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Hello this is AJ, welcome to the point-of-view stories for this month’s lesson. This month the point of view will be a little different. We’re going to try something different. So in the first version of the story I will tell the story as if I am Chim-chim, so first person. We call that first person. That’s not important, but just imagine that I’m Chim-chim the monkey and I’m telling my own story, so this will change the way the story is told a little bit. Here we go.

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Hi, I’m Chim-chim the monkey and I am an entrepreneur. I’m an entrepreneur. I love to begin new businesses. I love to start new businesses and I love something else. I love salsa. Not the salsa dancing, I love to eat salsa, especially spicy salsa um, yummy. So I have decided to start my own salsa company. I’m going to start a salsa company and I will build it into a huge, massive, incredible salsa company.

It will be the biggest and best salsa company in the world, but first I need money so I’m going to go to a bank. The problem is this. In Honolulu, where I live, they don’t lend money to monkeys. See, I need a line of credit to start my company. I need $20 million dollars to start my company, but they don’t lend to monkeys. It’s discrimination!

So, you know, I try anyway and I go and I try to get some money from the bank and, of course, they say no. The bank doesn’t lend me any money. I can’t borrow money from banks because I’m a monkey. It’s so unfair. So my next idea is to do a stock IPO, an Initial Public Offering. So I do all of the paperwork and I do an IPO. I offer my stock to the public and the world and I wait for them to buy stock. Give me money so I can begin this company.

Unfortunately, I sell no stock at all, none. No one buys stock from me, probably because I’m a monkey. So finally I decide to just bootstrap my company. I am going to bootstrap it. I will build it from nothing. First I collect peppers and bananas and tomatoes. Bananas are my secret ingredient for salsa and lots and lots and lots of spices and I mix them together and I create a delicious, incredible, unique salsa.

Because I’m bootstrapping, I have no money, I sell my salsa at flea markets. I go to little flea markets where there are a lot of home-based businesses and I sell my salsa on the weekends at flea markets and it becomes very popular. Gradually, step by step, my customers grow in number and so does my company.

My company gradually expands and after I have a lot of customers I finally decided to hire some employees. My company continues growing and growing and growing and getting bigger and more successful until finally I build a huge, massive, incredible salsa company and I personally become a billionaire!

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Okay, that is the end of our first version of our story. So that was told by Chim-chim the monkey. So, of course, there’s a few little verb changes, a few little changes. Don’t think about it too much, just listen to each version.

Now, the next version I will tell myself, AJ, as if I’m telling it about Chim-chim and I’ll do it in the present as if it’s happening now.

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So Chim-chim is an entrepreneur and he loves salsa. Chim-chim loves salsa. He decides to start a salsa company and he decided he needs $20 million dollars to do this.

So he goes to a bank in Honolulu and he asked for a $20 million dollar line of credit and the bank laughs at him. The bank officer says “No, we don’t lend to monkeys.” He says “Please lend me some money. Please, please, please, please, please! Please lend me some money. I only need $20 million dollars.” And they say “No, we do not lend to monkeys.” And so Chim-chim cannot borrow any money from the bank. So next he decides to do a stock IPO, to offer his stock to the public.

He does his IPO, but unfortunately no one buys the stock. He does not sell any stock at all, so finally he decides to bootstrap his company. He collects peppers, bananas, tomatoes, spices and he makes them into a delicious salsa. He sells them on weekends at flea markets and little by little his customers grow in number. Little by little his company expands.

And, finally, after he has a lot of customers he hires employees and, of course, this helps his company to grow even bigger, even bigger. His company continues to expand, continues to expand until finally he builds a large and successful company and Chimchim becomes a billionaire.

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All right, that’s the end of version two, just telling the story as if it’s happening now, telling it about someone else. Let’s do the third version.

The last version we’ll do the future again. We’ll just imagine that this is a dream or imagine that we’re predicting this, that this is something that will happen in the future, just to give you some practice talking about the future. Here we go.

In the future there will be a monkey. His name will be Chim-chim and he’s gonna be an entrepreneur.

For our new members, ‘gonna’ means going to. We use it in speaking all the time, but we don’t use it in writing. Not in formal writing, but we use it in speaking all the time, just for the future.

So he’s gonna wanna start his own salsa company. (He’s going to want to start his own salsa company.)

Who?

Chim-chim the monkey.

So first he’ll (hear the ‘ll’, that’s future) go to the bank. He’ll ask for a line of credit, but the bank will say no. The bank is gonna say no (going to say no) because they don’t lend to monkeys. The bank officer will say “We don’t lend to monkeys.” And Chim-chim will say “Please lend me money!” And the bank will say “We don’t lend to monkeys.” And Chim-chim is gonna be very upset because he can’t borrow money from the bank.

Next he’ll decide to do a stock IPO, an Initial Public Offering. He’ll offer stock in his company to the public, but the problem is no one is gonna buy it. No one is gonna buy it, so he’ll sell no stock at all. He won’t (he will not, he won’t) make any money. Finally he’ll decide to bootstrap his company. He’ll collect peppers, bananas, tomatoes, spices. He’ll mix them all himself and make a delicious salsa and he’ll sell these at flea markets. (He’ll sell his salsa package, packages or packets at flea markets.)

Gradually, his customers will grow in number. Gradually, his company will expand, until finally he’ll start to hire employees and that will help his company grow even more. Finally, he’ll become a billionaire and will build a successful, unique, fantastic salsa company.

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And that is the end of our point-of-view stories for this month’s lesson. Just listen to these. You don’t need to answer any questions, nothing at all. Just listen to them every day at least 10 days in a row, more is always better. Deeper learning is always better, but 10 days is about the minimum, seven to 10 days.

Okay, enjoy and I’ll see you next time. Bye-bye.