you familiar with that topic or is that a topic you? >> No, I just thought of it on the spot. >> Okay, great.
Great. Cuz the way you were speaking about it was like you were talking about something that you were really passionate about. >> No idea.
[laughter] >> Okay. I wish I did, but >> that's even more impressive. If it was like you're a a movie buff and you love acting, >> then I would be like, "Oh, okay.
What if you get a topic you're unfamiliar with? " But if that was an unfamiliar topic and you performed at that level, >> excellent. You know, you're doing really well.
So, let's talk about pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary. There's one area that I think you can work on more than others. Now, probably your strength is fluency.
So, the speed of your voice affects fluency and it affects pronunciation. We've already talked about why it can affect pronunciation. >> It can affect fluency if you speak too quickly because you kind of trip over your own words.
Sometime you don't do this, by the way, >> but some people who speak too quickly, >> their voice, their their lips are going faster than their brain. >> Yeah. >> Your brain and your and your mouth are going kind of at the same speed.
So, you have no problem with that. Again, you're 18, so your brain is probably firing on all cylinders. So, no problems there.
If you were speaking very quickly and then cuz some people they speak really quickly, but they're constantly go um like uh uh you don't do that. It's just >> I felt like I did. >> You did you do it a little bit, but not unnaturally.
Okay. So, it it's totally fine. If you were stumbling and you were running out of things to say and you were having multiple audible pauses that sounded very unnatural, I would tell you just take a beat and slow down.
>> But one of the things that is just very impressive about you is how enthusiastically you speak. And I I would never tell someone to not be themselves if that is a plus, if that helps them. Sometimes people are themselves and it doesn't help them.
they're doing, you know, and we need to change that a little bit. You are being yourself and and being and performing really, really well. So, I think fluency and coherence are a big strength for you.
Pronunciation, the examiner is thinking, can I clearly understand what she's saying? You do. You don't have really any accent interference.
You can definitely tell you're from India. But the good news is that the IELS test does not judge you on do you have an Indian accent or a British accent or an American accent. You can be have an Indian accent that is really clear or an Indian accent that is impenetrable and no one can understand it.
You have one of the very clear ones. >> So again, that's great that you are being yourself. >> Our accents are part of our identity.
So, you know, it's >> embracing it. >> You're embracing it, which is which is excellent, you know. Um and and keep doing that.
Your enthusiasm if we are sometimes people come in and they speak with a monotone. >> Yeah. >> Everything is very flat.
My name is Chris. I am from Ireland. >> And what we do is like get them to try and pretend to be enthusiastic.
>> Yeah. >> Cuz that forces if you feel enthusiastic about something, you naturally your intonation goes up and down. We don't need to do that with you because you're naturally enthusiastic and just an enthusiastic person.
So your intonation is really really good. I think you would get a very very high score for pronunciation as well. So fluency and pronunciation excellent.
Grammar I I spotted a few small errors from time to time. None of them are major and they're very infrequent. So it's not something I would really worry about.
Okay. >> I think you can get one of the very uh high marks despite little slips from time to time. um I would maybe need to listen back and listen a little bit more carefully to um to but I didn't on first listen >> I didn't really identify anything.
Vocabulary is a tricky one. So for many Indian people that I work with they have been taught that they have to use advanced vocabulary and they often learn lists of vocabulary and it ends up that they try and sound more advanced than they're capable of. they're they're using vocabulary that is above their level and they use it incorrectly.
>> Yeah. >> You don't do that at all and you use if you were using very advanced vocabulary. What we our advice would be would be just use simpler words that are that you know they're sure and correct.
So let me give you some examples. You said it's such a beautiful movie. They do fun activities.
They have an amazing time. So beautiful, fun, amazing. These are all just normal words that are correct.
They are appropriate. >> I hate telling people >> to try and use more advanced vocabulary, especially when they're using it correctly and appropriately. >> But if I had to give you some advice, if I had to say this is a negative, which I don't think it really is.
As I say, I hate giving this advice. You could maybe use a a wider range of more advanced words, but you're only 18. you're going to study in an English-speaking university.
>> Yeah. >> By the time you're 22, you will have a much wider vocabulary anyway because we don't stop learning vocabulary at 18. I think in a few years, you will just naturally learn and be able to use much more advanced vocabulary.
So, right now, to get into university, you do not need any more vocabulary because to get into the university you want to get, you only really need 6. 5 or seven. You're well above that.
You're way above that. >> So if I tell you don't say beautiful movie, don't say fun activities, don't say amazing, say something more advanced, >> you're going to attempt that and mess it up. >> Yeah.
>> And if you do that again and again, you'll get a you will get below the score that you need. So I would suggest strategically use the vocabulary you naturally use, which is perfect is great. And as you go to university and you study in English and you get because we can't force vocabulary into somebody's head.
>> Yeah. >> The best way to learn vocabulary is naturally over a long period of time. >> Yeah.
>> The human brain it's controversial how many new words but uh it's something like around 10 a [snorts] day. >> Okay. If you are studying marketing at an English speaking university, you will naturally learn about 10 new words a day over the course of three or four years.
That's a lot of words. Like that that's a lot. Plus just watching English movies, reading English books.
So what I'm saying is you are on the right course. Yeah. >> And for your age, you're amazing.
>> Very, very, very good. So you're way above >> Yeah. most Indian people attending an undergraduate degree in an English-sp speakaking university.
So, you're doing very, very, very well. So, >> I feel good hearing that. >> Yeah, you're doing amazingly well.
I have nothing else to say. Any questions? >> No, it was great.
>> No. >> Yeah. >> Well done.
>> Thank you.
