Shadowing Practice: a week in my life vlog - Learn English Speaking with Video

Good morning guys.

Happy Monday.

Today is the first day of my day in the week vlog and I thought, you know what?

No, I'm not doing an intro.

I think intros can be kind of annoying.

So we're just starting the video.

No intro needed.

I'm walking.

Well, I'm out of breath.

Today I'm starting out the day walking to meet my friend for coffee.

know her it's my friend Liz she's one of my really good friends here

and we haven't like had a coffee date in a really long time we've both just been really busy

so we like scheduled this in advance so we're gonna meet at our favorite place it's the Brandy Cafe

hey guys Liz and I just got our coffee I went lighter with my hair and Liz went darker.

Hey, we're back.

Guys, so this is what we did in the coffee shop.

Liz had a great idea.

My coffee was so sweet.

They put way too much vanilla in it.

She hadn't ordered hers yet.

She was like, okay, I'm going to get a regular coffee with no sweetener.

And then we're going to mix them together.

It was like an experiment.

It was really smart.

The trick is to not, which I saw TikTok on this, but not to pour the ice out.

Like you have to drain it.

In separate cups.

Yes, in separate cups.

And then mix them.

And then we fixed the problem.

So now we have good coffees that aren't too sweet.

That was the salulu.

Okay, guys, I'm back in my apartment.

I had so much fun with Liz this morning.

We just had a cute little girls morning.

Honestly, it's like such a nice Monday morning.

I don't usually like do that.

been home for a couple hours just working on my laptop.

I'm about to go print out some things for Ophelia with our summer launch coming on Thursday.

So I need to go there.

But first I want to make a smoothie because I am getting a little hungry.

You guys know my smoothie recipe by now is pretty much the same.

i was at lunch with my managers recently

and they were talking about how much collagen changed their life

and they really educated me and inspired me to start taking it

so that is the one addition to my smoothie

that i've been doing recently i got the ones from vital proteins and it is so good and

things for the Ophelia cards that we're going to be putting in our summer orders.

So I'm going to try to drink this quick, grab my stuff, and then walk because I think it's like a 25 -minute walk for me.

Hi, Pookies.

I'm back.

Wow, should I start calling you guys that?

I went and I got the prints for my Ophelia drop on Sunday. On Sunday.

It's on Thursday.

I got at least the tester prints for now.

I wanted to get specific cards for our summer collection

because I just thought it'd be really fun to switch it up since these are our summer pieces

and I want to put one of these in every order.

So this is how they came out.

We took this photo and I took this on my iPhone actually.

I loved it.

The second I took this photo at the beach, I knew that this was going to be the photo of all the ones we took in our shoot.

So I ended up getting a few for now on the back.

It has a little note with a discount code that i'm not going to show because it's if you order Sorry, gatekeeping.

I did that and then on my way back I decided to stop at the grocery store

because I have no food like i'm not even being dramatic I think I have a bag of chocolate chips.

That's about it I'm gonna do a little haul of what I got

because I love grocery hauls

because I like just getting inspo for meals You guys know

it's kind of hard for me sometimes to think of meal ideas

So i'm just gonna show you a few of the things that I got first things first my priorities my lemonade.

This is so good.

And banana chips, which I already started eating.

I want to make chicken stir fry tonight.

So I got some bell peppers for that.

Obviously I got chicken.

I also got some broccoli for that.

Other things include bread, oats, because I want to make overnight oats.

I was literally in Trader Joe's looking up breakfast ideas because when I find a breakfast I like,

I will eat that every day for probably about three months until I'm sick of it.

And then I move on has been yogurt with berries, which is good.

It's been too long, you know?

This is a cyclical thing.

The cycle is done with my yogurt.

I've developed an aversion to it now because I've had it so much.

And I need to find my next breakfast.

I hope that I like this.

I'm sure I will.

I used to eat these often.

Overnight oats with some berries and nuts.

I got chia seeds for that too.

And some granola because I thought maybe I put granola on top.

I also got these sunflower seed butter cups.

They're really good.

I'm gonna have one now.

I actually like the peanut butter ones better.

Don't get these.

Okay, well failed.

I got more peanut butter because I ran out and some fries

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and lastly stir -fry sauce for my stir -fry that I'm gonna make for dinner tonight.

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That's my little haul.

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Um...

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I actually, I actually don't know what to do.

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Um...

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I'm gonna call my mom.

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So I did make my dinner.

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I made a chicken fajita rice bowl.

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I don't know if that's technically what this is, but I've been making taco bowls and I'm kind of getting sick of them.

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So I decided to make chicken instead with some pepper and onions.

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And then I just threw in best chef.

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I'm not even a chef.

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I'm just trying to survive.

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You know, cooking is new to me.

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I really didn't cook in college at all.

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Post -grad now, I still didn't cook last year.

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I had no kitchen.

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So this is like my first time cooking consistently and I'm learning, you know.

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I think my biggest weakness is that I take forever.

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Like this took me an hour.

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It will probably take most people 20 minutes.

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So that does frustrate me.

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I have to figure out something because I could not be spending this much time.

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I made leftovers for tomorrow.

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I'm gonna eat this and then watch the game.

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I'm a really big Timberwolves fan.

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Honestly, my perfect night.

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Good morning guys, it's the next day.

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I'm kind of in like a sad mood.

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I'm one of those people who the weather really affects my mood and today is extremely gloomy.

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and rainy especially on days like this i need to get out of my apartment

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and like force myself out

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because it just like makes me mentally feel a little better

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i was going to go to central park today with some friends

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but that is obviously not happening anymore

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so instead i'm going to go to a cute coffee shop

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which i know i always go to i feel like that's

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just appropriate for a rainy day is to go to a

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coffee shop also to make me feel better i want to get dressed and ready

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and put on a cute little outfit i have a few

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options of things the one thing i know for certain is i'm

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because I love it and I just got it and Coach is actually sponsoring this video.

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So thank you so much to them.

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That is actually a dream for me.

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I have them on my vision board, guys.

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I put them on there as a goal of a brand to work with.

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It came true, guys.

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This is your sign to really make your vision board.

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Let me show you.

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This is my vision board and there is Coach.

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You guys already know, I love Coach.

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This is the Coach Terry bag and this is such a beautiful bag

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because I like how the Coach logo is so subtle and I also really like the silver hardware.

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silver recently and I also like this one specifically because it is

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so neutral it just like would go with any outfit let me try them on and see what we like

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for pants I'm thinking these low -waisted flared black pants Okay, here is the look so far.

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I don't know what I think about this.

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I like it.

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I want to try this coat and see what we think.

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Okay, this is the second option.

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I don't know what I think, but I feel like I can do a little better.

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All right, guys.

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Outfit is complete.

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I ended up sticking with mixing black and brown.

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I added some silver jewelry today also.

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I wanted to keep it consistent with my bag that

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hardware you guys know my favorite boots of all time are these i love how this look came together

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and my coach bag goes so perfectly with it i do like with coach

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that i can either dress up my outfit or dress it down with the bag

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Thank you you Bye.

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good morning guys you may be wondering what is the occasion for the matcha

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and the flowers i'm getting my friend matcha and flowers for her birthday

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so i woke up this morning i was texting her roommate

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because i need to drop it off hopefully before she wakes

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up after i dropped off her little birthday surprise i had a lot of work to do

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because ophelia launched our summer I think I'm filming this around nine.

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I just had a few finishing touches and things I needed to do on the website.

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And it was really successful.

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As I'm talking to you guys right now, we sold out of almost everything.

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I think we're planning on a restock right around when this video goes up.

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Thank you guys.

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If you have supported Ophelia, it means the world to me.

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But after it launched, I took the train to go to a meeting I had planned with my managers.

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Okay guys, little update.

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So I finished working at the coffee shop It's doing really well.

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I'm not really the best with web site stuff

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and my assistants out of town So I was a little worried about it, but it ended up going live really smoothly

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and now I'm on my way to a little meeting with my manager I just took the subway.

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I'm running a little late.

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So feel a little bad about that We're getting lunch at this Italian restaurant called La Cora Bianca, which I don't think I've been to before.

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Wow, my heels are so loud Oh my gosh guys,

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I'm so carsick right now.

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I had my little lunch meeting with my managers

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and then I ubered to Brooklyn Which was like a 20 -minute uber because I have an event with Drunk Elephant, which I'm really excited.

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It's kind of like they call it I think a master class the ubers here are like

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so jerky and it makes me feel sick every single time and this time was especially bad

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I hate being carsick.

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I do feel like I'm gonna be ill all day I've seen

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so many brands put on little events like that and I've always wanted to go.

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Sorry guys, I feel like I've been vlogging poorly today, which we all knew one of these days would have that.

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It just seems to always be that way.

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I've just been running around like all day.

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So I'm in the Uber to my friend's birthday.

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The same friend that I dropped off the coffee and flowers for this morning.

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She's having like a little birthday dinner lunch.

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Is there anything else I have to say?

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No, fine, that's it.

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Okay, bye.

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say to you good morning i just woke up why would i even say

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that like i clearly just woke up like i don't need to say

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that you guys can tell i have to post a video which was two videos and then i have

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submit a third video to a brand and i'm pretty behind on my editing

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so i'm basically just gonna be at my computer all day

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long big thing for me though on days like this

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when i'm just gonna be on my computer for

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so much of it is

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that i just need to get out of my apartment it's like the social stimulation even

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if i'm not speaking to people though

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because obviously i'm working majority of the time on my laptop

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but just like being around people for me like mentally is so

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editing videos or just doing schoolwork and homework and I'd always prefer to like leave my house and do it somewhere else.

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Obviously not all the time, but especially on long days like this, it just helps to like break up my day.

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Being around people like makes me feel less

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alone i guess especially because i live alone

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and i like work alone as much as i love to be alone

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and we talk about

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that on here a lot i do think it's important for me to just get out

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and socialize and just like be around people and like coexist with other people so let's get ready and it's 7

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- I'm surprised.

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I never made.

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my overnight oats.

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I actually forgot about them.

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I have no words.

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I can't believe I did that.

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I was hyping them up for you guys.

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Thank you.

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I do make the best avocado toast though.

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My friends would say the same.

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I made avocado toast for two of my friends.

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And they loved it.

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I've really perfected my recipe.

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It's obviously not that hard, but I'm

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very proud of it.

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It's like the one thing I can make.

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I'm with Nikki.

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Say hi.

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Introduce yourself.

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Hi, Nikki.

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together because we both use edit like all the time i've been here since like literally 8 a .m

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and we're just working together oh my god i get to

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see them behind the scenes yeah this is what it's like

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oh my god my neighbor below me is

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so loud i can always hear his conversations in detail i

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can hear everything he's talking about i feel like things i

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shouldn't know i have been home for the past five hours

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since i left the coffee shop i've just been in my bed laying editing my vlog and i just

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good about that but i literally had nothing to vlog

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because i was sitting in silence for five hours right now

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i'm going to be packing orders for ophelia my jewelry brand

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i think i talked about this earlier in the week

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but we launched our summer collection

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and i want to pack some of the orders we do everything out of my apartment

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which is kind of crazy

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but I wanted to do things like fully myself to learn

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all aspects of the business from the little things to the big things

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so I'm gonna pack some of the orders from our summer collection

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that just launched and I love it and I think it sold out

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or some of the pieces sold out already and it just launched.

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So that's crazy.

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I love you guys.

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I think we're gonna be restocking hopefully next week.

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This is the setup we have right now.

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I laid everything out really aesthetically just for a photo for the Instagram, but I'm gonna start packing.

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Okay guys roughly an hour and a half later I finished the orders for today.

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They're right here all wrapped and ready to go to be shipped out tomorrow.

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I am

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I don't know what I'm gonna do probably go to bed soon

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so that took actually longer than I thought I always underestimate the time on everything

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and And I need to get better at that. So, good night.

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Good morning, guys.

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It's a good day because I remembered, finally, to make my overnight oats last night.

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I literally got into bed, was about to go to sleep, and then I remembered suddenly that I needed to make my overnight oats.

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So, it's really easy.

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It's basically same parts, oats and milk, and then some peanut butter and honey.

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And then I just threw in some strawberries and granola on top.

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Oh, there's also chia seeds in here.

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Um, I'm gonna eat this in peace and enjoy the sun, because the sun is out.

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I'm gonna get ready and then we'll figure out the day.

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Okay guys, I got dressed.

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By the way, breakfast, was so good.

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That's my new hyperfixation breakfast.

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I got this outfit shopping at the vintage shop by my apartment last week, and I love it.

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I I'm leaving for Alaska next week. So random.

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I know people are gonna be like, why are you going to Alaska?

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Honestly, my dad and I just wanted to take a trip together.

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We've always talked about going to Alaska, the nature.

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It looks beautiful there.

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And it's supposed to be a good time of year to go.

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It is gonna be a little chillier than I anticipated though.

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So I wanna go to Brandy to grab a few warmer pieces of clothing that are so cute.

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I'm thinking like a crew neck or like a zip up hoodie.

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I'm gonna do that.

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And then when I get back later, I think I'm gonna pack.

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brandy kind of sucked today at least in my opinion it did i just was kind of underwhelmed

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but just as i gave up hope on my way out i saw this zip up it's actually pretty thick

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which is kind of what influenced me to get this

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because i do think it will keep me warm

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and then i went home and i packed so

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that was my week in the life vlog i hope you

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guys liked watching stay tuned for the next video i'm

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so excited it's gonna be one of my favorites and i'll see you next week love you guys you

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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les

Deze spreekles op niveau B2 is gebaseerd op de video “a week in my life vlog”. Deze video bevat 310 zinnen en 3101 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 19:13. De spreker praat in een natuurlijk tempo van ongeveer 161 woorden per minuut, dicht bij een alledaags gesprek. Slechts 81% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden, dus de woordenschat is pittig.

Belangrijke woorden in deze video

De 15 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:

Woord	Uitspraak	Betekenis
oat zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈəʊt/	haver
vlog zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈvlɑɡ/	vlog
overnight bijwoord	/əʊvə(ɹ)ˈnaɪt/	's nachts
granola zelfstandig naamwoord	/ɡɹəˈnoʊlə/	muesli, crunchy
smoothie zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈsmuːði/	smoothie
brandy zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈbɹændi/	brandewijn
intro zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈɪntɹoʊ/	intro
peanut zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈpiˌnʌt/	aardnoot, pinda
stir werkwoord	/stɝ/	roeren
avocado zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˌɑvəˈkɑdoʊ/	avocado
carsick bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/ˈkɑɹˌsɪk/	wagenziek
yogurt zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈjɒɡ.ət/	yoghurt
rainy bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/ˈɹeɪni/	regenachtig
jewellery zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈd͡ʒʊ-/	sieraad
toast zelfstandig naamwoord	/toʊst/	toost, geroosterd brood

Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

Woord	Uitspraak	Betekenis
end up werkwoord		belanden, terechtkomen
wake up werkwoord	/ˌweɪk ˈʌp/	wakker worden, ontwaken
figure out werkwoord		uitvogelen, er achter komen
sold out bijvoeglijk naamwoord		uitverkocht
come out werkwoord	/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/	uitkomen
come together werkwoord	/ˈkʌm tʊˈɡɛðɚ/	bijeenkomen, samenkomen
dress up werkwoord		verkleden
give up werkwoord		zich overgeven

Zinnen om te herhalen

Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:

No, I'm not doing an intro.
I don't usually like do that.
Wow, should I start calling you guys that?
It's been too long, you know?
Is there anything else I have to say?

Grammatica in deze video

De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:

Structuur	In de video
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — iets dat eerder begon en nog bezig is	i've been doing · I've been making · I've been vlogging
Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt	has been · I've developed · have supported
Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding	berries, which is · people who the · Brooklyn Which was
Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet	is done · be shipped

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 125 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'm, gonna, I've. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

De “th”-klanken: smoothie /ˈsmuːði/, smoothly /ˈsmuːðli/
De klanken “sh” en “zh”: aversion /əˈvɜːʒən/, socialize /ˈsoʊʃəlaɪz/, stimulation /stɪm.jʊˈleɪ.ʃən/, gosh /ɡɑːʃ/
Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: avocado /ˌɑvəˈkɑdoʊ/, underestimate /ʌndɚˈɛs.tɪ.meɪt/, stimulation /stɪm.jʊˈleɪ.ʃən/, anticipate /ænˈtɪs.ɪ.peɪt/, technically /ˈtɛk.nɪˌkəl.i/

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: vlog /ˈvlɑɡ/, socialize /ˈsoʊʃəlaɪz/, waisted /ˈweɪstɪd/, vintage /ˈvɪn.tɪd͡ʒ/
/æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: brandy /ˈbɹændi/, lastly /ˈlæstli/, anticipate /ænˈtɪs.ɪ.peɪt/, banana /bəˈnænə/, wrap /ɹæp/
/g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: vlog /ˈvlɑɡ/, granola /ɡɹəˈnoʊlə/, yogurt /ˈjɒɡ.ət/, grocery /ˈɡɹəʊ.s(ə.)ɹi/, coexist /ˌkoʊ.ɪɡˈzɪst/

Zo oefen je met deze video

Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
Begin op 0,75× snelheid, spreek zin voor zin na en ga terug naar normale snelheid zodra het makkelijk gaat.
Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als oat, vlog, overnight.

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