Shadowing Practice: Real British Conversations in Bath (England’s Most Beautiful City?) 🇬🇧 - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Bath is meant to be one of the most beautiful English cities.
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She was a damn babe of her time.
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Babe is less Regency.
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Feels like another life.
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Bath has changed a lot.
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But does it deserve that reputation?
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Have a look and decide for yourself.
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Welcome to the city of Bath.
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It's famous for its links with Jane Austen, its Georgian architecture, and its links with the Regency period.
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When you're walking around this town, it honestly feels like you are walking around a film set.
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I'm also going to show you some of Bath's hidden gems, the things off the beaten track that tourists don't see, don't see
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because I have come with my mother today who actually lived in Bath for a number of years
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so she can give us a first-hand account of what it was actually like living here.
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As usual I will be talking at a normal pace I won't slow down too much
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so if you understand all of this video that is a brilliant sign for your English.
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Let's go!
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This is Bath on a regular Thursday in an unusually dry summer.
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Buses trying to squeeze down streets that clearly weren't built for buses.
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Everyone gathered around the same few spots with their phones out.
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Little shops tucked into buildings that are centuries old.
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As you can see it's busy, there are tourists everywhere including me, but somehow none of that takes away from how it looks.
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Case in point, the Royal Crescent.
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This is called the Royal Crescent and it's one of the most famous areas of Bath because it's retained that Regency era,
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Georgian era quality to it it's also in so many films.
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So if you have watched any Jane Austen adaptations or
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if you enjoy Bridgerton they do a lot of filming here
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because one of the things about Bath is
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that you don't feel like you are walking around in modern Britain because of the architecture, the feel of the city.
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In fact it's a comment my husband made, this sense that you are walking around a different time and and that is really quite magical.
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And the city plays along with that quite literally.
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This is Mr. Bennett.
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Hello.
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How do you do madam?
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I'm very well, thank you.
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How are you?
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Really, a little warm with the British summer weather.
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Absolutely, we've had a hot summer.
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Please could you tell me a little bit about this building, its significance and what you do?
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I'll be most delighted.
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I'm Mr. Bennett.
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I am here to help guests who wish to come to the Jane Austen Centre.
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I'm here to give them a little guidance and advice.
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And how many visitors do you get?
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I imagine quite a lot.
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Quite honest young lady, I tend to nod off counting them.
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Okay.
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Tell me a bit more of the most interesting facts you have about Jane Austen
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and why students should be interested in her.
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Well, she's a classic, madam.
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She was a damn babe of her time.
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Babe is less Regency, but yes, absolutely.
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You know what I'm getting at, don't you?
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Yes.
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Genius, really.
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She didn't succeed as such when she was alive, but now, well, she's taken the world by storm, madam.
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What's your favourite Jane Austen novel?
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Ah, now you've got me there.
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Pride and Prejudice?
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All of them.
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Ah, okay.
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They're all my favourites.
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Fair enough.
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If you had to choose one.
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Her Juvenalia books, which she wrote when she was about 12.
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I don't know about those.
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A lot of people do not.
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She wrote them in letter format, like she was writing a letter but turned it into a story.
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Tell me, is this the sort of attire that they would have been wearing at the time?
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It is indeed, madam.
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A nice waistcoat, pocket watch, cravat.
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Yes, tied loosely this way, madam.
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There was about 13, 14, maybe more different styles of tying the cravat.
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And then this is more what the ladies would have worn?
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A lovely outdoor chemise ideal for the streets of Bath.
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Ideal indeed.
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Sorry, what was your name?
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Mr Bennett.
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Real name?
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Martin.
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My pleasure to meet you, Martin.
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Thank you so much.
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I'm sure all the viewers really appreciate your...
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What a pleasure, my dear.
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Such a delight.
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What a pleasure meeting the Mr Bennett straight out of Pride and Prejudice.
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He was clearly delighted to be in Bath.
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Now, the real Jane Austen had rather more mixed feelings about the place.
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Now, Bath always highlights the figure most associated with it, which is, of course, Jane Austen.
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And while it's true she did have a big relationship with this city, it was quite an ambivalent one.
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Because although she was very impressed by Bath when she first visited it,
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when she lived here for a longer period of time she became less enamoured
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and she fell a bit out of love with Bath really especially the social circle.
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She complained a lot in her letters and found it quite snooty
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and pretentious and there are echoes of that that come through in her novels as well.
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So yes Bath should be celebrated
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because it was home to Jane austen one of the greatest
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writers of english history however she definitely had mixed feelings about it
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also bath's literary character is not confined to jane austen even its bookshops feel like destinations in their own right
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and this is one of them this is one of my favorite spots in the whole of Bath.
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This is called Topping and Company, sometimes called the toppings.
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And I cannot come to Bath without coming here, and I cannot come here without buying at least one book. At least.
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I normally leave with about ten.
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But there is someone close to me who holds rather more personal memories of Bath.
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This is my mum, Jenny, who you haven't met before.
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And we're really lucky because mum actually was a resident of bath weren't you
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so mom actually lived here for a number of years
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and it probably occupies quite a special place in your heart uh
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because it's where my mother met my father tell me what
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was it like living in bath um it was fantastic we
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had a great time living in bath it was actually in the 1980s
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so it was a long time ago now how does it feel
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when you come back to it now is it like a
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blast from the past feels like another life bath has changed a lot When I was here it was very quiet.
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It's now a very busy city and it has lots and lots of tourists, particularly in the summer holidays.
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When I lived here it was really quite quiet
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and you could have an early evening meal and then come out at about, I don't know, eight o'clock and there'd be nobody in the streets
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and particularly in winter when the lights were on it was incredibly magical walking around the streets.
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It was lovely.
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It's just different.
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A lot of the little shops I knew of Goms, but it's still a very beautiful place.
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Yeah, beautiful.
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And one of the places I worked was in the Mineral Water Hospital, which we're just standing outside of.
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Very sadly, it's now closed.
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But it was quite a special hospital.
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And in the basement, there used to be a Roman bath, which people used to go down and take the waters in.
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In the 1700s, people were unwell and couldn't pay for their own treatment.
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The great and the good of Bath would actually pay for them.
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They would sponsor people, and that would pay for their treatment, and then either their ticket away from Bath or their burial.
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Oh, OK.
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There we go.
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And I have mentioned that Jane Austen might have found it a little bit snooty and pretentious here at times.
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When you were living here, did you ever find it snooty and pretentious?
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Occasionally, but on the whole, no, I'm not.
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But no, we made some nice friends here, mostly in the hospital community, because when I was working, you were very busy.
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So you worked every third night.
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My mother is a doctor, if you hadn't figured that out yet.
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Yes.
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Actually, both my parents are, so there we go.
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I'm not.
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I didn't become one, but they turned me off.
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I was going to say.
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Now living in Bath would be slightly different just because, as Mum says, it's so much busier than it used to be.
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But still, if you haven't been here it's coming it's worth it's beautiful
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and lots of history lots of things to see thank you
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mum that's a pleasure just around the corner from where mum
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and i were speaking is something a lot older the roman baths
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and i've visited many times before and it's well worth a visit
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but i'm afraid today the queue was long enough
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that i didn't go in so the outside of it will have to do So if you come to Bath though, definitely give them a visit, it's worth it.
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One of the reasons Bath is so famous is that it is a spa city.
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So for hundreds of years, people came to Bath because they believed that the spa water could cure things.
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And it would be called taking the water.
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In the 1700s, they would come to the pump room and drink the water.
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The water is disgusting.
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I have tried it.
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It tastes like sulfur, but it was supposed to be very healthy for you.
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And even now, today, it's still famous for being a spa.
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And so this is the modern equivalent.
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So this is the Thermi Bath Spa.
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There's a beautiful pool called the Minerva Pool.
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There's a rooftop pool, saunas and steam rooms.
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And so it's a very relaxing place.
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And that is now the modern equivalent of taking the waters.
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Away from the busiest tourist streets, Bath has some quieter places that are much easier to miss.
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And I said I would show you a couple of hidden gems.
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This is one of them.
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This is called Norfolk Crescent.
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And the reason that it is special is that one, it's not nearly as busy as the other ones because the other ones are very famous.
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And the other thing is that it's the only crescent that is on the flat rather than on a hill.
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And then also my mother lived in one of these flats.
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And while we're on the topic of hidden gems, this is one that nobody queues for.
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This is the Herschel Museum and William Herschel lived in this exact house and it's where he discovered an entire planet,
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Uranus, back in 1781 just by looking out at the sky from his garden.
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So, does Bath deserve its reputation as one of England's most beautiful cities?
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Personally, I think it does.
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And it isn't only because of the famous landmarks.
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It's the architecture, the history, the stories, bound up in the streets, all of it.
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But what do you think?
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And how much of the natural British English did you understand?
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Let me know below.
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If you enjoyed this please like and subscribe and don't forget to check out the free PDFs that I offer below.
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Like Lydia Bennet.
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That's my daughter!
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I wonder if her mother knows.
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It's a bit of a scandal.
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They were scandalous times.
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The Romans.
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What have the Romans ever done for you?
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Yes, anyway, history goes far back.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze video bevat 189 zinnen en 1937 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 12:11. De spreker praat in een natuurlijk tempo van ongeveer 159 woorden per minuut, dicht bij een alledaags gesprek. 83% 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 minder gangbare woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:
- bath /bɑːθ/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — bad, badkuip. A tub or pool which is used for bathing: bathtub.
- madam /ˈmædəm/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — mevrouw. A polite form of address for a woman or lady.
- babe /beɪb/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — stuk. A baby or infant; a very young human or animal.
- crescent /ˈkɹɛs.ənt/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — maansikkel, wassenaar. The figure of the moon as it appears between its first or last quarter and the new moon, with concave and convex edges terminating in points.
- architecture /ˈɑː.kɪˌtɛk.t͡ʃə/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — architectuur, bouwstijl. The art and science of designing and managing the construction of buildings and other structures, particularly if they are well proportioned and decorated.
- delight /dəˈlaɪt/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — vreugde, plezier. Joy; pleasure.
- gem /d͡ʒɛm/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — edelsteen. A precious stone, usually of substantial monetary value or prized for its beauty or shine.
- reputation /ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — faam, naam. What somebody or something is known for.
- ideal /aɪˈdi(ə)l/ (bijvoeglijk naamwoord) — ideaal, optimaal. Pertaining to ideas, or to a given idea.
- magical /ˈmæd͡ʒ.ɪ.kəl/ (bijvoeglijk naamwoord) — magisch. Of, relating to, or by means of magic.
- queue /kju/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — rij. A line of people, vehicles or other objects, usually one to be dealt with in sequence (i.e., the one at the front end is dealt with first, the one behind is…
- litter /ˈlɪt.ɚ/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — strooisel. Straw, grass, and similar loose material used as bedding for people or animals.
- topic /ˈtɑpɪk/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — onderwerp, thema. A subject; a theme; a category or general area of interest.
- meal /ˈmiːl/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — maaltijd. Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity.
- pocket /ˈpɑ.kɪt/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — zak. A bag stitched to an item of clothing, used for carrying small items.
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
- check out (werkwoord) — onderzoeken. To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.).
- go down (werkwoord) — afdalen. To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one.
- slow down (werkwoord) — afremmen. To decelerate.
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 37 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'm, don't, didn't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De “th”-klanken: bath /bɑːθ/, gather /ˈɡæðɚ/
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: reputation /ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən/, associate /əˈsoʊʃi.ət/, occasionally /əˈkeɪʒənəli/, destination /dɛstɪˈneɪʃən/, adaptation /ˌæd.æpˈteɪ.ʃən/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: architecture /ˈɑː.kɪˌtɛk.t͡ʃə/, reputation /ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən/, associate /əˈsoʊʃi.ət/, occasionally /əˈkeɪʒənəli/, incredibly /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/
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 bath, madam, babe.
Grammatica in deze video
De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:
| Structuur | In de video |
|---|---|
| “Used to” used to + werkwoord — een vroegere gewoonte of toestand die niet meer klopt | used to be |
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | has changed · have come · have watched |
| Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet | is meant · weren't built · is called |
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