Shadowing Practice: a LONG vlog because you asked - Learn English Speaking with Video

Good morning, guys.

It's Syd.

I have, to be honest, been going through a bit of a tough time the past week, and something that's helped me every single day is just getting up and going to a workout class.

The workout itself is helpful, but also just, like, the socialization of being around people in class, like, in that positive environment.

And my friend slash roommate olivia who you guys know is gonna come with me.

We booked it together Actually last night.

Anyways, i'm really excited to hang out with you guys I find it so ironic

because I get quite a few comments from you guys saying how much my videos make your day

and make you just feel Happier

because you guys honestly have like the same effect on me like when i'm filming I don't know.

I just like feel like i'm talking to you guys Like

I feel like you guys are in the room with me

the whole reason I started making vlogs like 10 years ago was because

I was lonely in middle school and here I am again just making my vlogs with you guys.

Wow, I sound like really cheesy right now.

I hope it doesn't come off that way.

Okay, sorry.

I'm gonna stop talking.

Okay guys, I'm late and I need to change my pants.

okay guys

that workout class was not what i thought it was going to be i kind of am feeling really bad

because it wasn't bad it wasn't horrible it was more of like a stretch vibe it's more like yoga yeah

and then we were like separated

because there was no there was no space they were actually

really nice i know they were they were awesome yeah it's

not our vibe i don't know what's in the air

but i've been putting so much more effort into my outfits recently

and i've been having

so much fun like styling them the real ones know i

got this button down in paris in a vlog i think

i'm gonna do this maybe with like some jeans cute what are we think?

Do we like it?

Don't look at my feet.

Throwing hoops in is like the most lazy but yet effective way that I elevate my outfits.

And just as important, a great bag.

This is the Songmont Gather bag and I think it goes so well with my outfit.

I was so excited when Songmont asked to work with me because I love their Gather collection.

They draw a lot of inspiration from nomadic travelers

and one of the features of that is it has this little woven leather string

so you can hang charms or personalize the bag.

The whole bag is just clearly very thoughtfully designed

and even the leather is made of Napa leather so it shows a bit of a two-toned effect.

I also like how I can adjust the strap based on my outfit.

I usually like the shorter one on a day-to-day basis

but you can also interchange it and remove the larger strap if you want to wear that instead.

You can even clip this on your suitcase in the airport which is so convenient.

It just like sits right on top of your luggage.

Anyways you can tell how excited I am about my bag today.

Also they're celebrating their first year anniversary for the Saint-Germain Gather bag.

So if you guys also want to check out the Gather collection and these beautiful bags, I'll put a link to their website in my description.

Anyways, I'm going to leave now and I'm desperately hoping it doesn't rain because it looks like it's about to.

mood is instantly boosted

because it is suddenly sunny it's all it takes for me really the sun

and i'm like 10 times happier i feel like myself again two of my favorite places are bookstores and coffee shops.

I think because, oh, there's a photo shoot happening.

I thought there was paparazzi because I was seeing Flash, but they're not here for me.

Seeing things like that really help my anxiety of filming in public

because there's always just something crazier going on besides me holding my phone, filming myself.

There's this hybrid bookstore coffee shop that I haven't been to in I think at least a year.

I used to go and I love it.

It's like the most, I just think, cozy place in New York.

It's one of my favorite spots.

It's called Biblio...

Oh god, I'm gonna mute that because I didn't say it right.

I hope they have spots because I really just want to sit and journal and kind of do honestly nothing at all.

I have missed this place so much.

I got an iced latte, skim milk, and vanilla.

My usual.

If I look awkward, it is because I feel awkward.

I'm journaling in the same journal that I got in Paris.

If you know, you know.

Journaling is one of those things that everyone always told me to do, and I kind of underestimated the power of it.

It's very therapeutic, but it also really helps me to like discern and understand my thoughts and feelings on things.

Sometimes I feel a certain way but I don't really know how to explain it or understand the feeling.

It's also been really helpful

because I'm at this point in my life where I like don't know what my next chapter holds.

I feel like I always have envisioned my life in like chapters.

I think it's just like part of being in your mid-20s to not know what's next

and I'm such a planner like I like to know what's gonna happen.

I don't want to like rush my life, but I do want to know that it turns out okay.

But it's just like the fear of the unknown.

Hack, go to a cute coffee shop and journal if you're feeling down.

It's the best.

So I spontaneously stopped at this little gift shop called Fest

and thank goodness I did because I met one of you guys, the sweetest, sweetest woman ever.

She was telling me about Boston, she lives there and how I need to visit

so I kind of was just convinced that I need to go on a trip there.

I also got a gift from my mom.

I'll show you guys later.

I'm home and I changed because I was really hot.

I just wanted to show you guys very quickly what I got my mom because it's so cute.

Mom, stop watching.

She's going to watch this.

I just know she is.

There's like no occasion at all for this.

I just really have been missing my mom recently.

I'm hoping to go home soon.

So I want to get this to her when I go back to Minnesota.

It's this little candle.

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It says brunch in the West Village.

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My mom loves New York and the West Village is where I used to live.

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I don't know.

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I thought it would be sweet Ooh, it smells really good I'm actually just thinking about how crazy it is

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that I bought this without even smelling it That could have like gone very south nothing crazy.

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I feel like I really hyped that up

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But I also decided to stop at walgreens and get little drinks

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because i'm out of all of them I grabbed some olipops.

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I love these for like a midday drink These kind of

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like curb my sweet tooth around like 3 p.m I just like always get the urge to eat something sweet and

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I don't know these kind of do it for me.

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So I'm gonna start making dinner I think soon a kind of early dinner I have this new recipe

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that I have been dying to show you guys for the past Three months

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that I have been obsessed with so get ready.

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This is now a cooking channel

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I don't think I'm this excited to show you guys a recipe in quite a while

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and this says a lot you know I feel like my

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evolution of cooking is one of the things I'm most proud

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of I don't know for those of you who've been here for a

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while it's been a long journey okay there's a point in college

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when I would just be eating at crustables and granola bars, which that happens actually, that happened yesterday.

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Basically, I sort of consider myself like a lazy girl chef.

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I really like cooking healthy things for myself, but it can't be too long and it can't be too complicated

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or else I'm just not going to want to do it because I'm lazy.

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Lazy girl chef originates from that.

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So anyways, found this recipe, of course, on TikTok and I've been making it non-stop the past three months.

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Now that I've said this out loud, I really hope I haven't shown you guys this yet.

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The recipe is basically healthy quesadillas.

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My roommate and I usually switch off cooking for each other so tonight is my night.

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We just have been loving this so much we get really fixated on things and this is what we're currently cycling through.

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But I'm pretty much just starting by putting chicken breast in a bowl and coating it with olive oil and different spices this.

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I get kind of bored if I'm just having like chicken breast as a vegetable

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and a grain and that might sound really sad of me

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but making fun things like this like a healthy quesadilla

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or something makes me want to eat healthier and what makes this recipe so good is the sauce that comes with it.

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It's a cilantro sauce, which I know cilantro is kind of polarizing.

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I didn't know that some people found it tasted like soap, which is sad.

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I'm so sorry for you guys because I love cilantro.

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It's Greek yogurt, a very large handful of cilantro, the juice of an entire lime, a cut up clove of garlic,

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and a good heavy teaspoon of honey.

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And that's it.

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That's the sauce.

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It's So delicious. So fresh.

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Once the chicken is done, which I usually accidentally overcook, I shred it and then I add Greek yogurt and buffalo sauce.

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I'd say I do three-fourths Greek yogurt and a fourth buffalo sauce because I am a baby.

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Obviously just adjust it to taste.

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And then I like to use these healthier tortillas.

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Put the chicken in one side, some low-fat mozzarella on the other, and cook my quesadillas.

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I can smell this and taste this right now as I'm editing this.

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And now I want to make it again for dinner.

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It's so good.

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Can like one person please try this and just reaffirm with me that they are really that good.

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Okay, guys, here's dinner.

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Olivia has an allergy, so we have different tortillas, but otherwise it's the same exact thing.

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I'm so excited.

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hey guys we're about to have dinner we have no show

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to watch anymore i was just gonna say what are we

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gonna watch i know every night we have something got weird

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last night guys we've been watching like really scary stuff like

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too scary we're waiting for earl meets world earl meets world that's tomorrow isn't it we need like something good so

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if you guys have any recs we need them desperately we

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love like a good crime dog good crime it's like a mystery and not like a really like sad story.

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Yeah, not like too somber.

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Don't like put me down the dumps, you know?

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Like so good.

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I'm obsessed.

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I'm like, I paid her to say that.

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This is a paid ad because I'm like, it's so good.

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I sprinted outside to see the sunset after dinner because it is setting in I think 30 seconds according to Apple.

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This has like become my favorite part of the day, just walking on the West Side Highway when the sun sets.

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Sometimes I'll just like sit on a bench right here.

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It is like the most relaxing, peaceful thing.

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And it's also when I like to call my mom.

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So I'll probably do that.

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Dinner was amazing if I do say so myself.

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I'm also beginning to slowly mourn the fact

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that it is gonna get cold soon and I won't be able to do this anymore.

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So I'm getting my walks in every second that I can.

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I'm suddenly realizing, A, I never film in my bathroom, and I now remember why this lighting sucks.

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B, this tan is very, this is just hard to look at with the eyes, so I'm so sorry, but I'm brushing my teeth.

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My toothbrush looks very dirty.

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Even though it's brand new, I got it last week.

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That's embarrassing.

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I'm censoring that.

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Like I said earlier today, a really sweet girl came up to me and said she watches my videos.

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I feel like I go through seasons where I second guess my career every day for a month straight.

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Like, am I doing the right thing?

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Should I be pivoting?

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Am I in the right industry?

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Like, it doesn't even make sense because I love what I do.

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I love making videos.

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It's basically my dream job.

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But then I compare to other people and I'm like, am I doing enough?

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Are my videos good enough?

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Are other people's videos better?

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What does the longevity look like of this career?

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Or sometimes I'll think about certain people in my life's perception of my YouTube videos, very specific people.

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And I'm like, I don't even know why I do this to myself

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because I kind of make myself go insane and I shouldn't worry about what people think of me.

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And it definitely does get easier as you get older.

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But my point was that the little girl was so sweet today and I really appreciated her coming up to me.

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And then we talked for like 10 minutes about everything.

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And I feel like she's my friend now.

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Shout out Kendall.

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You know what I think is necessary?

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I think it's time for an advice sesh once I finish my skincare.

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There is nothing I love more than getting in my bed at night.

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It's actually kind of sad how much I love getting into bed.

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I'm looking like a blazed donut.

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I have my hoodie on.

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It doesn't really get better than this, except for the fact that my cold sore scar is still here.

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Actually, I'm going to take this moment to ask

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if anyone has recommendations for a tinted cold sore scar remaining please help me.

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It's been two months.

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Anyways, here's the DM.

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Hey, I don't know if you'll ever see this.

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I did.

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But I was watching your old videos, like comparing them to your new videos, and seeing that you're growing in a relationship with God, I was wondering if you could share any sort of testimony

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or like what has changed in your faith since like a year or two ago.

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Maybe one day I'll do share my testimony or do a testimony video.

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I did grow up in a Christian household and I've always really valued Jesus and my relationship with him.

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But I think being in my mid-20s alone in a big

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city has really made me lean on God even more than I ever have in the past.

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I find myself when I'm at my lowest trying to calm my anxiety through different outlets, trying new hobby, therapy, channeling my energy into working on my career.

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And I do love a lot of those things actually.

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But the one thing for me that doesn't compare to any of those stress coping mechanisms is truthfully Jesus.

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I can't explain the calmness and the way I feel like he relieves my anxiety.

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I feel kind of just like this weight lift off to my shoulders.

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I don't know, it's something unlike anything else.

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It's definitely not easy like to pray and just let everything go, but I think practicing my relationship with God,

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really like communicating with him throughout my day-to-day life has made me feel much less alone

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and guided me through a lot of very difficult times.

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Even reading my bible and like looking for answers of questions that I have in the bible versus googling it.

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You know not that I google lots of things

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but I just have tried to make it more of a priority for my day-to-day

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and it really is like improved my life as a whole.

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I definitely want to talk about this more

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because I don't know it's a big part of my life

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and I get a lot of messages from you guys too saying

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that you appreciate when I talk about it and that warms my heart so deeply.

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I'm definitely not a perfect Christian.

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I don't think anyone's a perfect Christian and I don't want it to look like I'm trying to be that way.

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Anywho, I'm gonna go to bed.

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I'm so excited to sleep.

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I love you guys so much.

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Thank you for watching and I'll see you my next video.

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Bye!

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B1 se basa en el vídeo “a LONG vlog because you asked”. Este vídeo tiene 246 frases y 2905 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 16:46. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 173 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. Solo el 80 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es exigente.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

Palabra	Pronunciación	Significado
recipe sustantivo	/ˈɹɛs.ɪ.pi/	receta
cilantro sustantivo	/sɪˈlɑntɹoʊ/	cilantro, coriandro
outfit sustantivo	/ˈaʊtfɪt/	conjunto, atuendo
lazy adjetivo	/ˈleɪ̯zi(ː)/	perezoso, flojo
yogurt sustantivo	/ˈjɒɡ.ət/	yogur, yogurt
workout sustantivo	/ˈwɝk.aʊ̯t/	entrenamiento
testimony sustantivo	/ˈtɛstɪmoʊni/	testimonio
obsess verbo	/əbˈsɛs/	obsesionarse
tortilla sustantivo	/tɔɹˈti.ə/	tortilla triguera, tortilla maicera
vlog sustantivo	/ˈvlɑɡ/	videobitácora
scar sustantivo	/skɑɹ/	alforza, facial chirlo
strap sustantivo	/stɹæp/	correa, cincha
roommate sustantivo	/ˈɹu(m)ˌmeɪt/	compañero de cuarto
vibe sustantivo	/vaɪb/	onda, vibra
desperately adverbio	/ˈdɛs.p(ə.)ɹət.li/	desesperadamente

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

Palabra	Significado
go through verbo	atravesar
check out verbo	investigar, chequear
cut up verbo	picar, trinchar
get up verbo	levantarse
switch off verbo	apagar
turn out verbo	resultar

Frases que vale la pena repetir

Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:

I hope it doesn't come off that way.
Do we like it?
Am I in the right industry?
Are my videos good enough?
You know what I think is necessary?

Gramática en este vídeo

Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:

Estructura	En el vídeo
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — una acción que empezó antes y continúa	i've been putting · i've been having · have been missing
“Used to” used to + verbo — un hábito o estado pasado que ya no es cierto	used to go · used to live
Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora	haven't been · have missed · have envisioned
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace	is made · was just convinced · have been obsessed

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 112 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, don't, gonna. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

Los sonidos de “th”: thoughtfully /ˈθɔtfəli/, toothbrush /ˈtuːθ.bɹʌʃ/, truthfully /ˈtɹuːθ.fəl.i/, therapeutic /ˌθɛɹ.əˈpjuː.tɪk/, tooth /tuθ/
Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: chef /ʃɛf/, envision /ɪnˈvɪʒn̩/, toothbrush /ˈtuːθ.bɹʌʃ/, shout /ʃaʊt/, recommendation /ˌɹɛkəmɛnˈdeɪʃən/
Palabras largas — cuida el acento: quesadilla /ˌkeɪ̯səˈdijə/, testimony /ˈtɛstɪmoʊni/, desperately /ˈdɛs.p(ə.)ɹət.li/, mozzarella /mɑt.səˈɹɛl.ə/, originate /əˈɹɪd͡ʒɪneɪt/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: scar /skɑɹ/, strap /stɹæp/, skincare /ˈskɪn.kɛɹ/, spontaneously /spɑnˈteɪ.ni.əs.li/, smelling /ˈsmɛlɪŋ/
/v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: vlog /ˈvlɑɡ/, vibe /vaɪb/, elevate /ˈɛləveɪt/, envision /ɪnˈvɪʒn̩/, overcook /oʊ.vɚ.kʊk/
/z/ — sonora, no /s/: anyways /ˈɛn.iˌweɪz/, lazy /ˈleɪ̯zi(ː)/, discern /dɪˈzɝn/, personalize /ˈpɜː.sə.nə.laɪz/, polarize /ˈpəʊ.lə.ɹaɪz/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
Empieza a velocidad 0,75×, haz shadowing frase por frase y vuelve a la velocidad normal cuando te resulte fácil.
Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como recipe, cilantro, outfit.

¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?

Shadowing es una técnica de aprendizaje de idiomas respaldada por la ciencia, desarrollada originalmente para la formación de intérpretes profesionales y popularizada por el políglota Dr. Alexander Arguelles. El método es simple pero poderoso: escuchas audio en inglés nativo y lo repites en voz alta de inmediato, como una sombra que sigue al hablante con solo 1-2 segundos de retraso. A diferencia de la escucha pasiva o los ejercicios de gramática, el shadowing obliga a tu cerebro y músculos de la boca a procesar y reproducir simultáneamente patrones de habla reales. Las investigaciones muestran que mejora significativamente la precisión de la pronunciación, la entonación, el ritmo, el habla conectada, la comprensión auditiva y la fluidez al hablar, convirtiéndola en una de las metodologías más efectivas para la preparación del IELTS Speaking y la comunicación en inglés en el mundo real.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

Frases que vale la pena repetir

Gramática en este vídeo

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?