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Welcome to episode one of our series, English You'll Actually Use.
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In this series, we're going to break down textbook English versus real English
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so that you can start sounding like a native English speaker.
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Are you ready?
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Well, then let's jump right in section.
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One of our lesson is the word you were never taught.
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You see textbooks teach the dictionary word native speakers, however, reach for a completely different one.
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And that's the word that makes you sound like you belong.
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If there are moments when you're speaking and people look at you and they're looking at you in a weird way, or you feel like when you're speaking,
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your like native speakers, it's because you've been using textbook English.
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So let's check out a few situations and compare textbook English versus real English.
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Here's our first situation. Being out.
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in the rain.
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Now, textbook English is very wet.
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This is a correct statement, but it's textbook English.
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However, Real life English is the word drenched,
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which means soaked completely through every layer of clothing, heavy with water.
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You see the difference.
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Very wet?
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Yes, it's very true, but that's textbook English.
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When I go outside, if it's raining heavily, I can say, "Oh man, I'm drenched." Textbook English, very wet.
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Real life English drenched.
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What about this situation right here?
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Let's say you're going to a coffee shop.
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Now textbook English would be.
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very tired.
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Maybe you are feeling tired at the coffee shop, but real life English is wiped.
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It means completely drained of energy, usually after a long stretch of effort.
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So yes, you're tired, but you'd say, ah, I'm wiped.
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I need to get some coffee.
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I need some energy again.
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Textbook English, very tired.
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Real life.
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English is wiped.
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What about our third situation?
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Our third situation is dealing with an airport.
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Now you could describe this individual sitting at the airport by saying, stressed, but that is textbook English.
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On the other hand, real life English is frazzled.
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Frazzled means mentally scattered and worn out from too much going on at one time.
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In English, real life English, we say frazzled.
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Now, very tired.
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Yes.
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Good example.
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Stressed.
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Yes.
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Good example.
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Very wet.
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Yes.
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Good examples, but they're textbook examples.
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Now you have the real life English examples, which leads us to section number two, forget the textbook phrase.
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You see the expression you learned.
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It's technically correct.
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The expressions you've learned in classes from your teachers, from a textbook, they're technically correct.
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but many of them are not used in real life by native English speakers.
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The real expression the real life expression is what signals you're
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a real speaker not you A student let's check this out for comparison situation.
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Number one, going back to our situation in the rain.
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Now textbook English is, it is raining heavily.
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It is raining very heavily.
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Now that's a good sentence.
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That's a good expression.
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It is raining heavily.
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but we're looking at textbook English in comparison to real life English.
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This is what real life English would sound like.
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It's Coming down hard.
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Look at the comparison.
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Listen to the comparison textbook English.
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It is raining very heavily real life English It's coming down hard Very subtle.
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But there is a difference.
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There's nuance.
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Textbook versus real life.
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And what about this situation.
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Now, situation number two, going back to The coffee shop.
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Textbook English now.
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How have you been recently?
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Again, very good question.
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It makes sense.
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The grammar is all correct.
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How have you been recently?
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But real life English is what have you been up to?
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What have you been up to again, a subtle difference, but if you say, what have you been up to immediately?
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A person will feel like your English is amazing.
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It's not textbook English again.
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How have you been recently is textbook English, real life English.
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What have you been up to?
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What about our third scenario?
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Our third scenario again, at the airport, we're at the airport.
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And this is an example of textbook English.
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There are many people here Again, there are many people here.
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Great sentence, great expression describes the situation very well, but listen to the subtle nuance.
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Now we're going to get real life English.
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Real life English is this place is packed.
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This place is packed.
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Something that native English speakers, including me, your English teacher, teacher Tiffany, we say all the time.
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Whoa, this place is packed.
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We're saying there are a lot of people in this location or at this location.
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Here now is section number three.
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How they actually describe it again,
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English you'll actually use, you see descriptive words separate flat English from vivid English, the textbook word.
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It does the job, but the real word, the real life word makes people picture it.
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They can envision it.
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They can visualize it in their minds. For example.
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Going back to our situation, situation number one.
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The rain textbook English would describe this by saying the wet street.
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Now that is a true statement.
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The street is wet in the image, but listen to the difference.
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Now we're going to look at real life English with the term slick.
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The streets were slick, which means smooth and dangerously slippery from rain.
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slick.
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You're hearing the difference.
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Again, the grammar is not the issue.
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We're trying to go from textbook to English you'll actually use.
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From textbook English to real life English.
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Here's our second situation.
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The coffee shop.
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Now textbook English describing the situation would be the busy coffee shop.
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Once again.
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There are lots of people.
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So yes, the coffee shop is busy, but that is textbook English.
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Real life.
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English is buzzing.
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The cafe was buzzing, meaning alive with low chatter and quiet energy.
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Textbook English, the busy coffee shop.
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Real life English, the cafe was buzzing.
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You see now you're learning English.
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You're so intelligent, but you have to understand the difference between textbook English and real life English.
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This is why this series is important.
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Situation number three, back to the airport.
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Textbook English.
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The crowded airport.
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but real life English bustling.
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The terminal was bustling, meaning full of fast, busy movement in every direction.
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Textbook, crowded airport, real life.
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The terminal was bustling.
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You're seeing the difference you've learned properly.
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You've learned a lot, but you have to understand the difference between
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textbook English and real life English leading us to section number four.
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The full picture in one breath.
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You see textbook English describes what's there.
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Real English answers the questions a native speaker's mind is already asking the five W's, you know it, who, what,
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when, where, and why without sounding like a list.
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So I want you to pay attention to this comparison right here.
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Looking at our first situation again, the rain.
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Now, textbook English would describe it like this.
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A woman is on the street.
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It is raining.
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She has no umbrella.
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She looks unhappy.
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These are facts being stated.
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You're describing the picture, but it still feels like a textbook.
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It doesn't feel like real life English.
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This is why.
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Real life English would describe it in this way.
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A young woman is rushing home through downtown on a Tuesday evening after work,
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because she got caught in a sudden downpour without an umbrella.
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You heard the difference.
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Real life English answers the who, what, when, where, and why.
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Answering these questions makes you sound more realistic, more fluent.
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Textbook English versus real life English.
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Look at this scenario.
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Scenario number two, situation in the coffee shop.
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Now describing this situation, our textbook would be Two friends are at a coffee shop.
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They are drinking coffee.
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They are talking.
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They look happy.
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Stating the facts, describing what we see in the image, but it still feels like a textbook.
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Listen closely now.
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The real life English version answers each of the five W's.
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Two old college friends are catching up at their favorite neighborhood cafe on Saturday morning
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because they haven't seen each other since one of them moved across the country last year.
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The who, the, what, the, when the, where, and the,
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why each of these W's can be found in the real life English description.
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And what about this situation again at the airport?
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The textbook English to describe the situation.
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We have this, a man is at an airport.
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He has a suitcase.
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There are only a few people at the airport.
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He looks tired.
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Textbook English though.
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You're giving me the facts.
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You're stating the points.
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You're describing what you are seeing.
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But listen closely to the real life English version.
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The real life English version is a businessman is dragging his
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carry on through the terminal during the Sunday evening rush at JFK.
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Because his connecting flight home from a week long work trip just got delayed for a second time.
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You hear all of the details, all of the information added into the response added into the description of the image.
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Textbook English versus real life English, which leads us to section number five.
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Same scene, different speaker again.
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Same scene, different speaker.
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You see, when a native speaker describes a moment, they don't recite facts.
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They tell a tiny story.
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This is where everything you've learned in the first four sections comes together.
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The word, the expression, the descriptive language term, the five W's.
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Now we're putting them together.
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Same scene, but different speaker.
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Listen to our first situation.
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Again, we have the rain.
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Textbook English would sound like this.
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I was walking home from work.
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The rain started.
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I did not have an umbrella.
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I got very wet.
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I was unhappy.
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You're giving me the facts.
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You're giving me the details.
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I know what happened, but it still sounds like a textbook.
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Listen to the real life English version.
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Here we go.
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I was on my way home from work when the sky just opened up out of nowhere.
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Of course, I'd left my umbrella at the office.
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By the time I got to my building, I was drenched like water in my shoes, drenched, not exactly how I wanted to end.
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my Tuesday.
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Okay.
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You hear the difference, the textbook English version versus the real life English version.
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Then we have this situation again, back to our coffee shop.
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And this is the textbook version to describe what happened.
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I met my friend at a coffee shop.
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We had not seen each other for one year.
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We drank coffee, We talked for two hours.
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It happened was a good day.
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Now I gave you all the information, but it still sounded like a textbook.
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It still sounded robotic, just relaying facts, relaying details.
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But now we have the real life English version.
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Thank you.
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I finally caught up with Sarah this weekend.
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It had been over a year since she moved to Denver.
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We grabbed coffee at that little place on 5th.
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The one with the good pastries and ended up sitting there for almost three hours.
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hours.
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Honestly, it felt like no time had passed. At all.
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You felt like I was telling you a story, right?
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That felt real because it was real life life.
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English.
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And what about our situation with the airport?
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Again, textbook English first.
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It would be...
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I was at the airport.
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My flight was late.
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I was very tired.
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I waited for many hours.
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Finally, I went home.
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It's as if I'm stepping you through the details, but not connecting them.
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Listen to the real life English version.
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So I just got back from a brutal trip, five days, three cities.
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And of course, My flight home got delayed twice.
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By the time I finally made it to baggage claim at JFK, I was completely frazzled.
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All I wanted was my bed and a quiet Sunday textbook, English versus real life.
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English.
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I hope you learned a lot and I'll talk to you in the next lesson.
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Was du mit diesem Clip erreichen kannst: Flüssigkeit wie ein Native Speaker
Dieser Clip zielt darauf ab, dein Englisch von "textbuchmäßig korrekt" zu "natürlich und verständlich" zu heben. Viele Lerner verwenden Wörter, die sie in Büchern gelernt haben, aber native Speaker wählen oft andere Begriffe – und genau diese Unterschiede machen, ob du "wie ein Lerner" oder "wie jemand, der zuhört" klingst. Das Ziel? Du lernst, Situationen so zu beschreiben, dass sie sofort verständlich und lebendig wirken, ohne dass Menschen dich "merkwürdig anschauen".
Phrasen-Sammlung: Wörter, die du wirklich brauchst
- "drenched": Statt "very wet" – beschreibt, dass du total nass bist, bis in die unterste Kleidungsschicht. Beispiel: "Oh man, I'm drenched!" (Oh Mann, ich bin total nass!)
- "wiped": Statt "very tired" – bedeutet, dass du absolut energielos bist, oft nach langer Anstrengung. Beispiel: "I'm wiped – I need coffee!" (Ich bin total erschöpft – ich brauche Kaffee!)
- "frazzled": Statt "stressed" – beschreibt, dass du mental überfordert und zerstreut bist. Beispiel: "After the flight, I was frazzled." (Nach dem Flug war ich total überfordert.)
Deine Schwächen beheben: Natürliche Aussprache und Rhythmus
Ein großes Problem bei textbuchmäßigem Englisch ist, dass es oft zu formal klingt – und damit schwerer zu verstehen ist. Mit Wörtern wie "drenched", "wiped" oder "frazzled" klingst du nicht nur natürlicher, sondern du lernst auch, die Intonation von native Speakers nachzuahmen. Um das zu üben, eignet sich Englisch Shadowing: Höre die Sätze im Video mehrmals zu, pausiere und wiederhole sie sofort – so trainierst du Rhythmus und Aussprache. Plattformen wie ein shadowing site oder YouTube-Videos (nutze dazu Stichwörter wie "Englisch lernen mit YouTube") helfen dir, diesen Prozess zu strukturieren. "Shadow speak" oder "shadow speech" heißen diese Techniken – und sie sind einer der besten Wege, um dein Sprechen flüssiger und natürlicher zu machen. Vergiss nicht: Es geht nicht nur ums Wissen, sondern ums Anwenden – und mit diesen Wörtern machst du genau das.
Grammatik in diesem Video
Die Strukturen, die der Sprecher am häufigsten verwendet, mit den genauen Worten aus dem Video:
| Struktur | Im Video |
|---|---|
| Present Perfect have/has + Partizip Perfekt – eine vergangene Handlung, die jetzt noch wichtig ist | you've learned · have you been · haven't seen |
| Passiv be + Partizip Perfekt – wichtig ist, was geschieht, nicht wer es tut | were never taught · is wiped · is frazzled |
| Past Continuous was/were + -ing – eine Handlung, die zu einem Zeitpunkt in der Vergangenheit im Gange war | was buzzing · was bustling · was walking |
| Present Continuous am/is/are + -ing – etwas, das gerade jetzt oder zurzeit passiert | you're speaking · is dealing · is raining |
Was ist die Shadowing-Technik?
Shadowing ist eine wissenschaftlich fundierte Sprachlerntechnik, die ursprünglich für die professionelle Dolmetscherausbildung entwickelt und durch den Polyglotten Dr. Alexander Arguelles populär gemacht wurde. Die Methode ist einfach aber wirkungsvoll: Du hörst englisches Audio von Muttersprachlern und wiederholst es sofort laut — wie ein Schatten, der dem Sprecher mit nur 1–2 Sekunden Verzögerung folgt. Anders als passives Hören oder Grammatikübungen zwingt Shadowing dein Gehirn und deine Mundmuskulatur, gleichzeitig echte Sprachmuster zu verarbeiten und zu reproduzieren. Studien zeigen, dass es Aussprachegenauigkeit, Intonation, Rhythmus, verbundene Sprache, Hörverständnis und Sprechflüssigkeit signifikant verbessert — was es zu einer der effektivsten Methoden für die IELTS Speaking-Vorbereitung und reale englische Kommunikation macht.