Shadowing Practice: a perfect fall weekend in minnesota - Learn English Speaking with Video

Hi guys, it's Syd, and welcome back.

I'm feeling so cozy and chatty today.

I'm back home in Minnesota, as you can probably tell, because I don't have a car in New York.

I'm outside one of my favorite local coffee shops.

It's called Vandella.

And I brought a book with me, specifically this one, which you know what?

I'm going to save this to tell you guys about because I have a lot of thoughts to share.

I don't know why it took me so long to start this book.

Oh, this is a bill.

That is my bookmark.

Hopefully my address isn't showing.

It is so good.

I am only about a fourth of the way through, but I did just buy this last night.

So sometimes I find it really hard to get engaged in a book right away.

My attention span is just unfortunately not the best.

Something about this is so intriguing and it's kind of making me rediscover a love for reading.

My friend told me that the movie was coming out

so I was like I have to read it before I see the movie in a week or so.

I love this cafe everyone is

so nice i really think there is truth to the whole minnesota nice thing like

when i walk in a store or something

and i make eye contact with someone i think it's more normal to smile here

but when i moved to new york and i would do

that and i would smile at people everyone like looked at me like i was kind of weird

so i stopped doing it um anyways it is just the cute coziest little cafe ever

okay i am on my way to a very important lunch

meeting actually can someone guess before i say who do you

think i'm meeting okay i'm just gonna say it i'm meeting

with rachel obviously the ogs know rachel is my best friend

from minnesota living far away from each other now whenever we meet up we always just have

so much to catch up on so i'm so excited to see her

and i'm excited for you guys to see her hey guys

look who i'm with we just had our panera it was

great classic place we get food at a lot our minnesota

staple i should put a picture of us in the middle right here oh my gosh

so earlier when i was driving i drove past the sign that said that my city was having like a market fest.

Kind of a rarity.

I've honestly never heard of them doing this but I'm really curious.

I have no idea if it's like food or like craft art stuff.

My mom's with me.

She's hidden.

This is all you get.

So the market is in this hockey arena.

All the vendors are lined up and it's so cute look i think my mom's buying a candle

i'm in my room this is the room that i stay in

when i come home i always go back

and forth in my head about where i want to end up living

and sometimes i think it's minnesota and then other times i'm like no it's not

but my family's here

so i don't know i constantly have this like dilemma with

myself I feel weirdly guilty for not living close to my family it really weighs on me

and to be honest like my family doesn't make me feel bad about it at all they're

so supportive but it is really hard as you get older

and I feel like I just miss miss out on

so many things

that I don't want to moving to New York people always

said was a big adjustment I'd say the first year

and a half it was really tough

and it's just such a different city to get acclimated to

but now I don't know I feel like i think i might stay for a

while that's been sort of a big life change

and i think i'm gonna renew my lease i guess i also have to catch you guys up on

that i also went through a breakup a couple months ago

i think i really went through my healing pretty privately obviously

it's not something i like want to share details about online ever breakups are really hard especially

when you're in a serious relationship in your mid to late 20s i was grieving not only the person

but the future that i always envisioned and thought

that i had with them i think one of the biggest

things i struggled with with the breakup is not being able to have the timeline

that i wanted on social media i was actually just talking about this with rachel

but when you're going through something like a breakup

and to see engagement posts on instagram especially when you know

that that's something that you want for your future but the pressures of social media definitely

make it feel like you're running out of time although i know that that's not the truth that I am still young, I think it's really easy to let the pressure of social media get to me.

So I'm just trying to enjoy being single and living in New York.

I didn't think I'd be living there still, but I think I've sort of found like a deeper, even newfound appreciation for it.

But that's my update.

I didn't really want to talk about it when I was super fresh

and I was actually grieving it and going through it.

So it is a pretty big update in my life.

And it kind of felt weird to not tell you guys what I was kind of going through.

I always want to be real and honest in myself

and not sugarcoat everything anyways rant over hey guys good morning good afternoon

that means good morning in slobac we are doing a little

family road trip up north in minnesota we're going to lutzen

for the locals who might recognize we're going at peak season

mom how are you doing back there i'm good what do you want us to say start over start over.

Are we boring guys?

We are.

A little bit.

We're a little dull.

Let's start over.

Let's turn over.

Let's start over.

We'll see if you got your New York legs of have you primed and ready to go hiking up north.

Oh cut cut cut.

so on the long car ride here i of course went

on tiktok to find a coffee shop on the way your research is really good you found the spot

so i applaud you you did good research

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thanks we always joke with my dad that he gets

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so rigid on camera i had some great hot chocolate here

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it's proof you liked it i think we have another hour and a half till we get to lutzen

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all my life i have wanted to come to the black sand beach

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and this is my first time here it's like as cool

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as it is in photos maybe even cooler in person i

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mean in person i wasn't sure sometimes things don't live up to the hype

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so much but i feel like i'm not in minnesota right now but we just took this as a pit stop.

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We're almost at our cabin.

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good morning guys i can't stop looking at the background

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because this looks like one of those instagram reels where they ask like

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which room you want to wake up in do you know what i'm talking about i hope someone understands

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that we made it to lutzen to possibly the most cozy cabin

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that exists it's

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so beautiful i need to show you guys like a little house tour later it's really rainy this morning

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which I usually hate the rain but it kind of fits the mood today.

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We're gonna go get coffee in a little bit.

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Actually I'm the only one getting coffee.

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The first thing I needed to tell you guys this morning is that last night I finally finished it.

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I finished the book Verity.

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I was up I think till 1 a .m reading it because I couldn't go to bed without finishing it.

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It's so messed up and twisted and people always said this to me before I started it but wow it really is.

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I think team manuscript

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if people can comment what they think i really want to hear people's opinions on

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that and if you haven't read it you should read it whenever i travel especially somewhere

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so secluded like this i always imagine what my life would be like

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if i lived here last night super late we grabbed a really quick dinner

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and i was just imagining my life if i switched places with the waitress

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that we had and i lived in this town

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because i think she's around my age

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and i was just like imagining like the friends

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that i would have here and like the lifestyle i would have here the hobbies

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and activities how different they would probably be obviously what i

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have in new york i think just the stark contrast

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and how people are living a completely different lifestyle obviously there's

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so many perks to this place it's just beautiful there's no one around it's quiet things

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that you don't get in new york obviously there's amazing parts of new york too i don't think one's better

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or worse it's just i don't know i don't know

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if anyone else does that but but I always contemplate what things would look like

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if I switched lives with someone my age.

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Anyways, I think we're gonna leave to get coffee.

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i just had the best latte of my life we're at

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this little coffee shop by our cabin there's i think this

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is like the only coffee shop in a 30 mile radius

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so i got their famous maple latte and i felt like i had to

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because i'm in minnesota and it was

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so good i wish i got the large version now

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but such a cozy little morning and everyone here looks at me like I'm crazy for vlogging

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we just got off the gondola and the sun came out

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so mood instantly boosted look how beautiful this looks like the ocean in the back

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but it is just the most giant lake in the world

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we're going on a little hike i have my trusted hunter

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boots on my hunter boots remind me of high school

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because in high school every girl had a pair of hunter boots

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and i just love them they're such a core minnesota staple to me

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okay guys we are taking a mini hike i would say it's like 10 minutes

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so i wouldn't even classify this as a hike

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but there's this beautiful viewpoint apparently

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so my dad recommended it it's really chilly here it is like 30 degrees colder than the twin cities

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okay we have to wait for dad to be done peeing well they uh they got that in the shot

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everyone can hear dad peeing okay guys it's time for a house tour

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um we're gonna make this so fast

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but i do just have to show you guys

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because it's the coolest cabin isn't it it's very very nice yes

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and look who's videographer hi hi guys he's famous okay um should we start with the living room yeah yeah

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okay this is the living room look at the fire i mean you guys saw this earlier i guess

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so here's kitchen this is the kitchen a beautiful long table

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i love the blue countertop isn't it really cool yes it

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kind of goes with the house this is called the blue cabin very warm cozy

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so cozy and i love this lamp it's my favorite part of the house i like

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that lamp too you too okay yes now let's take them

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up to the loft okay these are the steepest stairs on

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planet earth they go directly vertical it's a bit scary yes

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so uh don't worry i'll be right behind you in case

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you fall thank you no promises though we made it we

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made it you can see everything down below yep even

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that guy oh gosh okay i love it it has a

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bit of a scandinavian influence minnesota has a lot of scandinavian

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qualities right dad right anyways back down we go look how steep this is guys

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she's coming down folks going down there in the middle of

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the night seems like a nightmare here we have a little

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entry yes this is the real entryway this is the bunk

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room oh i won't get mama's my mom's sleeping already in her natural habitat yeah

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and lastly the master all right good night good night good

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morning guys i'm in my car as usual i just pulled

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up to can you guys guess it actually experiment um take a guess

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and it's an honor system because there's like no way for me to know okay

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if you guessed from at the mall of america you're right

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it's like the same thing always um i woke up

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and had therapy this morning i'm really tired and i feel

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so dramatic whenever i say like i'm tired so i need a coffee

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but this is like one of those moments where i am

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that tired that i i really want one

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and i also have a lot of editing to do

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so i thought i would bring my laptop to the Capital One Cafe in the mall.

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This is one of my rotation coffee shops that I come to when I'm home.

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I'd say I have about three to four, so I thought I'd come here and maybe I'll shop a little bit.

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It's kind of hard not to do that, to be honest, when I come here.

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It feels good to be home.

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i actually don't even think the employees know me here anymore they used to come here all the time

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when i lived in minnesota and to be honest i really like it

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because they have great seating here there's always a spot there's

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a bathroom in new york bathrooms are hard to come by

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so i really value

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that they have great wi -fi outlets that's kind of all

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it takes for me um also i have a new laptop setup this might seem a little overboard and overkill

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but it's let me just show you it's pretty legit full

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laptop stand wireless keyboard wireless mouse why do i do this

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you may be wondering well the reason i go this overboard is

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because i found that i have really bad neck pain

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when i'm like on my laptop regularly this has honestly saved

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me i can't even express like how much better i feel

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and i also get like carpal tunnel like symptoms in my hands so i need that to be level.

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I have issues I guess.

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It honestly works pretty well because this stand is collapsible

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so I can just easily condense it and put it in my purse like this.

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I actually had a guy come up to me a couple days ago in the coffee shop

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and he asked me where I got this

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because he's like this looks like the best thing ever so I showed him the link.

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I think he bought it.

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Oh I did forget to show you guys but I got coffee.

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This is three hours old because I've been for a long time.

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I don't know if I should go shopping.

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It's like, how can I not when the mall is literally right in front of me?

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Like, how am I supposed to avoid this?

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I passed by Sephora on my way out, so it only made sense that I had to go in.

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I did need shampoo, so it felt necessary thanks for watching i hope you guys

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liked my little cozy chill minnesota vlog i'll see you guys in my next vlog of course love you guys bye

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “a perfect fall weekend in minnesota”. Este vídeo tiene 227 frases y 2715 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 16:44. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 162 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. Solo el 81 % 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
cosy adjetivo	/ˈkoʊzi/	acogedor, hogareño
cabin sustantivo	/ˈkæbɪn/	barraca, cabaña
breakup sustantivo	/ˈbɹeɪk.ʌp/	dischar, ruptura
hike sustantivo	/haɪk/	caminata
café sustantivo	/ˌkæˈfeɪ/	café, cafetería
vlog sustantivo	/ˈvlɑɡ/	videobitácora
boot sustantivo	/but/	bota
grieve verbo	/ɡɹiːv/	contristar, desolar
latte sustantivo	/ˈlɑ.teɪ/	latte
staple sustantivo	/ˈsteɪ.pəl/	grapa, corchete
gosh	/ɡɑːʃ/	Dios mío, caramba
pee sustantivo	/ˈpiː/	pis, pipí
steep adjetivo	/stiːp/	escarpado, empinado
lamp sustantivo	/ˈlæ̝mp/	lámpara
wireless adjetivo	/ˈwaɪ(jə)ɹ.ləs/	inalámbrico

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

Palabra	Pronunciación	Significado
go through verbo		atravesar
start over verbo		volver a empezar, empezar de cero
come out verbo	/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/	revelarse, salir a la luz
back down verbo		recular, echarse atrás
end up verbo		terminar, ir a parar
get off verbo		bajarse
line up verbo	/laɪnˈʌp/	alinear
mess up verbo		desbarajustar, desbarahustar

Frases que vale la pena repetir

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

I'm feeling so cozy and chatty today.
I'm outside one of my favorite local coffee shops.
Hopefully my address isn't showing.
Are we boring guys?
We're almost at our cabin.

Gramática en este vídeo

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

Estructura	En el vídeo
Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora	have wanted · haven't read · I've been
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace	are lined · be done · is called

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 83 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, don't, we're. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: gosh /ɡɑːʃ/, envision /ɪnˈvɪʒn̩/, sugarcoat /ˈʃʊɡɚˌkoʊt/, shampoo /ʃæmˈpuː/, rotation /ɹoʊˈteɪʃən/
Palabras largas — cuida el acento: collapsible /kəˈlæps.ə.bəl/, appreciation /əˌpɹiː.ʃiˈeɪ.ʃən/

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 cosy, cabin, breakup.

¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?

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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?