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Today I'm going to tell you a crazy story at native speed
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and if you can understand all of this then your English is incredible.
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Basically this is a true story and it's one of the wildest things that's ever happened in the UK.
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It's the biggest UK television scandal.
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I'm just going to tell you all the facts of this story right
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and I want you to try and work out whether this man is innocent or guilty.
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Okay and whilst you're listening try and think if there's anything similar that's happened in your country as well.
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So this happened in September 2001.
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Basically, we have this show in the UK.
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I know you have it in other countries as well.
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It's called Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
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And it's a game show where you answer questions, multiple choice questions.
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And if you answer, I think, 15 correctly, you win a million pounds.
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Okay.
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And in 2001, September, this man called Charles Ingram went on the show
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and he went there with his wife who was in the crowd
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and his friend Tequan Whittuk who was also in the crowd.
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So it's filmed in front of a live audience.
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I think there are about 100 people watching this
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and the presenter it's on TV and that is very important to the story.
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Okay so the first night happened and it went terribly.
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Charles got so many answers wrong.
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He got to £4 ,000 which isn't very good and he also used two of his three lifelines.
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So you get these lifeline things, you get to, there's one where it's like you phone a friend
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so you can call someone up and they will tell you the correct answer to the question hopefully.
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There's one where it's 50 -50 where it basically splits the possible options,
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the answers in half so you only have to guess from two as opposed to four
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and there's one where you actually ask the audience okay.
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So these are precious.
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You want to save these for the later rounds because the questions get progressively harder and harder.
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You don't really want to have used most of these up just to get to a measly 4 ,000.
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That's what Charles did.
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He asked the audience and he phoned a friend.
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So all he had left was the 50 -50.
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So that was the first night.
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And it's not just filmed in one night, it's filmed in two.
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So he came back the second night and things were very different this time. In fact,
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he didn't answer a single question incorrectly he got 15 in a row right
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and he won a million pounds Charles was a millionaire
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he won he wants to be a millionaire he was I think the fourth person to ever win it
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which is insane but something was a bit suspicious something was up
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because I mean as you can probably just imagine the fact
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that he was so poor the first night he got so many questions wrong.
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Then like literally 24 hours later, storytelling sunglasses, you already know,
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24 hours later he went back on the show and he managed to get all of them correct.
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That in itself is pretty suspicious but there was something else that was so bad that the producers of the show,
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they didn't actually give him the money.
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Okay, they withheld all the money
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and in the end they actually ended up getting the police involved as well to investigate it.
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So they noticed something was a bit weird with Charles's playing style this time around.
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Before he would just answer the questions, probably get it wrong and move on.
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But this time, whenever the presenter asked him a question, he would read out the answers one by one, multiple choice.
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So he'd say, oh, okay, this is the question.
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Is it A, Paris?
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Is it B, Rome?
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Is it C, Vienna?
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And this was a bit unusual because he wasn't doing that before.
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And they also noticed that whenever he read out an answer that was correct, there was a cough from the crowd, okay?
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And that happened all night.
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So his tactic was basically, allegedly, he would read out all of the possible answers and whenever someone from the crowd heard the correct one,
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they would cough and that would be Charles's signal to give that answer, right?
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And the person who was coughing was his friend Tequan Wittuk in the crowd from the first night
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and sometimes his wife as well diana would get involved
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but it was mainly tequan who was doing this coffee
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so he got and it was so obvious guys i need to say like
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in my opinion i do think
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he is guilty of this we'll talk about what happened at the end
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they're still denying it though they're still saying they're innocent
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but it was
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so obvious there were instances where one of the questions was like who's
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this famous pop star you'd be like oh is it A Kylie Minogue is it B Craig David well
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I've never heard of Craig David so it can't be Craig David
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you know what it's actually Craig definitely Craig David 100 %
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the presenter was like you didn't know who he was 10 seconds ago no
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I just have a hunch I think it's Craig David
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and of course it was Craig David it was
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so obvious it's painful to watch actually and they did this investigation Charles didn't get the million.
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They did this investigation and...
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they went to court two years later.
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This was 2001.
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They went to court in 2003 and the actual trial lasted for four weeks and the trial itself was an absolute joke.
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So there's some just some facts about it.
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They brought Charles, Diana and Tequan in to this trial
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and they played back the episode and apparently the coughing was
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so obvious that even the the judge was laughing at it
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and whenever someone said the word cough in the trial
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which they would have said a lot all of the members of the jury
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they all started coughing just as a joke they were taking the piss
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so that was actually good British banter to be honest with you yeah
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so they did that for four weeks and eventually they were found guilty Charles
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and Diana as mentioned they both to this day they plead their innocence
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they they admit that they don't think it was fair they think they were robbed
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and Taekwun basically said the guy who was coughing he said
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that he'd struggled with hay fever which doesn't even make you cough um
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and asthma or something something like that which
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which was his excuse for coughing the whole time
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but he also said something else he said he made a very valid point
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that i'm just a normal person how am i to know all of the answers how will i know
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when to cough
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which is fair enough because
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if you did know all of the answers then you just go on the show yourself
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and you'd win the million pounds fair and square right
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but didn't he got caught out with that
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because tech one he's actually he's not like a normal guy he's he's a quiz show enthusiast
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he has been on multiple quiz shows in the uk in attempts to win money with varying degrees of success
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and he said in particular there were two answers
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that he just didn't know the answer to
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so he was like how could i cough at the right time
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if i didn't know the answer to these things
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but then they the police got involved as mentioned
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and they went into this guy's house
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and they found this notebook with handwritten answers to general knowledge questions
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and obviously they found the two questions that he had handwritten in
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that notebook the ones he didn't he claimed he didn't know the answer to the answers to
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so yeah he was caught out there and long story short Charles and Diana both found guilty.
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They were given a £30 ,000 fine between them.
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Bear in mind this is 2001 so the number would be higher now because of inflation and so on.
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And also 18 months of a suspended prison sentence.
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And this is, I think they got off quite lightly, this seems quite lenient because a suspended prison sentence isn't the same as a regular one.
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You don't actually go to prison, you don't see the inside of a prison cell.
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It's more sort of like a last warning
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so you have to do like community work maybe you volunteer not volunteer
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but you have to work in a charity shop
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and clean up some rubbish off the floor and you have to do
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that for 18 months you probably can't travel I don't know the exact rules thankfully
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but you don't actually go to prison
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if you break the terms of this thing maybe they send you off
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but realistically you get to live at home and stuff like
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that so it's not that bad
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and Tequan Wittig the coffer was given a 12 -month suspended prison sentence and I don't think he actually got a fine.
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So yeah that's the story.
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I do have some other facts trying to remember.
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Okay yeah so during the trial they said
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that there were 192 coughs during the episode with 19 suspicious coughs
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or significant coughs and those are the ones made by Tequan and Diana when they heard the correct answer.
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And if you're curious as to how you actually got onto the show back then I'm sure it's slightly different
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but it was a premium phone line you had to call
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that means you had to pay per minute it was 60p per minute
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and it's quite interesting actually because you would you would go on there
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and you had to say what show you wanted to be in
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and your preferred date for being on that show
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and then you would actually have to answer a multiple choice question whilst
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you were there as well on the phone making the application
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and you had to do this with your voice
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so it was like a recording and then you would answer it
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and the guy Tequin who as mentioned is like an expert in these things
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he advised Charles to use his most neutral voice
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because he was implying
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that one of the reasons they had this system was to deter certain accents from getting onto the show
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which honestly considering the UK doesn't really surprise me that much.
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There was a lot of elitism back then and probably now but thankfully Charles he passed the test.
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His voice wasn't too hard to understand so he was able to to get on the show.
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And yeah if you're wondering what Charles
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and Diana are up to now this was
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so long ago this was 25 years ago
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but they're still somewhat relevant kind of that's a bit of a bit of a stretch
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but they are they're not nobody so if you're wondering what they're doing now.
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they have a stand a jewelry stand in bath where they sell handmade jewelry
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so if you actually go to bath i'm sure
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that some of you will be living in bath
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if you're watching this you could go
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there you could meet these two british bandits who are kind
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of famous to be honest with you maybe even buy some of their jewelry they also have an etsy store
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which is like an online selling platform
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and they've made a load of sales on there and loads of reviews so you know what
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perhaps they're better at making jewellery than they are at scamming tv shows
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but those are the facts those are the facts let me know do you think
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this was all just a big misunderstanding and Charles won the money fair
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and square and poor old Tequin really did have a bad cough that day
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very unlucky if that is the case I personally think these guys are guilty
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and of course the judge also thought that
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but I don't know maybe I'm wrong maybe I'm being too pessimistic and British and just hating.
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So yeah guys that's the story I hope you enjoyed that one.
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As mentioned I was speaking quickly then and it wasn't scripted
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so it was very much natural English so if you could understand that then congratulations your English listening skills are incredible.
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Now if you did enjoy this I have also made another story in a similar style
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which you can download sorry you can just watch it for free you don't have to download anything
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and the link to that is in the top comment
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that one is about Oasis the infamous British band
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and it's a crazy story as well to do with Liam Gallagher in particular
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it's a story from his childhood it's absolutely insane
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so you can check that out it's completely free the link is in the top comment
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and if you would like to continue learning with me then I do have an online community
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so basically this video was amazing for your listening skills of course
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but I understand that a lot of you will be struggling with other things like speaking and vocabulary and things like that.
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If that's the case, the community is perfect for you because we have six live calls a week.
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We have speaking calls, we have vocabulary calls, we have accent calls.
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We have an actual modern RP accent coach.
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So you literally get to learn English every single day with me.
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It's a really fun and small group and the link to that is also in the top comment.
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Definitely check it out.
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God, that was a lot of speaking.
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All right, I hope you enjoyed that one and I'll see you next Friday for another episode.
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Cheers guys, see you later.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación se basa en el vídeo “Can you understand NATIVE British English conversation?”. Las palabras que más se repiten: answer, Charles, cough. Este vídeo tiene 194 frases y 2324 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 12:22. El hablante habla rápido, unas 188 palabras por minuto, así que espera sonidos enlazados y reducidos. El 88 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es fácil de seguir.
Vocabulario clave de este vídeo
15 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| jewellery sustantivo | /ˈd͡ʒʊ-/ | joyería, joyas |
| bath sustantivo | /bɑːθ/ | bañera |
| accent sustantivo | /ækˈsɛnt/ | acento léxico |
| suspicious adjetivo | /səˈspɪʃ.əs/ | sospechoso, suspecto |
| presenter sustantivo | /pɹɪˈzɛntə(ɹ)/ | presentador, presentadora |
| millionaire sustantivo | /ˌmɪl.i.əˈnɛə(ɹ)/ | millonario, millonaria |
| suspend verbo | /səsˈpɛnd/ | suspender |
| innocent adjetivo | /ˈɪnəsənt/ | inocente |
| skill sustantivo | /skɪl/ | destreza, habilidad |
| insane adjetivo | /ɪnˈseɪn/ | enfermo mental, enajenado |
| volunteer sustantivo | /ˌvɑlənˈtɪɹ/ | voluntario |
| quiz sustantivo | /kwɪz/ | prueba, cuestionario |
| vocabulary sustantivo | /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/ | vocabulario |
| thankfully adverbio | afortunadamente, gracias a Dios | |
| notebook sustantivo | /ˈnoʊtˌbʊk/ | cuaderno, libreta |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Significado |
|---|---|
| clean up verbo | limpiar |
| end up verbo | terminar, ir a parar |
| get off verbo | bajarse |
| go back on verbo | retractarse, desdecirse |
Gramática en este vídeo
Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:
| Estructura | En el vídeo |
|---|---|
| Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace | were found · were robbed · was caught |
| Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora | I've never heard · has been · they've made |
| Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosa | person who was · guy who was |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 54 contracciones y formas reducidas, como didn't, don't, I'm. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “th”: bath /bɑːθ/, enthusiast /ɪnˈθuːziˌæst/, withhold /wɪθˈhoʊld/
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: suspicious /səˈspɪʃ.əs/, unusual /ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/, congratulations /kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/, inflation /ɪnˈfleɪ.ʃən/, rubbish /ˈɹʌbɪʃ/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: millionaire /ˌmɪl.i.əˈnɛə(ɹ)/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, unusual /ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/, congratulations /kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/, investigate /ɪnˈvɛs.tə.ɡeɪt/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: skill /skɪl/, script /skɹɪpt/, stretch /stɹɛt͡ʃ/, scandal /ˈskændəl/, scam /ˈskæm/
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: volunteer /ˌvɑlənˈtɪɹ/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, valid /ˈvælɪd/, investigate /ɪnˈvɛs.tə.ɡeɪt/, vary /ˈvɛəɹi/
- /z/ — sonora, no /s/: presenter /pɹɪˈzɛntə(ɹ)/, quiz /kwɪz/, congratulations /kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/, cheers /t͡ʃɪəz/, advise /ədˈvaɪz/
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 jewellery, bath, accent.
¿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.