Shadowing Practice: BOXABL Casita Tour - Learn English Speaking with Video

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No, no I'm just kidding.
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Welcome to Boxable Casita Come on in take a look around
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Boxable Casita has nine
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and a half foot ceilings eight foot tall windows eight foot
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tall doors everything is three foot wide gives you a tremendous
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sense of space it's one of our secret sauce ingredients to
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really make everything feel very very big the casita is also 19 by 19
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so not so tiny
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when you think our other product in this space is about
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eight foot wide nobody wants to live in something that's eight foot wide
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so these are 19 foot wide it's really a different feeling
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and the casita is basically divided the design i wonder if it's the most successful design in the history of creation,
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actually with 170,000 pre-orders, but that's just me being immodest for the company.
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But the design of the talks gone into the design with our designers and it's basically in quadrants.
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So where I'm standing right now is in this quadrant over here, which is the bedroom quadrant, which is a queen size bed, full queen size bed.
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There's nothing half sized about boxable or even the boxable casita.
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In this quadrant over here is the bathroom because nighttime, go to the bathroom.
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That's what happens.
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So the layout is very good for what we call the back of the house.
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And we've got a back door here, which we can take a look at.
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But first, check out the bathroom.
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So in this unit, we've got a full glass door.
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It's pretty nice.
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and over here a nice compact washer dryer goes boxed in
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so you can put a laundry center over here really super functional we pay a lot of attention to storage
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so come on in it's really nice always neutral colors
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because we don't know who's going to live in it
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so they need to be able to dial it in with their own style their own substance
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so if we make them mostly white with neutral colors black
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and white black and gray white and gray it just appeals to a very broad audience.
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Courts, counters, tons and tons of storage.
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Big announcement on our cabinetry coming soon.
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I think it's pretty mind-blowing from the market, so sorry to tease, but I can't tell you more than that right now.
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And look at this huge shower, eight foot tall.
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I'm probably around 6'2 with my cowboy boots on, so very tall.
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But if I was in bare feet and I was really 6'2, which I'm not, that's a really tall shower head.
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And when you stand in here, because this is so tall, my showers are about here,
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it feels grand it feels absolutely great and it feels like you're really in a very generous space which frankly
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you are so let's go to the front of the house
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and i can describe that
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so here's the front of the house this is where we walked in uh
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and again here's the quadrant we walk in over to the left is a couch tv closet
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and over to the right because you're on the couch watching the tv we need snacks
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So the kitchen is next to the couch.
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And look at this.
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Huge Z-Wave countertop courts.
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Beautiful little hanging light so you can do some work.
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You can get a coffee or dinner with your significant other or just a friend.
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And just very, very nice.
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Twin sinks, window over the sink.
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Who doesn't want a window over the sink so when you can ask somebody else to wash the dishes for you, at least you're giving them a nice view.
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And again, lots and lots of cabinetry.
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I'm dying to tell you the upgrade on the cabinetry we're doing
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because it's mind-blowing but I can't do it today and
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because it's Casita and everything is full-size you know we have obviously a full-size fridge
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which is pretty nice obviously somebody's been drinking what appears to be very inexpensive
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champagne so that's clearly not mine and yeah pretty nice we change all always with these
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we're constantly changing on on the on the appliances we're actually coming out with own branded appliances
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which is pretty good we can raise the quality lower the price
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which is the possible way
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and do them in in large in large volumes uh how about we turn around
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and take a look out back one of the nice things
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about casita is uh we offer them with back doors
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so you get a front door and a back door
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and you say why do i need a back door in something that's 19 foot by
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and it's so
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that you can have a yard you can have a really
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generous yard you can make this as big as you want
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so depending on your use case on what your your plot is like
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or what you plan on doing with the casita just leaving
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this door open expands the living space it actually expands the inside living space uh depending on you know the
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if your climate is moderate
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so beautiful flooring it's all part of the box full system we're not in production with this year
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but they just lay down snap together we're thinking of everything
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we can for our customers the goal of boxable is to
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solve the housing crisis very very tiny goal we'll see
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if we get there i think we have a really good shot at getting at getting there
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and the goal of boxable is three things
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the highest quality the lowest cost and the maximum speed
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because we have to deliver in high high high volumes those are the three legs of our table
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which makes it very stable

Speaking Goals for This Clip

This video is perfect for learn English with videos practice, targeting fluency in describing spaces and everyday objects. It helps you master conversational flow when explaining layouts, a key skill for IELTS speaking practice (think Part 2 cue cards about homes or rooms). You’ll also learn to use casual storytelling techniques, like adding personal anecdotes ("I'm probably around 6'2 with my cowboy boots on") to make your speech engaging.

Phrase Bank

  • "gives you a tremendous sense of space" – useful for describing roomy areas
  • "divided into quadrants" – a clear way to explain layouts
  • "nothing half sized about" – emphasizes full functionality
  • "pay a lot of attention to storage" – common in home descriptions
  • "feels grand" – vividly conveys a sense of luxury
  • "big announcement coming soon" – natural for teasing future news

Fix Your Weak Spots

The dialogue’s casual rhythm is ideal for shadowspeak (repeating speech in real time) to improve pronunciation and intonation. Notice how the speaker stresses words like "tremendous," "secret sauce," and "mind-blowing" to emphasize key points – mimic this to add emphasis in your own speech. Also, practice the flow of long sentences ("the design of the talks gone into the design with our designers and it's basically in quadrants") to avoid pausing awkwardly. For improve English pronunciation, focus on reducing "wanna" (from "nobody wants to live") and "gonna" (implicit in "we're gonna check out") to sound more natural. Use shadow speech to match the speaker’s pace – it’ll train your mouth to move quickly and clearly, a must for fluency.

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.