Shadowing Practice: A Day in Dublin! 🍀 - Learn English Vlog - Learn English Speaking with Video

We have 24 hours in Dublin

but we want to spend as little money as possible

so come with us you'll see Dublin and you will learn some very useful English along the way.

So I thought the first thing we can do is go to Dublin Castle.

I didn't even know Dublin had a castle.

Neither did I.

i always find it funny and i suppose it's inevitable

and there's no real way of avoiding this

but you get these statues of these really important people like

that jim larkin was one of the founders of the irish labor party

and he's just got bird poo on his head like you

just get these amazing historical figures with bird poo on her

head has a bird ever pooed on your head no very

close a couple of times some near misses yeah i've had a lot of near misses a lot of close shaves

right so that is the spire obviously free to look at we love that

and it goes all the way up to the heavens it

just ascends up to the clouds it's much taller than i thought um

and i don't think the video does it justice it's quite shocking to see how tall it is

and it's just in the middle of a busy street so this is free to view

yeah it's not the most photogenic river i've ever seen it's not the most picturesque

but hey it's a river laura i think this might be

free this is the trinity college in dublin uh should we go

and a look this is a nice place of calm i feel amidst the chaos of dublin on a sunday

because there was a lot of people out there

but this is quite nice because where we just were was kind of the shopping district

and it felt like there was just an onslaught of people

but this feels a bit more like i can breathe okay

guess the year this trinity college was established guess the year i'll give you three seconds one two three 1592

laura there are some ominous gray clouds in the distance

i hope it doesn't rain it is forecast to rain

so i hope it doesn't chuck it down just a little

drizzle i wouldn't mind a drizzle to be honest it's been quite warm recently

so a little drizzle wouldn't be too bad i certainly don't want the heavens to open today

without a doubt the most common accent i have heard walking

around dublin that's not irish american a huge number of american

tourists come to dublin i think a lot of americans have irish heritage

so they want to come and connect to ireland so hearing a lot of american accents Yeah, relatively, the United States is a new country,

so you do get a lot of Americans who come to Ireland to almost feel connected to their heritage as well, which is nice to see, I suppose.

I'm not gonna lie I'm a little overstimulated there are a lot of people the streets aren't

that wide they're quite narrow

so it does sometimes feel like there are tons of people

walking on one small path um it is a sunday

so i'd be intrigued to see if it's a little bit quieter tomorrow on monday

but at the minute it's a lot

there are a lot of shops like this dotted around dublin

and uh they're just full of tourist tat i suppose

and they're all just things with like leprechauns on them

and pots of gold and i'd say

that these types of shops a lot of people refer to them as tourist traps

and i completely get it me and laura did go to japan

and canada last year and um yeah like we bought some like fridge magnets

or uh little key rings and things like

that i completely get it it's a really good way to get a gift for somebody if you're visiting, but let's be honest, they're a bit rubbish.

Right, Laura, I think that the castle is up ahead.

So we were just walking past and I spotted this and I thought it might be the original, but it's not.

So it's a copy.

There are about 50 copies around the world of a statue called Homeless Jesus by Timothy Schmoltz.

I didn't know that off by heart, by the way.

I did Google it.

And it's supposed to be this very provocative statue

and it's based off part of scripture here

so it says jesus tells the disciples in the gospel of

matthew as you did it to one of the least of my brothers you did it to me

so like how you treat the people

that you view to be less than you is how you're treating me

so i think that's really really interesting

and you can see like the um nail marks in his

feet that's how you know it's supposed to be jesus

but yeah we just stumbled upon it we just were walking past

and stumbled upon it

and i think that's sometimes the beauty of just wandering around a new city without a plan

because you just come across things.

This is the Hapenny Bridge.

Notice that weird pronunciation by the way, Hapenny.

It's half penny but people shorten it to Hapenny and it's called

that because it used to cost a Hapenny to cross it there was a toll charge

so before this bridge you used to cross the river on a ferry

and it wasn't very good

so then they built this bridge charged hate me to go across it

but then they dropped that charge so now it's free so we could go across it for free

finding this castle has been a wild goose chase you would think a castle would be quite prominent

and you could find it quite easily we've been here there

and everywhere down the streets crossing the road

but i think we're here now so it's closed um

so it's definitely closed um

so what we might do is we might come back tomorrow um might come back tomorrow to see

if we can go in yeah i do agree laura

that it is quite hard crossing all these roads you just get a whiff fish

and chips there oh oh my gosh look at this i think this is a famous fish

and chip shop so here's a list of all the famous people who have dined at this fish

and chip shop they could just make it up they could

put anything they could just put like oh yeah freddie mercury

the beatles who would know venus williams serena williams they came together um ron howard i believe he's been

Colin Farrell, of course.

Ron Howard.

Justin Timberlake's parents.

In quotation marks.

It could have been anyone.

Am I in the mood for fish and chips, though?

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Is that what I want?

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Because it's dinner time.

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Yeah, it's quarter to six.

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Dinner time.

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I don't think I want fish and chips today.

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Maybe tomorrow.

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But let's just think about this, Laura.

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Let's deliberate.

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Yeah.

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What do we want for dinner?

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Because with that, without fish and chips, you can't sit down.

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very I do want to sit down okay yeah my legs

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are tired okay are you in the mood for like noodles

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Thai Asian type stuff well what is kind of Irish what's what's Irish food like an Irish stew

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and things like that Irish fare is like um yes Jews um stuff made in Guinness

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so like a Guinness stew oh yeah oh I want a

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Guinness at some point oh god we'll get you a Guinness don't you worry um Um, I wouldn't say Irish food is calling to me right now.

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I don't think I'm in the mood for a stew.

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How about we just go for a wander and see what we come across?

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Okay.

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Obviously, we had to spend money on dinner.

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Obviously.

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But it was really good.

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We found a nice Thai restaurant.

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I feel like we always have Thai i think we had

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thai in the liverpool video as well we just love it

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so we're gonna go to the temple bar area very famous area let's go have a drink

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so this is temple bar it's this really famous bar everyone

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has their photo taken in front of it i don't really

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know why it's just kind of become a landmark it's become a spot it's become something

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that you go to um so we're gonna try to grab a Guinness in there, but it might be busy.

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Temple bar.

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way too busy shoulder to shoulder in there i'm not going

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in there it's not my scene i don't like really sweaty crowded bars

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so we're going to find a quieter bar

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because i want to sit down with a drink i don't want all

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that noise like for some people who absolutely love just going to the pub

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and having beer after beer after beer then i think dublin is a fantastic place to come just for

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that kind of drinking culture um i like having a beer i like having a guinness it's very very nice

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but sitting in a packed pub drinking beer after beer is not really my scene

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so i'm excited to find a quieter pub this is what i'm talking about nice

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and quiet barely any people that's the atmosphere i like i know some people would look at this pub

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and say it's dead the atmosphere is dead because there's no people here

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and i know a lot of people would prefer a very lively bar

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but i think sometimes i'm in the mood for that

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but a lot of the time i just find it a bit overwhelming

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when you just stood up there's people breathing down your neck you're hot you can't sit down it's not for me

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right i've had me paint i think now is a good

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time to go back to the hotel have a good night's sleep

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and keep exploring tomorrow we've somehow booked um a hotel very close to like a rock and roll venue

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so i will update you um if we get any sleep

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morning good morning are you feeling refreshed i feel like i slept in the middle of a rock concert

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that is what it felt like to be honest it was

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um yeah we've booked a hotel it wasn't badly reviewed no i feel like the reviews didn't mention

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that too much i don't think you would i don't think

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you would it almost feels like i don't think there's any point having a hotel

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because i looked and the place

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that was playing the rock music plays it every night

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so i don't think there's any point having a hotel here

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because they play until half two in the morning there is a point

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because suckers like us will pay i suppose it was just comical it was funny

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it says it's raining outside but we can't really see

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because the windows are a sliver of a window it's like um

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but apparently it's raining

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so we're going to go to a museum that's free buy

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an umbrella for the camera we do need to buy an umbrella

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and then we're going to go to a museum that's free

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um i think there are some dinosaurs there oh that'd be cool yeah super cool

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and then let's see what we want to do

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there's still people on open top buses in this weather

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and i admire the resilience i admire it they thought i'm

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in dublin i'm on holiday i'm going on an open top bus i don't care if i get soaked

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okay so we're at the museum this is the archaeology museum

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and it's free to enter so let's go in see some old bones have a great time

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this is the kind of thing kim kardashian would wear to the met gala I'm surprised she hasn't done it yet.

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I'm surprised she hasn't turned up in some prehistoric garb.

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You alright?

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Keeping you up, are we?

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Keeping you up?

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Sorry.

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Have you heard the phrase to coin a phrase or to coin a term?

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It means to be the first person to say it, to invent it, to create a phrase.

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So the man coined the phrase raining cats and dogs.

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Someone coined that phrase at one point.

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I'm going to clean the phrase.

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to be a mummy in Dublin which means to be

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so full of Guinness that you just want to sleep and sleep and sleep.

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It's quite good actually.

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We're currently in St Stephen's Green Park and you know what?

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It's pretty green it's a nice little tranquil spot

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if the busy city is too much for you just come to the park

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oh it's the molly malone statue here

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so this is a statue of molly malone

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and she's from the song molly malone also known as cockles

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and muscles and it's kind of the unofficial anthem of dublin

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and it's about a woman who wheels her wheelbarrow through the streets selling cockles

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and muscles and then eventually at the end she dies of a fever

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so she's a bit of a tragic heroine i think the

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molly malone statue thing is a very interesting case of

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when just something just catches on and suddenly you know

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if it pops up on TripAdvisor then suddenly you'll get a

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lot of tourists just flocking to it taking pictures of it like I'm just looking at some people now and like

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a lot of those people don't really care what it is

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and have only just heard about it when they arrived in Dublin really

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but suddenly they're all taking pictures of it

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and interestingly it's not even old it was made in 1988

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so it's a recent addition to the dublin trail the tourist trail of things

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that you do um

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so yes yeah what makes something iconic what makes something i

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suppose i suppose something something has to be new at some point everything everything is new at some point um

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so plan now we've only got an hour before our plane

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so no no we've only got an hour before we need

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to leave for the airport we've got one final hour in dublin we're going to go to love lane

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which is uh annoyingly it was very close to where we

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were yesterday we're going to go back there just to show you guys um

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and then uh and then yeah to the airport

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so we're in love lane i'm going to write smashing english up here

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because that's what you do everyone writes stuff it's not just me doing graffiti and doing vandalism.

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So if you come to Dublin, see if you can find it and take a picture of it and send it to us.

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Drop in, so just come in casually for a short time, drop in for a cuppa, a cup of tea.

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our 24 hours in dublin is nearly over we just need to get now to the airport

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and catch a flight back home and there's a pretty easy bus

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so hopefully all goes well with the bus

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and we get to the airport see you at the airport see you at the airport

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we landed safely and berwin's dad picked us up from the airport

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so that was kind of him and now we're driving home.

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So what did you think of Dublin?

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Verdict.

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My verdict is, I think Dublin, if you look really close, maybe with a walking tour or a tour guide, there's lots of history there.

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Lots of interesting buildings, interesting facts, lots of things to see.

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But it doesn't slap you around the face.

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No, it's not like when you walk around Rome or something, you can very clearly see, oh, history is all around me.

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I think Dublin's a bit more city -fied.

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It very much feels like a city.

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There are shops that you will recognise, restaurants, bars.

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I think Dublin, for me personally, I think it's probably amazing, like the best time ever,

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if you really value pub culture and live music and walking into a bar and there's someone playing live instruments.

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And lots of people love

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that for me it's not my dream night I'm I am

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a bit more of a quiet night in kind of person um

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so I I really enjoyed my time in Dublin I really enjoyed

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because I learned a lot about the history as I was walking around I would google a lot of stuff

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and go what does this mean what was this blah blah you don't need to do

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that in a city like Rome for example you can just walk around

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and the history just jumps out just yeah just jumps out at you

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and it's made me really want to explore more of Ireland

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like I really want to go back to Ireland I want

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to experience rural Ireland I want to go to the beautiful scenery

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and i want to go to the countryside so like the west coast

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and like go away places

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so it won't be the last time we go to ireland no definitely not um

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This video has 258 sentences and 2999 words to shadow. The speech runs for 20:30. The speaker talks at a steady 146 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. Only 81% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 less common words from the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

chip /t͡ʃɪp/ (noun) — A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material.
phrase /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/ (noun) — A short written or spoken expression.
statue /ˈstæt͡ʃu/ (noun) — A three-dimensional work of art, usually representing a person or animal, usually created by sculpting, carving, molding, or casting.
castle /ˈkɑːsəl/ (noun) — A large residential building or compound that is fortified and contains many defences; in previous ages often inhabited by a nobleman or king. Also, a house or…
mood /muːd/ (noun) — A mental or emotional state, composure.
coin /ˈkoɪ̯n/ (noun) — A piece of currency, usually metallic and in the shape of a disc, but sometimes polygonal, or with a hole in the middle.
mali /ˈmɑli/ (noun) — A member of a caste in South Asia whose traditional occupation is gardening; hence, any South Asian gardener.
temple /ˈtɛm.pl̩/ (noun) — A house of worship dedicated to a polytheistic faith.
atmosphere /ˈætməsˌfɪɹ/ (noun) — The gases surrounding the Earth or any astronomical body.
cloud /ˈklaʊ̯d/ (noun) — A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
trail /tɹeɪl/ (noun) — The track or indication marking the route followed by something that has passed, such as the footprints of animal on land or the contrail of an airplane in the…
muscle /ˈmʌs.əl/ (noun) — A contractile form of tissue which animals use to effect movement.
connect /kəˈnɛkt/ (verb) — To join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object.
heritage /ˈhɛɹ.ɪ.tɪd͡ʒ/ (noun) — An inheritance; property that may be inherited.
explore /ɪkˈsploɹ/ (verb) — To examine or investigate something systematically.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

look at (verb) — To observe or watch.
sit down (verb) — To assume a sitting position from a standing position.
walk around (verb) — To walk with no planned destination; to meander.
come across (verb) — To change sides; to cross over to work for the opposition.
come back (verb) — To return to a place.
go back to (verb) — To stem from; to originate in.
go in (verb) — To become obscured by clouds.
catch on /kɛt͡ʃ ˈɑn/ (verb) — Chiefly in the form catch oneself on: to cause (oneself) to get or regain a proper appreciation of a situation; to behave in the expected, sensible way; to…

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 89 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, we're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: breathe /bɹiːð/, anthem /ˈæn.θəm/ [ˈæn̪.θəm]
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: shock /ʃɔk/, smash /smæʃ/, gosh /ɡɑːʃ/, rubbish /ˈɹʌbɪʃ/, shave /ˈʃeɪ̯v/
Long words — get the stress right: inevitable /ɪˈnɛvɪtəbəl/, anthem /ˈæn.θəm/ [ˈæn̪.θəm], deliberate /dɪˈlɪb.(ə.)ɹət/, unofficial /ʌn.əˈfɪʃ.əl/, resilience /ɹɪˈzɪl.ɪ.əns/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like chip, phrase, statue.

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
“Used to” used to + verb — a past habit or state that is no longer true	used to cost · used to cross
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	i've ever seen · have heard · has been
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	well, which is · people who have · people who absolutely
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	was established · be intrigued · was made

What is the Shadowing Technique?

Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

Key vocabulary in this video

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Pronunciation to watch

How to practise with this video

Grammar in this video

What is the Shadowing Technique?