Shadowing Practice: I stayed in a 5* hotel in London - Learn English Speaking with Video

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It's now 2026.

I have booked one night in a five star hotel in Shoreditch in East London,

which is kind of like the trendy, kind of cool part of London.

Today we are staying in the Athos hotel.

It's really, really hot in London today.

So I'm excited to go somewhere with air conditioning.

The hotel is right here in front of me.

So let's go check in.

- The corridor is quite dark and like,

has these gold lights and let's tap here.

We just got into the room.

It's so cool in here.

Like temperature.

The temperature is cool.

They left the air conditioning on.

So that helps like so much.

Because outside today it's literally like 31 hours degrees or 32

or something like this which in London there isn't a lot of air conditioning.

I'm gonna do this in the style of like Hannah Ricketts.

I watched a few of her videos but she always says the price of the room as she goes in.

I'm going to do the same thing and you can tell me

if you think that this room is worth that money or or not.

For this room which was the executive I paid for around 400 pounds.

That's crazy.

I don't normally spend money like this, but anyway, I thought it would be fun.

As you walk in, there's a lot of this like, black paneling.

Here we have this like big Full length mirror, that's me.

And the bedroom is just through here.

It's so gorgeous.

I really, really like the style, it feels very, very minimalist and clean.

Huge TV.

We can check the view out as well.

- Thank you.

Ooh, you can see some of the skyscrapers over here.

Mostly it seems like I have a view of like the building works next door.

A lot of scaffolding over here on all of the nearby houses.

That's fine.

All of my bags are already up here.

I did not bring my suitcase up here.

They actually, they had a porter bring everything up for me.

A porter is also known as like a bellboy.

So it's basically somebody who helps you with your bags when you're in a hotel.

And then just down here, a couple of cups and some bottles of water.

I have been told that these are like They say on the house, so if it's on the house then it's free.

Basically they provide them for you.

Then below here we have this cabinet or maybe you would call this like a console.

I actually I don't even know if this is I.. you can.

You can open it.

Oh, cool.

Okay.

I don't think...

This is free.

This is like a snack bar.

These do not come with the room.

If you eat these, you will get charged.

So we have some like, like seasoned cashew nuts, some crisps in here,

some chocolate almonds, some strawberry and white chocolate nibbles.

I don't know what they are.

And some little fruit jellies as well.

In this drawer here, a couple wine glasses, a few little boxes.

So I don't know what these will be.

Ah, these are like charging cables.

And there's a small bottle of wine as well.

And in here We have some tea.

Some tea, a corkscrew, and a little kettle as well.

It's super clean.

I think the tea is included, so they have Earl Grey or green tea or breakfast tea.

This is like black tea.

This is like the British tea, basically.

Yeah, this is the mini fridge.

Oh, wow.

like minibars are kind of expensive so I'm fine.

Next to this is like a little this little brown chair

it's kind of cute panels these work as curtains i suppose in this room the bed looks super gorgeous

It's a double bed.

With these white sheets on, I think they should feel quite nice.

They feel lush.

And then just here, there's like a little telephone These lamps, they're really beautiful.

It's very simple.

And then most importantly, so this I can have.

So I'm not going to be charged for this.

This is a little coffee machine.

I love coffee.

So this is fantastic.

I guess this little tub will have...

Oh cute.

So these are different little coffee pods.

One from Brazil, a Brazilian coffee and a Colombian coffee and these really nice little mugs.

They have a small one which I guess you would use for like an espresso

or if you like a short coffee we call it, like a short coffee.

A coffee that's like maybe more like an espresso.

If you prefer a longer coffee they have some bigger mugs.

There's a little do some work and in this leaflet is just like Ooh!

A pillow menu.

Cool.

So they have some different pillows depending on what you like. So...

you They have one for hyperallergenic.

for pregnant women, one that's scented, that's amazing.

We have three doors and one of them is probably the bathroom.

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There's one door here, so this is the wardrobe, this is the bathrobe.

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It's like a white bathrobe.

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There's two.

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One of these little tote bags in case you need

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bag to take with you around London and it says filled with experiences.

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They have an iron over here and at the bottom are the slippers.

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Are the slippers.

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Oh, there's two in each.

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I just opened the bag and I like forgot to hold the microphone but here are the slippers.

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Then we have two more doors.

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So I'm guessing this big one here, this will be the bathroom.

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So I'm gonna check this one first.

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This is another small wardrobe.

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This is the hairdryer, it has a nozzle on it, which I like.

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I'm not gonna wash my hair today, but It's a good hairdryer.

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A shoe glove.

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I don't even know what that is.

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Ah, this is a breakfast menu if you want breakfast in bed.

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So this first drawer here has a safe...

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And it seems like quite a big one.

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Whee!

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What I can say so far is that like everything feels very very clean.

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Like there's no dust anywhere so that's super nice.

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I also wanted to go into the bathroom which I guess is this middle door right here.

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Let me get the lights.

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And here is...

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Thank you.

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The bathroom.

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That's so nice.

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Oh my god.

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I'm gonna start with the shower which is just over here.

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What I will say, there's quite a big step up into the bathroom.

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Like, I mean it's not huge.

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Maybe you can see against me, but has this nice shower head up here and shampoo, conditioner and body wash.

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Then over here we have like a nice big mirror.

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You can see me.

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with Thank you.

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Some hand wash and hand lotion by The Sink.

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It's so gorgeous.

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I love this like gold colour.

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It feels very warm.

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These like small towels, which are for your face, are...

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We call them flannels in the UK.

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So this is a flannel and Yeah, just a pot with a shower cap and a vanity set.

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So that's like, probably going to be...

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Yeah, like a nail file, some cotton buds, and a hairband.

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just like small things in case you don't have them.

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Then over here we have the loo or the toilet and just above we have some more body lotion,

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box of tissues and then there's this other mirror here which like I love this because this is for doing your makeup.

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I've been traveling since 3 a .m.

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But I am so incredibly tired.

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Like last night, I think I had about four hours of sleep.

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I'm going to have a shower.

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have some water, have a nap and try and recover a little bit from today.

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Thank you.

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I'm going to go to the next one.

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Good morning, I am just making a quick coffee here in the room.

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I'm gonna have a Probably a little bit of sugar in my coffee as well.

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I actually, I don't know how much of this coffee I'm going to...

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I'm going to drink like I really enjoy an iced latte, like an iced caramel latte.

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So this is more of like an Americano style coffee and I can't find any milk, which honestly, I've not even looked.

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Let me let me look before I start complaining.

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There is this little milk in the mini bar.

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It looks nice.

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The coffee is pretty good.

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And there's a nice view from my room.

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The only thing is there's like a window full of toilet roll over here.

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I know sometimes people don't like having windows that kind of look into...

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their room like this.

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We are on the fifth floor.

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These are very, very high buildings.

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But it seems to be More like the back...

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of other buildings like I've not seen anybody in any of these windows which you know

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The hotel can't control that but anyway.

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I went out last night to meet some friends and

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when I came back there had been a turndown service which felt so bougie.

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Remember this word, bougie, it's very important.

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It's, uh, feels like fancy, right?

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If something's bougie, it feels fancy and kind of like expensive, but...

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When I got back last night from dinner and drinks, the bed was like made up.

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The lights had been turned down.

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My slippers from the hotel were left by the bed.

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And yeah, the bathroom was cleaned or like straightened up as well.

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They put the bath mat down, like ready for me to have a shower.

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I slept very, very well. And...

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I don't know if that's because the hotel was very quiet, which it was.

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It was a very, very quiet hotel.

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I couldn't hear any doors or anything, but I also like...

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I had only slept four hours the night before.

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So honestly, I think I could have slept very well Anywhere.

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The hotel here is very, very new, so it opened up in 2025.

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It's now 2026 and it only opened in like the autumn.

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autumn of 2025.

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I am now going to head downstairs

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and I'm going to grab a quick coffee and yeah we can we can take a little look around the hotel.

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It's 28 degrees right now at 8am and today it's going up to 35 degrees which is just awful.

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I'm going to go downstairs and grab some breakfast.

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The breakfast menu actually looked very nice.

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They had some like traditional English breakfast, like a cooked breakfast sort of thing.

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I did not book it just because I'm not a huge breakfast person.

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And personally, I prefer to have like a coffee and a pastry, maybe from like a nearby cafe or something.

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That's fine for me.

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Shoreditch as an area has really, really cool cafes.

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So it's, you know.

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I think it's honestly fine to just do that instead.

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Just head out the hotel and maybe have a look around.

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You can also pay to have dinner at this hotel as well.

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They have a Japanese restaurant called Mitsu.

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Anyway, let's...

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Let's go downstairs.

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Thank you.

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- Hi.

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- Wow.

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- Wow.

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- Um, I guess, uh, Yeah.

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I had an appointment this morning,

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so I had to go for a little walk.

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and I stumbled upon this amazing old church building.

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I don't know what it is actually.

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But it is so incredibly beautiful and This is very London,

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where You have this old like I don't even know how old this building is.

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And then right next to it are these like modern, super modern office buildings.

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Central London is obviously intense, right?

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Like there are a lot of tourists, especially if you're going to the very touristy places, I actually think I would really,

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really recommend staying in a neighbourhood like this because It feels.. a little bit calmer.

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It's listen, it's not calm.

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If you're not used to big cities, if you know, maybe you are from like a small town or a village or maybe just a smaller city.

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Shoreditch will still feel very busy, very lively.

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There's just a lot of bars with lots of people outside.

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There's lots of very cute cafes and it feels very local.

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Like you're not going to find tourist traps here tourist traps,

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you know, places that are in touristy areas to get tourists and everything is overpriced and low quality.

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you're not going to get that here in Shoreditch.

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So I think I'm going to recommend Shoreditch to stay if you visit London.

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Some East Londoners might be like, what are you talking about?

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But I actually think it's a really, really good place to stay.

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- Thank you.

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Thanks, Dad.

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Let me know how to play ghost pipe.

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Yeah, he's there.

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Thank you.

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I have just been downstairs to have a coffee and it's now 11am.

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So, checkout is at 12.

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I have to checkout in one hour.

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So, the plan is now to go home.

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Honestly, it's even hotter today.

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It's 35 degrees and I have to get the train, which is going to be like a nightmare, but it's fine.

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Every time it's hot in the UK or really cold, everything stops working.

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It's just the way we are.

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Like, even though we have snow, a little bit of snow or ice every year,

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every time it happens, we stop working functioning as a country and same with heat waves.

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Every heat wave, everything stops.

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So hopefully I get home.

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Okay.

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But, um, yeah, I loved my stay here in the Athos.

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It was It's just beautiful.

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The staff are lovely.

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But that just leaves me to say thank you so much for watching.

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I have lots of other videos on my channel and a vlog from my day in London yesterday.

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So thank you so much for watching and I will see you in the next video.

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Bye.

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Belangrijke woorden in deze video

15 woorden uit de video die het leren waard zijn, met uitspraak en betekenis:

Woord	Uitspraak	Betekenis
downstairs bijwoord	/daʊnˈstɛɹz/	beneden
mirror zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈmiɹɚ/	spiegel
gorgeous bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/ˈɡoɹd͡ʒəs/	bloedmooi, prachtig
menu zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈmɛn.juː/	menu
trap zelfstandig naamwoord	/tɹæp/	val
autumn zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈɔtəm/	herfst, najaar
porter zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈpɔɹtɚ/	kruier
pillow zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈpɪl.oʊ/ [ˈpʰɪɫ.ö̞]	hoofdkussen, oorkussen
drawer zelfstandig naamwoord	/dɹɔɹ/	la, schuif
checkout zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈt͡ʃɛkˌaʊt/	kassa
awful bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/ˈɔːfʊl/	verschrikkelijk, vreselijk
bedroom zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈbɛdˌɹum/	slaapkamer
bath zelfstandig naamwoord	/bɑːθ/	bad, badkuip
ghost zelfstandig naamwoord	/ɡoʊst/	geest, spook
dust zelfstandig naamwoord	/dʌst/	stof

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Woord	Betekenis
come back werkwoord	terugkomen
go out werkwoord	naar buiten gaan
roll over werkwoord	overkop gaan

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

Structuur	In de video
Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet	is also known · have been told · is included
Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding	room which was · somebody who helps · shower which is
Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt	have booked · have been told · I've not even looked
Werkwoord + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — werkwoorden die door de -ing-vorm worden gevolgd	start complaining · stops working · stop working

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 48 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'm, don't, gonna. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

De “th”-klanken: bath /bɑːθ/, bathrobe /ˈbæθ.ɹoʊb/
De klanken “sh” en “zh”: sheet /ʃit/, tissue /ˈtɪʃ.(j)u/, shoe /ˈʃu/, shampoo /ʃæmˈpuː/, lotion /ˈloʊʃən/
Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: incredibly /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/, importantly /ɪmˈpɔɹ.tənt.li/, conditioner /kənˈdɪʃənə/, minimalist /ˈmɪn.ə.məl.ɪst/

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