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Today I am announcing a brand new series on this channel.
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We are going to learn English with The Great Gatsby.
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Except there's a twist.
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The language in this book is still a bit outdated.
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So I have completely rewritten it for a modern audience.
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Here's how it works.
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Here's how to use this video.
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Simply follow along to improve your English listening, vocabulary, and speaking skills.
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You can buy my Easy English version of the book on Amazon, or if you are a channel member,
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you can get one for free and follow along at home for best results.
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subscribe and comment where you are watching from your support means the world to me and
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if you want a life update from me what I've been
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doing why I haven't been posting as often recently watch till
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the end here we are at chapter 1 now I have
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adjusted the language in the story to be about B1 to be too level on the sephir scale.
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So it should be a very comfortable read for this audience.
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It shouldn't be too difficult.
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I really, really love this story.
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Let's go ahead and get started here.
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Chapter one, when I was younger, I was more impressionable.
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That means easily influenced by others.
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Say that with me.
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Impressionable.
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Impressionable.
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Yeah.
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Other people can make a big impact on you and change your opinion quite easily.
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Okay.
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When he was younger, he was more impressionable.
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Maybe he's less impressionable now.
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My father gave me advice that I never forgot.
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That I never forgot.
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Maybe we could say this is memorable advice, or we could say advice that really stuck.
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Stuck.
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If something sticks, then you don't forget it, right?
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It sticks with you.
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So maybe his father gave him some words of wisdom, some wise words, some advice.
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Let's see what it was.
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He warned me, oh, gave him a warning, not to judge people too quickly.
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Don't judge people too quickly.
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In other words, don't make a decision about whether they are good or bad too fast, right?
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Not everyone had the same, here's a great word, privileges, special benefits or opportunities in life.
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Okay, so our main character, he is quite privileged, privileged.
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privileges that would be a noun
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if you have privileges then you are privileged right okay
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so other people haven't been as lucky
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or maybe we could say haven't been as fortunate just another way to say lucky right I took his words
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seriously so
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when his father was talking he was really paying attention really taking the words seriously right he wasn't messing around
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or choking around and they shaped the way I saw other people okay
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because of my father's advice I became a good listener.
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Very nice.
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That's a good quality to have, right?
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Being able to sit and listen to others without wanting to talk, talk, talk yourself.
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People often told me their private problems.
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like they would make almost confessions, confessions to our main character,
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you know, admit the things they had done, maybe the bad things they had done, right?
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So people, because our main character is such a good listener, people really trust him.
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So they find him to be trustworthy.
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They find him to be trustworthy or they think he is worthy of their trust, right?
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And so they tell him all of their deepest, darkest secrets, right?
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Sometimes strangers told me things they probably should not have shared.
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Ooh, we have a word for this.
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Overshare, right?
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If you overshare, you share too much.
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I usually listened without judging them.
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So even if they overshare, he would still listen.
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I believed everyone had a story behind their behavior, or maybe we could say, you know, a reason they were acting that way.
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Their behavior, meaning the things they did, their actions, right?
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Their actions.
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Still, I was not completely without judgment.
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Okay, so he was judging them a little bit.
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After returning from the East, I wanted to forget what I had seen there.
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Ooh, interesting.
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I wonder what he saw, this main character.
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I wanted life to become simpler.
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I had seen too many people behave badly while pretending everything was fine.
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There was one person I could not judge in the same way.
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His name was Jay Gatsby.
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Gatsby had something unusual in him.
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He had a powerful ability to hope.
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Even when his dreams seemed impossible, he continued to believe in them.
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Looking back, I think this was the most important thing about him.
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Okay, so this quality, or we could say characteristic,
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this characteristic of Gatsby, Jay Gatsby,
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is very impressive to our main character.
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And by the way, our main character's name is Nick.
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If you get my book,
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there is a guide to the different characters in the book explaining very simply who they are and what their relationships are.
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But our main character is Nick, okay?
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And Nick is talking about Gatsby, saying that Gatsby had this amazing quality,
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this amazing ability, an ability to hope,
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to not get, here's a good word, to not get discouraged.
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discouraged like when you lose hope right you get discouraged you lose your hope
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my family had been comfortable for several generations he's a generation
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his parents that's another generation his parents parents that's a third generation right and when he says comfortable here,
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what do you think he means?
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He's not talking about, you know, lying down on a cushy sofa, on a big fluffy chair,
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not that kind of comfortable.
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He's talking about money.
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If you say, my family is comfortable,
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what most people will think is you have a good amount of money, right?
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Maybe you are not filthy rich, filthy rich.
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Maybe you are not incredibly rich, right?
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But you're comfortable.
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You have enough, maybe even more than enough, right?
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So he's talking about his family.
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He says, we were respected people in a middle Western city.
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We call this the Midwest in the United States.
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My father had a successful business and I had grown up with many advantages.
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Great word, many advantages.
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So he has certain benefits that other people do not have.
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That's an advantage, right?
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When you have something good that other people lack.
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they lack it or they don't have it, right?
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That's an advantage.
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After college, I went to Europe during the war.
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Okay, Nick went to Europe during the war.
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He's talking about World War I, okay?
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Maybe that's why he seems so mysterious and he's talking about wanting to forget all of these horrible things that he's seen.
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And he's seen people behave badly, right?
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Maybe he's talking about soldiers in the war doing horrible things.
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Seems like he has a kind of a dark past or we could say a mysterious past.
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Mysterious, right?
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We want to know more about it.
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Okay.
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So when he returned or came back from the war, he felt discontented.
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Say that with me.
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Discontented.
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Discontented, right?
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Meaning not satisfied with his situation.
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Maybe we could also say he was feeling restless.
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Restless.
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Like his current situation is not good enough.
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Maybe he wants to go somewhere else, do something else, be someone else, right?
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He's feeling like he can't sit still.
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He wants to get up and go.
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We call that restless.
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The Middle West or Midwest no longer seemed like the right place for me.
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I decided to move east to New York, as we will learn, and learn about the bond business.
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So he's going to move across the country and learn about a new business, the business of bonds.
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What are bonds?
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It's a financial term, a financial word, meaning you buy and sell investments.
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Okay.
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So I planned to work in New York City.
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That's where he's headed.
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Instead, I rented a small house in West Egg West Egg
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was a community on Long Island close to New York
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so originally he had big city dreams right he
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wanted to live in glamorous New York City glamorous what's that mean glamorous.
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Maybe it seems really fancy, right?
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It seems like he's going to be living the high life.
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That means living a very luxurious lifestyle, living like a rich person, right?
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But he ends up moving to West Egg instead.
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So he's a bit away from New York City.
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So he's commuting.
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That means going in to the city for work.
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It was a commuting town, West Egg was, a commuting town that's a place where people live and travel to work.
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Maybe the big city's too expensive.
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You live outside of the big city in a commuting town where you can make a daily commute to work,
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make a daily trip to work.
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You know, maybe in a car, maybe on the subway, in a taxi, whatever.
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My house was small, but I did not mind.
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I didn't mind.
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Yeah, he doesn't really care that his house is small.
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It was much cheaper than the huge homes around me.
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Oh, okay.
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All around him are very big homes.
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So even though he lives in a commuting town, maybe he lives in a nice neighborhood, right?
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My neighborhood had a mansion that looked almost like a palace.
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Ooh, I wonder whose mansion he's talking about.
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One of the huge homes looks almost like a palace.
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Of course, a mansion is a big, fancy home, right?
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A palace is the home of a king.
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So this huge home, this mansion, is so massive, so colossal, colossal.
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Glossal, that means really big, that it looks fit for a king, right?
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I bet Gatsby lives there.
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I knew very little about him.
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I wonder who he's talking about.
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Probably Gatsby, right?
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I had only heard his name, Gatsby.
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His house was enormous.
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There's another great word.
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I'm going to connect those.
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Really big.
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and his property, the land that he owns,
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including the house, stretched down toward the water, toward the ocean, right?
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Stretching, stretching down.
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So in this context, stretch means it goes on and on and on.
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His property stretches on and on.
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At night, I could sometimes see lights shining through the trees.
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Across the bay was East Egg.
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Okay.
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There's a bay, this body of water, separating West Egg and East Egg, right?
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It was home to people from old wealthy families.
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Okay, so old money.
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Their money had often been passed down for generations.
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So he's talking about East Egg here.
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West Egg was different.
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Okay, so East Egg is old money.
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West Egg, let's hear about that.
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Many people there had recently become rich.
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Oh, keyword being recently, recently.
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So this is new money.
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West Egg is new money.
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East Egg is old money, right?
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New money, old money.
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The two places were close together, but they felt like different worlds.
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We could also say there was a world of difference between these two places, right?
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They felt like different worlds.
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there seemed to be a world of difference between them.
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Just means they're really different, right?
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My first visit to East Egg happened because of my cousin, Daisy Buchanan.
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Daisy was married to Tom Buchanan.
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I had known Tom at college where he had been a powerful football player.
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That's kind of a funny way to say this, powerful.
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I might say talented or maybe gifted football player,
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but maybe he played with a lot of strength, a lot of power.
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And yes, in that case, we can say powerful, right?
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Tom was still a large and strong man.
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So physically, he's quite big, okay?
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He had a confident way of speaking.
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Wow.
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So Tom is kind of an alpha, an alpha male, right?
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Have you guys ever heard this term, alpha male?
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Meaning you're a big, confident, strong, manly man.
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Okay?
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So Tom, he's kind of an alpha.
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And Tom is married to our main character's cousin.
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Okay?
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So we have Nick.
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That's the main character.
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Daisy is his cousin.
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And then Tom is married to his cousin.
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Just so we're clear.
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He often acted as if people should listen to him.
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Seems a bit arrogant.
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Arrogant.
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Or maybe we can say superior.
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Thinks he's better than everyone else, right?
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When I arrived at their house, Tom met me outside.
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Their home was enormous, another big one, and beautiful.
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If it's really beautiful, we could call it stunning, a stunning home, right?
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Everything about it showed their wealth.
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Ah, great.
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So they are really flaunting their wealth.
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That's a great verb.
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If a rich person flaunts their wealth, that just means they like to show off or they like to brag.
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They want other people to be jealous of them and their money.
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So, you know, Tom and Daisy, but especially Tom, I think, they're a bit showboaty.
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showboaty which means they like to flaunt it show off brag okay inside their home i met daisy
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and jordan baker okay so we're going to meet somebody else here as well
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daisy was my cousin she was charming and friendly but i noticed sadness behind her smile oh so to Daisy,
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there is more than meets.
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What am I going to write?
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Do you guys know?
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Do you know this expression?
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There's more than meets the eye.
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In other words, she has some depth to her.
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There are layers to her.
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She looks happy, right?
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She looks charming.
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She can charm people.
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She's very charismatic.
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She's good with people.
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She's very friendly, very nice.
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But behind that, there's something deeper.
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Oh, I guess we're going to learn about that later, huh?
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Jordan was a professional golfer.
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Okay.
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She was quiet and confident.
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We sat together and talked.
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Tom soon began speaking about a book he had been reading.
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Okay, here comes Tom.
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He said that civilization was in danger.
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His ideas were racist.
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Uh-oh.
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And I found them disturbing.
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What's another way we could say this?
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Disturbing.
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Maybe our main character, Nick, was very bothered.
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very bothered by Tom's ideas.
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So if Tom is racist, he thinks that some colors of people are worse than other colors of people.
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Maybe he thinks white people are superior to brown people or something like this.
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He has some disturbing ideas that bother our main character.
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Daisy tried to make fun of him.
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she did not seem to take him seriously.
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It seems like Tom takes himself very seriously, right? But Daisy does not.
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She does not find him as impressive as he finds himself, right?
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Daisy raised her eyebrows at me.
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Maybe, you know, she's kind of mocking Tom.
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Tom has discovered a new danger.
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She said lightly.
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Okay.
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So she's kind of poking fun at Tom.
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Tom is talking about some racist thing he read in a book.
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Daisy's making fun of him.
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Jordan hid a smile.
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Okay.
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So Jordan is kind of secretly laughing along.
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Tom didn't notice the joke.
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He kept talking louder than before.
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the room was beautiful but the conversation felt less comfortable with every sentence so we have kind of a contrast here
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a contrast is a difference between two things here's thing one,
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here's thing two and they're not mixing they're not going together well and the contrast here is
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Nick, Tom, Jordan, and Daisy, they're all sitting around in a beautiful room in a beautiful house,
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but the conversation is ugly, right?
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So it's like they have these amazing things, but they can't enjoy them because of a personality, right?
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So there's a bit of irony here.
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It's a bit ironic.
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Tom continued anyway, even though people are feeling a bit of discomfort or they're feeling uncomfortable.
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Then the telephone rang.
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Tom went inside to answer it.
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He went into a different room to take the call, accept the call, right?
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The mood in the room changed.
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Maybe we could say there was a The vibe shift.
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The vibe in the room changed.
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The feeling changed, right?
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I did not know who was calling.
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Soon, I understood it was another woman.
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Okay.
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We're getting an idea of what's going on here.
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Tom snuck off to a different room to take a phone call, right?
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Tom's, oh, here's a great word, you guys.
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Infidelity.
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Say that with me.
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Infidelity.
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Infidelity.
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Okay.
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That's being unfaithful to a partner.
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In other words, cheating, cheating on a partner.
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Okay.
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His infidelity was now impossible to ignore.
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It's kind of the, what am I going to say here?
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Do you know this expression?
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The elephant in the room, right?
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Elephant in the room, impossible to ignore, especially socially right?
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If you're with a group of people and there's something that everyone's thinking, but no one is saying,
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we call that the elephant in the room.
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In this case, Tom is a cheater.
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Daisy knew about it.
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Okay.
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So his wife knows she tried to pretend that everything was normal.
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So she's faking it, right?
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I think we are starting to understand the sadness behind her smile, right?
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We're starting to understand her layers.
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Later, Jordan and I were alone for a moment.
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She told me that Tom's mistress, the other woman Tom is seeing, his mistress, lived in New York.
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She lives in the city.
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I was surprised by how openly people accepted the situation.
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Ah, this is an interesting part of the story, right?
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Because Nick can't really believe what he's hearing and how people are behaving.
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And remember the beginning of this book.
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He's trying not to judge them, right?
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But it's probably difficult not to judge these people.
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especially Tom, right?
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Because he's a bad guy.
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He's doing a nasty thing, right?
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But people know about the situation and they openly accept it, even openly speak about it.
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Openly here meaning they're not sneaking around.
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They're not hiding it, right?
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It's all out in the open.
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Tom was married to Daisy but he did not seem ashamed ooh he's got no shame
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Daisy knew what he was doing yet she stayed with him she didn't leave him because of his what?
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because of his infidelity because of his cheating behaviors right?
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after dinner Daisy and I talked privately
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okay in private she seemed unhappy she told me
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that she had been having a rough time we could also say a tough time
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or a rough a rough go of it if you guys heard
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that before yeah he's having a pretty rough go of it right now
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that means recently he's been dealing with a a difficult situation.
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Times are tough.
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Times are hard, right?
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She also talked about her young daughter.
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Oh, Daisy said something that surprised me.
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She hoped her daughter would grow up beautiful and foolish.
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Okay, that is surprising, right?
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Of course, you want your daughter to be beautiful or attractive or good looking, but foolish.
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That's interesting.
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Foolish meaning, you know, you make poor decisions or make bad decisions.
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I wonder why.
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Let's keep reading.
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She seemed to believe that women had easier lives when they understood less.
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Whoa.
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So she thinks the less a woman understands, the better life she will have.
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Interesting theory.
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Interesting idea there.
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Her words sounded like a joke.
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So Nick thought she was joking, right?
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But I sensed something serious underneath them.
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So maybe she's only halfway joking.
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She's only half joking, right?
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Or partly joking.
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Daisy had married Tom because he was wealthy and powerful, okay?
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Influential.
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He has influence.
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He has sway, we can also say.
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If someone has sway, then they can sway situations, okay?
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They can turn the tides of events.
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In other words, he's a powerful guy.
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Yet, she did not seem happy with her life.
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So she's got money.
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She's got a powerful husband, but she seems unhappy.
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Could be the infidelity, right?
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Tom soon returned and the conversation changed.
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Okay, the topic of conversation, I bet, quickly changed.
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Before I left, Tom and Daisy asked about a rumor they had heard.
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Rumor, maybe we could also say gossip.
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Gossip could be true, could be fake.
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Something that someone is spreading around, right?
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Someone had told them I was engaged to a woman back home.
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Engaged, meaning you are getting ready to get married.
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You have proposed and you are planning to become husband and wife.
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They're like, is this true?
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We heard this rumor.
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Are you really engaged to a woman back home in the Midwest where he's from?
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I told them it was not true.
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when I drove home I felt confused about the people I had just visited they had money a beautiful house
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and every comfort they could want yet this just means
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but right their marriage was unhappy when I reached West Egg I saw that my neighbor's house was dark
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ooh is this Gatsby's house I walked toward my own house
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then I noticed someone standing on Gatsby's lawn the lawn is
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like the grass outside of your house it was the man himself he saw Gatsby ooh so mysterious
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standing there in the dark at night I had never spoken to him before.
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He stood alone and looked across the water.
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So he is gazing. Where?
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Gazing into East Egg, I suppose.
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Okay.
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I followed his gaze.
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So Nick is looking where Gatsby is looking, right?
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At the end of a distant dock where you keep your boat.
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and distant, meaning far away, I could see a small green light.
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Guys, this is a very famous detail about this story, the green light across the bay,
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this mysterious light that Gatsby is so interested in, so obsessed with.
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Gatsby slowly raised his arms toward it, so he's like reaching toward the light.
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The bay was almost black and the light looked tiny from my lawn.
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Gatsby did not move for several seconds.
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His arms remained stretched toward the water.
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Then he lowered them slowly as if the light had moved farther away.
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Whoa, what a mysterious guy.
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I thought Nick was mysterious.
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Gatsby is way more mysterious.
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For a moment, he seemed completely focused on that light.
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What's another way we could say focused?
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Maybe tuned into.
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He's totally tuned into this light.
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He's totally absorbed in this light, totally preoccupied.
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preoccupied, really paying attention to that light, right?
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I thought about calling to him, hey neighbor, it's a bad idea, but I decided not to interrupt him,
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not to, maybe we could say, not to disturb or bother him, right?
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So Nick just wants to observe,
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observe, just wants to watch and see what happens because he's kind of fascinated by this character.
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Then Gatsby disappeared into the darkness.
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I did not understand what he wanted.
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I did not know why the green light mattered to him.
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Why did it matter?
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Why was it important to him, right?
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I only knew that something about the scene stayed with me.
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The scene, the image, the picture, the mental picture of Gatsby reaching for that light, right?
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It stayed with Nick.
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It had an effect on him at the time.
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Gatsby was still a stranger.
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I knew nothing about his past.
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I did not know why he lived in such a huge house.
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I did not know why he held such enormous parties.
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I did not know why he spent so much time looking across the water, gazing across the bay.
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I only knew that he seemed different from the other wealthy people I had met.
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There was something hopeful about him.
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Yeah, he's got a lot of hope, remember?
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There was also something lonely.
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He seems very isolated.
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that's a great word for you isolated all alone
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I went inside my house and thought about the evening he had to think about it he molded over
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yeah he thought about it he molded over or he pondered yeah kind of thoughtfully right everything he had experienced that evening
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I had moved east because I wanted a new life.
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Maybe we could say a fresh start.
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He wanted a clean start, a fresh start, right?
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Instead, I had entered a world full of wealth, money, secrets, and unhappy relationships.
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I did not yet know how important Gatsby would become to me.
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So eventually Gatsby will become quite important to Nick.
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I only knew that I had seen him reaching toward
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that green light and somehow I felt that the light was connected to everything he wanted.
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So this mysterious green light across the bay,
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it's really meaningful and it's connected to the things that Gatsby wants that's the way that Nick feels that's his hunch
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his hunch what's a hunch?
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kind of like a guess that's his guess in hindsight here's a great expression
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in other words looking back
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right considering the past with later knowledge i see a warning in
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that evening i had come east looking for work
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and excitement instead i found a beautiful house filled with tension
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maybe we can say anxiety it's very tense in there i
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found a marriage full of secrets i also found a stranger reaching into the dark.
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Yeah, we're almost done with chapter one, guys.
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Keep pushing.
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We're almost there.
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The war had made ordinary life feel too quiet.
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Ordinary life, normal life, normal times, right?
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The excitement and the tumult, the tumult, maybe we could say the chaos of the war,
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That put everything in perspective.
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Now, normal life doesn't feel exciting enough, right?
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New York promised movement.
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West Egg promised something new.
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I liked my small house.
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It gave me distance from the huge homes around me.
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Maybe it feels like a little sanctuary, a sanctuary to Nick.
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a sanctuary, that's a great word, meaning a safe place where you feel protected, right?
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I thought I could watch this world without becoming part of it.
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Ah, so Nick thinks that from the safety of his house,
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his little home, he can get that excitement that he's looking for, right?
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And maybe he won't need to become a part of that excitement, right?
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He won't need to get caught up in the gossip,
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involved in the rumors and all of the problems that these people have.
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That's his plan.
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That's his idea.
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But that idea did not last long.
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Daisy's smile stayed in my mind.
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So did Tom's hard voice and Jordan's calm eyes.
517
they all seemed comfortable but none of them seemed peaceful
518
their money made life easier it did not make them honest they don't tell the truth they're not upright people
519
if you are an upright person then you are a moral person you have good morals,
520
you do the right thing I had expected the east to feel modern and free Instead,
521
one dinner had already shown me old power, old money, and new secrets.
522
I was curious enough to keep watching.
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Then there was Gatsby.
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I knew almost nothing about him.
525
Almost nothing.
526
So we can also say practically.
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I knew practically nothing about him.
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Or maybe we could say basically nothing.
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virtually nothing virtually nothing yet the sight of him stayed with me he had not been drinking
530
or laughing with anyone he was all alone all isolated right
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he was alone beside his enormous house reaching toward one small green light last page guys i went inside
532
and closed my door
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shut the door right across the lawn
534
Gatsby's house disappeared into darkness
535
so now you know night has really come darkness has fallen across the bay the green light remained
536
or it stayed it's still there I did not know what it meant I only knew Gatsby wanted something badly
537
or maybe we could say desperately.
538
He was willing to stand alone and reach for it.
539
The night felt quiet again, but it no longer felt empty.
540
Somewhere nearby, other lives were already moving toward mine.
541
Ooh, I love that line.
542
That's so poetic and so mysterious.
543
Other lives were already moving toward mine.
544
So something has begun.
545
Something big is already, we can say, in motion.
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That means it has already started, right?
547
I knew the summer had only begun.
548
I did not know where it would lead.
549
Okay, fantastic.
550
Now, in this book that I have created, okay, at the end of each chapter,
551
there will be a chapter summary simple chapter summary, to make sure you understand what is going on in this story.
552
There will also be a vocab breakdown.
553
Let's take a quick look at the summary here.
554
I moved to West Egg, Nick did, and I moved to West Egg and visit Daisy and Tom in East Egg.
555
I discover Tom's affair, his infidelity,
556
then see my mysterious neighbor Gatsby reaching toward a green light across the bay.
557
Let's take a look at some words, some really good words from this chapter.
558
Impressionable is a great word, easily influenced.
559
Here's a great synonym, susceptible.
560
We could also maybe say gullible, gullible, an antonym, meaning an opposite word, maybe uninfluenced.
561
Okay, so I was impressionable when I first entered the wealthy world of the East.
562
People had a big impression on me.
563
You know, they were able to change my mind very easily.
564
I was impressionable.
565
Discontented, let's remember this word, not satisfied with your current situation.
566
So after the war, I felt discontented with ordinary life.
567
Maybe dissatisfied would be a good synonym there.
568
Dissatisfied, the opposite would be content, right?
569
You're happy with how things are.
570
We talked about infidelity a lot.
571
Tom's infidelity was already damaging.
572
His unfaithfulness, right, was damaging to his marriage.
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It was damaging.
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It was hurting his marriage.
575
Privileges was another great word.
576
benefits, right?
577
Opportunities, not available to everyone.
578
That's a great way to think about it there.
579
Disadvantages would be an antonym.
580
Okay.
581
So my family background gave me privileges that others did not have.
582
And last, I'm going to include one expression or idiom in each of the vocab breakdowns as well.
583
So in this chapter, we have in hindsight, that's a great expression.
584
It means looking back.
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We can also say in retrospect, in retrospect, that means looking back, right?
586
In retrospect, in hindsight, I could see warnings I had missed that evening.
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guys
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if you made it all the way through chapter one give
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yourself a round of applause give yourself can you hear
590
that a pat on the back you did a great job
591
uh i feel really good about this book i think the difficulty will be just right
592
and i was able to add some fantastic vocabulary words into the story,
593
make the story a bit simpler while still maintaining the pleasure of reading the story
594
because it really is a great book and I really am excited to keep going with you guys.
595
So if you want to see chapter two, make sure you like this video.
596
If the video can get 1,000 likes, I will make chapter two.
597
Also, if you want a copy of the book, don't forget to become a channel member.
598
Now, becoming a member, that's only $1 a month.
599
It's the best deal on the internet for learning English,
600
I can guarantee you, because not only will you get a copy of this entire book,
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But you will also get access to 40 bonus videos.
602
That is countless hours of extra content, extra videos that the public cannot see.
603
And more than all of that, you know, you will be supporting me as your YouTube English teacher.
604
And without my channel members, I mean this, I could not keep going.
605
I need the support of my members in order to make these videos.
606
I'm just one person doing everything.
607
So to my members, thank you guys so much.
608
I love you.
609
I love you.
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And thanks so much for your support.
611
Now for a quick update about my life.
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Guys, I know I haven't been posting much recently.
613
My last post was members only.
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That was a couple weeks ago.
615
My last public post was a month ago.
616
And the reason for that is I've started a new job.
617
I'm working in a school as a full-time teacher.
618
So it's been a lot of work.
619
It's been a big readjustment, meaning I've had to make a lot of changes in my schedule.
620
You know, I used to have a very specific routine, things I would do in the morning, afternoon and night.
621
I can't do those the same way anymore.
622
I have to change things.
623
I have to switch it up.
624
Switch it up.
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Yeah, make a change.
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Do something new.
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So my plan is to do one video a week.
628
I know I can do at least one video a week, maybe two, but I'm still feeling it out.
629
feeling it out.
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Yeah, I'm still getting a feel for my job and how much free time I have.
631
So I apologize for not posting more.
632
I miss you guys.
633
I hope you're doing well.
634
How about you let me know down in the comments, what does life look like for you recently?
635
What's something you've been doing?
636
what have you been up to recently share with me in
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the comments I would love to connect with you guys and I will see you next time bye bye
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questa lezione di conversazione di livello B1 si basa sul video “Learn English with a Book”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: Tom, word, Gatsby. Questo video contiene 637 frasi e 5551 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 49:42. Chi parla mantiene un ritmo costante di circa 112 parole al minuto, comodo per lo shadowing. Il 84% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese; conviene studiare le altre prima di iniziare. 98 delle sue 637 frasi sono domande: un buon esercizio per l’intonazione interrogativa e le risposte brevi.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
Le 15 parole più avanzate del video, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| daisy sostantivo | /ˈdeɪ.zi/ | pratolina, margheritina |
| mysterious aggettivo | /mɪˈstɪɹi.əs/ | misterioso, ignoto |
| impressionable aggettivo | /ɪmˈpɹɛ.ʃən.ə.bəl/ | impressionabile |
| privilege sostantivo | /ˈpɹɪv.(ɪ.)lɪd͡ʒ/ | privilegio, prerogativa |
| rumor sostantivo | /ˈɹumɚ/ | voce, voci di corridoio |
| lawn sostantivo | /lɔːn/ | prato |
| mansion sostantivo | /ˈmæn.ʃən/ | reggia, dimora |
| unhappy aggettivo | /ʌnˈhæpi/ | triste, rattristato |
| openly avverbio | /ˈoʊpənli/ | apertamente, in modo aperto |
| excitement sostantivo | /ɪkˈsaɪtmənt/ | eccitamento, orgasmo |
| wealthy aggettivo | /ˈwɛl.θi/ | benestante, abbiente |
| enormous aggettivo | /ɪˈnɔː.məs/ | enorme, grandissimo |
| alpha sostantivo | /ˈæl.fə/ | alfa |
| hindsight sostantivo | /ˈhaɪn(d)saɪt/ | senno di poi |
| hunch sostantivo | /hʌnt͡ʃ/ | gibbo |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| show off verbo | vantare, vantarsi | |
| end up verbo | andare a finire, finire | |
| get up verbo | alzarsi | |
| go ahead verbo | /ˌɡoʊ əˈhɛd/ | procedere, andare avanti |
| grow up verbo | crescere |
Frasi da ripetere
Frasi brevi e complete del video che puoi riutilizzare nella conversazione di tutti i giorni:
- Have you guys ever heard this term, alpha male?
- What am I going to write?
- What's another way we could say this?
- What's another way we could say focused?
- What's something you've been doing?
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — un’azione iniziata prima e ancora in corso | haven't been posting · he's been dealing · you've been doing |
| Frasi condizionali if + frase, will/would + verbo — una condizione e il suo risultato | if they overshare, he would still |
| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | I've been · haven't been · has discovered |
| Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa | are privileged · were respected · been passed |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 55 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come they're, we're, don't. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “th”: wealthy /ˈwɛl.θi/, trustworthy /ˈtɹʌst.wɜː.ði/, filthy /ˈfɪlθi/, underneath /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/, worthy /ˈwɝ.ði/
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: impressionable /ɪmˈpɹɛ.ʃən.ə.bəl/, mansion /ˈmæn.ʃən/, foolish /ˈfuː.lɪʃ/, confession /kənˈfɛʃən/, socially /ˈsoʊʃəli/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: mysterious /mɪˈstɪɹi.əs/, infidelity /ˌɪnfɪˈdɛlɪti/, impressionable /ɪmˈpɹɛ.ʃən.ə.bəl/, sanctuary /ˈsæŋkt͡ʃuˌɛɹi/, dissatisfied /dɪsˈsætɪsˌfaɪd/
Come esercitarsi con questo video
- Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
- Fai shadowing frase per frase a velocità normale, ripetendo ognuna finché il tuo ritmo coincide con quello di chi parla.
- Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come daisy, mysterious, impressionable.
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.