Shadowing Practice: Learn English without even trying - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Hello there, welcome.
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So in today's video I'm going to be teaching you English by answering some random questions whilst walking through this park.
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Okay, question number one, where are we?
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Well, we are in a park in Shanghai, China.
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Yeah, it's incredibly hot right now, by the way, it's about 35 degrees, which is why I'm already sweating.
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Yeah, so it should be an interesting one.
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but to be honest with you I've been here for one week just in Shanghai for the first five days
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or so I didn't really like it yeah I just felt a bit um it's quite hard to settle in
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and you have to for example you need to download all of these apps before you come here
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so you need an app in order to pay you need like a VPN in order to upload these videos
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and it didn't feel that welcoming
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a bit of time to settle in because it's been a week now and I really like it here.
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Everyone is really nice by the way, Chinese people I genuinely, from the people I've met, have all been lovely.
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So a bit of a struggle at first but now it's all good.
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Okay number three: what's the first job you had?
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Just so you know by the way you'll see some vocabulary popping up on the screen and everything
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I was 12 years old, very young, I know, and I was a paper boy, a paper delivery boy.
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So I did this Monday to Friday before school,
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so I had to wake up at 5am and I'd work from 5 .30 till 7am and go to school.
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A hard life, I know, and I would cycle around my neighbourhood in the cold and the dark and the wet delivering papers to people's doors.
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each shift took me an hour
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and a half at the end of each shift they would
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pay me three pounds I was on 15 pounds a week
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that's the equivalent of two pounds per hour that's child labor for you rather then
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if you're wondering how that ended one morning I just slept through my alarm
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and didn't turn up and we just we mutually agreed to terminate the employment there yeah not really especially not Shanghai.
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Mate this is British.
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We're in the UK right now.
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I can't prove it but we're in the UK right now.
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I can just smell it's the freshly cut grass has such
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a distinctive smell it reminds me of being in school and playing football maybe sports day or something like that.
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wasn't a factor what would you do?
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I'd probably skate during the day, skateboard during the day and drink beer during the night.
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What's a purchase you're glad you made?
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These airpods, these airpods I'm 28 I bought these eight years ago when I was 20 and they're still working.
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I remember I remember
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in Stratford which is right where right next to where I used to live
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and I was um working an office job
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and it was after I think it was on a Thursday I'd just been paid
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and I walked into the shopping center brought these to the counter they were 160 pounds
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which felt so expensive at the time because I had per I had headphones
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that worked perfectly well but they were the wired ones so I was very
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them and I thought to myself you know what
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if these last me for one year then I'm happy it's been a good purchase
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and I've had these for eight years as I say and they're still working
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so airpods I don't regret buying these whatsoever one thing you may not know about me is
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that I'm really into nature and this is a great tree in particular
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if I'm not mistaken this is uh yeah definitely this is
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a um magnolia by undai pam pam I'm sure of it oh there's a sign there
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yep i was right magnolia by under pamper
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and i knew it i can just tell by looking at
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these things it's it's a hobby of mine tree naming i call it biggest pet peeve
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so your pet peeve is something that really annoys you
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and my biggest pet peeve is people typing on their phones with the volume on
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so you can just hear and they make a mistake i just find it infuriating it's so annoying it's so
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what's a nice thing you've done for someone recently oh i'm
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just looking for an excuse to show off aren't i um
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so i'm gonna put my sunglasses on if you don't mind i'll cut this bit out
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so in last week's video i went to this cafe basically just i was in japan before this
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and there was a cafe
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that i used to go to pretty much every day to work and there was this guy there who
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kind of just means all right man and he was french
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and one day we started speaking and he told me
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that it was his birthday that day and no one had got him anything
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so as i was leaving i nipped to the shop
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which was right next to the cafe and in japan you can buy individual slices of cake
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and i bought him a slice i bought him a slice
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of cake gave it to him i said happy birthday man he
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my friend it was nice it was actually really wholesome
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and it made doing doing someone doing something nice for someone else makes you feel
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so good as well right we're in some pond place it's quite cool
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because i have no idea what this park is like i traveled for about an hour to get here
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and i've just started recording as soon as i stepped in so we're it's new to me as well
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Sweda Wilsonayana.
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Yeah, definitely that.
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Or a wango as I call it sometimes.
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Yeah, there we are.
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Sweda Wilsonayana wango.
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I told you, I told you.
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Tree naming.
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It's my thing favorite animal because they're just so sweet and kind and gentle and nice they bow to you
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they're lovely they're really nice favorite word elegant i like
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that word it sounds elegant it looks elegant it's just a rather elegant word favorite soft drink coke zero 100 % favorite
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and the strong stuff would have to be whiskey
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and I'm the least picky person when it comes to both beer and whiskey.
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I'll drink any beer and it will taste nice, I'll drink any whiskey and it will taste nice.
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One thing that I think gives a park like this so much character and personality it's these random things you see everywhere.
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So we have the statue over there, we have the massive shrooms for some reason,
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we have the public gym equipment complete with the old working out on it.
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It's a lot of fun and I might have to go on that seesaw.
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There are no slides unfortunately but actually no you need two people for a seesaw.
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Damn it.
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I mean I can try it but it probably won't work.
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Okay the moment of truth.
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Is this going to work?
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No obviously not.
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I'm really into perfume and I used to be even more obsessed with it.
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So I remember when I was about 15, that's when I first got really into it, and there was this department store,
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this mini shopping centre next to my house.
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And after school I befriended the woman who was just this like 50 year old woman working in the perfume counter.
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And after school I would go there and I would speak to
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and she would give me these samples and stuff like that.
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I had no money then so I couldn't buy anything which was a shame.
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And I used to go on my phone and there was this website,
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I remember it was called Fragnatica or something like that and it was basically a website for researching perfumes
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and it would tell you the different notes and how strong it was
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and that type of thing and I'd spend so much time on that website.
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Yeah if you're wondering I have two perfumes in rotation, Yves Saint Laurent
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there are a few others i'd really like to try
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but the thing is about perfume is it's quite expensive
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and it's basically very easy not to buy
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because you can really justify not buying it
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because it's like oh god this is 80 pounds or something like
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that and i don't even get all the benefits right away it's just i'll smell nice today
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and tomorrow it's like so much money for something i don't need
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because it's not a necessity is it it's a luxury so it's kind of hard to justify buying
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sometimes but I think it's worth it I need to get some new stuff yeah let me know
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if you have any recommendations for um men's perfume
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so it has to be something that's good in the heat in the sun
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because yeah it's a it's a scorcher now that is what I call a recycling bin so this is actually
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this is real this is a tree this is the stump of a tree that's been carved out
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and turned into a
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that's kind of cool authentic Chinese bamboo anyway
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if you're wondering about any other cool Chinese things I've seen
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so far um this is a random one
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so I was seeing this tourist spot
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and I had to go to the bathroom
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so I went to these public toilets right
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and above each cubicle there was a neon sign an electric sign saying engaged
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or free and that in itself was kind of interesting I've never seen
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that before but the funny thing is they also had a timer
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so it showed you to the second how long each person had been in
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that cubicle so
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when you go into the bathroom the timer goes engaged the timer starts by the second
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so you could walk in there
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and you might see 58 seconds 59 seconds 60 seconds one minute one second
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or if someone was having a really bad day
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yeah we've all been there favorite day of the week friday
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without a shadow of a doubt fridays i love friday it's
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actually friday today i normally post my videos on fridays that's one of the reasons why i like that day
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so much obviously this video isn't going to be posted on friday it'll be posted on saturday sorry about
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that and also you know it's the weekend i love weekends i love weekends and
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more traditional monday to friday job makes sense that monday is going to be your least favorite day
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but for me even though i work the same number of hours i can have a bit more flexibility with
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when i do it yet i still hate mondays there's something just ingrained in humans potentially you wake up
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and it's like ah it's a monday god another week and this just feels like a drag no matter what
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cameras out
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and stuff I can't even go anywhere without bloody this fame
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thing it's a double -edged sword it's actually a really chilled area of the park with the woods there
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and the footy there this guy's good I can tell
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but go on go on son I'm lucky I'm lucky go on yeah it's weird
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that I'm just filming that guy playing football oh that's cute they're having their wedding photos taken
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almost as important as my thumbnail uh cats
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or dogs i'm gonna have to say cats i like both i like both i just want to get
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that out there i like both however i just i think
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that cats are more chill easier to look after a bit
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cuter dare i say of course henry the dog my dog the channel mascot is an exception to this rule
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because he is very adorable but in general i'd probably prefer
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cats the dogs yeah sorry sorry dogs all right um i'm
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gonna flip the camera we'll have a look around look at
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this perfectly picturesque quaint little bridge it's lovely the nature here is really nice i'm quite surprised
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if you solved that your mind wouldn't go to china would it it looks quite english actually
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but yeah fair play this is really nice nature and a cup of tea am i am i back in
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takeaway on the topic of food i'd say pizza just
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because pizza feels like a proper takeaway meal it feels like a real treat as well pizza
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and it comes in the iconic pizza box it just feels
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it feels special it feels special as i say before it was something that you'd only have on your birthday
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or on a special occasion so just the thought of ordering a pizza is
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so exciting oh we only have two more questions very sad
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favorite sport football I love skateboarding as I kind of alluded to earlier
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but I wouldn't really consider it a sport I guess it technically is in the same way
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that chess is a sport
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but football I love watching it I love playing it come
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on Arsenal we just won the league well like a couple weeks ago
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but it's gonna be years of domination from now I promise
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I feel like that would either be a really hard tedious job or a really chill nice job
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picking flowers picking the dead flowers admittedly
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but still all right let's get to this the the final question favorite chocolate bar Snickers
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which is the chocolate
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and peanut one I just think that's such a good combination
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you know honorable mentions Kit Kaps especially Kit Kat Chunkies I don't know British or Snickers, that's international, right?
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Everyone knows Snickers.
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Kit Kats, yeah, they definitely are, because I know they have the matcha ones in Japan.
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Yeah.
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As mentioned, all the vocabulary that popped up on the screen will be included in a free PDF, and the link is in the top comment.
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Okay, I'm going to go and get an ice cream.
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If you did enjoy this video, I'd recommend watching this one right here.
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This is in a similar style.
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I post new videos every single Friday, Make sure to like, subscribe and comment down below.
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And I'll see you again next week for another most likely Chinese adventure.
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Goodbye.
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Thank you.
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Lots of love.
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Cheers.
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Boost Your Everyday Speaking with This Casual Clip
This video is perfect for learners aiming to sound more natural in unscripted conversations. It targets the fluency milestone of speaking "off the cuff"—sharing personal stories, opinions, and random thoughts without overplanning. The relaxed, walking-and-talking style mirrors real-life interactions, making it ideal for practicing how to connect ideas smoothly, use filler words appropriately, and keep a conversational pace.
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Fix Your Weak Spots: Rhythm and Intonation
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Pro tip: Focus on the speaker's relaxed delivery when talking about their first job ("a hard life, I know") or their airpods ("I don't regret buying these whatsoever"). These emotional moments are where natural intonation shines—perfect for shadowing practice!
Wat is de Shadowing-techniek?
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