Shadowing Practice: Comprehensible Input English American Native Speaker Conversation Practice B1 B2 C1 C2 - Learn English Speaking with Video
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The best way to improve your English is to immerse yourself into English speaking environment.
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But if you live far away from English speakers, you can do these two things.
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Number one, listen, so your brain would get used to understanding English.
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And number two,
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speak, which means pause this video every five seconds and repeat everything we say with exactly the same tone and pronunciation.
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Now, hit the like button below, subscribe to our channel if you haven't, and let's get started.
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Easy!
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I love your name!
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Hey, good to see you!
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Yeah, you too!
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So, where are we heading to?
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So, we can pass by all of the main monuments, like the Trevi Fountain, the Pantheon, everything.
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Excellent!
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Let's do that!
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Hey, Dad!
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Heading to school!
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Maybe lunch.
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Wrap it up.
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Let's start talking about you.
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I love your name.
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Easy sounds so easy to remember.
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Yeah.
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My name is Isabel, and Izzy is a nickname for Isabel.
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Ooh, that makes a ton of sense.
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I mean, I know it's corporate, but...
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No, that...
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Yeah, that makes a lot of sense, actually.
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Where are you originally from?
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I'm from Seattle in Washington state.
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Seattle, Washington.
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Ooh, one of the most rainy states in the US, right?
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Yes, that's true.
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Have you ever been?
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Yes, I spent quite a few days, maybe months, a couple of months probably in Seattle.
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But I live in Los Angeles, at least I used to live in Los Angeles, California.
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What made you take the plunge and come to Italy as an au pair, if I pronounce it right?
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Look, I know you're nervous, but you just gotta take the plunge.
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Yeah, so first I was an exchange student in high school
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when I was 16 yeah and I decided to come on exchange
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because I love traveling and learning languages yeah
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and then I fell in love with the culture
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so I decided to move back for university
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so I graduated in May with a degree in languages oh wow
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and then every summer I work as an au pair in the south of Italy yeah
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so are you a linguist we could say
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that yes that's cool what languages do you speak I speak English Italian Spanish
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and a little bit of French oh wow
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you're definitely a linguist what made you fall in love with learning languages i've traveled from a young age
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and i just was very interested in hearing yeah people speak other languages
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and learning about other cultures why like society tells us who we can fall in love with
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and how we should fall in love with them
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but we can fall in love with anyone i think
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it's a great way to be able to find out new things is by learning other languages that's
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so true and when did you start traveling i've always traveled from a young age with my parents.
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They made it very important during my childhood to take me and my sister with them when they traveled abroad.
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Yeah.
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So ever since I was little.
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Do you think you made a really positive impact?
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Definitely, yes.
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That it can really make a positive impact on this town and beyond.
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I love traveling.
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Nice, that's awesome.
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How many countries have you been to?
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I think around 15.
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15?
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Wow.
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Being in Italy is nice because it's easy to travel around to other European countries.
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Yeah.
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With discount airlines and things.
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What was the cheapest flight that you got so far?
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Maybe 15 euros to go to Sicily.
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Tell me, what do you like the most about Italy?
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I think the people are very welcoming.
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Yeah. And warm.
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It's just in their culture.
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I wanted to feel I feel welcoming and warm the way you do at Christmas.
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The culture, there's so much history,
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because in the US, we don't have all of this history that you can see like on the street. So true.
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When you come to Italy, I feel like you can smell the history.
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Yeah.
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And every single building is quite old, which is fascinating.
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But in the US, we build them, we tear them down because they're old.
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And that's pretty much the cycle that we go through.
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So you know they're gonna try and come to us and try to tear them down.
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So you came through au pair.
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What is au pair?
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I feel like half of the world does not know what au pair means.
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So au pair is like a babysitter that lives with the family
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and takes care of the kids and then in my case I came also to teach the kids English.
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Family takes care of family.
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So it's a kind of a cultural exchange.
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Yeah.
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And a little job to earn some money.
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Oh wow, so you're an english teacher as well
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i'm studying to be an english teacher yes i start my master next week whoa that's great
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I've decided to go back to school in the fall to get my master's degree.
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On every single video, I ask people to leave a comment below and answer one question.
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And I, if we get 400 comments, I randomly pick a comment and I send them $100 prize.
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So now I'm going to ask you, what would you like to find out about people from more than 137 countries around the world?
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Okay, something personal for everyone.
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One thing that was a culture shock for me in Italy was the time that they eat dinner.
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I don't know, I kind of have to agree with Leanne.
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Moving from the city to all this is quite the culture shock.
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Because in the US we eat dinner at 6 pm.
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In Italy they eat dinner around 8 or 9 pm.
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So let's ask everyone what time do you eat dinner in your country?
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That's a great question.
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When do you guys eat dinner in your country? leave a comment right below this video
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and you will have a chance to win 100 just like this guy won right here
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what do you think is the best way to learn english for a teenager or an adult
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obviously the best way is to move to a country where they speak it
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but if you can't do that i I think watching TV shows and listening to music, watching YouTube videos is very useful.
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Just like this one.
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So if you are enjoying this video, hit the like button below right now and subscribe to our channel.
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Let's imagine people are watching video and they got really good at listening.
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What's the next natural step to progress?
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I would say to practice speaking.
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And one problem with learning another language is you're maybe scared to speak with native speakers, you're afraid to mess up.
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So my advice would be to record yourself on your phone speaking.
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That way you can go back and listen to your pronunciation without having to worry about speaking in front of someone else.
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That's brilliant.
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I love that.
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Monsters like you have everything.
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You don't have to be good.
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You can mess up over and over again and the whole world loves you.
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Mike.
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Step number one, if you're shy to speak to different people, simply record yourself on a video and watch yourself.
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Step number two, when you are ready, For people specifically from our YouTube channel,
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I have created a platform where we connect people from all around the world, especially our subscribers, and they can practice English speaking with each other.
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So pretty much you make international friends every single day.
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It's all online from your bedroom.
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We just need to communicate with each other and trust the decision.
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That's it.
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And it's called Foxyou .com and you can see all of these people having a ton of fun.
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So if you want to start practicing speaking completely for free, simply follow this link right here or the one right below this video.
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So what do you think about grammar in a school program?
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How useful it is at that moment?
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I think grammar is definitely important.
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Absolutely.
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Getting the basics down first is probably the most important thing and then worrying about the little details later.
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Exactly, so true, so true.
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What do you do that immediately gives away that you are an American?
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I don't blow dry my hair after the shower.
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You were gonna squish the queen.
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It's true.
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I hate it when someone gives away the ending.
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I leave it wet.
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Yeah.
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And that's a big no in Italy.
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Oh wow.
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And for breakfast, I don't like sweet things.
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Like here, the typical breakfast is a croissant and a cappuccino.
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I don't like coffee and I don't like sweet things at breakfast.
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Oh, wow.
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Tell me about Italians.
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Do you have Italian friends here?
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Yes, all my friends are Italian.
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Oh, nice.
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What's the biggest cultural difference between
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Americans and Italian?
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Italians are very affectionate.
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So to greet each other, they do the kisses on the cheek.
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They're always like hugging, kissing.
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It's a very touchy culture.
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Yeah.
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You were so affectionate, but then you would withhold that whenever I did something wrong.
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How do you feel about it as an American?
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Because you're coming from a completely different culture.
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And when I met you, I felt like, okay, it's an American hug.
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It's not what we do in Italy or Argentina or Brazil.
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I've gotten used to it.
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It took time to get used to, that's for sure.
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Have you already blend in into Italian culture?
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I try to because I don't like to be the American in Italy.
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I like to blend in and look like a local, so I try.
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I can blend in.
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I'm an imperial droid.
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The city is under imperial occupation.
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The people are very welcoming.
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I would say that's the number one thing.
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I had a really easy time making friends and I felt very welcome even though I'm far away from my family.
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I found a family here.
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Wow, that's awesome now we're arriving at the shrubby fountain it looks like the one
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that we have in um in vegas right you Las Vegas.
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A lot of people come here at 3 in the morning so that it's empty, but there's always people here.
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Wow.
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Probably they don't even go to bed.
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Exactly.
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That's pretty cool.
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And since this channel is a comprehensible input English, how would you describe this beauty right here?
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Give me your best description.
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It's very detailed and magnificent.
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Magnificent.
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That's a good word for it.
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Uh, Princess Jasmine?
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You're very wonderful, magnificent, glorious, punctual.
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Punctual.
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Punctual, sorry.
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Bigger than you expect it to be when you're in person.
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It's very detailed.
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Oh, wow.
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Definitely magnificent is a great word for it.
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I love it.
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Here's the pantheon.
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Wow.
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Holy fox.
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You just come around the corner and then boom.
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That's insane.
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Where should we go?
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Around the corner.
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Around the corner?
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Okay, got it.
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Wow, look at the size.
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Yo, people from all around the world, look at it and tell me, how would you describe this beauty right here?
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Leave a comment right below this video.
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It's so ancient.
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I can see those blocks right there.
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I can imagine how people were bringing those blocks all the way to the top
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of this building you just keep on climbing all the way to the top
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absolutely let's let me grab it thank you
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so much i'm going to get you a lot of girls right here
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so number one let's think she was a person selling roses have a safe flight
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this is how we're going to rock
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it now we're going to give these flowers to all the girls passing by and guys there we go
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She's looking at us.
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Excuse me, lady.
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That's for you.
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You have an amazing rest of your day.
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How does your family feel about you leaving your home and coming to Italy while you're a teenager?
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They have always supported my journey to Italy and are happy that I'm following my dream, but of course they're sad that I'm far away.
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But they always have an excuse to come to Italy on vacation now. So true.
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The family and I will move on tomorrow, far away from here.
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That's a pretty positive way of thinking about it.
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But I'm very fortunate that they've always supported me.
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When I first came as an exchange student when I was 16,
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they told me maybe wait until you're in university so you can study abroad when you're older.
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And then I convinced them.
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So it worked out.
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And do you miss your friends in the US?
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Yes, of course.
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I do miss my friends and family.
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But that's what you have to sacrifice when you move abroad.
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It's worth it.
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It is definitely worth it.
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Hey, is it worth it?
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Oh, yeah, it's worth it. If you're strong enough.
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Then you make new friends and you have a new life, new language, new culture.
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I love living in a place where they have a different culture, different language yeah and immerse myself it's a really great experience
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and what's your favorite phrase in italian my favorite word in italian is which means carefree carefully carefree
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you don't have any cares oh wow and you're just living with yeah that's cool and you also speak Spanish right?
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Yes.
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Excuse me lady, this is for you.
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You had amazing.
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No, I have to go to work.
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It's okay.
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Okay, give somebody else.
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You got it.
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She was like she wanted to take it and she was thinking about it.
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I think Spanish and Italian are the most beautiful languages in the world. So true.
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I would agree with you if I would not speak Brazilian Portuguese.
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I love both of these languages to be honest.
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Spanish, especially Spanish, Italian as well, but Brazilian Portuguese,
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portuguese oh my gosh okay let's actually have a battle right here okay why do you think italian
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and spanish are two the most beautiful languages in the world it sounds like a song
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or like you're singing when you speak the languages i love
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that i got you on my skin now why do you make it
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so hard that sounds like a song have you heard brazilian portuguese only a little bit okay can you say hi
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Hi, my name is Izzy, nice to meet you in Italian.
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Perfect, now can you say it in Spanish?
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Hola, me llamo Izzy, encantada.
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Now I'm going to say it in Portuguese.
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Beleza, mio nome è o Sergi, molto prazer!
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It sounds very different.
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Yeah.
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Which out of these three languages sounds the most beautiful to you?
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Thank you.
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And give us a list of three, like put a number one, number two, and number three.
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My numbers are Brazilian Portuguese, number one, Spanish, number two, Italian, number three.
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What do you think?
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Mine is number one, Italian, number two, Spanish, number three, Brazilian Portuguese.
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Yay, completely the other way around.
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We'll see what they think.
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This is the greatest yarn in journalism since Livingston discovered Stanley.
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The other way around.
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Oh, well, don't get technical at a time like this.
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You realize what you've done, honey.
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And in Italy, there are also different dialects.
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So in different regions of Italy they speak different dialects.
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Some of them are actual languages, like in Naples there's Neapolitan, which is its own language.
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And then in other regions it's just, it's similar to Italian.
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Maybe some words are different, it depends on the region here in Rome.
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It's very similar to Italian.
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Is that what I think it is?
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Depends on what you think it is.
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It's not really its own language.
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Oh wow!
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Yeah, I was in Catania and the girl was telling me that...
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That Catanian dialect is quite different from Northern Italian dialect.
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And a lot of times we will be like, what does that mean?
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For example, in Rome, so in Italian, let's go is andiamo.
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But in Roman dialect, it's namo.
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Aniamo or namo.
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So in Roman, they just shorten the words basically.
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Yeah, fair enough.
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Just like Americans.
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Fair enough, Mr. Tolson.
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fair enough good morning lady excuse me that's for you i hope you're enjoying this morning
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and let's imagine you have graduated you finished your program you finished your university
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and now you're ready to explore this world
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and find your job where would you go
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and what would you want to do for now i like living in rome are they gone yeah
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i think we're safe for now i want to be an english teacher in a high school here
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so i hope to continue with
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that that's awesome i wish i would have american english teacher
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when i was learning english at school
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but my teacher was cool excuse me lady
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that's for you you have an amazing rest of your morning thank you i have an idea
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you can ask the military guys here a question
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if you want to know sure
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but they probably won't speak english i can translate
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it let's ask them a couple of questions latin what i mean
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i think it sounds like latin can you translate it play
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it again excuse me guys do you speak english yeah perfect
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can i ask you a couple questions excellent what are the norms
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or standards of physical exercises for military to to become a
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military person for example how many pull -ups how many
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push -ups do you have to do 30 push -ups 30
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push -ups 40 sit up drop down give me 30 sit up right
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now let's go count them in let me see
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that belly roll one pull -ups uh it's uh if you want to uh or increments your points,
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you can do it.
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But it's not required.
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Yeah, exactly.
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Excellent.
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Well, thank you so much for an amazing rest of the day.
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I always wondered, because I've been working out my entire life.
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Like almost every morning I wake up, I do 100 pushups.
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Shaggy, you'll make a great gym teacher and I'll make a great assistant.
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See, I've been working out.
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Not 30, but I guess that's still good to have some standards.
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Because in a lot of countries, you can see police officers or military folks with big bellies like this.
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And they're completely out of shape.
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And I'm like, okay.
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I'm out of shape.
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Oh, is it a breakfast time?
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Breakfast time.
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Wow!
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Isn't that amazing?
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Yeah, I love it.
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If the whole world could see right now through this camera right here, what would you share with them?
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Is there something, some piece of wisdom that you always wanted to share with the whole world?
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Always follow your dreams
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and don't listen to anyone who wants to discourage you always follow your passion
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and do what you love and hit the like button below
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and I'll see you on the next video
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but is there a line you know maybe you go too far
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and you discourage the next Charlie Parker from ever becoming Charlie Parker
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Comprehensible Input English American Native Speaker Conversation Practice B1 B2 C1 C2”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: italian, language, english, Italy, speak. This video has 356 sentences and 3198 words to shadow. The speech runs for 19:57. The speaker talks at a natural 160 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 87% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| magnificent adjective | /mæɡˈnɪfəsənt/ | Grand, elegant or splendid in appearance. |
| abroad adverb | /əˈbɹɔːd/ | Beyond the bounds of a country; in foreign countries. |
| blend verb | /blɛnd/ | To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other. |
| shock noun | /ʃɔk/ | A sudden, heavy impact. |
| tear verb | /tɛɹ/ | To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate. |
| imperial adjective | /ɪmˈpɪɹ.i.əl/ | Related to an empire, emperor, or empress. |
| depend verb | /dɪˈpɛnd/ | To be contingent or conditioned; to have something as a necessary condition |
| grammar noun | /ˈɡɹæm.ə(ɹ)/ | A system of rules and principles for the structure of a language, or of languages in general. |
| belly noun | /ˈbɛli/ | The abdomen (especially a fat one). |
| teenager noun | /ˈtiːnˌeɪ̯d͡ʒə/ | A person between thirteen and nineteen years old (inclusive). |
| subscribe verb | /səbˈskɹaɪb/ | To write (one’s name) at the bottom of a document; to sign (one's name). |
| translate verb | /tɹænzˈleɪt/ | To change spoken words or written text (of a book, document, movie, etc.) from one language to another. |
| fountain noun | /ˈfaʊn.tɪn/ | A natural source of water; a spring. |
| discourage verb | /dɪsˈkɝɪd͡ʒ/ | To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject. |
| pronunciation noun | /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/ | The formal or informal way in which a word is made to sound when spoken. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| work out verb | /ˌwɝk ˈaʊt/ | To calculate. |
| give away verb | To make a gift of (something). | |
| sit up verb | To assume a sitting position from a position lying down. | |
| come around verb | /kʌ.məˈɹaʊnd/ | To change one's mind, especially to begin to agree or appreciate what one was reluctant to accept at first. |
| come through verb | To come into a room or other space through a door or passageway. | |
| drop down verb | To sail, move, or row down a coast, or down a river to the sea. | |
| find out verb | To discover, as by asking or investigating. | |
| go back verb | To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- Where are you originally from?
- Do you think you made a really positive impact?
- How many countries have you been to?
- When do you guys eat dinner in your country?
- Is that what I think it 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 | I've been working |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | Have you ever been · i've traveled · i've always traveled |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | speak, which means · old, which is · Neapolitan, which is |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 69 contractions and reduced forms, such as you're, don't, I'm. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: pantheon /ˈpænθiˌɑn/, withhold /wɪθˈhoʊld/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: shock /ʃɔk/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, passion /ˈpæʃən/, vacation /veɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/, occupation /ˌɑkjʊˈpeɪʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: magnificent /mæɡˈnɪfəsənt/, imperial /ɪmˈpɪɹ.i.əl/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, communicate /kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/, occupation /ˌɑkjʊˈpeɪʃən/
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 magnificent, abroad, blend.
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.