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Today we're in the small town of Newbury so we're in Newbury.

Newbury has around 42 000 people living here so the population of Newbury is around 42,000.

The pronunciation of the name is Newbury.

It's not Newbury or Newbury, it's Newbury.

So today we're gonna have a look around this normal, normal town in the UK called Newbury.

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So behind me is the King Charles Tavern.

So what is a tavern?

What's a tavern?

well it's really the same thing as a pub a tavern

a pub is really the same thing nowadays in the past

a pub was somewhere you could drink

but also somewhere you could stay the night

and in the past a tavern was somewhere you could not stay

and you could only drink now tavern and pub mean basically the same thing

so this is the king charles tavern based on our current king king charles

so this is a map of the town of Newbury we are here

and we know that because it says you are here

right here

and here is the train station this is Newbury train station

we want to go to the center the shopping center this is called the Kennet shopping center

and I also want to see the corn exchange right here

and finally there's also a canal there's a canal

that runs along here so the canal runs along here

and i want to see

that as well as you can see from the sign behind me i'm just outside the west berkshire council building

so west berkshire that is the county that we're in

Newbury is in the county of west Berkshire by the way the pronunciation is Berkshire it's not

Berkshire okay it's Berkshire

so don't be don't be like the Americans pronounce it correctly

Berkshire most of the counties in the UK end in this word shear right it's always pronounced shear Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Yorkshire.

It is not Berkshire, Oxfordshire or Yorkshire or anything like that.

So this is the government building.

It's called the council.

It's the building for the council.

So the council is the local government, right?

It's where the local council or the local government make their decisions.

So let's go.

I'm standing in front of the church.

It's called St. Nicholas Church and basically every town, every village in the UK basically has a church,

maybe just a small chapel, but basically everywhere has a church of some kind.

Let's go take a look.

Now can we go inside the church?

That's the question.

It looks like the door is closed.

Actually it says please use the south door

so this must be the north door which is closed so we're going to try the the south door.

Behind me we have the notice board so this is called a notice board.

It's the notice board for the church.

We've got a lot of different things here.

Here's an advert for a food bank.

A food bank is where you can go if you're poor

and you can't afford your own food you can get free

food from the food bank down here we have a small

leaflet I guess

or a small notice talking about it's for anybody who has a problem with cocaine drug addiction

so anybody who has drug addiction there is a number here you can call

if you have a problem with cocaine so outside most churches you can usually find a notice board like this

we have lots of useful things, usually things to help people, because that is kind of the spirit of the church.

So unfortunately it looks like the church here is closed today, and I think it's because it's Christmas time.

You see we have the sign here, church office is closed today and i think it's

because it's christmas time right you see we have the the

sign here church office is closed for the christmas holidays and the office reopens

on monday the 5th of january it says here so we won't be able to go inside the church today

what can you do?

You can't win them all right?

You can't win them all.

So now we're on the high street this is called the

high street basically every town in the UK has a high

street right where you can find all the different kinds of shops what kind of shops can we find?

There's the famous Greg's over there.

This is Oxfam which is a well-known well-known charity here in the UK.

So really everybody knows about Oxfam.

It's well-known.

It looks like this used to be a restaurant or a cafe but you can see it's closed down.

Now the restaurant is closed down.

Maybe it was very popular in the past, in the past, but now it's closed down now.

Now this shop here, Poundland, it's called Poundland because everything is supposed,

everything is supposed to cost one pound.

But let's go inside and find out, do things really cost one pound in Poundland?

Plastic cups, one pound.

Shower gel, one pound.

Toothbrush, one pound.

Toothpaste, one pound.

Dog food, one pound.

Clothes hangers, one pound.

A set of two rubbers, two rubbers, one pound.

A bottle of honey.

one pound cling film to wrap your food in one pound

a mug for your tea two pounds the mugs are not

one pound they are two pounds not good some plastic tongs

for cooking two pounds not good not good enough a pair

of scissors one pound a glue stick one pound unfortunately the

clothes the women's knitwear clothes not one pound six pounds not good not good

so today we have learned

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that in pound land in the shop called poundland not everything

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is one pound what a scam it's a scam i think the next thing

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that we have to do now is we need a coffee we need a hot cup of coffee

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as you can see the weather is very british today cold dark cloudy

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so we need a cup of coffee

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because it's it's really cold that's why i'm wearing this hat

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because it's damn cold yes it's damn cold today so let's go

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and get a cup of coffee okay guys i got my coffee my nice hot cup of coffee

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and we're just going to walk down the high street in Newbury

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and take a look at the shops this is a popular

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chain of cafes you will find in the UK Cafe Nero

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I didn't go to Cafe Nero I went to Gregg's I got my coffee from Gregg's

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because it's much cheaper this is Pret-à-Manger

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another popular chain chain of cafes you will find in the uk

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but again a bit expensive right it's a bit pricey pret-à-manger

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is a bit pricey that's why i don't go there that's where i go to Gregg's because Gregg's is cheap.

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Looks like this one has been turned into a cinema on the second floor,

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some balcony and some seats on the first floor and down here we have the box office.

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The box office is where you go to buy your cinema tickets.

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Okay, you go to the box office to buy your tickets and then you go to the cinema on the second floor.

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Actually, let's go up the lift, right?

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Let's go up the lift to the second floor to the cinema.

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You press the button to go up.

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Second floor.

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So we're going up to the second floor to see the cinema.

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Exciting, really exciting.

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Did you hear what I said?

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It looks like it's the actual screen for the cinema.

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Now, we don't have tickets, so I'd better go downstairs because there's a film playing in there.

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Let's get back on the lift to go downstairs.

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back to the ground floor.

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You see in the UK we have a ground floor in America they only have the first floor

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so the ground floor does not exist in America.

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Interesting.

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So there's just one more place that I want to go here in the town of Newbury and that is the canal.

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we're gonna go and walk by the canal

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and see the nice peaceful canal area

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so this is the canal right next to me it's called a canal

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because it's man-made yes it's not a river a river is natural

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but a canal is a man-made thing it's not a natural bit of water it's man-made

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so here we are at the canal in Newbury and we're going to have a walk along this canal.

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Hey buddy, hello Mr. Swan, how are you today?

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Would you like some coffee?

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Mr. Swan, do you want some coffee?

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Not interested, he doesn't like caffeine.

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look at all these swans all these swans coming for some bread they all want a little bit of

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that man's bread so this cup of coffee is finished now

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so what do you do with an empty cup of coffee

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you put it straight into the bin there you go i'm

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being a good citizen of the uk by putting my rubbish

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putting my rubbish in the bin where it belongs hundreds of

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years ago there was a big battle around here near newbury not in newbury

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but a little bit outside newbury this battle took place during

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the civil war there was an English civil war hundreds of years ago between the

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parliament the government and the king so there was actually a civil war

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and there were two big battles not far away from where I'm standing right now in those two battles neither side

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managed to win it was kind of a stalemate yes neither

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side managed to win the battle it really ended in a stalemate

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and yes so the two battles ended in a stalemate

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and nobody won but there is some history around here in Newbury

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because there was a big battle here I don't know

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which year I think it was around the 1600s 1600s something like

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that in the British Civil War you know of course it's

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december i believe today's date is the 29th i think it's the 29th of december

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so we can't expect the weather to be any good

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but we can't expect the weather's going to be any good

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and as you can see it's cloudy it's dark

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and the time is currently 10 past 3 the sun will

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probably go down soon the sun will probably go down in around an hour probably by four o'clock

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or half past four

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the sun will go down so this is pretty typical weather of winter in the uk

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and that's why

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so many british people they try to leave at this time they try to go to spain

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or to italy or france

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somewhere just with a bit more light with a bit more sun

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so yeah the weather is not great at this time of

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year i'm not a big fan i'm not a big fan of the weather during like december and january

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and february it's a bit bleak right the weather is a little bit bleak do you know what i mean

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so yes the weather is a little bit bleak today very cloudy we've got these low clouds low clouds

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and you can't see the sun at all you will not see the sun anywhere today

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so it's a little bit bleak you know

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and this you have to expect this kind of weather in

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december in the uk as you can see behind me there

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are quite a lot of boats a lot of boats here

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on the canal in newbury maybe one day maybe one day i can get myself a boat like this

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but yeah people like to take their boats along the canal

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and have a nice trip up and down the canal on their boat.

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This kind of place is a good place to maybe take your dog on a walk somewhere.

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If you have a dog, you can walk your dog by the canal.

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Or maybe if you want to keep fit, right?

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If you want to keep fit, you could maybe go for a run up and down here.

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It could be a good place to run.

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to go for a run to keep fit

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but yeah you will see lots of people walking up

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and down by the canal here

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so we're just going to cross the bridge now you see

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this this is not a canal this is not a canal how do you know this is not a canal

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and that that is a canal it's because this is a river

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and we know it's a river

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because the river is flowing the river the river is flowing

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we can see the water is moving it's not still water the river is flowing the water is moving

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so this is a natural this is a natural river right the canal over there is man-made

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but this is an act this is a natural river so

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that we know this is a canal

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because the water is not moving it's not flowing the water is not flowing in any direction

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so that's how we know it's a man-made canal whereas whereas this is clearly a river

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because we can see the river is flowing in fact the river is flowing in this direction it's going in

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that direction right behind me here we have some bike racks

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in fact we have a row of bike racks you see

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how many bike racks do we have i don't know maybe

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we have one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve

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so we have a row here a row of 12 bike racks

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and if you have a bike you can come

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and you can lock your bike you can lock it just here at the bike racks

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so that your bike doesn't get stolen right so

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that your bike doesn't get stolen by someone

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and behind me there's a football pitch you can see this is a football pitch right behind me

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and you can play football here but

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if you have a dog you can't come in

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because it says no dogs except assistance dogs so

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if you have a dog who is there with you to to help you maybe

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if if it is a dog for a blind person

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if they are a blind person they they can't see maybe then you can bring your assistance dog

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your assistant's dog with you but apart from that apart from that no dogs so don't bring your dogs

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to the football pitch here so there's a sign here

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and it says it's about alcohol right you may be prosecuted for drinking alcohol in public in this area

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so if you drink alcohol in this area

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you might be prosecuted that means that the police right the police will have a problem

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with you if you drink alcohol in this area

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and you there's a maximum penalty of 500 pounds so

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if you drink alcohol in this area you may get prosecuted and you may have to pay a penalty

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of 500 pounds to the police to the west berkshire thames valley police also make sure

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that you clean up your dog poo clean it up make sure you clean up your dog poo

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or you may have to pay a maximum fine

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of one thousand pounds one thousand pounds

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if you don't clean up after your dog so

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if you come to newbury park don't drink alcohol and clean up after your dog you have been warned

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okay guys that's the end of this video as you can

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see the sun has gone down now the sun has gone down it's dark

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and you can see the Christmas lights behind me on the high street

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so those are the Christmas lights

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if you like this kind of video where we kind of wander around a city

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and teach you vocabulary using comprehensible input then be sure to

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check out Sam's video here in london thank you for watching and i will see you in the next video

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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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