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Oh, sorry guys

I'm just practicing singing our show song

If you've ever heard of the song

Because it's such a dancy dancy song

You can dance to it

But i'm not a singer. I'm not confident about my singing

But i will introduce you somebody who is confident

His name is Mai Tien Dung

I think he is super cooL

And let's see will he dance with me

Let's go

When it comes to expressing yourself and letting your voice be heard

who else better to talk to than our guest today

and also to let us hear all the variations in his voice

so let's welcome Dung

Thank you so much for coming

Thank you for having me

Do you prefer to be called your full name or do you prefer to be called Dung?

Whatever you feel comfortable with

You are so "dễ tính"

I'm very friendly by the way

Hi to everybody who watching IELTS FACE-OFF. And this is me, Mai Tien Dung

You wanted to be a singer for a long time?

I did. But then for a while it was forbidden

because when I was younger when I was still living in Vietnam

I dreamt of being a singer, being on stage

and then when I moved to the US

that is when everything completely changed

I started studying a different path

I was moving from fashion design to interior design

to business to medical field

Oh

Yes,I did

But then I guess the passion is still in me and it caught me about one day

and then I said okay I had to follow it

When you have a passion and have a dream follow it

Do you remember some of your first songs that you started to sing?

Yes I did. It is one of the song is by Vietnamese Band

What was it called?

AC&M

Oh, AC&M. That was a long time ago

There was one song i really like. It sounds really catchy

It's called "Chuyện chàng cô đơn"

I picked that song to be one of the song i gonna go with the contest

Because of that song, people really remember my first time appear on the stage

Share us more a little bit about some of the things that you felt when you first stood on stage

when you first let your voice to be heard to the public

How did that feel?

First of all ,stage fright

So it's one of the biggest stage overseas. They have a quite big audience

and that was a competition

so everything completely more pressure than just being on stage

At first I was very afraid to be in front of a lot of people. And my voice was very low

but then there was an idea that helped me raise my voice bigger and louder

I stand on that stage because of my sister who wanted to be a singer but she couldn't

so I try to express me as my sister being on stage

That was when I start singing better and better. And then I passed the first semifinal round

to go to the final round

Where do you position yourself as a singer?

Some singers position themselves as you know like a sexy singe

Some singers positioned themselves as like a singer who can sing multiple genres

even some singers positioning themselves like this singer who knows a lot of things in the world

Who are you as a singer?

Who am I

Sexy I would say

I didn't mean to do it

I mean people people they gave me the comments

then I guess is the right path and right track for me then

because as I express myself and then they say: "You look sexy"

And then i like "Oh, ok"

But then i do see myself in different genres

I can sing Pop, R&B, some country songs

When you first decided to come back to Vietnam

Was it difficult decision?

Completely difficult. It took me a while to think about it

because everything gonna be new to me even though I'm Vietnamese

but I've live away from it for a long time

a lot of things to think about

but life is too short, you only live once

so I hope it wasn't too late for me to dig into a new path

You're a person who speaks both Vietnamese in English which language do you identify with a little bit more?

I guess Vietnamese

Vietnamese, really?

when I was right at the high school my English was better

However because since I joined in singing and then I become a senior so I had to practice more Vietnamese to sing fully

each day I had to practice how to pronounce Vietnamese more correctly

because when you sing and especially when I sing for the older audience

They do require to sing really accurately

I practice every day so because of that I speak more Vietnamese

I love that you mentioned that because I think it's it kind of reminds us a little bit about how we learn languages

I mean despite the fact that Vietnamese is all of our native languages but to be able to speak it well takes a lot of practice

same thing to be able to speak English well

People need to enunciate the consonants, they need to speak their vowels very clearly

all the stresses have to be correct

Trust me. Now when I look up a new word I still pronounce it wrong

but the thing is this is one thing I remember I always remember

That's my first English teacher told me that

well accent is sexy so keep it

who doesn't want to have to speak like correct English the way we pronounce it. But hey it's you it's who you are yeah so keep it

so what plans do you have in 2018?

For 2018

Did you have just say: 2018 "thì là"

Yeah, i know i did

I guess 2018 I want to have a lot of projects coming out, a lot of new MVs new songs reach out to more audience

of course I want to have a who knows a live show

Are you ready for the next section which is the IELTS challenge section

Okay

I hope so

so guys IELTS challenge coming right up next

now IELTS challenge will start off with something that I call and I really love and it's called the Cai Luong challenge

I'm gonna name a couple of English songs and then you're gonna have to say it in Cai luong style for me

I have never in my life seen Cai luong ever

but I think they said Cai luong defies anything

Really?

let's try

Let's try with "Despacito"

Oh my goodness

Oh my god. This is horrible

So will we try one more song?

An easy song"Twinkle twinkle little star" in Cai luong style

Oh my goodness

I love it

Now with the painful voice

I said you've just lost a lover and then you switch it to like a manly voice who is about to try to attract somebody

Oh my goodness

Try

I hope i did it right

That was sexy right?

Oh my voice today

I guess i crack it up. Let's me try again

Steve Wonder?

Is it? Steve Wondung

Thanks a lot Mai Tien Dung for coming

Thank you

Why don't you give our audience probably 2 to 3 vocabulary

to showcase your singing, to showcase raising letting his or her voice be heard, being on stage, whatever it is

I would say stage fright: being afraid to be on stage.

I would say be courage, be strong honestly

And sing whatever's in your heart

Yes. Sing your heart out

All right I love that

I love singing your heart out and I love accent is sexy

Yes sexy. Trust me, trust me

Well don't be afraid to learn English. Don't be afraid to speak up

And don't be afraid that people want to judge you Because to say it, if you're wrong, people correct.

And when people correct you, that's how you learn faster

Watch a movie, listen to music

That's the best way to learn English and how to speak English well

Of course we have another way for you guys to learn English

And that's with our IELTS Expert and that's the section coming right up next

So he or she can fix a couple of mistakes that you actually get to see on screen.

So stay tuned, don't go anywhere