A Fantastic Start! Highlights from Our First Global Live English Session · Simple English Videos
首次全球直播英语对话活动圆满成功，来自俄罗斯、越南和土耳其的学习者分享了他们生命中最重要的人的故事。适合练习口语表达和话题讨论。
Hi, I'm Jay from Simple English Videos, and I wanted to report to you on the success of our first live with Jay video conversation.
大家好，我是来自 Simple English Videos 的 Jay。我想向大家汇报我们首次进行的“Jay 现场视频对话”活动的进展情况。
It was a lot of fun.
真的很有趣。
In this meeting we had people from Vietnam, from Russia, from Turkey,
在这次会议上，有来自越南、俄罗斯和土耳其的人参加。
and I logged in from Spain, so it was truly an international event.
我是从西班牙登录的，因此这确实是一场国际性的活动。
In our Simple English Videos newsletter, I proposed a subject that each of us could talk about for three minutes.
在我们的“简单英语视频”新闻通讯中，我提出了一个主题，希望大家每人都能围绕这个主题进行三分钟的讨论。
In this session, the subject was the most influential or important person in your life,
在这次讨论中，我们讨论的主题是你生命中最有影响力或最重要的人。
and we got some amazing answers.
我们得到了一些非常精彩的回答。
Tatiana provides me with our family's stories and women's wisdom in order to support me, to guide me with different aspects of my life,
塔蒂亚娜向我讲述了我们家族的故事以及女性们积累的智慧，这些都有助于支持我、引导我应对生活中的各种挑战。
and she makes me feel happy every day.
她每天都让我感到快乐。
My mom, unfortunately, she passed away a few years ago, but she's still in my heart, like always,
不幸的是，我的母亲几年前去世了，但她依然像以往一样，活在我的心中。
of course, and she taught me to be honest, to be kind,
当然了。她还教会了我要诚实、要善良。
to love animals, and maybe you've seen my cat walking around the room.
热爱动物——也许你见过我的猫在房间里四处走动。
The most influenced person is my old manager.
受影响最大的人是我的前经理。
I really learned everything from him about management things or different things, and I worked with him maybe eight years.
我真的从他那里学到了很多关于管理方面的知识以及其他各种方面的知识；我和他共事了大约八年时间。
Some of us talked generally about our lives, too.
我们中的一些人也泛泛而谈了自己的生活。
I'm from Russia, but I live in Vietnam right now.
我来自俄罗斯，但目前住在越南。
I'm a work teacher in Russia, but now I'm
我在俄罗斯担任一名职业学校的教师，不过现在的情况有些变化……
pretty lance.
漂亮的长矛。
And I spoke about the most important person in my life as well.
我还谈到了我生命中最重要的人。
Her name is Victoria Hollitt, or Vicky, and Vicky was actually a very famous English language training author or Oxford University Press.
她的名字叫维多利亚·霍利特（Victoria Hollitt），大家都叫她“维基”（Vicky）。维基曾是一位非常著名的英语教学专家，她的著作由牛津大学出版社（Oxford University Press）出版。
Now, these meetings take place every Sunday, but every week we change the time.
这些会议每周日都会举行，不过每周我们都会更改会议的具体时间。
So this coming Sunday, for example, will be meeting at 9am GMT,
例如，下个星期天，我们将在格林尼治标准时间（GMT）上午9点举行会议。
and this Sunday after that will be meeting at 6pm GMT and so on.
接下来的这个星期天，会议将在格林尼治标准时间（GMT）下午6点举行，之后也会按照同样的时间安排继续进行。
The responses we've gotten so far have been wonderful, and I thank all of you who have written to me,
到目前为止，我们收到的反馈都非常令人满意。感谢所有给我写信的人。
Jay at simpleenglishvideos .com, expressing interest in these sessions.
Jay 在 simpleenglishvideos.com 上表示了对这些课程的兴趣。
Now, if you want to participate, write to me, Jay at simpleenglishvideos .com, and put the word live in the time you'd like to participate,
现在，如果您想参与，请给我写信，邮箱地址是 simpleenglishvideos.com，同时在信中注明您希望参与的具体时间（请在时间前加上 “live” 这个字）。
6pm GMT or 9am GMT, in the subject line of the email.
请在邮件的主题行中注明时间：格林尼治标准时间（GMT）下午6点，或格林尼治标准时间上午9点。
I'll register you for the next available session.
我会为您注册下一次空闲的培训课程。
Now, because we have nearly 300 ,000 subscribers here on the Simple English Videos YouTube channel,
现在，由于我们的“Simple English Videos” YouTube 频道拥有近 30 万名订阅者，
I do have to limit the number of participants in each session to 12.
我确实需要将每场会议的参与者人数限制在 12 人以内。
And I'm there to help with vocabulary and grammar.
我在那里帮助大家学习词汇和语法。
And just as it was in our first session, it will be fun getting to know everybody who's participating.
就像在我们的第一次会议中一样，认识所有参与其中的人一定会是一件很有趣的事情。
By the way, in the description to this video, you'll find a website link that lets you convert GMT,
顺便说一下，在这个视频的描述中，你会找到一个网站链接，通过该链接你可以将时间格式从 GMT 转换为其他格式。
that is Greenwich Mean Time, also known as Universal Time, or UTC,
那就是格林尼治标准时间（Greenwich Mean Time），也被称为世界时（Universal Time）或 UTC（Coordinated Universal Time）。
to your local time zone, so you can choose which Sunday session works best for you.
根据您所在地区的时区，您可以自行选择最适合您的周日上课时间。
Also, there's a link to the newsletter sign -up form, and you'll need that to get the subject matter for our discussions.
此外，还有一个链接可以跳转到新闻通讯的注册表单；您需要填写该表单才能获取我们讨论所需的相关信息。
So, I look forward to hearing from all of you.
因此，我非常期待收到大家的来信。
This is a wonderful opportunity to speak English in conversation and get tips on improving your English.
这是一个绝佳的机会：你可以通过日常对话来练习英语，并获得提高英语水平的建议。
Hey, I'll see you on the webinar.
嘿，我们在网络研讨会上见吧。
Bye now.
再见了。