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Do you like coffee?
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Do you want to be able to order coffee in English with confidence?
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If you said yes, then you are in the right place.
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Today, I'm going to take you to two different coffee shops here in the US.
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You're going to see how I order, and then I'm going to teach you every single question
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and answer that you need so that you can go into a coffee shop and order without fear and without hesitation.
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If you're new here, hi, I'm Vanessa from SpeakEnglishWithVanessa .com, and I have been teaching real life English here on my
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YouTube channel for over the past 10 years now to more than a 7 million of you.
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I can't believe it.
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Thank you.
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so much for learning English with me.
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And like always, I have created a free PDF worksheet with all of the vocabulary
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and questions and answers that you are about to learn today.
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But inside this worksheet, I have added a special bonus.
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It is the top 50 questions that a barista will ask you.
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This is the person who works in the coffee shop.
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The top 50 questions they will ask.
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Plus, every single answer that you need to know so that you can answer those questions with confidence.
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You can order anything you want with confidence with this PDF.
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And how can you get it?
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All you need to do is click on the link in the description, enter your name and email address, and voila, it will land in your email inbox.
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This is my gift to you along with coffee.
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All right, let's get started.
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We're going to go into the first coffee shop.
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This is a small local coffee in North Carolina, and we're going to walk in, take a look at the menu.
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I'm going to ask their permission to see if we can record in there.
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Hopefully they will say yes.
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And I'm going to teach you how you can order.
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Are you ready?
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Let's do it.
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I'd like to get a chai latte small, please.
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Yes.
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And a chicken Caesar salad.
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Hot please.
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Yes. For here.
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And he's going to get something too.
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And I will get, um, I'm sorry.
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I'm just gonna get a regular cup of coffee.
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Oh, just a coffee.
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Medium, please.
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Yep.
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Yep.
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And I'll also get breakfast burrito.
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Breakfast burrito?
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Oh, right.
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With, uh, let's get bacon in there.
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Bacon?
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Yeah.
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Alright.
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And anything else?
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That's it.
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What's your name?
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Daniel.
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Daniel.
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It's breakfast 376.
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Alrighty.
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What's that?
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Medium roast.
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Yeah, a little bit.
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Here's the chai for you.
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Thank you.
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No, thank you.
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All right.
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So we just ordered inside the yellow mug, that's the name of this coffee shop.
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And you heard a lot of different phrases that were used, a lot of questions, and I want to go through some of them so that you can feel comfortable.
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The first thing that I said is I'd like a chai latte, please.
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And this is a type of tea, it includes a chai.
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spiced mixture with some milk.
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And I said, "And I'd also like..." So this phrase, "I would like," is really the most common phrase that you can use to talk about what you want.
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If you say, "I want," It's okay, but I would like, it's just slightly more polite.
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And Then I said he'd like to order as well.
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So Dan ordered and he said he wanted just a cup of coffee, just a regular cup of coffee.
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And maybe you're the same where you don't like all the fancy things in coffee.
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Well, maybe Dan will order that next at Starbucks.
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I don't know, but he wanted just a cup of coffee.
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And did you get any cream or milk in this?
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I added it later.
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He added it later.
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So sometimes they will ask you, would you like to leave room for cream?
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and that means that they'll make your coffee a little bit lower and you can add some cream or milk yourself
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probably from a little station.
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You can add it yourself later.
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And they also asked him what roasts he wanted.
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I think this is an interesting question and I don't usually hear this at most coffee shops because they just have coffee, but if you go to
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a local coffee shop they might have a wider variety of options and this is how roasted the coffee beans are.
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So there's light roasts, medium roast, dark roast.
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There are probably some other variations as well, but these are the most common.
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And Dan said medium roast.
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This is just personal preference, but if you get asked this, now you know how to answer you could just say,
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"Yes, medium roast." And you're welcome to try out different types of roasts as well.
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You never realize how loud cars are until you try to record a video right beside a road.
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Ugh, cars in America are so loud.
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Well, Before we get our food, I want to explain to you some etiquette about coffee shops.
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So usually you go to the front to order, and if you order with a card, a credit card or a debit card, you will see a little screen that asks you to give a tip.
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Now, in a coffee shop, it's not required to give a 20 % tip like it is at a restaurant,
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or at least it's heavily suggested at a restaurant to give 20%.
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But in a coffee shop, if you get a $4 drink.
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you could give a $1 tip and this is very kind.
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This is great.
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and I also gave a cash tip because I wanted to thank him extra for being willing to make this video.
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That was very kind of him.
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So you can also give a cash tip if you want.
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And I know in some countries, you have to pay extra to sit or to stay at the cafe.
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But in the US, the price is the same if you take it to go.
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And sometimes they will give you a to go mug no matter what.
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but it is the same price.
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to stay at the coffee shop or to take it to go.
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Now, this might be different in some really big cities where space is limited, But in most of the US, You can just sit in the coffee shop,
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have your coffee, And if you need to even get some work done, I have done that at this cafe.
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You can just bring your laptop and you could stay there for three hours.
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Now, if you stay for three hours, it's usually polite to order.
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a little bit more than just a $4 drink.
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Maybe after an hour and a half, you could order lunch or order something else.
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It's not required, but coffee shops in the US generally have a reputation for being flexible hangout places.
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You could stay there as long as you want and it's pretty affordable.
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And sometimes you get a cool little view.
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a nice mural or you're on the side of the street
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and you can get some fresh air maybe if there's some outside space or you can sit inside.
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Okay.
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We're going to get our food and then I'll show you what it's going to look like when we get it.
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All right, Dan, how's your coffee?
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Mm, it's good.
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You can tell it's locally roasted.
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Oh yeah, it is.
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Actually, I'm not sure.
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It tastes good though.
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It's not over roasted.
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It's not over roasted, which I don't like.
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Starbucks coffee is over roasted.
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We call it Charbucks in the biz.
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Oh no, because it's charred.
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Yeah.
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Burnt.
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I used to work at Starbucks, so...
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You could say that.
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And I worked at local coffee shops, too.
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So I'm a bit—I have experience.
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Yeah, you know about coffee.
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Well, we'll go to Starbucks in just a minute and you can give your opinion then as well.
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I think this is probably gonna win.
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Alright, our food just got here.
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This is my lunch.
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It is a chicken Caesar salad and they put the dressing on the side.
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If you aren't sure if you like the dressing, you can always ask this.
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Usually restaurants in the US are very customizable, not every single one, but for dressing, this is a simple thing to do.
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You can always ask when you're getting the salad, "Can I have the dressing on the side, please?" Great question.
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This restaurant did it automatically.
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And Dan, what did you get?
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I got a breakfast burrito with bacon on it.
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It looks really good.
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Wow, look at that.
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Yeah, that's.. wow!
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That is huge.
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It's America -sized.
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This is...
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gigantic.
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It's like the size of my face and that's half of it.
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It smells great though.
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So this is a full meal and not every coffee shop is going to offer a full meal.
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But a lot of local coffee shops will because they want you to come at all different times of the day, not just the time of the day when you're going to drink coffee.
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All right, we're going to eat and then we'll go to coffee shop number two.
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See you in a moment.
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Have you ever been to two coffee shops in one day?
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I have not until today.
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Here we are just for you.
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We are at Starbucks.
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This is the most well -known coffee shop around the world.
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They are a big chain coffee shop.
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means that they have multiple locations and they are spread throughout your country or other countries.
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And I'm sure you have probably been in a Starbucks before, but have you been through the drive -through of a Starbucks?
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This is a really common Starbucks experience in the U .S.
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As people are on their way to work,
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they might go through the drive -through and order coffee or get some breakfast or some pastries.
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So we are going to do that.
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You're going to come with me me, we're going to go through the drive through.
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You'll hear some questions that are asked to me.
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You'll hear some of my answers, and I will put many, many more possible questions and answers in the free PDF worksheet,
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50 in fact, that you need to know and understand and be able to respond to.
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So make sure you click the link in the description to get
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that free PDF worksheet with 50 common barista questions and answers that you need to know.
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But before we go through the drive -thru, I have to tell you an embarrassing story.
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The first time that I ever drove through a drive -thru, I think it was just for fast food or something when I was, I think I was in college.
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Maybe I was in high school.
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and I was driving and there's a little window, you'll see it in just a minute, but I was so scared that my mirror would hit
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the building that I was so far from the restaurant in the window
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that I had to open my door and get out
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and get the food from the window and then get back in the car.
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The person at the window was laughing so hard at me and it was really embarrassing.
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So after that, whenever I go through a drive -through, I'm really careful.
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I have never hit a mirror against a building
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and I've never had to get out of the car at a drive -through.
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So let's see if I do any better today
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and I can get close enough that I can reach from the window
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and I don't hit the car against the Starbucks building.
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Let's go.
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All right, we have a little advertisement for some kind of lemonade type thing.
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- Watch out.
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- Okay.
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Well, we just had a lot of tea and coffee and lunch.
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Alright, it says order here.
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I feel a little nervous.
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Hi!
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I'm gonna get one Chocolate croissant, please.
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What do you want?
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Oh, I'll get the...
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- Okay, anything else?
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- That I'll-- - Yes, one more thing please.
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- Iced brown sugar oat milk shaken something or other.
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- Okay, there was this iced brown sugar oat milk shaken espresso.
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Yeah, what size?
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What size you want?
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A tall.
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A tall please?
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Gotcha.
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Anything else?
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That's all?
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All right, 1070 for you.
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Thank you.
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Okay, thank you.
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Look how cool that is.
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It tells you the order on the sign.
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Whoa.
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That is Very convenient.
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- It's been a while, hasn't it?
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- It has been so long since I've been in a drive -through.
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Wow, so they have a little menu there, but it is helpful if you know what you want in advance, because I was expecting to have to wait behind a couple cars.
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We do have to wait here for our order.
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but I just drove up and they were ready for me, so...
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Maybe it's best to know what you want in advance.
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Here we go.
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See, can I park close enough?
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Don't hit the window.
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I mean, me or...
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- It's so close.
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Hey, hello.
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It's gonna be 10 to 70.
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It is going to ask that question, not for Ellen.
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Thank you.
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Thank you, you too.
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I didn't hit anything.
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Congratulations.
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All right, Dan.
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It says enjoy.
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Oh, that's nice.
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Tell me.
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I shake an oat milk, brown sugar, espresso.
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Ah!
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Ah!
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Whoa.
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- Ah!
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It tastes like cereal.
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Cereal?
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It tastes like a...
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Can I trace it?
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It tastes like Cheerios, probably the oat milk.
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Oh, it does taste like, it tastes like a sugary cereal that is just a drink.
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- See, this is why people like Starbucks, is because you'll go there and they'll make some kind of crazy drink that's sugary and has caffeine, so you know,
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It's addictive in many different ways.
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It definitely feels like a dessert.
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for sure well you want to try this way better than it has a right to
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oh it's pan au chocolat yeah I'm still full from my burrito.
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How is it?
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It's fine.
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Good.
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Well, this is definitely dessert.
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How does the, can you even taste the coffee in it?
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Oh, this?
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Mm -hmm.
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I taste it a little bit.
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- Barely.
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- Barely.
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Okay.
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Well, while you're holding that drink, I would like to ask you, you have worked in Starbucks and you've worked at a lot of local coffee shops.
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What are some - - I have.
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I was a barista for many a year.
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- Yep.
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You were.
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What were, what are some of the differences working at a Starbucks versus a local coffee shop?
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Well, the big one is that most coffee shops don't have a drive -through.
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And the Starbucks I worked at was Actually, one of the early Starbucks that had drive -throughs.
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at least in my recollection.
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And that just makes things so much crazier inside because it's all about throughput.
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You gotta make sure the cars are moving.
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But the best part was we got to wear these headsets
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and one button you talk to the customer and the other button you talk to your co -workers.
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And so we would just non -stop be like, you know, "Hey, welcome to Starbucks.
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Can I take your order?" "Hey, look at this guy over here." Blah, blah, blah.
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You know, you just go back and forth, right?
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It's.. it was really fun.
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And very chaotic.
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Like, you have to have a level of energy that's.. just very high to uh, stick around at Starbucks.
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- Hmm.
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- 'Cause then you gotta turn around and make a drink.
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So people with ADHD probably like to work at Starbucks.
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- Hmm.
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What about the local coffee shop?
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- Um, it can be similar.
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as far as like you'll get rushes,
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but usually a mom and pops coffee shop They'll try to make it a little more intentional.
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Um, nowadays too, the espresso machines are different.
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So the espresso machine at Starbucks Some of them I've seen, they're just like you push a button.
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And most coffee shops you go to that are local coffee shops,
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they will make a point that they use a traditional espresso machine where you gotta, you gotta grind the beans, you gotta get a tamper, you gotta tamp it down,
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you gotta put it in the right way, the water's gotta be a particular temperature, you gotta steam the milk for a certain amount of time.
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Starbucks has worked really hard to automate these things a lot more and make it easier, but Yeah, you have to be, uh...
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I would say working as a barista at a local coffee shop, you kind of like, you know, you wear a collared shirt and you like look a little more professional.
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Like, I'm a barista.
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Yeah, maybe it's more like an art because you're having to actually create the drinks from scratch.
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compared to pushing a button.
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Right.
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But you know, it's a different level of skill, different type of skill.
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Starbucks prioritizes chipperness.
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It helps to be a chipper, beautiful person.
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But at a local coffee shop, you're more likely to encounter somebody wearing all black, being, have tons of piercings and be like, yeah, what do you want?
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Right.
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So it's a vibe thing too.
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There's lots of different vibes at coffee shops.
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That's true.
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That's true.
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who doesn't like coffee, I do not like coffee.
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- That drink, I can taste the coffee in it.
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I would never drink that drink.
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It's too sweet for me.
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I don't like anything like that.
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- It tastes like Honey Nut Cheerios.
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- Yeah, it tastes, I'd rather have a bowl of actual cereal instead of drinking it.
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This chai latte that I got at the yellow mug, the previous coffee shop, it's still a little too sweet for me.
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I know there's one coffee shop, maybe someday I'll take you there.
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There's one coffee shop that has the best chai latte.
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in Asheville and it is so good.
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It's spicy.
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It's not too sweet.
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It's, perfect But if you're someone who doesn't like coffee, you can still find things at coffee shops generally.
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tea AND I THINK THAT'S A GREAT THING.
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smoothies sometimes like the yellow mug has different smoothies you can get.
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You can get food like this pastry.
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Now, if you're French, never get it a pastry at Starbucks.
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This is You think a French person would go to Starbucks?
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There are lots of Starbucks in Paris.
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but I mean, it's okay.
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It's not great.
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I would still recommend going to a local coffee shop
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If you're visiting the U S if you're going to let's say Orlando, because you're going to Disney world, I would absolutely recommend looking up on Google maps.
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coffee shops.
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And looking at the reviews, don't go to Starbucks, don't go - don't tell Starbucks that.
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Don't go to a big brand, try to find a little local coffee shop.
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Unless you want a lot of sugar.
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- That's true.
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- Starbucks will do you well if you want sugar.
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- If you want this go to Starbucks.
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But if you want that kind of local vibe and you want to see how local people are
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Living in the area and I think that's a really valuable experience when you're traveling somewhere new and
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try to find a local coffee shop and it can be really fun.
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I would say too, the price is generally similar.
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If you got just a black cup of coffee like Dan did at the yellow mug, I think you you get a black cup of coffee at Starbucks, it's going to be a similar price.
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Like what?
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$3?
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Yeah.
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$3 maybe?
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It's expensive nowadays.
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Yeah.
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- I mean, tip up to $4 depending on the size you get.
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- That's true.
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- Just for regular coffee.
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- Sometimes they call Starbucks five bucks.
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Now it should probably be seven bucks, but five bucks, because you can't get anything for less than $5.
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Maybe you can, but it's kind of a joke.
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Well, thank you so much for joining me today to order coffee at two very different coffee shops.
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And don't forget to download today's free PDF worksheet.
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It's going to include all 50 questions that a barista might ask you
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and the answers that you need to be able to give pretty quickly so that you can answer
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confidently and get the drinks that you want.
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So you can just click on the link in the description, enter your name and email address, and this free PDF worksheet will land in your email inbox.
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It is my gift to you.
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Well, thank you so much for learning English with me, and I'll see you again next Friday for a new lesson here on my YouTube channel.
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Bye.
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But wait, do you want more?
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I recommend watching this video next where you will be able to see a real American grocery store.
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I will walk through the grocery store and tell you about grocery shopping in English in the US.
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You will learn a ton of useful vocabulary and you'll be able to join me on my trip.
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I'll see you there.

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Vocaboli chiave di questo video

Le 15 parole più avanzate del video, con pronuncia e significato:

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
roast verbo/ɹoʊst/arrostire
barista sostantivo/bəˈɹis.tə/barista
worksheet sostantivofoglio di lavoro
espresso sostantivo/ɛˈspɹɛsoʊ/espresso, caffè espresso
burrito sostantivo/bəˈɹi.toʊ/burrito
latte sostantivo/ˈlɑ.teɪ/caffellatte
cereal sostantivo/ˈsɪə.ɹɪ.əl/cereale
pastry sostantivo/ˈpeɪstɹi/pasticceria, paste
vibe sostantivo/vaɪb/atmosfera
buck sostantivo/ˈbʌk/Maschio di cervo, antilope
salad sostantivo/ˈsæl.əd/insalata
bacon sostantivo/ˈbeɪ.kən/pancetta
phrase sostantivo/ˈfɹeɪ̯z/espressione, polirematica
shake verbo/ˈʃeɪk/scuotere, agitare
café sostantivo/ˌkæˈfeɪ/caffè, caffetteria

I phrasal verb che sentirai

ParolaSignificato
go through verboattraversare
go back verbotornare
try out verbosaggiare, collaudare
turn around verbogirare, girarsi
watch outattenzione!

Frasi da ripetere

Frasi brevi e complete del video che puoi riutilizzare nella conversazione di tutti i giorni:

  • Do you like coffee?
  • All right, let's get started.
  • We're going to go into the first coffee shop.
  • I'd like to get a chai latte small, please.
  • See, can I park close enough?

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Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:

StrutturaNel video
Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adessohave created · have added · have done
Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fawere used · are spread · are asked
Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosaperson who works · someone who doesn
Superlativi the -est / the most … — il massimo o il minimo di un gruppothe most common · the most well · the best

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Chi parla usa 97 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come you're, I'm, don't. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

  • I suoni “th”: smoothie /ˈsmuːði/, throughput /ˈθɹuː.pʊt/
  • I suoni “sh” e “zh”: shake /ˈʃeɪk/, recollection /ɹɛkəˈlɛkʃən/, hesitation /ˌhɛzɪˈteɪʃən/, intentional /ɪnˈtɛnʃənəl/, variation /ˌvɛəɹiˈeɪʃn̩/
  • Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, confidently /ˈkɑnfɪdəntli/, prioritize /pɹaɪˈɒɹ.ə.taɪz/, recollection /ɹɛkəˈlɛkʃən/, hesitation /ˌhɛzɪˈteɪʃən/

I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:

  • /h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: headset /ˈhɛdsɛt/, hesitation /ˌhɛzɪˈteɪʃən/
  • Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: roast /ɹoʊst/, vibe /vaɪb/, buck /ˈbʌk/, salad /ˈsæl.əd/, phrase /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/
  • /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: salad /ˈsæl.əd/, café /ˌkæˈfeɪ/, embarrass /ɪmˈbæɹəs/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, tamper /ˈtæm.pə(ɹ)/

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  3. Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come roast, barista, worksheet.

Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?

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

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