Shadowing Practice: Real English Conversations with Friends & Food! - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Hi guys!
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This is Bo from Bo's Slow English.
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I'm about to go meet my friend Mary.
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Some of you have seen her before in my videos.
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I see you, I'm in the car, I'm just filming my video intro.
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she just texted me saying
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that she's outside the restaurant anyway we're gonna go eat with mary
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and we're gonna have some fun conversations don't forget to like click subscribe
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and share this video with your friends
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and please check out my new youtube it's for kids families
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and super beginner english learners i'm just waiting to exit my car there's a bunch of cars coming by In today's video,
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we're going to speak in our normal speed.
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Normal native English speaker speed.
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Okay, here we go.
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I have to feed the meter.
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We're going to Jinkook.
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It's my favorite neighborhood Korean restaurant.
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Very authentic Korean food.
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Oh, there she is.
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She's sitting inside.
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Hello.
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How are you?
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Your hair is redder?
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Yeah.
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I love it.
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Thank you.
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Hi.
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I'm in the restaurant with Mary.
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Hello again everyone.
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We just got our food.
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I got some hot Korean stew and Mary got cold stew.
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Can you tell me about your dish?
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This is called Chokin-yum.
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Good enough.
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It's cold noodle.
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It's my favorite.
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Every time I go eat with Bo and we eat Korean food, I always order this. Because it's refreshing.
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It's a cold broth.
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It has a refreshing vinegar note to the broth.
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And it has ice cubes in there, cucumbers, purple onions, some chicken, and...
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What are the noodles made out of?
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Chicken broth? chicken broth?
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No, the noodles.
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What are the noodles made of?
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It's like a very chewy...
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I don't know, some kind of wheat.
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Yeah, wheat?
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Buckwheat?
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Buckwheat noodle?
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Yeah, buckwheat noodle.
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And it's super refreshing.
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And I'll tell you guys what I'm eating.
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I'm eating yuke-jan, which is a spicy beef soup.
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There's shredded egg on top.
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There's some shredded beef or sliced beef with some bean sprouts and glass noodles.
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One moment I'm going to pick up my chopsticks.
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So you can see these are the glass noodles.
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Yum!
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It's in a really spicy broth so I I ask them to bring it out mild spice.
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Sometimes it messes up my stomach a little bit.
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When I say mess up, I mean it doesn't feel good.
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I'm going to enjoy my meal with Mary and then I'll get back to you.
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We just had a great early dinner.
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How do you feel?
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I feel full but satisfied.
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I didn't go over.
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I didn't go over my 80%.
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Do I have food in my teeth?
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No. You have food in your teeth?
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I have a few questions for you.
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Hold on.
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Get it?
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No. I'll just move the camera a little further away.
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So people can't see it.
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Hold on.
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Let me just...
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Okay, so while Mary's picking the food out of her teeth...
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So picking the food out of your teeth means...
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I want to give you a little background about my relationship with Mary.
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I've known Mary for almost 15 years.
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Crazy.
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And we used to work in the same hair salon together.
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We were both hairstylists.
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Actually, Mary's still a hairstylist, and I'm kind of retired.
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Can you just tell us a little bit about you?
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What do I want to say about me?
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So I've been a hairdresser for more than 20 years.
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Even though it doesn't seem like it, because I'm so young looking.
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I'm almost 40 years old.
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I'm going to be 40 next year.
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Fun fact.
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Fun fact, I have a phobia with caterpillars.
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Why?
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I'm so scared.
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I do not like them.
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They are weird.
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They move weird.
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And not a lot of people know this, but they run really fast.
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They can move very, very fast.
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And they can stand up and they can wiggle their nubs at you.
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Oh, my gosh.
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True fact.
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That happened to me.
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It's disgusting.
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I used to collect caterpillars.
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Eww.
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And because I have a phobia with caterpillars, I see them all the time.
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I just saw one yesterday in my mint garden.
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So we would call that manifesting.
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You manifested caterpillars.
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I manifest caterpillars in my life all the time.
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What do you like to do as your hobby?
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I love to cook.
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Cooking is like my favorite thing.
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I love looking up recipes and trying them out.
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I love using chat GPT to just figure out what's in my refrigerator, what can I make from it,
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and then use that and my own creativity and make a dish and feed people.
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I like feeding people.
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See it's all food, all food related.
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But traveling obviously, going to different countries, states.
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Can you tell us a little bit about your background?
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So you're Vietnamese.
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Were you born and raised in Vietnam or America?
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So yes, my background is Vietnamese.
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I was born I was born and raised here in California. And...
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But I was...
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Okay.
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I guess that's it.
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I was born here.
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Always lived in California. But maybe, potentially...
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You heard it first.
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Maybe move into Arkansas.
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What's it like in Arkansas?
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So Arkansas is actually really beautiful.
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It's very green and lush lush and very like nature like
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if you're a nature person you're like going hiking there's lots of trails
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and it's just yeah very green is what I can describe
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lots of lots of lakes beautiful lakes wonderful people everyone there
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that I've met are sweet and welcoming and what are your favorite things to do on your spare time?
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Okay so lately in my spare time I've been enjoying a show called The Pit.
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Have you ever heard of it?
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No. The Pit is about a hospital in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania.
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It's a really chaotic environment because it's filmed in the emergency room so you see so many different types of
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interesting but sad cases, very unique cases.
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Each episode is filmed over their...
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How do I explain it?
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Okay, next question.
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Next question.
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Okay, boring!
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Next question.
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What's your all-time favorite place to travel to and why do you recommend it?
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That's a really tough question.
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As you know, some of you know, I went to Tokyo recently and that was one of my absolute favorite trips
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that I've ever taken in my entire life because I thoroughly enjoyed the public transportation, so taking the train.
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The food was so delicious, it didn't matter what part of the city we were in, there was always something good to eat.
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And it can be a pretty affordable trip.
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When I say affordable, I mean the food is cheaper than in Los Angeles.
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And Los Angeles or LA is a very expensive place to live.
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So I almost feel like I saved money for going over to Tokyo.
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I also really love Paris.
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There's a street that I really love in Paris called Princess Street.
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It's like what you would imagine in any movie set in
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Paris on the Parisian streets What country have you been dreaming of seeing or visiting that you haven't seen?
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Well, I haven't been to Korea in a really long time since I was, I think, seven years old So that doesn't quite answer your question
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because I've been there but kind of feels like I haven't been there because I know a lot has changed.
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I also would love to go to the Nordic countries like Norway and Finland and Sweden.
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I also want to go to Switzerland.
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I want to go to every single country, honestly.
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What do you guys want to see from Bo?
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Maybe something, some sports that you can play?
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Do you guys want her to try some new sports, some new outdoor activities?
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Well, by the time I post this video, I would have or should have already posted a video of my husband and I,
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Gabriel, at the track.
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I filmed us running on the track and you'll learn lots of new vocabulary in that video, so check it out if you haven't seen it.
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When am I going to see you again?
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I don't know.
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I will try to see each other more often than not.
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Because Mary might be moving and yeah.
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But not for a while, right?
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Not for a while.
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Thank you so much for chatting with us, me and the subscribers.
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Love seeing you.
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I hope you learned something.
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Let me know in the comments what you did learn.
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And also, could you understand what we are saying?
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Since we are speaking in our normal speech.
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Thanks again!
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See you soon!
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Bye!

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “Real English Conversations with Friends & Food!”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: noodle, mary, favorite. This video has 189 sentences and 1443 words to shadow. The speech runs for 10:04. The speaker talks at a steady 143 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. Only 81% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding. 32 of its 189 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.

Key vocabulary in this video

The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

WordPronunciationMeaning
noodle noun/ˈnu.dəl/A string or flat strip of pasta or other dough, usually cooked (at least initially) by boiling, and served in soup or in a dry form mixed with a sauce and…
broth noun/bɹɔθ/Water in which food (meat, vegetable, etc.) has been boiled.
caterpillar noun/ˈkætɚˌpɪlɚ/The larva of a butterfly or moth; leafworm.
buckwheat noun/ˈbʌkʍiːt/An Asian plant, of the species Fagopyrum esculentum.
refresh verb/ɹɪˈfɹɛʃ/To renew or revitalize.
manifest noun/ˈmæn.ɪ.fɛst/A list or invoice of the passengers or goods being carried by a commercial vehicle or ship.
beef noun/bif/The meat from cattle or other bovines; especially, that from adults.
hairstylist nounA hairdresser.
phobia noun/ˈfoʊ.bi.ə/An irrational, abnormal, or obsessive fear (of something).
shred verb/ʃɹɛd/To cut or tear (something) into long, narrow pieces or strips.
stew verb/stu/To cook (food) by slowly boiling or simmering.
spicy adjective/ˈspaɪsi/Of, pertaining to, or containing spice.
wheat noun/ˈwiːt/Any of the several cereal grains, of the genus Triticum, that yields flour as used in bakery.
dish noun/dɪʃ/A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.
affordable adjective/əˈfɔɹ.də.bəl/Able to be afforded; inexpensive or reasonably priced.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

WordPronunciationMeaning
go over verbTo look at carefully; to scrutinize; to analyze.
mess up verbTo make a mess of; to untidy, disorder, soil, or muss.
check out verbTo record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.).
figure out verbTo come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce.
get back to verbReturn to (an activity)
look up verb/ˌlʊk ˈʌp/To have better prospects.
make out of verbTo construct from; to create (something) using (a material or substance).
pick up verbTo lift; to grasp and raise.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

  • Can you tell me about your dish?
  • Do I have food in my teeth?
  • You have food in your teeth?
  • What do I want to say about me?
  • What do you like to do as your hobby?

דקדוק בסרטון הזה

המבנים שהדובר משתמש בהם הכי הרבה, עם המילים המדויקות מהסרטון:

מבנהבסרטון
“Used to” used to + verb — הרגל או מצב שהיה נכון בעבר וכבר לא קייםused to work · used to collect
הווה מושלם (Present perfect) have/has + past participle — פעולה שקרתה בעבר ועדיין יש לה חשיבות או השפעה עכשיוhave seen · I've known · I've been
סביל (Passive voice) be + past participle — הדגש הוא על מה שקורה, לא על מי שעושה את הפעולהis called · was born · is filmed
השוואות (Comparatives) -er than / more … than — השוואה בין שני דבריםcheaper than · more often than

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 47 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, I've, haven't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

  • The “th” sounds: broth /bɹɔθ/, authentic /ɔˈθɛn.tɪk/, thoroughly /ˈθʌɹ.ə.li/
  • The “sh” and “zh” sounds: refresh /ɹɪˈfɹɛʃ/, shred /ʃɹɛd/, dish /dɪʃ/, gosh /ɡɑːʃ/
  • Long words — get the stress right: caterpillar /ˈkætɚˌpɪlɚ/, affordable /əˈfɔɹ.də.bəl/, refrigerator /ɹɪˈfɹɪd͡ʒ.əˌɹeɪ.tɚ/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, creativity /kri.eɪˈtɪv.ᵻ.ti/

How to practise with this video

  1. Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
  2. Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
  3. Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like noodle, broth, caterpillar.

מהי טכניקת השאדואינג?

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