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Now
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Something tells me I've been dreaming of someone who was never
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real It seems I've changed a thousand ways I wish I looked the way I feel RACING My life gets complicated Boyfriend,
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don't wanna talk about it.
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Teenage, I'll work it out in the end.
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Brave face, my life gets complicated.
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Boyfriend, don't wanna talk about it.
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Teenage!
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I will get out in the end!
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Great face!
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Hi, Alden.
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Oh...
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Oh, hi, Alden.
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The casual yet dignified greeting is an art.
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And like any art, it must be studied, rehearsed, honed.
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Alden, uh, how's it hanging?
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Ugh, definitely trying too hard.
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Whoa!
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Ugh.
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Warning, dignity and braces don't mix.
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Hmm.
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Adam?
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That's our new neighbor, Hannah.
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She's to Adam what Alden is to me.
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A doomed and unrequited crush.
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Huh?
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Uh, allow me.
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What happened over there?
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Oh, Adam, that last growth spurt turned him into a total spaz. So?
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What's, uh, happening this Saturday?
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Uh, two-for-one smoothies at Life Cycles?
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I'm kidding.
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One, it's the Boardfest skateboard finals.
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Two, my best friend Maria's riding in it.
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And three, I'll be there, I'll be there, I'll be there!
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That's what I want to hear.
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Uh, l-l-let me help.
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My gran says heartbreak runs in our family like a curse.
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In other words, the Spitz kids are fated to be losers in love.
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I know you like Hannah.
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How do you know that?
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That drooling thing you do when you look at her was my first clue.
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Oh, you're right.
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I'm crazy about her.
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But it's hopeless.
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She'll never like a guy like me.
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That's not true, Adam.
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I'm sure she could like you if you just worked on a few small things.
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Like what?
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Well, number one, you have no idea how strong you are.
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A simple hug from you could mean asphyxiation.
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Oh, okay.
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And number two, there's your table manners, which frankly suck.
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Great, thanks for the tips.
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And number three...
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And number 87, there's the issue of hygiene.
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Sharon, you lost me back at number four.
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Oh.
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You really know about this girl stuff, don't you?
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Well, I am a girl, in case you hadn't noticed.
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I, uh, hadn't noticed.
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So, like, do you think you can maybe help me figure out how to do this stuff?
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You know that old expression, those who can't teach?
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It dawned on me that just
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because I was doomed to a life without love didn't mean Adam had to share the same fate.
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I'll give it my best shot.
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Ow!
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This is gonna work.
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I need your undivided attention.
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No lip.
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No backtalk.
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You must obey my every command.
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Sir.
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Yes, sir.
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Okay.
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Let's roll.
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Two questions, sir.
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Stop calling me sir.
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What's she doing here?
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Maria's my best friend.
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Where I go, she goes.
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Besides, I'm a girl, too.
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Exactly.
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You're getting two experts for the price of one.
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Okay.
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Second question.
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What's he doing here?
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Josh is here to help you learn your own strength.
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You may begin.
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Whoa!
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Needs work.
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All right!
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Next stop, table manners.
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Now, what you want to try is this rolling motion.
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Then, smoothly into the mouth, like this.
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Mmm.
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Ew.
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Maya, take over.
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Oh, and one more thing, Adam?
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No...
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Uh...
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Uh...
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Belching.
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What's wrong with what I'm wearing?
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Nothing, if you think the pro wrestler look works for all occasions.
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Cool.
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Oops.
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Ugh.
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Hehehehe.
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Hehehehe.
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Adam, you're a new man!
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You really think so?
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Absolutely!
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Amazing what your happening sister can do.
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Come on, let's get a smoothie to celebrate.
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Oh no!
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Come to think of it, I don't even like smoothies.
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Nice try, Adam.
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We're going in.
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We're going in.
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Hey!
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Whoa!
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Uh...
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Mind if we join you?
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No offense, but I just had my toe-cast removed.
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I won't break anything this time.
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Promise.
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Okay.
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Sit.
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Free banana smoothies, please.
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You know how you can feel so good one moment?
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And so lousy the next?
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Why, oh why, did I have to have a crush on the cutest guy in town?
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Okay, aside from Caleb Polowski, a guy so gorgeous, he's off the radar.
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Hey Spitz, how you doing?
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Polowski, pull up a chair. And you are?
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Uh, Sharon, my kid sister.
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Gee, Spitz.
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Good looks running your family.
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Oh, Hannah.
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No, really, I'd love to learn yoga.
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I don't even remember what he said.
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Something about the difficulty of finding hair products that give his hair that healthy shine.
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All I could focus on were those gorgeous green eyes.
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Hey, see you guys tomorrow.
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See you guys tomorrow?
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See you GUYS tomorrow?
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As in plural?
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As in me, too?
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Do you, Sharon Spitz, take Caleb Palowski to be your lawful wedded husband?
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You bet!
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Do you, Sharon Spitz, take Caleb Palowski to be your lawful wedded husband?
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You bet.
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Earth to Sharon.
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Earth to Sharon.
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I've got to thank you.
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Hannah seems totally interested.
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She asked me to meet her at Life Cycles again tomorrow.
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Uh...
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I'd better come with you.
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Just to be on the safe side.
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Nah, it's okay.
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You got better things to do than hang out with my friends.
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No, I don't.
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I had to think fast.
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Not hanging around Adam meant not hanging around my future life partner.
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And I simply could not let that happen.
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What I mean to say is, Hannah may be starting to like you, but if you want her to really like you, like you, then my work has only just begun.
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Huh?
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It's time for the complete, total, 100% makeover.
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I'm not, like, having my colors done, and no way am I getting a perm.
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Not that kind of makeover.
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What other kind is there?
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A BoardFest poster.
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Gives you the times and dates of all the skateboarding events, plus it's a lovely souvenir.
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What do we know about Hannah so far?
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Um, she wears comfortable shoes.
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She does yoga and likes wing chimes.
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And she reeks of patchouli.
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Girls love guys who love the same stuff they do.
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Well, not always.
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I know what to do.
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What other kind of makeover is there, you ask?
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The internal kind.
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Are you sure about this?
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Positive.
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Just say exactly what I say.
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Tough exam on ancient Egypt today, huh?
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How did that make you feel?
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Uh, how did that make you feel?
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I don't know.
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That I wished I'd studied more?
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Perhaps you had a negative experience in a previous life.
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Perhaps you had a negative experience in a previous life.
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As an Egyptian queen.
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And that undermined...
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As Jimmy Dean's concubine.
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Are you okay?
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I'm great.
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Very zen.
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I find there are no cons to meditation.
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I'm great.
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Uh, ten.
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I find I've got constipation.
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Hey, Sharon.
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I have the cassette you lent me.
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That seat's taken.
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That seat's taken. By who? By me. By me.
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Fine.
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So I'll grab another one.
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Um, actually, this is really a two-person table.
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And you know how Bill gets if we move the chairs around.
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Oh.
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Oh.
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Sure.
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I'll just go sit by myself.
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Solo.
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Alone and lonely.
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Hey, Sherry.
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Sharon.
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Forgot my wallet.
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Buy me a smoothie.
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What flavor?
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Mango.
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Oh, and while you're at it, get me a veggie burger and fries.
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Mmm.
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Hey, Sharon.
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Hey, um, about what happened at Life Cycles?
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Well, forget it, really.
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So listen, this is gonna sound dumb, but you don't actually like that Caleb guy, do you?
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Caleb?
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Pfft, me?
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Of course not.
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Oh, good, cause he's so not your type.
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Why not?
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I don't know, he's just too good for me?
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Is that what you think?
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No, I think you're too good for him.
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He's so full of himself, and it was pretty obvious he was just using you to feed his snack habit.
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I never expected my best friend to be jealous of me.
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I'm not.
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Please, talk about things being obvious.
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Caleb does like me, and he'd never use me.
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Not in a million years. That was $14.99.
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Put it on my tab.
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Yeah.
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Do you need to play that here?
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Uh...
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It helps me find my inner child.
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Poor baby.
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Do you guys have plans for Saturday?
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Actually, I was hoping Adam would help me build a yoga gazebo.
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I'd love to, but I can't.
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The thought of hammering that nail into that wood, Wood.
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When that wood was once a living, breathing tree.
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Then I guess we have no plans.
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What about you, Sharon?
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Want to hang out this Saturday?
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This Saturday?
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No, the third Saturday in November.
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Of course this Saturday.
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Well?
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You have plans or don't you?
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Nope.
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No plans.
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I'd love to hang out.
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Okay, so you're thinking I'm pawn scum.
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But honestly, truly no self-righteous faking allowed.
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What would you do?
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Hello?
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Maria?
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It's me.
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What do you want?
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Uh, my great aunt Bea died.
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On my dad's side?
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You've probably heard me talk about her.
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Nope.
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Can't say I have.
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Well, her funeral's this Saturday, and, you know, as her favorite grandniece, I'm I'm expected to attend, so I can't make it to the skateboard competition.
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I'm really sorry.
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What are you looking at?
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I don't like this, Sharon.
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You look great, really.
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Whoa.
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Where's the costume party?
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We're going to a costume party?
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No, we're going to the park.
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The board fest's about to start.
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Oh no. Whoa!
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Uh, wouldn't you guys rather go somewhere else?
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Hey Charlene?
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Sharon.
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Go get me a pizza slice, will ya?
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Okay.
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Uh, better make that too.
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And grab me a drink and some fries while you're at it.
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Huh?
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Maybe you could get me a small drink.
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Sure.
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I'm not a happy camper, Sharon.
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What are you talking about?
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I feel like a dork in these clothes.
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I hate the way I'm acting, and I think I'm pushing Hannah away.
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I don't want to do this anymore.
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You can't stop now.
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We're just starting to make progress.
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I can't stand the way Adam's acting.
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He's not who I thought he was, and what's with the wind instruments?
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I like the old Adam.
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The strong, simple guy.
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I'm sick of all the spitzes.
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Like, what's with Braceface hanging out with us all the time?
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At first I felt sorry for her, but what kind of a loser has no friends of her own?
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Adam, I didn't...
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No, it's my own fault.
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For listening to my stupid little sister in the first place.
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Adam!
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Ah!
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What are you doing here?
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Would you believe my great aunt Bee rose from the dead?
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Mm-hmm.
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Sharon Spitz!
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Word of Tina!
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Por esta miseria imbecile!
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I knew things were bad.
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Whenever Maria started mixing the languages of her ancestral heritage, it always meant the same thing.
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You were in her bad books.
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Big time.
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Adam, I am so sorry.
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What's that buzzing sound?
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Like a mosquito.
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If only I could squash it.
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I wanted Hannah to like you, I really did.
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But then I wanted Caleb to like me more.
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Wait a second.
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You like Caleb Pawlowski?
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Yeah?
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Guy's a doofus and a leech.
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You know what he does whenever we go somewhere to eat?
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Pretends he's forgotten his wallet so someone else has to pay.
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How did you...?
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Oh, call it a wild guess.
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I'm truly sorry, Adam.
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I've ruined your chances with Hannah, and I've made my best friend hate my guts.
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All in one day.
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That must be some kind of record.
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So do something about it.
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Excuse me?
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It's what I'm gonna do.
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We're not home.
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Then how come I can hear you?
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This is not a real person.
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This is a voice-automated alarm system.
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You now have 10 seconds to leave the premises before the electronic missiles attack.
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Hmm.
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I'm so, so sorry.
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I broke the cardinal rule.
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I let a guy get in the way of our friendship.
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And even worse, I let the wrong guy get in the way.
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You were absolutely right.
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He was using me.
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I'm an idiot.
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A spectacularly huge extra large off the map idiot.
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I couldn't have put it better myself.
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Hi.
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And so eventually we got over that bump and moved on.
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Do one of those toe grab thingies.
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Woohoo!
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Yeah, Maria!
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You rock!
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Fuck!
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When Adam went back to being himself, minus the toe-breaking and the belches, Hannah liked him all over again.
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As for what's-his-name, I'm so over him.
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For one thing, this week he has startling blue eyes.
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Like color contacts?
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Talk about so last century.
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You'd think the guy would just try to be himself.
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Watch this!
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Ahhhh!
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
The speaker keeps coming back to these words: Adam, Sharon, Hannah, Caleb. This video has 379 sentences and 2105 words to shadow. The speech runs for 21:17. The speaker talks slowly, about 99 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound. Only 79% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding. 81 of its 379 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| smoothie noun | /ˈsmuːði/ | A smooth-talking person. |
| makeover noun | /ˈmeɪkˌoʊvɚ/ | A major change in the use of something, or in the appearance of something or someone; a radical transformation. |
| skateboard noun | /ˈskeɪt.bɔɹd/ | A narrow, wooden or plastic platform mounted on pairs of wheels, on which one stands and propels oneself by pushing along the ground with one foot. |
| yoga noun | /ˈjoʊ.ɡə/ | Any of several Hindu or Buddhist disciplines aimed at training the consciousness for a state of perfect spiritual insight and tranquillity; especially a system… |
| belch verb | /ˈbɛltʃ/ | To expel (gas) from the stomach through the mouth; especially, to do so loudly. |
| lawful adjective | /ˈlɔfl̩/ | Conforming to, or recognised by the laws of society. |
| wed verb | /ˈwɛd/ | To perform the marriage ceremony for; to join in matrimony. |
| doom noun | /duːm/ | Destiny, especially terrible. |
| fry verb | /fɹaɪ/ | To cook (something) in hot fat. |
| loser noun | /luzɚ/ | A person who loses; one who fails to win or thrive. |
| teenage adjective | /ˈtiːneɪd͡ʒ/ | Of or relating to an age between thirteen and nineteen years old. |
| wallet noun | /ˈwɑl.ət/ | A small case, often flat and often made of leather, for keeping money (especially paper money), credit cards, etc. |
| aunt noun | /ɑːnt/ | The sister or sister-in-law of one’s parent. |
| crush verb | /kɹʌʃ/ | To press between two hard objects; to squeeze so as to alter the natural shape or integrity, or to force together into a mass. |
| costume noun | /ˈkɑsˌt(j)um/ | A style of dress, including garments, accessories and hairstyle, especially as characteristic of a particular country, period or people. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| hang around verb | To stay, linger, or loiter. | |
| figure out verb | To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce. | |
| get over verb | To overcome. | |
| go back to verb | To stem from; to originate in. | |
| pull up verb | /ˌpʊl ˈʌp/ | To lift upwards or vertically. |
| take over verb | To assume control of something, such as a business or enterprise, and sometimes by force. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- You really know about this girl stuff, don't you?
- You know that old expression, those who can't teach?
- What's wrong with what I'm wearing?
- That I wished I'd studied more?
- I don't know, he's just too good for me?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | I've changed · has only just begun · You've probably heard |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | must be studied · are fated · was doomed |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | someone who was · those who can · guys who love |
| Superlatives the -est / the most … — the top or bottom of a group | the Boardfest · my best · the cutest |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 88 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, I'll. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: smoothie /ˈsmuːði/, thingy /ˈθɪŋi/, smoothly /ˈsmuːðli/, breathe /bɹiːð/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: crush /kɹʌʃ/, asphyxiation /æsfɪksiˈeɪʃən/, constipation /ˌkɒnstɪˈpeɪʃən/, squash /skwɔʃ/, meditation /mɛdɪˈteɪʃn̩/
- Long words — get the stress right: ancestral /ænˈsɛs.təɹ.əl/, asphyxiation /æsfɪksiˈeɪʃən/, constipation /ˌkɒnstɪˈpeɪʃən/, undivided /ˌʌndɪˈvaɪdɪd/, unrequited /ˌʌn.ɹɪˈkwaɪ.tɪd/
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 smoothie, makeover, skateboard.
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.