Shadowing Practice: I Finally Answered Your Questions - Learn English Speaking with Video
Creating lesson...
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I made this Q &A community post when we hit 500k subscribers!
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And now.. we've hit 600k subs.
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Well, better late than never.
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First question...
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Why are you dumb?
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Rude.
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How do you make science so funny and exciting?
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Huge fan, by the way.
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Thank you.
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I genuinely think science has always been exciting.
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But maybe the problem is learning can sometimes feel like...
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Oh yeah that makes sense.
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I try to make everything in my videos understandable for folks of all levels.
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It's a bit of a seesaw, and I'm still working on it.
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Well, there was this one day where I woke up and my lung decided to explode by itself!
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I survived, I mean obviously, but 3 out of 10 experience would not try again.
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It happened again.
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fight.
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A garden slug.
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Or like an earthworm or something.
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Oh but you said it was hostile.
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Hmm.
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Can it be like a hostile slug?
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Honestly, most predators are just too OP.
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They all have crazy adaptations designed for killing you as efficiently as possible.
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That's why I'm happy directing that terror onto someone else.
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For your enjoyment.
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Can you give that dude who you use as an example a break?
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Are you really sure you want this?
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I mean, I did have...
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All these exciting videos planned, but...
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If you really want me to give them a break, I could, I mean, it's up to you.
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Maybe drop a like, or a subscribe, please?
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That is a great question, Wax darling, well done!
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How long does it take to make one video?
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Well, I actually time track every video.
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It varies quite a bit, but for every one minute of video you see, there's roughly 15 to 25 hours of work behind it.
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So that's anywhere between 200 to 300 hours of work per video.
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This includes all the research, writing, audio, storyboarding, animation, and video editing.
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My production process is super spaghetti as well.
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I'm constantly jumping back and forth to review, edit, and re -record things to get videos up to a standard I'm kinda happy with.
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Writing is definitely the slowest and most difficult part for me.
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Like my mail video took 22 separate drafts just to complete the script.
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If you're interested in more stats, here's the and specific breakdowns for some of my videos.
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Do you smile often?
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This is me most of the time.
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What's your favourite explosion?
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The ones you can do in War Thunder, the sponsor of today's video.
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Do you like making things go BOOM?
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the front lines in a tank, cover ground vehicles from a helicopter, or even send enemies to the bottom of the sea in nail biting naval battles.
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All in one game.
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Take advantage of advanced tech, like guided missiles, smoke screens, night vision devices, and more.
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There's no need for health bars with the unique damage model.
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Shoot their tank tracks and you take away their mobility.
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Oh!
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You hit my wheel!
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I'm gonna hit your wheel now!
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The American F -16 Block 52, and the Soviet MiG -29M.
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But most importantly, they improved the water graphics!
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Yup, feels real to me!
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There's the war thunder for spodger in this video If you were a bean, what kind of bean would you bean?
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I'm not sure if beans live very exciting lives.
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*sniff
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sniff sniff sniff sniff sniff *
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*sniff
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sniff sniff sniff sniff sniff *
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*sniff
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sniff sniff sniff sniff sniff *
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*sniff
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sniff sniff sniff sniff sniff *
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*sniff
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sniff sniff sniff sniff sniff *
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*sniff
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sniff sniff sniff sniff sniff *
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*sniff
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sniff sniff sniff sniff * over and over again drives me a bit crazy.
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So I do have a special helper cat who reviews my scripts and provides feedback.
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Other than that, I do everything else myself.
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Do you have a girlfriend?
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Do you have a wife?
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On a scale of 1 to 10, how much do you despise spiders?
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I realized just how amazing they are.
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And now, they're oddly cute?
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Ugh, I can't believe I just said that.
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They're just like us, trying to survive the cold, harsh world.
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It's not their fault that they have eight hairy legs and giant fangs with venom dripping down them.
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I now keep cops around the house at strategic locations, so if they jump scare me...
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I can safely relocate them.
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Even the big guys.
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Can you do a frontside gazelle dolphin double flip whilst going off the highest high dive board
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and spinning continuously at 50 RPM?
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Just wondering.
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Yeah, yeah I can.
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How do you get ideas for your videos?
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Love your channel.
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Thank you.
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Things just randomly pop up.
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Usually I hear something.
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Hey, hey you.
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What if you mailed someone?
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Like a person.
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Like what if you mailed a person?
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Or when I'm pacing around like a crazy person, which I do a concerning amount, something will just hit me out of nowhere.
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I have an idea!
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Video topics are everywhere, but what I'm really looking for is an interesting or unique angle.
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Like, I don't think many people would click on "Why I like Hercules Beetle".
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Instead, make him terrorize a little guy in a coliseum, and now I'm invested!
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Woo!
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Get him!
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paid, we pay in exposure only.
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How does the stickman guy keep coming back when he's dead?
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I've got a bunch of 'em, and I rotate them between videos.
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Wee hee hee yeah!
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My subjects need to be in roughly okay shape, so that I can extract the most entertained value from them.
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If they're too stressed or too like, dead already, that would be boring.
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When they're on break, they usually spend their time floating around in these test tubes.
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Or the really problematic ones are archived in storage.
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Do you have any advice for aspiring creators?
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It may look like this channel was an overnight success, but before I assume this mighty form, I made about 40 animated videos over 7 years.
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They're all deleted now by the way, but most of those videos barely hit 100 views.
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And like, 11 of those views were from me refreshing the page.
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But throughout those years I didn't stop.
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I kept creating, I kept trying new ideas, and most importantly, I kept improving my video creation skills.
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experimenting now, trying to improve a little with each upload.
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In short, keep making videos.
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The faster you put stuff out there, the faster you get feedback, and the faster you can improve.
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And then there'll be more cool stuff on the internet for me to consume.
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Why are you so cute?
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Doggo blush?
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Doggo blush now!
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Plushies?
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Will you make a plush?
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When will you make plushies?
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Please make a cute plushie!
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Thank you.
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My question is, how do you decide what facts to include in your videos?
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Are there things you wanted to include but had to cut out?
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Ugh, this is one of the most painful parts of the process.
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So much content is culled during the reviews.
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Because too many facts can feel dense and overwhelming.
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Like in the fossils video, I had a whole section explaining polymerization, which is how gooey resin turns into semi -gooey copal, which turns into zero gooey amber.
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And I was like, "Wow!
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I sound like a complete nerd!
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This is great !" And then Kat came along and called it boring.
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And as usual, she was right.
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Are you British?
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I certainly am not, sir.
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Pfft!
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I hate tea.
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Quick question: How do you eat your cereal?
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Cereal first, then milk, or the opposite?
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Only true cereal connoisseurs would understand that the best part of eating cereal is drinking the cereal -flavored milk at the end.
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Pfft!
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Are you British?
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Pfft!
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So, to optimize for that experience, first I massage the cereal in the bowl to break it into tiny pieces.
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This increases its surface area, so when I pour in the milk, more cereal bits dissolve into it.
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"Creating a more potent, delicious milk." I guess I do put the cereal in first.
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It would be kinda weird otherwise.
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"Your cereal, sir." If you weren't a YouTuber, what would you be?
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I would be...
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"Sir." for a really long time, so I would have kept trying until something worked.
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Or I guess until I died.
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But I was working as an engineer as my day job, so that's what I'd be doing.
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What's your favorite part of being a YouTuber?
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I get to set my own schedule.
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Worst part of being a YouTuber?
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I have to set my own schedule!
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Alrighty, there were a bunch of frequently asked questions, so I'm gonna answer them all now.
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Why are you a dog?
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Something about torturing a mini -human just feels a bit more okay if I'm a cute dog.
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guy, then it would be despicable!
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But it's all good if I'm a dog.
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What's your name?
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It's weird calling you Dumb Doggo.
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Like, is your first name Dumb?
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That's a dumb first name, MILO!
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Call me...
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Milo.
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What do you use to make your videos?
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Here's everything I use: hardware.. and software.
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What inspired you to make YouTube videos?
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Originally, it was all the storytime animators, like Domix and Jaden Animations,
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then later on, more educational channels like CGP Grey and Salmonella Academy.. oh, also this guy.
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Are you what people would call...
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a furry?
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Hmm...
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I'd say I'm more fluffy than furry.
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I am a well -groomed doge.
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Are you British?
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Thank you for all the questions!
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I answered more in the comments here, so head there right after this if you want more A's to your Q's.
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I couldn't have gotten this far without all of you.
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Like, literally.
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Without you, I'd be in a white, empty void talking to nobody.
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Well, I guess I'm technically talking to nobody, sitting here in my room, all alone.
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But it does feel like you're here with me.
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Okay, that's kinda creepy.
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Can you like, go away?
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I'm trying to make a video here.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 207 sentences and 1812 words to shadow. The speech runs for 11:37. The speaker talks at a natural 156 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. Only 75% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| cereal noun | /ˈsɪə.ɹɪ.əl/ | A type of grass (such as wheat, rice or oats) cultivated for its edible grains. |
| thunder noun | /ˈθʌndɚ/ | The loud rumbling, cracking, or crashing sound caused by expansion of rapidly heated air around a lightning bolt. |
| bean noun | /ˈbi(ː)n/ | Any plant of several genera of the taxonomic family Fabaceae that produces large edible seeds or edible seedpods. |
| roughly adverb | /ˈɹʌf.li/ | In a rough manner; without kindness, softness, or gentleness. |
| script noun | /skɹɪpt/ | A writing; a written document. |
| feedback noun | /ˈfiːdˌbæk/ | Critical assessment of a process or activity or of their results. |
| edit verb | /ˈɛdɪt/ | To change a text, or a document. |
| importantly adverb | /ɪmˈpɔɹ.tənt.li/ | Used to mark a statement as having importance. |
| hostile adjective | /ˈhɑstəl/ | Not friendly; appropriate to an enemy; showing the disposition of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence or a desire to thwart and injure. |
| bore verb | /boɹ/ | To inspire boredom in somebody. |
| blush noun | /ˈblʌʃ/ | An act of blushing; a pink or red glow on the face caused by embarrassment, shame, shyness, love, etc. |
| furry noun | /ˈfɜɹ.i/ | Someone who identifies with or as an animal character with human-like characteristics (an anthropomorphic animal character). |
| topic noun | /ˈtɑpɪk/ | A subject; a theme; a category or general area of interest. |
| pocket noun | /ˈpɑ.kɪt/ | A bag stitched to an item of clothing, used for carrying small items. |
| audio adjective | /ˈɔ.di.oʊ/ | Focused on audible sound, as opposed to sight. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| come along verb | To accompany. | |
| come back verb | To return to a place. | |
| cut out verb | To refrain from (doing something, using something etc.), to stop or cease (doing something). | |
| go away verb | To depart or leave a place. | |
| go off verb | To explode. | |
| pop up verb | To come up with a "pop" sound. | |
| take away verb | /ˌteɪk əˈweɪ/ | To remove something and put it in a different place. |
| wake up verb | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | To stop sleeping; to awake. |
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 weren't a YouTuber, what would you |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | we've hit · has arrived |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | are archived · is culled |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 39 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, they're, I'd. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: thunder /ˈθʌndɚ/, earthworm /ˈɜː(ɹ)θˌwɜː(ɹ)m/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: blush /ˈblʌʃ/, exposure /ɪkˈspəʊ.ʒə(ɹ)/, delicious /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/, explosion /ɛkˈsploʊ.ʒən/, animation /ˌæn.ɪˈmeɪ.ʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: importantly /ɪmˈpɔɹ.tənt.li/, experiment /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/, animation /ˌæn.ɪˈmeɪ.ʃən/, aviation /ˌeɪ̯.viːˈeɪ̯.ʃən/, helicopter /ˈheliːˌkɔptə(ɹ)/
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 cereal, thunder, bean.
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.