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me and my friend looked at each other like, what was that?
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It was startling because it was totally quiet and then smashed.
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What's up everyone?
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Chào các bạn và chào mừng các bạn quay trở lại với tập nam của podcast Slow
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and Clear của What's Up English.
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My name is Carter and in this podcast,
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we're going to talk about Halloween.
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So in the beginning, you guys are going to learn the interesting history of Halloween.
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Then we will talk about some activities that you do during Halloween.
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And finally, at the end,
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I'm going to tell you guys kind of like a ghost story.
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But it's something that happened to me that I still remember to this day.
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and it's kind of creepy.
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Let's begin with the history of Halloween.
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So maybe you know Halloween as the holiday where kids dress up in scary costumes
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and they go door to door asking strangers for candy and that is called trick-or-treating, right?
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But the way
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that this started was roughly 2,000 years ago in what was known as the Celtic area
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and now that area are countries like Ireland,
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Scotland, Wales, countries in Great Britain now,
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and also some countries in Europe.
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So that area was pretty large,
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and at that time, they had a holiday called Samhain.
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And Samhain was on November 1st. And on this holiday,
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people believed that ghosts would come back from the dead and roam around.
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So what they did to stop the ghosts from coming into their homes was they would put things like bread
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and wine at their doorstep.
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so the ghosts would be happy with the offering and not go into their homes.
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People would also wear masks when they were outside on the street because they believed that if they wore masks,
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then the ghosts would think that they are ghosts too and leave them alone.
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This day when the ghosts would roam around the streets used to be called Samhain.
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And then they changed the name to All Hallows.
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The day before All Hallows was All Hallows Eve.
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And then that got shortened to Halloween.
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To sum it up, Samhain was on November 1st. Samhain became All Hallows.
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and then the day before All Hallows was All Hallows Eve because Eve means the day before,
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like Christmas Eve.
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And then All Hallows Eve became Halloween.
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So that's how we have the name Halloween.
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One thing that the poor people used to do at this time was they would go around begging for pastries
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and if someone gave them the pastry,
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in return, they would pray for that person.
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They would pray for their ancestors,
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or they would pray for their health.
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They would pray for good weather,
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just basically good things for whoever gave them these pastries.
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This was called soling.
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And there was another activity called guising.
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And this one might sound a bit more familiar.
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Guising was when young people,
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kids, children, would dress up and then they would go around accepting food,
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money, or wine, stuff like that,
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in exchange for singing or saying a poem or telling a joke,
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some form of entertainment.
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And again, this was called guising.
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But then much later on in America,
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in the 19th century, these Irish and Scottish immigrants that came to America,
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they brought back these old traditions.
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And then in the 1950s,
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around that time, those traditions became what is known today as trick-or-treating.
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So these days, Halloween is a very big industry in America.
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There was a statistic that Americans spent over $10 billion in 2021 for Halloween.
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So it's a really big industry.
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Now, as we can see,
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it's spread to many, many countries around the world, including Vietnam.
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Many kids like to dress up, get free candy, right?
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Because everyone loves free candy.
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So some things that people can do on Halloween are trick-or-treating, of course.
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And trick-or-treating is when kids dress up as a monster or something scary.
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and they go door to door or apartment to apartment and they say trick or treat and hopefully get a candy.
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In the west
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and also here we have Halloween parties where they have a theme they will dress up like a monster
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or whatever and go to the party.
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There are haunted houses and haunted means ghosts are there.
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I remember when I was young,
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I was maybe five or six years old,
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and I was going trick-or-treating with my dad and my brother,
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and there was a haunted house not too far from my house.
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Some people in the West,
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they put a lot of effort into creating something scary around their house or as a part of their house.
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So in the West, we have garages where you park your car
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and many people would turn those into a haunted house for kids.
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And I remember I saw this haunted house and I was genuinely scared to go in because I was very young.
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And the guy said, if you go into this haunted house,
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I will give you a big candy bar.
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Because most of the time they gave you small candy bars, right?
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Small chocolate bars.
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But he said, if I go in,
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I'll get a big one like this it was tempting
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but I couldn't do it
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and I remember my brother he was three years older than me he did it
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and he got a big chocolate bar
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and I was thinking okay maybe next year I'll do it but this year I can't it's too scary
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Other things that people do on Halloween are carving pumpkins.
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And I think that's straightforward.
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You have a pumpkin, you carve it into a face or anything that you want.
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And then you can put a candle inside and it makes a really nice decoration.
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Some places have hay rides.
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And a hay ride is when you're at a farm.
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And you sit on a tractor or a truck and it drives through the farm,
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like the tall wheat fields.
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So you cannot see very much, right?
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And at nighttime, it's very creepy.
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And there was one place in Canada called Saunders Farm.
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And it was like a Halloween scary place.
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On this hayride, you would go onto a truck and they would drive you through the hayfields.
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So you are not in the truck,
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but you are on the bed of the truck.
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So you are still exposed to the outside.
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And as they drive through the hayfield,
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there's a guy with a fake chainsaw,
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but he suddenly jumps out of the hayfield
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and he starts chasing you on the truck with the chainsaw and it makes noise.
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It's like, like it sounds,
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it's a real chainsaw, but there's no chain on it.
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So that is terrifying as a kid.
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And it was like exciting, but also very scary.
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Some other things people do are they watch horror movies,
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like a horror movie marathon.
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You can have bonfires tell scary stories around the bonfire.
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Apple bobbing.
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I didn't see it too often,
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but yeah, people would grab an apple with their mouth from a barrel.
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So yeah, those are a few things that people do on Halloween.
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And finally, for the last part of this podcast,
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I'm going to tell you guys a real,
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true, creepy story that happened to me.
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This is 100% true from what I saw and what I heard.
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I'm not making anything up.
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This was not at a time that was close to Halloween.
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I can't remember exactly when it was.
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I think it was in the winter in Canada.
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and I was in my basement with my friend.
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We were sitting next to each other.
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In this room we were in,
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there was another room not too far away,
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but the door to that room was closed.
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All of a sudden, we heard a very loud bang come from that room.
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it sounded like something very heavy or large fell down
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and smashed on the ground like it was loud
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and as soon as that happened me
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and my friend looked at each other like what was
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that it was startling because it was totally quiet and then smash so the first thing that we thought was
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something must have fallen down.
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And let's go check on it.
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So after that smash we got up we went to the room
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that we heard the smash come from and everything was normal.
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There was nothing on the floor,
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nothing out of the ordinary,
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just basically we were looking for anything because we were so convinced that something broke,
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something big broke.
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Hearing a bang that loud,
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we thought we must be able to find something that made
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that noise because it came from right there and it was so loud,
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loud to the point where we looked at each other,
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even thinking like, is someone breaking into the house.
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It was really loud, but we could not find anything.
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And we were pretty confused, to be honest.
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But then I went back to the computer and then there was a pop-up on the screen.
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And I remember this was maybe 10 years ago.
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No, more than that.
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Maybe about 12 years ago.
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So this was with an old version of Windows,
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and there was a pop-up on the screen with just the exclamation mark.
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It was like the yellow triangle with the exclamation mark.
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It was an Italian word.
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That's all it was.
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Just a pop-up with the Italian words on it.
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I thought, that's weird.
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So I googled what those words were and it turned out that it was a haunted house in Italy.
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It was a house that was famous for having ghosts in it in Italy.
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And I was like, what?
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Why would that pop up on my computer?
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It wasn't an advertisement.
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It wasn't anything.
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It had no purpose.
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It just popped up and the only thing I could click was OK to close it.
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It happened very shortly after that loud bang.
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Another weird thing was the house we were in had been previously owned by Italian people because this area was very Italian.
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There were many Italians that used to live there from the 50s.
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so yeah it was very strange to this day I still don't know what
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that bang was you know the my friend I was with he doesn't know um
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so it's a mystery and I would say
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that was the most paranormal thing
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that has pretty much ever happened to me in my life because normally I'm not a person that believes in ghosts,
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to be honest.
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I'm pretty like logical and scientific.
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And I think if there's no proof of something,
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then I'm not going to believe it exists.
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But that was one thing that I had no answer for.
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It was very strange.
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So that's it, guys.
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That's it for this Halloween podcast.
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I hope you enjoyed it.
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I hope you learned some things about Halloween.
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I hope you have a great Halloween.
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Whatever you do, maybe you'll do nothing.
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Maybe you will go out trick-or-treating.
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Thank you so much for watching as usual.
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If you want to watch another podcast,
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click this video up here and I will see you guys in the next video.
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See you later.
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このポッドキャストエピソードでは、ハロウィンの興味深い歴史が紹介されており、英語を学ぶ際に実践的なスピーキングの場を提供しています。話し手が語る自身の体験や物語を通じて、リスニングスキルを向上させることができ、特に shadowing site を利用した練習を促進します。さらに、語彙や表現を使いながら、聴覚的学習がスピーキング能力にどのように影響を与えるかを理解できます。スピーキングの練習は、特に IELTS スピーキング対策 にも効果的で、実際の英会話の場面で必要な表現を身につける助けとなります。
文法と文脈における表現
このポッドキャストの中で話し手が使っているいくつかの重要な文法構造や表現を分析してみましょう。
- 動名詞の使い方: 「dressing up in scary costumes」などのように、動名詞を通じて行動を表現しています。
- 過去形の状況設定: 「people believed that ghosts would come back」などの過去の出来事を述べる際に正確な過去形を使っています。
- 条件文の使用: 「if they wore masks」などの条件文により、意図や結果を明確にしています。
- 視覚的描写: 「they would put things like bread and wine at their doorstep」といった具体的な描写が、リスニングをより理解しやすくしています。
一般的な発音の罠
英語の発音において、特定の単語やフレーズは挑戦的かもしれません。特に、「Samhain」や「All Hallows」などの単語は非英語話者には難しく聞こえることがあります。話し手のアクセントを注意深く聞くことで、shadow speech の練習ができ、発音を改善する手助けになります。また、短縮形の「Halloween」に関しても、正しいアクセントとイントネーションを身につけることが重要です。これらの発音に慣れることで、更なる shadowspeaks の内容にも容易に対応できるようになります。
シャドーイングとは？英語上達に効果的な理由
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。