A to Z Listener Interview 004: Yunita from Indonesia

In this special episode of The A to Z English Podcast, we talk with Yunita from East Java, a student who was interested in English from a young age, and does her best to just make English a habit every day. Come chat with her in our Whatsapp group. (Link here: https://forms.gle/zKCS8y1t9jwv2KTn7) It's a great conversation, so you won't want to miss it! Website: https://atozenglishpodcast.com/?p=1829 Share your thoughts about today's interview in our Whatsapp group or tell us if you think you have something interesting to talk about. Perhaps you could be our next guest on the podcast! If you could take a minute and complete a short survey about the podcast, we would be very appreciative. You can find the survey here: https://forms.gle/HHNnnqU6U8W3DodK8 We would love to hear your feedback and suggestions for future episodes. Intro/Outro Music by Eaters: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/eaters/the-astronomers-office/agents-in-coffee-shops/ Full Transcript: Jack  You are listening to the A-Z English podcast.  Kevin  Welcome to 8 and the English or.  Kevin  Today we're bringing another listener interview and today we're talking to UNITA from Indonesia, from from East Bali or East Java.  Kevin  I'm sorry E Java specifically, not too far from Bali as she was telling us before we before we got started here, so.  Kevin  You need to.  Kevin  Thanks for joining us.  Kevin  This evening, is it about dinner time?  Yunita  Uh, yes, yes.  Yunita  About to have dinner, but not yet.  Yunita  I told him to wait.  Kevin  Yeah, I just finished dinner myself actually, so.  Kevin  Thanks for joining us.  Kevin  It's it's great to to have you and to talk to you about about English here tonight.  Yunita  Pleasure is mine was so small.  Jack  Absolutely, yeah.  Kevin  Just to get started, we were talking a little bit before we got started and you were saying that.  Kevin  You're a teacher and.  Kevin  You teach a lot.  Kevin  Of different things, but with English.  Yunita  When did you?  Kevin  First, Start learning English when you were an elementary school student, or after or before.  Yunita  I was eight years Old Town.  Yunita  I was allowed to do school and at night time there is no English lesson.  Kevin  8 so.  Yunita  At my school was my brother, my oldest brother, who brought this to me into my life.  Kevin  OK.  Yunita  So my oldest brother got these English lesson at his junior high school and he was like trying to read some short stacks.  Kevin  Oh, wow.  Yunita  And I was curious what is done because the language the way he speak is weird.  Yunita  It sounds like aliens language.  Yunita  And I asked him, what is that?  Yunita  And I decide it's English.  Yunita  What is English?  Yunita  English is international language and everybody loses.  Yunita  Will talk about it and if you want to communicate with people in Eustis.  Yunita  And at that time I.  Yunita  Was so curious about that really.  Yunita  And I was.  Kevin  So your your older brother and he's he was in a middle school, he said.  Kevin  So what he's maybe five years older than you about?  Yunita  Yes, yes.  Yunita  I I was eight and.  Yunita  He was 1515 imported.  Kevin  Oh, a bit more than so long.  Yunita  More here, more than.  Kevin  OK, OK, well, he's, he seems quite mature than to even at that young age to be teaching his young elementary sister.  Yunita  He actually doesn't care if I if I was curious or not.  Yunita  He just said this is English and that's it.  Yunita  And what is not English?  Kevin  This is go always, yeah.  Yunita  What do you think with and what is English?  Yunita  English is international language.  Yunita  That's it.  Yunita  And he just left me with this curiosity and I was like.  Yunita 1  What is there? Please tell.  Yunita  Me and he doesn't.  Yunita  He didn't even bother me to explain what is in his own blood.  Yuni