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Hello everyone and welcome back to English Cozy Chat, a slow English podcast which helps you to learn English in a fun and natural way.
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I am Maria and you guys, I feel so happy right now.
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I feel so fulfilled because I just came back from a girl's weekend.
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So I haven't actually gone away on a girl's weekend with my friends here in Spain for about five years.
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I usually am always at home with my kids and my family.
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So this was a really big deal that I went away for the weekend.
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I have many other friends that are in the same situation as me.
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We are moms and we rarely go away from our kids because all of our kids are still small.
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So one of my friends proposed to propose something means to give an idea of something.
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And she said, hey, why don't we all have a weekend getaway just for ourselves?
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And at first I was like, oh, that's kind of hard for me to do.
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Not just because I would have to organize the weekend here with my family, with me not being here, but also emotionally being away from my kids.
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But we started planning it and I started getting really excited.
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So one of my friends has an apartment at a beach town, which is about one hour from where we live.
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And she invited us to come to her apartment.
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It was myself and three of my friends.
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So since we had a nice place to go that was so close and also free for us,
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we decided it was a perfect place to go for a getaway.
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and a getaway is when you go away for maybe just a
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short trip and it kind of means to escape or to just go away from your normal life just for a little bit.
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So this girls weekend was definitely a getaway.
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We left on Saturday morning and we drove there.
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First we left all of our things in my friend's apartment and then we walked to lunch.
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We went to a nice restaurant which is known for its seafood.
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There is lots of seafood
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restaurants in that area considering it is by the sea and we just had a really nice lunch together.
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Usually all of us are surrounded by our kids and that makes it hard to have real conversations.
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So it was really nice just being together and having lots of time to talk.
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At this lunch we got paella,
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which is a typical dish in Spain which is
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rice with lots of spices and seafood and shellfish in it.
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It is really delicious and this one was very good that we had.
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Now close to that restaurant was a really good place to do a little hike.
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So there are hiking trails which are along a mountain nearby which
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is right next to the sea and there was such beautiful views from this hike and we saw many
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coves.
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Coves are small beaches which are kind of in a U shape and these were very small and absolutely beautiful that we saw.
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There were some which were next to the mountains and really beautiful rocks.
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The water was crystal clear.
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Crystal clear means completely clear and it looked really beautiful and blue and green and some of the views were just breathtaking.
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Breathtaking means it takes your breath away.
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You know that feeling when you see something and you're like, get it?
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The views were breathtaking because it took our breath away.
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The only thing that I regret about this little hike little hike is that
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I didn't have my bathing suit with me because I would have really liked to have gotten in the water because the water looked so inviting.
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It looked so nice and refreshing, but none of us had our bathing suits with us.
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So we just hiked along the trail and enjoyed the views.
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We also sat on a beach for a little while and just relaxed and looked at
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the sea and just really enjoyed this moment of being together.
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So after our hike we went back to my friend's apartment and we planned dinner.
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We decided to cook dinner at her apartment.
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So first we planned all of the food that we wanted to make and
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we made a list of what we needed to buy and two of my friends went to the grocery store to buy everything.
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While they were gone my other friend and I stayed at the apartment and cleaned up and also decorated.
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Decorated means we put decorations up up because it was one of my friend's birthdays, one of them that had gone to the grocery store.
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So when they came back, we had a surprise of the decorations that we had put up for her birthday.
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She was really surprised when they came in and it just made the whole situation really fun.
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For dinner,
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we made roasted chicken and potatoes along with some carrots
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that had a yogurt feta sauce that my friend made, which was delicious, and a salad.
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It was all so good and really fun to make together.
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I love to cook and I even more like cooking with other people and friends.
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So this experience of cooking with my friends was really nice and we don't usually do that when we are at home.
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So it was very special.
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Before we ate dinner, we also had a nice little appetizer of some olives and nuts and things like that.
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And we really just took our time with dinner and just being together.
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Many times I like eating meals at home or in a house more than at a restaurant because I just feel like they're more cozy.
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For dessert,
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one of my friends made a chocolate cake for my friend's birthday and it was so delicious and a surprise for my friend.
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This friend makes really good cakes and she makes them a lot so every time that she makes a cake I know it is going to be
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delicious.
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Now after dinner, we sat there and just talked for probably two more hours.
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And it was really interesting because some of us told stories that the others had never heard before.
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We told stories of our past, how we grew up.
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Keep in mind that these friends, we've only been friends for about five years at the most.
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And so we have had a lot of life before meeting each other, which was really interesting to share with each other.
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So we talked about all kinds of things.
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Our past, the way we grew up, old boyfriends that we had, how we met our husbands,
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and also some other really personal experiences.
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And this was really nice and really moving and emotional in some ways.
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Sometimes sharing personal stories with friends can be very moving and really emotional.
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and it's really nice sometimes to just do that because it's
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not something maybe that you're thinking about every day but some big important stories you hold inside of you and sometimes
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it's just good to let those out.
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So this night was really nice and powerful for all of us.
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We went to bed really late that night at about 12 30 a.m.
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and the next morning we woke up,
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made a nice breakfast of eggs and fruit and yogurt and
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coffee of course and then we went on another short hike and ate at another restaurant by the beach.
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For us, we didn't really need to do much other than just be together and share time together.
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So soon after that, we packed up our stuff and came home.
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So we were really only gone just one night, but it was still long enough to really enjoy our time and disconnect.
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and just have a good time together.
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I am super thankful for this amazing weekend that I had with my friends, and I hope I'm able to do it again soon.
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I would really love to know if you have had any fun weekends like that, or maybe it's not even a weekend.
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maybe it is just a night out where you have been able to disconnect from your
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normal life so let me know in the comments if you have any fun stories to tell
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if you guys would like more support on your english learning journey just check out my membership where i provide additional
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English learning resources.
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Thank you all so much for watching or listening.
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I hope you have a wonderful day and I cannot wait to see you in the next episode.
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Bye!
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この動画でスピーキングを練習する理由は？
このYouTube動画「Slow English Coffee Chat」は、リラックスした雰囲気で英語を学ぶのに最適です。Mariaさんの会話は自然であり、友人との週末の getaway について楽しいエピソードが共有されています。このように日常生活の魅力的な話題を通じて、英語を練習することで、実際の会話で使われる表現やフレーズを学ぶことができます。また、リスニング能力も向上させることができるため、英語スピーキング練習のための非常に良いリソースとなります。
文法と文脈における表現
以下の表現は、Mariaさんの話の中で特に重要な文法構造やフレーズです：
- “One of my friends proposed to...” - 「提案する」という意味で、新しいアイデアを提案する際に使われます。
- “It was a really big deal...” - 何かが特別であることを強調する際に役立つ表現です。
- “I regret that...” - 後悔を表すため、自分の気持ちを正直に伝える方法として使えます。
- “We decided to cook dinner...” - アクションを決定する際の文脈で使われる便利なフレーズです。
- “It was really nice just being together...” - 繋がりや友情を強調する表現として使われます。
これらの表現を動画を見ながら声に出して繰り返すことで、shadow speakのテクニックを体験し、リスニングとスピーキングの両方を同時に強化できます。
一般的な発音の罠
動画内で特に発音に注意したい単語やフレーズには以下のものがあります：
- “getaway” - スムーズに発音するために、アクセントに気をつけましょう。
- “breathtaking” - 「息をのむほど美しい」という意味を正しく伝えるために、各音節を丁寧に発音することが大切です。
- “seafood” - この単語の母音の連結に特に注意が必要です。
これらの言葉を練習することで、YouTubeで英語学習をさらに効果的にし、流暢さを向上させることができます。ぜひ、自身の声で発音してみてください。
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。