Shadowing Practice: Café Hopping & Learning English with us | comprehensible input - Learn English Speaking with Video

Les maken...
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Way back then Is there all the movies on a big stream?
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When We couldn't afford a...
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Good morning guys.
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Today we're going cafe hopping.
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Which means to go from one coffee shop to the next.
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You're coming with us.
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We're gonna learn loads of English and have some fun.
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Let's go.
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So we've just arrived at the cafe and the name is Wanderlust.
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Which is wordplay for another word which means a desire to travel.
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Speaking of travel, let's continue.
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We've just got our drinks.
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I've got a salted coffee and this is a straw raw.
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Now Chang is stirring her matcha coconut with a teaspoon.
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This is a teaspoon.
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So now while Chang films some beautiful shots for the YouTube video, I'm going to take you guys around and learn some English around the place.
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Where we are sitting, this is a chair with a cushion on the chair.
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It's a table, that's the base of the table with a metal pole upwards.
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This is the rail, metal rail, and it's on a balcony over here is where the baristas
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and the waitresses are making the coffee and delivering the coffee to the customers.
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This is a mirror.
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This is a sign that says staff only so don't go in there.
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Here these are called hanging plants and this is steam water vapor. Since then.
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We've got some kind of shop here.
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That is a coffee grinder where you grind your beans.
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These are the thin coffee filters.
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There are two types of coffee bean.
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Arabica has less caffeine.
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Robusta has more caffeine.
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You are stunning.
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Gorgeous.
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Well, elegant.
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Cute.
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Now I'm going to buy these postcards from the gift shop.
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So this is the card machine, this is where you tap your card.
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This is where the receipts come out of.
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These are all cute.
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So this is my credit card or debit card and I'm tapping my card on the card reader.
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So I'm getting one more thing and this is 50,000 dong.
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This is called a note, a bank note.
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This is the receipt, got the product, this is the change.
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Let's go.
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So this is a staircase and we are walking down the staircase.
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So now we are close to our next destination so we're gonna go on foot.
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We're gonna walk to the next cafe for today.
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We just bought some postcards so we're gonna do some creative writing.
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So this is a zebra crossing and we are waiting to cross the road.
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Can we go now?
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Alright let's go.
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You're about to see the green man.
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That is the green man.
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That means we can cross the road.
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Speaking of green men, there's a green man too.
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They are getting in a taxi.
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To our left, that is the famous Han Market.
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You can get lots of fruits, vegetables, other knick-knacks, which means small little items, souvenirs and such.
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So that is a pushchair or a pram.
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There's a baby in the pushchair.
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Crossing on the zebra crossing again.
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This is a zebra crossing, and we are crossing the road.
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So this is a fruit store.
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Pretty flowers.
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Shop.
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Crisps.
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You can't smell this guys, but...
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Durian. So, reen...
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Durian.
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This is a bus stop.
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Fucking hell.
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That was a horn, and that scared the living daylights out of me.
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So here is a large gate.
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There are many tourists.
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Everyone is taking pictures and seeing the church.
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So this is a large kumquat tree and these small oranges are called kumquats.
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It's a funny word.
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This is a plant pot.
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This is a chang.
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She's filming me right now.
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Say hello to the camera.
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Hello.
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Hello!
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The Vietnam flag.
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So we are making our way to the next destination.
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You can say making your way somewhere, it means you are heading there.
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So this is a...
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convex mirror.
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A convex mirror.
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Hello.
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Hello.
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So we've arrived at the coffee shop and this up here is called bunting.
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Colorful bunting.
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So when we get to the coffee shop, the verb that we use is to order coffee.
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So if you want to ask politely in English for something, you say could I have or could I get.
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Could I have a coconut coffee?
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But I'm going to try in Vietnamese.
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What do you want?
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What do you want?
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Same.
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I agree with you.
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We're going to go upstairs.
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I am sitting down on my chair and waiting for my...
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Okay, so the waitress is arriving with the drinks.
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This is...
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Yeah, come on.
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What is this Chang?
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It's not water, but it's like some kind of tea.
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Very refreshing.
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On a hot day, a cold drink is refreshing.
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I made it.
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So we just got our order.
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What do we have?
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We have coconut coffee and another coconut coffee here is a straw
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all right pass the camera now let's go around the rest
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of this cool place we have an old book shelf with
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some old books they are dusty you see the dust on my finger that book is dusty this is a metal fan.
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This is an old lamp and I think the lamp is also a little bit dusty.
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An old television or TV.
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This is an old camcorder.
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This is a satchel or a briefcase.
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This is a flat cap like they wear in Peaky Blinders.
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You describe the pattern on the floor as checkered just like a checkers board.
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This is a duffel bag and this is an antique motorbike for decoration.
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On the wall behind me there are lots of decorations.
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So this is a videotape or video cassette and you used to put this in a video player.
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I have some of these from when I was a child actually, some home videos.
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This is a typewriter.
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Up here on the wall there is a red radio.
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Up there there is a cattle's head mounted on the wall.
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Up there behind me we have a ceiling fan.
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Two ceiling fans.
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Also a good adjective you can use if you have drunk too much coffee.
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Coffee makes you feel jittery.
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Love this word.
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Jittery.
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And that means like a bit shaky.
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So I've had two coffees and I'm a bit jittery.
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These in the pot are napkins and I'm taking a napkin and dabbing my mouth.
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Chang is taking a sip from the straw.
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I am unzipping my bag, taking out the postcards from earlier and handing one to Chang.
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Now we're doing one of my favorite writing exercises, which is called sense writing.
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You're gonna write for five minutes about everything around you.
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What you can see, what you can smell, what you can taste, what you can feel and what you can hear.
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Okay, now we've finished the sense writing.
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I'm going to show you guys mine for an example.
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I see a Coca-Cola glass with a teaspoon sticking out.
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The coconut coffee tastes creamy and silky, like clouds mixed with whipped cream.
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The sound of Spanish guitar sings from the old radio.
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The plants dance like ballerinas.
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I smell the musty antiques.
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It smells like my grandad's garage.
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And finally, I feel a soft cushion beneath my bottom.
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Comfy.
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Chilled.
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Relaxed.
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from a dreamer's reality Baby, baby, you are really hurting me Food has arrived.
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We have a plate of edamame beans and two bowls of ramen.
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Apparently, I've heard this, in Japan, if you don't slurp your noodles, which is to...
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slurp, that's considered rude because you should slurp if you're happy.
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If you don't slurp, you're not happy.
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Is that true?
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Any Japanese people out there can confirm that?
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Thanks.
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Inside, the liquid part is called broth.
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There are noodles.
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This is seaweed.
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These are boiled eggs.
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We are sitting on a bar and looking into the kitchen.
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This is a jug of water.
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You can hold the handle of the jug and pour it in the glass.
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Now the glass is full.
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I'm finished.
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I am stuffed.
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Stuffed means very full.
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Have you got room for dessert?
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Mmm.
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So this is a bar of chocolates.
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These are small chocolates in a glass case.
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This is a bucket hat.
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Try that one on.
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Not for me.
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Doesn't suit me.
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These are t-shirts.
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There's the collar of the t-shirts.
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These are tote bags.
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Tote bags.
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This is the handle of the tote bag.
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All right, check this out.
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Here we have...
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Oh, look at that.
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Wow.
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That is where they are mixing the melted chocolate.
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Oh my god, and you cannot smell this, but that smells divine.
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I don't want to drop my camera inside.
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That wouldn't be good, would it?
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So here she is plating up the chocolates.
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She's putting them on the plate, she's plating them up, and she's using small metal tongs.
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She's taking the plastic tray of chocolates and putting it on the shelf.
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They just brought us our drinks.
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I have a tall glass with milkshake inside.
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There is cream, cookies, chocolate, and this is the coaster.
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Chang has a mug full of hot chocolate.
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I'm holding the saucer.
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This is the teaspoon, the tiny one, and the slightly bigger one is the dessert spoon.
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Speaking of desserts, we are gonna dig in, which means to begin eating.
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The final word of the day is...
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Bliss.
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It means pure happiness, light and floaty like a cloud.
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Thank you for watching, subscribe, have a lovely day.

Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les

Deze spreekles op niveau B1 is gebaseerd op de video “Café Hopping & Learning English with us”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: coffee, chang, chocolate, smell, shop. Deze video bevat 208 zinnen en 1582 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 12:56. De spreker praat in een gelijkmatig tempo van ongeveer 122 woorden per minuut, prettig om te shadowen. Slechts 78% 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:

WoordUitspraakBetekenis
coconut zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈkəʊ.kə.nʌt/kokosnoot
slurp werkwoord/slɝp/slurpen, slorpen
teaspoon zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈtiˌspun/theelepeltje, theelepel
café zelfstandig naamwoord/ˌkæˈfeɪ/café, koffiehuis
jittery bijvoeglijk naamwoord/ˈd͡ʒɪt.ə.ɹi/springerig, zenuwachtig
postcard zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈpoʊstˌkɑɹd/ansichtkaart, kaart
tote zelfstandig naamwoord/toʊt/tas, zak
dusty bijvoeglijk naamwoord/ˈdʌsti/stoffig
dessert zelfstandig naamwoord/dɪˈzɝt/dessert, nagerecht
bean zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈbi(ː)n/boon
straw zelfstandig naamwoord/stɹɔ/stro
bunting zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈbʌntɪŋ/vlaggenlijn
convex bijvoeglijk naamwoord/ˈkɑn.vɛks/bol
durian zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈdʊə.ɹi.ən/doerian
kumquat zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈkʌmkwɑt/kumquat

Zinnen om te herhalen

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

  • Today we're going cafe hopping.
  • Speaking of travel, let's continue.
  • We've just got our drinks.
  • Could I have a coconut coffee?
  • Have you got room for dessert?

Grammatica in deze video

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

StructuurIn de video
Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doetare called · is called · is seaweed
Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog teltwe've just arrived · we've arrived · we've finished
Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of dingword which means · knacks, which means · exercises, which is
Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — iets dat nu of in deze periode gebeurtwe're going · You're coming · is stirring

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 44 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'm, we're, gonna. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

  • De klanken “sh” en “zh”: pushchair /ˈpʊʃ.t͡ʃɛə(ɹ)/, cushion /ˈkʊʃən/, refresh /ɹɪˈfɹɛʃ/, decoration /ˌdɛkəˈɹeɪʃən/, shelf /ʃɛlf/
  • Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: decoration /ˌdɛkəˈɹeɪʃən/, destination /dɛstɪˈneɪʃən/, arabica /əˈɹæbɪkə/, edamame /ˌɛdəˈmɑːmeɪ/

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

  • Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: postcard /ˈpoʊstˌkɑɹd/, adjective /ˈæd͡ʒ.ɪk.tɪv/, seaweed /ˈsiwid/, verb /vɝb/, upwards /ˈʌpwɚdz/
  • /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: café /ˌkæˈfeɪ/, napkin /ˈnæpˌkɪn/, caffeine /ˈkæfiːn/, lamp /ˈlæ̝mp/, adjective /ˈæd͡ʒ.ɪk.tɪv/
  • /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: grinder /ˈɡɹaɪndəɹ/, grind /ˈɡɹaɪnd/, elegant /ˈɛləɡənt/, garage /ɡəˈɹɑʒ/

Zo oefen je met deze video

  1. Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
  2. Spreek zin voor zin na op normale snelheid en herhaal elke zin tot je ritme gelijk is aan dat van de spreker.
  3. Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als coconut, slurp, teaspoon.

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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