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Can you understand fast English conversations?
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Can you understand fast English conversations?
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Do you know if your listening skills are beginner, intermediate, or advanced?
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Have you ever turned on an English TV show and after a few minutes,
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you thought, wait, what are they saying?
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They speak so quickly, words blend together,
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and suddenly you're feeling completely lost.
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Well, never fear.
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I am here to help you.
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Today, we are going to test your listening skills with some real English speakers.
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And I will show you exactly how you can understand fast English conversations easier.
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Let's do it.
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Hi, I'm Vanessa from SpeakEnglishWithVanessa.com.
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And for over the past 10 years,
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I have been teaching real life English here on my YouTube channel now to more than 7 million of you.
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I can't believe it.
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Thank you for learning English with me.
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And like always, I have created a free PDF worksheet that includes everything you're going to learn today,
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plus a special bonus.
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Inside this free worksheet, you will have access to a bonus 15 minutes of today's real life conversation
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so that you can continue to test your listening skills.
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See if you can actually understand fast English conversations.
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How can you get this free worksheet plus bonus listening conversation?
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All you need to do is click on the link in the description,
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enter your name and email address,
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and voila, just like that,
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it will land in your email inbox.
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This is my gift to you.
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So here's how today's lesson is going to work.
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We are going to use my proven conversation breakdown method.
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Number one, you will listen to a short clip from a real life conversation.
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Number two, after the clip,
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I will ask you a question to see if you understood what was said in that conversation.
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And number three, I will teach you an important concept
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that was used in that conversation clip so that you can understand fast conversations better.
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Just a little note, if you have subtitles turned on,
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turn them off right now.
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I don't want you to use subtitles right this moment, not yet.
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I want you to really test your listening skills.
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You can do it.
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All right, let's dive in.
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You're about to meet my friend,
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Sarah, who is a massage therapist as her job.
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She is talking about a massage technique.
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So listen carefully.
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Are you ready?
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Three, two, one.
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Massaging with a stone is wonderful.
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Usually they're a little bit bigger and made of basalt.
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Okay.
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That gray kind of color.
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B-A-S-A-L-T, basalt.
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Okay.
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And those rocks are found in Northern California or Hawaii.
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And they hold the heat beautifully,
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so you can heat the rocks in water.
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And so you use them as a tool up and down the back and arms and legs to
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to massage and warm up the muscle.
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So you're using them as a tool.
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And it feels amazing to be massaged with warm rocks,
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especially in cold weather.
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Great work listening.
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Did you catch all that?
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Now I have a challenge question for you.
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What phrase did she use in this sentence?
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They, basalt rocks, beautifully.
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I'll give you three seconds.
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They hold the heat beautifully.
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Here she's using the word hold to talk about carrying something or containing something.
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The rocks are able to maintain their heat for a long time,
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which is great for massage.
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And here, this fixed phrase we can use in a couple other sentences as well.
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You might say, this cup doesn't hold the heat for my coffee.
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It gets cold too easily.
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So maybe you want to choose something different.
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Or you could say this,
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if you put a lid on the pot,
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it will easily hold the heat after cooking.
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Here we're using this full fixed phrase, hold the heat.
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Let me give you a quick example from my personal life.
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The first year that I was married,
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we lived in a house that did not hold the heat.
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In fact, there were huge icicles that grew inside the window inside our house in the winter.
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That house did not hold the heat.
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All right.
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Now that you have listened to the clip,
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you have answered a challenge question about the clip,
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and we have talked a bit about the phrase, hold the heat.
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Now it's time to review the clip.
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We are going to watch it one time with subtitles and one time without subtitles.
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I think that final time,
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you're going to understand it wonderfully.
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Are you ready?
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Open your listening ears.
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Let's go.
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Massaging with a stone is wonderful.
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Usually they're a little bit bigger and made of basalt.
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Okay.
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That gray kind of color?
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B-A-S-A-L-T, basalt.
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Okay.
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And those rocks are found in Northern California or Hawaii
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and they hold the heat beautifully so you can heat the rocks in water.
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Massaging with a stone is wonderful.
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Usually they're a little bit bigger and made of basalt.
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Okay that gray kind of color?
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B-A-S-A-L-T.
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Basalt.
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Okay.
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And those rocks are found in Northern California or Hawaii and they hold the heat beautifully.
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So you can heat the rocks in water.
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Well, great work.
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How did you do?
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This was our beginner English conversation.
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Next, we're going to take a look at an intermediate conversation.
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But before we do, I want to tell you something.
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If you enjoy this type of real English conversation lesson,
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I want to invite you to join me in the Fearless Fluency Club,
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which is just $5 for the first month if you join right now.
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You'll practice understanding fast real English speakers,
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just like Sarah and others you're about to see,
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including over 45 other speakers.
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And I will help you to break down those real life conversations in detail,
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just like we're doing today with the conversation breakdown method.
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I'll tell you a little bit more about that later,
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but if you'd like to join me now,
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you can click on the link in the description and I would love to be your teacher.
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All right.
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Are you ready to level up to the intermediate conversation?
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You're about to meet James who knows a lot about martial arts.
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I want you to listen to this conversation.
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I will ask you a conversation question,
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and then we'll break down some important details.
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Are you ready?
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Three, two, one.
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completely different styles.
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Sure, some people might think martial arts are similar,
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but they're probably a lot different.
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Right, and a lot of people think that Kung Fu is karate.
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Everybody, oh, you know karate?
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No, actually this is like Muay Thai, you know.
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So different than that.
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Right, there's always that karate thing.
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Like when they came out with the new karate kid.
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Oh, that's what everyone's familiar with.
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That wasn't even karate that he learned,
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that was Kung Fu that he was learning.
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And experts know that.
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They can pick that out.
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Exactly. So...
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Great job listening to this intermediate conversation clip with James.
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Now I have a challenge question for you.
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How did James pronounce this word?
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Did he say karate?
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Did he say karate?
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Or did he say karate?
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I want you to think about this for just a minute.
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James said karate, karate.
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That final T changed to a D sound.
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This is exceedingly typical in American English.
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When there is a T surrounded by vowel sounds,
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it's going to change into a D sound, karate.
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Let me give you a bunch of other examples so
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that you can use this yourself and you can understand this in fast conversations.
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I'll say each sentence one time and I want you to repeat it the second time with me.
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Are you ready?
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There's a little bottle of orange juice sitting on the counter.
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All right, one more time.
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There's a little bottle of orange juice sitting on the counter.
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All right, one more sentence.
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Listen to this sentence one time and then we'll practice it together.
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Later, we'll buy enough water when we get to the city.
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We have three words here.
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Later, water, city.
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All three of those words have that T in the middle,
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change to a D.
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This is a typical sound in American English.
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And once you recognize that this is used a lot,
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you'll be able to hear it when you're listening to fast English conversations.
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And I bet you'll be able to use it yourself too.
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So, let's practice our pronunciation.
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I want you to say this sentence out loud with me right now.
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Are you ready?
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Later, we'll buy enough water when we get to the city.
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Great work.
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All right.
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Now that you have listened to the clip,
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you have answered a challenge question about the clip and we have talked a bit about the phrase.
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Now it's time to review the clip.
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Are you ready?
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Open your listening ears.
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Let's go.
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Completely different styles.
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Sure, some people might think martial arts are similar,
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but there probably a lot of people think
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that kung fu is karate everybody oh you know karate
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and no actually this is like muay thai you know but
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so different there's always right there's always that karate thing completely different styles sure some people might think martial arts
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right but they're probably right and a lot of people think that kung fu is karate everybody oh Oh,
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you know karate?
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And no, actually this is like Muay Thai,
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but- So different than that.
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Right.
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There's always that karate thing.
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If you got that challenge pronunciation question correct,
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congratulations, you have an intermediate listening level,
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but are you ready to take it to the next level?
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Our final level, advanced listening skills,
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you're about to meet Bree,
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who has a specific eating style that she follows.
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She is vegan.
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You're going to hear us talk about this briefly during our conversation.
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I want you to listen carefully and then we'll talk about it together.
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Let's listen in three, two, one.
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Do you find that most of your friends are also vegans?
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Are you just attracted to people who are also vegans?
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I do have, I would say it's about 50-50,
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but most of my friends aren't even vegan.
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A lot of them are just vegetarian.
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And that just happened by circumstance with my job.
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Everybody that works at the coffee place,
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all of us are vegetarian or vegan.
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And it just happened.
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I mean, I wasn't looking for it.
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I got this job and they were,
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but no, most of the people in my close circle,
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like Heather, Liz, you guys,
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none of you guys are even vegetarian.
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Great job listening to this advanced conversation clip.
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Here is my challenge question for you.
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I asked Brie, are most of your friends vegan?
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And she said this, which phrase did she use in her sentence?
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I would say it's about,
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but most of my friends aren't even vegan.
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I want you to think about it.
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She said, I would say it's about 50,
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50, but most of my friends aren't even vegan.
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So here she's talking about 50% of her friends are vegan or vegetarian of some sort,
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but 50% are not at all.
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Not only is this phrase 50-50 an excellent vocabulary phrase,
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but it uses a pronunciation concept that we just talked about.
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Do you remember that T changing to a D?
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Fifty.
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Fifty.
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Do you hear that D at the end?
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Oftentimes when we have TY,
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it's going to sound like D,
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just like the word 50 or party.
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Fifty.
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Let me give you a little personal example using this phrase 50-50,
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sometimes my friends ask me,
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Vanessa, do more men or women watch your YouTube channel?
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And do you know what I tell them?
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Well, actually it's about 50-50.
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This means it's an even split.
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There are almost exactly the same amount of men and women who learn English with me,
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which I think is pretty cool.
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So I could say it's about 50-50.
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There are an equal number of men and women.
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But to challenge you a little bit more,
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let's take a look at a couple other numbers that use this D sound at the end.
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Let's take a look at this sentence.
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I'm going to invite 30 people to the dinner.
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30. Can you say that with me?
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30. Let's say the full sentence.
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I'm going to invite 30 people to the dinner.
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What about this sentence?
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Last week, I went to a party that had 80 people.
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Here we have two words,
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party, which I briefly mentioned before, and 80.
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Both of these words, 30 from before and 80 in this sentence,
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plus 50, all end in that dy sound.
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Let's try to this sentence together.
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I want you to use your voice, speak out loud.
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It's great to listen to me,
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but it's more important that you speak and you hear your voice.
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So try to say this sentence with me.
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Last week I went to a party that had 80 people.
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Great work.
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All right.
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Now that you have listened to the clip,
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you have answered a challenge question about the clip and we have talked a bit about the phrase.
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Now it's time to review the clip.
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Are you ready?
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Open your listening ears.
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Let's go.
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Do you find that most of your friends are also vegans?
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Are you just attracted to people who are also vegans?
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I would say it's about 50-50,
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but most of my friends aren't even vegan.
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A lot of them are just vegetarian.
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And that just happened by circumstance with my job.
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Do you find that most of your friends are also vegans?
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Are you like just attracted to people who are also vegans?
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I do have, I would say it's about 50-50,
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but most of my friends aren't even vegan.
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A lot of them are just vegetarian.
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And that just happened by circumstance with my job.
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If you got this vocabulary and pronunciation question correct from the conversation with Bri, congratulations.
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You have an advanced English listening level.
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And if you enjoyed today's lesson,
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I want to invite you to join me and thousands of other motivated English learners in the Fearless Fluency Club.
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My student Yuko from Japan said,
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I think there is no other course which deals with the real conversations of ordinary people.
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And my student Matija said,
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Yuko and Matija, but can it work for you?
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which includes all of the conversations that you saw today,
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plus a bonus 15 minutes of a conversation extended version plus a transcript
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so that you can continue to test your listening skills.
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This is the goal, to be able to understand fast English conversations.
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So how can you get this PDF worksheet?
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All you need to do is click on the link in the description,
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enter your name and email address,
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and voila, just like that,
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the worksheet and extended listening bonus will land in your email inbox.
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It is my gift to you.
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Well, thank you so much for learning English with me,
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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 meet my neighbors and test your listening skills.
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Can you understand our fast English conversation?
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We're going to be talking about moving from the big city to the country.
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And why would someone do that?
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Well, I'll see you in that conversation to find out.
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なぜこの動画でスピーキングを練習するのか？
この動画は、英語の会話が速いという壁を打破するための素晴らしいリソースです。実際の生活の中で使われる英語を学ぶことで、あなたのリスニングスキルを向上させることができます。特に、YouTubeで英語学習をしている方にとって、リアルな会話を聞くことは非常に役立ちます。この動画では、早口の英語を理解するための具体的な方法が紹介されています。これにより、日常生活やビジネスシーンでのコミュニケーションが円滑になり、IELTS スピーキング対策にも役立ちます。
文法と文脈における表現
この動画の中で使用される重要な構文を分析してみましょう：
- 現在進行形：「Massaging with a stone is wonderful.」という表現は、行動が現在進行中であることを示します。英語では現在進行形を使うことで、今まさに行われていることを強調できます。
- 形容詞の使用：「little bit bigger」といった表現は、比較する際に使われる典型的な言い回しです。形容詞を正しく使うことで、会話をより豊かにすることができます。
- 副詞の役割：「usually」といった副詞がどのように会話の流れをつなげ、話の内容を豊かにするかを理解することは重要です。
一般的な発音の罠
動画で取り上げられている会話の中で、以下のような発音のトラップがあります：
- “basalt”の発音は、日本語の直訳とは異なり、特に注意が必要です。正しい発音を反復することで、より自然に聞こえます。
- 連音：速い会話では、単語が結びついて発音されることが多く、例えば「little bit」が「lil' bit」のように聞こえることがあります。これを理解しておくことで、会話のスムーズさを増すことができます。
これらの考慮点を踏まえながら、shadow speakや英語シャドーイングの練習を行うと、スピーキングスキルの向上に大きく貢献します。どんどん実践し、自信を持って英語を話せるようになりましょう！
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。