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If you want to improve your English and travel all around the world, just like this guy said from his bedroom,
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I'm inviting you to join me for a short walk through Sofia, Bulgaria, and to have a conversation with a model,
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an actor, and the prince of Bulgaria himself.
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Now, hit the like button below and let's get started.
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Yo, yo, yo!
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That's the guy, Bulgarian Prince himself.
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You're a dude, dude, you're a big boy.
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Nice to see you, bro.
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Likewise.
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It's a pleasure.
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Likewise.
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You're Bulgarian born, Spanish, Spain -shaped, heartbreaker, if I got it right.
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Heartbreaker, honestly, I try not to.
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I do my best.
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I do my best not to do it, but...
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Yeah, but it just happens, naturally.
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It.. it...
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Happy Valentine's Day to my heavyweight heartbreaker.
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I've been living in Spain for 10 years.
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Nice.
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Then I decided to try moving to Bulgaria when I was 20, 21, something like this.
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I had an opportunity to compete for the national team of athletics, like the running.
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Oh, wow.
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Running.
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Running national team.
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Then I moved here and I stopped running then.
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Decided to stay here.
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Why not?
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I mean, it's a beautiful place.
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Bulgaria is really nice.
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Oh, yeah.
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People don't know it.
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People used to talk not really good stuff about their own country because they never been,
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most of them, outside and they don't know what do they have.
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I agree.
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I agree.
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Especially when I came here, started recording videos about Sofia.
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I'm like, it's so f*ing beautiful.
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People were like, what the f* is not?
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You just go to a different place, you'll see how ugly it is.
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I'm like, yo, dude, look f*ing right there.
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Yeah.
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Look at these beautiful people right here.
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It's pretty.
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I mean, ugly naked guys decorating his tree.
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Oh my God, you should see the size of his Christmas balls.
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People are beautiful.
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The nature is amazing.
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Streets are clean.
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Some of them are dirty somewhere else, but every single city in the world where you would travel to,
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you would find dirty side of this city and you would find an amazing side of the city.
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That's right.
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Can you take your glasses off?
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I want to ask you a question.
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You wouldn't hit a guy with glasses, would you?
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You hit a guy with glasses.
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That's well played.
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Has anyone ever told you that you look like a Colombian drug dealer? Because of the mustache?
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Actually, they tell me that I look like Jacob Eurdy.
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I don't know.
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Who was the actor who played the Colombian drug dealer, the main one?
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Like Pablo Escobar?
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I don't know his name.
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You look like that actor for sure, man.
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Share your story.
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How did you become an actor and a model?
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What does it actually take?
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That's a really interesting story.
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First of all, I became a model.
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That was my first step.
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It was always a hobby for me.
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I did it with my own camera, with my friends.
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We were shooting for years, like for 10 years maybe.
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But never professional.
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I never used to get money with that.
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And then one day I was in the middle of shooting a movie in Boston and I got this email.
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I had a girlfriend who was a really good model.
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You know, I'm very competitive.
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Competitive?
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Yes.
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At that moment I said, okay, if she can do it, I can also try.
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Exactly.
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I was kind of competing, joyously, in some way.
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I don't give a f*.
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At least competitive person on the planet.
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Then I took the course and I started shooting.
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And two years later, I also started acting.
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because I really love to be around the camera, mostly behind the camera.
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But my biggest goal in the long term is to be a director.
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So that's why I'm starting from modeling, then acting, then maybe I will script something.
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And my biggest goal is to direct movies.
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But I didn't set my mind to learning how to direct, even though I wanted to be a movie director.
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And while you're enjoying this video, I think you forgot to hit that big fat thumb up button below and to subscribe to your channel.
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It takes only two seconds for you, but it's very important for this guy right here.
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All right, let's continue.
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And you said you're competitive and you used the word jealousy, which is actually cool.
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Honestly speaking, people think about it in a bad way.
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But the thing is, if you would not have the jealousy in your life, you would not become who you became
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if i would not be competitive in my life you guys would not be watching sergi speaks
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and people from more than 130 countries around the world would not watch it
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so i think it's a good quality to have
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because you would not be a winner
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if you would not have it basically means that she likes to do nice things for other people,
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which is a good quality to have if you're a nurse.
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The biggest thing I learned from the running is that I learned to compete with myself.
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You can see eight or nine guys in the track running, but they're actually not running against each other.
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They're just running against themselves.
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That's what my coach told me.
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If you watch the other people, you will get distracted and you will not do your best.
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So you should compete with yourself always.
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So true, I love it. But he's easily...
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distracted.
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And honestly speaking, guys, this reminds me of the platform that I created for people from our YouTube channel, where they can practice English speaking.
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And after every single one -on -one call with a random person from around the world...
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Hey, wanna play one -on -one?
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Sure.
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Take it out.
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you get transcription
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and you get the level of mistakes how many mistakes did you make per 100 words
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and that's a metric that you can compete with yourself to improve your english every single time
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so if you guys want to improve your english you can join our completely free fox eu platform
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that i've created specifically for you you can see it right here
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or you can follow link right below this video i'm interested oh nice i am
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if i want to act in america
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or let's say english speaking country I would need to improve my English as good as I can.
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Let me ask you a very provocative question.
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Barcelona or Real Madrid?
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Man, it's obvious Barcelona.
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Me and Matthew, well come on, there's obvious chemistry.
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Ah, well.
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So are you partially Spanish or are you mostly Bulgarian?
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I'm Bulgarian 100%.
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My citizenship is also Bulgarian.
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I can feel like how Spanish, how Bulgarian because my life was like this.
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But now I moved to Bali.
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Bali!
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I was living there since last year.
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Yeah.
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Basically, I came here for summer.
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Yeah.
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Maybe when it gets cold, because here in the winter it's really cold.
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I don't like it that much.
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Maybe I'm going back to Bali.
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Are you following summer throughout your life?
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Yes.
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That's what it's like when you're following the summer around the world looking for places to surf.
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Yes.
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Welcome to your team.
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You too.
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I came, I was in Latin America.
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I was in Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, and I came here because it got colder.
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And I said, I followed the summer.
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That's why I'm here.
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Nice.
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So since you spent half of your life in Bulgaria and half of your life in, I was going to say in Argentina,
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but in Spain, what is the dating, how does the dating culture differ?
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What's the difference between dating in Spain and in Bulgaria?
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They want to see you like more traditional, more serious, more responsible.
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You have already built your mind and you're already mature.
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You're mature.
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You're mature.
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Yes.
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I'm 31 now.
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Mature enough to handle this complicated situation with ease.
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If you want to record really dynamic situations here in Bulgaria now, you should go to maybe
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Sunny Beach or Suzopol.
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Sunny Beach?
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Sunny Beach.
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How far is it?
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It's really far.
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It's like four hours by car but it's like a massive GTA multiplayer server right now.
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There is everything.
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Sunny Beach, Bulgaria.
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Let me take a look.
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And when do I want to go there?
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I probably want to go for the weekend.
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So we're going to grab it.
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Yeah.
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I'll say next weekend, Friday.
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Okay.
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Until Monday.
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Confirm.
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By the way, that's an OMEA app.
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I love it, guys.
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This supports 32 languages.
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Oh, wow.
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And from Brazil and Japan where I'm planning to go to.
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Oh, nice.
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Only $97 to fly in 50 minutes.
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I thought it was more expensive.
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See if actually it's not, that's really cheap.
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Thank you, but we're fine.
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Besides, our whole family couldn't possibly fit in your bachelor pad.
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Whoa.
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Real estate must be pretty cheap around here.
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So that's the one way, 97.
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The second way is 111, total is $200.
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By the way, I always use Omio for all of my trips.
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I've been traveling all around the world
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and I feel like this is the app that combines everything you can buy tickets for any kind of transportation.
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Yay!
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I just told you to check, you already have the tickets.
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Why not?
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I like it this way.
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Life is short.
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That's right.
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Let's have a great time.
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By the way guys, they have like a 12 % off for new customers with my promo code.
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FYI, if you guys are interested in flying or traveling all around the world,
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I'm going to leave a link for them right here and right below this video.
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And you know what?
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Let's do a challenge because in every video of I offer people to send them $100
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if they will answer one question in comments below my video
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and if we get 300 comments total I send $100 to a random person okay to pick from comments
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grab a piece of paper but for a different purpose
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because you might need to swipe your tears off
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but those are going to be the tears of happiness
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because we are going to finally find out who is
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that person who left a comment right below this video
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and is going to win 100
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so what i'm going to do i'm going to randomly pick a person
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so i'm going to grab a url from this video copy I'm going to navigate to commentshark .com, paste in link.
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You guys are going to see all of this.
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Now, I'm going to finally click pick a random YouTube comment and one of you guys is going to win $100.
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Let's see who that lucky person is.
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Three, two, one, and that is Julian DC from Colombia.
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Dang, congratulations Julian.
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You said I'm from Colombia and the three most beautiful things in my country are first lovely,
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friendly and happy people who are going to get 100 bucks.
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Number two, our biodiversity.
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And number three, our delicious food.
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I'm going to send you 100 bucks and I'm coming to Colombia soon.
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You gotta send me an email right here to sergi .fxu .com.
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Now, if you want to win 100 bucks just like Juliana did on that video right there, you have to do two simple things.
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Number one, follow the link right below this video and download Omeo app to your smartphone.
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Number two, you simply have to answer a question from this young gentleman right here, which he will ask you in a moment.
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Alright, let's continue and good luck to you!
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Since you are the guest, I'm going to let you choose the question,
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what do you want to find out about people from more than in one in 30 countries around the world.
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My question is, what is the best cuisine in the world?
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What is the best, is the name cuisine in English?
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Cuisine.
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Yeah, cuisine.
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So what's the best food?
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What country has the best food in the world?
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We only serve spicy cuisine here.
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Which country has the best food in the world?
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All right, guys, you leave a comment right below this video.
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If we're getting 300 comments, I'm randomly picking a winner and I will send you $100, no matter where you are.
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On the other hand, in Spain, the girls, for me, it was when I was 11, 11, sorry, 19, for example, dating when I was 19.
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For me, it was more difficult because I had no experience that much.
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So for me, Spain was more difficult.
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I don't know how it would be now, but I was thinking that is more complicated.
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Complicated?
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I thought that.
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The world is a complicated place, more complicated than you can begin to imagine.
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The guys in Bulgaria are not that pushing in aspect of looking good because Bulgarian guys are not ugly.
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Exactly.
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But they're not taking that much care of themselves.
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They're not making good dressing, good haircuts, good habits.
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But I can say Bulgarians are more focused into working.
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That's the culture.
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But the next generation, which is coming now, like 18 years old guys.
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Those guys right there on the bench.
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Yeah, they're kind of different already.
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The next generation is always more powerful, more evolved.
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So I think Bulgaria has a good future because I'm seeing the next generation, they're really smart.
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They know what they're doing.
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I think they're going to change a lot.
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Do you speak English?
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Yes.
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Usually whenever people yell something, I assume it's about Levski versus Cescar or whatever you guys have soccer games
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but not in the case one question why do people smoke a lot in europe
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because i'm coming from latin america
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and from the u .s is it to be cool is it a part of the culture is it
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or is it some uh pleasure that you get from it i think maybe we just grow like faster and
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on smaller nature like this oh we try many substances
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we yeah we tried a lot of things before
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you think for becoming adult thank you guys all right have a good one cheers
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how old are you how do i look like 29 yay first shot
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you got it yeah how about you really yeah uh 27.
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so yeah we're almost the same yeah so in that age i think you should focus more into into
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building what you are doing.
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Xavier focuses on psychological clues while Nate analyzes Frada's physical behaviors.
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Maybe a bit after the 30s I think you can start more to build something serious.
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But for now I think it's not a good idea because when I'm in a relationship I'm not that focused.
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My energy is going to the girl because...
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Let's say they want you to take care of them, which is, I accept it.
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I agree with that, but I don't have that much time right now.
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So that's why I'm not in a relationship right now.
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As they say, if you did not get married by 30, you missed your first divorce.
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Oh, that makes sense.
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Actually, it does.
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I need a divorce.
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He was granted the divorce within three months because she never showed up to contest the divorce.
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Did living in Spain make you more confident or more laid back?
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Helping these laid back leaf eaters hide.
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I felt lack.
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Lack?
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Yeah, lack of confidence.
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Yes.
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Trust me, lack of confidence is not a weakness of mine.
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Maybe two years ago, my life in Spain was kind of different because at the beginning, I moved there, I was alone,
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I was feeling like what I'm doing here.
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But then when I started socializing more with the people there, I also started doing professionally athletics after that.
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That made me feel confident because when you do something and you're doing it good, you build that confidence.
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So I think the confidence comes from believing strong in idea or opinion.
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If you have strong believing of something and you think I will
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Fight for it for this in my life.
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Yeah, you're building the confidence
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because you know who already are I think the point is for you to know who you are
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if I have to give an advice for the people is Nobody cares about you.
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If you fell in the ground people will forget
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you in three minutes I mean do whatever you love you will never regret you will regret of
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that that you have not done
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You might succeed you might fail
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but you'll never regret it kitty cat next to us kitty cat there's many cats here since you're a model
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and actor are you more likely to be drawn to someone's energy look
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or a sense of humor can't resist a mystery can you always drawn to an enigma don't
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i have to choose one of these three yeah what's usually drones you I could say energy energy energy yes
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because this is like how is people attending to this life
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I think this is the most important your energy is really important
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you interact with people a lot for models actors who look
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great who take care of themselves how really important is it
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for a person to take care of itself versus the energy inside
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they're all matching they're all connected I think there is something
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that people don't maybe know I believe it really strong
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when your energy is so positive you are so
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so good person you start improving your also your look you like your energy is making you you more beautiful
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so true so for me the most important is energy because energy can improve the other qualities.
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Actually we are in front of my kingdom.
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Kingdom?
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Yes.
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I mean what I wouldn't give to say you're wrong in front of the entire kingdom.
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Because you're a prince.
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I'm the prince.
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The prince of Bulgaria.
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It's beautiful.
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What do you think?
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I definitely agree with that.
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It looks amazing.
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And fun thing on today's one of our videos on TikTok
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I said hey I'm going to record a video with the prince of Bulgaria.
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Somebody was like what the hell do we have a prince in valgaria
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and the next person answering didn't you know
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that you should read the freaking books
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and you will find out that's right they should read a little bit of history
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because you didn't they don't know exactly here
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he is i have to make some statues you know those things
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we should definitely put your study right here right yeah right here right
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i think like on the middle five meters that you me like i would agree but like modeling like this.
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I love that.
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To the spaceship.
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There is no spaceship.
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You had it dismantled to build that statue.
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To the statue.
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What is happening here?
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I see people dancing.
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We can see because there is a holiday and they always dance in front of the kingdom.
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This is the Bulgarian traditional dance.
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I will say hi to everyone.
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There we go!
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Hello people from my kingdom.
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On this good note, thank you for joining and I shall definitely see you again.
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Thank you.
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Thank you for the invitation, bro.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles is gebaseerd op de video “Comprehensible Input English Conversation — B1 B2 C1 Sofia Bulgaria”. Deze video bevat 366 zinnen en 3222 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 19:10. De spreker praat in een natuurlijk tempo van ongeveer 168 woorden per minuut, dicht bij een alledaags gesprek. 85% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden; de rest kun je beter vooraf bekijken.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
15 woorden uit de video die het leren waard zijn, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| complicated bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/ | ingewikkeld, gecompliceerd |
| compete werkwoord | /kəmˈpiːt/ | wedijveren |
| cuisine zelfstandig naamwoord | /kwɪˈziːn/ | keuken |
| divorce zelfstandig naamwoord | /dɪˈvɔːs/ | echtscheiding |
| mature bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /məˈt͡ʃʊ(ə)ɹ/ | volgroeid, volwassen |
| sunny bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈsʌni/ | zonnig |
| ugly bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈʌɡli/ | lelijk |
| regret werkwoord | /ɹɪˈɡɹɛt/ | betreuren, spijten |
| statue zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈstæt͡ʃu/ | standbeeld |
| buck zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈbʌk/ | bok |
| tear werkwoord | /tɛɹ/ | scheuren |
| versus | /ˈvɝsəs/ | tegen |
| dealer zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈdiːlə(ɹ)/ | dealer |
| athletic bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /æθˈlɛt.ɪk/ | atletisch |
| likewise bijwoord | /ˈlaɪkˌwaɪz/ | evenzo, eveneens |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| find out werkwoord | ontdekken, onderzoeken | |
| tear off werkwoord | /teɹ ɑf/ | wegscheuren |
Zinnen om te herhalen
Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:
- You're a dude, dude, you're a big boy.
- Can you take your glasses off?
- You wouldn't hit a guy with glasses, would you?
- How did you become an actor and a model?
- Are you following summer throughout your life?
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 living · I've been traveling |
| “Used to” used to + werkwoord — een vroegere gewoonte of toestand die niet meer klopt | used to talk · used to get |
| Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding | jealousy, which is · person who left · people who are |
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | i've created · have already built · have not done |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 85 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'm, you're, don't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De “th”-klanken: athletic /æθˈlɛt.ɪk/, thumb /ˈθʌm/
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: congratulations /kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/, delicious /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/, partially /ˈpɑɹʃəli/, invitation /ɪnvɪˈteɪʃən/, citizenship /ˈsɪtɪzənʃɪp/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: complicated /ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, congratulations /kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/, psychological /ˌsaɪ.kəˈlɑː.d͡ʒɪ.kl̩/, invitation /ɪnvɪˈteɪʃən/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: complicated /ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/, likewise /ˈlaɪkˌwaɪz/, naked /ˈneɪkɪd/, congratulations /kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/, remind /ɹəˈmaɪnd/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: statue /ˈstæt͡ʃu/, athletic /æθˈlɛt.ɪk/, randomly /ˈɹændm̩li/, distract /dɪˈstɹækt/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/
- /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: ugly /ˈʌɡli/, regret /ɹɪˈɡɹɛt/, congratulations /kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/, navigate /ˈnæv.ɪ.ɡeɪt/, enigma /ɪˈnɪɡmə/
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 complicated, compete, cuisine.
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.