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Welcome back to my YouTube channel.
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My name is Camille and I'm Calvin.
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We are here for an exciting Thanksgiving video.
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Buckle up.
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Oh man, you guys real quick before we get started.
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Excellent.
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Perfect.
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So Thanksgiving is one of the most beloved holidays in the United States.
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It's true.
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It's up there with Christmas.
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It is.
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Do you have a preference?
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I think Christmas is still my favorite.
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Yeah, mine too, for sure.
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But we did celebrate
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Thanksgiving every year.
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I remember being super excited because we didn't have school, so we had like a four -day long weekend,
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lots of good food, lots of family, lots of friends.
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It's true, but I know it's a very American holiday, and so maybe in your country they don't celebrate it.
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So what is Thanksgiving?
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Thanksgiving is a holiday that started in 1621
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when the pilgrims arrived to America the Native Americans helped them for the first year and
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so as a sign of gratitude
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they decided to celebrate do a big feast after one year of surviving this new life in this new world
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and so that kind of is the the story the origin story of Thanksgiving not everyone even knows that.
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So well done, Calvin.
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Thank you.
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Thank you, chat GPT.
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And a feast is just a really big meal.
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And speaking of the meal, I mean, that is the biggest thing we celebrate in the US.
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There are several different traditions that we have, but let's talk a little bit about the meal.
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So what are some typical things that
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Americans eat during Thanksgiving?
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Number one, turkey.
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Yes.
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You probably know.
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You've probably seen the images.
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Maybe you watched the Friends episode.
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I know.
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I love the Friends Thanksgiving episodes.
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Yes, they are great.
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If you haven't seen that TV show, it's getting pretty old, like 30 years old, but it's still awesome and you should watch it.
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And it will help you improve your English and learn a ton about American culture as well.
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Yeah.
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How many episodes?
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Or how many seasons?
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Ten seasons.
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10 seasons so yeah by the time
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if you watch all 10 you'll be fluent in English no no guarantees
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but it'll definitely help you yeah yeah so apart from
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that we have a lot of side dishes
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so one of my favorite side dishes is stuffing
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which is just a lot of like day -old bread cubes mix some people stuff it literally in the turkey
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which is why it's called stuffing
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but then it has things like craisins apple people put sausages
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and a broth and it just becomes sort of a little soggy
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but also some pieces are crispy it's delicious I love stuffing do you like it with your description
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day -old bread soggy those are not words
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that really make me want to eat it I didn't eat
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it growing up I refused to eat it what yeah like
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because sometimes there's too much like raw onion or like onion in it
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and I was celery and onion
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and as a kid I was like really picky well
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I would just like pick out all the bread pieces yeah
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but now as an adult I can say I do like stuffing it's good
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and then there's cranberry sauce yeah people eat
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that on the turkey usually mashed potatoes
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and gravy sweet potatoes my mom growing up would do the sweet potatoes from a can.
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Yeah, that's interesting.
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Yeah, she doesn't do that anymore.
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But I did not like them.
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And she would call them yams.
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Oh, yeah.
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Is sweet potatoes and yams the same?
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I actually don't know.
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I think so.
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I'm not sure.
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Somebody needs to call chat GPT.
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Yeah, write it in the comments if you figure it out.
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Are sweet potatoes and yams the same?
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I don't think I ever did yams in a can.
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I actually don't remember okay we didn't have
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that as part of our meal what else was like a part of your meal yeah
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i think we would always also do a baked ham
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so we'd have the turkey turkey and the ham sorry for all the kosher eaters
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and uh halal but uh yeah we had we had ham um
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and it was it was good although i don't eat a lot of pork nowadays um
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it was always good to get this like honey baked ham yeah okay my dad would always make
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that i think actually he would maybe do both Okay.
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Wow.
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We would always do green bean casserole as well.
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That was a very classic Thanksgiving thing.
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We always had rolls as well on the side.
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Yes.
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Oh, there was some roll recipe that was like, maybe you had the same one because sometimes we had the same like cookbooks and traditions.
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They were like these buttery rolls.
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And I just always, that was probably one of my favorite things of the whole meal was these rolls.
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I would just eat like 10 of them.
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Oh my gosh.
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Well, I think those are the main things as far as food goes, but the desserts, the most classic is pumpkin pie.
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Yes.
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Pumpkin pie to this day.
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I'll eat it any time of the year.
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I love pumpkin pie.
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I had it yesterday.
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I made it a very epic pumpkin pie.
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Thank you.
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One of the biggest differences between moving here in Europe and being in the U S is I didn't know that
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But pumpkin in a can doesn't exist in Europe.
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And so here we bake our pumpkins fresh.
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And now even if I had the choice to buy a can of pumpkin or bake it, I think I would always choose to bake it.
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Yeah, I think, you know, anytime you can use fresh ingredients, the flavor is going to be much more vibrant.
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Yeah.
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But we grew up eating the canned pumpkin and that's how everyone makes their pumpkin pies.
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Yeah, I didn't even know you could make it yourself until Camille did it, so she's a genius.
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Thank you.
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We also have pecan.
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Do you say pecan or pecan?
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I think I say pecan.
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Maybe in the South, they say pecan.
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Pecan pie.
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Yeah, that's also a traditional pie that people have.
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Yeah.
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And those were the main two desserts
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that we would have yeah I can't really think you know you would some people would bring other desserts
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or sometimes you do like I don't know church gatherings
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or you know more relatives would come
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and they'd bring some sort of dessert like a lemon meringue pie yeah
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or a I don't know banana cream pie that's true
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so yeah it people can be as creative as they want it's America
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and I think one of the biggest things people try to do now is gratitude
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so gratitude means thankfulness so being thankful I mean I think gratitude is
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so important not just on Thanksgiving one day a year no way like I write things every single day
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I have an ongoing list of at least five things I'm thankful for
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and I think we need to keep
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that attitude of gratitude what were you telling me the other day even about gratitude yes funny
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you mention it we didn't plan this at all
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but I have this book I'm reading
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and it's called the power of moments it's a great book um
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but basically they they talk about this this study where somebody writes a letter of gratitude to somebody else
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and then reads it to them so this is like 300 words like very honest
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and practical words of gratitude towards somebody else and the effects of doing
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that like in the brain like all the good uh chemicals in your brain lasts at least one month
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so if you want like more happiness in your life more joy you can write a letter
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so it's not even the person that's receiving
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it they also get a big boost in like these um you know happy chemicals in your brain
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but it's the one that actually writes it too
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so you know i think there's a verse
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that says it's more blessed to give than to receive and
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that holds up true with with science as well so i thought
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that was interesting yeah that really is wow amazing we should definitely try
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that in this next month
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we want to get all the happiness benefits possible yeah why wouldn't we do it yeah exactly
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so we would always then have just a huge meal
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we would always have the football game on this is american football not soccer
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so there'd always be some huge football game going on we would have
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that on after our meal and then we would eat leftovers
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so we would eat again the turkey
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and the mashed potatoes like twice in one day yeah some people also play football
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so they'll watch and then
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but then some will also play like those you know maybe not a full game
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but just throw around the old pigskin
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that's true the football oh i forgot to mention in the morning of thanksgiving there is a huge parade
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so it's called the macy's day parade it's televised nationwide
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and there are just massive floats
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and whatever's like going on I think in the moment of that year
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and it's just a long I don't know
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it's like three hour parade yeah it doesn't make any sense to me
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it was always boring to me as a child I'm like why is this parade something I think
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because of nostalgic like nostalgia I'm like put on the parade yeah
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I just see it now as like oh
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they're getting like all these free advertisements by doing these floats
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that's true maybe i need more gratitude to be like wow
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this is a nice beautiful nice they they put forth all this effort into these floats imagine the effort
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that goes into those they probably start signing months in advance
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it's true i need to change my attitude yeah sorry
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it's okay well also i'm thinking of something that's very connected to thanksgiving
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which is now starting yeah oh last friday
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it's starting like the day of thanksgiving now oh it's already started even before thanksgiving it's true but typically it
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It was like the day after
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Thanksgiving, you go to the mall at midnight.
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There'd be massive sales.
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This was even before online shopping.
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So you would do your Christmas shopping on Black Friday.
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Yeah.
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You really could get sales.
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Like we would go on Black Friday.
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My mom did not want to miss it.
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Yeah, no, the stores, they realized, oh, like after
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Thanksgiving, people have a day off.
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They're actually going shopping.
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So they just basically capitalized on it and was like, okay, we're going to just like do our best sales
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and yeah I think like Amazon between now
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and Christmas does I don't know how much like percentage of their sales is in this short window wow
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so I feel sorry for all the delivery men a lot of work do you go
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Black Friday shopping yourself no I only did it a few times I try to find the online deals
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and you know try to strategize say
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I have like a big purchase like a tv
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i'll be like i know the prices will probably be cheaper yeah
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but you do have to watch out
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because you know what they do is they raise the prices
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and then lower them not everybody not everybody we don't do
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that for our business no we don't
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and we have the biggest sale of the year all of my products too everything's 50 off
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you want this book 50 off the pdf everything online
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and digital and it is the only time
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that we do it 50 off is black friday
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and the only time of the year and people always message me after
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and be like can i get
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that sale i'm like you guys i had no you cannot wait till next year we might be nice
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but yeah it's better just to buy it during the sale oh yes please take advantage of it yes
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but black friday and now cyber monday
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so yeah it's extending extending yeah it's basically like black november
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now you know the whole month of november
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it's crazy well did you have any other traditions
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you did thanksgiving thanksgiving weekend i mean i think we just hung out as a family um
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and yeah did that just hung out we would usually go snowmobiling
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because i grew up in michigan there's a lot of snow
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and so my dad we'd have our cousins over
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and then he would pull us on the toboggan behind his snowmobile through our fields
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and we just thought that was so much fun
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and then we would come in for hot chocolate
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so usually we would be able to do
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that every thanksgiving weekend as well yeah i've i've done that
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when they lived there and it is fun it is fun yes so
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that is a bit about thanksgiving i'm trying to think i think we covered all of our bases i think so yeah
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and oh putting up the tree as well was a tradition for us oh like after thanksgiving yes
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that weekend we would put up our christmas tree
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and get ready for christmas yeah yeah we're a little early
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this year we actually have our tree up right now
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which we're filming in like early november yeah november 11th
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so yeah but uh it's because we have travel
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but yeah usually after thanksgiving is
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when we put up the tree yeah exactly perfect well this was
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so fun calvin talking about thanksgiving i hope you guys learned a lot do you celebrate
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or have you heard about it in your country please let us know in the comments yes now i'm hungry
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but uh yeah no more pie yes please like
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and subscribe to the channel if you haven't yes
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and yeah we'll be in the next video see you soon bye bye happy thanksgiving
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Thank you.
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Questa lezione di conversazione di livello B1 si basa sul video “Thanksgiving in America - Intermediate English Conversation”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: thanksgiving, pie, eat. Questo video contiene 245 frasi e 2430 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 14:10. Chi parla ha un ritmo naturale di circa 171 parole al minuto, vicino a una conversazione quotidiana. Il 84% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese; conviene studiare le altre prima di iniziare.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
Le 15 parole più avanzate del video, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
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| pumpkin sostantivo | /ˈpʌm(p).kɪn/ | zucca |
| gratitude sostantivo | /ˈɡɹæ.tɪ.tud/ | gratitudine, riconoscenza |
| potato sostantivo | /pəˈteɪ.təʊ/ | patata, pomo di terra |
| bake verbo | /beɪk/ | cuocere (al forno), infornare |
| parade sostantivo | /pəˈrɑd/ | parata, sfilata |
| yam sostantivo | /jæm/ | igname |
| dessert sostantivo | /dɪˈzɝt/ | dolce, dessert |
| onion sostantivo | /ˈʌn.jən/ | cipolla |
| float verbo | /fləʊt/ | galleggiare |
| soggy aggettivo | /ˈsɑɡi/ | inzuppato |
| thankful aggettivo | /ˈθæŋkfəl/ | riconoscente, grato |
| feast sostantivo | /ˈfiːst/ | festa |
| dish sostantivo | /dɪʃ/ | piatto, scodella |
| buttery aggettivo | /ˈbʌt(ə)ɹi/ | burroso |
| casserole sostantivo | /ˈkæs.əˌɹoʊl/ | casseruola |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Significato |
|---|---|
| grow up verbo | crescere |
| put up verbo | collocare |
| hold up verbo | ritardare, rallentare |
| watch out | attenzione! |
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La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | You've probably seen · haven't seen · i've done |
| Superlativi the -est / the most … — il massimo o il minimo di un gruppo | the most beloved · the biggest · the most classic |
| Consigli con “should” should + verbo — dire che cosa è meglio fare | should watch · should definitely try |
| Verbo + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — i verbi seguiti dalla forma in -ing | love stuffing · start signing |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 57 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come don't, I'm, didn't. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “th”: thanksgiving /ˌθæŋksˈɡɪv.ɪŋ/, thankful /ˈθæŋkfəl/, gathering /ˈɡæð.ɚ.ɪŋ/
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: mash /mæʃ/, dish /dɪʃ/, kosher /ˈkoʊʃɚ/, gosh /ɡɑːʃ/, nationwide /ˌneɪ.ʃənˈwaɪd/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: capitalize /ˈkæpətəˌlaɪz/, ingredient /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, advertisement /ˈædvɚˌtaɪzmənt/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: gratitude /ˈɡɹæ.tɪ.tud/, bake /beɪk/, parade /pəˈrɑd/, dessert /dɪˈzɝt/, float /fləʊt/
- /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: thanksgiving /ˌθæŋksˈɡɪv.ɪŋ/, gratitude /ˈɡɹæ.tɪ.tud/, yam /jæm/, mash /mæʃ/, thankful /ˈθæŋkfəl/
- /ŋ/ finale — senza pronunciare la /g/: thanksgiving /ˌθæŋksˈɡɪv.ɪŋ/, meringue /məˈɹæŋ/, gathering /ˈɡæð.ɚ.ɪŋ/, ongoing /ɒnˈɡəʊ.ɪŋ/
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