Pratica di Shadowing: [Audio] Collins English for Life - Listening A2 - Part 1 - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

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Colin's English for Life.
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Listening.
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Copyright HarperCollins Publishers, 2013.
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Example I've got two younger sisters.
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One I have two brothers and one sister, and they're all younger than me.
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Two I've got two sisters.
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I'm the youngest.
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I have a twin sister and an older brother and sister who are also twins.
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I have one brother and one sister, and there's quite a big age gap.
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My brother's 14 years older than me, and my sister's 10 years older than me.
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I've got one sister, younger sister, yes, so just one, there's just two of us, me and my sister.
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My family are quite spread out as we're all grown up and left home now, but I live quite close to my brother, he lives in London as well,
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and my older sister, she lives in Salisbury, so the three of us are quite close
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but my twin sister lives in durham
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so she's several hours away on the train
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so i don't see her very much at the moment um
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but uh yeah we try and meet up when we can especially christmas
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and easter so holiday times really
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and i mean we still like to play sport together occasionally
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when we meet up we'll play tennis or or squash and hockey in particular really.
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This summer, the four of us are meeting up for a hockey tournament in Boscombe.
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Yeah, we try and make excuses to meet up still.
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My mum lives in the north of England and I live in London now so I don't see her very often.
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My dad, he lives the furthest away, he lives in India and I see him once a year.
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I've got, yeah, I said I have two sisters.
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So my older sister, she lives in the north as well.
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She lives quite near my mum and she has two children.
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She's quite funny.
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She makes me laugh and she's really clever and she works very hard.
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We get on really well.
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She's training to be a teacher at the moment.
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She's going to be a religious education teacher.
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She works at a school quite close to her house.
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I suppose in terms of personality we're quite similar because we both like teaching and I used to be a teacher.
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She also, she's quite talkative like me.
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I think I talk the most, though.
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And she's very interested in languages.
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I studied Spanish at university and she speaks Italian.
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1. I usually get up at about 8 o 'clock.
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2. I get up in the morning at 6 .30.
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3. I normally get up at 6 .45 in the morning.
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4. I usually wake up about 7 .15 and get up about 7 .30.
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5. Sometimes I have to work at night.
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When I get up at night, I get up at about 5 o 'clock in the evening.
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Usually, the first thing I would do is put the kettle on to make a cup of coffee, and then I would jump in the shower, have a shave.
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Sometimes I eat breakfast, but if I'm running late, which is usually the case, I would skip breakfast and then just head out towards the train station.
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It takes about 45 minutes to get to work, and then I check my email and get started for the day.
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I normally get up at 6 .45 in the morning.
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I then have my breakfast and get dressed and leave for work.
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I catch the train
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and I normally get to work at about 8 .30 where I work in a clinic and also in a hospital.
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I come home from work at about 4 .30
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and I get back and I cook my dinner
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and maybe go out for a walk or watch some TV and I go to bed at about 11.
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I'm a journalist on a morning TV programme, so sometimes I have to work at night.
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When I get up at night, I get up at about five o 'clock in the evening and I make my dinner
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and then I watch some TV and I have a shower and I go to work.
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And I work until nine o 'clock the next morning, so I work all through the night.
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And then I come home, I have a bit of breakfast and I go back to bed.
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One.
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I was brought up in the countryside, so we had a really big garden.
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And one summer, my brothers and sisters and I built a fantastic treehouse.
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When I was five years old, I learned to ride a bike, and my dad every weekend would take me around the block on it.
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One of the things I remember from my childhood was
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when we had our pocket money and then myself
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and my brother would go to the sweet shop
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and we would spend our 50 pence each and we would be able to get bags and bags of sweets.
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The house I grew up in was on the same street as the library.
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So after school and at the weekends, I used to spend all my time reading in the library.
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During my childhood, I spent every weekend at the beach because my grandparents lived there.
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I grew up in the countryside, in kind of the middle of North Carolina, which is on the east coast of the United States.
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And yeah, it was a great life actually, growing up in the countryside.
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When I was a kid, I spent most of my time outside in the woods, camping, hiking, hunting, various things, fishing.
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I think I had my first, you know, I had my own fishing gear
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and my own kind of pellet gun and all my own camping gear probably by the age of 10.
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And we were, it was our escape as children to get away from our parents for the weekend.
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And we would go camping in the woods all weekend and everyone was perfectly okay with that.
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That's normal where I come from.
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And I think your parents are quite happy to see you off for the weekend.
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And as a child, it's brilliant to have your independence, even if it is in the middle of the woods.
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But yeah, we had a lot of interesting wildlife there.
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So I spent most of my childhood trying to catch snakes and crayfish and various creatures that live in the woods.
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So it was a colorful childhood.
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Quite a contrast, I think, to people who live in the city um for me it's even today it's interesting
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when I think of people who put
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so much effort into making a camping trip for the weekend
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or something and I know
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that just as a as a 12 year old boy I could pack a backpack
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and and survive all weekend in the woods on very little um
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so yeah it was a very different kind of life than I think most people are used to
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but uh it was a healthy lifestyle and uh yeah I hope
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that if I have kids one day that they'll have the same opportunity I grew up in Hong Kong.
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It's a big city, Hong Kong, and I've always liked cities.
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We lived in a little house, a bungalow, so I had no upstairs and just a downstairs.
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And it was on the edge of the city and had a little garden, which is quite unusual for Hong Kong because most of Hong Kong is lots of big flats.
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I really loved it.
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The weather was just beautiful.
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So because it was warm, you were outside most of the year just playing in the garden and things.
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We had lots of friends there, and I'm from a big family.
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I'm one of six children.
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So there were always children to play with, and we were always outside swinging on swings or playing in the garden.
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I liked going into the city too.
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Hong Kong's got so many wonderful markets and that's where we used to do all our shopping for food or clothes,
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just to walk around the markets and look at all the vegetables and choose different fish and things for dinner.
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It was a lovely life.
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I really enjoyed it.
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I got my first job in London about five years ago and that was probably the biggest life -changing job so far.
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My life changed greatly when I had children,
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so I have now one son who is eight years old and one daughter who is four years old.
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At the moment, I'm single, but my life is going to change very soon because I am getting married in the next few months.
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I recently moved out of my parents' house to the city, so it was a big change,
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but it's made me much more independent.
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I used to live in New York, but two years ago I moved to England, to London.
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So that was a major life change, but for the better.
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Well, before I had children, my work was everything to me.
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I loved what I did, and through every spare moment I had into my work, really
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when I had the children although my work was still very important to me
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and I was traveling a lot
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and still was furthering my career I think my priorities changed
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and I started to see things in a different way and as they've grown up it's been difficult to juggle
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and balance out work and home life and where I used to be perhaps more concerned with
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the hours that I was spending in the office and all that kind of thing.
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I think now I try to put things in balance
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and not take things too seriously and not to let things just get out of perspective.
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About five or six years ago, I was a lawyer.
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I found the job a lot of hard work
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and it was very stressful
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and it took up a lot of my time over the
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weekends as well as late evening hours during the week
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and I wanted to make a change so I did a course in painting and I did a course in writing
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and I started to enjoy it and I started to write books part -time
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while I was working in law so I'd find a time on a Saturday
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or something and then I found I enjoyed it more
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and more and in the end I decided to leave law
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and I went back to university and started an art degree
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and started writing more and more and now I write books for children
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and I'm really pleased
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that I made the change I enjoy the work a lot
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more it's a lot more creative I'm my own boss and I work in the way that I like working.
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So for me, it's been a really successful change.
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Yeah, friends are very important to me.
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I've had different friends as I've grown up.
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So I started off with my primary school and secondary school friends
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that I don't see as often now as I do my current friends from uni.
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They're so important to me.
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It just, it would be a very lonely, lonely world if you didn't have someone outside of your family to communicate with.
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I have one sort of best, best friend that I've had since I was in primary school, actually.
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We went through a stage, we were really close growing up, we went to secondary school together.
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And then when we went to uni, we didn't talk very much at all.
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And I think it was about four years that we were still we were still close and we talk now and then.
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But it was difficult because we were sort of located in opposite ends of the country.
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So that was quite a hard time.
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When you go to uni, you meet a lot of people and people kind of come and go in your lives.
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But there are always certain people that stay.
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Jeremy.
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So I'm an expatriate here.
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So I've got a huge network of friends all over the world.
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I have friends from America, from California, who are my great friends, and I'll always keep in touch with them, but I just talk to them really online nowadays.
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Then I have my friends who live in London, and they're guys I see on the weekend, really.
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But I also have friends who I live with, who are my housemates, who I didn't know them before I moved in with them, But they're all international as well,
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so they're from France and Spain and Poland.
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Without friends, I think I'd go crazy.
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I just wouldn't know what to do with myself or my time.
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So it's good to have people you can relate to and catch up with, express your views.
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My friends are very important to me.
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Some of my friends live quite far away from me now, even in different countries.
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So I don't see them very often but when we do see each other it's like no time has passed.
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I feel very lucky to have such a wonderful group of girlfriends.
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You know, on the weekends we enjoy hanging out at the beach and getting together for barbecues.
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I try to spend time with friends because I think it's important to keep in contact, but I'm often busy at work.
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So I use social media like Facebook and Twitter.
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Modern technology is really good for that, I think.
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I Skype and tweet a lot, really.
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I actually have an old best friend who lives a long way away,
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but I Skype him at least twice a week.
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The weirdest thing about moving to London was leaving my friends behind.
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So I try and keep in touch with them as much as possible, even to the fact that they visit quite a lot.
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They come and use my couch and I use their couch whenever.
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I text them once in a while.
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It's not too expensive to call them, but I think it's nicer.
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Whenever I land in Dublin, I basically just drop into my friends, just surprise them.
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Maybe 9 o 'clock in the morning, maybe 7 o 'clock in the morning.
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But it's just nice to catch up with people without Facebook sometimes.
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Because with Facebook, you kind of know everything about them, but you don't know anything.
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So I spend a lot of time with them.
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I normally just go to some gigs,
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just eat a lot of food, hang out, that's it.
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Yeah, since I moved to London, I've found a lot of international friends as well.
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So I'm friends with a lot of Spanish people, a lot of French, Spanish, Italian, American,
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like less Irish people than I've ever been surrounded with before
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and I mean to be honest with with modern technology you spend a lot of time with your iPhone
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and WhatsApp and Twitter and Facebook and emails and basically it's a lot easier to keep in contact with people
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okay
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so Hull what do you think like the ingredients for a
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really good friendship like are um I think honesty is really
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important what do you think yeah I think that's true
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because I'm just thinking there's a lot of times before I
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leave the house where I'll go up to your room just to get your opinion on what I'm wearing
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because I know especially
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if it's a special occasion then you'll definitely be honest with me yeah even even
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if I don't want to hear it
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yeah but I wouldn't want you to go out of the house in something
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that I didn't think you'd be comfortable in and yeah exactly no
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and that's what's really good about having such a close friend it's
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because you can be honest with me
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and I won't begrudge you for it yeah
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so I'm the same as well I know that I can trust you and I can trust your opinion
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and I think that's really important yeah
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and I think that's often why I'll listen to your advice as well
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because you know me really well it's more difficult to trust them
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because they don't know me as well so i think that's something
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that really comes with time yeah yeah i i agree
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and i think being able to give advice and
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and listen as well at the same time is important yeah
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you're a really listener i think i i go to you for advice a lot
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because i know i can trust you and
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and hopefully i can give you useful advice as well yeah you do so i think that's really important
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um what else um well i think something that's particular
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to us is because we live together it's sort of important we we make time for each other
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but we also make time for ourselves
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because it's it can be very I suppose like tempting to always go
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and like knock on your door as soon as I get in
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but sometimes I know that you'll just want time just to read a book
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or to speak to someone on the phone and I think
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because we've lived together now for quite a long time then we're very good at judging
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when you might want your own space and
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when you might want to spend time with friends and
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so I think that's something
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that we're pretty good at now yeah I agree I think that's true I think it's easy to try
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and do everything together and if I'm seeing another friend I would love to invite you along,
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but I know it is important not to be on top of each other all the time.
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Yeah, not to always be a pair.
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Yeah, I think that's, I think that's a really good, a good point.
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I live in an apartment with my husband.
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It's just us, no pets, no other family, just us.
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Two.
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I live with my wife, and our two children, and our three chickens.
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So there's three people in my flat.
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There's me, my husband, and my three -year -old son.
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I live in a house with my partner and my two children.
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I share a house with three other people.
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My flatmates are two French girls and a girl from England.
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I live in a really nice terrace house with two other girls.
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I find the biggest challenge in share living would probably be the distribution of chores,
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cleaning up the kitchen, doing the cleaning generally, the washing machine, hanging your washing out.
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I think when you're living with people you don't know or you've just met, you have different backgrounds, different cultures,
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I think the best way to deal with that is communication.
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The best points about living with other people would be making new friends, just having people around when you just want to hang out, have a chat,
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someone to come home to
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and yeah I think the friendship aspect of it they have
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friends you have friends it kind of brings two big circles together.
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I do the cooking and he does the washing up afterwards
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but when it comes to cleaning we disagree on how to clean the house.
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When we were living together for two years I realised
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that he'd only cleaned the bathroom once and I said it wasn't acceptable
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so I made us get a cleaner and now we don't argue about the cleaning anymore.
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i like living in manchester because it's a small city
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and you can walk everywhere there's lots of stuff to do
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and there are lots of art exhibitions
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and lots of things on at the cinema the worst thing
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about manchester is there's very little green space there aren't very many parks near where i live
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and if i want to go and sit in the sunshine i have to get on the train
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yeah london is just incredible i mean the weather's not
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that great um the weather's awful but the people are fantastic and there's always something happening.
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I think that what I like most about living in town, living in the city, is the ability to explore things very easily.
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I like going to new coffee shops and new restaurants and it's easy to meet my friends and to meet new people.
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I think one of the things I dislike most about living in town is the noise
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and I don't like the cost of life in the city and also it's very busy.
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Living in a big city there's lots to do on any one day
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so maybe on a typical day off I would get up
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and I would go to the corner shop to buy my breakfast
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because I don't need to plan ahead and then I would
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when I've had my breakfast I could go to my local part of town
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and go to the market there which is a really vibrant market with lots of clothes and kitchenware and
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fresh fish and everything there, mobile phones, anything you could want.
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I could wander around there.
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Then in the afternoon, I might meet some friends for lunch, and then I might go to a museum,
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or I might have a wander in one of the beautiful parks that London has.
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That's a real positive of London, it has some beautiful parks.
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One When I think of the countryside I think of animals, sheep and cows.
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Two When I think of the countryside, I think of beautiful rivers and peace and quiet.
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Three When I think of the countryside, I think of there's no cars and no pollution.
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I think about horses in a field because that's what I saw from my window when I was growing up.
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I think of long country lanes with flowers and wildlife.
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I'm from the country originally and often go back to my hometown in the New Forest.
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I think what I like about it is that it's quieter and the air is really clean.
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there are beautiful views and I live near the coast
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so I really like being able to go to the sea and see a horizon.
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The people are friendly there's less to do in the evenings but more to do during the day.
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I like outdoor activities like hiking and horse riding
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so it's the ideal place to go and going home feels like going on holiday sometimes.
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I'm from a seaside town called Tynmouth in Devon.
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I was born in Tynmouth, went to school, grew up there, lived there for 18 years.
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Tynmouth is a typically English seaside town.
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So you have the beach, you have a river, you have the countryside.
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It's maybe 20 ,000 people um and it's a great place to grow up
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but when you grow up you want to leave
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so uh it's um it's got a slow rhythm
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and it it comes alive in summer a bit more
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because you get people that come on holiday they stay in uh hotels
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and guest houses and um and the fair comes to town
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and there's the there's the fiesta in the harbour
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but most of the time you know what life is like in
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that in Tynmouth but it's very pretty and I think
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when you go back to visit now when you're older you appreciate just how pretty it is and what a nice town.
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I think when you live in a city you really miss the um you miss nature um
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when I was a child you you know I took it for granted
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that when I woke up every morning you'd see the sea
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and you'd see trees and you'd see birds well you'd hear birds um
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but you don't see that every day when you live in London um
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when you live in the city um
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but it makes you appreciate it more I mean yes there are parks yes there are lots of trees in London.
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But when you grow up in the countryside or on the coast, you're surrounded by it more.
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So, yeah, I think that's what I miss.
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I lived in Japan for a year as part of my university degree.
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I was born in London but
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when I was six years old my parents moved to Hong Kong and so from the age of six to sixteen,
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so for ten years I lived in Hong Kong.
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I lived and worked in Argentina for six months just before I went to university.
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I moved to Germany when I was about two years old with my family and I lived there until
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I was about seven when I was sent to boarding school in the UK.
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I was born in Sydney and then moved to London about five years ago now.
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When I was 17 years old, I left New Zealand and went to Austria,
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which is about a 36 -hour flight away.
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And I lived there with a family for one year
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and I went to school there and this has changed my life completely
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because I learned to speak another language and I got to know another culture
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and I think this has changed what has happened in my life
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and my life would have been very different if I didn't go away to Austria when I was 17.
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I lived with a family with a mum and a dad
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and I had a host brother and sister who were eight
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and ten years old when I was there and I lived in a very small village with only 620 people
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so it was very different to what I was used to in Wellington
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and the people in the village were very friendly
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and welcoming there were lots of festivals on all the time
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and i didn't get very homesick because everybody was so warm and friendly
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a lot of british students between finishing what they call their a levels
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and moving to university do something called a gap year where they often work to earn enough money
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and then sometimes they go traveling.
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So for my gap year I went to Japan
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and I stayed with a Japanese family who are friends of friends
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and I lived with them and I knew that
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when I was out there I would be able to teach English
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and so I'd be able to earn enough money to survive.
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So before I went out I worked at a company to earn enough money to pay for the flight
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and then when once I was out there I was able to earn money teaching English
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and it for me it was the first time I've been
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away from my family for a long period of time so I was 18 and I
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was away for a whole year
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and I was living with a Japanese family who were very different from my family
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and it really opened my eyes to the differences between Japanese culture and also made me look at English culture.
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It allowed me to look in depth into Japanese culture
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and also English culture and made me think about who I am and my identity and why I do things.
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And it really also made me appreciate my family
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because I found the family that I lived with quite a little bit difficult.
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They were very, very strict and they didn't allow their children.
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They had two children of their own, a boy and a girl, and they didn't allow them much freedom
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or independence whereas my parents allowed my sister and I much more independence
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and I think overall I think that's a good thing and
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so it made me appreciate my family and family life a lot more.
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Excuse me, is the Apollo Theatre around here?
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Excuse me, where's the closest movie theater here?
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Oh, you mean the cinema?
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Three Hey, excuse me, do you know where the hospital is?
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Four Excuse me, I'm meeting a friend at the hotel.
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Which way is it from here?
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Five Excuse me, I'm trying to get to the sports grounds.
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How do I get there?
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One Excuse me, is the Apollo Theatre around here?
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Yeah, it is.
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It's, if you carry on north up this road, about 700 metres, and then it's on the left -hand corner when you reach the T -junction.
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Okay, great.
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Thank you very much.
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Anytime.
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Two Excuse me, where's the closest movie theatre here?
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Oh, you mean the cinema?
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Yes, yes.
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Right, you go up this road here, past the park, take the first left,
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then you're right, take the first right, and it's on the left, and it's called Riverside Studios.
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Perfect, thank you very much.
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You're welcome.
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Hey, excuse me, do you know where the hospital is?
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Oh, yeah, sure.
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You just go straight down this road, walk for about five minutes, and then it's on the right.
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It's a really big, great building.
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You can't miss it.
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Okay, great.
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Thank you very much.
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You're welcome.
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Excuse me, I'm meeting a friend at the hotel.
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Which way is it from here?
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Okay, if you walk to the end of this road and take a right, and it'll be on your left.
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You need to find a road called Shortlands.
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Okay, perfect.
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Thank you very much.
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No problem.
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Excuse me, I'm trying to get to the sports grounds.
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How do I get there?
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Okay, quite a bit distance.
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You're going to have to head back to the bus station and possibly get a bus directly from there over the bridge.
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Okay.
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And then it will be on your right -hand side.
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Walk for about five minutes.
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2 Take the first right 3 Over the bridge 4
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Pass the park 5 It's on the left -hand corner 6 Go straight down this road
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7. T -Junction.
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8. Carry on north up this road.
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Hello?
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Hey, how you doing?
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Sean, hi.
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Have you arrived?
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I have, I have.
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I just got through customs passport control.
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I'm just standing here in the middle of the airport, just need some directions to your house.
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Fantastic, fantastic.
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It's really easy to get to my place.
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So if you've come out of customs and you've got your bag and everything, if you head for the tube stop,
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you'll see signs for the underground and it'll take you down to Heathrow tube stop, down to the Piccadilly line.
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Okay.
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Can you see them just now?
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Yeah, I see the tube stops right in front of me, so I'm going to take that down right now.
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And then once I'm down there, where do I go?
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So there's only one line because he throws the left stop.
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So if you take the Piccadilly line, it's the dark blue line, that'll take you towards me.
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You don't have to change.
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Okay.
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It's just, you just sit on the train for about half an hour and it'll take you to Hammersmith.
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That's my stop.
432
Okay.
433
And then when you get to Hammersmith, the tube station is in a shopping centre.
434
So if you take the exit marked for the bus station, you don't actually have, I don't know, do you have a lot of luggage with you?
435
No, no, I just have two backpacks, so I'd rather walk.
436
Okay, that's fine.
437
But take the exit for the bus station anyway, because that's the right exit.
438
And then you'll come out into the shopping centre.
439
If you pass the supermarket, it should be on your list.
440
And that'll take you out the right exit of the shopping centre.
441
Okay.
442
When you get out of the shopping centre, you come to Soham Palace Road.
443
Yep.
444
And that's the main road in my area of Hammersmith.
445
You just walk straight down that road.
446
Okay.
447
So it's about, I think, maybe a 10 -minute walk.
448
You probably walk quite quickly, so it'll be 10 minutes at the most.
449
It shouldn't be a problem.
450
Okay, great.
451
You'll pass a park on your right, and then after about five minutes, you'll see a huge, big concrete building.
452
That's the hospital.
453
It's called Charing Cross Hospital on your left.
454
Okay.
455
then my house is about two or three minutes walk from there.
456
It's called Ellaline Road.
457
I think it's four streets after the hospital, and it's on the right -hand side.
458
Okay.
459
My house is the second one from the end.
460
It's got a blue door, but if you want, you can just call me when you get there.
461
Yeah, definitely.
462
So just to confirm, I'm going to take the Piccadilly line all the way to Hammersmith, get off at Hammersmith, go through the mall, take the bus exit.
463
Don't get on the bus, obviously, because I want to walk.
464
Walk all the way down for about 10 minutes, four streets after the hospital, make a right on the road,
465
on the street, and yours is second from the end.
466
On the left, you said, with a blue door or on the right?
467
It's on the left.
468
On the left.
469
So second house from the end on the left is a blue door and I'll give you a call when I'm outside.
470
Okay, great.
471
Fantastic.
472
I can't wait to see you.
473
Perfect.
474
Me either.
475
Have a safe trip.
476
Okay, bye.
477
Thanks.
478
I'll see you soon.
479
Bye.
480
Bye.

Per chi è questo video?

Questo video è perfetto per gli studenti di inglese a livello A2 che vogliono migliorare la comprensione auditiva e la pronuncia. Ideale per chi vuole esercitarsi a seguire conversazioni quotidiane, come quelle sulle routine mattutine o le relazioni familiari, e vuole iniziare a usare l'approccio del shadowing in inglese per rafforzare la fluidità. Se i tuoi obiettivi includono capire parlanti nativi in contesti semplici e riprodurre il loro tono, questo è il contenuto giusto per te!

Parole e espressioni da rubare

Nel video trovi espressioni utili per la vita quotidiana. Ecco quelle più interessanti:

  • Skip breakfast: "Saltare la colazione" (es. "If I'm running late, I skip breakfast").
  • Age gap: "Differenza di età" (es. "There's a big age gap between my brother and me").
  • Meet up: "Incontrare" (es. "We try to meet up at Christmas").
  • Head out: "Andare via" (es. "I head out to the train station").

Queste frasi sono semplici ma potenti: usale nelle tue conversazioni per sembrare più naturale!

Come migliorare la pronuncia: focus sulla pronuncia

Per imitare la pronuncia del parlante, concentra ti sul shadowing (o shadowspeak), una tecnica dove ripeti immediatamente dopo il parlante. Osserva questi dettagli:

  • Intonazione nelle frasi lunghe: Il parlante abbassa la voce alla fine delle affermazioni (es. "My dad lives in India"). Ripeti questo pattern per sembrare più fluido.
  • Connessioni tra le parole: Ascolta come "get up" diventa quasi "getup" o "put the kettle on" diventa "putthekettleon". Il shadow speech aiuta a capire queste connessioni.
  • Tempo delle vocali: Parole come "morning" o "brother" hanno vocali lunghe. Prova a allungarle un po' più di quanto fai di solito!

Ricomincia il video più volte, pausa e ripeti: la pratica regolare del shadowing in inglese ti aiuterà a rendere la tua pronuncia più naturale e a capire meglio i parlanti nativi. Non ti preoccupare se all'inizio è difficile: ogni ripetizione è un passo verso il successo!

Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?

Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.

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