Shadowing Practice: an autumn vlog in toronto, canada 🍁 - Learn English Speaking with Video

good morning we are in Toronto we arrived last night after

so many flight delays on both our flights we ended up getting to our apartment pretty late

so we just kind of crashed when we got here

and we ended up sleeping in a little bit this morning to try

and catch up on some sleep i woke up feeling super groggy

and puffy in the face i was trying to give myself like a little face massage

when i was in the shower to go to some of

the puffiness it is our first time here in toronto we're

actually here for a wedding in a few days time

but we thought we would arrive a little bit earlier

so we could actually explore the city a little bit um

and to be honest we're actually quite unorganized we don't really

know what we want to do whilst we're here we've just come from the uk

and it was a really lovely holiday but it was

so busy because i had work lined up whilst i was there

and to be honest the jet lag hit me

so hard i felt like the last two weeks has just been a little bit of a blur

and that i've just been like walking around like a zombie

because i've just been having the most broken sleep

so i think our first stop for today is to just maybe head to a cafe get some coffee

and write like figure out what we want to do for the couple of days

that we're here before the wedding jesse of course has wrote down a whole list of coffee shops

if he wants to go check out

so we're going to head to one of those first I'd

love to go for a walk somewhere just to kind of explore the city it's my favorite thing to do

when I get somewhere just to walk around and see what it's like

and yeah and then I think whilst we're there and doing

that we'll figure out exactly what we want to do today

and what we want to do over the next couple of days so first up let's go get some coffee

Thank you.

these little oven mitts are so cute so cute these little acorn candles

These little cable net polos are so cute.

I love this jumper.

We stumbled across like a little bit of a shopping center

so we went in was

so cool to just kind of like look around some of the shops that we don't actually have

in australia and some of the shops don't even like ship to australia places like american eagle

and stuff so that was really fun now we're just kind of going for a little walk along the wharf

um maybe go and sit in the gardens or something and figure out what we want to do next

look at these cosmos they're so much bigger than the ones i have growing at home

good morning i've just been doing some work in the apartment editing some vlogs

and some videos whilst jesse is just at the gym doing his bike ride um

and i'm getting a little bit hungry

so i thought let's pop across the road we're staying right across from this place called Summerhill

which is kind of like a health food grocery store.

We entered there last night for some dinner

and I thought this looks amazing

so I'm going to head back there for some breakfast

and maybe take it to the park whilst we wait for Jessie to finish before we go

and do some more exploring today.

We're going to go to the Spadina Museum today and then we might just do a little bit more exploring around Toronto.

Yesterday we went to the distillery district I think it's called

and then we kind of looped down to the water

and we went for a walk along the wharf and it was really nice.

We went to the music gardens, we kind of sat and chilled there for a little bit before we head home in the afternoon because...

were still a little bit tired from our flight

so we just kind of had a very relaxing evening in the apartment

so today we're going to go to the museum i'm going to go explore maybe another part of toronto

and then i think tomorrow we might go on a little

bit of a day trip it's going to be a warm day today is it a little bit weird

that i'm disappointed that the weather is actually nice and sunny

and warm i kind of was really hoping

that it was going to be a little bit colder

so i could wear all of my really cute autumn outfits

that i had planned because we don't get like a proper autumn where I live in Australia

so every time I come overseas I really get

so excited about the seasons but anyway it is going to be about 25 degrees today

so it's gonna be warm I'm just wearing this really relaxed top this is just from fabric

and you can't really see it

but I've just paired it with a little brown skirt

and some ballet flats and socks

so let's go across the road let's get some food and let's go sit in the park whilst we wait for Jessie.

so for breakfast i went for the orchard crumble

which is cinnamon spiced apples chai coconut yogurt pecan

and cashew granola date syrup blueberry pear hemp hearts with coconut

that sounds so good and then i also went for a little refresh green juice which is just green apple, cucumber, kale, lemon and ginger.

I want to go there someday I know we're going somewhere Into the danger zone

It all points right to that

I set myself aside Lead the way on this trial

If you don't know the way we can stop and make a change I know we walk for days,

losing hope, fading love This night we'll be okay,

waking up to another day Good morning,

we've decided to come for a little day trip out of toronto city to a little town called unionville

so we hopped on the train and the bus

and we are now in unionville we're just walking into the town center

so far it's so cute the cutest little houses

and gardens we're just going to have a little bit of a look around they've got some cute coffee shops

and some shops and yeah we'll just sort of have a little wonder see where the day takes us.

We'll be right back.

Thank you.

hello we are back in australia and i'm editing this vlog

which is going to go live tomorrow and i realized i ended it

so abruptly toronto genuinely felt like a little bit of a whirlwind

because we were there for our friend's wedding

so in amongst seeing our friends and spending time with them

and the sightseeing and the wedding

and the vlogging it was just like it was a lot

so what I did capture was everything we did outside of spending time with our friends

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and the wedding which I wasn't going to film any of that

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because I just wanted it to be I wanted to be

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really present for those moments not kind of like behind a camera behind my phone

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and things like that so as I'm editing this I've realized this vlog is actually really short

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and not my usual style but I hope you enjoyed it anyway because we certainly enjoyed it.

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Just like a sort of recap, the day after we went to Unionville we went to St Jacob's

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which is where the wedding was and it was so beautiful, I loved it.

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We went to the markets which was really cool to see

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and they also had like this like hoedown festival at a barn the night

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that we arrived and I'm so sad we didn't get to go

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but there was a welcome dinner for all of the guests for the wedding

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and then the next day we had the wedding

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which was such a beautiful day the venue everything about it

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the ride groom it was such an amazing day Jesse was actually part of the groom's party

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so he was out and away for most of the day

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and we had

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so much fun we stayed up until I think we didn't get home until like 1 30 in the morning

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but neither of us really drank at all so

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because we had a very early flight the next day and that flight was back to Australia which was

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a very long journey um we by the time we left

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Toronto on the Sunday we didn't get back to Australia until the Tuesday just

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because the time zone differences so we quite literally like lost a whole day

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which is a bit weird

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but yeah by the time we got home both of us

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just we slept we fell asleep at 4 p .m we

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woke up at 6 a .m the next morning we were

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absolutely exhausted I genuinely think i was jet lagged the entire three weeks i was a walking zombie

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and it was so hard to film and everything like that

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because i'm like i am so tired i feel like i'm coming across

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so tired but we just had the most amazing time away we absolutely loved it i already miss england

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so much especially as it's coming into like the most festive season the most beautiful months of the year.

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It also just kind of blows my mind how quick it's gone.

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Like when we got back to Australia in January I was literally planning this trip

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and that was nine months ago and it's been and gone and it just really blows my mind.

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So we do still have a couple of travel vlogs to do for the rest of this year

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but otherwise we are going to be settling back into cottage life

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which I'm excited about because I'm just excited to kind of get back into a regular sleep routine.

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I've mentioned before I already struggled with my sleep so

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when we're putting like time zone differences and jet lag on top of

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that I basically don't sleep at all and obviously

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that takes its toll so I'm excited to get back into like my proper exercise

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and my proper um sleeping routine

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but otherwise next year we're going to New Zealand in March for another Ironman

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and I remember being to New Zealand I'm really excited to go um

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and so we're going to do a bit of the South Island

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and then can't say too much about it but we've decided

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that we're going overseas on a much longer term basis we don't know where yet probably the uk

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or europe but

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when we figure it out we'll talk a little bit more about it as it gets closer to the time

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but i am so so so excited i cannot wait both of us are

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so ready to go overseas

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and just kind of stay overseas um yeah as you guys

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i talk about it all the time i just love it over there

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so much both of us both of us do

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so yeah it's it feels like the logical next step

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and one we're very excited about

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but in the meantime we are back in the cottage I

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have a lot of exciting things to share with you guys

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things I kind of planned like before we went away um

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that I'm just going getting around to now that we're back

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so so with all that being said I hope you guys enjoyed this video

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and I will see you guys next week

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Over deze les

In deze les ga je oefenen met het begrijpen en nabootsen van een natuurlijk Engels gesprek over een herfstbezoek in Toronto. Je leert omgaan met alledaagse taal, zoals verhalen over reizen, jetlag en dagelijkse activiteiten. Door te luisteren en mee te spreken, verbeter je niet alleen je luistervaardigheid, maar ook je uitspraak en ritme. Ideaal voor wie wil oefenen met "schaduwspreekt" en zijn "IELTS spreekvaardigheid oefenen"!

Belangrijke woorden en zinnen

Jet lag: Vermoeidheid na een lange vlucht door tijdzonesverschil. Bijvoorbeeld: "De jet lag sloeg me heel hard."
Crash (informel): Snel in slaap vallen vanwege vermoeidheid. "We crashten direct toen we bij ons appartement kwamen."
Stumble across: Per ongeluk tegenkomen. "We stootten per ongeluk een winkelcentrum tegen."
Groggy: Dwaas vanwege slaaptekort. "Ik wakkerde op en voelde me erg groggy."
Figure out: Uitvinden, bedenken. "We gaan proberen te figure out wat we vandaag gaan doen."

Praktische tips voor schaduwspraak

De video heeft een relaxed, conversatieel tempo, perfect voor "schaduw spreken". Volg deze stappen: Eerste keer: Luister zorgvuldig en let op de intonatie (bijv. de opwinding over de herfst of de vermoeidheid van jet lag). Tweede keer: Spreek direct na de spreker, zelfs als je wat achterloopt. Focus op het nabootsen van de klanken en het ritme. Derde keer: Probeer de zinnen te herhalen zonder te luisteren, om te checken of je de woorden en structuur beheerst. Dit helpt je "verbeter engelse uitspraak" en maakt je vertrouwd met alledaagse Engels. Herhaal de delen met snelle of moeilijke woorden (zoals "puffy in the face") totdat het vloeiend gaat. Veel plezier en let op de herfstgevoelens in de taal!

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 just been having · i've just been doing
Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt	we've just come · has just been · i've just been
Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding	juice which is · markets which was · Australia which was
Overtreffende trap the -est / the most … — het hoogste of laagste van een groep	the most broken · the cutest · the most amazing

Wat is de Shadowing-techniek?

Shadowing is een wetenschappelijk onderbouwde taalleermethode die oorspronkelijk is ontwikkeld voor professionele tolkentraining en gepopulariseerd door polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. De methode is eenvoudig maar krachtig: je luistert naar native Engelse audio en herhaalt het onmiddellijk hardop — als een schaduw die de spreker volgt met slechts 1–2 seconden vertraging. In tegenstelling tot passief luisteren of grammaticadrills, dwingt shadowing je hersenen en mondspieren om echte spraakpatronen tegelijkertijd te verwerken en te reproduceren. Onderzoek toont aan dat het de uitspraaknauwkeurigheid, intonatie, ritme, verbonden spraak, luisterbegrip en spreekvaardigheid aanzienlijk verbetert — waardoor het een van de meest effectieve methoden is voor IELTS Speaking-voorbereiding en echte Engelse communicatie.

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