Shadowing Practice: CORTIS speaking English for 8 minutes straight - Learn English Speaking with YouTube
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Say hello to Cordis.
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Say hello to Cordis.
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Hi, we're Cordis.
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I'm the leader of the group, Martin.
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Hi, my name is Cono,
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and I'm Youngas of the team.
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Hi, I'm Jihoon.
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Okay.
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Hi, I'm Sunghyun.
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Pleasure to be here.
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Hi, I'm James.
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Thank you for giving us the time.
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Thank you.
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Thank you so much.
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People gotta know our names.
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We just got debut.
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Yeah, they might don't know, so...
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They might don't know.
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How do you feel?
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Yeah, we really had a great time in LA.
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It was...
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It's our fifth time in LA but this time we had a performance and Yo,
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the crowd went crazy I personally think after performing
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your energy is up rather than us being down after the performance being tired it's like everybody's hyped up
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we're hyped up also By the way, James, happy birthday?
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Oh wow Yeah, it's 20 and Yeah,
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it's The front number turns into two you are Cordes.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, if I wear like black jeans He's not gonna wear black jeans or something.
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So at least I gotta wear black jeans that are wack Yeah
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Producer Johnny Goldstein he started to play the key like We all just felt it.
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We thought there was something about the word go that just had the energy.
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So we just wanted to repeat it like go,
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go, go, go and then so...
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Let's just have fun.
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And then like that came out.
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I just gotta get it, watch me go, go.
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Can't like make a barrier for K-pop.
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You can try anything.
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You can try different genres, different sounds or anything.
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But we do choreography, sing lyrics in Korean.
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That is what makes K-pop.
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A very fortunate thing is we're in K-pop where there's not a label on like this is pop music,
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this is hip-hop.
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So like K-pop, you can try all types of different sounds.
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And we had songwriting camp in LA for like three months in total to get that title track,
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What You Want.
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And it was just a process of finding who we are I think that's
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so whole song on campus yeah yeah you haven't really written any songs about like girls
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or well we were trainees and we live together
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and we work 24-7 together so we don't really have much to talk about girls actually right
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noise for Cordis in the building!
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Yeah Cordis!
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Thank you for joining us live in the building.
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Thank you for having us.
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So yeah, we're Cordis.
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We just had our rollout like two months ago with our first album.
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Yeah, hi, my name is Kono and I'm the youngest member of the team.
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I'm Joo Hoon and it's an honor to be here.
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I'm Sung Hyun and yeah, happy to be here.
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I'm James and actually I heard this is a new studio.
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Yeah, right.
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Oh, I think actually For us,
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it's been an ongoing process.
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It's just next, next, next, next.
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You still listening to it?
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Yeah.
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Yeah!
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I mean, since we came to LA,
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it kind of has a throwback because we wrote the whole album in LA.
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The weather is really nice.
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It's always sunny.
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It really is a good inspiration.
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I mean joyriding, mellow vibe of LA and like riding along the Malibu beach We met a lot of great people,
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writers and producers The session that we made, GO! worked with Johnny Goldstein,
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such a great producer That came from a very organic space.
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And like everybody was like crazy in the studio.
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Yeah, this session was crazy.
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We just like to have fun doing music and like anything like craft.
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Like it could be videos,
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it could be like photography.
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Your job is to be creative!
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Like not just music.
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Anything!
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Yeah, we love to take photos,
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like take videos, everything, you know.
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I think personally, the hard part is we have five heads.
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Yeah.
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A lot of ideas.
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We kind of throw our ideas onto the wall and see what sticks.
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Yeah.
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We have different influences.
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We watch different movies.
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We watch different films.
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We have different tastes.
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Something that really inspires you,
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that defines your taste, starting with you.
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I think anime.
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Yeah.
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Anime definitely is a big inspiration.
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The proportions and like the drawing style and the music that matches the anime.
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Let's talk about your taste and what you love.
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For me I think, I don't know like the weather.
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When I come to LA, weather is too good.
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I love being outside and you know like with like vanilla latte.
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I'm such a chill person and like I really like to listen to some peaceful music.
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I recently bought a vinyl of Chet Baker.
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Yeah, the check baker scene.
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I bought it too.
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It was crazy.
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My guy.
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Now, what about you man?
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Yeah, I think not just music,
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I think for me, like going to like new cities is like the most inspiration to me.
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We've actually been to New Zealand for a music video.
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Talk about you bro.
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I grew up listening to a lot of rock music so my dad used to play me like Elliot Smith.
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I don't know, like so many artists like Tame Impala,
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sometimes it was like Foo Fighters I kind of like Memphis music,
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a lot of funk and like a lot of Memphis So like Freddie Dread,
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all those like, you know,
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funk artists Korea is a great place to,
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you know, like maybe start a franchise
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yeah there are like great great adults who can just help
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us yeah give us great advice our sunbae names our seniors like BTS
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and TXT they all gave us great advice it's really a big family
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and like they really opened and paved the way for us
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so we can really fool around and have fun with our music especially um J-Hope
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and Jungkook did the challenge for both of the songs.
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It's crazy.
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I mean, it's such an honor and such a blessing to see them do the challenge.
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It is a capture of our lifestyle and a capture of ourselves.
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We treat our music like a diary and journal.
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So we have five songs and it sounds very different.
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It starts from something that's like really energetic
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and it fashion like it gets even energetic yeah watch one like it goes up
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and like you know like joel right
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and lullaby is kind of chill these five songs can show
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like five different angles of us through like this album this
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album is really raw we try to express like our like
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true self our realness yeah we really um tried to make everything authentic
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and like at the same time having fun you know just
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like keeping things like real i would like to say um thank you Thank you for watching
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if you guys are watching right now
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and thank you for showing great love for the first EP for Color Outside the Lines.
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We love you guys.
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Yeah, love you so much and it's a pleasure to be here.
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Legendary show.
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How'd you enjoy it?
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I hope you enjoy it and yeah,
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it was really an honor to be here and you know,
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share our music and thank you JLo.
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I had so much fun in here and yeah,
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happy to be here and yeah, love you guys.
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This could have vanilla latte for my guy over here.
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Thank you Zane Lo and we might need one of those,
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one of those turntables.
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Yeah! For sure!
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Alright, fashion people caught us in the house!
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See ya there boys!
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We'll see you soon!
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Yeah!
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Context & Background
The video titled "CORTIS speaking English for 8 minutes straight" features a group of individuals from a K-pop group named Cortis, sharing their experiences and interacting in English. This dialogue provides viewers with authentic language use, showcasing not only the group's excitement about their performances but also offering a glimpse into their camaraderie and teamwork. The casual nature of their conversation exemplifies everyday communication, making it an ideal resource for English learners looking to enhance their speaking skills.
Top 5 Phrases for Daily Communication
- “Hi, I’m [Name]. Nice to meet you!” - A friendly way to introduce oneself.
- “How do you feel about that?” - A phrase to invite opinions and feelings.
- “Thank you for giving us the time.” - An expression of gratitude in conversations.
- “Let’s just have fun.” - Encouraging a light-hearted atmosphere.
- “We really had a great time in [Location].” - Sharing positive experiences helps to engage others.
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