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Hello world!
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Today we are exploring the lovely old town of Hoi An, learning lots of English using the world around us.
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And we'll also be talking about the differences between North American English, which I speak, and British English, which Jay speaks.
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So start the word count and let's go!
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By the way guys, I'm walking on the pavement.
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That's the road, this is the pavement.
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And this is Volker.
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Hey guys, my name is Volker.
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You may or may not recognize me from Volker English, but I just make comprehensible input videos on YouTube for people learning English.
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You do.
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Wonderful videos as well.
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actually inspired me to start making this type of content.
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I remember seeing your video about one year ago
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and I wanted to do the same and here we are one year later.
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We're a year later, yeah.
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Let's go get some food, some drinks.
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Yeah, I'm pretty hungry.
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I haven't really eaten anything all day and the sun has been beating on me.
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I could use a cold drink.
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Awesome, let's go man.
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Let's go.
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So, so Jay, what are we walking down right now?
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Okay, so this is an alley.
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We're about to walk down an alley or an alleyway, which is like a small, narrow street.
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And can you describe what these are?
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Maybe a scarf that you put across your body, like some sort of dress.
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Yeah, nice.
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I'm not sure.
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How would you describe it?
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This probably is like a silk garment, I might say.
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These are like mannequins with their heads chopped off.
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Yeah, there's just a knob.
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It looks like I could put my toilet paper there, honestly.
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But yeah, I really do like the aesthetic of Hoi An.
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If you look around, everything is a little bit old, eroded a little bit, the bricks are showing.
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But it still has that beautiful yellow, but that's slightly faded.
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Absolutely.
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It's got charm to it.
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Bring your partner here.
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Just me and you having a date.
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Exactly.
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This is what YouTube brings, guys.
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Sweet to Hoi An.
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Literally.
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This way, I think.
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So guys, we're going to get some Mott now, which is like a sweet tea.
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Yeah, I've never had it before, so I'm excited to try it.
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And now that we're in line, let's do a quick outfit check and you can rate our outfits, but can you tell me what do you call this?
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Okay, so these are trousers.
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Trousers.
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Yeah, what would you say?
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Trousers is a word I don't think I've ever used in my vocabulary.
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We call those pants.
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We call those pants.
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Funny thing is, we call what's underneath these pants.
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Really? Or boxers.
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Really?
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Yeah.
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That is something I actually didn't know because we just call them boxers.
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What would you call these?
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We would call those sneakers.
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Sneakers.
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What would you call them?
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We don't say sneakers.
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We say trainers.
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Trainers.
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Trainers.
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In English, we would say, or British English, we'd call this a jumper.
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Which is like a long sleeve.
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Yeah.
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And we would call this in North American English a sweater.
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All right guys, we just got these...
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It is in a cardboard cup, a bamboo straw, there is a leaf for decoration,
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and also this is a petal, which is a part of a flower.
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And now a taste test.
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I wish you could taste this.
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So now I've quenched my thirst.
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To quench your thirst means to go from thirsty to not thirsty by drinking.
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I've just quenched my thirst.
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But I'm still hungry.
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So, I'm gonna go buy a little snack.
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A little sweet treat.
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the road here these are pedicabs in Vietnam they call them sicklo but we would say pedicab.
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I show your videos to my English classes all the time and your videos are great.
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Thank you so much.
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What's your name?
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Eva.
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Nice to meet you.
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Nice to meet you.
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Thank you for what you do.
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Come on thank you.
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Just met the lovely Eva
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if you're watching this Eva in the future thanks for coming to say hi
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and if anyone else ever sees me in the street please come say hi I don't Right.
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Speaking of biting, we've got these little mango cakes here.
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They're kind of like mochi, like Japanese mochi.
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Taste test.
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Very floury.
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It's like I just dunked my face in flour.
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It's good.
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Want a bite?
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Inside is peanuts and sugar.
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And then you have this kind of jelly-like outside with lots of flour, it seems.
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Inside is sweet, outside is quite neutral.
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It doesn't taste as much.
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But the texture is very chewy, very squidgy, almost like clay or Play-Doh.
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Are there like different accents within the UK?
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Yes, it's quite varied actually.
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Yeah, we have a Scouse accent.
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It's not very good though.
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It's a Scouse is a bit in the back of the throat.
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Yeah.
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A bit like that.
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Sorry to anyone, my Liverpool friend watching this.
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Honestly, that sounds good.
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You convinced me.
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It really reminded me of that movie with that red hair archer.
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Oh, yeah.
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Brave?
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Yes, it is Brave.
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Yeah, yeah.
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That was like a Scottish.
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Yeah, OK.
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All right, pal.
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I used to live in Edinburgh in Scotland.
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I can do a bit of a Scottish accent.
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OK, that's really good.
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That's quite thick Scottish.
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This is, in British English, a shop.
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And we call this, in North American English, a store.
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A store.
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So we're gonna go into the store and buy a water.
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Did you want a water?
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Take it one o'clock.
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Thank you.
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Thirsty work.
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This is thirsty work, guys.
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By the way, shout out to the two lovely people behind us, Leon and Chang.
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Behind the scenes that you guys never see.
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So in this little fridge, we have chocolate bars. And up here, cigarettes.
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This is a fridge with two handles.
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You open the fridge, close the fridge.
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These are crisps.
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And in American English, they call these chips.
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We say crisps.
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Chips in English is fries in American English.
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They say fries, we say chips.
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They say chips, we say crisps.
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Got it?
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Good.
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Kinda confusing.
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If you have ever been to Hoi An, then you will know how beautiful this place is.
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At night, the lanterns turn on.
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Outside the shop front here, you have two red lanterns.
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Now the light is fading, and when the light's fading, the sky turns blue.
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We call this twilight or dusk.
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A time just after the sun sets.
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And it's very beautiful.
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Isn't it Chang?
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Above Chang's head we have pink flowers.
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That is the bougainvillea.
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Here we have the gold mannequins in the shop.
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These are mannequins.
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And this mannequin is wearing a suit.
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This mannequin is wearing a suit.
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If a man is dressed up nicely in a suit, we could say, he's suited and booted.
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This shop is selling lots of little things, small little items which we call knick-knacks.
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These are knick-knacks.
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Lots of miscellaneous items, so random little souvenirs and things like that.
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We say knick-knacks.
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So now guys we are at the riverfront.
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The riverfront, that means right next to the river.
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And if I flip you around, we have the lantern boats.
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You can see the light down here reflecting off the surface of the water.
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So this is a night market guys, a night market.
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The overall area is called a night market and these are stalls.
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When someone has a small shop, it's temporary, we call it a stall.
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So this stall is selling various things and the lights are very bright.
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They are dazzling, bright.
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Up here we have a very pretty street lamp.
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A street lamp.
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And some lanterns attached to a string or a cable.
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The sun has set and right now this cloud in the distance looks ominous.
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When I When I say a cloud looks ominous, it means it looks threatening.
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It looks dark, it looks like it is going to rain, it looks like there's gonna be thunder and lightning.
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It's common in British English to say that weather or that cloud looks ominous.
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It's a good word.
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Chang, what are you holding there?
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An electrical fan.
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An electrical fan.
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A small electric fan.
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because it is hot and sweaty.
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Look at my hair flopping in the wind.
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It's like spaghetti.
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There you go.
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By the way guys, if you don't already, then go here.
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Our lovely Volker, a follow.
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These guys work really hard, they make wonderful videos.
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There's the beautiful cameraman Leon and the beautiful man behind the camera, Volker.
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If you follow me and you don't follow him, then something's wrong.
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So go follow him.
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Thank you.
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Love you guys.
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So these are bracelets and this is a pack of cards.
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Here we have lots of different cards with beautiful decorations on.
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And these are coasters.
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Coaster.
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That's a small store.
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Hello!
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Can I stop by the corner?
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No thank you.
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If I stop for too long then they grab me
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and they want me to buy something so I have to keep moving.
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That's a little dog.
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Hey pooch.
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Rule 101 when coming to Vietnam.
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Don't pet the dogs unless they come over to you.
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I learned that the hard way.
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Alright guys, now let's get some food.
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Zhang is sitting down on the table.
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Scooch up.
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Thank you.
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I just said scooch up.
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That means can you move up please in a very informal way.
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We just finished eating, guys, and personally, I'm stuffed.
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What about you?
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I am stuffed as well.
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When we're very full, we say we're stuffed.
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There are three final words that we want to leave you with. So, Volker.
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I'll say the North American version of the word, and then Jay will say the British version.
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So, I currently live in an apartment in Da Nang.
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I don't live in a flat.
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I live in a house.
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But the opposite to apartment is flat in the UK. So apartment.
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Flat.
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But flat also means.
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Level.
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Flat.
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The ground is flat.
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The next word is guys.
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Hey, you guys want to go get something to eat?
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Like dessert?
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And I would say in the UK to my friends, lads.
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Alright lads.
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Now then lads.
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Hey up lads.
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Just as like a group of male friends.
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That is something I might adopt into my vocabulary, lads.
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I think that is a pretty cool British word, lads.
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Lads.
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But I'll add the accent with it.
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Yeah, lads.
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Lads.
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Nice, good.
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I fill my prescription at the pharmacy.
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I fill my prescription at the chemist in the UK.
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So in North American English, we say pharmacy.
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And we say chemist.
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That is very cool and I would love to use that, but I feel like all my friends would look at me
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like they think I'm going to like a trap house or something.
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Like what is this guy doing?
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He's, we would say chatting shit.
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Do you have that phrase?
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No, what is that?
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To chat shit is to talk rubbish.
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Oh, talk trash.
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Yeah, talk trash kind of thing.
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To chat shit.
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Just chat shit.
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I didn't know that word until today.
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All right, nice.
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So I also learned some British words today.
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We're all learning learning.
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So that's all for today's video.
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I hope you guys enjoyed everything.
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Make sure to let us know in the comments what was your favorite part of the video
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and we can do another collab.
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Let us know what you would like us to do in our next collab.
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And remember guys, you will become fluent in English.
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Bye guys.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B1 se basa en el vídeo “Listen and Speak English at Native Speed”. Las palabras que más se repiten: English, lads, word. Este vídeo tiene 280 frases y 1962 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 13:55. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 141 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. Solo el 81 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es exigente.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

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

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
mannequin sustantivo/ˈman.ɪ.kɪn/maniquí
lantern sustantivo/ˈlæ̝ntɚn/farol, fogaril
thirsty adjetivo/ˈθɝs.ti/sediento, tener sed
accent sustantivo/ækˈsɛnt/acento léxico
chip sustantivo/t͡ʃɪp/astilla, cepa
knack sustantivo/næk/aptitud, pegarle a
ominous adjetivo/ˈɑmɪnəs/ominoso, siniestro
quench verbo/kwɛnt͡ʃ/matar la sed, aplacar
sneaker sustantivo/ˈsnikɚ/pillo
thirst sustantivo/θɝst/sed
stall sustantivo/stɔːl/compartimento, compartimiento
fade verbo/feɪd/desteñir, desvaírse
trainer sustantivo/ˈtɹeɪnɚ/entrenador, entrenadora
pedicab sustantivo/ˈpɛdiˌkæb/bicitaxi, tricitaxi
scooch verbo/skut͡ʃ/arrimarse, aplegarse

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
dress up verbovestirse de gala, ponerse elegante

Frases que vale la pena repetir

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

  • How would you describe it?
  • What would you call these?
  • What would you call them?
  • Did you want a water?
  • Chang, what are you holding there?

Gramática en este vídeo

Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:

EstructuraEn el vídeo
Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahorahaven't really eaten · I've never had · I've quenched
Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosaalleyway, which is · now, which is · petal, which is
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo haceis dressed · is called
Posibilidad con “might / may” might/may + verbo — algo posible pero no seguromay not recognize · might say · might adopt

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 43 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, we're, don't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “th”: thirsty /ˈθɝs.ti/, thirst /θɝst/, threaten /ˈθɹɛt.n̩/, aesthetic /ɛsˈθɛ.tɪk/, underneath /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/
  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: decoration /ˌdɛkəˈɹeɪʃən/, prescription /pɹəˈskɹɪp.ʃən/, rubbish /ˈɹʌbɪʃ/, shout /ʃaʊt/
  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, decoration /ˌdɛkəˈɹeɪʃən/, bougainvillea /ˌbu.ɡənˈvɪl.jə/, cameraman /ˈkæm(ə)ɹəˌmæn/, comprehensible /kɒmpɹəˈhɛnsɪbəl/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

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

¿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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