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大家好,歡迎回到我和志飛老師的播客。 志飛,今天我們要聊什麼?
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我們要聊一個肅清很想聊的話題。 就是有一些女人,我們覺得如果她們沒有老公、沒有男朋友,會更好。 OK,那第一個人我要說的是我的嫂子,就是我哥哥的老婆。
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She is a very powerful woman
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She didn't read a lot of books I remember she only studied at school She didn't go to school,
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high school, high school And then she really will get money
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She now has two jobs Two jobs can get a lot of money Wow!
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And then she has three houses Um Um,
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right I think he is a very very powerful person But he's not a powerful person He's got my brother Why?
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My brother is not very very strong
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He's not only won't be able to pay And I think He's not a kind of hard work Okay
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So why your daughter will like your brother?
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My daughter's like a very interesting story Okay When he heard my brother,
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he heard that my brother went to college This is the first thing Oh,
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this guy went to college I think this guy should be more wise and more culture
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The second thing is that he saw my brother開 a car In China, the car is more expensive, right?
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Not like in the United States, most people have cars You can buy a very cheap car In China,
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I think many times It's a big thing, right?
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There is a car, right?
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So he thought, oh, this man went to college, and this man has a car,
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it's a good choice, and they may know 10 days later, they're married.
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Oh, very quickly!
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10 days!
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So I think my daughter's money is very smart,
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But she was very smart.
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That she is happy now?
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She still loves you and your brother, and she is happy and happy?
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Not happy, right?
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What kind of happy?
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With such a happy man?
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I don't think there's anything good.
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I think my daughter is a very cruel, scary woman.
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然后因为你知道他很会赚钱 所以他对钱他看得很重要 OK 对,然后我有时候觉得他有一点点欺负我的妈妈 欺负?对你妈妈不好?
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对,有一点点我有时候觉得 比如说我的妈妈帮他照顾孩子 可是他不给我的妈妈钱 Oh
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And then he will let my mother buy things
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So you think I heard this I feel very angry
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Because he has a lot of money But he won't give my mother Oh But you now
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You think she is a very good woman You hope she找 a better man
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Or if you don't have a better man
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I feel like I'm a woman I'm a woman So I'm a woman So So I hope I can tell her, 嫂子, you can get married.
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If you have no男s, your life will be better.
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You don't need a男s.
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Yes, I think.
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I want to tell you, I think that my family has no男s will be better.
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That's my mother's daughter.
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I call her little sister.
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She is my little sister.
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I think that he doesn't have a good guy.
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First, he is a very cute and funny person.
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And then he can eat food, he can eat food, he can do many great things.
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I first felt that I would like to leave a marriage, maybe I was at 9 or 10 years old.
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One day he came to my house and he cried.
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I went to school and I went to school and I saw her daughter here
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But she cried And her eyes are red red
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And there is a blood pressure She cried
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Because she was a husband She was afraid She could only go to my house But
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She was 60 years old
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She was very traditional I'm not going to leave a woman.
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And then he has many stories that he has been very upset He has been very upset about his husband
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He likes to drink a lot He always works and doesn't work
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He is a good day to go But he didn't go to the day
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He didn't tell him to go He didn't have a lot 但是这个男人知道我的小姨对他来说很有用 所以他回家打老婆
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但是他有办法他知道我的小姨不敢离开他 所以他可以不工作 但是我的小姨可能做两个工作三个工作 我的小姨可以赚钱 然后他也不敢离开他
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你感觉怎么样 I've heard a lot of stories But I've heard a lot of stories I've heard a lot of stories Yes,
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I was very young when I was young Oh, you're so cute You're so beautiful You're so funny You're so good
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You're so hard to work No this man Your life will be better Yes So,
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so powerful women, your little sister and my sister
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They only have a problem They were looking at a woman when they were looking at a woman
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They really have a problem
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And when they were looking at a woman
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They were not willing to marry I think that woman is the same We have a lot of women
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Just like a woman Just like a woman I think it's possible to do this.
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You may have to live with this person for 40 years or 50 years.
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This is the most important decision.
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But they think it's okay.
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This man is bad for them.
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They won't leave.
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That, Trippi, you're in your身边, or in your family, You have seen that you have seen that you are happy after you have seen that?
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No I haven't No No But I think I still have hope I still have hope
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I still have a young age
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Some people will choose to not marry I don't have a child
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I think that my friends are probably going to be around the same age They may find a better person
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Or just like a person I saw my friends at school There are two friends I saw they haven't married
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They haven't had children and they can travel to many places,
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they look very happy, but if you ask Chinese friends, I think most people will not say,
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I'm happy to hear that I'm not happy I don't hear that You have no friends?
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Do you think that this girl, this girl, she doesn't have a man Of course All of the Chinese friends,
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I think there are a big problem What problem?
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Okay, maybe they have a child, they have a husband, they have a long time, they have a job.
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I think I can't accept it.
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You think they have a man's not just because of working?
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I think a person can say, you can say, you have a long time, this is not a problem.
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But if you have two or three years, you have a child, this is very okay.
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You can't get this child to buy food?
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He's a wife, he's a wife.
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I have three friends, they are more than his husband.
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This is not a matter of fact,
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but I think if you are a father, So I
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think that's what I'm thinking about.
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I don't understand why my friend is so strong and so smart Why are they looking for my husband so bad?
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I don't understand why I can't accept I just thought about my brother
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I love my brother
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But I like to laugh at him This is not good
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He also likes to laugh at me Because we are in relationship with our relationship He married And then she said, you have a good friend?
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You know, you can introduce me to my girlfriend?
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I said, how can you be so bad?
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You're not英语, you're not handsome.
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You're not my girlfriend.
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You're not my girlfriend.
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You can't even tell them so well.
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I think that the girls are good.
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They are very good.
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They are very good.
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And I thought my brother would like to meet my girlfriend I think too much You're so bad
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I think When I see a girl who doesn't have a girlfriend I always think Oh, so good girl I find a girlfriend too easy
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But when I see a girl who doesn't have a girlfriend I always think He doesn't have a girlfriend
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We're not supposed to have a girlfriend We are not going to talk to the audience about this
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and look at the audience's audience.
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I'm sorry!
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I have a friend who's husband will get money, he will get money, his husband will get money,
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but his husband doesn't like to spend money.
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I think they have three houses.
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他们只有三四个人 为什么他们需要三套房子 他们觉得如果他们有钱 他们应该买房子
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然后有一次我要去北京 我带我妈妈去北京 那我这个朋友他也很想去 然后我说那我们一起去很好玩 然后他说不可以 我的老公说我们没有钱 它们不是没有钱,它们是把他们的钱放在银行里,然后这个钱它们不可以动。
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对,这个我也不可以接受。 对,因为我知道你的这个朋友是非常想去北京的,他从来没有去过,他很想去外面看一看,是不是?
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Yes, he was.
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He never went to Beijing.
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Then he went and I can go to Beijing.
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Because I was in Beijing.
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I don't know what to go to.
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I can go to a hotel.
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But he said no money.
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So these people will pay money.
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But he won't spend money.
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That's a problem.
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Yes, I don't know.
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I don't know if it is a very funny guy.
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I don't know if it's a very funny guy.
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He is a very popular guy.
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He will think this thing is useful or not.
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Maybe they have a little money They think we need to spend the money to buy a house
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送 our children to learn new things to travel And then you travel after what do you use?
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This is what they do?
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They will so think So I understand why their husband thinks they don't should travel But I think my friend
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He's so smart
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He's a school teacher I think he's very happy to go outside But he's because this husband He can't go outside
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He's a teacher You should know many things So you can be a better teacher
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If you know outside the world You know these kids After what kind of world you've seen
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对 如果你自己都没有看过 你自己如果还不相信 那你很难让你的孩子相信
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所以他为了他的工作 为了他的学生 他应该去外面看 可是因为他的老公 他觉得OK我们没有钱 不是你们有很多钱 但是你们不会花钱 我们不喜欢他的老公
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我真的 我真的很不喜欢他们 然后等一下 我还有一个故事 这个这个老公就是我不知道为什么每一次我去他的家 然后他会问我一个问题 他说肃清今天晚上你和我睡觉还是和我的老婆睡觉
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我不知道为什么他会觉得问这个问题很好笑 他觉得他很幽默
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他有问题吗 他很有问题 I think there are people who think I'm afraid of you,
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I'm not saying that I'm not talking about you, because I'm funny, I'm funny.
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Okay, so you know I really don't like my friend of my friend.
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That you think your friends will be a day with their husband?
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如果他們要離婚我會支持他們 他們會這樣做嗎?
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如果他們不是經常吵架
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我覺得他們可能還是會繼續過下去 因為這些朋友他們雖然我覺得他們的老公很沒有用
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或者我覺得他們的老公很奇怪 但是他們還是年輕的父母 So they don't always talk to my husband They still talk to us
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They don't like our father and mother
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Today we heard a lot of women's stories You think these women should not be married?
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Comment on our channel So,
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tell us about your view We have more videos on our website There are different topics
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Our videos from the 0基礎 to the high級 And from many different places of teachers We also have different series
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You can see our life story You can see our modern stories You can see our literature 文化等等等等 In our video,
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 159 sentences and 1731 words to shadow. The speech runs for 19:21. The speaker talks slowly, about 89 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound. 87% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| marry verb | /ˈmæɹi/ | To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife. |
| topic noun | /ˈtɑpɪk/ | A subject; a theme; a category or general area of interest. |
| audio adjective | /ˈɔ.di.oʊ/ | Focused on audible sound, as opposed to sight. |
| introduce verb | /ˌɪntɹəˈdus/ | To cause (someone) to be acquainted (with someone else). |
| scary adjective | /ˈskɛə.ɹi/ | Causing fear or anxiety |
| handsome adjective | /ˈhæn.səm/ | Having a pleasing appearance, good-looking, attractive, particularly |
| cruel adjective | /ˈkɹuːəl/ | Intentionally causing or reveling in pain and suffering; merciless, heartless. |
| capability noun | /ˌkeɪ.pəˈbɪl.ɪ.ti/ | The power or ability to generate an outcome. |
| girlfriend noun | /ˈɡɝlfɹɛnd/ | A female partner in an unmarried romantic relationship. |
| cry verb | /kɹaɪ/ | To shed tears; to weep, especially in anger or sadness. |
| laugh verb | /læf/ | To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and… |
| cute adjective | /kjuːt/ | Possessing physical features, behaviors, personality traits or other properties that are mainly attributed to infants and small or cuddly animals; e.g. fair… |
| upset verb | /ʌpˈsɛt/ | To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy. |
| download verb | /ˈdaʊnˌloʊd/ | To transfer data to a given computer from a remote one via a network. |
| angry adjective | /ˈæŋ.ɡɹi/ | Displaying or feeling anger. |
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 you have no男s, your life will be |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | has been · I've heard · have seen |
| Advice with “should” should + verb — saying what is a good idea | should be · should travel · should know |
| Possibility with “might / may” might/may + verb — something that is possible but not certain | may know · may have · may find |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 70 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, I'm, you're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- Long words — get the stress right: capability /ˌkeɪ.pəˈbɪl.ɪ.ti/, literature /ˈlɪt.(ə.)ɹə.t͡ʃə(ɹ)/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like marry, topic, audio.
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.