シャドーイング練習: Real Life ENGLISH Around the House: Advanced Vocabulary Lesson - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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Hello, come on in.
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Today you are going to learn a lot of household vocabulary as I walk around my house
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and show you all sorts of things that are useful for your daily life to know.
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If you want to increase your vocabulary and be able to express yourself about the world around you, this is the video that you want.
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If you're new here, hi, I'm Vanessa from SpeakEnglishWithVanessa.com
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and I been teaching real life English here on my YouTube
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channel for over the past 10 years to now more than 7 million of you.
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Thank you so much for learning English with me.
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Today you are going to also have a free PDF worksheet with every single vocabulary word you are about to learn.
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This is the vocabulary worksheet that you need to be able to remember all of this vocabulary.
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So inside the worksheet is all of the vocabulary plus there is a bonus speaking practice with me so
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you need to do is click the link in the description enter your name
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in your email inbox it is my gift to you all right are you ready for household vocabulary.
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Thanks to Dan, my husband for recording this.
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And thanks to you because now I have cleaned my house.
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Come on in.
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I'd like to show you, this is a front door.
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My front door is a little bit dirty, but this door is what helps to keep out all of the cold in the winter,
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all of the heat in the summer.
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And for us, this is where we hang our bags or our coats.
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And we also have a little shoe bench here.
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So this is where we put our shoes.
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In the US, not everyone takes off their shoes inside the house, but we do.
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This is generally what we like to do.
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So we have a little spot to put our shoes.
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There are five people who live in my house, two adults and three kids.
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So there's lots of shoes and our summer hats and things that we might need as we get out of the house.
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All right, I'm going to bring you into the kitchen.
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We're going to start there and then we'll make our way around the house.
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Let's go.
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So in the kitchen, the biggest thing that you see, especially in our house is the kitchen counter.
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Notice that the T in this word is cut out in American English, kitchen counter.
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You can say counter, but we often just cut out the T.
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On the kitchen counter, I have a cutting board.
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This is a wooden cutting board, but you can also have plastic cutting boards.
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My kids decided to make some beautiful vases of flowers.
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So thanks kids.
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And this morning, we picked a bunch of stuff from our garden.
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Usually this kitchen counter is covered in stuff because this is what's called a drop zone.
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And that means anytime we come into the house, things just get dropped here.
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People put things here.
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So it's pretty clean.
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Thanks for making me clean this today.
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Over here, we have the kitchen sink.
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There are two sink basins here.
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There are some dirty breakfast dishes in the sink.
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This is a faucet and these are the hot and cold faucet handles.
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And we have installed something that is not in every American home, but this is for drinking water.
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So under our counter, we have a filter and this is extra filtered water because I'm kind of a water snob,
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which means I love good quality water and I'm not going to buy it.
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I don't want to buy plastic bottles of water.
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So we have it here.
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Thanks to my husband, Dan, for setting up this filter.
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I appreciate it.
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Here we have a coffee maker and shelves with various things.
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We eat rice and bake with flour a lot.
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So I keep those out.
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And we have some curtains.
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Here we have a nice kitchen window and we have decided to display some little knickknacks on the shelf.
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These are like little rocks and feathers and stained glass, little things that end up there.
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Knickknacks are small, usually not very valuable things, but things that you like to look at.
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All right, let's come on over here.
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Here we have my beloved tea kettle.
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This is an electric tea kettle.
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These are becoming more popular in American households as people are drinking herbal tea especially more often.
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I drink black tea every morning, so I use it multiple times a day.
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Here we have a coffee grinder if you like to use whole beans, which my husband does.
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We have a toaster.
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This toaster has space for four slices.
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There are five people in our family, so sometimes this causes a little bit of difficulty, but it's okay.
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Usually we put our eggs here, but we have no eggs.
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And this is the stove.
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Now, some people call the top the stove and inside the oven, but really in the US,
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sometimes we use it all interchangeably.
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Be careful, the oven is hot.
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That might mean this top part is hot, even though technically this inside is the oven.
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So you might hear that and don't think that it's technically a problem because people just speak like that.
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This is our frying pan.
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We use that almost every day to cook some eggs.
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and over here is our refrigerator.
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You might be thinking, Vanessa, American refrigerators are huge and you're right.
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This is the refrigerator and down here is the freezer.
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Sometimes freezers are on the top, sometimes freezers are on the side, but this is the way that ours is set up.
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We have a baby lock on it because my three-year-old loves to open the fridge and just say, hmm, what am I going to eat today?
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I know some adults that do this too.
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So we have a little baby lock so that she doesn't just keep the fridge open.
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There are two things in this kitchen that I missed.
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The microwave, pretty self-explanatory.
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In the US, these are often above the oven or above the stove because there's a little fan button here.
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Can you hear that?
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And this is what you could use if you're cooking something that's really stinky or smoky.
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So yesterday I was caramelizing some onions and our whole house started to smell like onions.
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So I turned on this and it helped a little bit.
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It's not super strong.
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So I know in some countries you have
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a hood that comes down over the stove and that's really going to soak up a lot of steam and smells.
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This is not very strong, but it's all we have.
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All right.
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I'm going to show you one more thing right over here.
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This is our beloved dishwasher.
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Thank you, dishwasher.
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So in here, this is where we can wash, put our dirty dishes at the end of the day.
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And we usually just do this every night, throw all the dirty dishes in here.
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And by the morning, they're clean.
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What a miracle.
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And we have our trash can over here.
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A lot of American households will have one trash can either out or maybe it will be under a counter.
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but this is the only place that we could keep ours.
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All right, while you're here, let's go over to our dining room.
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It's technically not a separate room.
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There's not a wall or a door between our kitchen and our dining room.
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So this is considered an open concept.
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That means there's no doors separating the kitchen from the dining area, from the living room.
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It's all one big room, which is a modern thing.
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Ours is a little separated, you'll see in just a moment.
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But here, this is our dining area, maybe not quite a dining room, but this is where we eat, especially in the winter.
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Usually in the summer, we like to eat outside on our deck because it's beautiful weather.
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But we have a round dining room table.
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It's not the most space efficient, but I love it.
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I think it looks really cool.
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And we have our dining room chairs.
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In the dining room, there are two little closets, you could say.
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This is where we keep any kind of dry goods.
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So we have pasta in here.
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I have some breadcrumbs, these types of things.
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There's cans down here.
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This is like a pantry, but also we have that in here as well.
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So we have kind of two pantries.
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This one's pretty small and this is pretty much it here, but a pantry is where you keep dry goods.
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Dry goods are anything that doesn't need to be refrigerated.
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And we keep flour, extra rice, tomato cans, these types of things in the pantry.
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Okay.
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Let's go on to the living room.
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As I mentioned, this is an open concept house, so there are no doors.
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We can just walk freely to the other room.
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This is our living room.
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In our living room, we can start over here, we have a piano.
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This is an electric piano so you can push a button and it will play.
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Oh, if it's turned on, which it is not.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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It is turned on.
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So you can turn on the piano and play it.
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My son is just starting to take piano lessons, which is very exciting.
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And we have some art on the wall.
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You can say this is framed art or the art is framed.
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One of my students in Korea painted this for us.
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And this was a gift.
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Can you see our family?
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This was a gift from Dan a couple of years ago.
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Very special pieces of art that we like to display.
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Over here is a centerpiece of our living room.
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In most American homes, the fireplace, which is this, is the centerpiece of the living room.
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Right now it's summer, so I don't want to turn it on, but it is a gas fireplace, which means we don't need logs.
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We don't need to start the fire.
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There's no smoke.
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There's no ashes.
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It's very clean.
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And we can just flip a switch and it turns on. So cool.
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All right.
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Well, in this area in the living room, we also have a mantle.
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Most people have a mantle above their fireplace.
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It's kind of just an aesthetic choice, but it could also be practical if you have a TV above your fireplace.
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It can kind of protect the electronics from any extra heat.
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On these shelves, we have just extra things like some chords that my husband did not want you to see, but you know what?
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That's part of real life, right?
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We have a record player, not extremely common in most homes, but here we have it.
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And just some other decorations.
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These are also kind of knickknacks to decorate the living room.
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All right.
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Let me show you the most common piece of furniture in a living room.
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So this is a couch.
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Some people call this a sofa and it's really just a regional choice or a personal choice.
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I never say sofa.
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I always say couch, but it's up to you.
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Neither are more correct than the other.
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And this is called a coffee table.
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It is not exclusively for coffee.
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We put everything on here, books, coffee, board games, children.
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They jump from here to here all the time.
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And in the US, as you saw a moment ago, it is not in your own home.
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Maybe if you're at a new friend's house, I wouldn't do this, but in your own home,
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it is not considered rude to put your feet on the coffee table.
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In someone else's house, I would wait until they do that first, but in your own home, it's considered okay to do that.
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Beside the couch, we have a little side table.
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This is really useful for putting a drink or a book or something on.
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And a lamp.
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This is a standing lamp.
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You can see that here.
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All right.
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Let's take a look at the windows.
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Let's take a moment to talk about some window vocabulary.
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So these windows are lockable.
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You can lock these windows and they slide up and down.
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Right now it is really hot outside, so I don't want them to be open, but you can lock them to prevent intruders.
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And these ones you can open some windows you cannot open.
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So these are fixed windows, but most windows in American homes have some kind of opening mechanism.
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Let's go to this spot here.
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This is a thing that we could use many different vocabulary words for.
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Some people might say it is an easy chair.
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It is comfortable.
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Some might say it is an armchair because it has these little arm rests right here.
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We just call this our white chair or our Ikea chair because we got it at Ikea.
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And again, there's another little side table so that you can put your coffee on it, put your drink on it, put your book on it.
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Very convenient.
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So there are other words you could use to talk about this, but I think those are the most common.
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All right.
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Are you ready to go into a room that I usually do not let people see?
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Let's go.
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Over here, you will see the laundry room.
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This room is oftentimes a big mess.
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So come on in, I guess.
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This is usually a little closet in American homes where people can do the laundry.
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In some big houses or more modern houses, this room will be really big,
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but ours is just kind of a closet.
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And I have a washing machine here and I have a dryer here.
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In the US, it is really unheard of to not have a dryer.
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Everyone has a dryer.
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This is really common.
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If you live in the US and you do not have a dryer, let me know in the comments.
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This is really common.
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So in the laundry room, I keep my laundry soap.
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Some people call this laundry detergent.
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And sometimes I like to put other things in it, like this is borax.
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It just kind of helps get grime and dirt off of clothes.
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So I pour both of those into the washer with my clothes and it cleans them.
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In this room, we have lots of other things like tools and board games and toys and yoga mats,
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all sorts of things, litter box for the cats.
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This is what we might call a utility closet.
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It's a very useful room and we are constantly having to organize it
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and reorganize it because it stores a lot of stuff.
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This room is kind of an unusual room.
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It's not It's not the living room.
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It's just an extra room, but there's no door here, so it's connected to the living space.
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Now we used to call this the playroom because we had a lot of kids toys in here, but now we don't.
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We just have some books and some Legos and we kind of redid this room a bit.
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And now it's a reading room or a resting room.
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And as our kids get older, it is nice to have separate resting places.
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So some people can be on the couch in the living room.
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Some people can be in here and it's a little bit nice to have some separation sometimes.
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All right.
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I'm going to bring you into my office.
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This is where the magic of Speak English with Vanessa happens.
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Come on in.
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This is a new room.
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I would like to introduce you to the Speak English with Vanessa office.
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This is my home office.
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A lot of you probably work from home and you might have a dedicated office space like this, or you might not.
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It might just be your kitchen table or your couch.
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But last year we made this room from scratch, which means this space used to be outside.
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It used to be a deck outside and
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we hired a contractor or a builder to change it into part of our house.
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I finally have my own office.
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It is wonderful, very exciting.
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Here I work on a desktop computer that is here.
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I have many things to do with this job.
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Speakers, microphones, cameras, hard drives, printers, lots of equipment.
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Over here I have some clothes that I use to film.
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I have lights that I use.
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And another lovely window with some curtains.
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And you can see the landscaping maybe outside.
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I'm not sure if you can see that through the window, but Dan loves to landscape
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and he has been working hard to make this area outside of our new window really pretty and pleasant to look at.
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All right.
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Now we are going to go down to my bedroom.
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We're going to go down the hall into my bedroom.
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We'll talk about some bedroom vocabulary, some bathroom vocabulary, and some closet vocabulary as well.
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Are you ready?
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Let's go.
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So this is our hallway and the light is burnt out.
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We have not changed the light yet.
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So I don't know.
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That's just what happens in daily life, right?
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We have my kids' bedrooms, which we're not going to go into.
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And here is my bedroom.
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We have done a couple of videos in here in the past where I was talking about changing the sheets
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and this type of vocabulary, but in a bedroom, of course, the most common thing is a bed.
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And usually in American households, like you see here, we have a nightstand.
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Usually there's a nightstand on either side of the bed.
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And I have some books, a baby monitor, a little light, and my alarm clock here.
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There's often a drawer or a little box under there.
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And this is a common setup.
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On the bed, we have a quilt.
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This is something my husband's great grandmother made.
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Amazing.
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We have a duvet.
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We have a sheet, which seems like a lot for the summer.
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Maybe we don't need all of that.
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And a bunch of pillows because I love pillows.
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I love sleeping with pillows.
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I don't necessarily like decorating with pillows.
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I would say in 100% of American households, there is an unbuilt computer in a box in the bedroom too.
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In our house, we do not have two things
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that are really common in a lot of households and that is a garage and a basement.
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These are common places where Americans store things.
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So because we have no garage,
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we have no basement when there are things that are projects we have not done yet.
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Like this computer, my husband's going to build a new desktop computer for the office because that computer's quite old.
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It needs updated and he built that one.
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So he's going to build this one, but it just hasn't happened yet.
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So where are we going to put those things?
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Well, probably like you in your house, you just have to put them somewhere.
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It might be a closet.
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It might be in your bedroom, but that's just what happens.
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So in a bedroom, you sleep and you get dressed.
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So here we have a little dresser.
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This is a dresser.
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And there are drawers.
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This pronunciation trips up a lot of my students.
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So listen carefully when I say it.
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Jor, jor.
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It almost sounds like J-O-R.
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Now, the D, you can say jor, jor, a little bit of a D, but it often just sounds like a J.
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So if this word is really tricky for you, just think of J-O-R, drawer.
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This is a drawer.
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It holds, for example, my husband's shorts, and these shorts are folded in the drawer.
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Usually you put folded things in the drawer.
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And let's go to the closet and then I'll take you into the bathroom for our finale.
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All right.
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This is our closet.
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And there's a special word for it because this is the biggest bedroom in the house.
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This is called the master closet.
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This room is called the master bedroom because it's the biggest.
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And this is also called a walk-in closet because you can walk in.
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Let's walk in.
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It's really messy in here too.
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So I will stand in the little area I can.
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In the closet, we hang our clothes.
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These are my husband's shirts.
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These are some of my dresses.
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And you can see here, we hang up our clothes on a hanger.
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They're here, hanging in the closet.
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We have a couple other items as well,
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like folded sweaters, but these are just things that did not fit in our dresser and we're storing them here off season.
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Right now I cannot wear sweaters.
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It's way too hot outside.
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So I put winter stuff in here as well.
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On the other side of the closet, you don't need to see.
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There are tons of things.
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Oh yeah.
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You want to see these pictures?
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This is, I wouldn't say it's the reject spot to put things but it kind of is.
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I made this map of Korea artwork for Dan for Christmas
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a long time ago after we moved back to the U.S from Korea
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and we lived in Suwon so all the pictures from our trip time in Suwon, some Seoul, all of our students and food we ate,
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all the different trips we went on.
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So it lives here in the closet.
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There's not really a better place to display it.
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I wouldn't say it's fine art, but it's personal specialized art.
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So it lives in our closet.
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And you know what?
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Every time I open the closet, I see it and I enjoy it.
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And it lives alongside other things like a rug that we need to get rid of, but it's still in our closet.
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What about the other one?
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Oh, this one.
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This is a classic.
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This is one, a very similar type of thing.
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We call this a collage.
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Notice that the G in this word is a juh, collage.
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A collage that I made for Dan, oh, how many years ago would you say?
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I think this was our happy one-year anniversary.
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This was 19 years ago.
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This is, yes, our dativersary.
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This is when we were dating for one year and I made a collage of all different pictures of us.
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It also lives in this closet.
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It's the kind of thing you don't really want in your living room
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but you don't want to throw away
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so it's hung in our closet along with all the other junk okay let's go on to the bathroom
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and talk about a little bit of bathroom vocabulary
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so this is the master bathroom or we could call it the master bath
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and when you are looking to buy a house or possibly rent a house or an apartment, you'll probably see in the advertisement,
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master bath, master bathroom, master closet, this type of thing.
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You'll see that terminology.
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It's pretty common, especially when you're renting or buying a house.
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All right.
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So in the bathroom, we have some similar things that you probably saw in the kitchen.
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We have the faucet and we have the sink.
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And here we have some mirrors.
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Hi.
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And behind the mirror is a little secret.
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This is a medicine cabinet.
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Inside the medicine cabinet, we can put really anything, not just medicine.
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So our counters are looking really nice right now, really clean.
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It's usually not like that.
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But this time of the year, I don't know if it's the heat or the rain or what it is, but sometimes these little ants come in our house.
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So my solution is to just take everything off of the counter, put it in the drawers, put it in the medicine cabinet,
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and maybe the little ants will have nothing fun to eat.
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I don't know if they're eating little bits of toothpaste or what they're doing, but it worked.
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There's no ants. So success.
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Here we have our toothbrushes and floss.
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This is some hand soap.
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This is different than dish soap.
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Usually dish soap is a little bit more abrasive or drying on your hands, but hand soap is not drying.
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All right, here we have things to wash yourself.
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These are bath towels for your entire body, and they are big for your entire body.
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And this is the shower.
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Our shower here in the master bath does not have a bathtub.
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We have another bathroom that is in our hallway that everyone who comes to our house can use and our kids use.
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It has a bathtub, but this one just has a shower.
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And here we have a shower head inside the shower.
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And there are various items like shampoo or conditioner or soap that you can use to clean your body.
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All right, come back here.
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We're going to take a look at the toilet.
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Aren't you so excited?
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So this is a toilet, but the word toilet is very different from British English toilet.
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In British English, if you go to England, you will ask, where's the toilet?
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Can I go to the toilet?
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Where can I find the toilet?
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It's very common to say toilet for this room.
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But in the US, we never say this, do not say this at all because the toilet, it feels like a dirty word.
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I mean, it is kind of dirty, right?
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And it feels quite explicit.
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I would rather say, where's the bathroom?
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I need to go to the bathroom.
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It's a little more indirect.
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I don't need you to know that I want the toilet.
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So I'm not going to say that.
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So I know when I visited the UK and I needed to say, where's the bathroom?
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I had to ask, where's the toilet?
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And I felt so weird.
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It felt so dirty to say that, but for people in the UK, it's a very normal.
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So in the US we say, where's the bathroom?
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And this item is the toilet.
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There are a couple things that go with the toilet if you want to come take a look.
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We have here, we have here toilet paper and I have a little spray cleaner here in case we need it.
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This is the handle, the toilet handle, or you could call it the flusher because what does it do?
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It flushes the toilet a toilet oftentimes in homes, you will see a toilet brush.
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This is for cleaning the toilet.
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And you will see a plunger in case the toilet gets clogged, which is the term that we use if it is full and it will not flush.
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You need a plunger.
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Hopefully this doesn't happen to you where you're at someone else's house and you need a plunger, but you know what?
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It's happened to everyone.
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And now you know the vocabulary.
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All right, let's come on out here.
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Okay.
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I have to explain this picture.
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This is Misty the unicorn.
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We found this at Goodwill maybe 16 years ago.
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Yeah.
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The first year we were married.
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And I think Dan went into Goodwill, which is like a common secondhand shop in the US.
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And I was waiting in the car and he came out with a big smile on his face, holding Misty.
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I was like, what, what, what are you so happy about? and he showed me
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and said behold the greatest thing ever and it has a little clock
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that doesn't work anymore
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but for the our entire marriage we have displayed misty in
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our bathroom no matter what house we lived in uh misty
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lives in here uh it's just kind of a funny very 1980s
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artwork and it lives in our bathroom all right let's go on out here for a moment Okay.
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We have here very messy shelves.
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You're welcome.
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And my cat.
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Here is where we display all of our books, but because it's in our bedroom, it's not really a display.
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It's kind of more of a storage spot for those types of things.
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All right.
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And before we go, I could show you we have a couple house plants here.
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They're not doing so well.
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That's code for they're probably going to die.
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But we have some house plants that we keep in our bedroom.
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These are mostly our kids plants that they take care of or don't take care of.
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I don't know.
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I'll let you know in a year if they're still alive or not.
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Well, thank you so much for learning all of this household vocabulary with me.
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Thank you for giving me the excuse to clean up my house and show you all around,
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but also give you the vocabulary that you need for your daily life.
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So if you would like to remember all of these words,
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don't forget to download today's free PDF worksheet that includes all of the vocabulary you heard today.
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Plus there is a bonus speaking practice where you can practice speaking with me and using your voice,
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using your pronunciation, but also imitating my voice so
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that you can go out into the real world and use English with confidence.
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All you need to do is click on the link in the description, enter your name and email address,
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and voila, the PDF worksheet plus bonus speaking practice will land in your email inbox.
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It is my gift to you.
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Thank you so much for learning English with me, and I'll see you again next Friday for a new lesson here on my YouTube channel.
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Bye.
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But wait, do you want more?
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I recommend watching this video next where you will learn a lot of kitchen vocabulary.
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I go through every single cabinet, every single drawer, and I explain all of the vocabulary you need for the kitchen.
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This is extremely useful and it's interesting culturally because maybe it's the same as your kitchen and maybe it's not.
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I'll see you there to find out.

この動画で身につくスキル

家庭内の日常会話で使える上級語彙をマスターし、「ドロップゾーン」「シンクベースン」などの実用的な表現を自然に使えるようになります。また、5人家族の生活情景を通して、アメリカ人の生活習慣に合わせた会話の流れを理解し、英語スピーキング練習に活かせるリアルな文脈を身につけます。さらに、無料のPDFワークシートを使って単語を確認し、ボーナスのスピーキング練習で即座に応用できるので、短期間で表現力が向上します。

聞き取りに注意すべき音のつながり

アメリカ英語の特徴的な発音を覚えましょう。「kitchen counter」ではTの音が省略され、「キッチン カウンター」ではなく「キッチン カウンター」となります。また、「cutting board」は「カッティング ボード」ではなく「カッティング ボード」と軽くつながり、自然な発音になります。これらの音のつながりを覚えることで、YouTubeで英語学習する際の聞き取り力が向上し、ネイティブと同じような発音ができるようになります。

ネイティブのように話すコツ

リズムとストレスを真似ることが重要です。「This is where we hang our bags or our coats.」では「hang」と「bags」にストレスを置き、「or our coats」は軽く流します。また、「Thanks to Dan, my husband for recording this.」では「Thanks to Dan」を強調し、「my husband」を自然に続けることで、会話のリズムができます。shadow speak(シャドーイング)の練習をする際は、動画のスピーカーの発音に合わせて声を出し、リズムとストレスを完璧にコピーしてください。これを繰り返すことで、自然な英語の話し方が身につき、shadowspeaksのような流暢な表現ができるようになります。

家庭内の日常を題材にしたこの動画は、shadowspeakの練習に最適です。少しずつ真似して話すことで、短期間でスピーキング力が向上し、リアルな場面でも自信を持って英語を使えるようになります。さあ、動画を見ながら一緒に練習しましょう!

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。

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