Shadowing Practice: A Day in Indonesia | Comprehensible Input Vlog #73 - Learn English Speaking with YouTube

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Trash bin with decorating anything class but not least.

Viral parking spaces.

The interior is free canopy.

Powder.

Glasses.

Messy new work.

Turquoise.

Purpose.

So what's popular about this area?

So this street has a bunch of restaurants and bakeries that go viral on TikTok.

This is a viral ice cream shop.

This is viral for their salt bread.

If you remember that from the Korean episode in, what was that neighborhood?

Songsu.

So I don't know if it's the same restaurant,

but it's the same type.

Yeah, people like that salt bread for some reason.

Oh yeah, there they have donuts.

Good donuts.

But where are we going?

If you could see the yellow all the way down there,

we're going to Butter Baby Donuts.

So it's a really cool store.

They do a really good job of decorating the place.

What about these donuts though?

Good donuts upstairs.

That's not prime real estate,

so they can't be that good.

They got that view though.

That's true.

Yeah, this area is pretty busy and crowded.

And these lines are long, dude.

You think the line is going to be long for Butter Baby?

No, I don't think so.

It's a pretty big store inside.

Oh, is it?

Yeah.

And I think it's been out for a while because they have a couple other stores in Jakarta.

So they're a little more established than all these newer viral places.

But this is still really delicious doughnuts.

So are they not closed though?

No, they're open.

I saw somebody walk by with the box of the doughnuts.

Let's go try doughnuts.

This place looks insane.

Yeah, they do a really good job on the decorations.

Literally, look at this butter, baby.

Melted butter.

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I've had this one.

This is one of the most delicious donuts I've ever had.

Inside it's got like balls of cream.

Oh yeah, you would like that.

And this is all like powdered cheese and it's crunchy.

It's like a fritter.

So good.

Dude, this one looks good.

Banana crates.

I'm sure it'd be the same concept where it's filled with stuff.

yeah and then powder

but it's such a messy donut the powder goes everywhere yeah this place looks kind of cool

and then i also had the just original donut strawberry shortcake

looks kind of good the p p star shield bro p

star show dude you get you see what they're trying to say there

have you got that out p star

but the interior is really nice dude look at this mirror oh dude that That is tripping me out so hard.

Yeah, my eyes hurt looking at it.

Can I have a banana crunch,

a vanilla cheese crunch, and a strawberry shortcake?

Okay, so we have three donuts from the Butter Baby.

This is like a really nice turquoise box.

And you open it by tearing this right here.

Open me, baby.

Dude, I like that.

I like that a lot.

Let's open it.

Come here.

Oh my gosh, dude.

These things look actually so good.

And look at the Butter Baby, dude.

That's actually so funny.

Wow.

This is phone worthy.

Which one should I start with?

Do you want to get messy or do you not want to get messy?

Maybe least messy first.

Oh, they're kind of hard to grab.

Maybe not the ideal box.

Dude, look at this.

How would you describe this?

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This right here is whipped cream.

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It looks like there's some jelly right in the center.

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There's like some probably strawberry icing on the side with crumbs.

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Let's try this.

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The inside has a filling.

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Let me take one more bite.

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Boki.

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It's not like the greatest thing I've ever had,

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but it's a really good donut.

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Let's try the next one.

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So how would you describe this one?

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It looks like there's some white powder sprinkled over top of the whole donut.

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And underneath it's very crunchy and hard.

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It's a hard donut.

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But I think when you bite into it, it'll be soft.

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Let me try it.

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This is the banana one.

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One more bite.

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It's really crunchy.

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Oh wow.

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Bruh.

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Is my face dirty?

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Yeah.

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Okay, let's try the last one.

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Oh dude, this looks so good.

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Last but not least.

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That's a very common saying in English.

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Last but not least.

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Yeah, these ones are deep fried.

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You could definitely taste the oil.

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They're a lot heavier.

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Okay, so I just tried each of the butter baby donuts.

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The first one was really light,

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not very refreshing, but it was light and well balanced.

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The other two were deep fried,

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so they were very, very rich and intense.

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So I don't know if I could eat two full donuts like that.

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I think that would definitely be a lot,

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but I could definitely eat two of the first donut.

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Overall, not bad.

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If you're from Jakarta or you ever come here,

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I would come and try this donut and I would get it again.

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We just had these donuts.

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Low-key though, this was not a good idea because we didn't eat anything salty today and it's like 2 p.m.

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And usually it's not a good idea to just eat straight sugar.

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And all we had was flan and these donuts.

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So not a good idea because that spikes your blood sugar.

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What happened to your pants?

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Yeah, low-key my pants is dirty,

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but that's from the donuts.

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There was a lot of powder on them.

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That powder just fell all over me.

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But we're going to go eat right now.

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We're just walking around.

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We were going to go to a Japanese restaurant, but they're closed.

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So we're gonna go eat burgers instead and they looked really good

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when we walked by so we're gonna kind of burger You gonna get a chicken beef beef.

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I can't eat anything fried.

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This was donut was already deep fried But yeah,

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we're on the outside of this this mall.

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What is this mall called?

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Oh, is this square?

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Is this M block square or space?

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I mean pretty sure it's M block space or square space and square square is the one we were at Yeah,

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this is the space because all the restaurants inside are like Niche like a lot of Japanese to like oh,

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yeah, like Indonesian people love Japanese and Korean food Yeah,

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I can tell, especially Japanese.

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I've seen a lot of Japanese.

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Okay, what happened?

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Okay, so we went and go get the burger,

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but as we were like ordering,

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the guys were like, oh, we just sold out.

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So I was like, that sucks.

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So they sold out.

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So I think we're not going to eat anything then.

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We're just going to head to a park.

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There's a park nearby.

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We're going to go there and see what a park is like here.

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Unfortunately, we won't be eating any lunch so far.

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2.30 already.

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I feel like I'm drunk, dude.

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I'm just lightheaded.

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I'm like, but you know what?

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We still ball.

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Something exciting inside.

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What?

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Look closer.

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Hey yo.

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Yo, what do you call this?

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Don't put your mouth in.

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Do they call this a glory hole or what?

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What kind of glory are you looking for?

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Bro, it's just a reflection of yourself.

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Well, let's see.

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It's just a mirror.

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It is just a mirror.

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Well, you know what?

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Something exciting was inside.

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And what could that be?

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You can hear that very loud bike.

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Very loud bike drove by us.

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And now there's a car driving by us.

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But the car is a lot quieter compared to the bike or the scooter.

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The car is a lot quieter.

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It's not as loud, it's quieter.

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Here we have a row of trees.

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Almost in a perfect row.

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However, the trees are not perfect.

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The trees all look unique and different.

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But now we are in a park.

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The park, let me get you the name.

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The park is called GBK City Park.

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GBK City Park and that is the park we are at at the moment.

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This right here, these tiles,

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can you guys tell me what they're used for?

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What is the purpose of these tiles?

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The purpose of these tiles is for people that can't see.

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What do you call a person that can't see?

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Not because their eyes are closed but because they literally cannot see.

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What do you call a person like that?

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A blind person.

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A blind person.

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You call that a blind person.

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So most of the time a blind person has this stick

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that is compressed but they can pull it out

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or it comes open

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and they go swiping side to side like this in this motion side to side

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and when they walk they can feel this feel this line and they know where to walk.

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My eyes are bad though.

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I need to wear either contacts.

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I have contacts in my eyes right now.

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Contacts are these very thin,

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concave pieces of, I don't even know what it's made out of.

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Like a plastic.

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Yeah, I'm not really sure what it's made out of.

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This is what contacts are made out of.

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This material right here.

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And yeah, they're very thin and you put them on your eye

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and it changes kind of like the way light enters your eye.

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So then it corrects your vision.

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And the same thing happens with glasses.

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You put glasses on to help correct your vision.

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When I turn 25, so in two years, I will get...

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What?

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You see that branch fall?

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Yeah, watch out.

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Watch your head.

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So yeah, in about two years,

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I want to get LASIK eye surgery.

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It's a type of eye surgery where they like correct your eyesight.

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So I've had some friends that have done it and now they have perfect eyes.

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But ideally, before you get it,

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you either want to be at least 25.

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Or if your eyes haven't changed in the past three years,

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then you can also get it.

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So now I'm going to just wait until I'm older than 25 because I don't want to get it again.

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Because the thing about LASIK is you can only get it like a few times.

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You can't always keep on getting it.

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I think you get it once,

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max like twice because it'll damage your eyes and you can't really do it more than once.

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So you could have like a corrective surgery, but yeah.

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I've seen recently, I don't know if you've seen it,

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but like other methods to fixing your eyes that are starting to come out.

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One where they like literally change the shape of your eye with like pressure and I think like temperature.

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They literally remold your eye.

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Like I'm not a optometrist,

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so I don't know the name of every part of the eye,

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but they can change the shape of it.

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Have you heard that trend where they say that you can force your eyes to get better by just not wearing glasses?

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I don't really wear glasses like very, very often though.

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I don't believe that's true.

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I don't think your eyes could just get better by not wearing glasses.

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My eyes used to be 20-20,

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like 20-20 vision, and then they went bad.

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But was that before or after you started wearing glasses?

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I started wearing glasses because they got bad.

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So they went from good to bad,

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and then I started wearing glasses.

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And then they didn't really change at all.

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They changed like a little bit,

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like 0.25, but pretty much they're really similar.

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So I don't know if I believe that.

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Yeah, I don't know if I believe it too.

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It's like that no shampoo TikTok thing.

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Yeah, where you don't wash your hair and then...

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Well, you wash your hair,

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but you never use shampoo with just water.

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But then your hair gets super greasy.

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Well, they save for like a month or two,

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which is crazy long time,

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but then it goes back to normal.

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But I think we can go that way.

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And that's like more like the main park area.

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Okay.

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Okay, guys.

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So in a previous video,

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I was in a park and we described a lot of things in the park with many different adjectives.

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I want you guys to think of some of those now,

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if you remember them, and describe this park.

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What do you see?

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What colors do you see?

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What objects, things, or people do you see?

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How many do you see?

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How does it make you feel?

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Can you compare what you're seeing to something else?

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What do you hear?

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Do you hear anything?

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And lastly, do you like parks?

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When you come to this park,

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do you often visit parks or do you never go to parks?

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Do you like nature?

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Why do you like nature?

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What is your favorite type of nature?

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Do you prefer mountains, forests, beaches, deserts, oceans?

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This really looks like a forest, doesn't it?

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Yeah, it's densely packed with trees.

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Yeah, and you can see a lot of dead leaves on the ground here.

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Some of them are a lot greener than others.

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Some of them are almost black.

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But look at the trunk of this tree.

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It's actually quite nice, isn't it?

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Look at this.

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That looks so cool, doesn't it?

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Yeah, I think that's a certain species of tree that grows like that.

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Like the other ones are kind of like perfect cylinders.

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This one is like very thin.

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It's cool.

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Obviously, the trunk is a cylinder,

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but the bottom part, it's like the roots start higher up.

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It's a cool type of tree.

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And you can look up and see the tree canopy.

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It's blocking out most of the sun and

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if it rained it would block out most of the rain

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as well You can see at the end of the tree branches There are a lot of leaves

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and these trees are actually quite tall.

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Are they not?

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I think they have been here for a long time.

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Yeah, these trees are very tall,

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but they are very thin.

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They're very thin.

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They're not very thick.

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They're very thin, but tall and straight.

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This tree is very straight.

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This tree is not very straight.

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That tree over there is also not very straight.

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You can see it separates into a Y shape,

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this tree right in front of me.

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So this is the name of the tree.

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It is called a flame tree and you can see there is an ant on the tree trunk.

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So I want you guys to read the text on screen describing this area

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and then I will read it after so you can practice your pronunciation and compare yourself to me.

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This is a quiet path in a green park.

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There are many tall trees around it and the path splits up ahead.

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The area looks calm, natural and peaceful.

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Now a longer version.

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I want you guys to read this text on screen and then I will read it after.

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This part of the park looks very calm and natural.

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The path is smooth and splits up ahead,

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which makes the scene feel soft and inviting.

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On both sides, there are many thin and tall trees with lots of green leaves.

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The ground is covered with dry leaves,

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grass, and small plants, so the whole area feels earthy and quiet.

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There is also soft sunlight coming through the trees,

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which gives the place a gentle and relaxing atmosphere.

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Tell me how you guys did and make sure you try to sound the way I sounded when I read it.

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This right in front of us.

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Can you guys tell me what this is?

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What is it, Leon?

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It's a stadium.

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Correct.

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But this is a huge stadium.

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I wonder what sport they play in here.

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If I had a guess,

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I would say soccer or as they call it here, football.

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It looks like a soccer stadium.

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Yeah, because they definitely don't play American football here.

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So it has to be a soccer stadium.

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I don't know how big baseball is either.

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Look at the ditch on the side here.

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A ditch on the side.

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It must rain a lot for the ditch to be this big.

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That's a really deep ditch.

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We're in the tropics.

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Yeah, and then here these are parking spaces.

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They should have moved the trees though.

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Yeah, low key the trees are right in the way.

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It kind of takes up a lot of room,

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but you can still see they put parking spaces here for people.

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And right there that is a mosque.

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You could kind of hear them saying stuff over the speakers

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but that's a mosque and I'm walking on this path and they have the same type of tile meant for blind people.

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It's gotta be rough being blind here though because once we get to the end where are you gonna go?

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And dude imagine being blind and you can't even see this.

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Imagine falling down there.

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Here they have a trash bin which is good.

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I find there is a lot of trash bins in Indonesia which I really like.

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It's clean like this park I barely saw any garbage.

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Yeah no it's definitely good.

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A lot of times in countries I've visited they don't really have a lot of trash bins

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which is annoying because then I to carry around my trash and then throw it somewhere.

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Restaurants and bakeries that go viral on TikTok,

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they do a really good job of decorating the place.

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They're a little more established than all these newer viral places.

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But the powder but it's such a messy donut.

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The powder goes everywhere.

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But the interior is really nice.

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Dude, look at this mirror.

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A really nice turquoise box and you open it by strawberry icing on the side with the crumbs.

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It looks like there's some white powder sprinkled over top of the whole donut.

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Last but not least, that's a very common saying in English.

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I can't eat anything fried.

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This donut was already deep fried.

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The purpose of these tiles...

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By just not wearing glasses?

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I don't really wear glasses like...

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And you can look up and see the tree canopy.

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It's blocking out.

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These are parking spaces.

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They should have moved the trees.

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Here they have a trash bin, which is good.

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I find there is a lot of...

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