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

if you want to improve your english you simply have to

do two things number one listen listen to native speakers or to those who you enjoy listening to number two

you have to speak otherwise you cannot speak english you have to start speaking english What?

And the best way to start speaking is to shadow those who you enjoy listening to.

So what you're gonna do is you're going to pause this video every 5 seconds

and repeat every single word we say in exactly the same way.

Now hit the like button below, subscribe to our channel and let's get started.

this time i am a little bit brazilian

because i'm fashionably late my two co -models are running fashionably late we're going to have a conversation with canadian

or american oh there she is oh my gosh welcome finally

good to meet you well thank you for finally finding me it was a pleasure let's actually go

that way because i haven't been on that side and i think

that is one of the most historical parts of this city

isn't it yes yeah i'm not too good at history

so i don't know how much i can tell you i mean just based on the roofs

and based on the architecture i can say

that side looks quite more historical than that side do you know what

that is uh it's a bucket yes

and do you know why i have this bucket

because the roof is leaking no that's the bucket for the leak

so your name is salty

and where are you from i'm from canada from canada i'm from alberta canada i'm from edmonton

if you've heard of it right now i'm an english teaching assistant

but back home in canada i was a nurse

and i worked in public health oh wow what the hell

are you doing it's not me you're done it's him or these needles

i need a damn nurse who knows what they're doing you're wasting time i got this that's fascinating What about you?

Phenomenal.

Thank you, I do.

Jeannie, you look phenomenal.

Well, semi -phenomenal actually.

How do you like European culture and people kind of always dress up here compared to the US and Canada?

Because in the US, and I assume in Canada the same thing as in the US where people wear pajamas and they don't care about anyone.

Why are you wearing pajamas?

These are pajamas.

This is a warm -up suit

but here they usually dress up whenever they go outside yeah yeah i'm still getting used to that

because i'm so used to like going out in sweatpants

and stuff and then here i have to like i get dirty looks

if i go out in the sweatpants

so people i didn't even know gave me dirty looks on

the street wait wait am i walking too am i walking too fast no no i know i'm short

but i just usually walk really fast and that's why i prefer to ask you before before you get tired

so you've been teaching your or assisting teacher english teachers in high school middle school

or esl no in preschool

so yeah i have two to three year olds nice he lived in the basement of the preschool

and you kids were his life and they are mostly like czech speaking yeah

so i kind of have to learn a little bit of czech too oh wow i'm there it's just so

that they hear english like every day pretty much how do you like czech language it's it's hard it's crazy

but i like it a lot like i'm learning step by step i think yeah

but um the grammar is really hard what do you like

the most about czech republic um i like just like the

work like the work -life balance here it exists it's like

very slow living in europe i feel work -life balance let's give it a Okay.

People really prioritize the work -life balance.

Yeah.

If you're off at five, you're off.

No one's contacting you.

And then in Canada, I feel like the hustle culture is very strong there.

You're expected to go above and beyond even after work hours.

Yeah.

And I don't like that.

Absolutely.

We've got a little life.

If that goes well, I'll consider you for the first lady piece.

Okay.

Okay, sure.

What is it? toxicity of hustle culture double standards of women in the workplace whoa look at

that car oh my gosh cool such a retro yeah we're classy

so what have you been doing since you've got to Prague

since I got to Prague I was working a lot as

I spent majority of my life in the US yeah I

would say I'm more American than European in the classroom is where I did the majority of my illustrations

so I was working non -stop yeah you're doing the hustle culture Yeah, I run a couple of companies

and this YouTube channel has inspired me to open a platform for people from all around the world to practice English speaking.

uh -huh i was inspired

and i'm an accountant by the way guys that's a platform

where you can connect with people from all around the world from more than 130 countries

and practice english speaking where ai will listen to your language and will give you feedback

after the call so you would know your mistakes you would know what to correct that's amazing yeah

that is fun you meet people every day yeah oh wow look at this guy it's great it's a fire show

yeah there's all kinds of crazy things on this bridge like i love it it's

so gorgeous oh my gosh recently i talked to a guy

whose name is fabrizio from brazil he was like saji thank

you for the word gorgeous i've heard it multiple times i've heard i've heard you saying

that word and i picked it up myself i was like oh nice that's

so cute yeah that's like the best way to learn is

like hearing native speakers do it i feel just imagine you're a foreigner you were born in brazil

or in japan or in philippines

and you want to learn english how would you start what would you do first i would start like

if i don't live in the country i would start by

just like listening to it as much as you can it's like exactly what you do

yeah i was taking something with those people i like to watch like my comfort shows

because i know the script already i can memorize like what they're gonna say

when you've had a bad day When you've just watched something that is really like out there and like depressing

You need a comfort show.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, I know it in English And if I hear it in Czech, then I can compare what the words are.

That's brilliant. So

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Listen to something in your native language and then listen to it in English

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because you already know the context and Learning I find something

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that helps is like learning the music of that language already especially rap music like Eminem, I think it's really helpful.

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Yeah, and that's hilarious.

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When I was learning English with Eminem, I came to my farmer and I was like, Hey, yo, Joe, I learned English by singing Eminem songs.

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And he was like, Sergi, Eminem doesn't speak English.

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Yeah, it's like a different language, I feel like.

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His rap, his flow.

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It's so swanky.

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It's thick flow.

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Method Man, nobody had his cadence, his flow it was unique original maybe in one of the following videos i'll take a couple of songs apart

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so people would see how they could learn it that's how

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we like teach kids in the preschool too is like nursery rhymes

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and singing and i watch like peppa pig or like friends in czech

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so i learned i learned that way too peppa pig in czech i can only imagine

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that czech language is so cute oh my gosh you're

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so cute the way to say like chips is like chipsy

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that sounds like brazilian really yeah and brazil has really cute words too yeah

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so yeah brazilians whenever they speak english usually they add e at the end

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so it's not a facebook it's facebooky yeah that's the one

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i love i love brazilian on one of the previous videos

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i've asked you guys to leave a comment right below our video

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and if we would get 400 comments i would send 100 pick a random comment

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and send 100 dollars to that person

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so i wanted to say congratulations to juliana from colombia to this guy right here

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so on this video with beautiful sophie we're going to also give away $100

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if you guys will leave a comment right below this video and

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if you will answer this question now what would you like

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to find out about people from 130 countries around the world

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well I make a lot of content about like the whimsical things of Czech culture so maybe

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if they can comment what the most whimsical thing about their culture the most whimsical thing yeah is

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that a good question sure

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and a whimsical is a unique thing about unique something unique cute something like

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that kind of romanticizes your culture a little bit attack ah

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whimsical weapons they're useless all right guys well leave a comment right below this video

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and i will run after we're gonna get 400 comments i'm going to randomly pick a comment

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and send 100 to possibly you right here

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but don't forget to hit the like button below

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and to subscribe to our channel what's up bro where you're

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from we're from guys germany awesome oh you're from germany yeah

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dang can you guess where are you from i'll give you honey bucks if you guess you did not

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one more try one more try

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hungry you did not guess him all right guys have a good one from the united states cheers

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I love love teenagers because they're open -minded yeah they're

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so cool yeah they don't have any fears any major mostly no traumas

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that they would you know would kind of no border

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so like yo what's up you're cool where you from yeah sometimes they scare me but those ones are cool

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i'm open -minded come on let's check it out i'm actually thirsty

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if you want to do and drink something i'm

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so thirsty you want to go to like a convenience store

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and get something sure yeah i want to get water we can get something else as well

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if you'd like to i'm fine

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but we can stop somewhere i've seen convenience stores in flicks before

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but i've never seen an entire flick set in a convenience store whoa look at

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that castle holy fox this is the clock tower the clock tower Look at the goosebumps on my skin.

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You're like, I've never seen this before.

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I've never been to such a beautiful place in my life.

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And the sounds, it gives you goosebumps.

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Guys, if you ever travel throughout the world, you gotta come to Prague.

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Yeah, you do.

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Look at it.

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Like, this is all you need to know.

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Oh, look at this clock.

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Yeah.

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That's a piece of art.

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This is like the most famous, one of the famous sites.

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No way.

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I've never heard about it.

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Wow.

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I wish I knew more history about it.

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I could tell you, but I don't.

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Me neither.

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No worries.

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Do you love yourself?

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I wish I knew.

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Damn, guys.

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A little bit upset.

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I'm asking him a question.

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Excuse me, young man.

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Can I ask you a couple of questions?

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Yeah, you can ask him.

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Where are you usually from, brother?

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He's like, Mom, save me!

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Who's this stranger?

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But it worked!

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Wow, look at those bubbles right there.

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Yeah, it's so cool.

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Air bubbles!

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Oh my gosh!

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The question is, Dory, are you hungry?

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Hungry?

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Yeah, because you're about to eat my bubbles!

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Oh my gosh!

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Let's get into them!

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Yay!

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Boom!

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Like, this is whimsical, I would say like musical yeah we wanted to get a

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drink though we have to find a store let's ask these

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guys i'm pretty sure they can just sell us a bottle

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of water excuse me lady do you have water by chance

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can i get a bottle of water to go you can

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but it's quite expensive to get it just like can i

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help you hi can i get a large coffee to go that's fine how much is it

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sparkling so it'll be seven eight dollars perfect let's do that

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and oh i didn't know if you preferred still or sparkling water

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so i brought both but if you would go

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that way there is a mini market then you can get

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it for you make a video of me absolutely where are you from brother

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albania that's awesome what's your name doddy doddy yes doddy nice meeting you doddy sergi

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excellent uh i live in the us

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and you can find yourself on the youtube the channel name

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is sergi speaks now what's your name christina where are you

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from check nice all right nice meeting have an amazing rest of the day

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and you're very kind thank you for sharing lower price place right here

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i feel compared to other european countries like czech is

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so friendly like the people here are so yeah i i would doubt

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that any other country in the world

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or people from other countries they would say hey there's a cheaper place just go there

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and buy don't don't waste your money yeah because

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that is kind of expensive for us yeah exactly i mean

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it's like a price of a dinner to be honest you

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really think we were set up do you even doubt it

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man i don't think we got set up i know we

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got some i think you can get let's check it out maybe water here water

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so looks good thank you

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so much i appreciate it that's one oops ouch minus one owie oh that's the way to teach kids

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i love this guy

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because he was like hey don't touch him let him stand up yeah that's

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so true that's a good

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and that's i feel like that's the way i'm going to

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be teaching my kids yeah yeah no classic school no classic

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methods of telling them what to do yeah always asking questions only yeah it's like the saying like around

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and find out i love this phrase oh my gosh i'm

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glad you said it can you please explain this phrase to people you gotta around

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if you want to find out try something

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and then find out what happens it's like saying like we'll see what happens kind of thing

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something spontaneous yeah try everything yeah and see what happens

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if you were smart you'd get your dumb asses the hell up out of here before you around

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and find out oh wow holy guacamole look at this bike

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can you bring this that's a badass bike can i sit on it probably not

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i don't think you're allowed to somebody will tell me

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if i'm not look at the metal tire and the rim right here and it's all welded that's insane

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we shouldn't do cheap oil we should do cheap tires

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and then there's this guy oh i have no words i'm

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emotionless he's my favorite minion banana banana banana banana banana banana

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banana oh my god look at those minions look at the rabbit he's

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so cute this is bugs bunny i think bugs bunny bugs

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bunny that's the guy this is crazy what a piece of

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art look at all the bolts everything in between all the

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brackets yeah bolts uh sparking plugs for for the car these are brakes welded brakes

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and that's a sword right it's a sword sword yes

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so elegant so simple okay man let's uh pump the brakes on the crazy train all right

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and look at the hair like how they catch it in

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motion all those wires yeah that's very cool that's crazy what's

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your favorite place in prague i like rigor of the study it's like a park

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and it's like in the nice part where it's not many tourists yeah

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so a lot of locals and families go there and it's the best place to watch sunset

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if you are gonna watch sunset jeez i think i've been

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here this was the first place where i came where i came to czech republic uh to prague yeah

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and i was looking for a hotel i didn't rent anything i just flew to prog

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and i was like okay let me walk with my bag

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and see where am i going to land today

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and you didn't book any like accommodation no so where did you sleep

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that night i went to one of the cafes here

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and then i found uh i looked through airbnb i found a good looking place

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and i'm still there oh tell us of the accommodations in

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steerage mr dawson i hear they're quite good on this ship

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the best i've seen ma 'am like being spontaneous like coming

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a city with no accommodation at all the way i went to brazil was

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that on friday night i decided that saturday morning i'm flying to brazil

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and i bought tickets in the morning i flew to brazil

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that's crazy that's like a different like i thought i'm like type b

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but that's crazy i could never do

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that i don't like guys who are like type a like

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guys who are like type b oh yeah police officers let's

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ask them a couple of questions excuse me officer can i

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ask you a question can you please tell us of the craziest story of your professional life

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if it's legal no problem you have an amazing rest of your day i was like well

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if he would say that he would probably be fired and

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if you could be an animal what type of animal would you be i'd be a rabbit I thought about this already.

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Why?

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You already had it prepared.

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Because I love, like, bunnies are just so cute.

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Like, they're so fluffy and small.

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And I just, and they just eat like carrots.

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Yeah.

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I love carrots. So peaceful.

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Aloha!

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You're foul!

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You're foul!

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You're flawed!

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Oh, so cute! And fluffy! And what about you?

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Since our website is called foxu .com, F -O -X, not you, F -O -X, Y -O -U.

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Not F -U -C.

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Foxu .com, and that's the platform where you guys can join those completely free English -speaking community sessions from people all around the world.

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The link for it is right here.

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So I would be a fox.

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That makes sense.

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I think foxes eat bunnies.

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Yeah, I'm sorry but in the next life, I'm going to have to.

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All right.

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And now I'm going to ask you the most interesting question that I always prepare for the end.

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If the whole world could see you right now, what would you tell them?

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I'd be like, hey.

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What's up?

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I would say, you know what?

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Fuck around and find out.

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Oh, my gosh.

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Like, I don't know.

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Like, life is too short to just, you know.

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Not to fuck around?

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Yeah.

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Because you'll not find out.

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Yeah.

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Oh, my gosh.

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That's hilarious.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This C1 speaking lesson is built on the video “Comprehensible Input English Conversation Native Speaker B1 B2 C1”. This video has 315 sentences and 3300 words to shadow. The speech runs for 19:08. The speaker talks at a natural 173 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 83% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.

Key vocabulary in this video

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

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
gosh	/ɡɑːʃ/	A mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm.
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.
whimsical adjective	/ˈwɪmzɪkəl/	Given to whimsy.
bunny noun	/ˈbʌni/	A rabbit, especially a juvenile one.
doddy noun		A hornless cow.
pajamas noun	/pəˈd͡ʒɑ.məz/	Clothes for wearing to bed and sleeping in, usually consisting of a loose-fitting shirt and pants/trousers.
preschool adjective	/ˈpɹiːskuːl/	Of or relating to the years of early childhood before attendance at primary school.
hustle verb	/ˈhʌsəl/	To push someone roughly; to crowd; to jostle.
phenomenal adjective	/fɪˈnɒmɪnəl/	Very remarkable; highly extraordinary; amazing.
brake noun	/bɹeɪk/	A device used to slow or stop the motion of a wheel, or of a vehicle, usually by friction (although other resistive forces, such as electromagnetic fields or…
convenience noun	/kənˈvinjəns/	The quality of being convenient.
accommodation noun	/əˌkɒm.əˈdeɪ.ʃən/	Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or students, etc.
bucket noun	/ˈbʌkɪt/	A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items.
fashionably adverb		In a fashionable manner.
minion noun	/ˈmɪnjən/	A loyal servant of another, usually a more powerful being.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
find out verb		To discover, as by asking or investigating.
dress up verb		To put on special or fancy clothes.
set up verb	/ˌsɛt ˈʌp/	To make ready for use.
give away verb		To make a gift of (something).
look through verb		To take a view of the contents of; search in, either with the eyes or by hand.
stand up verb		To rise from a lying or sitting position.
warm up verb	/ˌwɔː(ɹ)m ˈʌp/	To become warmer.

Sentences worth repeating

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

Why are you wearing pajamas?
If you're off at five, you're off.
Can I ask you a couple of questions?
Where are you usually from, brother?
I would say, you know what?

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 that goes well, I'll consider · if you guys will leave · if you were smart you'd get
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	haven't been · you've heard · has inspired
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	was inspired · were born · were set
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	those who you · guys who are

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 117 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: gosh /ɡɑːʃ/, accommodation /əˌkɒm.əˈdeɪ.ʃən/, illustration /ˌɪləsˈtɹeɪ̯ʃən/
Long words — get the stress right: phenomenal /fɪˈnɒmɪnəl/, accommodation /əˌkɒm.əˈdeɪ.ʃən/, spontaneous /spɑnˈteɪ.ni.əs/, guacamole /ˌɡwɑ.kəˈmol.i/, prioritize /pɹaɪˈɒɹ.ə.taɪz/

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 gosh, banana, whimsical.

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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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

Key vocabulary in this video

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Sentences worth repeating

Grammar in this video

Pronunciation to watch

How to practise with this video

What is the Shadowing Technique?