Shadowing Practice: Houston, We Have a Problem! Real problems. Real laughter! ( part 1 ) - Learn English Speaking with Video

Whoa.

Woo.

So this is a Houston,

we have a problem show and we have two wonderful people here and if you want you may introduce yourself for audience.

That's your favorite excuse.

Yeah, that's what they do if they don't know what to do.

So I am Barna Pa, Barna Mkimova, Barna Kola, Barna Amajon, how people usually call me.

I'm an English teacher.

And I will try not to correct your grammar today.

Yeah.

OK.

Yoo-hoo!

Hey, guys.

Assalamu alaikum.

This is Hayatullah, a.k.a.

GoldenLive.

And I'm Hayatullah.

So I can see many familiar faces, and we will just be roasting you today and I'm very sorry

that you're going to be the victim said it the second time.

What are you doing here?

Like- For the second time!

You're more like roasting by us?

Yes, I'm not.

Okay, you're not going to be there.

Anyways, I will guarantee that you will not be coming to the stage.

And who is the first time to this club just raise your hand?

Wow.

Yeah.

Wow.

So do we have- This is my calling too.

Do we have microphone?

Yeah, here?

So who wants to talk with us just warming up before the starting our main part of show?

So just for you to understand that this is not a speaking club and there is no mistakes.

He will laugh at you. Be ready.

I will.

I'm sorry I'm the bad guy and Barna will save you but she can't.

I'm a good guy.

Of course anyway.

He doesn't look scared though.

Good evening.

He's shaking.

What's your name?

Asil Bek.

Nice.

Where do you study?

I don't study anywhere.

You don't study?

Yeah. So who?

I have a part-time university.

Part-time.

Part-time?

What do you do in the university? To tourism. For tourism?

Yeah.

No, no, no, no, no, no. You said...

I also work.

And so I'm working now and I do part-time university.

Wait, ask a bit.

I'm stressed.

You study.

Don't be stressed.

Okay.

One, two, three.

Go.

I study at TFT University.

What's that?

TIFT. And...

I'm sorry, why is it not like perfect university?

I was just going to say that.

Why is that like perfect university?

Do you understand whenever you're graduating, just going abroad and people ask them, what did you graduate?

Perfect university.

And we're like, we love that you love your university, but what is the name of the university?

It's perfect.

Yeah, whatever.

Just the same word TIFFT.

What is like TIFFT stands for?

No, it stands for nothing.

Like just for management.

Do we have cameras rolling?

Like...

Like, no, no. It's for, no. It's always like Tashkian International.

So, Asilbeck, former student of of TEFI.

Former?

Yes.

From now on you're former university.

Just say hi to this camera.

I'm planning to end my...

Seriously?

Yeah, seriously.

I don't like it.

And I have other plans.

I'm not seeing myself as a tourism industry.

But you also do a job, right?

Yeah.

Like a part-time job.

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What job do you do?

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I work at factory.

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Factory?

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Yeah.

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It's a good word.

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Just for making money.

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Not for the future.

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I'm making money for future and.

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What you're all?

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Sorry, and my plans is I'm making money so I can learn English

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and take out this and I want to be a teacher as you.

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And I stopped.

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No, no, I really want to have the corrections.

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What the TFT is, for God's sake?

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I don't know.

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I don't know.

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I don't know.

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TASCHKAN is the National University of Financial Management.

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Where is TFT?

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It's TFT.

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No, I'm sorry, there are like two T's like in the beginning and the end.

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Tift.

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Where's the M?

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Where's M?

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Maybe he doesn't know the name of his university.

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Technology.

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Finance.

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Is that so?

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I'm sorry, the finance and technology and you're like tourism student?

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Yeah, it is possible.

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Yeah, you have to change your life.

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But what do you like in the factory?

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What do you do in the factory?

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My life is like a big apocalypse maybe.

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Yeah, but with the factory thing, what do you do in the factory?

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I work as a carrier.

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Carrier, yeah.

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But it's called Yandex or Uzun Peskov.

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No, no, no, no, it's a factory.

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It's a you know, yeah.

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Oh, it's a salfet key.

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Toilet papers.

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I didn't know that one but it's a napkin.

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It's being recorded on YouTube.

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Oh, I'm sorry.

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No, I'm sorry.

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Napkins.

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Oh, there was no like, they didn't pay for reclama so there is no online.

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Product place.

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Sorry.

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Yeah, yeah.

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But for teeth, we will keep the teeth.

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Okay.

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Yeah, toilet papers, yeah?

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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In your free time, you just throw the toilet papers, yeah?

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at the factory when you get

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when you are not get the salary at the time cool

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nice nice with who you came below yeah alone alone standing here i wouldn't do

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that i would just stay there but it's okay

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but what is the you know the the time

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that you put yourself like the 2026 is going to be my year

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and i'll be like next barma mukimiva not like changing your gender

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but you know the ielts teacher

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or something i hope the end of the year i'll be a teacher okay i'm planning i'm planning

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the camera is rolling on i think should be the next day

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teacher okay yeah we'll be seeing i'm watching you okay i can't say as best as you

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but i'll try I beat a lot of them.

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Aww.

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They're like a million times.

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Randomly people call me Barnokia.

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Barnokia.

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And I'm like, I was recently in China in Business Street, and then all of them are men.

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It was a business trip, and only I am female.

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It was a business trip.

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Yeah.

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It was a business trip, only the business, okay?

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Shut up.

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And then when those guys were like men were introducing me, they were like, Hey, Tanishila, Barnokia.

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And I'm like, okay, all right.

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So, sometimes I'm Barnokia.

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Hi.

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Hi, hi.

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Hi, everybody.

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Hi, Cinderella.

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Hi.

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Where is your divorce?

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Left at home.

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Hello.

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My name is Shakhla.

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Hi.

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Hi, Shakhla.

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Nice.

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I think she wants to have a clap like a couple of times.

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Because she was like, I'm Shakhla.

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Yeah.

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Actually, I'm for the first time here, but before I wanted really...

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The last time I think?

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No. Okay.

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Before I also wanted to come, but I didn't have any opportunity in, but I'm here now.

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And I'm really happy, and I'm really fan of Bernopé.

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Yeah, she's really...

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You can leave if you want.

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Me and I might do the extras on the stage.

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It's one of the sauces, you know, when you get like in Evo's?

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He's jealous.

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You know like cheese sauce and the barbecue sauce, you never touch them.

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We are these, you know, and you have ketchup right here.

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I actually know her.

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I respect her so much.

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No, she's lying because when I was standing there, I was like, oh, this is Charlotte, do you know her?

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She was like, no. I didn't see you.

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By the way, who teaches and everyone loves me.

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Really, she sees it.

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Yeah, she's really...

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I know, right?

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No, no, no. That's gossip.

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Okay.

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Did you see her eyes?

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No, no, no, no, no. I don't want to ruin myself.

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Gossip, go ahead.

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Inshallah.

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Okay, you're a teacher also?

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Yeah.

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Yeah, I'm also a teacher.

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Okay, who is not a teacher in this room?

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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First of all, just...

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I said, who is not a teacher?

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You are going to be the teacher.

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Put your hand down.

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No, I said, who is not a teacher?

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Yeah, yeah, who is not a teacher?

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Yeah, yeah, who is not a teacher?

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Others others okay

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so many teachers yeah you're not a teacher Omid you do teaching okay you have many colleagues

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so what do you do like you teach English

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and stuff yeah I also teach English I have my own blog

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and I said I work those I work also at the university medical university

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and I teach doctors yeah at university and Indian students at the university

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and otherwise I have my online that course I teach

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and I help a lot of students to improve their speaking skills

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and short period yeah do you understand

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that you are not for the job interview no no no

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actually I don't know what should I say I watched like a BBC TV channel we had an accident and Yeah, maybe.

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So in your university, the majority of students are Indian, I guess, yeah?

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Yeah, and one interesting fact, I teach that we have Indian students and I teach them Uzbek language, not English.

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Yeah, that's an interesting fact.

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Why do they need Uzbek?

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So the rest was not interesting, right?

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Okay, but okay, you teach English and you also the medical thing, right?

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What would be a Kurechak in English?

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One, two...

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I don't know.

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No, I teach...

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We had something. So easy.

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No, I teach English, not in medical terms.

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Of course, yes.

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Yeah, yeah.

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I teach English but it's not like it related to many.

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Yeah, of course.

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That's good.

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Nice, nice.

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Let's see you for you to understand like she doesn't know the Kodichak.

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Yeah, I don't know what Kodichak was too.

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Like Kodichak, I saw it was something eatable.

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Do you know what is the Kodicek?

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Kodicek Now I'm asking her, are you?

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Thank you Maybe I know Maybe?

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Maybe We don't say in Uzbek Kodicek Would you really?

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I mean she also teaches Uzbek Don't forget about that Interesting that we have, like I also teach Uzbek What is the Kodicek?

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I don't know Good, good.

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But Koduchak I don't know either.

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So I just wanted to know from you.

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But I'm seeing Aliza just over there behind you.

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I can show you the Koduchak.

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Even the scars here.

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This is what it is.

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This is in Vietnam. So thank you, Shahla.

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Thank you.

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Nice to see you.

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Shahla!

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Very happy to see you.

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By the way, we met Shahla.

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I think last week she was already sitting like, hey guys, I have a course.

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I was like, oh my God, my God.

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And she was like, hi, you're here to look.

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I was like, yeah, hi.

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You know, this is the moment that I was talking.

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I said it, hi, .

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I said it first.

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And I said, I know you.

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And I said, OK.

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I don't know you.

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Yes, I said, hi, hello.

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OK, pass the mic.

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so who who is not a native uzbek

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so who is not a teacher do we have a foreigners okay do we have

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like what's happening it's just like i'm like she's not a teacher but she works at the university as a lecturer

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Give her the mic.

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Okay.

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She is the...

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I'm an architect.

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What?

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Hi.

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What?

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No, like, I'm an architect.

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If you're a teacher, you're teaching actively to someone.

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Yeah.

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Like, if you're working as an academician, it is not your duty to teach anything to them.

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So I'm not a teacher.

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You sound like you're coming to the mission.

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I'm not teaching them.

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I'm just...

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Yeah, I'm not teaching them.

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It is not my duty.

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What do you do?

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Like in the course?

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You just can't like, hey children, I'm not teaching, thank you.

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Are you just getting money for this?

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You don't know anything about architecture, right?

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Oh, wow.

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Okay, let's...

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Just say something in architecture, the three main things.

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Yes.

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What should we know about architecture?

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No, no, I'm not here for that.

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I'm just saying that it is not that, like, we are not teaching them.

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We're not paying her for that.

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Okay.

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We should pay for the guests too?

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you should pay for coming here to see yeah we do

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I'm sorry like really I really want to understand you're you are the architect

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and also the lecturer what is the what is going on we are working on a project together

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so we do not like actively like trying to teach them

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something we are instructing them we are sometimes giving some seminars but it is not like teaching teaching Thank you.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B1 se basa en el vídeo “Houston, We Have a Problem! Real problems. Real laughter!”. Las palabras que más se repiten: teacher, teach, English, factory, teaching. Este vídeo tiene 336 frases y 2084 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 14:32. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 143 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. El 84 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar. 68 de sus 336 frases son preguntas, así que sirve para practicar la entonación de las preguntas y las respuestas cortas.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

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

Palabra	Pronunciación	Significado
tourism sustantivo	/ˈtʊɹɪzəm/	turismo
architect sustantivo	/ˈɑɹ.kɪˌtɛkt/	artífice
napkin sustantivo	/ˈnæpˌkɪn/	servilleta, toballeta (disused)
lecturer sustantivo	/ˈlɛkt͡ʃəɹə/	docente, aleccionador
roast verbo	/ɹoʊst/	asar, rostir
gossip sustantivo	/ˈɡɑsɪp/	chisme, bochinche
actively adverbio	/ˈæktɪvli/	activamente, enérgicamente
carrier sustantivo	/ˈkæɹi.ɚ/	transportista
academician sustantivo	/ˌæ.kə.dəˈmɪʃ.n̩/	academista
foreigner sustantivo	/ˈfɔɹ.ɪ.nɚ/	extranjero, extranjera
inshallah	/ˌɪnˈʃɑ.lə/	inshalá, ojalá
instruct verbo	/ɪnˈstɹʌkt/	instruir
clap verbo	/klæp/	dar palmas, palmear
apocalypse sustantivo	/əˈpɑkəlɪps/	apocalipsis
microphone sustantivo	/ˈmaɪ.kɹəˌfəʊn/	micrófono

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

Palabra	Pronunciación	Significado
go ahead verbo	/ˌɡoʊ əˈhɛd/	venga, adelante
shut up	/ʃʌt ʌp/	cállate la boca, cállate
take out verbo		sacar

Frases que vale la pena repetir

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

What are you doing here?
You're more like roasting by us?
What do you do in the university?
I'm sorry, why is it not like perfect university?
Do we have cameras rolling?

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	be stressed · being recorded
Consejo con “should” should + verbo — decir qué es buena idea	should be · should I say · should we know
Past continuous was/were + -ing — una acción en curso en un momento del pasado	were introducing · was standing · was already sitting
Posibilidad con “might / may” might/may + verbo — algo posible pero no seguro	may introduce · might do

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 94 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, don't, you're. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: academician /ˌæ.kə.dəˈmɪʃ.n̩/, inshallah /ˌɪnˈʃɑ.lə/, corrections /kəˈɹɛkʃənz/, shake /ˈʃeɪk/
Palabras largas — cuida el acento: academician /ˌæ.kə.dəˈmɪʃ.n̩/, apocalypse /əˈpɑkəlɪps/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
Haz shadowing frase por frase a velocidad normal, repitiendo cada una hasta que tu ritmo coincida con el del hablante.
Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como tourism, architect, napkin.

¿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?