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Hi!
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Welcome to another video of English, another video of English.
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Well, the dear of you is back to English of survival, you know, the basic thing to not pass any kind of problem.
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What I like here are these...
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I'm not sure, I don't have anything else to...
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In my opinion, this building has a lot of LED format Starplugs Yes,
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sure, you have to take one, thank you And, guys, a couple are really cute.
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Let me show you them for a while.
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I'm using a camera and I have a cap that I can use to make them in metal.
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They're impressed with this technology.
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But, back to the video of today, it will be in a format that I love to do,
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which is simply walking through the New York and learning a little bit of English from the day -to -day.
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I think that the main thing for learning a new language is to focus on the simple and what works.
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And that's what we're going to do today.
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But our focus will be today also things that are grammatically incorrect in English.
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These are simple errors that we commit a lot, especially when we try to translate things to the letter.
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So today I'm going to show you how to avoid these errors
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and to know how to go through the United States without a mess.
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Let's go!
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If you ask me, Ju, what is your favorite street street in New York?
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I'll show you exactly this here for you.
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We're at West Village now, which is a very beautiful place, very residential.
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And of course, a high -class media, very high.
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I even brinco, you can see there, a dog.
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I always say that the cats live better than us, you know?
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What I like about here are these brownstones.
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These buildings are called brownstones because it's a mix of brownstone and stone -pedra
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Because they're like, like, big red red red red red red
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You see, it's all the same color?
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It's all the same color
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And these houses are very traditional here in New York, right?
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We see films, series
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And I also like this street because it has sidewalks, which are the very large walls
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So, in a very residential place, very calm, very clean, you can see the floor
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And it's also very nice walking I love this area, it's very beautiful.
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Especially in a day of the sky like today, I want to drink coffee, something to drink, while we go to New York and talk.
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I hope that with this format, you can feel me walking around the city and learning English.
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But before I want to tell you one of the most common mistakes.
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One of the most common mistakes is this one I'll tell you now.
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Maybe you already have committed this mistake one day, or are committed, because it's super normal.
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When someone asks how old are you, the person wants to know their age, how old are you?
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In this case, it's very common to answer I have 30 years old.
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We use this I have because in Portuguese, we respond I have 30 years.
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So we do this associação because it's a bit easier to think.
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But the correct answer is I have, but I am.
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So when someone asks you how old are you?
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You answer I am 30 years old.
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Let's think of the following way.
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If you answer I have, the American who will hear it will be thinking but you have 30 years in what?
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In work, 30 years in relationship, 30 years in what?
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So when we answer I have, it's the margin of thinking that you have 30 years in something,
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in experience, 30 years in something not that 30 years is your age.
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I think that this example is easier.
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So just respond I am 30 years old or just I am 30.
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Entenderam?
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Decorem this, eh?
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The thing is not to try to understand the English meaning, because everything we try to translate to the letter, sometimes it doesn't have a meaning.
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And when we do it, we're wrong.
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Just decorem, guys.
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Decorem.
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It's simple.
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When you want to answer the age, instead of saying I have, and you say I am.
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Look, honestly, there is nothing more fun to enter in the summer in the winter I'm going to go to the air -conditioned,
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and it's really hot today
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Anyway, I'm here at Starbucks And I always ask the same thing that is green tea with peat lemonade
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That's like a...
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Green tea with lemon, pêssaga, it's very nice
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But today I'm going to get something different from the cardápio Hello Can I have an ice
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and raw sugar oat milk please?
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No size Medium size
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Is that all?
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That's it Why do we have this stick to us?
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It's strong, thank you so much Amigos, I learned something about Starbucks In our first English video,
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which I will leave here for you
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If you haven't heard, it's really cool I explained to you about the size of the coffee
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when you ask I explained that there are the small, small, medium, medium and large,
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large, big But the Starbucks has another nomenclature for the size of the coffee
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And sometimes they ask you what size you want using this nomenclature
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And you can confuse it
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because it's very different I learned this a little bit more Dicas
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that I could give you to you for English So you see how I also learn with you?
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Let me take my phone, that I wrote here Quais os sizes
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So, this is just for Starbucks, my friend Just for Starbucks that has this freshness
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The small they call tall
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So tall is the same thing as small
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The medium size, which is the medium, they call the big, which is very different, because big we understand as a large size.
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But here, the medium is the big.
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And the large size, which is the large size, is the 20.
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20. It's very different, right?
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Obviously, you can say small, medium, large, they will understand it.
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But, at the time, they can use, here in the Starbucks, these different nomenclatures, so sometimes they can confuse a little.
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But, recapitulando, so, tall is the same thing as small, small, small The big is the same thing as medium,
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medium And the big is the same thing as large, large, large I picked a large size size, medium size And this one here,
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is an iced raw sugar oat milk
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It's like a cappuccino of sugar mascavo, with a leite of avea I'm so crazy to experiment
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And another thing is straw.
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Straw, guys, is a very short word.
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It's very easy to decorate.
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And I really like to make associations of words that I already know in English, to remember of other words that I just met.
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When I learned to say straw, canudo, I said, that straw is the same thing that strawberry, which is orange.
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And the same thing is the same.
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So, whenever I wanted to remember of canudo, I remembered of strawberry.
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And then I remembered, ah, straw, canudo.
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So I'll give you a tip for you to make a association of words that you're starting to know
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With words that you already know,
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that it's easier to learn I'm going to decorate a lot of things like English Let's try this here I'm curious
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I think there's anew I'm going to ask them if there's anew I'm going to ask them if there's anew
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Hi, just one question, there's cinnamon here?
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No, don't come with that
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Oh, alright, alright, thank you
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And there's no canela
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It's a lot of canela, but it's just the sugar Mascavo What's that name?
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In English, friends, it's building
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Building, you see this building
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Great, beautiful here Jenga Building In my opinion, this place has a lot of Lego Look at it very far, so you can see
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It doesn't look like
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Lego It's a little bit of a agony so that it is irregular.
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But it's a very beautiful place.
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It's a very beautiful place.
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After taking this cup here, I'm going to go to the bathroom.
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It's gigantic.
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I tell you, when I go to the street, I try to the maximum.
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I don't take anything.
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Because I have a big amount of water and here is very difficult to do public bathroom, right?
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So I avoid it, but we are in a region where there is a bathroom
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and I'm going to show you how we're going to get there.
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I know there's a bathroom, but let's say that I don't know and let's ask someone where the bathroom is the most close to the bathroom.
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For you to see how it's practical to do this question because I think it's a super important question,
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afinal, nobody wants to go out of the bathroom and go out of the middle of the street, right?
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So we're going to enter here in The Oculus, which is this station of the metro beautiful,
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the same architect who made the Museum of Amanhã in Rio de
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Janeiro, Santiago Calatrava.
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And here in the middle is really beautiful.
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Look at this.
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This teto here, you know, has an opening?
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He opens every 11th of September in honor of the Torres Gêmeas.
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And it's a...
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It's a kind of shopping, it's a metro station, but there's Apple's stores, restaurants here, and a lot of stuff.
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And the bathroom.
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Hi, excuse me, I have one question.
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Where is the nearest restaurant?
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Turn right?
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All right, thank you.
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You know that when I asked him where the nearest bathroom was, I used the word nearest.
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You could just ask directly to the point.
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Where is the restaurant?
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But the word nearest can be useful for some occasions when you want to know what is closest to you.
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So when I add this word in the formula, where is the nearest public restaurant?
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I wanted to ask him where the bathroom is closest to me.
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So it's a very useful word in an emergency situation.
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But you can formulate this word without this word, okay?
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Another mistake that we commit a lot when we want to speak English
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And we keep trying to translate everything to the left
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Is when we want to say that something is better than the other
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This pizza is better than the other pizza that we ate
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It's like something like that when we want to make a comparison between better and worse
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Sometimes we try to speak this in English More better
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Ah, I don't know
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This pizza is more better than the other pizza
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The more better, he's grammatically incorrect because the better is a word comparatively.
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So we don't need to add more in front.
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We're going to say this pizza is better than that one.
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We don't need to add more in front.
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Because the better, for a while, is a comparison.
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When we use this better to say something about something, we're going to compare the two.
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Capit?
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Capit?
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So let's go back.
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This pizza is more better than that one.
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That's right, and the correct one would be This pizza is better than the one
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These examples that for me are simple today
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Because I learned, I understood
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They were very complicated
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So I really want to show you the way the most easy, the most simple possible
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For you to see that it's not a bicho with seven heads
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So tell me what your main difficulty is
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when you speak English What is the thing that you take
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when you try to speak or when you're going to decorate something.
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Let's talk about this because I've already been through many difficulties.
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So maybe I can have a solution for your difficulties.
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I can help you with some tips, some things that I put in practice and that helped me a lot.
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So just leave me here if you want help specific to something that I'll try to help.
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I got the metro now because we are going to go there quickly to make a free walk that is really cool.
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We arrived, we arrived, and what are we going to do, friends?
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We are going to take a ferry, which is a balsa, to State Island.
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This is the only free way to see the Statue of Liberty and it's a very nice trip.
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This ferry goes to a island called State Island, which is one of the districts of New York.
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And in the middle of the road, you pass the Statue of Liberty,
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and you can see beautiful view of the skyline of the horizon of the Manhattan, it's a very nice trip.
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I was very excited to do it, especially in the summer.
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It's really cool, I still haven't done it in the summer.
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So we're here to do it together.
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And, guys, something about the English pronunciation do English.
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You saw that I said because when the words have N, the letter N in English, we don't pronounce it.
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This serves for Manhattan too.
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You know how they say Manhattan here?
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Manhattan.
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Manhattan.
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It's very different.
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If we pronounce Manhattan for American they won't understand because they come the letter N.
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We're entering here.
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The ferry, he's...
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Opa!
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We're in the door, we're closed.
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The ferry, he's closed from 30 minutes.
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So, it's always good to be atent to the horrors.
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And look, it's a big balsa.
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Grandona, grandona, grandona.
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It's a very beautiful ride.
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I'm really excited to be showing you.
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We're entering, it's like a shopping.
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There's a part here, which is where the people are going to go.
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Most people who are here are really taking transport public to go home.
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But there are also tourists who like to do this tour because of the view.
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There are restaurants here.
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The structure is really really cool.
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And then we're going to go this corridor and go to the top of the stairs,
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where we can get a beautiful view that I want to show you.
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And the best place, definitely, is the side of the outside.
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So it's really good to do this tour no summer, because we can get to the side of the boat.
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Hey, guys, seriously, the view is so beautiful
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Mal dá pra acreditar que esse passeio é for free.
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De verdade, de graça, cara.
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Acho que brasileiros a gente tá acostumado com coisa boa de graça, não.
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E por mais que eu esteja aqui há três anos, eu ainda não me acostumei com esse passeio.
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E pelo fato dele ser gratuito é uma loucura.
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Olha ali essa vista.
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I'm starving, starving.
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So it's exactly this that I'm feeling, you know?
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I'm so hungry at this time.
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And there's a recipe that is very, very easy, that I'm eating almost every day of the morning, but as I already ate,
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I'm going to do it now.
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So come with me.
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If you want a delicious recipe, healthy, and quick, it's here that you'll learn.
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So I'm going to do the recipe and I'll tell you all the ingredients that I'm going to use in English.
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Okay?
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A bowl.
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Two eggs.
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Here I have chopped cheese, chopped tomato and chopped onions.
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A little bit of salt.
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And I like to use a little bit of this one too
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because it's like a mix of pepper and lime and it's so good with eggs.
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A little bit of tapioca too. And let's mix this
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Na moral,
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cara Na moral
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Era pra ter ficado uma panquequinha certinha I just don't have patience to wait to get the pan out, especially because I'm hungry.
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But look at this, the queso is melted.
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Look at this.
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Seriously, make a crepe like this.
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You won't be arrepend.
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And the more things you put in the middle, better it will be, you know?
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The more delicious will be.
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A youtuber of you, more than one day, forgot to record the final of the vlog.
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I just had a bath and I just had to edit it.
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I just had to finish.
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I saw that I didn't have given tchau to you again, I'm doing this again.
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And look at the storm that started to go there.
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The biggest rain that I've ever seen in the last few months.
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Seriously, it's raining too.
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The summer is a crazy thing.
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You see the sun that's been today, right?
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Now, look, the whole time is all nubled.
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But anyway, now I'm here to get to know you.
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Thank you very much for being with me in another video.
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I, honestly, am I am extremely happy in knowing that you like these videos that help you, right?
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I always felt like my role was to help somehow, and reading all the messages that you send me, saying that this content is useful,
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that it was very important, it was extremely gratifying for me.
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And the most funny thing is that I started making these videos in English without any pretension, And also to be fixed on the channel,
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I brought many new friends
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So I want to thank you for all the love and heart
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Don't forget to comment below what is the biggest difficulty of you I will try to help with some advice,
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something that I know will be useful to solve
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Or solve this problem
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Don't forget to share this video with some friends or family
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That you know that also likes this kind of content or that needs
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And if you can also like it, I really appreciate it.
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Because when you like a content, the YouTube platform understands that this content is relevant.
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And it's going to be more and it would be very important to me.
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I would be very happy.
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So it's all.
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Now I can finish the vlog in peace.
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To get to you in the next 12 hours.
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And thank you again for the support of you.
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My name is a bye.
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And I'll see you on Sunday, okay?
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Tchau!
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “aprenda inglês comigo andando pelas ruas de nova york, conversação real”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: English, size, word. This video has 286 sentences and 3032 words to shadow. The speech runs for 19:44. The speaker talks at a natural 154 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 83% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
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| pizza noun | /ˈpi.tsə/ | A baked Italian dish of a thinly rolled bread crust typically topped before baking with tomato sauce, cheese, and other ingredients such as meat or vegetables. |
| straw noun | /stɹɔ/ | A dried stalk of a cereal plant. |
| commit verb | /kəˈmɪt/ | To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto. |
| difficulty noun | /ˈdɪfɪkəlti/ | The state of being difficult, or hard to do. |
| ferry noun | /ˈfɛɹi/ | A boat or ship used to transport people, smaller vehicles and goods from one port to another, usually on a regular schedule. |
| litter noun | /ˈlɪt.ɚ/ | Straw, grass, and similar loose material used as bedding for people or animals. |
| format noun | /ˈfɔːɹ.mæt/ | The layout of a publication or document. |
| recipe noun | /ˈɹɛs.ɪ.pi/ | Any set of instructions for preparing a mixture of ingredients. |
| metro noun | /ˈmɛtɹoʊ/ | A rapid transit rail transport system, or a train in such systems, generally underground and serving a metropolitan area. |
| translate verb | /tɹænzˈleɪt/ | To change spoken words or written text (of a book, document, movie, etc.) from one language to another. |
| chop verb | /t͡ʃɑp/ | To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions. |
| egg noun | /ɛɡ/ | An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, often housing an embryo within a membrane or shell… |
| moral adjective | /ˈmoɹəl/ | Of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behaviour, especially conforming to principles of rectitude. |
| hungry adjective | /ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/ | Affected by hunger; having the physical need for food. |
| solve verb | /sɒlv/ | To find an answer or solution to a problem or question; to work out. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| go back verb | To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time. |
| go through verb | To travel from one end of something to the other. |
| walk around verb | To walk with no planned destination; to meander. |
| walk through verb | To explain (something) to (someone), step by step. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- I'm not sure, I don't have anything else to...
- I'll show you exactly this here for you.
- You see, it's all the same color?
- Let's think of the following way.
- This teto here, you know, has an opening?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | now, which is · sidewalks, which are · size, which is |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | have committed · haven't heard · I've already been |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | are called · is melted · be fixed |
| Superlatives the -est / the most … — the top or bottom of a group | the most common · the most close · the nearest |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 68 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, we're, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: delicious /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/, residential /ˌrɛzɪˈdɛnʃəl/, occasion /əˈkeɪ̯ʒən/, patience /ˈpeɪ̯.ʃəns/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: difficulty /ˈdɪfɪkəlti/, residential /ˌrɛzɪˈdɛnʃəl/, complicated /ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/, experiment /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/, ingredient /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like pizza, straw, commit.
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.