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There you go.
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There you are.
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I haven't seen you in so long.
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I've got so much to tell you about my holiday, honestly.
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It was fantastic.
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I couldn't believe we were actually there.
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I wanted to go to Japan for so long.
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I wanted to see it.
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And you always see it in movies, don't you?
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You see Japan and the food and the lights and everything.
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So we always had in our head, we want to go to Japan.
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We always knew we were going to go.
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And then we were looking to book our honeymoon and we just thought, you know what, why don't we just go to Japan?
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But it weirdly felt like this kind of otherworldly place, like a place that you dream about going to, but actually you can't really go to.
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So, yeah, we looked at the flight.
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Bear with.
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Nice, that.
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Yeah, we looked at the flight and they weren't that bad.
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Like I was thinking, oh, there's no way like these are going to be too expensive because people always say they say, oh, Japan's really expensive.
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The flights are crazy, you know, so that kind of put us off doing it for a bit.
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And we thought, oh, we just won't even bother looking at flights because they're probably way too expensive.
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But we found a pretty good deal.
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Actually, it wasn't that bad.
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It was a really unknown airline.
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And I'd never heard of the airline because it stopped off in Shanghai.
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So it was a Chinese airline that I'd never heard of.
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And I spoke to some Chinese people and they'd not even heard of it either.
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So it was, yeah, we were taking a bit of a risk because it could have been a terrible airline, but it wasn't.
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It was really nice.
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The flight attendants were really nice.
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The plane was clean.
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The food was good.
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I really like aeroplane food.
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I know it's a bit controversial, but I actually really like aeroplane food.
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I think something about the novelty of like you sit down
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and there's a film in front of you can watch a little film.
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You get your little food.
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It's warm.
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I don't know.
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I love plane food.
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I think it's great.
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So yeah, it was like a 16 hour flight and we got there.
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What did we do first we got there
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and we we were knackered absolutely knackered to start off with
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because when you travel it just makes you so tired doesn't it
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so I think when we arrived we hadn't slept in about 24 hours
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so I think we went straight for a nap I think
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we went straight to the hotel had a nap um
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and then we looked around and we started off in Kyoto
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which was just so amazing because it was so historical
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and all the buildings seem really well preserved and it's so interesting like the difference between you've got these really old buildings,
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but there's a Starbucks in it.
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So you've got like super old building
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Starbucks or like super old building shop, you know, but you've got that contrast of old and new.
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But it's amazing.
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There are so many people, like so many people in Kyoto.
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And I thought that would be overwhelming, but it actually wasn't because a lot of the tourists and a lot of the people are really respectful.
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So even though there are thousands of tourists they're all kind of like walking in the right way
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and not like being annoying not being loud being respectful
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so it wasn't so bad so yeah what do we do
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so the first day in Kyoto what do we do I can't even remember
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we went I think we just explored I think
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we kind of googled like best things to do in Kyoto things you absolutely have to do in Kyoto
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and we just sort of ticked them off the list.
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So there were a lot of shrines, temples, a load of temples, so many temples.
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I've never seen so many temples in my life.
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And all of them are so beautiful that you kind of go a little bit beauty blind, you know, because you see so many of them.
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I had to keep reminding myself, like, this is amazing.
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I know you've seen like three temples today that are all so beautiful, but try to, try to like remember this, try to take it in,
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try to appreciate it
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because you don't get stuff like this back home you don't get this you know back in the UK
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and all of the gardens there'd be people like meticulously just like raking the sand
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and and and picking up the tiniest bits of leaves
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and gravel and everything to make sure that the garden was spotless
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and that was just amazing um
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so yeah we went to all the temples um what else did we do oh
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I love love love love the concept of sitting on the floor that's my favorite thing ever in Japan
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so in Japan you go to a coffee shop
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and you sit on the floor or you go to a restaurant
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and you sit on the floor I love it because
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when you are walking 20 ,000 steps a day which we were
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because we were just exploring so we were walking so much
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so my legs were so tired um so
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when we actually got to a coffee shop something about just being able to sit down
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and stretch my legs out was amazing it was
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so good it was so nice just to be able to sit on the floor
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and stretch my legs so I would love restaurants in the UK to
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employ sitting down that's that's going to be my new thing
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and I think
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if I could design my house from scratch I think I would um have sitting furniture no I probably wouldn't
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But if I had a really big house, I might have one room that's like a sitting room.
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I just think it's really fun.
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Hotels were fine.
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We just we didn't book a crazy, lovely, amazing hotel because we knew we weren't going to be staying there for too long.
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Like if we went to Japan and we spent the whole time in our hotel room, we've done something wrong.
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Like that's wrong.
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So we just went for something that was clean, safe, in a good location.
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Fine. So that was Kyoto.
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Then we went to Osaka. Did we?
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Yeah then we went to Osaka um
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and I loved Osaka loved it I thought it was
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so like artsy individual cool like really um yeah like kind of a bit alternative like I loved
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you walk down the street
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and there are all these um like decorations outside of the restaurants with these massive like statues of
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shrimps and sushi
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and I don't know it just felt a bit like Disneyland like some parts of it felt a bit like Disneyland, which I loved.
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And everything was colourful and bright.
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And the food was just, I don't think I'm very good with tempura.
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I think that's what I've learned about me.
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I don't think my stomach likes tempura.
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So we went to like a tempura restaurant in Osaka and it was like a tempura platter.
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So you had tempura prawns, tempura chicken, just like everything fried, fried stuff fried fried fried um
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and the first couple ones I was like this is amazing
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but I think just the sheer volume
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and the sheer amount of fried stuff I felt a bit sick after that
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but sushi I could eat sushi until I turn blue like I could just keep eating sushi
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it was amazing um
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so yeah amazing food um yeah I think
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I had some of the best food of the trip in Osaka to be honest
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then we went to Tokyo loved Tokyo thought it was
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so cool but wasn't my favorite I think it would go Kyoto first,
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Osaka second, Tokyo third, only because Tokyo is a capital city.
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And I never usually love capital cities.
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I often think that they're a bit kind of the same.
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Obviously, Tokyo is very different to lots of other cities, but I don't know, just something about seeing like McDonald's,
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Burger King, like shops that I recognize it doesn't feel as special
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but I still loved Tokyo we went to a couple of really cool themed cafes
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we went to um a maid cafe
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which was very different to like what we're used to never been to anything like
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that and it was kind of like uh yeah there were these girls dressed up as maids
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and they did songs and dances and it was very um very cute you know
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that was one thing I noticed about Japan there's a really big emphasis on kind of cute stuff
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and um animated stuff
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so many animated characters everywhere like you go on the train you sit on the train
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and there'll be like a sign
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that's saying something really important the sign is saying something like
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um mind the doors like be careful of the doors
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so you don't get trapped in the doors
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but there'll be a cute little bear dressed as a train conductor going like
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so this is really heavy focus on like animation and stuff and I guess that's I guess that's because of um
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Japan's animation history like they're so linked with animation and anime
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and things like that so that was really amazing yeah
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but overall I think just the culture the food oh my god the food
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I just keep dreaming about the food like genuinely I think I could eat nothing
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but Japanese food for the rest of my life and be
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so happy it's just so fresh like particularly like some of the restaurants we went to
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which were really really good restaurants the ingredients were just
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so fresh and real and like yeah so good
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and yeah the culture everyone's really polite
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we didn't come across anyone being rude even the tourists
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there like the tourists who were there weren't rude weren't nasty it was just such a lovely environment
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and I can see why so many people want to go
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and I genuinely think it lives up to the hype so when everyone talks about oh
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Japan's the best you should go to Japan I genuinely agree
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and I'm desperate to go back and I'm kind of annoyed
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that I don't live there right now like I'm
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so jealous of people that live in Japan and people who live like a one hour flight away from Japan.
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If I lived a one hour flight away from Japan, I would be there every weekend.
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I would go all the time.
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So I'm already planning another trip.
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I am desperate to go back.
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So yeah, I think that's going to be, well, maybe not soon.
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We might not go back immediately, but I think we'll definitely go back within the next five years, hopefully, if all goes well.
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But yeah, no, fantastic best holiday best holiday of my life definitely um yeah trying to think of anything else
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i need to tell you that happened um oh we went on a cruise
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while we were there i completely forgot
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so the first week we just traveled on our own
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and then the second week we did a cruise around japan as well
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so we kind of got to experience it in two different ways so yeah amazing.
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Best, best time ever.
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So, so cool.
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But anyway, how about you?
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There you go.
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There you are.
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I haven't seen you in so long.
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I've got so much to tell you about my holiday.
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Honestly, it was fantastic.
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Like I couldn't believe we were actually there.
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Like I wanted to go to Japan for so long.
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I wanted to see it.
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And you always see it in movies, don't you?
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You see Japan and the food and the lights and everything
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so we always had in our head we want to go to Japan
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we always knew we were going to go
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and then we were looking to book our honeymoon
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and we just thought you know what why don't we just go to Japan
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but it weirdly felt like this kind of otherworldly place like a place
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that you dream about going to but actually you can't really go to.
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So, yeah, we looked at the flight.
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Bear with.
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Nice, that.
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Yeah, we looked at the flight and they weren't that bad.
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Like I was thinking, oh, there's no way like these are going to be too expensive because people always say they say, oh, Japan's really expensive.
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The flights are crazy, you know.
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So that kind of put us off doing it for a bit.
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And we thought, oh, we just won't even bother looking at flights because they're probably way too expensive.
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But we found a pretty good deal, actually.
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It wasn't that bad.
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It was a really unknown airline.
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And I'd never heard of the airline because it stopped off in Shanghai.
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So it was a Chinese airline that I'd never heard of.
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And I spoke to some Chinese people and they'd not even heard of it either.
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So it was, yeah, we were taking a bit of a risk because it could have been a terrible airline, but it wasn't.
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It was really nice.
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The flight attendants were really nice.
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The plane was clean.
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The food was good.
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I really like aeroplane food I know it's a bit controversial
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but I actually really like aeroplane food I think something about the novelty of like you sit down
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and there's a film in front of you can watch a little film
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you get your little food it's warm I don't know I love plane food I think it's great
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so yeah it was like a 16 hour flight
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and we got there what did we do first we got there
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and we we were knackered absolutely knackered to start off with
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because when you travel it just makes you so tired doesn't it
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so I think when we arrived we hadn't slept in about 24 hours
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so I think we went straight for a nap I think we went straight to the hotel had a nap
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and then we looked around and we started off in Kyoto
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which was just so amazing because it was so historical
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and all the buildings seem really well preserved and it's
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so interesting like the difference between you've got these really old buildings
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but there's a Starbucks in it so you've got like super old building
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Starbucks or like super old building shop, you know, but you've got that contrast of old and new.
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But it's amazing.
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There are so many people, like so many people in Kyoto.
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And I thought that would be overwhelming, but it actually wasn't because a lot of the tourists and a lot of the people are really respectful.
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So even though there are thousands of tourists, they're all kind of like walking in the right way and not like being annoying,
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not being loud, being respectful.
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So it wasn't so bad.
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So yeah, what do we do?
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So the first day in Kyoto, what did we do?
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I can't even remember.
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We went, I think we just explored.
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I think we kind of Googled like best things to do in Kyoto, things you absolutely have to do in Kyoto.
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And we just sort of ticked them off the list.
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So there were a lot of shrines, temples, a load of temples, so many temples.
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I've never seen so many temples in my life.
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And all of them are so beautiful that you kind of go a little bit beauty blind, you know, because you see so many of them.
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I had to keep reminding myself, like, this is amazing.
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I know you've seen like three temples today that are all so beautiful, but try to, try to like remember this, try to take it in,
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try to appreciate it because you don't get stuff like this back home.
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You don't get this, you know, back in the UK.
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And all of the gardens, there'd be people like meticulously just like raking the sand and
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and picking up the tiniest bits of leaves and gravel and everything to make sure that the garden was spotless.
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And that was just amazing.
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So yeah, we went to all the temples.
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What else do we do?
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Oh, I love, love, love, love the concept of sitting on the floor.
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That's my favourite thing ever in Japan.
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So in Japan, you go to a coffee shop
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and you sit on the floor or you go to a restaurant
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and you sit on the floor I love it because
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when you are walking 20 ,000 steps a day which we were
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because we were just exploring so we were walking so much so my legs were so tired
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so when we actually got to a coffee shop something about just being able to sit down
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and stretch my legs out was amazing it was
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so good it was so nice just to be able to sit on the floor and stretch my legs.
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So I would love restaurants in the UK to employ sitting down.
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that's that's going to be my new thing and i think
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if i could design my house from scratch i think i would um have sitting furniture no i probably wouldn't
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but in my in
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if i had a really big house i might have one room
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that's like a sitting room i just think
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it's really fun um hotels were fine we just we didn't book a crazy lovely amazing hotel
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because we knew we weren't going to be staying there for too long like
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if we went to japan
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and we spent the whole time in our hotel room we've done something wrong like that's wrong
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so we just went for something
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that was clean safe in a good location fine um so
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that was Kyoto then we went to Osaka did we yeah then we went to Osaka um
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and I loved Osaka loved it I thought it was so like artsy individual cool like really um
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yeah like kind of a bit alternative like I loved you walk down the street
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and there are all these like decorations outside of the restaurants with these massive like statues of shrimps and sushi
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and I don't know
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it just felt a bit like Disneyland like some parts of it felt a bit like Disneyland
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which I loved and everything was colourful and bright
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and the food was just I don't think I'm very good with tempura
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I think that's what I've learned about me I don't think my stomach likes tempura.
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So we went to like a tempura restaurant in Osaka and it was like a tempura platter.
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So you had tempura prawns, tempura chicken, just like everything fried, fried stuff, fried, fried, fried.
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And the first couple ones, I was like, this is amazing.
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But I think just the sheer volume and the sheer amount of fried stuff, I felt a bit sick after that.
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But sushi, I could eat sushi until I turn blue.
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Like I could just keep eating sushi.
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It was amazing.
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Um, so yeah, amazing food.
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Um, yeah, I think I had some of the best food of the trip in Osaka, to be honest.
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Then we went to Tokyo, loved Tokyo, thought it was so cool, but wasn't my favorite.
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I think it would go Kyoto first, Osaka second, Tokyo third, only because Tokyo is,
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is a capital city and I never usually love capital cities.
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I often think that they're a bit, um, kind of the same.
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Obviously Tokyo is very different to lots of other cities, but I don't know, just something about seeing like McDonald's,
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Burger King, like shops that I recognize.
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It doesn't feel as special, but I still loved Tokyo.
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We went to a couple of really cool themed cafes.
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We went to a maid cafe, which was very different to like what we're used to.
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Never been to anything like that.
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And it was kind of like, yeah, there were these girls dressed up as maids and they did songs and dances.
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And it was very, very cute.
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You know, that was one thing I noticed about Japan there's a really big emphasis on kind of cute stuff
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and animated stuff so many animated characters everywhere
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that you go on the train you sit on the train
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and there'll be like a sign
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that's saying something really important the sign is saying something like
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um mind the doors like be careful of the doors
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so you don't get trapped in the doors
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but there'll be a cute little bear dressed as a train conductor going like
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so this is really heavy focus on like animation and stuff and I guess that's I guess that's because of um
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Japan's animation history like they're so linked with animation and anime
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and and things like that so that was really amazing yeah
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but overall I think just the culture the food oh my god the food
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I just keep dreaming about the food like genuinely I think I could eat nothing
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but Japanese food for the rest of my life and be
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so happy it's just so fresh like particularly like some of the restaurants we went to
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which were really really good restaurants the ingredients were just
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so fresh and real and like yeah so good and yeah the culture everyone's really polite
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we didn't come across anyone being rude even the tourists
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there like the tourists who were there weren't rude weren't nasty it was just such a lovely environment
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and I can see why so many people want to go
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and I genuinely think it lives up to the hype so when everyone talks about oh
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Japan's the best you should go to Japan I genuinely agree
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and I'm desperate to go back and I'm kind of annoyed
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that I don't live there right now like I'm
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so jealous of people that live in Japan
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and people who live like a one hour flight away from Japan
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if I lived a one hour flight away from Japan
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I would be there every weekend I would go all the time
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so I'm already planning another trip I am desperate to go back
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so yeah I think that's going to be well maybe not soon we might not go back immediately
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but I think we'll definitely go back um within the next five years hopefully um
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if all goes well
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but um yeah no fantastic best holiday best holiday of my
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life definitely um yeah trying to think of anything else I need to tell you
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that happened um oh we went on a cruise
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while we were there I completely forgot
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so the first week we just traveled on our own and then the second week we did a cruise around
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Japan as well so we kind of got to experience it in two different ways so yeah Amazing.
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Best, best time ever.
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So, so cool.
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But anyway, how about you?

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Questa lezione di conversazione si basa sul video “This is what talking to a native English speaker is like”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: japan, amazing, flight. Questo video contiene 340 frasi e 3906 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 20:00. Chi parla va veloce, circa 195 parole al minuto: aspettati suoni legati e ridotti. Il 84% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese; conviene studiare le altre prima di iniziare.

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15 parole del video che vale la pena imparare, con pronuncia e significato:

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temple sostantivo/ˈtɛm.pl̩/tempio
fry verbo/fɹaɪ/friggere
airline sostantivo/ˈɛɹˌlaɪn/linea aerea, compagnia aerea
sushi sostantivo/ˈsuːʃi/sushi
animation sostantivo/ˌæn.ɪˈmeɪ.ʃən/ravvivamento, animazione
genuinely avverbio/ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/veramente, genuinamente
stretch verbo/stɹɛt͡ʃ/tendere
desperate aggettivo/ˈdɛs.p(ə.)ɹɪt/disperato
explore verbo/ɪkˈsploɹ/esplorare, investigare
rude aggettivo/ɹuːd/rude, maleducato
cruise sostantivo/kɹuz/crociera
sheer aggettivo/ʃɪɚ/vero e proprio
maid sostantivo/meɪd/cameriera
respectful aggettivo/ɹɪˈspɛkt.fl̩/rispettoso
contrast sostantivo/kənˈt(ʃ)ɹæst/contrasto

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go back verbotornare
sit down verbosedersi, accomodarsi
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Frasi da ripetere

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

  • I haven't seen you in so long.
  • I couldn't believe we were actually there.
  • And you always see it in movies, don't you?
  • I've never seen so many temples in my life.
  • What else do we do?

La grammatica di questo video

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 adessohaven't seen · I've never seen · you've seen
Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosapeople who live · cafe, which was
Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fawere knackered

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 112 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come don't, I'm, wasn't. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

  • I suoni “th”: bother /ˈbɑðɚ/, otherworldly /ˌʌðəɹˈwɜɹl(d)li/
  • I suoni “sh” e “zh”: sushi /ˈsuːʃi/, animation /ˌæn.ɪˈmeɪ.ʃən/, sheer /ʃɪɚ/, contrast /kənˈt(ʃ)ɹæst/, controversial /ˌkɑn.tɹəˈvɝ.ʃəl/
  • Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: animation /ˌæn.ɪˈmeɪ.ʃən/, genuinely /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/, controversial /ˌkɑn.tɹəˈvɝ.ʃəl/, decoration /ˌdɛkəˈɹeɪʃən/, ingredient /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/

I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:

  • /h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: hype /haɪp/, honeymoon /ˈhʌn.iˌmuːn/
  • Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: stretch /stɹɛt͡ʃ/, desperate /ˈdɛs.p(ə.)ɹɪt/, rude /ɹuːd/, cruise /kɹuz/, maid /meɪd/
  • /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: animation /ˌæn.ɪˈmeɪ.ʃən/, cafe /ˌkæˈfeɪ/, contrast /kənˈt(ʃ)ɹæst/, sand /sænd/, trap /tɹæp/

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  3. Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come temple, fry, airline.

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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