Pratica di Shadowing: Comprehensible Input English Native Speaker Conversation B1 B2 C1 C2 - Impara a parlare inglese con i video
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Listening and watching native speakers is the best way to improve your understanding.
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But if you want to sound like one, you have to shadow.
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Which means you have to pause this video every five seconds and repeat everything I said in exactly the same way.
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But the most important thing in any learning process is enjoying the process.
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So that's why I'm inviting you for a coffee walk with another American in the beautiful city Montevideo in Uruguay
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So you could listen you could watch
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and also you could learn English in the fun
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and enjoyable way Now hit the like button below and let's get started All right,
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here's the guy William good to see you sir Good to see you again.
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Alright, tell us your story.
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Where are you coming from and what the heck are you doing in Uruguay?
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I am a California transplant. Is he a transplant?
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They're all transplants.
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Some of that has to do with the fact that things are loco in my country.
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Yeah.
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And some of it also has...
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You said that things are loco.
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Tell us.
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Crazy.
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Crazy.
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There we go.
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So Spanglish is your language, right?
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Yeah, Spanglish is my language.
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And when that doesn't work, I throw in an Italian word.
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And when that doesn't work, I gesticulate.
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For example, if I throw in a cone, people will forget what it's like to comb their hair.
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Do you speak any JavaScript or Python?
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Python?
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I'm just kidding.
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Those are programming languages.
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Oh my God.
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No, I'm Viaje.
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Viaje, that means old.
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Oh, no way.
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You're a local.
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By the way, guys, I'm going to raise our bats.
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If we were ever going to really matter, we were going to have to raise the stakes.
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Higher than ever before.
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On this video right here, I have asked you guys to guess my age and the age of another guy.
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No one was able to, and I promise you 20 bucks.
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This time, if you will guess my age and his age, and put a comment right below this video, I'm going to send you $100,
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no matter where you are no matter which country and location of yours.
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I'll send you 100 bucks if you'll guess my age and his age right below this video.
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So we shall not say that.
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You're a California transplant, but how did you get to Uruguay?
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What's the story behind it?
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And what are you doing here?
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Well, I actually was here like back and forth from Rio de Janeiro to Buenos Aires with Montevideo in the middle.
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Ryan Lamb is walking back and forth, back and forth.
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When I was an assistant cruise director on a very small ship called the Sea Goddess.
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Your hair looks so rad, all piled up like a sea goddess.
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Can I touch that?
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I don't know.
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Come on.
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I don't know.
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I always had Montevideo in my pocket as somewhere I wanted to try living.
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Why?
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What did it attract you here?
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Hey, yours is attracted to me.
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No, yours is attracted to me.
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I love the tango culture.
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I love the passion.
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You said the tango?
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What's the tango?
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I mean, the dance?
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The national dance, the tango.
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Oh, so it comes from Uruguay.
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It comes from, well, they argue about it.
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You know, disagree?
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No, no, it's just a fancy way to say we don't have to argue about it.
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We're arguing?
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If we were in Argentina and I said that it came from Uruguay, I'd be in a lot of shit.
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They'll beat you up.
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I'm just kidding.
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You guys let us know where did it come from.
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I also like people are friendly, and I like that they are tranquilo.
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Tranquilo?
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Tranquilo.
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Tranquilo.
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They had a battle with authoritarianism here for about 15 years.
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He tried everything from the menu of authoritarianism.
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And they came out of it and realized everybody needed to be able to talk to each other.
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Everybody needed to get along.
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And so Tranquilo became like the motto of the entire country.
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And this mate that everybody drinks.
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I've noticed that.
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Okay, it's got antioxidants.
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It's got vitamin C.
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It's got caffeine.
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And it gives you the most sustained buzz that you have ever experienced.
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The most sustained buzz.
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I want you to explain this phrase to our subscribers Because they're going to love love it as they're learning English.
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What does it mean?
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It's sustained buzz Well, like if you have an express or you go up and then you go down pretty fast
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mate just Sustains it, but I think the secret is
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They don't tell you but there's a sedative in there at the same time Walter I Need a sedative
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to produce that feeling of tranquilo and that's my theory.
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Interesting!
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I have not read any like medical papers on it or anything. Is that your theory?
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My theory?
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My theory is that these guys are known world-class perversion freaks.
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Okay, here's the fountain with all of these keys.
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Oh wow, it looks like a wall of rocks.
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Yeah, but those are actual locks, not rocks.
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Holy cow!
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They're rusted.
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Some of them have been waiting around for a long time to get opened.
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I know.
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That's a metaphor, right?
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Yeah.
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It's only a metaphor.
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Only a metaphor.
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Here's the bronze Arlo Chardelle.
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Perfect.
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The tango singer.
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The tango singer.
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Woo!
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Interesting.
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Good afternoon, sir.
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What are you drinking today?
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Muckab.
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Wow.
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That little tower there is...
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That's charming.
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It's called a boardija.
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That means bird's nest.
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And yet he can't even see a bird's nest right under his nose.
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And my dream is to have like a, I'm a writer.
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So my dream is to have a bird's nest apartment like that.
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And you said that they have pretty amazing coffee here, right?
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Yes, since it's about to rain, it's very likely going to rain.
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Why don't we grab a coffee and have a coffee right here and continue our conversation?
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Perfect.
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Hola, hablo inglés?
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Hablo inglés?
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Poco.
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Poco, perfecto.
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Can we get a coffee and sit outside?
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I want you to take it and sit outside my house tonight.
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Is somebody going to come to us?
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Do you need a menu in English?
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English would be the best.
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Thank you, I appreciate it.
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Tell us your story.
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You were cruising for a while, and how did you end up here?
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Things kind of started unraveling in the United States.
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Yeah.
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And then I was like, I don't want to go away from something.
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I want to go towards something.
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But even if he couldn't go back to the way things were, there's always something to go towards.
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And I started thinking about, I'm 12 seconds old.
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So I decided I wanted a big adventure.
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And five friends of mine actually decided to move to Uruguay.
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How come?
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Why?
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Why Uruguay?
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Why not Brazil?
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Why not Vietnam?
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Why not Mexico?
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Uruguay is considered the most stable country in South America.
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The Holocene has been one of the most stable periods in our planet's great history.
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Did you guys know that?
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I have never heard about that.
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Uruguay is the most stable country in South America.
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Wow!
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It's not the cheapest country.
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Absolutely.
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Because they have total national health care.
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They have political parties that talk to each other in a civil way and work things out together.
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Guys, I think the most fair
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and civil way for us to do this is for us to take a minute alive and split that $25,000 eight ways.
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That sounds like a dream.
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That sounds like a dream.
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And, and, is it real?
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There are 3.5 million people in the whole country.
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Yeah.
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In the San Francisco Bay Area where I come from, just that area, 7 million people.
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The health stuff, the government agency stuff, the social service stuff, it's got to be easier.
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And how safe is Montevideo?
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Because I have not felt like I need to watch my phone or my camera right now.
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Do I need to watch my back against you?
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I said stay out of it.
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I didn't feel like that.
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I was like, okay, it's so safe and chill here that I can relax.
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I feel very safe here.
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I used to live in Sacramento, California, which is the state capital,
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and the rednecks would come in on their trucks late at night, and the city would become wild.
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and I did not feel exactly safe.
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Here, I feel totally safe to go out at night, to walk at night.
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You do have to watch pickpocketing.
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Quick question.
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You said rednecks.
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Can you explain to the rest of the world what does the phrase redneck mean?
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Because you've been on the sun, you get burned a little bit.
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I can see that your neck is red.
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That's where it came from.
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It was originally like farming people in the United States that would be out in the sun farming or working on things,
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and they'd end up with their whole neck red.
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So that was the beginning of the term redneck.
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The people who are rednecks will tell you about all sorts of aspects of their culture.
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Food they like, whiskey they like, music they like, and they celebrate being rednecks.
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My mom always loved to celebrate Christmas, but she didn't just celebrate the holidays.
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She would celebrate my father.
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There are liberals who don't like the way that some rednecks feel about other groups of people and consider them prejudice.
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Prejudice.
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Explain this word.
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Oh, my God.
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Species.
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Species?
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Someone is prejudiced against other species.
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Yeah, I know what it is.
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Oh, my.
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Prejudice.
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Bias.
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Bias.
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That's the modern word for it.
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Bias.
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When you don't really know anything about another group of people and you point at them with judgment or criticism,
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and you kind of write them off or cancel them without unpeeling them or exploring them or being curious.
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I used to live in North Dakota, as I mentioned, and in North Dakota, as you can imagine, everyone is pretty much redneck because they live on farms.
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It's a village area.
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It's a rural area.
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Coming from a rural area, it's very natural for young men and women to want to do something about that.
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Another phrase for you guys, rural area is area on the edge, not even in the city, it's far away from cities.
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It's like a village area far away from humanity, we can say.
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And I remember when Obama became a president, one of my farm workers who was 67 at that time or 70-some years young, he said, What the fuck?
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Nica became president?
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So it's another world within the United States, right?
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Yes.
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Within hours, within days, the country, and within weeks, the world.
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When he did become president, if you did a Google search, you'd see all these lovely photographs.
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But if you went deeper into the internet, there would be pictures of monkeys and gorillas posted by rednecks that would come up.
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or they had some philosophy where they felt he'd been sent by the devil.
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And so there would be satanic imagery.
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And this is all going on in one country.
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Yeah.
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And while you're enjoying this video, I think you forgot to hit this big fat thumb up button below
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and to subscribe to your channel it takes only five seconds
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but it's very important for this guy right here alright let's
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continue alright let's come back to Uruguay yes hello the national
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drink mate there's I hope I'm saying the right word there's a big metal straw yeah called a Borbeja.
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Borbeja.
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Borbeja.
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The metal straw that you sip the the mate tea from and everybody will sit around and they will pass it around.
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Yeah.
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And all share sips.
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Yep.
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Okay so once you're done writing them up pass it around and I want you guys to pick one out.
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In the United States you would never see people sharing any kind of drink like that.
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Hygiene.
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Never.
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They would be like getting out their hand sanitizer and putting it on their lips.
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They would put a piece of Kleenex over the straw.
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They would say no, thank you.
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The only thing in the United States that gets passed around and shared is joints.
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Smoke a couple of joints or two.
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Hey, you had me a joint.
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That seems to be okay, but anything else, no. This guy's drinking mate, by the way.
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There, there, there.
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Oh, and this is important.
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Did you see how he had, like, leopard spots on his mate?
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Fancy.
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And I remember it was the president himself who said, can the leopard change his spots?
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When you become an adult, or when you're a teenager declaring your identity you go out
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and buy that and you find one that
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that it reflects who you are exactly every single piece of
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our outfit represents our taste our soul our flavor like she
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represents the freshness of nature of the north i have this
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thing right here it's from my friend he's a buddhist he gave it to me
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so that represents respect to my friend that also that
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that I have respect to Buddhism and to him because I'm wearing it.
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And I kind of like it as well.
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The watch has different things to represent.
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Large, dark watch, dark outfit, blue shirt.
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All of your colors are also representing your flavor and your tone of life as we can see.
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When I first met you, one of the first things I saw was, I don't know whether I noticed your glasses,
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your glasses frames first or your watch.
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Right.
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What we don't know is whether it's military, whether it's secret, whether it's government, whether it's private government.
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But with the watch I was like, it's such a big face of time.
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It's like this guy is in charge of his time.
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I'm in charge of you, in charge of you, I'm in charge of you, in charge of you.
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No way!
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You can't leave her in charge.
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And he knows how important time is.
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That's so interesting to hear that how people understand who you are and what do you do based on your where.
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And actually this brings another point.
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I have over 15 videos about, or maybe 10 to 15 videos about public speaking or articulation.
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And the fun thing is we all got used to the fact that people understand who we are by looking at us.
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But the thing is, that's the first impression.
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The first impression that I have was that he was handsome.
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The second impression is, as soon as you start speaking, people realize who you are.
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Number one, how you look like, it creates first impression.
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The second impression is, how do you sound?
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If I was me sounding like this, if I was me speaking and mumbling like the rest of the world, the United States, I would be like a rhythmic, right?
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But I sound completely different.
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You got it.
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And honestly speaking, I'm so sad that in the school, they did not tell me that.
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When I was born, I wasn't even told that I have to dress up nicely.
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I was like, man, my parents told me, shoot.
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I'm like, why?
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I don't want to.
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I want to chill.
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But if they would teach us in a school, they would explain where can the life bring you if you dress nicely and if you sound professional.
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My grandma always used to say that life will bring you to the right person person in the right place.
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So the entire life depends on two single things that you can improve on your own.
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Tell me, you are an actor, aren't you?
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I, yes, I'm an actor and a writer and I was also a psychotherapist and they all go together.
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Oh, wow.
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That's amazing because I can actually see your charisma and the natural flow.
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I love it.
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Tell me more.
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Why did you want to become an actor and how did you become one?
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I wanted to become an actor because me and my best friend
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when we were five spent from the time we were five
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to the time we were nine sitting in her oak tree pretending to be different people.
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Wow.
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We were just pretending to be rockers and...
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Pretending?
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I knew it.
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I was raised in my family and my community and my school to have a very defined sense of identity.
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Our identities will be defined by the pain.
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But because of this contact with the flow of imagination,
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I just always was shape-shifting.
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and shapeshifting powers go!
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So when I got to high school, I loved the idea of becoming one character and rehearsing it
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and kind of mastering it and then throwing it out the window and starting over again.
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I also had a lot of people around me that were professional people like doctors and lawyers and businessmen,
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and they had been trapped in their identity all of their lives.
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They have been hopelessly trapped in an ice flow, lost at sea, and have traversed inhospitable, frigid terrain.
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And even though they made a lot of money,
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you could tell there were so many people inside them that they never got to become.
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Wow.
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So I just love becoming other people.
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Imagine that you were born in Uruguay or in Brazil, India or Indonesia, Philippines, Colombia, Ukraine, Poland, Egypt or Turkey,
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and those are 10 countries where the majority of our audience is from.
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You were born in one of those countries and you don't speak English.
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How would you learn it with all of your experience throughout your life?
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How would you go about learning English completely from scratch?
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The way I actually learned French.
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I fell in love with one of the great singers of France, Edith Piaf.
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She had a 50-year career and she would always sing about love.
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And so I learned her songs and I memorized her song lyrics.
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They weren't poems.
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They were song lyrics.
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And I even looked at them and then I just went out into the world and I'm not kidding.
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And I just put different lyrics from her songs together.
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And because a lot of them were about love, it took me in certain directions.
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But I think people like American music.
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Yeah.
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There may be many things wrong with America that people don't like.
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And I understand that.
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But I think people still like American music.
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Oh, they do a lot.
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And start listening more to the songs you love.
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Look at the lyrics.
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Start realizing you already know a lot of English.
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If you ever sing along with those songs, you already have a foundation. So true.
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While I was in North Dakota, I was attending a church.
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And what did help me to improve the way I sound was singing in a church with everyone else.
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Before that, I had quite a heavy accent
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and I got rid of majority of it by singing songs in a church with everyone else.
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Number one, you learn wording just like you said.
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Number two, you pretty much shadow people and you try to sound just like everyone.
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Yes.
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And while I was learning English as well, I've realized that what you said is actually the only way to be able to learn something.
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Because you said you have to translate songs that you enjoy.
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The key word here is enjoy.
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If you are learning something and you're not enjoying the process, you are not going to stick with it for a while.
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It has to be fun.
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Stick with it, poos.
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You're almost there.
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It has to be fun.
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And there's one thing not to do.
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Every single school I've gone to to learn a language,
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they spend so much time telling you the exceptions to all the rules and having you memorize forms of verbs.
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If you, yeah, double.
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If you are, if you need to wake up in the morning
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and talk to people and buy your food and have human contact, you do not have to be that perfect.
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And you do not have to be, have your mind filled with exceptions.
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The first thing I did when I came here was if it's a dry cleaners, if it's a restaurant, if it's at the bank,
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I would take a moment with myself to say,
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what did I need to learn to say that I did not know here?
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And let me stop right now and learn this
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because I'm gonna go to the bank again next week and I can be a little teeny bit better.
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A lot of snake venom made her sick, but a teeny little bit mixed in with my special ingredients will make her feel all better again.
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So you've got to notice what you need, not what a book tells you.
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Exactly.
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And what you guys need is to practice speaking.
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That's the best advice anyone can ever give you.
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Simply practice speaking with someone, practice speaking with a native speaker, which is the best way.
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But if you cannot find a native speaker, what you can do, you can join FoxU.com.
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That's a platform that I have built where people from all around the world, from more than 111 countries,
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as of right now, speak with each other on a daily, on a weekly basis.
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Just like all of these people from all over the world
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from colombia from senegal from egypt from mozambique from ukraine from france from germany from the united states
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and from uruguay as well and here's an actor's advice about
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that if you are shy and afraid to try and speak pretend you're somebody else doing it that's a badass advice,
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I'll say pretend you are somebody else.
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And I hope that a lot of people from our channel can fully understand.
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Actually, let me guys know, as we've got a native speaker here and he's using quite complex vocabulary.
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Patient understands complex concepts.
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Absolutely.
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Let me know, how many percent of this conversation did you understand?
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Is it 50, 54, 90, 100, or is it zero?
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And on this good note, I want to thank you for joining us.
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I want to tell you guys, leave a comment right below this video and tell William how awesome he is, because he definitely deserves that.
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Thanks.
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Deserves that.
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Brilliant he was.
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I wouldn't be standing here without him.
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Hit the like button below, subscribe to our channel, and I'll see you on the next video.
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Thank you, William.
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A pleasure.
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Now, if you want to sound like Native, watch this video one more time
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and repeat everything without stopping the video to keep up with the pace enjoy it and i'm going to go home
Che cosa imparerai in questa lezione?
Questo video ti porta in una passeggiata con caffè tra due statunitensi a Montevideo, Uruguay, per praticare l'ascolto e la pronuncia inglese in modo divertente. Attraverso un dialogo naturale e spontaneo, potrai familiarizzare con l'intonazione, i modi di dire colloquiali e anche un po' di Spanglish. Ecco l'occasione perfetta per combinare il divertimento con l'apprendimento: ascolta, osserva e imita per migliorare la tua comprensione e la tua capacità di parlare come un madrelingua.
Parole e frasi chiave da imparare
- Transplant: In questo contesto, indica una persona che si è trasferita da un paese all'altro. Esempio: "I am a California transplant" (Sono un californiano trasferito).
- Loco: Parola spagnola che significa "pazzo" e usata spesso nel Spanglish. Nel video: "things are loco in my country" (le cose sono pazzesche nel mio paese).
- Gesticulate: Significa "gesticulare". Esempio: "when that doesn't work, I gesticulate" (quando non funziona, gesticulo).
- Raise the stakes: Espressione idiomatica che significa "aumentare le scommesse" o "rendere le cose più serie". Nel video: "we were going to have to raise the stakes" (dovevamo aumentare le scommesse).
- Assistant cruise director: "Assistente direttore di crociera". Un lavoro specifico su una nave da crociera.
Consigli per la pratica: shadowing e pronuncia
Per migliorare la pronuncia inglese e l'intonazione, il metodo del shadowing (o "shadow speak") è perfetto. Ecco come usarlo con questo video: metti in pausa ogni 5-10 secondi e ripeti esattamente ciò che dice il parlante, imitando il tono, la velocità e le pause. Il dialogo è spontaneo, quindi la velocità è reale: non preoccuparti se all'inizio è difficile, con la pratica diventerà più semplice. Ricorda che il segreto è divertirsi: la passeggiata a Montevideo e le storie dei protagonisti rendono la pratica meno "studiosa" e più "viva". Prova a fare il shadowspeak anche con le frasi più lunghe, come quelle su Spanglish o le storie di viaggio: così imparerai a gestire le connessioni tra le parole e a suonare più naturale. Non dimenticare che ogni errore è un passo verso il miglioramento: la chiave è la costanza!
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.