Shadowing Practice: I Tried Jollibee in Vietnam - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Today we're eating at Jollibee here in Vietnam.

I tried Jollibee for the first time when I was in the Philippines and apparently I did everything wrong.

Well, according to you guys, that is.

You said I ordered all the wrong food.

So today I'm here to redeem myself and actually try the foods

that makes Jollibee unique and at the same time see how Jollibee here in Vietnam compares to back in the Philippines.

Let's go inside.

All right, it's been a while since I've been here.

Okay, a bit of a similar vibe to the one I visited in the Philippines for sure.

Is there the same signature items here?

Hello, which items are your signature items?

Do you want a big dryer or with spaghetti?

So does Vietnam have specific items that's unique to...

Wait, wait, I'll translate, wait, wait, wait, wait.

And I have no internet connection.

Does anyone speak English?

No, a little bit.

Okay, so I've been to Jollibee in the Philippines.

Yes, and I wonder does Vietnam have items, food here?

That's...do you have translate?

I can write on your phone. Does Jollibee here?

oh i'll maybe in tonight okay there we go exist outside of

this and this best seller the olive okay do you have a hamburger

For your mango you have only shrimp burger and chicken sandwich.

This?

No soft drink.

No soft drink?

The shrimp burger?

Yes.

Jamburger shrimp?

Yes.

Yoli spaghetti with chicken joy.

And the peach mango pie.

Is there anything I miss?

Something I must try or something?

Yes.

Your recommendation maybe?

You can use chili sauce.

I can use sauce?

Yes, chili sauce.

Chili sauce.

Can I add chili sauce? okay add spicy okay thank you perfect perfect just like

that great thank you there we go and there's several floors so I guess let's check the upstairs area

let's try to give you guys like a proper tour of this spot

i think we got everything now that's the thing i really do think i got everything

that people have been like dying for me to try oh wow

this was like really open space here no one is here

this is like a perfect place to sit down let's just

for the sake of it check the top floor as well otherwise i think i'll sit here right

okay oh can i just look just just not sit but just look oh no okay okay yes we sit here

so apparently there's three floors

but i couldn't check out the top floor unfortunately i think it's closed off to due to maintenance

or something like that

but we do have a very beautiful view like out here

i think that's great okay it's beeping yes i'm making like some b -rolls for you guys

I'll go and get the order.

Caution, low seal eating.

There we go.

Okay.

Oh wow, okay.

I have to come do several rounds.

Okay, thank you so much.

I'm getting help out here.

Perfect.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Okay, I think we're like all set here.

Two cameras and a third to record on B -roll with.

What a cinematic setup, you feel me?

Anyways, all this was 170 ,000 Vietnamese dong.

That is whatever I put on screen right now.

I don't know.

You guys let me know if that's a fair deal.

I think so.

I think that sounds...

Pretty reasonable.

Let's see here what we got to work with.

Okay, here's the Jamburger with a shrimp.

So again, they didn't have the meat patty here in Vietnam, apparently.

We have the Jollibee pasta with the chicken jojep.

So it looks like that.

Let's see if we can get a proper look of that, like that.

All right.

I think this was like the Vietnamese good stuff that I should try out.

Was it shrimp and rice and some like hot sauce or something?

I'm not sure.

I would assume this is the, you know, the Jollibee, what is it called, like the peach mango pie, I guess.

We're about to find out, right?

Let's organize ourselves a little bit here, okay?

So I think I kind of want to start with the Jollibee pasta.

I had that before, but I want to try to see if there's any difference, okay?

Oh, that's a good chunk of the pasta right there, okay? And yeah.

I think this is exactly the same, you know.

Kind of what I was expecting, you know.

Italians, what do you feel about that?

Might sound weird, but it kind of reminds me of my childhood a little bit.

It tastes a bit like those ready -prep Bolognese sauces and kind of enjoy this.

If you like a sweeter taste to your pasta, well, you're gonna enjoy this.

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And oh, before I forget, this is probably how I should hold my utensils.

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Because out of all the videos I posted in the Philippines,

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Oh my god, there were so many comments about how I use the spoon and fork, alright?

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So the way we use it in Sweden, right?

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Is that we usually have like a fork in our left hand and we use a knife in the right hand, right?

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But usually what they do here in Asia is

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that they hold the spoon in the left hand

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and they kind of scoop up the food like this on the spoon like that, which yeah, it makes sense

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You could eat like this too.

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The thing is like when you've eaten like this your entire life with a pork and knife.

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It's kind of hard you know to just switch over from one day to another right?

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Anyways here's the chicken joy.

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I don't want to get all messy with my hands here.

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I wish I could have eaten with my hands here.

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Someone has to carry the camera equipment after and yeah that's gonna be me all right.

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So the way I do this it's not the right way to do this.

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I know I know relax in the comments.

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Okay let's take a bite of the chicken joy.

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Oh and that's kind of spicy bro.

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Damn.

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Okay that was good chicken though but it was kind of spicy bro.

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It's like drenched in this spicy like it's chili sauce.

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Can I add chili sauce?

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Okay add spicy.

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Sweet chili sauce but very spicy chili sauce.

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Now let's do this the Asian way.

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I'll try for you guys.

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So you use the spoon like that.

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That's good chicken bro.

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It is.

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Anyways let's move on here with Vietnam's like unique dish.

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I have this like very spicy feeling in my mouth right now.

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Didn't expect this to become like a

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Spice taste test challenge or something like that and again we're eating here the proper way like that

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Okay, okay That was shrimp with the sweet chili sauce and mayonnaise.

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Fried.

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I like it.

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I like it.

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That was good bro.

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That was actually good.

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I like that.

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Let's just try the rice here for the sake of it as well.

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Yum um there's definitely there's definitely there's definitely i can't speak english there's definitely

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different levels to the spiciness between the sauces because this one with the chicken joy

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that was hella spicy bro but this this is just like a soft you know spiciness to it which i

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Enjoy for sure.

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Mmm.

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Yeah, I'm kind of hungry, you know, I'm coming straight from the gym.

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The chicken joj is definitely the highlight here so far, I would say.

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I really like that even though it was like very spicy because the chicken was great.

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Okay, here we have the burger.

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All right, how do I do this?

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You can't eat a burger with a spoon and pork.

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Maybe we can do like this actually.

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Let's do like this.

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So this was a shrimp hamburger, which looks like that.

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All right, I think it's mustard is that ketchup?

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I'm not sure.

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Probably salad and then fried shrimp so let's give this a bite right?

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mmm okay bro that was a good burger you guys might hate me here

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but this was definitely the best out of everything I've tried here.

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Bro that was such a good patty bro.

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hmm I mean if you come here to Vietnam I'm not sure

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if this exists in the Philippines right I guess let me know in the comments but the shrimp hamburger

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that's some good stuff bro the big moment of truth the dessert you need to

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drink some water without spilling everything over and I failed I need some

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paper

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which we don't have here damn bro okay yeah yeah yeah

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thank you she'll bring the dishes for me water friendly people

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have here in Vietnam as well like the friendliness is just unreal

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that's something they both got in common the hospitality is like i very much appreciate that oh thank you so much.

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Here's the infamous peach mango pie.

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I remember in my last video I tried the tuna pie and I called that dessert.

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Apparently that was almost illegal for me to say.

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I'll be completely transparent.

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I would never pick this over an apple pie, right?

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I can definitely see the appeal of it but I don't think I want tuna in my dessert.

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Apparently it was not a dessert, okay?

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It's like you can eat it with your meal as far as I know, okay?

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So Oh my god.

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Wow have a look at this.

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Yeah.

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Oh my god that was so good bro.

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Mmm that was probably like two million calories in that but that was one good dessert okay.

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Damn.

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Damn I really enjoyed that.

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Actually let's finish this.

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Okay, so now that I have like a proper try of all the signature items as well as some Vietnamese stuff here,

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I can definitely say that VW has increased their levels in my eyes at least, you know, I probably would have rated it higher,

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you know, back in the Philippines if I actually tried the signature items initially and the peach primer five, that was, that was extremely good,

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bro i hopefully have redeemed myself at least a little bit here

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you feel me on screen right now i'll put a video

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that i think you enjoy so click this video right here and i'll see you in that video peace

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “I Tried Jollibee in Vietnam”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: sauce, bro, chicken, Jollibee, chili. This video has 192 sentences and 1750 words to shadow. The speech runs for 12:29. The speaker talks at a steady 140 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. Only 80% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding. 34 of its 192 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
spicy adjective	/ˈspaɪsi/	Of, pertaining to, or containing spice.
shrimp noun	/ʃɹɪmp/	Any of many swimming, often edible, crustaceans, chiefly of the infraorder Caridea or the suborder Dendrobranchiata, with slender legs, long whiskers and a…
chili noun	/ˈt͡ʃɪli/	The pungent, spicy fresh or dried fruit of any of several cultivated varieties of capsicum peppers, used in cooking.
burger noun	/ˈbɝ.ɡɚ/	A hamburger.
spoon noun	/spuːn/	An implement for eating or serving; a scooped utensil whose long handle is straight, in contrast to a ladle.
dessert noun	/dɪˈzɝt/	The last course of a meal, consisting of fruit, sweet confections etc.
signature noun	/ˈsɪɡ.nə.t͡ʃə/	A person's name, written by that person, used as identification or to signify approval of accompanying material, such as a legal contract.
pasta noun	/ˈpɑ.stə/	Dough made from wheat and water and sometimes mixed with egg and formed into various shapes; often sold in dried form and typically boiled for eating.
peach noun	/ˈpiːt͡ʃ/	Any tree of species Prunus persica, native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.
mango noun	/ˈmæŋɡəʊ/	Any of species Mangifera indica of tropical Asian fruit trees.
anyways adverb	/ˈɛn.iˌweɪz/	Anyway, anyhow, in any case.
knife noun	/ˈnaɪ̯f/	A utensil or a tool designed for cutting, consisting of a flat piece of hard material, usually steel or other metal (the blade), usually sharpened on one edge…
sake noun	/ˈseɪ̯k/	Cause, interest or account.
bite verb	/baɪt/	To cut into something by clamping the teeth.
sauce noun	/sɔːs/	A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Meaning
check out verb	To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.).
find out verb	To discover, as by asking or investigating.
help out verb	To provide assistance.
sit down verb	To assume a sitting position from a standing position.
try out verb	To test (something) to see how it works or whether it is suitable.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

Do you want a big dryer or with spaghetti?
That's...do you have translate?
Is there anything I miss?
Something I must try or something?
All right, I think it's mustard is that ketchup?

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	it's been · I've been · have been
Advice with “should” should + verb — saying what is a good idea	should try · should hold
Possibility with “might / may” might/may + verb — something that is possible but not certain	Might sound · might hate
Future with “will” will + verb — a decision, promise or prediction	I'll translate · i'll maybe · i'll sit

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 37 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'll, I'm, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “sh” and “zh” sounds: shrimp /ʃɹɪmp/, dish /dɪʃ/, recommendation /ˌɹɛkəmɛnˈdeɪʃən/, caution /ˈkɔːʃ(ə)n/, preposition /ˌpɹɛpəˈzɪʃən/
Long words — get the stress right: recommendation /ˌɹɛkəmɛnˈdeɪʃən/, hospitality /ˌhɑ.spɪˈtæl.ə.ti/, kinematic /kɪn.əˈmæt.ɪk/, preposition /ˌpɹɛpəˈzɪʃən/

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 spicy, shrimp, chili.

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.

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Sentences worth repeating

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Pronunciation to watch

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