Pratique du Shadowing: Not so fast | Learn English with real-life stories | Bonus 133 - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo

Hello everyone and welcome to bonus episode number 133 of the Q-Lips English podcast.

How is it going?

I hope you're doing better than me.

Maybe you can hear in my voice

that I have a little bit of a cold and I'll talk about that in a moment, but I hope you're doing well.

Great to be back here with you for another bonus episode.

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It's the place where I hang out with you each

and every week and I tell you some stories from my everyday life as a Canadian living abroad in South Korea.

And I hope that by listening to these real-life stories of mine, you will be able to build your English fluency and increase your cultural knowledge,

grow your vocabulary, and become a better and clearer English communicator.

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All right, so everyone, today I woke up to Winter Wonderland outside of my front door.

We got a huge dump of snow here in Seoul this morning, and I spent the morning outside in my front yard shoveling the yard.

It's kind of funny.

As a Canadian, usually we have to shovel our front driveway, but here in my house in Seoul we don't have a driveway we have a yard instead

and our yard doesn't have any grass

or a lawn at the moment it's just kind of a cement yard

and hopefully at some point in the future my wife

and I will do some landscaping and install some gardens

or we want to plant some trees

or make it a little bit more natural than it looks right now

but we haven't had time to do that so it's just kind of a cement yard which I don't mind.

It's nice for doing exercise in but anyway

when it fills up with snow like it did this morning it's important for me to shovel the snow

and remove the snow so that front yard doesn't flood when the snow melts.

Now that's never happened to us before but it's a worry of ours that if we get too much snow in there, if we're too lazy after the snowfall and we don't remove the snow,

well then it could flood potentially.

So So this morning, as soon as I woke up, I put on my toque, I put on my winter jacket, I put on my gloves, and I got outside and started shoveling the snow.

So that took me maybe 30 minutes or so.

The snow was pretty heavy, which means there's a lot of moisture in the snow, and I think that means it's going to melt soon.

It's not that cold outside.

Probably now that I'm recording this episode, most of it has already melted, in fact.

But it's a good workout to start the day to get outside in that crisp, cool air and to do some shoveling and throwing the snow.

Wow, it was a good workout.

So I did that for the first 30 minutes to start the day.

And I worked up quite a hunger, an appetite.

I worked up an appetite.

So after I came back inside, I made myself some pancakes, blueberry pancakes.

my aunt my dad's sister older sister my dad's older sister she gave me a bottle of maple syrup

while I was back home in Canada to celebrate Christmas

and I'll tell you guys about my Canadian Christmas adventure maybe next week it's a bit of a longer story

and I want to try and keep today's story on the short side

because as you can hear I'm not feeling quite so good so I'm I'm going to try and keep this episode short.

But my aunt gave me a bottle of Canadian maple syrup.

So I had my coffee, I had my pancakes, and I sat down

and looked outside at the falling snow and the beautiful winter landscape outside my window.

And it was just a nice cozy way to spend the morning after being a little bit chilly outside.

But anyways, the story that I want to tell you this week is about how my year has started.

And I have to say, I haven't gotten off to a great start this year.

In fact, I've maybe started on the wrong foot.

By no fault of my own.

Anyways, that's the story that I've got for you this week.

So without any further ado, let's jump into it and get started.

Here we go.

Enjoy.

So as I hinted about just a second ago, I spent Christmas back home in Canada and I had a wonderful time.

I've got lots of details and information to tell you about my time in Canada, but I'll save that for next week.

This week, I want to tell you about how my new year has started, how 2025 has started for me

and I actually returned from Canada back to Seoul on New Year's Eve December 31st

and I had a morning flight I left Vancouver early in the morning maybe 9

or 10 a.m in the morning

and as I arrived at the airport I was like I

think this is gonna be a bad flight I just didn't feel very good once I arrived at the airport.

In fact, while I was in Canada, most of my family were sick.

My sister was sick.

My dad was sick.

My mom was coughing a bunch.

So there's definitely something going around in Canada.

A lot of people were not feeling so great.

And actually, as I was on my way to the airport, my throat started feeling a little scratchy and itchy.

And I don't know about you, But for me, that's my body's warning sign telling me that I'm about to get sick.

It's really annoying, though, because usually once it's hit that point, there's nothing I can do to stop it.

But it's my body's way of telling me like, Andrew, you've got 24 hours to prepare your life because after 24 hours, you're going to be knocked out and sick.

So get ready for that.

But there's nothing I can do to avoid it.

So I felt that feeling, that tingle in my throat.

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And I was like, oh man, I think I'm coming down with something.

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I think I'm coming down with a cold or with a flu.

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And coming down with something means that you are experiencing the first signs or symptoms of an illness.

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So I felt like I was coming down with a cold.

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And so luckily at the airport gift shop, I was able to buy some cold medicine

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and some cough drops just to prepare myself because it's a long flight from Vancouver back to Seoul.

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I think it's almost 12 hours that we were in the air, 11 or 12 hours.

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And so I thought it's possible that while we're in the air, then that's when I will start to feel sick.

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And my prediction came true as we took off and were into our flight.

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Suddenly I just started feeling worse and worse and worse.

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I had the chills, you know, when you get really, really cold and you're shivering and you have the chills, but then five minutes later,

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you're boiling hot and I could feel sweat coming out of my forehead like I was sweating on my forehead.

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and then I would be back to chilled and really cold.

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So I was like, oh man, this is not so good.

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And I was really congested.

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I had a stuffed nose and I couldn't breathe very well.

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I couldn't breathe out of my nose.

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I had to keep blowing my nose and it was just a bad situation.

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I felt really, really not so good.

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Of course, the nice thing about that situation is that you don't really have to do much on an airplane.

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You just sit there, right?

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Although some people might say, oh, it's really hard to travel when you're sick.

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I mean, it's not that bad.

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You just sit there.

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You don't have to like work or do any movement or anything, right?

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I would way rather just sit in a seat

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while I was sick and try to sleep and relax rather than have to like work outside or something like that.

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So that wasn't so bad to be honest with you.

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And I was able to sleep on and off during the flight

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but one thing that was really really difficult was the landing as we were landing

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and descending out of the air to make our touchdown at

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the Incheon airport my ears felt like they were going to explode there was

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so much sinus pressure I guess in my head

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and changing altitude descending to a lower height really really really just made my ears feel like they were going to explode.

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It was the first time I had ever experienced something like that.

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I think maybe that's why babies cry on an airplane.

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I don't know.

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I was thinking to myself when I felt that pain, is this what babies feel?

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I don't know, but it was really, really painful and there was nothing that I could do to alleviate the pain.

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Alleviate means to relieve or to release the pain.

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So I was trying to give myself a little massage behind my ears

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and plug my ears and pop my ears by yawning and chewing.

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Nothing helped.

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But thankfully, we got through it.

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We landed on the ground.

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We were okay.

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And that pain went away.

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So I somehow made it back to my home.

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And when I made it back to my home, I was like feeling really like full blown sick at that point.

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But it was New Year's Eve and my wife and I had plans to celebrate the New Year's together.

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In fact, I went to Canada alone.

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My wife didn't come with me.

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So we didn't get to celebrate Christmas together either.

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So we had plans for a nice New Year's Eve dinner and Christmas gift exchange and celebration.

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and when she saw and heard how sick I was, maybe you can hear it in my voice a little bit now, it's still lingering in my voice, still there a little bit,

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but it's much, much better than it was before.

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So my voice was just really clogged and congested and I sounded like a different person, in fact.

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And so when she heard my voice and saw me, she was like, okay, let's just take it easy.

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We don't have to have a fancy, elaborate New Year's Eve dinner or anything like that.

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So we just had a really chill New Year's Eve celebration.

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It was nice.

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We ate dinner together.

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I told her some stories about my time back in Canada.

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We had our gift exchange.

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I ended up giving my wife an Apple Watch for Christmas.

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As I told you guys maybe several weeks ago in one of these bonus episodes, my wife's Apple Watch was stolen recently.

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So I felt so bad that her watch got stolen.

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So I replaced that and gave it to her as a Christmas gift.

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And my wife always spoils me at Christmas or really anytime she has to give me a gift.

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She goes all out and she's really generous in giving, which it's great to have a generous wife like that.

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My wife gave me this hoodie that I'm wearing right now.

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Actually, if you're watching the YouTube version of the podcast, you can see me wearing this beautiful black hoodie,

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which will replace the old black hoodie that I had in my closet for several years.

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So a new black hoodie, that's awesome.

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She also bought me a really beautiful sweater made from a really high quality wool.

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And I believe this sweater was crafted in Scotland as well from 100% wool.

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So a beautiful sweater.

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And she got me the new album of a Korean rapper who I really like.

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His name is Bin Jino.

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And so his newest LP, which I think won album of the year

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and hip hop album of the year at the Korean Music Awards from last year.

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So a really great album and I'm a fan of his.

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So it's cool to have that.

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So yeah, totally spoiled this year from my wife at Christmas.

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So we did our gift exchange.

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We had our nice dinner and then we counted down to the new year

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and we were like three two one happy new year

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and then i went right to bed

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that was it it was like 12 01 by 12 01 a.m i was in bed

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and sleeping and i think i slept for like 20 hours after

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that i really slept for a long time

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and i woke up just again not feeling

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so great the next day i probably should have gone to the hospital

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but of course it's the holiday new year's day so the hospital was closed.

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So I just stayed at home and relaxed

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and tried to take it easy and drink lots of fluids and take some vitamins, all of these things.

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And then the next day I went to the hospital, or I guess I should say the clinic.

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The clinic is a better word to use in English.

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I went to the clinic to see the doctor and to get some medicine.

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And it was just jam-packed full of people.

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Like cold season, flu season is really hitting Korea hard right now as well.

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There was kind of funny.

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There's seating in the waiting room of the clinic, maybe for about 20 people.

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But then the staff had set up all of these additional chairs in the waiting room as well.

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There were all these extra chairs set up.

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So I guess they've been experiencing just a high volume of patients coming into their clinic

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and everybody was coughing and hacking up a lung in the clinic waiting room.

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Not the best place to be, but I saw the doctor and he was like, yeah, you don't have the flu, you just have a bad cold.

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So he gave me some medicine and I've been taking the medicine and I feel a lot better now.

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But it's just not the greatest way to start the new year, right?

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Feeling sick, you have all of these goals that you want to accomplish

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and you have all of this motivation and energy, internal energy to try

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and do some of the things that you want to do.

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Like I was really hoping to start New Year's off with a bang

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and go for some long runs and take advantage of the holidays so I could do some extra running.

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But I haven't even run one kilometer yet this year just

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because I want to make sure that I fully recover

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and I'm healthy before I go

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and do something stupid like running in the winter weather in the snow and extending my illness for even a longer time.

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This week I also participated in a couple of the QLIP small group conversation classes.

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And it seems like from talking with some of our QLOS members

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that people all over the world are quite sick these days, suffering from colds and flu.

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So guys, if you're feeling sick out there, I hope you feel better soon.

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And if you aren't sick, well then please take care of yourself so

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that you don't catch what I caught and

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that you can have a better start to the new year than I've had so far.

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One more thing before I let you go that's been a pretty crazy start to my new year is my sleep schedule.

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I guess I'm quite jet lagged right now.

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Coming back from Canada to Korea usually doesn't affect me that much.

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Usually I'm able to adjust to the time difference and it's a pretty big difference.

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I think 17 hours difference between Canada, my time zone in Canada and Korea.

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So it's a big difference, but usually it doesn't affect me too much

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and I can get back into a Korean way of life and snap back into the time zone really quickly.

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But this time it's taking me a while and I still haven't adjusted to Korean time yet.

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Maybe it's because I've been doing some extra napping, trying to get better.

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You know, sleep is the best medicine in my opinion.

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So I've been trying to get some extra sleep when I can.

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but for whatever reason I haven't adjusted back yet to the Korean time zone

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and so I've been staying up until like 3

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or 3 30 in the morning and then sleeping until 11 in the morning or noon.

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It's really crazy and unnatural for me to have this kind of sleep pattern so that also feels really weird for me.

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I mean I'm trying to go to bed at a regular time but I end up just lying in bed,

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tossing and turning and unable to sleep until well into the early morning hours.

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So I hope that changes for me soon as well.

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That will be part of feeling back to normal, I guess.

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So yeah, that's something that I'm hoping

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that by next time I talk to you in next week's bonus episode has returned to normal.

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Thank you for listening all the way to the end of this episode.

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And I'm going to give you a completion code as I always do.

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The completion code is just a vocabulary word

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that you can use on its own or in an example sentence and share in the comments for this episode,

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either on Instagram or YouTube or on our Discord community.

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And the completion code that I'm going to use for this week is curveball.

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Curveball.

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C-U-R-V-E-B-A-L-L.

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Curveball.

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And why am I using the completion code curveball?

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We have this saying in English, sometimes life throws you a curveball.

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And a curveball is a kind of pitch that a baseball pitcher can make.

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You know, when they throw the ball towards the batter, but the ball doesn't go straight all the way to the catcher,

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but it kind of curves and goes in a curved pattern.

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And sometimes this can confuse the batter, right?

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They think that the ball is coming at them in a straight line, but then at the end, it kind of curves and it changes direction.

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And so when they swing, they end up striking.

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They're unable to hit the ball.

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This is a curveball.

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And when life throws you a curveball, it just means sometimes life doesn't go according to plan.

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We can make all the plans in the world, but there are so many different factors in life that can change our plans.

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And when that happens, we can say sometimes life throws you a curveball.

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So I had all of these plans for the new year.

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You know, I talked about some of those in last week's episode

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and I was ready to get started with my New Year's resolutions for 2025.

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But then life threw me a curveball.

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I got really sick and I haven't been able to do any of those things yet.

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But hey, that's fine.

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That's just the way it is.

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Sometimes life throws you a curveball and you just have to deal with it, rest up and come back better and stronger in the future.

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So that's what I'm going to do.

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And go, go, go.

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Now you have your homework for this week.

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You have to leave a comment with this completion code, Curveball.

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So guys, please don't forget about the sale that we have happening here at QLips.

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It's a great opportunity to join QLips and become a member for our lowest price ever, only $79 for the whole year.

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So if you've been thinking about becoming a member, then do it now so you can save some money and become a member at an affordable price.

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Okay, so I'm going to go.

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Please take care, everybody, and I'll talk to you in the next episode.

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Until then, bye-bye.

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Qu'est-ce que la technique du Shadowing ?

Le Shadowing est une technique d'apprentissage des langues fondée sur la science, développée à l'origine pour la formation des interprètes professionnels. Le principe est simple mais puissant : vous écoutez de l'anglais natif et le répétez immédiatement à voix haute — comme une ombre suivant le locuteur avec un décalage de 1 à 2 secondes. Les recherches montrent une amélioration significative de la précision de la prononciation, de l'intonation, du rythme, des liaisons, de la compréhension orale et de la fluidité.

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