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Hello everyone and welcome to my Easy English podcast,
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your daily English immersion, where we talk about the same topics we discuss in our speaking program classes.
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So in this episode, I want to talk about trips
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because I have two important trips coming up in October and in December and January.
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So I'm really excited and I want to tell you guys about it,
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about the activities and everything so in october we are going to the south of argentina
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because i'm traveling with my boyfriend and my boyfriend's family we have a wedding party
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so we'll probably travel like one week before the wedding so we have time for i don't know skiing hiking
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and getting to know other new places that I don't know.
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My boyfriend has already visited the south of Argentina.
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I haven't, so it's all new for me.
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And so I have no idea of the itinerary.
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My boyfriend and his family will organize everything.
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But I don't know.
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I think that when you don't plan your trips, they are more interesting because you will be surprised
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so before the wedding I have to go buy a dress
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and maybe some shoes and I have to buy makeup
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because I usually wear makeup but I have to buy more makeup
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and to do like a more professional look and also for my hair
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and I think that when we arrive maybe I will have someone do my makeup
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and my hair because I don't know I just want it to look good for the photos videos
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and everything I'm really excited for this trip
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because this year I've worked a lot
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so I really need like a break I really need to relax I really need just like one week
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or a few days of, you know, relaxing and not working.
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I'm an entrepreneur.
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I have my own English academy.
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So it's impossible not to work every day and every hour.
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But, you know, if I travel, I have people who help me in my own academy, English school.
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so maybe I will take a break
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and other people will help me do the stuff
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that I usually do and that's it we will probably be only like one week
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or one week and a few days
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and we will come back to our city the next trip
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that I have is really exciting because I'm traveling to Brazil with three friends
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and I'm really excited because we've prepared this trip for a long time
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and last time we went to Brazil we traveled with an agency
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and you know an agency organizes everything for you like the plane tickets,
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the hotels, the activities and everything but this time we won't travel with an agency
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so we have to prepare everything ourselves like you know organize seaplane tickets we have to book a hotel
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or an apartment and also we have to
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do like an itinerary and book the activities and everything
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so this week in august we've prepared a lot of things we already booked the hotel
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because we are going to kind of sviedas first
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and we are going to spend new years in brazil which is like a new experience for me
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and we are going to spend three days in canas vieiras in florianopolis and then we are going to
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praia do rosa which is like a smaller village in brazil
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so we are going to spend three days like partying
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or i don't know going to the beach with more people
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because canas vieiras is like a bigger city
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and then we are going to praia
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which is a smaller city you know just to relax
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and spend the whole day at the beach tanning
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and having fun something really funny is
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that we arrive three hours before new year's eve
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which is like an adventure because the plane has to get on time
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and we have to go to the hotel
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and we have to do our makeups and get ready
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and everything and then we have to eat somewhere so maybe we'll make a reservation at a restaurant or something
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and we will just party at the beach on new year's
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eve we haven't planned everything we just booked the hotels
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and we bought of course the plane tickets but that's everything
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so i don't know maybe
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if we have a conversation with someone there at the airport
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we will ask them like where the party is you know
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in new year's eve like i don't want to go partying but i just want to
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you know have like a celebration in in brazil
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because i don't want to be at the hotel on new year's eve
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so we will ask them if they know where people usually celebrate new year's eve in
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canas fiedras which is the city we are going
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and i don't know i think the country will surprise us
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and it's just like an adventure i travel every year with my friends we went to pinamar
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and mar del plata which is in argentina in our country
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and we traveled once to brazil to another city also a small village
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and this year we are traveling along
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which is the first time we don't travel with an agency
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so we have to prepare everything by ourselves
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and i don't know i think we're going to have a
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blast i think we're going to have fun as always and i am really looking forward to it because as I said,
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I'm a little bit stressed and I just want to, you know, recharge my batteries and have fun with my friends.
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I really love traveling.
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When I was 15 years old, I traveled alone for the first time in my life.
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I went to New York City, which is one of the best trips I've ever made because New York City, I think it's one of the cities that you know
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and then you don't like any other city because New York City is New York City.
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Like I traveled to New York and then I went to Miami, I went to other countries, but nothing, nothing in this world compares to New York City.
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I don't know why I loved that city and I want to go again.
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I don't know, like the energy is something incredible.
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And also you have a lot of things to do.
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You have like tourism, you can just walk and get to know new places.
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And you also have like a lot of popular places where a lot of popular films were made.
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And that's really interesting.
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it was like an exchange month for me
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because i went to the campus to learn english we were
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in a small village close to manhattan it was i don't remember the name it was a small village
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but the campus was so big and we had classes there
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and we had like a an enormous place to eat and to have
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dinner and lunch with your friends and we had a gym
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so if you wanted to do some exercise it was possible
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and it was an amazing experience for me i went only for one month
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which for me was like perfect the perfect timing and when i traveled again to miami to do an exchange month
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I also went one month
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and it was incredible I met some people who traveled who were there in the campus for six months
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or a year
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and I think that's too much time I feel like in
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one month you have the experience you can get to know people make friends practice the language
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and then you come home
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and you just keep practicing at home like i don't think it's necessary to spend too much time abroad
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and it's also very expensive if you spend six months
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or a year it's very expensive i think
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when you're young traveling is one of the best experiences you can have
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because um you get to know people
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and also you learn how to travel alone because you know
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when you travel with your family like you don't think about it you just follow your parents
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or your family
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and you don't think about what things you have to do to I don't know get on a plane
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and everything but when you travel alone you're responsible for your things for your safety
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and you learn how to be independent I think it's one of the most incredible experiences you can have
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so if you're a teenager
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and you have the possibility to travel I think you should do it
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and if you're a parent
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and you were thinking about sending your kids to I don't know an exchange year
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or exchange month I think is one of the best things they can have to be independent after New York
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when I was 17 years old I traveled to Miami
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which I didn't have like the best experience I loved it like I love traveling I can never complain but
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if I compare it to New York it wasn't the same
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experience first of all you can even compare both places
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because the campus in Miami was like smaller and the food wasn't great I would change a few things there to,
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I don't know, have a better experience.
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But I made good friends, I had fun the problem was
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that I already had a good level of English
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so it was a little bit boring for me
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and it's like I didn't want to go to class I just wanted to have fun with friends
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and go to the beach like the the building was in front of the beach
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so imagine how good it was like I don't know maybe we had lunch
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and maybe we went to the beach or maybe we had class and then we went to the beach together.
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It was incredible.
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And talking about trips in the future, one of the places that I want to know is Korea or, I don't know, Asia in general,
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like China or Japan or, I don't know, all those countries.
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I don't know, I find the culture so interesting
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and i also want to learn the language like i don't know why i have something inside me
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that tells me i have to go to korea like i
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i want to learn the language i want to i don't know i would like to spend like a month
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or two months there
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and get to know the culture the food i love korean
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food asian food i love asian food in general i think they have very delicious food
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and also healthy food i don't know why
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but they eat like a lot of meat and vegetables
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so at the end of the day they always eat like healthy food
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which is something you cannot really do in the united states
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when i travel to the u.s which i love i have nothing to to say about
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the US but the food was an experience like
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if you want to eat healthy in the United States you have to find very particular places to buy
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that food and also it's more expensive so when I was in the US we usually ate burgers,
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fries, ice cream, pizza because also the healthier the food the more expensive it was for example
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if you wanted to eat I don't know meat with rice
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and vegetables it was more expensive than eating I don't know a burger with chips
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but I will always come back to the US
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because it has something I don't know magical
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and I want to go back to New New York I want to go with friends
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or family or my boyfriend like I don't want to go alone again
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but I don't know I have like
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so many places I want to go to
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and I'm really excited for the trips that I have coming up
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so please tell me in the comments if you have any trips coming up
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if you if you went to Korea tell me in the comments
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because let's have a chat let's have conversation in the comments
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and tell me what trips or plans you have coming up and also
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if you want information about our speaking program i will leave all the information down below in the description
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and also you can check my in-stream account to see all our students teachers
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and information i hope you liked this podcast i'm trying to get better
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and better at them but please leave a comment or follow me if you like this type of videos bye bye
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “Easy English Podcast 🎧”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: trip, travel, month, experience. This video has 171 sentences and 2128 words to shadow. The speech runs for 14:09. The speaker talks at a natural 150 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 86% 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 |
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| organize verb | /ˈɔɹɡənaɪz/ | To arrange in working order. |
| relax verb | /ɹɪˈlæks/ | To make something loose. |
| itinerary noun | /aɪˈtɪnəˌɹɛɹi/ | A written schedule of activities for a vacation or road trip. |
| vegetable noun | /ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bəl/ | A plant raised for some edible part of it, such as the leaves, roots, fruit or flowers, but excluding any plant considered to be a fruit, grain, herb, or spice… |
| burger noun | /ˈbɝ.ɡɚ/ | A hamburger. |
| podcast noun | /ˈpɑdˌkæst/ | A program, especially an audio program, produced on a regular basis, delivered over the Internet in a compressed digital format and designed for playback on… |
| excite verb | /ɪkˈsaɪt/ | To stir the emotions of; to cause to feel excitement. |
| immersion noun | /ɪˈmɝʒən/ | The total submerging of a person in water as an act of baptism. |
| recharge verb | /ɹiːˈtʃɑː(ɹ)dʒ/ | To charge an electric battery after its power has been consumed. |
| seaplane noun | /ˈsiˌpleɪn/ | Any aircraft capable of taking off from, and alighting on the surface of water. |
| fry verb | /fɹaɪ/ | To cook (something) in hot fat. |
| bore verb | /boɹ/ | To inspire boredom in somebody. |
| reservation noun | /ˌɹɛz.ɚˈveɪ.ʃən/ | The act of reserving, withholding or keeping back. |
| hike noun | /haɪk/ | A long walk, usually for pleasure or exercise. |
| entrepreneur noun | /ˌɑn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɝ/ | A person who sets up a business; generally, a person who owns and manages a business and assumes its financial risks. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
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| come up verb | To emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly. |
| go back to verb | To stem from; to originate in. |
| look forward to verb | To anticipate, expect, or wait for, especially with a feeling of approval or pleasure; to be excited or eager to. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- I haven't, so it's all new for me.
- I don't know, like the energy is something incredible.
- I don't know, have a better experience.
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
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| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | people who help · brazil which is · rosa which is |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | has already visited · I've worked · we've prepared |
| Superlatives the -est / the most … — the top or bottom of a group | the best · the most incredible |
| Verb + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — verbs that are followed by the -ing form | love traveling · keep practicing |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 62 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, I'm, you're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: immersion /ɪˈmɝʒən/, reservation /ˌɹɛz.ɚˈveɪ.ʃən/, shoe /ˈʃu/, celebration /ˌsɛl.ɪˈbɹeɪ.ʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: itinerary /aɪˈtɪnəˌɹɛɹi/, reservation /ˌɹɛz.ɚˈveɪ.ʃən/, entrepreneur /ˌɑn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɝ/, celebration /ˌsɛl.ɪˈbɹeɪ.ʃən/
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 organize, relax, itinerary.
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.