925. Walaa’s Experience in Syria 🇸🇾 Walaa Mouma Returns (Part 2)

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  For more information, visit teacherluke.co.uk hello listeners, and welcome back to Luke's English Podcast.

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  Very nice to be talking to you in this episode.

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  This is episode number 925 and it's the second part of a two part episode featuring a conversation with Walamuma Uma from Syria.

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  Wala was first on this podcast back in episode 703, which is about four years ago.

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  And in that episode she talked about how she improved her English largely on her own.

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  She really focused on her English when she was a student.

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  It was a very difficult time for her, but she really, really doubled down on her English and she used various focused methods to improve her level of English.

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  She talks about those methods.

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  She talks about exactly how she did it in episode 703.

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  Yeah, so she's from Syria and she was living in Syria, near Damascus at that time.

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  And of course that was during the Syrian revolution, as she describes it, the uprising of people, the protest and civilian uprisings throughout Syria and then the subsequent violent reaction by the Ba'athist regime, which lasted from February 2011 all the way through to December 2024, fairly recently when the regime essentially ended when Bashar Al Assad left the country.

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  Things have changed now, but it was, yes, a very difficult time for Walla to to continue her studies in Syria, but she managed to do it.

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  So in part one of this, the previous episode, number 924, as you may have heard, Wala talks about her academic studies because these days she lives in the uk.

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  She managed to get scholarship funding through a UK government scholarship program.

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  That's how she was able to leave Syria, go to the UK and study, which was her dream, to do a Master's degree in the uk.

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  She managed to do it.

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  She found a way to do it and she moved to Coventry where she studied at Warwick University, doing a Master's degree.

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  And so, yeah, the previous episode was all about her academic journey towards studying for a PhD and essentially helping refugees to learn English.

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