Shadowing Practice: A Weekend in Montreal: Intermediate English Listening Practice (Comprehensible Input) - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Hey, guys. Nice to see you.
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I didn't notice you guys there.
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Just kidding.
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Okay. Hello my friends.
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Guess where I am right now.
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Did you guess?
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I'm going to give you a little hint.
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Did you understand that?
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Me neither.
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Okay, guys, we are in Montreal.
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A city in Canada.
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A city that is very interesting where they speak French and English.
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And I am super happy because this is the first time in my life I have heard people speaking French in real life.
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Not on my phone, not on the TV.
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I'm super excited.
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It's only 3 p.m.
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right now, but we've had a long day already and some cool things have happened already.
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So I just want to tell you guys a little bit about our day getting here and what we're going to do on this trip.
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So the flight was really short, but we had to get up early.
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We got up at 530 this morning and it was an hour and a half flight.
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Super easy.
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But after that, something interesting happened.
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We got an Uber.
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We got an Uber, and I was looking on the phone and it said that the driver, he spoke French and Spanish.
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And he said yes.
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And this guy was from Haiti, guys.
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And he was a polyglot.
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He spoke Haitian Creole.
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He spoke French, spoke English, Portuguese and Spanish.
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And his Spanish was super good.
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So we got to speak a little bit, French and Spanish with him.
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Then we, Wait.
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That was on our first.
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Interesting thing was it.
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What did I do?
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Speak your French to a lady who really understand, understood everything that you said.
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So I got to have my first conversation in real life in French.
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So, guys, I changed some money from United States dollars to Canadian dollars.
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I'm going to show you those in a second.
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But, at the airport, they have this little desk where you can give them your money and they give you back the money of the country that you're in.
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You guys know that they're in all the airports. But, we went there and she said hello, and I said, in French, can I practice my French with you? And then she said, yes.
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And then she started.
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La la la la She started talking really fast, but I understood and I think I did pretty good.
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My wife was just sitting there like.
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I think I did pretty good.
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I was able to tell her what my phone number was, in French.
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I told her where we were from, and it was.
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It was pretty cool.
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She asked me, and I'm going to take this as a huge compliment.
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She asked me, where are you from?
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Are you French or from the United States?
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So I was like, yes, proud moment guys.
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Anyway, let's take a look at this money.
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It's pretty cool.
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So this is a $50 bill or cinquant dollar Canadian.
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And guys you can see through see me.
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This money is not like the money in the United States.
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In the United States, it's paper, but this feels like plastic.
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And, it's really cool.
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It doesn't smell like money because the Colombian money smells like United States money.
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So it's paper money.
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Paper money smells like money.
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No matter where you're at.
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But this is plastic, and it has no smell.
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If you like, if you get wet this money, it doesn't like...
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I think you could probably put this money in water and pull it out.
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This is a $5 bill, and I'm going to keep this one for my son, because it has a little space man on it.
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He'll think that's super cool. Okay.
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And then this one my wife likes the best because she's feminista.
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And there's this I like the purple color.
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She likes the purple color. So she opens.
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Hey, my mom likes purple too.
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Maybe we'll bring her one.
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And I guess that's the money.
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Then when we got here, we came to our hotel, but the room was not ready yet, and we were hungry, so we had to try something.
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That is the, most famous food in Montreal, which is poutine.
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So we ate some poutine.
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It was. Okay, guys, I'll be honest.
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I wish I could say it was awesome, but I think it would be great if you were drunk.
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If you were boracho.
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I think it would be super good.
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It's like a good food to go with beer and partying when you've been out all night.
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But for just normal people walking around, it's very heavy, super heavy French fries, salsa and meat and a ton of cheese.
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It was good, but very, very heavy. So we had some poutine.
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Now we're going to take showers, chill out for a little bit.
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I am tired already.
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We only slept for a few hours last night, but there's a bookstore that's really close that has food, coffee and books and I want to buy a book in French, so we're going to do that.
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I'll talk to you guys a little later.
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Let me go get a shower, because I don't smell that good.
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All right. Yes.
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And today we find ourselves in Little Italy, in Montreal.
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And this is a very famous market called Jean-Talon And it's incredible.
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I wish we lived here. So we could buy our groceries here This store has got fresh oysters and fresh seafood.
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I saw an organic meat store.
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So we going to walk around to show you guys some of the good stuff.
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Lets check it out It's incredible there is fresh ingredients everywhere.
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Like organic stuff.
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It's just not places like this where we live.
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And this is, like, old fashioned.
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How humans are supposed to eat.
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Yeah. Jesus.
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Was a sign that apple was.
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All right, guys, we got a sausage sandwich with mustard and some sauerkraut and a sausage that has bacon and cheese It is delicious my wife's going to love it.
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And, yeah, I ordered it all in French.
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Super happy about that.
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The lady was very sweet with me and she spoke a little slow.
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People are nice here.
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I think you guys.
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It's like eating ham with pizza, but it's apple.
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I've never had anything like this.
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Right? Now we are in in Chinatown in Montreal.
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looking for something to eat Hey, guys.
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We've been walking around Montreal all day.
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We're tired, but we've done so many cool things.
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Hope you guys have enjoyed seeing some of the cool stuff we did.
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I didn't show you guys this cool book I got in French.
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That was one of my goals on my checklist was to find a book in French.
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And I got this one because it's not too big, and I already basically know what it's about.
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It's, a guy named Eckhart Tolle.
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It's like a, spiritual thing.
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which is the power of now in English.
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And it's about being mindful.
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So I really like stuff like this.
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So we got this.
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This is going to help me with my French because because being here has really motivated me to get better.
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So we can go to other places where they speak French. And we've already had some cool experiences, you know, just chatting with people.
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A sweet old lady earlier today was really nice to us.
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And, some girl told me I look like I was 21.
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I told her I was 33 and she said, no, you look like you're 21.
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I was like, stop just kidding, guys, my wife's making faces now.
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But we were in, Little Italy and we got something called a cannoli.
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So we got two desserts But my wife, she ate hers earlier, so this one's mine.
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Do you guys know what a cannoli is?
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Let me show you. This looks so good.
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We've been walking all day, so I don't have to feel like going to the.
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So, guys, this is a cannoli with pistachio.
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This is a pistachio cream in here.
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And I've been waiting all day for this.
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Very good guys.
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All right I'm gonna eat this.
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Talk to you guys later.
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Hey, guys, we are in Old Montreal.
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Or in French.
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We're trying to enjoy our last day here.
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And the thing about this part of the city is the old architecture.
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And they say it's a very European feeling city.
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The way that the buildings are made.
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And there's a lot of cool places around here.
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We're by these old government buildings.
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Maybe so. So we're going to show you guys some of the cool things we see.
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I just want to tell you guys something super cool that we just did.
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We met up for, French language meetup, and there was a group of maybe, like, ten people, and we were all just practice French.
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We we played little board games, and it was super cool.
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My poor little wife didn't understand much, but, I had a lot of fun.
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And the people there were super cool because people who learn languages are cool.
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People like you guys like me.
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All right, guys, we'll show you if we find something cool.
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We had to get my wife a hat, All right, guys.
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So we made it to the last part of our Montreal journey.
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I'm on top of Mount Royal.
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And Mount Royal is actually where the city got its name.
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So I just walked up this mountain.
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I'm up here on the top of Mount Royal where you can see all of Montreal.
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So I'm going to show you this beautiful view up here.
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And guys, this city was great.
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I didn't share everything that we did here because this was kind of a special trip between my wife and I, but I should share what I could do with you guys.
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So let's check out this beautiful view.
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I'll show you what I can see right now, and that'll be the end of this adventure.
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Let me find a good spot to show you guys.
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Here we go.
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Right. On. Sorry guys, I almost forgot the most important part.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “A Weekend in Montreal: Intermediate English Listening Practice”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: French, cool, super, Montreal. This video has 171 sentences and 1707 words to shadow. The speech runs for 16:11. The speaker talks slowly, about 105 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound. 88% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| cannoli noun | /kəˈnoʊli/ | A tube of fried pastry, typical of Sicily, filled with ricotta or similar cream cheese, and flavorings, eaten as a dessert. |
| poutine noun | /puˈtin/ | A dish consisting of French fries topped with cheese curds and gravy, eaten primarily in Canada. |
| purple noun | /ˈpɝ.pl̩/ | A colour between red and blue; violet, though often closer to magenta. |
| pistachio noun | /pɪsˈtæʃioʊ/ | A deciduous tree (Pistacia vera) grown in parts of Asia for its drupaceous fruit. |
| sausage noun | /ˈsɔsɪd͡ʒ/ | A food made of ground meat (or meat substitute) and seasoning, packed in a section of the animal's intestine, or in a similarly cylindrical shaped synthetic… |
| bookstore noun | /ˈbʊkstɔː/ | A store where books are bought and sold. |
| checklist noun | /ˈt͡ʃɛklɪst/ | A list of tasks to be completed, names to be consulted, conditions to be verified and similar. |
| meetup noun | /ˈmitˌʌp/ | An arranged informal meeting. |
| mindful adjective | /ˈmaɪnd.fl̩/ | aware (of something); attentive, heedful. |
| polyglot adjective | /ˈpɑlɪˌɡlɑt/ | Of a person: speaking, or versed in, many languages; multilingual. |
| salsa noun | /ˈsɑl.sə/ | A spicy tomato sauce of Mexican origin, often including onions and hot peppers. |
| oyster noun | /ˈɔɪ.stɚ/ | Any of certain marine bivalve mollusks, especially those of the family Ostreidae (the true oysters), usually found adhering to rocks or other fixed objects in… |
| motivate verb | /ˈmoʊ.tɪ.veɪt/ | To provide someone with an incentive to do something; to encourage; to actuate. |
| seafood noun | /ˈsiːfuːd/ | Food from the sea, including that derived from fish, shellfish, crustaceans, cephalopods, seaweed, algae, marine mammals, and other marine organisms. |
| groceries noun | /ˈɡɹoʊ.s(ə.)ɹiz/ | Retail foodstuffs and other household supplies; the commodities sold by a grocer or in a grocery store. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| walk around verb | To walk with no planned destination; to meander. |
| check out verb | To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.). |
| get up verb | To move in an upward direction; to ascend or climb. |
| see through verb | To perceive visually through something transparent. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- I didn't notice you guys there.
- I'm going to give you a little hint.
- Did you understand that?
- She asked me, where are you from?
- Do you guys know what a cannoli is?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on | We've been walking · I've been waiting |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | have heard · we've had · you've been |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | were drunk · are made |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | Montreal, which is · people who learn |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 44 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, we're, we've. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
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 cannoli, poutine, purple.
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.