Shadowing Practice: LEARN ENGLISH naturally while exploring the city (comprehensible input) - Learn English Speaking with Video

get on my bus from here

and then go to quito it's like a eight hour bus ride these are all the buses

and i'm about to get on my bus

and these are all these are the platforms these are the departure platforms

and this is where the bus is parked to depart departure platforms

and this bus right now is departing it's leaving okay

so i just got on the bus and now we're heading to quito it's about

7 8 p.m right now so i'm just gonna go to sleep early

because i'm arriving keto at 3 a.m which is very early

so i want to sleep so now it's 3 a.m i got to keto

but i don't have anywhere to stay

so i'm gonna have to find somewhere to sleep for the night good morning guys it is 7 a.m

So I got to sleep for three more hours. So that's good.

Now I'm going to have a shower,

brush my teeth, wash my face, wash my hair.

And I slept in this room alone.

Look.

You see?

Empty, empty, empty, empty, empty.

alone okay i just had my shower the water was nice

and warm but outside is really it's cold

so today we have plans of going to the center seeing

all the historical stuff learning new words as we're doing it walking around the city going up to the church

and all the stuff and these are the words you're going to learn today

so make sure you guys stick around to the very end

to learn all of them this is a place i stayed

at last night is a hostel why yunca there's like a lot different floors

but today is nice

and sunny out yesterday was raining in cuenca today in quito

it's sunny i got here 3 a.m it's like 8 20 a.m now

so yeah i'm pretty tired

but that's like a mural where you people paint where it's

painted like this it's called a mural it's not fully done this still needs to be painted in

but this part's done and this part's done

when i came here 3 a.m on the bus my bus

came here at 3 a.m i was planning to come to

this hostel the secret garden it was nice i've stayed here before

that one the secret garden didn't let me in even though it's a 24-hour reception

so i came here why yunga there was a like a really nice old lady she answered the door

she was super tight i think i woke her up i feel bad

but i didn't really want to be outside of the the

city like at 3 a.m in south america just alone with all my my camera

and everything my backpack all my clothes and everything i have

so she let me in let me stay there i paid for a bed in the hostel

so i got a room and i slept there

and it was really good place i checked out i left my backpack there

so i could go exploring a little bit okay

so now i'm in the historical center

and you could call this area a patio or a courtyard

so this week in quito is holy week

so you could see there's a parade here all these people

here are walking in a parade this is called a parade

and it is a religious parade

and here you can see a lot of people dressed in

purple robes purple robes these guys have their t-shirts off

and you see a lot of people are holding umbrellas for

the sun to not burn themselves here you have a guy dressed up as dr octopus from the movie spider-man

and he's meeting spider-man right there

and here's just a big crowd of people you can see i'm walking through the crowd

and there's just a lot of people it's crowded

and here is a show going on these people are acting they're performing in a show to get donations

and money from people

so you can see these two guys are acting the show

was very very funny i enjoyed it here i'm eating lunch this is noodles

and rice okay

so we are in line waiting to go up in a

gondola up to the very top of the mountain here in

quito here you call this thing a gondola the place where people are sitting in it's a gondola

and they are going up the mountain right now up the

mountain in the gondola you could also call this a cable car

or a gondola there's two different names for that

but they are both correct to call them

and here you can see i'm waiting in line this line was pretty long to go up the gondola

but now i'm at the very top

and you can see a mountain in the very distance this

is a mountain with snow on top a snow peak mountain

you can see the whole city from here all the mountains in the background

and the gondola people going up the gondola

this is like a cafe on top of the mountain these

are some souvenirs you could buy a little bit expensive 15

there you go outside table four chairs this is a tray okay so this is a volcano

it's called cotopaxi and it is an active volcano so

that means it can still erupt

and it's one of the biggest in the world the highest in the world

so now we are going back down in the gondola here

you can see it's moving very fast down the hill we are in the gondola

or in the cable cart this is a line of people to go up the cable cart we came early

so we did not have to wait in the line Now I'm going back down in the city.

I'm in an Uber or a taxi right now driving down to go eat.

So what I decided to eat was pizza.

This is Pizza Hut and I love Hawaiian pizza.

Good morning guys.

We're here.

I'm walking to the supermarket right now because I need to buy some things.

Walking on the sidewalk.

The sidewalk is very cracked.

Cracked all of these.

It's a cracked sidewalk.

But we're going to the grocery store now.

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I need to buy a couple of things.

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And then after that i need to buy new pants

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so we're gonna buy pants and new shoes three three missions today we have to complete

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so that's gonna be going to the mall and you can see in the park and stuff so

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let's go this is this grocery store we're going in it's called super maxi it's like a grocery store

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the bigger ones you call supermarkets so these are all flowers these are like bouquets of flowers

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and these specific flowers are red roses pink roses pink roses orange roses flowers

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So you can see there's a lot of products on the shelves.

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These are all products like bottles.

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This is barbecue sauces, but these are all products that you put on the shelves.

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So these are shelves.

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Shelf, shelf, shelf.

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And right now I'm in aisle number five.

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So aisle number five.

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Every grocery store layout is pretty typical like this.

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Divide it into aisles with the similar products.

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this specific aisle is like salsas and dry noodles

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and this this is my favorite ketchup I love ketchup

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and this is the wine area people love wine

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so there's a lot of wine here white wine red wine rose wine okay

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so I was gonna buy toothpaste

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but I realized you have to take your bag off

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when you go into the like stores like this you have to put it in a locker

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because you can't have a bag with you

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and I forgot I left my wallet in my bag

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so I needed to go to the mall anyway so

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when I go to the mall I'll just buy my toothpaste there instead

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so now I'm walking to the bus stop this is a apartment building

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so people live here it's an apartment these are power cables like lines I need to go buy my pants

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and I still need to buy shoes

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so we got three things we got we got to do

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so let's try to do it all today this is a

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mural we learned this the other video a mural it's not graffiti

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but a mural instead this is a white car a white truck this is a white pickup truck

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and it has four doors now i'm at the bus stop

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this is the bus stop the bus comes on this side

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and this side depending on what side you want to get on

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so these are the doors to the bus stop

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and you just wait on this platform over there is the

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sidewalk that's the normal road this is just for buses this

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road this will take us where i need to go okay so i'm in the bus now

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I got off at the wrong stop.

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So I had to walk an extra five minutes.

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I was supposed to get off at this stop,

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but I got off one stop too early.

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So now I'll just have to walk a little bit to the mall.

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This is the mall.

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I think this is one of the bigger malls in Quito.

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And this is hopefully where we buy all our stuff.

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This is like a huge huge sidewalk you would call it.

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In the middle you have,

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I'm pretty sure these are,

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I might be wrong correct me,

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palm trees or coconut trees or something.

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And you have the mountains in the background.

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Big mall here.

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So now we're going to go in.

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These are apartment buildings over here.

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apartments.

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Okay so now I'm in H&M clothing store.

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So you can see all this clothes, t-shirts.

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Here you have belts.

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These are button-up shirts but they're short sleeves.

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The sleeves are short.

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These are long sleeve.

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This is more like a dress shirt,

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a long sleeve button-up shirt.

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H&M is like a really popular, it's called fast fashion.

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It's like Zara H&M.

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Uniqlo, fast fashion.

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So that just means they make clothes a lot faster

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and the quality is not as good but that makes the clothes cheaper to buy.

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Fast fashion.

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Again these are mannequins.

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Mannequins with a shirt on and pants.

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More mannequins.

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Okay so I'm done at H&M.

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I didn't really want to buy anything from H&M.

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I want to go to a store called Berkshire but I don't know where it is.

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This is where we were just in.

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H&M.

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The Zara store.

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Not really my style Zara.

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I think Zara owns Berkshire,

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which is this store right here.

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Berkshire.

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I think they own it and I prefer the styles they have here a lot more.

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In my opinion it looks better.

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Okay, let's try on this pants.

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New pants.

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Try it on now.

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Putting it on.

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Okay so I just tried on these pants.

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These are the pants.

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Okay so this place I'm in is called a dressing room or a change room.

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You try on clothes.

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So I tried on this pants in the dressing room,

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in the change room.

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I tried it on.

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So you come here to try on pants to see if it fits.

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See if you need a different size.

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See if you like the way it looks on you.

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So that's what a change room is used for.

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A change room.

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Dressing room.

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Okay, so now we're in a toy store.

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These are all teddy bears.

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These are called teddy bears.

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More teddy bears.

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And the store is like a really, really big store.

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And they sell a lot of toys.

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These are all toys.

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It's mostly for children, this store.

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But it's cool to walk through

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and see all these toys like it's a massive store like

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very big kids toy store kids toy store these are all called dolls

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dolls dolls dolls a lot of dolls

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and that's a really popular toy for young young kids

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and babies to have a doll okay this is a crosswalk

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where people cross you have to wait for the vehicles before you can cross

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and now crosswalk so up here is another crosswalk it's in between like the road

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now we're at the biggest park in the city it's called

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behind me you can see la carolina biggest park in the city this lady is selling glasses

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and sunglasses the police are riding on dirt bikes

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and there's two of them

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but yeah i'm walking i did some shopping i didn't end up buying the pants

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because I didn't like it but I'm gonna go buy the shoes now hopefully.

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Hopefully I like them.

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I've only sold them online so I'm not exactly sure but see when we get there.

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This is a hedge that's on the side here.

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You have the grass, the trees,

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some trees are taller than the others.

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This is like a mini soccer field.

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Yeah so these kids are playing soccer or I guess football you call it here.

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I'm used to calling it soccer

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because I mean that's what I called it my whole life but I I guess technically here,

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South America, you call it football.

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Football.

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And these are football nets or soccer nets.

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And here you have the basketball courts where you can play basketball.

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I love playing basketball playing basketball is like definitely one of

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my favorite sports to play it's a lot a lot of

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fun I love it soccer I never really played too much I mostly played hockey

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and basketball those are fun love those sports plane

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or an airplane it has like graffiti on it you can see graffiti graffiti

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but this is an old plane it doesn't work anymore

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so it doesn't work anymore that's probably why it's here

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and it's probably from a long time ago i'm not sure but you can see

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we'll see it old plane

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so this is the wing of the plane the wing of the plane the tires oh yeah

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and they put this here they put this here so that you don't jump on there that's a plane

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old airplane these are the propellers and they spin around

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so this is a running trail you can see this guy

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and this girl they're running on this trail

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and then I'm on the walking side of the trail

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so you see that guy he's running the walking side the running side

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and probably also you can go with your bicycle on this side

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and cycle on that side but

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that lady is just pushing carts selling eggs like small little

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boiled eggs quail eggs it's a type of bird this is

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like a little restaurant a little restaurant right in the park

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so if you want you could just come and get some food at

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that restaurant this park is really big i've been walking for probably like 10

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or 15 minutes just massive right in the middle of the

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city it's nice you get big nice big area with fresh air

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if you want to come okay let's do some pull-ups you

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guys know what pull-ups are i'll show you right here pull-ups that's what a pull-up is

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because you pull yourself up on the bar it's called pull-ups

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it's really good exercise for your back okay i'm in the subway station now

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and now i'm going to go back home i bought everything

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i went to the store the dollar store i wasn't able to find my shoes unfortunately okay

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so this is the this is a subway station

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that i'm in this is where the train comes you call it metro train

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or subway it's all pretty much means the same thing usually train is for longer distance

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but underground like this you could just call it uh subway you're going on the metro

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or subway those are probably the two most common ones down the escalator okay

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so i just got home i've been out all day i could not find my pants

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or my shoes so i did not get that sadly

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but i bought snacks and other stuff

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so here's some snacks i bought got some chips and some cookies

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and chocolate just some snacks i'm not gonna eat like all

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of them at once just like a little bit here a little bit there

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and i just ordered delivery you could say i ordered delivery

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or i ordered takeout and this is what it is it's

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when you order from a restaurant and they deliver to you like this i got my food now let's open it

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let me open this this is what i got it's like asian food noodles onions shrimp

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and peppers it looks really good and I'm really hungry.

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It's 3.30 p.m and I haven't eaten anything yet today so I'm gonna eat this and enjoy it.

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Shrimp.

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I'm eating the food.

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This is a fork.

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This is a cardboard bowl or a paper bowl and the food is inside of it.

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The food is inside.

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And I'm inside my room and the food is inside the bowl.

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This is very delicious.

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Bussing.

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Fire.

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Gas.

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Amazing really good like there's a lot of words to say something is good my favorite though it's fire

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and it's busting it's my favorite words to say

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when something you eat tastes good

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B1 se basa en el vídeo “LEARN ENGLISH naturally while exploring the city”. Las palabras que más se repiten: store, bus, pants. Este vídeo tiene 305 frases y 3023 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 17:05. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 177 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. El 82 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

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

Palabra	Pronunciación	Significado
gondola sustantivo	/ˈɡɑndələ/	góndola
mall sustantivo	/mɔːl/	centro comercial, shopping
shelf sustantivo	/ʃɛlf/	estante, balda
doll sustantivo	/dɑl/	muñeca, muñeco
mural sustantivo	/ˈmjʊɹəl/	mural
sidewalk sustantivo	/ˈsaɪdwɔk/	acera, andén
subway sustantivo	/ˈsʌbˌweɪ/	metro, subte
shoe sustantivo	/ˈʃu/	zapato, taba
graffiti sustantivo	/ɡɹəˈfi.ti/	grafiti
aisle sustantivo	/aɪ̯l/	nave
sleeve sustantivo	/sliv/	manga
parade sustantivo	/pəˈrɑd/	desfile, paseíllo
crosswalk sustantivo		cruce, paso de peatones
hostel sustantivo	/ˈhɑstəl/	albergue, parador
mannequin sustantivo	/ˈman.ɪ.kɪn/	maniquí

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

Palabra	Significado
go up verbo	subir
walk through verbo	explicar paso a paso, enseñar
check out verbo	investigar, chequear
dress up verbo	vestirse de gala, ponerse elegante
end up verbo	terminar, ir a parar
get off verbo	bajarse
walk around verbo	deambular

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	is parked · be painted · is called
Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora	i've stayed · I've only sold · i've been
Past continuous was/were + -ing — una acción en curso en un momento del pasado	was raining · was planning
Superlativos the -est / the most … — lo más alto o lo más bajo de un grupo	the biggest

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 80 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, we're, gonna. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: shelf /ʃɛlf/, shoe /ˈʃu/, shrimp /ʃɹɪmp/, donation /doʊˈneɪʃən/, reception /ɹɪˈsɛp.ʃn̩/
Palabras largas — cuida el acento: supermarket /ˌsupɚˈmɑɹkət/, escalator /ˈɛs.kə.leɪ.tɚ/, technically /ˈtɛk.nɪˌkəl.i/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: sleeve /sliv/, snack /snæk/, spider /ˈspaɪ̯dɚ/
/v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: sleeve /sliv/, volcano /vɑlˈkeɪ.noʊ/, souvenir /ˈsu.vəˌnɪɹ/, divide /dɪˈvaɪd/
/h/ — una aspiración suave, no la “j”: hostel /ˈhɑstəl/, hedge /ˈhɛd͡ʒ/

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 gondola, mall, shelf.

¿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

Gramática en este vídeo

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?