Shadowing Practice: Comprehensible Input English Travel Random Conversation B1 B2 C1 - Bulgaria with Philippina - Learn English Speaking with Video
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If you want to travel around the world and speak English confidently,
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you need to learn from people who already do it.
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And if you want to learn new words and phrases while traveling with us through Europe,
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simply pause this video whenever you hear something new and write down a sentence using it in the comments section below.
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This will help your brain remember it and make it easier to use in real conversations.
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All right, let's meet Lizelle and travel through Europe together.
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Hey, Lizelle!
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Good to see you.
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Finally, you came here.
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Let me pay the bill, and then we're gonna kick it off.
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Get off with a killer to grab attention.
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It's my fault.
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No, what do you mean by your fault?
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We're planning to do it at 12, you came at 12, 13.
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That's not polite.
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You're not Brazilian, Brazilians are late by like 35 minutes at least.
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Excellent.
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So where are we heading?
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We are heading that way to see Greffetis because there is a Greffet street if I'm not mistaken.
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How do you pronounce the name?
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Lizelle or Lizelle?
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Lizelle, yeah.
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But people call me Lizzy.
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It's derived from the name Elizabeth.
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Elizabeth.
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The name is derived from the Latin word canis, which means dog.
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Where are you originally coming from?
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Philippines.
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Philippines?
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No, Filipina!
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You're the first
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Filipino on our channel.
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Olé!
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You have 44 countries behind your belt.
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Yes.
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I know it feels good to get a wind under your belt, doesn't it?
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Sure does.
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Which one completely caught you off guard?
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Montenegro.
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Montenegro!
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How come Montenegro? you just you look you caught me off guard all right for me it's the people yeah
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and the people there are amazing like they make you feel welcome they're
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so warm like strangers willing to help you i was there a few few weeks ago uh
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we went out from the club yeah and then yes
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and it's so hard to you know get the taxi yeah
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and then they're walking and they're just guy like with his bike
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and i i asked him like it's three o 'clock in the morning why are you on your bike
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it's like oh i I overslept with my friend's house and I told him, it's so hard to get a taxi.
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Would you mind to help me out?
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Yeah, sure, no problem.
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Thanks for helping me out.
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A random guy gave you a ride in the middle of the night in Montenegro.
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That's fascinating.
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I gave you a ride a couple months ago.
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So what are you going to do tomorrow?
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Nothing, like, have you been to this place?
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No?
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Okay, let's drive you there.
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Let's have lunch.
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I fall in love with them.
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And tell me about Philippines.
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So what is your mother tongue?
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My mother tongue is, I have three.
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Three?
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Yes.
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You're flanking English.
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That's your mother tongue and stuff.
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We have to talk to understand each other because we have 7 ,000 islands.
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7 ,000 islands?
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We have a lot.
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They always say dialect, but it's not dialect.
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For example, the north and the south, they will not understand each other.
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Oh, wow.
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Completely different.
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Yes.
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Holy fuck.
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So it is a language.
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That's insane.
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7 ,107.
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It depends on low tide or high tide.
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Dang, that's insane.
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You have to visit Philippines.
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I definitely will, especially now.
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We have a lot of viewers from Philippines.
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Okay, so are you a high tide or a low tide sort of person?
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What do you mostly enjoy about traveling?
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Because you've been to 44 countries.
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You beat my record.
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I'm on 34 right now.
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That was incredible.
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You beat my record for defeating a dominator.
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Well, you warmed him up for me.
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I think I beat him by like travel bug.
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One day, just like, go.
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So you caught a travel bug, huh?
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Yeah.
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How come?
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Maybe if she gets the travel bug and her mom lets her.
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I grew up in a small town.
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Every time I see a plane, I was like, one day, I want to ride it.
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So you said Tagalog is language number one.
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We're both the second and third. And of course, English.
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And does everyone speak English in the Philippines?
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Everyone speaks English in the Philippines.
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Because of the Americans.
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A lot of Joes in the Philippines.
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A lot of Joes?
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Because like back then, we have like the American military over there.
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Yeah, it was a very popular name.
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Visit Sofia!
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Yes.
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Usually when I moved to country, another country, I visited there first.
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And then because everything was so fast, I watched YouTube to have an idea what is in this country, in this city
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but it's very pleasant surprise for me yeah
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because it's safe you know it's for me it's very important absolutely
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that's quite crazy I was expecting mr. dark's friends
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but you guys are a pleasant surprise what does the FlippiD's culture look like
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Because I can imagine it must be close to Indonesia where you guys are very family -oriented.
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No?
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You will be surprised we're like a cousin of Mexican.
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No way!
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Yes, that's true, I'm telling you.
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You're like a Mexican of Asia?
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Yes, we are.
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We call it the word Latinas of South is Asia.
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No way!
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2 a .m., you dragged me 50 miles to watch you
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and some chick play mahjong with her grandmother at her retirement home?
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Yeah, completely different situation.
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How?
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What do you mean how?
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She was a very, very family -oriented girl, and she was very into her grandmother.
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What's that crowd right there?
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Where are they going to?
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I think there's a walking tour with this parliament.
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How about we sneak in and blend in to become a part of them?
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All right soldiers, you gotta blend in.
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Riverdance!
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Do you guys like to party a lot in Philippines?
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Yeah, la fiesta.
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They do a lot of karaoke, you know?
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Yeah.
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But I'm not one of them.
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I don't sing.
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I don't have the talent for singing.
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I'm pretty sure I belong to the one person.
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I'm gonna go around it.
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Oops, I'm sorry.
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I apologize.
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I hit a girl for the first time in my life.
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I hit a girl.
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It happens once in a lifetime.
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I apologize for the things I said.
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Tell me more about Philippines.
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So how many years have you spent in the Philippines?
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And when did you leave?
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I left after university.
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And I'm supposed to go to New York.
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To New York State.
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I started nursing yeah so like philippines centers everywhere yeah
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and where did you go instead of in new york city i met a love
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so that's why so love changes everything right yeah as always
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so i like to move to to singapore singapore yes wow lived there for for just short time
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and because it's so expensive
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and then we moved to thailand in bangkok
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you've been to 44 countries tell me the crazy story of your life the crazy story during a travel
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this one happened in Barcelona so I was in the metro
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and I was like big bag
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and I saw this little hand on my pocket like on my small bag
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and I let go of my luggage my luggage like crawl down the stairs
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and I able to catch his hand and and Bend it.
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Oh, shit.
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He's like 11 year old kid.
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Oh, shit.
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Excuse me, let go of me.
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I am not a piece of luggage.
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No, you're absolutely right.
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Luggage comes with a tag.
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It lets you know where it came from.
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Who are you?
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Where are you from?
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And then it's like, ah, you're crazy.
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And in Spanish it's like, yes, yes, come.
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I know I'm crazy.
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Come, come here, come.
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Dang.
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I should be proud because I never get robbed in Paris.
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Yeah, that's true.
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If you pass Paris, you're like, yes, I can go anywhere.
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So why Sofia?
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What makes it cool?
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Why did you decide to stay here?
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And how long you been here for?
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Three years.
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Three years in Sofia?
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Yes, almost four.
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A day?
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Why so? For work.
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And at the moment, I'm on sabbatical.
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You're what?
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Sabbatical.
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Sabbatical?
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Yes.
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What does that mean?
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Sabbatical means that I don't work at the moment.
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Oh, nice.
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I take a break.
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Where's Dale?
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Oh, he went on sabbatical.
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Lucky son of a bitch.
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Why is everyone on sabbatical?
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Like, what does that even mean?
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I've never heard that word because I always work for all my life.
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So why Sofia?
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It's safe here.
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Safe, number one.
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It's a capital, but you don't feel congested.
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Exactly.
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It's not congested at all.
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It's not packed.
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Yes.
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No, not finding any booking.
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My office is telegraphed ahead.
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But we're back to the rafters.
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It's clean and the people are nice.
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Absolutely.
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People are very pleasant here.
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And number three.
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They have a very good transportation system, you know.
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Yeah.
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And you have the mountains and you have the sea not far.
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Yeah.
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And you know what I also love is the weather. So true.
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You have the four complete seasons.
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That's amazing.
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And that's exactly why I'm about to leave because it's gonna be cold.
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Not yet.
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Not yet.
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Let's enjoy the summer first.
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So you're following the sun.
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Yeah, I follow the sun.
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And the sun is setting.
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So we follow the sun.
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What makes you start this channel?
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I wanted to help people around the world to improve their public speaking skills and pronunciation.
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But then I realized majority of people need help with English.
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So I have switched to Comprehensible Input English videos.
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And now we have people from more than 130 countries around the world who are watching it
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and I've opened a platform where I connect people from all over the world completely for free
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and you guys can practice English speaking with each other.
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People from all over the world join the calls, they talk to each other,
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practice English speaking, they get feedback with the help of AI and all that is completely free.
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The link for it is right here or right below this video.
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Whoa, look at that girl.
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Yeah, this one I like.
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That's crazy.
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That's a beautiful graffiti.
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That's probably the place where we were heading to.
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Yeah, I think this one, yeah.
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The whole wall is painted.
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And they have like a small cafe here also.
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It's kind of like...
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Oh, nice.
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Yeah.
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You want to get some coffee?
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Yeah, if you want.
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Sure.
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Look at the kitty cat right there.
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It's a panther.
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Yeah.
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It's a huge panther.
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Like a cozy coffee shop.
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And you can go upstairs.
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Hi there.
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Are you both girls?
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Yeah, I'm Italian.
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Italian.
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No way.
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Can I ask you a couple of questions?
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I still haven't packed my coffee, so maybe I hope those are easy.
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Coffee.
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Oh my gosh.
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This is such a European coffee.
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Look at it.
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European coffee is so tiny.
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Whenever I came from the United States and in the US, usually with big chubs, like half a liter of puppy
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and you sip it all day and dip and take a sip and the pain will be gone
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yeah honestly it's a different experience you rather drink it you know by standing yeah yeah like not a shot
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and then you go out okay go out yeah where are you traveling to start of bulgaria
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and istanbul that's it that's it yeah the budget is spanish yeah you're hilarious after the project back to reality
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and we can find swaz you can fix the rad
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we can get back to reality what do you do you don't mind me asking
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i am a secretary at university who did you get the limp sir if you don't mind me asking
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In the war, I can't shorten the Italian house.
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And my friend works for a very big important...
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You make some fancy identities, but I'm working as a...
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You get the absolute pleasure of my protection and authority.
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Does that mean you're a person who gives a lot of shit to Google, Meta and all the other companies?
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Thank you so much!
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Making us safe!
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Making this world a safe place!
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To the paper place!
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Well, thank you so much!
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Enjoy your coffee!
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Now we're gonna make our order!
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We'd like to order something to drink, please.
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I will carry you later.
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What do you like to order?
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Americano.
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Double.
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Americano?
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Right here! Can I get Filippiniano?
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I'm just kidding.
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What are you into?
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I'm into cultures, basically.
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Are you into Baltic?
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Less and less with every experience.
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To be honest, I don't miss my home country.
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Same thing.
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It's weird.
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And I don't want to come back anywhere.
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I want to keep traveling nonstop.
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There's still 162 more countries that I have to visit.
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Give me three countries that you would love to visit,
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that you have not visited yet cape town cape town so south africa and then i should stay colombia
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and by the way for people from japan taiwan
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and several more uh asian countries
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i have just opened up a group in line the link for it is right below this video
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and also for people from china i've
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We opened a Bilibili account, finally, we have a Bilibili, which is like a Chinese YouTube, pretty much.
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It's right here, check it out.
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And by the way, I've heard in Egypt, Egypt is the best place in the world for scuba diving.
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Not the Pacific?
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No, I've heard - I said it's Philippines though.
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So I'm definitely coming to Egypt soon to check it out and scuba dive because underwater you feel no noise, underwater you feel no gravity.
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It's like a paradise.
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Where do you feel like you're in a paradise?
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For me I think, I used to like, um, rock climb.
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Oh, these nails?
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Yeah.
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No, no, no, before.
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I just grow it, but like one climb and then after that when you go up and then you rappel
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and that's the best feel.
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Bullwinkle, can you rappel?
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Sure, I've been rappelling viewers for years.
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Never mind.
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They used to motocross back then.
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Motocross?
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No way!
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You're crazy.
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You love adrenaline, huh?
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Yeah, I was in grade school, you know.
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As I get older, I get tamer.
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Well, then you're not a marshal or a sheriff.
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He's a town tamer.
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The difference is there are no rules on my end of the business, except maybe one.
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Never stay in one town too long.
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Before I die, I want to try the skydiving.
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Skydiving, absolutely.
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Seven years ago, my parachute got twisted.
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Ooh, good.
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That was fun.
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Because it was my mistake.
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I have 25 seconds all right
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The camera lens got twisted and it became a blur.
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I didn't want to try to cut it off and pull an extra one because I never did it in my life.
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I was scared that if somebody didn't pack it properly, I would die.
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Damn, thanks God.
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I made it.
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It's still not meant to be.
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Yeah, still have to live a little more.
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Yes, it's a lot.
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There's still 162 more countries to visit.
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Yeah, exactly.
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Sean!
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I made it out!
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I made it out!
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So we have 7 ,000 islands.
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How expensive is it to buy an island on Philippines?
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I will tell you if I have one.
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Let's have chat GPT.
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So you can start with 200 ,000 euros to buy a small island.
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Inhabited, but still an island.
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Cheers for future Sergi Speaks Island on Philippines.
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By the way, in order to buy an island on Philippines, we're going to need to get a lot of views on this video.
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In order to get a lot of views, we need to get a lot of comments.
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In order to get a lot of comments, I'm going to send $100 to one person.
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So the rule number one, we need to get 400 comments total.
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When we get 400 comments, I'm going to randomly pick a person.
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I do it on every video now.
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And I'm going to send 100 bucks to a random person who will comment about.
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And now I'm going to ask you, what would you like to find out about people from more
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than 130 countries around the world who are watching us right now?
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Culture is always associated with cuisine.
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What can you offer to represent your culture in one dish?
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So leave a comment right below this video.
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Number one, put your country name.
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Number two, put the dish that could describe the whole culture of your country in one dish.
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That's crazy.
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I love it.
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The English contribution to world cuisine.
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The chip.
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If the whole world could hear you right now, what would you share with them? one phrase
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you always wanted to share with the whole world live at
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the moment just don't think about tomorrow past is past month
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enjoy the moment for three hours go dancing not thinking about anything
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we try to to live the moment i just want this to last forever live a freaking life
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and make sure to hit the like button right below this video and to subscribe and subscribe to our channel
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Alright, thank you girl.
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That was insane.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Comprehensible Input English Travel Random Conversation B1 B2 C1 - Bulgaria with Philippina”. This video has 409 sentences and 2887 words to shadow. The speech runs for 17:23. The speaker talks at a natural 166 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 84% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start. 70 of its 409 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| tide noun | /taɪd/ | The daily fluctuation in the level of the sea caused by the gravitational influence of the moon and the sun. |
| luggage noun | /ˈlʌɡ.ɪdʒ/ | The bags and other containers that hold a traveller's belongings. |
| insane adjective | /ɪnˈseɪn/ | Exhibiting unsoundness or disorder of mind; not sane; utterly mad. |
| pleasant adjective | /ˈplɛz.ənt/ | Giving pleasure; pleasing in manner. |
| dish noun | /dɪʃ/ | A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle. |
| belt noun | /ˈbɛlt/ | A band worn around the waist to hold clothing to one's body (usually pants), hold weapons (such as a gun or sword), or serve as a decorative piece of clothing. |
| cape noun | /keɪp/ | A piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into a sea or lake; a promontory; a headland. |
| phrase noun | /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/ | A short written or spoken expression. |
| climb verb | /ˈklaɪ̯m/ | To traverse a slope or contour, either upwards (ascending) or downwards (descending). |
| twist verb | /twɪst/ | To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force. |
| taxi noun | /ˈtæksi/ | A vehicle that may be hired for single journeys by members of the public, particularly one with an automated meter to calculate the fare. |
| apologize verb | /əˈpɑləˌd͡ʒaɪz/ | To make an apology or excuse; to acknowledge some fault or offense, with expression of regret for it, by way of amends |
| paradise noun | /ˈpæɹədaɪs/ | The place where sanctified souls are believed to live after death. |
| grandmother noun | /ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌmʌðɚ/ | A mother of someone's parent. |
| dive verb | /daɪv/ | To swim under water. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| go out verb | To leave, especially a building. |
| come back verb | To return to a place. |
| get back to verb | Return to (an activity) |
| go around verb | To move or spread from person to person. |
| go up verb | To move upwards. |
| open up verb | To open. |
| write down verb | To produce or set (something) down in writing; to record something. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- No, what do you mean by your fault?
- How do you pronounce the name?
- Where are you originally coming from?
- Which one completely caught you off guard?
- Where do you feel like you're in a paradise?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| “Used to” used to + verb — a past habit or state that is no longer true | used to like · used to motocross |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | you've been · I've never heard · have switched |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | people who already · canis, which means · person who gives |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | is derived · is telegraphed · is painted |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 72 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, you're, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: grandmother /ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌmʌðɚ/, panther /ˈpænθəɹ/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: dish /dɪʃ/, contribution /ˌkɑntɹɪˈbjuʃən/, sheriff /ˈʃɛɹɪf/, gosh /ɡɑːʃ/, marshal /ˈmɑɹʃəl/
- Long words — get the stress right: apologize /əˈpɑləˌd͡ʒaɪz/, underwater /ʌndɚˈwɔtəɹ/, contribution /ˌkɑntɹɪˈbjuʃən/, hilarious /hɪˈlɛə.ɹi.əs/, adrenaline /əˈdɹɛnəlɪn/
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 tide, luggage, insane.
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.