Shadowing Practice: Comprehensible Input English Conversation --- B1 B2 C1 Poland - Learn English Speaking with Video

If you learn English to get an international job or to travel all around the world,

you simply need to follow the example of those who have already done it.

And in this video, you will see a conversation of two gringos,

nomads, or simply put, those professionals who travel around the world

and work remotely with B2 So if you want to sound like us,

all you need to do is simply shadow us.

Which means pause this video every 5 seconds and repeat everything we say.

Alright, ready to get started?

Hit the like button below and let's kick it off!

I think Brazilians are chronically late.

They said you were chronically late, hard to work with, and that you went over budget by 20 grand.

Probably they live in their own time zone, which is always 17 to 45 minutes behind the time.

The next Christmas.

Yo, dude!

How you doing?

Good to meet you, man, for the first time in my life.

Spill the tea.

Tell me, what the heck are you doing in Poland if you're a Brazilian?

So, Julie, spill the tea.

I work remotely, I run my own business which is online so I'm able to work from anywhere

and I have a group of friends who also all work remotely, we met traveling and then we try to get together every now and again just to like catch up and work together.

Well um every now and again a purge if you will is not such a bad thing.

Poland and Brazil are like completely different sides of of the world.

How do you feel here?

The culture must be quite different compared to Brazilians.

In a way, yeah, but also Warsaw is the capital, as you know.

Capitals have their own unique culture because they have more international people, I think they're a bit more open, but I feel very much at home.

It feels very nice, yeah.

Nice, so you're a nomad.

I wouldn't say that, but aspiring nomad, I would call it.

I live full-time in Brazil still.

I have my house in Brazil, but I just like to travel and whenever I can travel, I try to.

Misfits and gypsies and nomads.

We were all running away from something.

How come you sound like American?

I would say you sound like 90% American in my opinion.

I learned English mostly by myself, like watching videos and playing video games and stuff.

Watch me rep this damn culture all by my damn self.

But for six months to a year, I had a private tutor back in Brazil, and he was a really, really good English teacher.

He just had a very nice teaching philosophy, I guess.

Shout out Igor if he's watching the video, I'll probably send it to him.

Nice.

The answer to your question is just all the content that I consume, or not all of it, but like 95% comes from the US, watching movies, watching YouTube videos from like the popular YouTubers.

That's why.

I lived in London for like six months-ish, five months, and I got none of the British accent.

It's actually a shame, I wish I had it.

Well, I think it's a shame.

A shame that our current mayor wants to waste taxpayer money on such an obvious political stunt.

The friend that I'm living here with now, he's from the UK and I'm always poking fun at him trying to like put on the accent but I can't.

We should invite him for a video.

It'll be fun to give him shit and to get some shit about American accent.

We all sound like Americans while British sounds very sophisticated. In it.

I am the Shermanator a Sophisticated sex robot sent back through

time to change the future for one lucky lady What brought you to like to the US?

To the US first and then you travel around quite a bit there Sometimes would be job

because I became a software quality assurance engineer pretty much a person who verifies the quality of Software

and I went for a training to Silicon Valley

and then I got my first job in Los Angeles I and I hated Los Angeles.

I thought Los Angeles.

It was just Traffic jams, bums or homeless folks, and the heat, and the crazy heat during the summertime.

No. The traffic jam is being caused by problems on the M25, the freeway that circles London.

But then when I moved there, when I started making money, when I started making like 80, 90, 100, 150, 20,000 dollars per year, I was like, hmm, I kind of like it.

When I rented more expensive apartments, that was a pleasure to live in LA.

I mean, it feels like whatever you you make a lot of money

doesn't really matter where you are you can have a really

good access a better life yeah what's the plot twist in your life story ah

so plot twist Linda's actually my mom I don't know

if you call it a plot twist

but growing up I was very much into video games yeah

also again one of the ways I learned English better

and my dream was to be a professional League of Legends

player League of Legends player yeah I was always very I was very competitive.

I was playing basketball for a while, then playing video games in general, playing Call of Duty.

You're a game addict.

Uh, not anymore, but in the past very much I was, yeah.

A video game addict who combined modern gamer sexism with old-timey slang.

Thankfully I wasn't good enough to go professional.

Why so?

Because I think I'm living a better life now doing something else, so that's the plot twist I was going to tell you, you know?

Oh, I see.

I was striving for that.

It didn't go as planned or like didn't go as I wanted to go.

If the universe is truly endless, then are we not striving for something forever out of reach?

But that led me to just starting to work early, freelancing, which eventually became my own business, and now that gives me the opportunity to travel and do other cool things,

which I think is a better life than if I was still a gaming professional.

Hold on!

If you will not hit the like button below right now, I'm going to clean up my table.

I'm gonna find you and...

You don't want that to happen.

So hit the like button right now and let's continue What's the real story behind the Chinese ghost town?

Okay, that's a great headline by the way The thing that I wrote you on WhatsApp.

Yeah, the story of a vigilante army taking down Escobar made for great headlines People want to look up more information.

There's this thing called the network store.

The website is ns.com It's this project that was founded by the Silicon Valley guy.

I don't know if you know, Balaji Srinivasan.

Basically, he sent this email.

He partnered up with Brian Johnson, the longevity guy.

I don't know if you know.

They partnered up and they sent this email being like, oh, we got an island.

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We're looking for people who are young, ambitious, want to do like startup, longevity, whatever.

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If you're interested, here's the link to apply.

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We'll be in touch.

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I take this because there's potentially some longevity benefits.

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I did and then they got back to me.

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It's kind of hard to explain to be fair, but the way I see it is like some sort of like startup school thing, you know, a place where you go to like lock in and there's lots of help things there.

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There's a nice gym, there's a big community, people from all over the world.

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It was supposed to be like a summer, like a vacation spot for Chinese people.

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Yeah.

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But then it ended up not going well.

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The company went bankrupt that was developing it.

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Oh.

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And it was like abandoned for many years.

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In order to stop me, you need to find me first.

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Metro-man.

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We're at the abandoned observatory.

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Aha!

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No, but not!

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And they are now trying to bring it back up again, you know?

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Like, redevelop...

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It's very, very nice.

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It's where I met all these friends that I was telling you about.

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Interesting, you'll definitely look it up.

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People romanticize the laptop lifestyle.

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What's the part that they don't see but actually hurts?

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But of course women like to romanticize about things.

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Yes, they do, don't they?

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Yes, they do, don't they?

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Uh, well, I wouldn't say hurt.

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I think that's a bit...

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Over-exaggerated.

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Overly exaggerated, but...

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The competition is literally in four weeks and the routine is a complete nightmare.

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I think you're exaggerating.

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No, listen.

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It's just, I guess with everything, this is a common phenomenon, but people will always see like the Instagram story.

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Yeah.

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Like if we're here, this is like a good, this is amazing, amazing view that we have here.

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Your poster story, I'm in war, so it's Thursday.

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We're like, ah, he's, you know, no one's working when they're traveling.

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And it's very much the opposite.

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Like yesterday, I was up until like 1 a.m working because I had to deliver some, some high five, you know?

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You look tired.

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It was up until about 3 a.m processing the scene.

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But it's not bad.

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Like, I like the work that I do.

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I enjoy my job.

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Exactly.

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And so it's just, I guess, what people romanticize is this idea that it will be like traveling for tourism, but while you're working, and it's very much not that.

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You have to be ready to work from cafes and find co-working spots and spend lots of time.

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It's a different type of traveling.

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Yeah.

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If you're just used to traveling for tourism.

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but it's also very nice because you get to discover

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and meet like a different side of the city that you wouldn't normally do.

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It has its upsides and downsides, but as a whole, I really, really enjoy it.

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LLC agreements.

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You're shitting me.

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Being a corporate lawyer, you know, it's got its upsides.

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It's got it.

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Wow!

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On the previous, one of the previous videos, I promised 100 bucks to a person who will guess my age and the age of that guy right there.

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And nobody guessed it so far.

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So what I've decided is on this video, if we get 400 comments, as simple as

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that, I'm going to randomly pick a name of one of the folks who left a comment below our video, and I will send 100 bucks to no matter where you are,

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no matter what continent, what bank account you use, I'll find a way and I'll send you 100 bucks.

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What you have to do is simply leave a comment right below this video.

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And what do we plan to say?

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What you do for work and what you like about your job.

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Tell us what you do professionally and what you like about your job.

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And if you actually like it or not, simply leave a comment right below this video.

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100 bucks, I promise, I will send it.

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And on the last video, we have approximately 300 comments if I'm not mistaken.

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So, 100 more and some of you guys will get 100 bucks.

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What do we have here?

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Didelphus marsupialis virginian anise.

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Approximately 10 pounds.

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Male.

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One of the guys from India left 25 comments on the last video.

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He really wants to get that 100 bucks.

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Respect the effort.

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Yeah.

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Talking about money, what's the, I would say, financial difference between living a life in Brazil and in Poland?

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Oh, it's cheaper in Brazil?

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I'm from a very small city, so as I was telling you, I'm from Casillas do Sul, which is the second biggest city in my state.

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So it's not as expensive.

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Like if you go to Sao Paulo, if you go to Rio, I would say that probably the cost of living is much closer to Warsaw, or like let's call it tier two capitals in Europe.

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But yeah, compared to where I'm from, It's just also not as many cool things to do, so you end up spending less in general, just because you might as well just stay home and watch movies.

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That makes sense.

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Have you already dated anyone in Poland?

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What's the biggest difference between dates in Brazil and in Poland?

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I dated a cricket once in San Antonio.

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Man, those crazy legs kept me up all night.

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Hachiiwa.

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All right, have any conclusions based on the experiences that I've had so far?

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Um, why are you trying to kill us?

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It's classic villain.

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We've seen too much.

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Let's not jump to conclusions.

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We don't know.

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He's trying to kill us.

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He's trying to kill us!

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It's just obviously in Brazil people are much more open.

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So I guess it's easier or like it feels more natural to walk up to someone and talk to them.

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If you're out in a bar or in a club or something like that.

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It's like an energy you feel from like looking at people where they're like more open, less open.

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Exactly.

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It makes sense.

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It's just that.

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Smile wise, do you see more smiles or less smiles here in Europe?

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I don't know, much more in Brazil.

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How many countries have you been to?

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Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, the States, Bahamas.

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I've been to a couple of the Caribbean islands, so maybe six.

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France, UK, England, I don't know, maybe 15, something like that.

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Which one did you like the most and why?

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I really like Paris.

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A lot of people hate on it for some reason.

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People say it's bad, it's dirty, it's whatever.

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I disagree, I think Paris is amazing.

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The best one, my favorite one is Brazil.

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Brazil, sorry enough.

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The more you travel, the more you appreciate where you come from.

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Enjoy and appreciate these trees while you can.

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I appreciate Brazil much more after traveling for a while than I did when I was younger or in the past.

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When I went to Brazil, I realized it always was country number one from even though I haven't been there.

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And I realized it is still definitely number one.

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What I realized is that you were right.

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Florepa is my number one spot in Brazil.

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If I had to pick one place in Brazil to live, it would be Florianopolis.

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I think it's very underrated.

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You've got a mountain on one side, sand dunes on the other side.

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You got ocean on the next side.

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And the fucking sunset.

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I was like, holy fucks.

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Yeah.

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These aren't snow drifts.

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They're sand dunes.

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That was crazy.

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By the way, you guys talking about fucks, if you notice this t-shirt that says, I haven't noticed it.

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Oh, nice.

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Don't give a fucks, speak English.

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And that's our platform that I have developed for people like you from all around the world

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where we practice English three times per week, where you can talk to folks from more than 120 countries all over the world,

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just like on this video right here.

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And if you wanna join us, you gotta hit the like button right now,

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and you gotta subscribe to our channel and simply follow foxu.com.

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This is a personal question for me.

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Why do you like Brazil so much?

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You said before going, you already thought it was great, and then after going, they confirmed their theories?

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Like what is it about it that?

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Three things.

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Number one, people.

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Brazilians are one of the warmest nations in the world.

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Brazilians.

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You say that?

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Exactly.

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One of the warmest and the kindest.

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And I think that's because, generally speaking, there were not many wars, and it's one of the best climates in the world.

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True.

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So there is not much to be unhappy about, except the politics and the economical situation.

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But it's a different story.

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So mostly people are super positive.

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They just like to drink, dance, have sex.

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That's the entire Brazilian life.

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That's a stereotype, but alright.

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You can have a nice pile of bananas, alright?

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Bananas.

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Oh, I see.

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Because I'm a monkey, I must love bananas, right?

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That is a vicious stereotype. So, people...

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You're screaming or something?

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No, we're recording a video for the YouTube.

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You wanna be with us?

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Yeah.

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What's your name, brother?

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Maciej.

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Maciej.

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Nice to meet you, Maciej.

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You're Polish, huh?

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Yes.

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You're a badass dude.

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Can you guess?

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I'll give you $100 if you will guess where I'm from from one shot. So...

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I might lose 100 bucks.

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Serbia.

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Nooo, thanks guys.

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I'm not from...

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Was I close?

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No. Was I close?

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What do you do, dude?

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You're cool.

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I have this skateboard deck.

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Huh?

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My friend on Sunday, we had a golf skateboarding day, like international skating day, you know.

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And he was going downhill and he hit with his head with a metal pole.

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Oh shit and here's right now in coma in the Rostock.

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And we are rapidly approaching Glacier Gulch, which just happens to be the steepest downhill frame in the world.

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I suggest we all hold on tightly.

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We have this deck.

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We're getting it signed by very famous Polish rappers and we were giving it to the auction.

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To the auction.

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Yeah.

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To sell it.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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And there all the money goes to treatment

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that is irrelevant the highest number has supremacy you've clearly never

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been to an auction that's tit for tat that's exactly how

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the situation in the middle east began right now i think we have like hundred thousand zlotties

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but we're going for three hundred thousand dang do you want

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to share your information with me i'm going to leave it right below this video

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and also i'll chip in Yeah, I know.

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Thank you very much.

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Thank you, brother.

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You're doing great thing.

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I need to go for this.

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Thank you so much for your time.

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Thank you.

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You're cool, brother.

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I think it's good for you, brother.

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Cool Polish folks.

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Yeah, that's what I love about this country.

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The people are, they look tough, but they're very kind inside.

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We had one of the sessions recently.

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There were three guys from Poland and they were like, all of them were like huge dudes.

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And I asked them, yo, guys, are you all that big in Poland?

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Or am I just lucky to get three of you guys here?

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They're and they're laughing the like kind of smirking or smiling.

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They're like well when I go to gym I usually feel like I'm the smallest one Well, I don't want to go to your gym there.

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I can see you smirking in there X-ray vision that is very true.

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I was so surprised like it caught me off guard But so many big guys here like big guys.

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Yeah, he's huge.

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Yeah So you've been doing a lot of things throughout your life.

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What's the skill that paid off way later?

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I thought it was a big risk, but...

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It's a big risk, but it paid off.

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It's kind of my motto.

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I don't know if you know the guys from the YouTube channel Yes Theory.

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They were more popular a while back, but they have lots of videos where it's just like spontaneous things

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and inviting the Uber driver to go skydiving or something like that.

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You know those crazy?

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And it's like Yes Theory because it's like the more you say yes to like spontaneous, like adventurous things, the more cool things happen in your life.

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And I guess that's been a big one.

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Their motto, like their brand is called Seek Discomfort.

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Uh, so just trying out different experiences.

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I'm Brazilian, so it's, it's that like, yeah, we're all a bit, uh, extroverted, but I feel I'm a bit uncomfortable right now.

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You know, like we're being people who are noticing us and walking around and not speaking to my mother tongue.

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So like all those things, but it's been very nice.

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And so who knows what can come out of an experience like this, you know?

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So just saying yes to lots of different things.

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Well, that'll be fine.

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Cause I really think the second half, it's just more about what can come out.

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You said you've tracked your mood

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and daily habits for a thousand days on a roll and you still do it now in Notion.

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Are you obsessed with patterns or what's the drill here?

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I'm so obsessed with the idea of being in love that I just, it's like I completely lose myself.

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Actually like basic story, I guess there's this guy, I don't know if you know him, Matt D'Avella on YouTube.

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He's a filmmaker.

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He produced the minimalist documentary.

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Oh, yes.

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Famous back in the day.

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A little over a thousand days ago, he posted a video that was talking about how he tracked his mood for 30 days.

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Yeah.

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And I thought the idea was really nice to like track your daily habits and track I felt good today, I felt a bit anxious,

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I felt very energized and then try and like match the patterns you know.

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There's no need to be anxious, you'll do fine.

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So on days that I don't exercise maybe I feel a bit more anxious, on days that I do cardio maybe I feel more generally happy.

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Now it's become a habit to do it every day

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but it's very very nice

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and I also feel like it's a great tool for grounding you in reality

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so sometimes you'll be having like a horrible like couple of days

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but then you look back

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and you're like oh the past couple weeks have been very nice

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and it just helps you be grateful for like life is actually really good you know exactly to appreciate your life

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one downside of Warsaw for everyone lots of ambulances fire trucks I don't know why it is so loud

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I want to get some water and I'm getting hungry already yeah don't get some food But I could use some water.

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What?

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Just because I could just use some water because I get thirsty.

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They all speak English.

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I wonder how many percent of Polish people speak English?

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Excuse me lady, do you speak English?

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Perfect, are you Polish?

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How many percent of Polish people speak English?

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Depends on the city, I would say.

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More so, most people mostly speak English, but other people it depends.

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Not really, I would say.

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Most, right?

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Yes.

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Nice, that's cool.

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Thank you, appreciate it.

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Hi there.

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Hey, can I get two waters?

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Sure, can we just take it from here or?

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Oh, you're from each.

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I prefer from here.

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Me too, yeah, Nashua is better.

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I got you, I got you.

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Oh, thanks man.

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Yeah, no worries.

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Brazilians, so kind.

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You should act pay for everyone, so thank you brother, I appreciate it.

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No, no, no worries.

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Okay, okay, okay, I got you.

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I got you.

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What's your name, brother?

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What's your name?

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Crispy.

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Crispy, nice to meet you.

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What's your name?

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Sergio.

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Yeah, you're on YouTube channel?

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Yep, we're recording for YouTube.

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You guys gotta be on YouTube do are you students do

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you work I am after the major in high school nice

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there we go

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if you want to improve your English join us right here

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man it's all about learning English thank you for joining us

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you're cool have a good one guys nice shirt by the

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way Polish people are cool on this good note thank you

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so much for your time it was pleasure amazing yeah we'll

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definitely catch up again 100% yeah I'm going to steal your mic I want the Brazilian steal from you?

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Not this time.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This C1 speaking lesson is built on the video “Comprehensible Input English Conversation --- B1 B2 C1 Poland”. This video has 422 sentences and 4007 words to shadow. The speech runs for 20:34. The speaker talks fast, about 195 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 84% 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

The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
buck noun	/ˈbʌk/	A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret, salmonid, shad, skunk and kangaroo.
nomad noun	/ˈnoʊmæd/	A member of a society or class who herd animals from pasture to pasture with no fixed home.
exaggerate verb	/ɛɡˈzæd͡ʒ.ə.ɹeɪt/	To overstate, to describe more than the fact.
romanticize verb	/roʊˈmæntɪsaɪz/	To interpret, view, or portray something in a romantic (unrealistic, idealized) manner.
longevity noun	/lɒnˈd͡ʒɛv.ɪ.ti/	The quality of being long-lasting, especially of life.
remotely adverb	/ɹɪˈmoʊtli/	At a distance, far away.
banana noun	/bəˈnænə/	An elongated curved tropical fruit of a banana plant, which grows in bunches and has a creamy flesh and a smooth skin.
chronically adverb		In a chronic manner, or to a chronic degree.
crispy adjective	/ˈkɹɪs.pi/	Having a crisp texture; brittle yet tender.
dune noun	/djuːn/	A ridge or hill of sand piled up by currents of wind or water.
obsess verb	/əbˈsɛs/	To be preoccupied with a single topic or emotion.
skateboard noun	/ˈskeɪt.bɔɹd/	A narrow, wooden or plastic platform mounted on pairs of wheels, on which one stands and propels oneself by pushing along the ground with one foot.
smirk noun	/smɝk/	An uneven, often crooked smile that is insolent, self-satisfied, conceited or scornful.
stereotype noun	/ˈstɛ.ɹi.əˌtaɪp/	A conventional, formulaic, and often oversimplified or exaggerated conception, opinion, or image of (a person or a group of people).
downside noun	/ˈdaʊnˌsaɪd/	A disadvantageous aspect of something that is normally advantageous.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
catch up verb		To pick up suddenly.
end up verb		To bring to a conclusion.
pay off verb		To bribe, especially to deter oversight.
back up verb		To move backwards, especially for a vehicle to do so.
clean up verb		To make an area or a thing clean; to pick up a mess; to tidy.
come out verb	/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/	To be discovered; to be revealed.
get back to verb		Return to (an activity)
get together verb		To meet, to gather together, to congregate.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

How do you feel here?
What do we have here?
How many countries have you been to?
Which one did you like the most and why?
You can have a nice pile of bananas, alright?

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result	if he's watching the video, I'll probably · if you go to Rio, I would say
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	have already done · I've decided · We've seen
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	those who have · zone, which is · business which is
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	being caused · was founded · is called

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 113 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, you're, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “sh” and “zh” sounds: assurance /əˈʃʊɹəns/, vicious /ˈvɪʃəs/, ambitious /æmˈbɪʃ.əs/, shout /ʃaʊt/
Long words — get the stress right: exaggerate /ɛɡˈzæd͡ʒ.ə.ɹeɪt/, romanticize /roʊˈmæntɪsaɪz/, longevity /lɒnˈd͡ʒɛv.ɪ.ti/, stereotype /ˈstɛ.ɹi.əˌtaɪp/, spontaneous /spɑnˈteɪ.ni.əs/

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 buck, nomad, exaggerate.

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.

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