Pratique du Shadowing: Sunday funday | Learn English with real-life stories | Bonus 128 - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo

Hello and welcome to bonus episode number 128 of the Q-Lips English Podcast.

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So the story

that I have for y'all this week is just a regular Sunday date day with my wife

and we explored a neighborhood in, I guess it would be eastern Seoul, a little bit east of downtown,

but not too far outside of downtown Seoul, just a little bit to the east of central Seoul.

And this neighborhood is called Jägyidong.

And I used to hang out a lot in this neighborhood way back in the day when I first moved to Seoul, because one of my friends who is also from Canada,

he was living in Jägyidong.

And so sometimes I would go and hang out with him in this neighborhood.

It's a really interesting neighborhood.

I can't exactly put my finger on why it's interesting.

It feels very old fashioned.

Yeah, I mean, it's modernized a lot now.

But back in the day, when I did go and hang out with my friend there, it was like, whoa, this is a really old neighborhood.

There were lots of senior citizens living there.

And there still are to an extent.

Also, there's a lot of old style housing.

And actually, when my wife and I were in the market for a house.

We looked at a couple of places in the Jägyedong area.

And yeah, we looked at a lot of old houses there.

There were plenty to see.

And it's got this kind of old fashioned feeling to it.

Also, it's a place in Seoul where you could buy medicine and I guess medicinal ingredients.

I don't know if you wanted to make a healing tea or something,

and maybe you needed some leaf or some tree bark or some thing to make a kind of natural medicine,

well, you could go to Jägi-dong and find a kind of place to buy that kind of ingredient.

So for whatever reason, Jägi-dong has this kind of old-fashioned feeling.

And although Seoul is a very modern city and changes all the time, every week, every month, it's always changing,

I think Jägi-dong still feels like a kind of old fashioned place in the city, although it is slowly changing, as I mentioned.

And so the reason that my wife

and I decided to go there one Sunday a few weeks ago is because of Instagram.

I think I told you guys just a couple of weeks ago that I struggle with this app, right?

Instagram is very addictive.

And yeah, one day I was just scrolling through some Instagram reels.

And I saw an Instagram reel introducing a Chinese food restaurant in Jigidong.

And the person who made this reel said, Oh my gosh, hands down, there is the best ever Chinese restaurant in Jigidong.

And if you ever get the chance to go there, you should do that.

So I made a note of that restaurant and I searched for it in my map app.

And I saved it.

And I filed it away in my head like next time i visit

that neighborhood definitely i want to go and check out

that chinese restaurant it's really interesting the difference between chinese restaurants around the world

in a way chinese cuisine is very unique because it seems to adapt

and is catered to the local population in every place there's a chinese restaurant like a chinese restaurant in canada

is extremely different than a Chinese restaurant here in Korea.

And I know some of the other countries I've visited around the world have a different style of Chinese food.

And probably even in China, it's totally different as well.

Of course, China is a huge country with a huge variety of different foods and cuisines.

But what we call Chinese food in Canada and what we call Chinese food in Korea is extremely different.

But I love them both.

I'm a big fan of both styles of cuisine.

So yeah, this was a Korean style Chinese restaurant, just to be specific.

And there are many things on the menu at a Korean Chinese restaurant, Korean style Chinese restaurant.

But the top three dishes are, I guess, number one would be black bean noodle, which is just some noodles with a black bean sauce.

Number two is also a noodle dish.

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It's a kind of spicy seafood noodle soup.

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And then the third popular dish is a kind of sweet and sour pork.

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And in Canada, we also like to eat Chinese style sweet and sour pork at a Chinese restaurant, but it tastes really different.

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The pork is similar, but the sauce is different.

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So yeah, interesting how it changes from place to place to place.

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So anyways, I filed this away in my map app.

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And man, it must have been six months or a year ago.

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And from time to time, when my wife and I are thinking about a restaurant to visit or a place to go to, that restaurant comes up in my mind.

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And I've suggested it a few times in the past like, oh, we should go to this restaurant that I saw on Instagram.

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It looks so good.

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And the, I don't want to say vlogger, maybe the influencer really sold it, really made it look and sound delicious.

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So yeah, I suggested that we visit there a few times in the past

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and we tried to go maybe once or twice.

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One day they were closed because it was their day off.

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So the restaurant was just totally closed.

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And I can't remember what happened the other day for whatever reason, we didn't get to go there.

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But it's difficult to go to this restaurant because they're only open in the afternoon, I think for four or five hours around lunch,

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like maybe 1130 until four or five.

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Like they're really only open.

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It's weird in the afternoon from lunchtime until dinnertime, but they're not open for dinnertime.

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And I do think they're also closed a couple of days a week.

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And then on top of that, there's no reservations and it's extremely small.

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This restaurant is the definition of a hole in the wall.

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It's just this really tiny restaurant.

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And inside there are, I think I counted six tables and they're all just two seater tables.

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And there was no, actually there were seven tables

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because they put this one little table in the back that if you were a solo diner, you could sit at that table and eat by yourself.

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So finally, the day arrived.

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Last week, last Sunday, my wife and I were thinking, what should we eat for lunch?

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And I said, okay, it's time.

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Let's go to this jeggy dong Chinese restaurant.

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And my wife said, okay, let's do it.

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I'm a really big fan, like I said, of Korean style Chinese food.

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My wife is like not as big of a fan as me, but she was down and she was a good sport.

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So we went to the restaurant it's not too far from our place

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so we are actually able to walk there in i don't know 45 minutes

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or an hour but it was a nice autumn afternoon

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and we always like exploring new places even though now my wife

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and i have lived in our new house for over a year

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and a half and i have lived in seoul for many many years

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and now my wife is not originally from seoul she's from gyeonggi-do

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which is the neighboring province but now she's lived in seoul for several years since after we got married

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but still the city is so big and there are always

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so many things to see and explore and like i said it's always changing

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so it seems like every time you visit a neighborhood something is different there's a new cafe

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or new restaurant to check out new building something is always always new

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so i I love just walking around and checking out little side streets and exploring.

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And that's what we decided to do on our walk to Jai Gidong.

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So finally, after a little while, we arrived at the restaurant and we had to wait.

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Of course, there was maybe two or three parties in front of us.

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Yeah, it wasn't that long of a wait, but you write your name down and you write your order down at the same time.

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And so we decided to order the black bean noodles, which I said were one of the specialties,

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one of the staples of Korean style Chinese cuisine.

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But this restaurant does it a little bit differently.

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There was a lot of minced meat in the black bean sauce.

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And usually a black bean noodle here in Korea will have a little bit of meat, but this one was a lot of meat.

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It was really meat centric.

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and then also we ordered the sweet and sour pork

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so we wrote our order down and we had to wait outside

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and yeah we probably waited not too long 15 minutes or

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so usually i hate waiting at a restaurant and

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if it's longer than 15 20 minutes or so i'll just give up

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and i'll be like we can come back another time it's all right

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but there's not very many places where i'm dying to eat there that I would wait for that long.

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But in this case, you know, I had really wanted to visit this restaurant for a while.

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And finally, I had the opportunity to and I was willing to wait.

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I said to my wife, we can wait for 30 minutes here.

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Like I really want to go in, I really want to check this place out.

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And another thing is that this restaurant is quite old.

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If you look at it from the outside, it looks a little bit shabby and dilapidated and run down.

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But I've got a tip for you.

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Usually, the restaurants that are the oldest, and maybe from the outside, they look a little shabby or run down or dilapidated.

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These restaurants usually end up being the most delicious restaurants.

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And I guess the reason why that is, is because they're run down and dilapidated and maybe don't look

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so appealing from the outside because they're old and they've been there for a long time.

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And if the restaurant is old and has been in business for a long time, it must mean that they're doing something right, right?

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The food is delicious or the service is amazing or the staff are kind.

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But when you think about it, if you're in the restaurant business and you have great service and kind staff and maybe nice prices,

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but the food sucks, then you're still probably going to go out of business.

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So at the end of the day, I think usually a restaurant that's been in business for a long time is worth checking out

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because there's a reason they're still in business.

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So anyways, from the outside, this Chinese food restaurant didn't look so great and didn't look so appealing,

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but I knew that that was probably a good sign because probably once we got inside

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and got our seat and got our food, then it would be delicious.

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And I was right.

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So finally we were called and we went inside and getting inside was a challenge because like I said, there were just a few tables inside,

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I think six tables, like I mentioned before, but they were super crammed together.

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And in fact, all of the little two seater tables were all pushed together to make like one longer table.

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And it was just so small on the inside, so cramped.

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Of course, our table was in the middle, right?

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So we had a couple dining on our left and a couple dining on our right.

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And we had to sit in the middle of these diners.

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And so I had to squeeze my way past this other guy that was blocking my way.

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So I was like in between trying to squeeze behind him between the back wall of the restaurant and his chair.

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And he was a rather big guy that I had to squeeze behind.

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And he had no space to like move his chair up.

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He was trying to get out of the way from me so I could squeeze behind him to get into my seat.

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But there was just no space.

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Like it was such a cramped, small little restaurant.

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And then once I finally did, I sort of had to like jump and squeeze and manipulate my body to get behind him and get into my seat.

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But once I was able to sit down, then our food came out right away, which I guess is the nice thing about ordering in advance is

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that your food comes out right away as soon as you sit down.

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So we sat down and started to eat.

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It was really interesting the way that the black bean noodles came out.

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They came out in three bowls.

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So there were two bowls just of plain noodles

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and then one big bowl of the black bean sauce

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and then you could take as much of the sauce as you wanted.

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And then just a moment after that the sweet and sour pork came out and yeah, we chowed down, we got to eating.

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And I don't know how you guys feel, but in a restaurant like this, to me, I always feel a little bit uncomfortable about having a conversation

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while eating because we were sitting right next to strangers, like right squished up beside them.

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And yeah, I don't know, when you're talking, it just feels like somebody else can listen into your conversation.

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And I feel also just a little bit self-conscious about my Korean in these kinds of situations as well, because like everybody can hear what you're saying.

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And yeah, also, you don't want to talk too loudly about the food.

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Like usually it's nice to talk about the food.

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Oh, this is good.

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This is not so bad or whatever.

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Right.

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You can give your food review, but in a small place like that where all of the staff and everybody can hear you.

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Thankfully, the food was really good.

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So I had no negative comments to make about it.

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But yeah, I'd be curious to hear your thoughts.

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What do you feel like when you're eating in a small, cramped restaurant like that besides strangers?

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It was actually awkwardly silent in the restaurant.

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Like people were just chowing down and eating, but nobody was having any deep conversations or anything like that.

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I think one of the reasons was because we were all so sitting so close together and we were all strangers.

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So yeah, I don't know from that point of view slightly awkward atmosphere i suppose

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but it didn't matter because we had food to eat

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and it's rude to talk with your mouth full anyways right

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so we just ate our food and while we were eating our food

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and enjoying our meal i was thinking in my head like

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wow this is such a korean experience like here i am

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in this really small restaurant a hole in the wall that probably if you were a tourist, you would never be able to find,

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like, this is just a really, really local experience.

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I'm experiencing Seoul the way that locals do right now.

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And this is the kind of place

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that you would love to introduce one of your friends to if a friend were to visit the city, for example.

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So I was thinking that thought in my head while I was eating lunch.

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And like, I was like, I bet you like no other foreigners have been here.

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I felt like this is really, really just a unique local spot.

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But then as soon as I was saying that, then I heard one of the staff speaking in kind of broken English.

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And I looked over and there were two foreigners, two, I think they were from maybe Northern Europe somewhere.

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I could hear them talking and I would have to guess probably they were from Sweden or Norway, or they were speaking some kind of Nordic language like this.

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And they ended up sitting right beside us.

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So just as I was thinking this thought, like, oh, this is a really local experience, then I was proven wrong.

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And these two girls that seemed like university students,

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they sat down exactly right beside us and started chomping down on some Korean style Chinese food as well.

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So I was proven wrong.

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Actually, I ended up hearing them speak Korean with the server and their Korean was awesome as well.

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So I think, hey, maybe they were able to see the same blogger that I was.

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And they're not tourists.

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Maybe they live here because if you were a tourist, you probably wouldn't be able to speak Korean to that level.

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But anyways, that was just a funny incident that happened while we were eating.

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We finished up the food and my review after we got outside and we're walking to the market, because that's the next place we went to.

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As we were walking to the market, my wife and I were talking about the food and I loved it.

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I was like, this was terrific.

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Five out of five for me, five stars out of five stars.

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I really had a great lunch, probably overate a little bit too much.

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I really went to town on the noodles and the sweet and sour pork.

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Not recommended, but actually good before going to a market because when we got to the market, I didn't want to eat anything.

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I was too full already.

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And guys, let me tell you about this market experience.

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It was incredible.

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There's this huge market in Jigidong and they sell all sorts of stuff,

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lots of different fruit and vegetable and meat.

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And there are restaurants there.

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There are, like I said, some of those medicinal ingredients that you might use to make a medicine or a tea, everything under the sun at this market.

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And we went on a Sunday.

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I don't think Sunday is like a big market day.

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Maybe perhaps if we had gone on Saturday or a weekday, it would have been more lively,

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which is actually hard to imagine because it was absolutely jam packed with people.

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It was hard to even walk through the aisles of the market.

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It was so, so busy.

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But my wife was like, yeah, this is nothing probably on a weekday,

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it would be even busier because it did seem like every second stall at the market was closed for the day.

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It's probably like the stall owner's day off.

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But I thought it was absolutely bustling.

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So, so, so many people.

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And it's kind of crazy because here in Korea, a huge topic of conversation that I hear on the news all the time.

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Every time I open social media on my phone or look at the news,

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I see a story about this and it is Korea's declining birth rate and its low birth rate.

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And just people here are concerned about the future of the country

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and how many Korean people will be around in the future because the birth rate is so low.

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But it makes it hard to think about because at this market was just so jam-packed with many, many, many people.

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But then when you look at the ages of the people who are there, they're all like 20 or 30 years older than my wife and me.

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There weren't too many younger people there

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but anyways it was really cool still to experience the market

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and we walked all the way down these huge aisles it was especially cool to check out the fruit

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and vegetable aisles and you could see just any fruit under the sun

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that you wanted to buy was sold there we ended up buying some apples

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because the apples were for sale for a really good price

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and for the last couple of years here the apple market

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in korea has been insane they've been really really expensive and

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so expensive that it's hard to justify buying apples

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and i haven't really had too many over the last year

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and a half to two years or so

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but we saw a good deal on apples so we snapped them up

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and we've been enjoying some apples we also bought some chestnuts there was a woman who was selling chestnuts

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and it was kind of cool we bought chestnuts

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and they were just the raw chestnuts in the shell

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but the lady asked us

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when we were buying them oh would you like these raw chestnuts

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or would you like chestnuts that have been deshelled and the casing removed from them

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and so my wife was like can i have half

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and half i think we bought like a kilogram of chestnuts or something.

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And the lady at the stall was like, yeah, of course.

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And so she put just half of the raw regular chestnuts into a bag.

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And she took the other half out of the bag and put them into this machine, which was, I guess, a de-sheller.

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Like, I don't know what we would call it exactly because a chestnut doesn't really have a shell, just has like that hard protective skin.

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And maybe there's a special word for that in English, but I don't know what it is.

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We'll call it casing.

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The chestnut casing okay so this machine just like spun the chestnuts around really quickly

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and then they popped out and they had no casing anymore

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and yeah really interesting chestnuts are a food

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that we don't really eat in Canada too often I know back in the day like

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when I talked to my parents they said

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that they used to eat chestnuts they would go to a hockey game

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and eat roasted chestnuts that would be one of the snacks

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that they would eat at a hockey game and I thought that was really cool because for my generation in Canada, nobody eats chestnuts.

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This is just not a food that's on our radar at all.

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But I've been introduced to them here because of my wife

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and my father-in-law also sometimes picks them and gives them to us.

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And so my wife likes to, well, she'll eat them raw, which is a little bit intense for me.

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I don't like them raw too much, but she'll roast them in the oven and they taste pretty good roasted, almost like a sweet potato, like a roasted sweet potato, believe it or not.

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So I've been enjoying some of the roasted chestnuts.

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Really, really good.

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So we picked those up at the market and we just wandered around from place to place to place.

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What else did we buy?

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We bought some Korean style blood sausage called sundae, which don't knock it until you try it.

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It sounds a little intense, but it's really, really good.

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I like sundae as well.

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We picked up some of that and then we went to a cafe in this market, which was pretty cool.

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I had also heard about this cafe on social media before, so I wanted to check it out just to see what it was like.

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And this cafe was cool because it used to be a movie theater back in the day.

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But I guess the movie theater had gone out of business and there was this empty big theater.

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And so this cafe and it's a really famous cafe chain that ended up buying this old theater.

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They converted it into a new location of theirs.

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And yeah, we wanted to go inside and check out the cafe.

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And it's kind of cool.

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It was like that mix of old and new, right? you had this old historical building, but this brand new coffee chain had bought it

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and souped it up and made the interior more to fit their brand and their cafe's brand.

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But at the end of the day, I thought it's kind of cool.

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Like probably this old theater, maybe it would have been knocked down or maybe it would just sit there empty and not be used.

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But because this coffee chain was able to buy the building and renovate it and restore it, well, then we still get to enjoy that old historical place in a new way.

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So that was interesting as well.

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And as a history lover, personally, I love to see when old buildings are saved instead of knocked down.

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So yeah, we enjoyed a cup of coffee there.

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And then we rented a bicycle and rode back to our home.

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Again, wasn't too far, maybe 20, 25 minute ride or so.

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I'm not sure.

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I didn't time it, but it didn't seem to take too long.

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And we got home just as the sun was setting

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and it was a great way to put an end onto our Sunday date day,

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eating Chinese food and checking out a traditional market in Cheggy Dong.

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Well, everybody, I think this is a good place to wrap things up for this week.

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Thank you for listening along.

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And if you made it all the way here, all the way to the end, that is fantastic.

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You can pat yourself on the back.

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You did a good job.

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And yeah, thank you for completing an English study session with me here this week.

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You're doing what you need to do.

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You need to put some time and effort into learning English.

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It doesn't come for free.

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It's not something that's automatic.

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And a great way to improve your English fluency is to get a lot of it in your head.

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So great job on doing some of that here today with me.

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Guys, if you have any questions or comments about this episode, the best place to leave them is on our Discord server.

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We'll be continuing the discussion about this episode over on our Discord server, which is free for everyone to join.

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Just follow the link in the description for this episode.

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And I should also give you a completion code.

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So the completion code is a word

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that you can share just as the word

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or as a longer example sentence in the comments on the discord

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or on our youtube page or on our instagram page and

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that will just signal to me

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and to our entire Q-Lips community of listeners from around the world

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that you finished this episode you made it all the way to the end

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and you completed this study session

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so for this week's completion code why don't we go with the word chestnut chestnut yeah I like that one.

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Chestnut.

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Hmm.

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Okay.

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So you've got some homework to do.

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You have to go ahead and make an example sentence, or if you're a little bit lazy, you can just leave the word chestnut.

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That's okay.

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That's okay as well in the comments.

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So go, go, go.

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And I look forward to seeing those comments.

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Okay, guys.

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Well, I'm going to take off, but have a great week up ahead.

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Happy English learning as always.

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Take care.

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And I'll talk to you next time.

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Bye-bye.

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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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Qu'est-ce que la technique du Shadowing ?