Shadowing Practice: Learn English in 30 Minutes! - All Ears English Podcast 1699 - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Hey, Michelle, I have a question for you.
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What's that?
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Can you learn English in just 30 minutes a day?
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Oh my gosh, there is
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so much you can do to learn English in 30 minutes a day and 30 minutes a week, whatever it is.
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Guys, today we are going to be talking about how you
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can use a 30 -minute chunk of time to learn and practice your English.
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There are a lot of ways to do it, so we're going to give you tips today, right, Lindsay?
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Yeah, we're going to get into it, but first, guys, if you are here watching on YouTube, go ahead and hit subscribe to make sure you don't miss a single episode.
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of all ears english on youtube let's get started michelle All right.
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- Hello, Michelle, how's it going today?
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- Hey, Lindsay, good, good, how are you?
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- Awesome, I'm so excited to be here.
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I'm actually recording from Boston.
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I'm excited, I'm looking out over the ocean.
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It's a beautiful day here in Boston.
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How's the weather in New York City?
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It's chilly today.
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It is.
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Yeah, I was walking and it is.
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Yeah, it is.
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But yesterday was beautiful and warm.
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And today it's it's not so much that it's so chilly.
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It's also just the the wind.
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It's very windy.
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The wind gets so windy on the East Coast.
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It's true.
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Did you go for a long walk or just like a 10 minute walk
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or a 30 minute walk or how much time were you walking?
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A total.
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Well, I was with my son for part of the walk and that was the long part of the walk.
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It
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instance one way with him took uh about 25 minutes
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and then one way without him took about 10 minutes oh
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everything takes longer with your son is what you're telling me oh yeah oh look at
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that building look at that what's
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that oh yeah well he's not on a tight schedule i
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mean he's got you know a lot of extra time he's
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not concerned about the time yet right he's not no yeah so but yeah there are you Nice.
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That's a good, yeah.
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I feel like 30 minutes is such a good amount of time to do something substantial, but not to overcommit.
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you know right it is kind of a good amount of time you don't feel overwhelmed do you ever like
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when you're watching a tv show or
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if you're about to start a new show
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and you see you're like how long are the episodes
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and you see that each episode is an hour
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and you're like oh yeah i don't know
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if i want to commit to that but
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if you see it's 30 minutes it's much less of a commitment totally 30 minutes is
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so digestible that's a great uh bonus phrase for today digestible right we can the Pomodoro method is a time management system,
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I believe those times are either 30, 35 or 40 minutes, somewhere in that window.
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That's just that you can do it, but you don't lose focus.
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That's the key, Michelle, right?
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Right, exactly.
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So, I mean, Lindsay, I'm glad that you brought up this 30 minute thing, because one thing that people can do is learn English in 30 minutes, right?
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Practice your English in 30 minutes, right?
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Through focused practice.
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I mean, 30 minutes Well, like learn the entire language in 30 minutes.
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Yeah.
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Well, maybe there are some geniuses that can.
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I wish I had that skill.
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No. But I think if you commit yourself to doing anything for 30 minutes every day for a couple of years,
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in that case, yeah, I do think if you do the right things in those 30 minutes, I think you could.
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Yeah, right, right, right.
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And all learning really depends on like what you put into it.
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So your motivation, the context of your learning, how much time you have, things like that.
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So I mean, you can learn and practice some English every day or every couple of days in 30 minutes.
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I mean, so that's what we're going to talk about today.
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And guys, this episode is on YouTube.
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So remember to hit subscribe wherever you,
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I mean, well, not wherever because you are watching this Let's talk about like,
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Lindsay, how can we learn English or practice English in 30 minutes.
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All right guys, so today we have four different ideas.
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Four different things that you can do
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if you only have 30 minutes a day or even 30 minutes a week is okay, right?
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This is a 30 -minute chunk of time that you can dedicate.
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The first thing you can do, Michelle, is you can listen to a TV show or a podcast.
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If you listen to All Ears English, you can do two in 30 minutes.
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And we designed that on purpose, didn't we, Michelle, for our listeners?
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Exactly.
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Exactly.
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You can listen to two All Ears English in 30 minutes and feel accomplished, right?
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Exactly.
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Or you can watch a 30 -minute TV show.
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or actually less but you know yeah whatever it is take it make it a 30 -minute thing and And, you know, just listen to something,
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watch something and, you know, take notes if that works for you.
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Yeah, we're back on to some of our shows that came back up in the fall.
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Right.
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So we're back on to the good doctor.
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And I think when you take out ads, it ends up being like 20 minutes or something crazy.
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Yeah.
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But if you record it ahead of time and then you go back, you can fast forward the ad.
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That is a hack.
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That is a hack.
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Right.
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So New Amsterdam, I like I like the good doctor.
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What are you into these days, Michelle?
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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Um, uh, Todd Lasso.
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Oh God.
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I mean, I'm still just still just watching Seinfeld over and over.
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What else am I watching?
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Um, you know, there, there are a few shows that I'm about to, I'm, I'm considering starting, but I, I'm kind of just working my way through Ted Lasso and I'll probably be done with that in a couple of days.
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All right.
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Well, keep us up to date.
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If you find anything good and new that our listeners could also jump onto, let us know in those 30 minutes. So good. So good.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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So, I mean, Lindsay, another thing that you guys could do is have a 30 minute conversation clock, right?
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Talk with a friend for 30 minutes.
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Sometimes I might say talk with a friend for two minutes
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or three minutes or any amount of time and any amount of time is good.
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But 30 minutes is a really deep amount of time where you can have this deeper discussion.
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You can talk about something you watched.
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You can talk about something personal.
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You can talk about a problem.
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You can talk about real life.
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So 30 minutes, just time it for 30 minutes.
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See what happens, even though it might seem intimidating.
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Just see what happens.
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See if you can keep it going.
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And that's the challenge.
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Yeah.
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I like this kind of method
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because it changes the dynamic of the conversation a little bit and it becomes kind of a fun little challenge.
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It's a bit like the Pomodoro method because you're hitting a timer and you're saying, I'm going to do this very one thing, this one thing for 30 minutes.
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It also reminds me of the IELTS exam in speaking part two guys.
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You need to speak for the full two minutes.
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You need to tell a story.
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Okay.
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And by the way, Michelle, where can our listeners go if they want to learn more about speaking part two on IELTS and all the speaking parts?
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Oh, my gosh.
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Go listen to Jessica and Aubrey on the IELTS Energy podcast.
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Yeah, you got it.
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So that's the second suggestion from us here today, guys.
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Talk to a friend for 30 minutes.
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Make it work.
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Make it happen.
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Love it.
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What else?
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The next thing you can do is read something and explain it to a friend.
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So maybe you have the first 15 minutes where you're like, maybe you're both reading the same thing.
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Maybe you're reading one thing and the other person's reading another thing, but say, okay, something that could take you 10 or 15 minutes.
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And then you have the rest of the time to explain what you read to the other person and discuss.
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okay i like it
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so this is again going with the stopwatch method right michelle like we're stop we're starting the clock
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and then we're gonna stop it and
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but you're gonna you're gonna spend 30 minutes just explicitly you
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have to go into real depth then in your explanation
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if you're gonna talk for 30 minutes right right right right
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and this one this one is also involved with reading you
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could even i mean it doesn't have to be reading guys we've talked recently about like reading
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and writing and things like that it could be that you read something for 15 minutes and then
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Let's do something and have something to do with writing here.
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Yeah.
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The thing is what we're doing here, guys, is we're putting constraints and we're making this a habit.
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So we're saying, you know, from 8 to 8 .30 a .m., nice and fresh in the morning, every day I'm going to do this exercise and then I'm going to be done with my English.
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It's kind of nice that way because you tick the box, right?
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I'm very task oriented.
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Are you, Michelle?
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I think you are pretty task oriented.
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I am.
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You get your work done for the day. So good.
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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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And actually, that leads into the last tip that we have.
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So you said like, it reminds me of exercise, right?
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So you have your exercise.
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And this is something I mean, guys, I think what do they say you should exercise 30 minutes a day, five days a week?
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I don't hit that anymore.
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I'm still, I'm still working.
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I'm still, I'm still guys.
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I am still exercising, but more like three days a week.
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Um, but yeah, you do.
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So do it during exercise guys, maybe distract yourself from the burn.
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Lindsay, what does that mean?
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The burn, the burn.
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I had the burn last night in my orange theory class.
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Oh my gosh, the burn.
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We know, right.
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It's when the muscles, you feel it in the muscles and they are the, the, the, what is it?
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I'm a scientist.
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It's building up in your muscle and you just feel it.
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It burns.
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It hurts, right?
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Especially at the end of a long sprint.
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You're pushing your body.
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So what could we do here, Michelle, then during that exercise?
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Well, I mean...
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Well, first of all, you could whatever exercise you're doing, if you're doing like a video, I mean, so we have the Peloton.
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Yeah, you have.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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And and sometimes Dan, I mean, he's not trying to learn German, but like there's like a German, like a German teacher.
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And sometimes Dan will just like take a class in German.
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So maybe like take an exercise class in a different language.
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I mean, take try it in English, like, you know, because there are going to be little things that you pick up on from that.
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So or distract yourself, count down in English.
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While you're exercising, you could also just name things around the room.
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If you're lifting, just be like, okay, while I'm doing these 10 reps, I'm going to name 10 things in the room or something like that.
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Just try and think in English during your workout.
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And this is totally the, I feel like this is the secret to learning a language.
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This is how I learned Spanish quickly by always having an inner dialogue.
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darn busy all the time.
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But in this case, it worked in a good way, in a positive way.
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It helped me because at that point, the dialogue in English in my head became in Spanish, right?
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It was now in Spanish.
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So I was just saying things that I was narrating in my head.
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It's like your own neuroses becomes your best asset when it comes to learning a language.
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No, that's, I mean, it's true.
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The goal is like we talk about thinking in English and so just make it that extra challenge
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English during a workout or English while you're doing something else.
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Yes.
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Or like you said, Michelle, just repeating.
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If you're taking an exercise class, a Peloton class for our listeners, if it's in English, you can just repeat the instruction from the teacher.
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And that's simple practice.
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Right?
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Right.
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Yeah.
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There's so many ways to get creative with it.
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I mean, like, I mean, in 30 minutes, What can you learn?
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I mean, you could learn a list of vocabulary words, maybe like five words is a good, good thing.
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Five, six, seven words, right?
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What else could you do learn in 30 minutes or practice?
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I mean, you could learn a new grammar concept and you could practice it.
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Um, or you could just reinforce it by practicing it.
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That's, you could totally learn a new current event, right?
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You could use the news as your subject.
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You can go out, read the New York Times.
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understand what's going on with the economy right now right inflation is a big deal right now learn about
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that and use english to dive into it and to explain it
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and talk about it so good right right right
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or a piece of cultural information maybe you're watching a tv show
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and you learn something about the culture through that
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so like you can also you know instead of just going in
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and saying oh i'm just watching this show you can be like okay well what
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what do I want to learn in this 30 minutes?
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Do I want to learn vocabulary?
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Am I looking for something cultural?
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Right?
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Am I looking for, am I listening for maybe a potential grammar point?
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Right?
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So you can go in with that goal as well.
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Yeah.
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We're being intentional.
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An extra layer.
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Yes, exactly.
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I think the most successful language learners, Michelle, they are intentional about how they're learning, about what they're doing and why they're learning the language.
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Right.
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It's all about being intentional.
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Don't let life just guide you to where it wants to take you.
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You take life by the horns.
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Right.
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As we say, and just go to where you want to go, guys.
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I mean, that's that's huge.
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That's a part of being happy.
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Right, Michelle?
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Exactly.
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Exactly.
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So be intentional with it. Have fun.
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It is kind of fun to say, what am I doing in this 30 minute chunk of time?
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exercise you, you know, if you're gonna do an exercise for 30 minutes, you know, have it, this is your exercise too, you know, think of it in that way.
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Exactly.
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It's a way to not feel guilty about not studying, right?
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Because when you're saying, I have to study English, it's so nebulous and so broad.
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When, how, what, how long?
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But if instead you say every day from 7 to 7 .30, I'm going to study, I'm going to do one thing for 30 minutes, that takes care of it.
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That takes care of it.
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And then you're done.
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And then you're done.
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And that's how you feel at the end of exercise, right?
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Sometimes like, I mean, I'm sure you go, it's kind of like, you know,
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maybe you start to get a little bit more excited about it as it becomes a habit.
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But then like, actually, the other day, Dan said to me, i there is never a time
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when he regrets doing exercise yeah like sometimes it's hard to go on
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but like at the end you always feel better of course unless you injure yourself knock on wood
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but like you like there i don't think anybody then thinks like that was awful.
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Why did I do that?
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There's usually some, you know, the endorphins are flowing and you usually feel good.
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And I think that the same is for learning something.
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Exactly.
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It's not always easy to get off the couch and go to that workout class and the same with this.
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But if you, it's almost like you're doing your thinking ahead of time, the planning's already done for you with this 30 minute plan.
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It's already done.
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All you got to do is execute the plan and you will have those endorphins, right?
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You'll have that feeling of I did it.
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I'm done.
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I can go do whatever I want Yeah, exactly.
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Exactly.
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Oh, my gosh.
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So, Lindsay, I mean, what's the takeaway for today?
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The answer is, Michelle, you can learn English in 30 minutes.
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Absolutely.
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I would say it could be more effective than three hours
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if you do the right things and if you do it regularly.
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Yeah. For sure.
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Yeah.
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It's a perfect amount of time to practice.
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So let us know which one of these tips connected with you the most.
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Yes.
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You know, do you do 30 minutes?
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Do you do a different amount of time?
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But try it for 30 minutes.
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See how the 30 minute thing goes i love it
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so good can't wait to hear from our listeners on this michelle and thanks for hanging out on today's episode All right, Lindsay, guys, remember to hit subscribe on YouTube.
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All right.
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Talk to you soon.
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Bye.
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Bye.
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Why practice speaking with this video?
This video underscores the power of practicing speaking English consistently, even in short, manageable segments like 30 minutes. Engaging in conversation about a relatable topic can significantly improve your fluency and confidence. For instance, the speakers discuss their daily routines and experiences, making it easier for learners to relate to and practice similar dialogues in real-life situations. By using the shadowing technique, where you mimic the speakers' intonation and rhythm, you can effectively enhance your speaking ability. The structured format of this engaging dialogue makes it perfect for IELTS speaking practice or any conversational practice, allowing learners to absorb vocabulary and expressions in context.
Grammar & Expressions in Context
- Questions for Engagement: The phrases "Did you go for a long walk?" or "How much time were you walking total?" illustrate how to ask follow-up questions, essential for maintaining a conversation. These types of questions can improve your conversation flow.
- Descriptive Language: Expressions like "it’s chilly today" or "look at that building" employ descriptive adjectives that can enrich your vocabulary when describing the weather or surroundings.
- Time Management Language: The transcript includes terms like "30 minutes" and "a long part of the walk," which can help learners discuss duration and planning effectively.
- Challenge Phrases: Phrases such as "that’s the challenge" and "make it work" encourage learners to embrace conversation difficulty as a path to improvement.
Common Pronunciation Traps
One of the pronunciation challenges in this video is the word "chilly," which can be difficult for non-native speakers to pronounce due to the initial "ch" sound. Additionally, phrases like "it's much less of a commitment" may lead to mispronunciations or misunderstandings. Practice stating these phrases using the shadowspeak method, where you delay your response to mimic the intonation and stress patterns of the speakers. Utilizing a shadowing app can provide invaluable feedback on your pronunciation and help refine your language skills. By focusing on these tricky words and their usage in context, you can avoid common pitfalls and elevate your spoken English.
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 done · is read · is also involved |
| Past continuous was/were + -ing — una acción en curso en un momento del pasado | was walking · was just saying |
| Posibilidad con “might / may” might/may + verbo — algo posible pero no seguro | might say · might seem |
| Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — algo que ocurre ahora o en estos días | I'm actually recording · I'm looking · you're telling |
¿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.