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Easy English podcast where you will be learning English through comprehensible input.

In today's video, we will be reacting to the most controversial opinions on Reddit.

It's important to define the word controversial before we get started.

When something is controversial, we mean that it is something

that people debate about or people argue about and people just generally have very different opinions about.

So a controversial opinion would be an opinion

that a lot of people probably wouldn't like and a lot of people would probably would get really mad about.

So in this video, we'll be going through some of those controversial opinions

that people have and we will decide whether we agree or disagree with those opinions.

Let's get started.

So the first

Reddit opinion that I found was that hot coffee is better than iced coffee.

Yeah, and that's one that I definitely cannot get behind.

I completely disagree with whoever posted that.

In my opinion, iced coffee is so much better than hot coffee.

There's just like no comparison.

I feel like ice just brings out the flavor in any drink.

So much more than when that drink is hot.

Like personally, I just think hot drinks don't have a ton of flavor.

But what do you think?

I 100 % agree.

Although when it is cold, I for sure will prefer a hot coffee over a cold one.

Only because I like to feel all cozy and I don't know, I just get cold fast.

Yeah.

I mean, that definitely makes sense because if it's cold outside and you're drinking a cold drink,

it can kind of just make you even colder and that's probably one area where you and I disagree.

You usually get a warm coffee if it's cold outside, but I still get an iced coffee if it's cold outside.

I don't know.

It's just like I can never get a warm or a hot coffee.

I'm always getting an iced coffee.

Yeah.

I just find it so much better.

I feel like a lot of people where where we live

in the United States would agree with me on this issue

because I know iced coffee is like super popular in the United States

and I've heard it's not quite as popular in many other countries in the world.

Oh, I know also too in certain countries like when we went to Italy, you couldn't find any like iced coffees because of ice, right?

They don't really use ice on drinks.

I think that's what it was, right?

Yeah, I think they might use ice with like sodas and stuff.

But with coffee, they would usually just drink like espresso or cappuccino or like a hot coffee.

The next Reddit opinion that I found is that concerts are a total waste of money.

What do you think about this? um i've never been to a concert

but i will say it is because they tend to be overpriced

and even the food there and drinks there will be super expensive

and you're only going to be there for what not

that long i don't know how long are concerts usually i'm not too sure like an hour

or two maybe oh i think they're at least like three hours right or more i don't know i don't

Yeah, I've never been to a concert either.

So I don't know exactly how long they usually run

But I definitely would never be interested in paying to go to a concert

So maybe this is one of these opinions that we only agree with because we've never experienced it before

So maybe if we went to a concert we would be like yeah, it was absolutely worth it

But I just feel like right now there's no way

I'm spending like over a hundred dollars to go listen to a band play music or for somebody to sing?

I think at least once in your life you should just to kind of get the experience,

you know, because you only live once and that'd be,

I don't know, like at least cool to see your favorite artist perform at least one time.

But I just feel like usually with the tickets that people purchase at a concert,

they're not even that close to the artist like you're usually going to be in the seats

that are kind of further away

so you usually can't even really see the artist that's performing you can kind of just hear them singing

and i feel like at that point you might as well just listen to their music on your phone

Unless you like pay a lot of money to be front row, but yeah, I agree with that.

I mean, you can see them on a big screen,

but I mean, that's not really much of a difference from seeing it on a small screen.

Yeah, true.

So I guess if you have like a ton of money and you just don't know what to do with your money,

then you could buy like front row tickets and you could be right there next to the person who's singing.

And then maybe it would be worth it for that person.

But for me, it's definitely not worth it.

I feel like one of the reasons why people are willing to spend

so much to go to a concert is because they want to post about it on social media.

They want to kind of like show off a little bit by taking a video while they're in the concert,

you know, showing that they're there and then posting it on social media.

I think that's one of the big motivations for why people want to go to a concert.

Yeah, that's definitely probably one of the reasons why people go, just to show off where they're at, especially if you're like an influencer who,

I don't know, has like a good amount of following or at least cares what people are posting or what people think.

You know what's even crazier than concerts is music festivals.

Music festivals are like, they're kind of like a bunch of concerts

that you go to in one place over a long period of time, right?

Like a week or something.

So there's one that's very famous here in California called Coachella.

And it's like one of the most popular music festivals in the world.

And Coachella gets really expensive, right?

Yes.

I believe the cheapest Coachella ticket you can find is around $800, if I'm not wrong.

Wow.

That's crazy to spend $1 ,000 or $800, almost $1 ,000 or more to go to a music festival.

But I know a lot of people go to Coachella every single year whenever they have it.

They're like, they love it.

So I guess everyone has their own opinion on this one.

I wouldn't do it.

You probably wouldn't do it, right?

Maybe once just to get the experience.

Yeah.

And see my favorite artists. But yeah.

But let us know down in the comments if you agree or disagree with this controversial opinion.

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Do you think concerts are overpriced or do you think it is worth it?

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Let us know down in the comments.

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Another Reddit user said that peanut butter is the best food

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that one's kind of crazy um it's difficult to get behind that one

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because saying something is the best food like better than any other food is really difficult to say um just

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because there's so many foods out there and there's so many really good foods out there

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i mean i love peanut butter but is it the best food i don't know about that i will say that there

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There are many benefits to peanut butter, so I can understand why somebody would think it's the best food.

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Like for example, peanut butter is very like versatile.

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When we say something is versatile, we mean that it can be used for lots of different things or in many different ways.

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So like peanut butter can be used in all sorts of different ways.

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You can like spread it on something, like you can spread it on a piece of bread.

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What else can you do with peanut butter?

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You can put peanut butter in desserts, which I find very delicious yeah yeah like a peanut butter cake

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or even like a lot of candy has peanut butter

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and those are some of like the most popular candies are candies

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that are made out of peanut butter right yeah peanut butter definitely adds flavor to whatever

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it is you're trying to put it on yeah another weird thing

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that i remember that we tried actually quite recently was um peanut butter pizza

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yes we did have a peanut butter pizza recently we were at a place

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that was um it was a buffet

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so it basically was a place where you could try lots of different foods

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and they had a ton of different types of pizza

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and they were all really delicious and then they had a peanut butter pizza

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that caught our attention because i've never heard anything like that

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and there's like peanut butter on the pizza

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but also like an actual nut on the pizza yeah there was an actual peanut on top of the pizza

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and i guess

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that just really shows how versatile peanut butter could be although the peanut butter pizza itself was not very good

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i'd say it wasn't horrible

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but you're you weren't getting pizza you're just getting peanut butter definitely it tasted like you were just eating.

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straight peanut butter, like from a jar, even though it looked like a pizza, it tasted just like completely like peanut butter.

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Um, and I'm surprised that you said, uh, that it's, it wasn't horrible because I thought it was totally horrible.

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Like I took one bite and I couldn't take another bite.

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It was like one of the worst foods I've ever tried in my life.

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Maybe it was just the thought of eating pizza with peanut butter

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that got to your head

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and you're just like yeah i think

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it was just too hard to wrap my mind around it's just too strange of a thing

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so i really did not enjoy that one but also people could argue

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that peanut butter is the best food because it's very delicious

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but it's also kind of healthy right yeah like i've heard whenever people are trying to gain weight

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they will recommend peanut butter

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because I think it's a healthy way of gaining weight because it's the stuff it has in it.

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Yeah, like it's very heavy.

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It has a lot of calories, so it will make you gain weight,

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but it's like a healthier way of gaining weight than just like eating a chocolate cake or something.

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I don't think it's like the most healthy food in the world, but it's at least fairly healthy if you're eating it in moderation,

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which just means you're not eating it too much.

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You're eating it in moderation.

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Right, yeah.

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The thing about peanut butter, though, is that a lot of people are allergic to it.

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Yeah, for sure.

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I think it's like the number one food that people are allergic to.

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So lots of people are allergic to peanut butter.

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They can't have any peanut butter at all, or it would be very, very bad for them.

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Recently, actually, we found out that Allison is allergic to peanut butter.

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She had a reaction to it.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, if you guys have seen any of our videos before, we have a baby named Allison, and we did recently, yeah,

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just try to feed her peanut butter.

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Yeah, the doctors told us to give her some peanut butter to see if she is allergic to it.

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Yeah, like kind of to test it out a little bit.

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They said just give her a little bit, and we've tried two times, and both times she got a little bit of an allergic reaction,

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not a super bad allergic reaction

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so it seems like she's probably allergic to peanut butter

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or allergic to peanuts because the allergy is from the nut from the peanuts yeah

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so i think from that perspective

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that could also be an argument against peanut butter being the best food

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because so many people just can't enjoy peanut butter yeah i think that's so crazy to not have peanut butter,

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like to be able to like not have it.

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Yeah, true.

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Because I just feel like there's so many things with peanut butter, like our favorite candies and like the snacks that we like to eat.

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Yeah, it would definitely be tough to have a peanut allergy because peanut butter is a delicious food.

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But another food

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that I think I can say is a little bit better than peanut butter is just as

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or maybe even more versatile is chocolate.

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I think I have to put that slightly above peanut butter.

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Yeah, so most of the desserts with peanut butter have chocolate in them.

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Yeah, that's definitely true.

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So I feel like peanut butter kind of needs chocolate.

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Yeah.

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At least when we're talking about desserts.

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But chocolate doesn't really need peanut butter chocolate can kind of be on its own don't

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you think yes for sure yeah

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and i think dark chocolate right is it healthy supposedly for the brain

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if you have it every day or something like

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that yeah i think yeah dark chocolate

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that doesn't have as much sugar in it can be kind of healthy for your for your brain development um

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so they they do recommend that you have a little bit of dark chocolate every day, but like not a ton of it,

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just like a little bit.

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So they say you should eat it in moderation.

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So yeah, I guess chocolate can be healthy too in some instances.

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Let us know what you guys think down in the comments below to this opinion.

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Is peanut butter the best food or is there another food that is better?

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And let us know if you prefer any food over peanut butter, what that food is.

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All right, everybody.

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I hope you guys enjoyed this easy English podcast.

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Thank you so much for watching.

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Goodbye.

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Hey, everybody.

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Welcome to another episode of this easy English podcast, where you will be learning English.

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through compre, sensible input.

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Let's get started.

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In today's video, we will be playing

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Would You Rather.

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Yeah, and Would You Rather is a very famous,

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famous game, and it's a game that I remember playing a lot and really enjoying when I was a child, and I still enjoy it today.

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If you don't know how to play

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Would You Rather, the rules are very simple.

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So one person will basically ask the question, would you rather?

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And then they'll give you two different options to choose from.

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And then the other person has to decide which one they would pick.

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So let's get started.

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I have chosen two different questions for you and you've chosen two different questions for me, right?

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Yes.

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Okay.

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Should I start?

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Sure.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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I will start first.

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I'm going to ask you my first question.

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Okay.

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My first would you rather question is pretty simple.

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Would you rather have the ability to talk to animals

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or would you rather be able to fluently speak every single language in the world?

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Oh, that's tricky.

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Okay.

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Yeah, I think I'll choose the animal one only because

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it'd be interesting to see the mind of an animal

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and like what they think and just to know their thoughts would be interesting you know

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and like to see exactly what each animal is thinking

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and I'm sure they all think differently in their own ways yeah that's very true

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because when you're talking to a person obviously it's helpful to be able to speak their language

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but like their thoughts are still going to be the regular thoughts that you encounter with people.

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Right.

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But if you can speak to an animal, then you know more about animals than pretty much anybody has ever known about animals ever.

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Plus, another thing is I feel like with animals, if you can't talk to them, you're never going to be able to really communicate with them.

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While with a person, if you don't speak their language, you can still find a way to communicate with them.

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Exactly.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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Yeah.

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Like you can use your phone.

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You can translate from language to language on your phone.

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Especially with technology nowadays.

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I think there's also like, right?

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Meta glasses where you can translate what people are saying, right?

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Yeah, like when you wear the glasses.

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I don't know how good it is, but I know that it can be like when somebody's talking to you,

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it'll translate into your ears what they're saying in your own language.

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So yeah, as technology gets better, it does become easier to communicate with people.

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But I'm curious what you guys think about this question, because obviously if you're watching this video,

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you're probably learning English and you probably think it would be really nice

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if I could just immediately become fluent in English and in every other language.

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So let us know down in the comments, which option you would choose between these two.

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All right.

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Do you have a would you rather question for me?

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Yes.

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Let me pull it up real quick.

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Because, OK, this one is a little like you think about it and you're like, ah, you know, it's just a question that you're just like,

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oh, gives you like bad like thoughts.

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OK, so it's would you rather get a paper cut every time you turn a page

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or bite your tongue every time you eat?

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oh yeah

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that one definitely does sound horrible yeah in the moment it's like oh you know like it's really bad

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and you're just like a little bit mad about it happening

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but yeah yeah if you guys don't know what a paper cut is a paper cut is like

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when you are turning a page of a book or something like

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that and the paper kind of like cuts your finger and people say that it hurts really, really bad.

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And then the other one is that I bite my tongue every time you eat, every time I eat something.

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Well, that one, this is actually easier than you might think,

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at least for me, because one of them is very easily avoidable.

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Like I just can stop reading books.

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And if I stop reading books, I'll never get a paper cut, but you can't stop eating food it's necessary to eat food

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so I don't want to bite my tongue every time I eat food you are right

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but also like if you're trying to sign something like important documents like signing a house

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or whatever you're gonna have to turn pages

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so there are some things you can't really avoid I feel like with turning pages

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because there are like there's definitely going to be moments where you need to turn a page yeah

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but I feel like I could at least get somebody else to turn the page for me like

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if I had to sign something on a piece of paper.

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I could just give it to you and I could ask you to turn to the page for me,

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but I can't have somebody eat food for me.

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So I'm still going to say

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that I would rather get a paper cut every time I turn a page

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because I just think it's more easily avoidable and I can just avoid turning pages for the rest of my life.

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Yeah, plus you can read books on your phone or have like Kindle. Is

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that what it's called, right? the device where you just it's just only for reading yeah for sure yeah

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you definitely can just replace books with your phone

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or with your computer and these days you can do

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so much reading online

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that i don't think it's a super big deal all right my next question for you is another one

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that is a little bit hard to think about the last one you uh asked was kind of um

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just two really bad scenarios

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but this one I would say is a little more disturbing

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it's a little more like creepy to kind of think about okay

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so here goes it would you rather have teeth teeth for hair

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so like instead of hair you have just a bunch of teeth yeah on your head

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or would you rather have instead of your teeth you have hair instead

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so basically would you rather have teeth for hair

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or hair for teeth okay that's weird

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that is really weird yeah about that'd be

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so freaky to have hair as your teeth

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because how would you eat that's like if like you'd get it probably smell you need to wash it.

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Yeah.

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I think your only way of eating if you had hair for teeth would be like how a baby eats.

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So you could only eat like really soft food because you wouldn't be able to chew your food.

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Okay.

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But also probably when you're eating food, you would be like tasting the hair in your mouth the entire time, which would be kind of nasty.

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Right.

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I think.

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Yeah, that would be nasty it'd be like eating hair yeah

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so which one would you choose if you had to choose one

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i feel like with the teeth on your head you can kind of get more protection

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like more protection from like a weapon like a weapon or

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if you fall on your head you know fall backward

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or something that's true yeah i mean

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if you were like riding on a bike you probably wouldn't need to wear a helmet on your head

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because you would have like a whole helmet of teeth.

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Yeah.

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But I wonder how strong it would be, you know, a teeth are pretty strong.

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So it'd probably be pretty strong.

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So I guess there is sort of a positive side to it, maybe.

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But also you can wear wigs.

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Wigs are a thing.

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So you can just have a wig, cover it up.

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Yeah, you could put a wig just over all of the teeth.

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So I think I'm gonna go with the teeth one.

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Plus an added benefit is that you could make a lot of money from the tooth fairy.

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When the tooth fairy comes, you would have a ton of teeth and you would get a lot of money from the tooth fairy.

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I'm curious, in your guys' country, where you guys are from, is the tooth fairy a thing?

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In the United States, it's like this thing

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that we tell little kids where we say a tooth fairy is going to come

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and basically give them money whenever they lose a tooth.

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So if they lose one of their baby teeth, the tooth fairy will come and give them money for that tooth.

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All right, Allison is going to be joining us for the last part of this podcast.

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But let us know down in the comments which option you would choose from that would you rather question.

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All right, let's hear the final question

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that you have for me would you rather give up traveling

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or celebrating holidays um traveling completely

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so i can't travel even just like to another state in

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the u .s no traveling no traveling at all yes

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or all holidays i think i'd have to give up holidays

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because i feel like holidays are fun but you don't necessarily need them.

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And I would say one of the best things about holidays

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is the fact that you're able to spend time with friends and family, but you can do that on any regular day.

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But traveling, if you don't travel at all throughout your life, then I feel like you're definitely missing out on something,

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you know, and I'm somebody who likes to go new places and explore new places, not just in other countries in the world,

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but also just here in the United States.

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So I would definitely...

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really miss that if I wasn't able to do that.

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Yeah, I mean, giving up Christmas would definitely be difficult because I love Christmas, but I think I would have to let it go.

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But let us know down in the comments what option you would choose from that would you rather question.

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Anyways, I hope you guys enjoyed this easy English podcast.

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If you're enjoying these English podcasts, then let us know down in the comments.

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Thank you so much for watching.

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Goodbye.

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Hey, everybody.

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Welcome to another episode of this easy English podcast where you will be learning English through comprehensible input.

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In today's video, we will be talking about the weirdest jobs in the world.

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Yeah, I think sometimes we forget how many jobs there actually are in the world.

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And we forget that some of those jobs are really, really unique and really weird.

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I was surprised while researching for this video, because some of these jobs are really, really weird.

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And you would never think that they would exist.

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So I have found a few jobs

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that I'm going to be telling you about and we are going to react to them together.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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So first I will read out the name of the job

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and then I'm going to ask you to try to guess what you think this job is, what they do for a living,

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what they do on kind of a day to day basis.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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My first job that I found is called a snake milker.

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Snake milker?

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Have you ever heard of a snake milker?

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No, do snakes drink milk?

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Just kidding.

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They don't, right?

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I don't think snakes drink milk.

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Okay.

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Plus, if you were a snake milker.

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They don't make milk.

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No, no, obviously not.

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They don't have them.

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Yeah, I don't think snakes make milk.

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Okay, sorry, I'm already trying to guess what it is.

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So if snakes don't make milk, what do you think a snake milker is?

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Maybe someone who takes care of snakes?

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Sort of.

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Okay.

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They kind of take care of snakes, but they're a little bit different.

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So let me tell you about them.

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A snake milker is basically somebody that extracts.

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To extract means to like take out.

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So they extract venom from snakes.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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That makes a lot more sense.

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So it's a very dangerous,

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dangerous job because you have to find these like very venomous snakes and you have to extract the venom from them.

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Yeah.

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What's the purpose of that job though?

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Just to like, what's the purpose of them getting the venom?

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Good question.

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Yeah.

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Cause you might think like, why would they want the venom of snakes?

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Wait, I think I know.

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Don't some people use snake venom for like medical purposes?

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I think so.

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And I think that's kind of the reason for this job is that basically by taking the venom out of the snakes,

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they can create better medicine to deal with that,

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to deal with those snake bites in the future um

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so i think they can make medicine with it

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but they also probably do it

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because then they can kind of like research the venom

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and figure out better ways to be able to treat

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that venom yeah in case somebody gets bit by one of those snakes

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because they are dead yeah yeah okay that makes okay

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but it's weird

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that it's called what milk venom a snake milker snake milker the job this called a snake milker

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so I guess the idea is is

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that you're taking venom out of a snake similarly to how somebody might milk a cow yeah

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but of course you're not actually taking milk out of the snake

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that's why it threw me off yeah I was like wait I've never heard snakes having milk

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but maybe there's I don't know yeah try your best real

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quick to guess how much do you think a snake milker

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makes on average per month per month how much money do you think

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they make per month okay since it is deadly i feel like they'd probably be making a lot of money

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because it's so dangerous yeah because they can get bit or

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if especially if they're the ones extracting the venom um yeah

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because sometimes dangerous jobs do pay a little bit better

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because nobody wants to do

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that yeah what do you think um like a month okay probably like 10 000 a month

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you are you went way too high okay on

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that one they do not make ten thousand dollars a month although i understand what you were thinking

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because it is obviously kind of a dangerous job

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but they actually make between two thousand oh wow to five thousand dollars a month okay

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so they don't make quite as much as ten thousand right okay all right my next job

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i think is even a little bit weirder than the last one okay okay

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and this one might even be a little bit harder to figure out what it is based on the name

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so this next job is called a morologist i think

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that's how you pronounce it although i might be pronouncing it incorrectly

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but i think it's a morologist okay okay morologist morologist what do you think a morologist is

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i was gonna say therapist but that's not like a type of therapist like a kind of therapist yeah

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that speaks about moral goods oh like somebody who speaks about morality morality

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if you don't know what morality is morality is like uh the things

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that we should do because they're good right versus evil

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so like if you have good morals you're somebody who does good things

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and believes in doing good things being kind stuff like that

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but no it has nothing to do with morality yeah that's what i'm i just took the first letter of

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that yeah this one's kind of impossible to figure out

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so you were kind of right picking those first two letters

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and trying to figure it out from there because it doesn't have to do with morality, but it does have to do with mourning.

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So a morologist is a professional mourner.

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Okay.

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So if you guys don't know what mourning is, mourning is like when you, how would you describe it?

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Maybe grieving someone's death, right?

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Yeah, it's like when somebody dies or it could even be a pet dies, an animal dies.

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Losing something that you love.

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Yeah, or even just if something very bad happens.

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It's like the act of kind of thinking about it, feeling sad about it.

467

That's what mourning is.

468

Yeah, it's just having some deep emotional, some deep emotions.

469

Yeah, so that's what a professional mourner does.

470

They basically get paid to go to a funeral, which is when you basically celebrate the life of someone who's died.

471

They go to a funeral and they like pretend to be very sad at this funeral, even though they never knew the person who died.

472

Okay. So, okay.

473

So it's just all acting.

474

It's all an act.

475

Yeah.

476

But why, I don't understand that.

477

Like, wouldn't there already be people who are mourning that?

478

I mean, mourning, you know, someone's death.

479

So why would they need somebody else to participate in that?

480

I'm not totally sure.

481

I guess it would depend on the person.

482

But maybe in some cases, someone has like a small family.

483

And the family is just very small.

484

So they didn't know a lot of people.

485

And maybe the family members feel like there should be more people at the funeral

486

so they're like let's pay to have professional mourners also yeah I don't that's

487

so weird that that's a thing because you would never think

488

that mourning over someone's death that they don't even know is

489

so weird to me like I just feel

490

so like out of place yeah

491

it would almost feel a little bit disrespectful yeah to be pretending like you're sad

492

and pretending like you're crying at someone's funeral that you just don't know.

493

Do you want to guess how much a morologist or a professional mourner makes every single event?

494

So every time they go to a funeral, how much money do you think they make?

495

I feel like it shouldn't be that high paying since it's like easy to do, you know, to act.

496

Yeah, that's true because it wouldn't be super difficult.

497

You would just have to go and basically sit in a funeral and pretend to cry.

498

So you're definitely right.

499

I wouldn't say it's crazy high paying.

500

Professional mourners make about $3 to $120 every single time they go to a funeral to mourn.

501

How often are you going to go?

502

Interestingly about this one as well, is that this idea of having professional mourners actually started a very,

503

very long time ago so in ancient egypt and in ancient china

504

and some other places as well in the ancient world

505

um this was a thing there were people who were paid to basically mourn for someone's death

506

so usually when somebody very rich or powerful died they would have professional mourners come

507

and they'd pay them to mourn okay yeah

508

so it's more like um showing how important

509

that person is you think yeah just to show other people

510

like oh wow like these people were greatly impacted by this person like i think

511

so i think it was like a way of kind of showing off how important somebody was okay

512

and also probably the powerful people who used this service

513

when they died were also probably people who nobody really liked

514

so like if you were a very bad ruler

515

and you were very bad to your people

516

and then you died that's probably when you would get professional mourners

517

because there probably wouldn't be a lot of people who would actually be very sad that you died.

518

Yeah.

519

All right.

520

Let's move on to the next weird job that I found.

521

All right.

522

The next weird job that I found has a very funny name.

523

It's called a sensory scientist.

524

Sensory scientist.

525

Okay.

526

A sensory scientist.

527

Maybe I kind of get an idea of what that is.

528

Okay.

529

What do you think?

530

maybe it's to help people who can't feel you know like some people can't like for some reason their nerves

531

or whatever aren't working correctly so maybe they teach them how

532

or like they study in that so that they can help people feel does

533

that make any sense right too yeah like somebody a a scientist

534

or doctor that basically helps people who don't have the ability to like feel things

535

They don't have the sense of touch.

536

Right.

537

So they help them to be able to feel things.

538

Right.

539

Yeah.

540

That's what I'm thinking about.

541

It's a good guess because, yes, you're right.

542

You're kind of on the right track with this one because it has the word sensory in it.

543

Right.

544

So since it has the word sensory, we can assume it has something to do with one of our senses.

545

Yeah.

546

So like hearing or touching.

547

Smell.

548

Right.

549

And you are right it does have to do with touching okay but the word scientist probably threw you off

550

because um i feel like it's a little weird to call these people scientists

551

some people just call this job face feelers okay face feelers so basically their job is to feel people's faces.

552

What the heck?

553

Yes.

554

Their job is to feel people's faces.

555

Why?

556

Why do you think, why do you think they would need to feel people's faces?

557

Maybe because someone wants someone to touch their face.

558

I don't know.

559

Not exactly.

560

They work with different companies, like different brands.

561

Okay.

562

Okay.

563

Basically how this works is a company will be testing a certain product

564

So if that company makes like lotion, like stuff that you put on your skin to make it very soft, they'll test that product on somebody.

565

And then they will hire a face feeler

566

or a sensory scientist to come and feel

567

that person's skin after they've put the lotion on to determine whether the lotion is good, whether it's effective.

568

that to me i don't know just sounds bizarre

569

because wouldn't you already know as soon as you touch your face

570

if it's soft or if you're breaking out or if it's like

571

or you can even see it too like if you know like

572

if it's causing redness or something like that like why i just feel like

573

that kind of job is a little bit pointless it feels pointless yeah i don't know

574

if most companies that create like lotion

575

and stuff really hire people to do this job

576

but there are some and apparently these face feelers

577

or these sensory scientists are very well trained

578

so they just by feeling someone's face they can easily tell

579

if the lotion is effective

580

if it's good they also use this for a variety of other reasons

581

so for example if there's a company that sells like razors for your skin, right?

582

So like if you have like a razor to shave your face, right?

583

After somebody uses the razor, they will have one of these sensory scientists feel

584

that person's face to see whether the razor is gonna like irritate their skin.

585

Yeah, whether it's gonna make their skin kind of like irritated.

586

Yeah.

587

Interesting.

588

So that is the job of a sensory scientist.

589

How much?

590

do you think sensory scientists get paid per hour well you get paid a lot

591

because i feel like it's probably a job where um

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they're constantly being asked to go there to like feel someone's face

593

um so am i gonna try to guess monthly or like

594

which per hour oh per hour how much do you think they get paid per hour

595

so every hour that they're working um like $30 I'm gonna say.

596

It's very, very close.

597

I think that was your best guess yet.

598

So face feelers or sensory scientists make about $25 per hour.

599

So you were pretty close with that one.

600

Just a little bit high, but still closer then.

601

All right, those were three of the weirdest jobs I could find.

602

Although there are many more.

603

So if you like this video and you want to hear about some more weird jobs, let us know down in the comments.

604

I thought for some reason there is going to like what I had in mind going into this was like like

605

Japan, you know how some like you can rent a grandpa or like, I don't know.

606

You can basically rent anybody that you want.

607

Yeah.

608

Like a grandpa, mom, brother, whatever.

609

Yeah, I have seen those before like on videos where in Japan you can like rent a friend

610

and like basically like pay somebody to to act like your friend

611

or whatever you want them to be but I wonder

612

if people actually use that service there a lot or

613

or not I've seen a video

614

and they say yeah people use it people mainly with girlfriends like fake girlfriend oh okay okay for sure um

615

so let us know down in the comments what is the weirdest job that you can think of in your country?

616

Let us know.

617

Anyways, I hope you guys enjoyed this easy English podcast.

618

For more videos like this one where you can learn English through comprehensible input, please subscribe to the channel.

619

Thank you so much for watching.

620

Goodbye.

621

Hello, everybody, and welcome to English at Ease,

622

a podcast designed to help you learn English by listening to natural conversations between two native English speakers.

623

My name is Adam.

624

And my name is Desiree.

625

And in today's video, we are going to be talking about some things

626

that we believed when we were little kids that we realize now are completely untrue.

627

Yeah, I feel like kids tend to believe in things that don't make any sense.

628

And then as you get older, you realize like, why did I ever believe in that?

629

You're just so gullible to things.

630

Yeah, definitely.

631

I definitely was very, very gullible.

632

As a little kid, I basically believed everything that I was told.

633

And I even believed some things that I definitely was never told, Like nobody taught me them.

634

I just for some reason believed in them.

635

So you'll hear one of those in just a little bit.

636

But what's the first thing that you believed as a little kid that you now know is completely not true?

637

So as a kid, I was always told by my dad specifically that if I swallowed a seed, a plant will grow in my stomach.

638

So every time like I'd be eating like, let's say an example, a watermelon and he'd be like okay

639

if you swallow the seed a what you're gonna end up growing watermelons in your stomach

640

and that to me like I actually really believed

641

that for a very long time so the idea is

642

if you are eating like if you the seed

643

if you swallow it like a whole plant will grow yes inside of you yeah

644

that's a funny one that's not one I was told as a kid okay

645

but I imagine the purpose of

646

that was probably to convince you not to swallow seeds right yeah i believe i don't know i think

647

so i mean yeah probably like it's one of those one of those things

648

that a parent tells a kid to get them to not do something maybe

649

because of choking hazard reasons i don't know i was pretty young um

650

but yeah for a very long time i believed that and yeah I was traumatized from that.

651

Did you ever swallow a seed by accident and think to yourself like oh no I'm totally screwed.

652

Yes.

653

A plant is going to grow inside of me.

654

Yeah I actually did and I actually was so scared for my life I was like uh.

655

But then probably you realized.

656

You eventually yeah you come to a realization that

657

it's not true yeah that's an interesting one i've never heard

658

that one before i have one

659

that i think is even a little bit weirder than the one

660

that you mentioned um

661

and i honestly don't know why i believed this one nobody told me

662

this as far as i remember this wasn't like something my parents told me

663

but you know like those little signs that you'll see in stores or restaurants whenever the floor is wet.

664

Oh, okay.

665

They're called wet floor signs.

666

So it's basically like telling you, it's warning you that the floor is wet.

667

So you don't want to walk on it.

668

You want to avoid it. Be cautious.

669

Yeah, be cautious as you're walking over like the wet area.

670

So at least in the United States, those wet floor signs usually have like a picture of a person on them.

671

And that person is usually like a stick figure.

672

Like it's a really simple drawing of a person, right?

673

Like a stick figure.

674

And it usually shows the person falling over, right?

675

To tell you, hey, be careful.

676

For some reason, when I was a little kid, I was totally convinced that if you slipped,

677

if you fell over a puddle of water, you would become the person in the sign.

678

What?

679

I thought that you would become the stick figure that's on the sign you just immediately become

680

that yeah like you slip and then somehow as you're slipping you get like

681

pulled into the sign and you become the person in the sign

682

and nobody told you about that like that that's

683

that will happen it's just something you just came up with on your own

684

I think I just came up with it on my own

685

because I feel like it'd be really weird if my parents told me

686

that that would happen to me although maybe my parents told me

687

or maybe one of my older siblings told me like as a joke

688

because they were trying to trick me yeah they wanted me to believe

689

that but for whatever reason I completely believed that

690

so did you ever come into realization like did you ever slip

691

and you're like oh wait I'm not no I don't think

692

so I don't think it ever happened because I was way too scared.

693

So I, if I saw a wet floor sign, I would go like the other direction.

694

I just would completely avoid the area because I was really scared that if I slipped,

695

I would get pulled into the sign and become a stick figure.

696

Maybe it was just your brain, like you're just, your brain was protecting you and making you think that.

697

So yeah, you don't Fawn slip.

698

I think so.

699

I think so.

700

So whenever I saw one of those wet floor signs, I always felt a little bit bad.

701

Like I felt a little sad

702

because I thought the stick figure on the sign was a person at one point who had slipped

703

and now he was trapped.

704

He was stuck in the sign.

705

Maybe you just needed to see someone slip or you slip yourself.

706

Yeah.

707

And then I would have realize that it wasn't true.

708

So the next one is definitely a myth I feel like amongst like Hispanic people.

709

I'm Hispanic so I have family members who've said this

710

or like I've known people who are Hispanic that have said this too.

711

And it's that if you wet your hair and you don't let it dry quickly you're gonna get sick.

712

Oh okay yeah I've heard you say that one.

713

Yeah so yeah

714

so I remember as a kid like going to the pool

715

my mom would always tell us like you have to immediately get a towel

716

and wrap it around your hair or else you're gonna get sick

717

okay so the idea is if your if your hair stays wet after it's after it's been wet

718

you need to immediately make sure it becomes dry yeah

719

you can't have it air dried by the air

720

it has to be dried completely by something to I don't know like a towel yeah something

721

that you could put on your head to dry it.

722

Otherwise you'll get sick.

723

Yeah.

724

Yeah.

725

Even some adults still believe that, you know, I figured out that it wasn't true

726

because I've gone outside multiple times with my hair wet and I didn't get sick.

727

So it's not true.

728

Yeah.

729

So you kind of learn from practical experience, just going outside with your hair wet, nothing, nothing bad happens.

730

My next thing that I believed when I was a little kid is one

731

that probably a lot of people can relate to from their own childhood.

732

At least in the United States and probably in some other countries as well.

733

So the thing that I believed as a little kid was that

734

Santa Claus was real.

735

I imagine you guys probably know who

736

Santa Claus is, but in case you don't,

737

Santa is like this sort of.. magical character who is supposed to be really fat

738

and he has a really big white beard.

739

He's got this like big white beard.

740

He's an old man and he basically flies around on a sleigh on Christmas and he basically brings presents to people.

741

He gives everybody presents on Christmas.

742

If you're a good person because there's like the whole naughty and yes you know yes you're naughty you get anything.

743

Yeah if you've been good for the year then you'll get presents

744

but if you've been like a really bad person he either doesn't give you presents or he gives you coal.

745

People say that he'll basically give you a bunch of coal.

746

I don't know that.

747

Oh you've never heard that before?

748

Yeah like people will have like their stocking

749

and he either will give you presents in your stocking or

750

if you're a bad person he'll put coal in your stocking

751

i'm curious to hear in your guys's country are little kids told

752

that santa claus is real i know in a lot of countries

753

christmas isn't a very big holiday um in some countries they don't really have a santa claus

754

but i know from experience in the united states santa claus is like a really really big deal

755

And actually, I would say maybe the majority of kids in the United States are told by their parents that

756

Santa is real.

757

So kids in the United States really do believe that

758

Santa is real when they're younger.

759

And I believed

760

Santa was real for a very long time.

761

I didn't only because my parents didn't believe in us believing in you know

762

Santa Claus so we were told like oh these are just gifts you know

763

that you're gonna receive this day I mean I knew of Santa Claus

764

but I didn't you know think he was real I just saw him as like a character yeah

765

and you knew that some kids believed in Santa

766

but you were never told no it was real yeah so it does kind of differ between households.

767

Yes, for sure.

768

Some parents tell their kids that

769

Santa is real.

770

Some parents tell their kids, hey, Santa is not real.

771

But I was one of those kids who was told

772

Santa was real.

773

And I think I believed in Santa a little bit longer than most kids.

774

Okay.

775

I think I kind of just had like a big imagination.

776

And I really wanted to believe he was real.

777

So I think I believed in Santa until I was about maybe nine or ten years old.

778

And I think most kids stop believing in Santa when they're a little bit younger than that.

779

Right, yeah.

780

So nobody ever told you like...

781

That Santa wasn't real?

782

Yeah.

783

They just wanted you to keep believing, huh?

784

No, actually my brother, who's older than me, when he realized

785

Santa wasn't real, he tried to convince me for like two years

786

that santa wasn't real yeah he kind of tried to ruin the fun for me

787

but i didn't believe him i was so sure

788

that santa was real yeah but then eventually

789

when i got a little bit older he was able to convince me

790

that santa wasn't real

791

so yeah i guess i would say my brother is the one who basically told me that santa isn't real at all

792

But there's also like other characters that kids are told about and many kids really believe in, at least here in the United States.

793

So there's Santa, of course, and Santa is associated with Christmas.

794

So he's supposed to come on Christmas.

795

But there's other characters for other holidays.

796

So for example, there's like the Easter bunny, which is associated with Easter.

797

Yeah.

798

And on Easter, people say that the Easter bunny comes out and he's like this big bunny, I guess.

799

And he like leaves eggs everywhere for kids to basically collect.

800

Yes.

801

I don't remember if I believed in the Easter bunny as a kid.

802

I think I didn't believe in the Easter bunny as a kid.

803

I didn't.

804

I think my parents never told me that the Easter bunny was real.

805

One that I did believe in, though, that's not holiday -related is the leprechaun.

806

At the end of the rainbow, if you go, you're going to find gold.

807

Oh, you believed?

808

I did.

809

You believed in leprechauns?

810

I did.

811

That's interesting.

812

I guess it kind of is.

813

What is it called?

814

St. Patrick's Day.

815

Yeah, St. Patrick's Day.

816

I think the leprechaun is like an Irish tradition and it is associated with St. Patrick's Day.

817

which we do celebrate here in the United States a little bit.

818

I mean, it's not a huge holiday here, but people do kind of celebrate it.

819

Yeah.

820

But that's interesting that you believed that the leprechaun was real because I don't think most people here in the U .S.

821

believe that the leprechaun is real when they're kids.

822

Yeah.

823

Yeah, for a very long time I thought that.

824

And, like, it'd always be, like, a dream of mine to go to the end of the rainbow to get the gold.

825

Right, because you're supposed to be able to find the leprechaun at the very end of a rainbow, right?

826

Like if you follow a rainbow, he's supposed to be at the end, right?

827

I believe so, yeah.

828

And doesn't he have like a treasure chest full of gold?

829

And a cauldron, right?

830

I think.

831

I don't know, maybe.

832

Something like that.

833

That's how I pictured it.

834

That's interesting.

835

But anyways, let us know down in the comments,

836

what are some weird things that you believed as a little kid that you no longer believe are true?

837

For more videos like this one, where you can learn English through comprehensible input, please subscribe to the channel.

838

Thank you so much for watching.

839

Goodbye.

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peanut 名詞	/ˈpiˌnʌt/	ピーナツ, 落花生
butter 名詞	/ˈbʌtɚ/	バター, 牛酪
snake 名詞	/sneɪk/	蛇, ヘビ
pizza 名詞	/ˈpi.tsə/	ピザ, ピッツァ
venom 名詞	/ˈvɛnəm/	毒, 毒液
slip 動詞	/ˈslɪp/	滑る
allergic 形容詞	/əˈlɝ.d͡ʒɪk/	アレルギー性の, アレルギーの
funeral 名詞	/ˈfju.nəɹ.əl/	葬式, 葬儀
podcast 名詞	/ˈpɑdˌkæst/	ポッドキャスト
tooth 名詞	/tuθ/	鋸歯
scientist 名詞	/ˈsaɪəntəst/	科学者
bite 動詞	/baɪt/	噛む
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show off 動詞		見えをはる, 見せようとする
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come out 動詞	/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/	出る
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長い単語（アクセントの位置に注意）: controversial /ˌkɑn.tɹəˈvɝ.ʃəl/, morality /məˈɹælɪti/, communicate /kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/, realization /ˌɹɪə.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, necessarily /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/

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/r/ と /l/ の区別 — /l/ は舌先を歯茎につけ、/r/ はどこにもつけない: funeral /ˈfju.nəɹ.əl/, controversial /ˌkɑn.tɹəˈvɝ.ʃəl/, morality /məˈɹælɪti/, horrible /ˈhɔɹ.ɪ.bəl/, translate /tɹænzˈleɪt/
/v/ — /b/ にならないように、上の歯を下唇に当てる: venom /ˈvɛnəm/, controversial /ˌkɑn.tɹəˈvɝ.ʃəl/, convince /kənˈvɪns/, versatile /ˈvɜː.səˌtaɪl/, flavor /ˈfleɪvə/
/f/ — 「フ」ではなく、上の歯と下唇で出す: funeral /ˈfju.nəɹ.əl/, flavor /ˈfleɪvə/, finger /ˈfɪŋɡɚ/, helpful /ˈhɛlp.fl̩/, define /dɪˈfaɪn/

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まず声を出さずに動画を最後まで聞き、知らない単語をメモします。
まず0.75倍速で一文ずつシャドーイングし、慣れてきたら通常の速度に戻します。
自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。peanut, butter, snakeなどの単語に特に注意しましょう。

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シャドーイング（Shadowing）は、もともとプロの通訳者養成プログラムで開発された言語学習法で、多言語習得者として知られるDr. Alexander Arguelles によって広く普及されました。方法はシンプルですが非常に効果的：ネイティブスピーカーの英語を聞きながら、1〜2秒の遅延で声に出してすぐに繰り返す——まるで「影（shadow）」のように話者を追いかけます。文法ドリルや受動的なリスニングと異なり、シャドーイングは脳と口の筋肉が同時にリアルタイムで英語を処理・再現することを強制します。研究により、発音精度、抑揚、リズム、連音、リスニング力、そして会話の流暢さが大幅に向上することが確認されています。IELTSスピーキング対策や自然な英語コミュニケーションを目指す方に特におすすめです。

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