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Hello, friends!
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Welcome to the project Ruskiy with Maxx.
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It's a project for those who are learning Russian.
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And today we will be with Yulia dialogue for the level B1+.
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And this dialogue you can listen to in our podcast.
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Here is a link to our podcast.
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And you can also watch on YouTube.
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But, I don't know what will happen.
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A little bit later will be a video or a podcast.
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In general, I don't know exactly what I can tell you.
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But I can tell you that we have a very interesting topic today.
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We want to talk about one device.
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How do we say device in Russian?
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What are we talking about?
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We say gadget.
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Gadget.
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But it's not very good in the Russian.
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But the device is not talking about it.
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Not talking about it.
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In this context.
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We say gadget.
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The gadget is not talking about it.
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So, as we use the word phone, for example, we don't say it's a word.
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I call you a word.
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And I will use the word for the podcast.
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No, of course, it's strange.
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We use words microphone, phone, power bank, connected to recorder.
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In general, like reality.
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Even the word cable.
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The word stool, the German stool.
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The word stool, I don't know.
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The TV.
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Let's leave this conversation about the
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only until he takes the word.
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When he stops the word, he dies.
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Absolutely solidarious.
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We're going to talk about one interesting gadget.
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It's a crown.
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It's a crown.
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And even not all the way.
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Unfortunately, not all the way.
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Yes, it is.
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Can you tell us, Yul, in three words, what is the ring?
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We will not say, what is it really ring, but it is, say so,
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it is, that it is the best ring in this segment, in the segment of the ring in general.
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But Yul, can you please tell us about this ring ring, what it is like, for which it is, in short, for those who actually don't understand what it is like.
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Well, Max, as you said, we call it a smart circle.
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Why it is smart?
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Not because it can solve math.
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It can solve math.
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It can be a shame.
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But in this circle are all different systems of the наблюдation for organism.
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So, systems of the наблюдation for organism, for your body.
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Yes, so there are different data that measure,
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for example, pulse, which can determine when you sleep and look at your phases of your sleep,
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look at your saturation, that is, with blood in the blood.
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and all this to collect in the notes, in some graphics, in the приложage,
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where the artificial intelligence, in the in-house, analyze these data and gives you some recommendations and in general,
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understanding of how you sleep, what is your level of stress, what is your pulse, and so on.
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And so, it's like this, it's like a fitness bracelet,
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smart glasses, and so on.
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I have a very tough one, but I love them, because...
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I feel like I can see them, I can only count the steps,
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and it's not very good.
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But there are different fitness-basket, smart-basket, which can...
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Let's call them a basic function.
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What are they usually?
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They can count the number of steps, which you have passed.
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Yes, they track, they follow your activity in the day.
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So, for example, the steps, or the bike, or you are doing some sport, you are driving on a bike.
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They can check your activity.
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Yes, they can check your physical activity.
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You can understand how you are doing, how you are doing, how you are doing.
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Then all these gadgets...
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It can be different form factors, it can be a bracelet, it can be a ring.
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What else?
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Is there any form factors?
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I don't know.
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Well, yes, most famous are the glasses and the glasses on the moment.
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The pulse is measured.
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As you said, the saturation.
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Yes, the saturation.
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I'm not sure if the hours can measure the saturation.
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Maybe now they can.
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It depends on the gadget.
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Yes.
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All this information is your body.
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Gadget, in your case, the light, you can collect.
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And then in the app you can work with this information.
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In fact, not you work with it, but the intelligence of the app is able to provide this information and give recommendations,
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some advice and show what problems you have or potentially have.
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Yes, exactly right.
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every morning when you wake up, you will be in the video you are assessing your sleep.
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You are on 80.
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How much?
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100. I never had a chance to get 100.
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So you never had an ideal sleep in the video?
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It's like so.
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I was close to the ideal, 96, 97.
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Plus, in the day, gadget is looking for your level of activity, as we said.
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It's about how many calories you spent in the day, how much you have a stress level.
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So, the C-C-C-O can say, when you have a period of stress?
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Yes, the C-C-C-O every day you will assess your time, whether it was a day of stress, whether it was balanced by the amount of stress, or whether it was actually a normal stress.
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There is a lot of understanding that the Cine is not in the sense of any negative emotions, emotional pain.
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The Cine is, in fact, a lot of stress, which is a lot of stress, which is a lot of stress.
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But the Cine is not in the sense of you, if you run so well, and it's stress for the body, or you sit and feel like you are talking about the conversation, I don't know, I don't know,
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if you have a high pulse, it's also stress.
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But global, for the body, it's not important.
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If there was a period of stress, which is why, he needs to be able to recover.
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So, well, we don't have to go deeply into stress.
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We don't have to, yes.
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So, it's not a positive stress or negative stress.
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It just says, you know...
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That you were...
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You were...
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You were...
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You were...
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Yeah, you're stressed, you're relaxed a little, you need to relax.
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Yeah, yesterday was stressed day, it was a very stressful day.
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Today I tell you about, you need to be less active, more восстановлен, please try it.
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And so for a day in a day.
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And he also follows your index of the recovery of stress.
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And depending on whether you have a recovery of your stress, which determines how active activity for you will be more effective.
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Is it needed for you to have more active activity or less active activity?
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So, is it right to understand if you have a bad sleep?
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And, let's say, I have a bad sleep.
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But yesterday I had a very stressful...
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Stress or stress?
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Well, we usually say stress, right?
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We say stress, yes, in the разговор of the speech.
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Interesting, по норме русского языка, стрессовый или все-таки стрессовый?
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Ну, не важно.
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В любом случае мы чаще говорим в разговорной речи стрессовый.
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Так вот, вчера был стрессовый день, я очень плохо спал этой ночью.
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Скорее всего, кольцо мне скажет, ну, кольцо, приложение, не важно,
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мне скажет, что мне сегодня нужно меньше физической нагрузки.
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Так и есть.
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Да, так и есть.
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He says that the basic norm of calories, which you recommend to use, is 550.
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If you are well-treated, it will be 750.
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If you are well-treated, you are in stress-sensitive, he will say 400.
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And he will give you a recommendation for the next day.
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I want to mention again for our listeners and viewers that sometimes we say on, we have in the way gadget,
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if we say on, we have in the way a ring.
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So we understand that, but maybe not always it is obvious.
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Okay, Yul, but look, the question is, how can we actually believe this information?
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How?
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And I, honestly, it's hard to believe that this small thing can give so much information.
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And the most important thing is that this information is really important, that it can be used to be able to rely on it.
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That's a good, clear question.
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There are several studies that say that the CLE is effective,
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but we understand that, that these studies are not quite true,
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but the main thing that is the CLE is your pulse.
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And on the basis of the pulse, it determines whether you are in stress,
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you are active or you are in a relaxed state.
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Plus, it is also a variable of the pulse.
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It is a pause between the heart's удар.
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And if you have a higher variable, it means that you are восстановled.
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Variable or variative? or how?
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Well, actually, the word variable.
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When I read about the clock, I didn't know that.
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But it was like a kind of a thing that is.
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If you have a high index of such a kind of a thing, it means that you are strong.
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If you are low, then you are in stress.
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Well, as if a thing is possible, it can be to me.
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But for me, what is important?
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For me, it is important to, for example, it is a kind of a a thing that was called a clyde, a gadget, it was a clyde, it was a clyde, it was a clyde.
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It is called a train of a basic activity, which I had to become.
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If it was a ride, if it was a ride, if it was a ride, if it was a ride, if it was a ride, it was a fitness activity,
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so how do you do this small thing, this clyde,
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not a prognosis but a dog about it
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and foreclose it foreclose it foreclose it
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that you did what I don't know how it almost never ошибся понятно no okay okay
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so it's понятно that насколько we can trust this information depends only at us we took this device because
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there are some studies, some подтверждения that this thing works.
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It's interesting to experiment.
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It's not something like that, not an app for measuring pressure, on which you're looking for,
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and which should work super-without.
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It's something that helps you to understand your physical condition.
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Yes, it's not a medical equipment, you can't put it on it in a diagnostic goal.
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But for me it's a possibility to learn more about how your body works and experiment.
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What will happen if you really will have the norm, which the Coyce considered as your norm?
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Will you feel better or worse?
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What can you say about this?
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The Coyce first two weeks, when I just analyzed the different indicators, Давай, ты, что ты можешь по этому поводу сказать?
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Кольцо первые две недели, когда я его носила, просто анализировала разные показатели и не давала никаких рекомендаций.
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Сейчас уже я ношу его почти три месяца.
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Оно установило, что моя норма сна семь с половиной часов.
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Семь с половиной часов, это твоя норма.
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Что это является оптимальным для меня.
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And it shows that if you don't sleep, then you have to pay for the money for the sleep.
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I have a burden for the sleep.
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So you tried to sleep so much, as it says to you.
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And you felt like it was necessary?
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Yes, I tried to sleep so much, as it says to you.
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And I really see the correlation,
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when it says that you have a 96% rate of your index of the day to this day,
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98% I really feel better.
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How much of a index?
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Today, actually, 86%.
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Well, it's not bad.
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It's always a position of a higher expected.
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If you really have a good sleep, you see how low it is,
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your indicators are really good.
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It's really interesting.
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It's interesting that the Cine is like a bit more than it is to move.
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It worked on me, it was always so.
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if it tells you that you have another 29 minutes of active walking
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and you will be able to do the norm on the day, I will with the majority of the chance to do something to do, to do this norm.
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So, you are motivated to do this?
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Yes, it motivates me.
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Well, in your case, it works.
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And you can also note
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that recommendations for the sleepers also work in your case recommend a person who works plus I noticed
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that in a moment of time every day my day the
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clycer is a stress of a day just a day in
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a day was a stress of a day a day was a stress of a day
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and I read what can you do for example there are recommended for the day
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that just sat down in the t-day three minutes спокойно по
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душе ты делала тогда я так делаю теперь как каждый день
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до стараюсь каждый день потому что есть исследования разные что вот
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спокойное дыхание по определенному ритму помогает быстрее восстановиться от стресса и
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действительно если кольцо каждый день говорит что у тебя был стрессовый день у тебя как будто появляется желание что-то попробовать поменять
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yule а почему кольцо они браслет какой-нибудь не были умные часы
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раньше разбились какой-то момент времени плюс кольцо удобнее носить и к
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тому же она мило выглядит то есть эстетическая часть да но
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из того что я слышал с браслетом гораздо менее удобно спать
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то есть с кольцом ты спишь и в принципе не you don't feel any discomfort, but you can sleep with a little bit with a bracelet, it's a pleasure to be able to do it.
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Yes, I agree.
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How did your behavior change?
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Your habits change after three years of wearing a ring?
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I think my habits change not quite significantly.
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But as I said, I started to focus on the level of stress and seek the path to his decrease, to the pressure, to try to do it,
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plus the clyde as a result of you, it enables you to move more and move more.
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And all-таки, you can start to sleep in a bit.
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So it's in a way, so it's obvious that you need to sleep in a bit, but the heart is like a little bit about it reminds me of this.
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And it's cool, it's cool.
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Plus, the heart is one of the factors that I evaluated your cardio, like the heart's heart, that's probably not right.
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And it was a bit of a measure that my cardio is more than my real age.
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So, you know, your heart is a little bit bigger than it should be?
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Yes, there is a absolutely normal correlation.
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But it says, if you want to get your heart, add your life to your life to cardio.
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And I said, I need to go in the morning.
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You started to go in the morning?
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I started, I just started, but I hope I will return.
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Well, okay.
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Let's talk about the other side.
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I heard that for many people,
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wearing such a necklace or a bracelet and getting information about their health,
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pulse, heart, well, not the age of heart,
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but we understood that for them it's a stress.
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So, when people see that they are not in the case, they start to stress.
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When they see that they are not moving, they start to stress.
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When they see that their heart is a little bit bigger than they wanted, they start to panic.
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And this, on the other hand, they get in depression.
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So you want to say, that when the Coyle becomes your owner?
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No, not when the Coyle becomes your owner.
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When you just excessively react to an information that something may not be so good,
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as you thought.
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But it also relates to the patients to the doctors, and, for example, some analysis, which people send, or just check-ups.
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when you go and you feel it, it's a little scary to do check-up,
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because if there will be something and I will go in depression and I will not normally function.
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It's also like that works with people with the eyes of some of them.
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I think it works like you mentioned, when you see that something is not in the case,
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you start more worrying about this And the second point is that the Coyle becomes your owner.
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It means that you try to fit all the norms that Coyle предложit.
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You must have to lose the calories, as Coyle says.
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You must have to sleep the time, as Coyle says.
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And this is not always adequate to do your real life.
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And you start to be worried because you need to be able to get in 10 hours, but I couldn't do it.
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There is a second negative effect.
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It's not an effect.
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I would not call it an effect because it's just a It's a very good experience of people.
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Many people can see the information differently.
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They may be able to deal with the information that they don't have to do with the idea of the idea.
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Do you have something like that?
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No. No. What's the first problem, which you mentioned, when you see something is not in the case, you start to stress on this one.
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I'm more than a person who loves to do profilактиically analysis.
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It will be easier if I know what happens right now.
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I prefer to know it.
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The second problem is that you start to put the norm of the C-C-C, I'm sorry or I'm sorry,
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but I'm not a good person.
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I take information to know, but rather, life will win.
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If I understand that I don't want to sleep in 10 hours, because I have some other plans, I don't want to be worried about this.
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So, it's not about you all?
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It's not about me, yes.
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Thank you, Yulia.
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I would like to then to summarize everything that we talked about.
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The ring or fitness bracelet are gadgets that help you get different information about your physical condition.
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And they have different sensors or sensors,
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in general it's synonym, which is the sensor, which is the pulse.
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Your pulse is your heart, not your heart, but your heart is a bit more.
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You said that you have a variable.
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Yeah, I don't know what this means, right?
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Yes, right.
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It's a bit more.
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It's a bit more.
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But it's not just a pulse.
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It's not just a pulse.
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Okay, Pulse, some other things.
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And it gives you different recommendations, which are made for you.
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And you can either lead to these recommendations, or not.
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In general, you can be able to do this with these recommendations.
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how much you, how do you, Yulia, have you assessed this Cine?
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I mean, how it works for you?
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Do you have any expectations when you wanted to get this Cine?
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I think my expectations were the same, because I expected that, what you said, that it was the opportunity to get data on your body.
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I didn't expect that a neural network, a AI, that will give me some super-positive recommendations,
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which are different from the sense of the meaning.
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Like, you know, more, you eat more healthy food, you move more.
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But it was very interesting to see how your mood changes from day to day,
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how you feel yourself in the days when you have some high-level indicators, some high-level indicators.
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And this Cольцо gives me the opportunity to follow these indicators.
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His effectiveness and influence on my own habits is 6-7.
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Because I'm less prepared to change my life,
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and that I said that, maybe, if you can take a recommendation more seriously, but I still don't get it.
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So, for me, it's an effective effect on the six.
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Okay.
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The last question that someone could ask,
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who looks at us and says, But it's the same.
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You eat enough, you eat better and less stress.
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So, in general, why do you do this? the circle.
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It's clear, but when you see how you are directly on your mind,
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a little stress,
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a little bit of a a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a sleep,
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you start to understand it more personally, because global recommendations are really common.
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They didn't have anything of the natural and revolutionary.
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But here it gives you the opportunity to see what you've experienced and a little bit of a chiffon.
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– It's personalized.
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– It's personalized, yes.
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And a little bit of a chiffon, because you know globally, you know that you didn't sleep, but you can see how many times you woke up,
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сколько было глубокого сна, поверхностного сна, и уже для себя какие-то выводы сделать относительно того,
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когда тебе лучше ложиться спать, как тебе лучше спать.
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Понятно.
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Спасибо тебе большое.
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Друзья, на этом у нас все.
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Если вы хотите практиковать более эффективно русский и с каждым подкастом тренировать свои навыки и аудирование,
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and to learn the language and even improve the language, then you can join our membership program.
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The link will be in the description of the video or in the description of the podcast.
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If you listen to this in your podcast-related video, you can also see this podcast.
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And it will be very-very nice.
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we will always send you your heart.
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So, friends, thank you.
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See you in the next podcast, in the next videos.
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Thank you very much.
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Let's go to your hand with your hand.
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Thank you, Max.
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And see you.
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See you soon.
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Bye-bye.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “If You Understand This Russian Dialogue, You’re B1+”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: stress, sleep, pulse. This video has 325 sentences and 3344 words to shadow. The speech runs for 28:12. The speaker talks at a steady 119 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 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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| distress noun | /dɪˈstɹɛs/ | Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature. |
| pulse noun | /pʌls/ | A normally regular beat felt when arteries near the skin (for example, at the neck or wrist) are depressed, caused by the heart pumping blood through them; the… |
| gadget noun | /ɡæd͡ʒ.ɪt/ | Any device or machine, especially one whose name cannot be recalled, often either clever or complicated. |
| recommendation noun | /ˌɹɛkəmɛnˈdeɪʃən/ | An act of recommending. |
| 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… |
| norm noun | /nɔːm/ | That which is normal or typical. |
| bracelet noun | /ˈbɹeɪslət/ | A band or chain worn around the wrist as jewelry/jewellery or an ornament. |
| indicator noun | /ˈɪn.dɪˌkeɪ.tə(ɹ)/ | A pointer or index that indicates something. |
| variable adjective | [ˈvæɹ.i.ə.bl̩] | Able to vary or be varied. |
| saturation noun | The act of saturating or the process of being saturated. | |
| cardio noun | /ˈkɑɹ.di.oʊ/ | Exercise with the goal of raising the heart rate by walking or running on the treadmill. |
| foreclose verb | /fɔːˈkləʊz/ | To repossess a mortgaged property whose owner has failed to make the necessary payments; used with on. |
| stool noun | /stuːl/ | A seat for one person without a back or armrests. |
| calorie noun | /ˈkæləɹi/ | A non-SI unit of energy, equivalent to 4.184 kilojoules, that can raise the temperature of a kilogram of water by one degree Celsius. This is the unit normally… |
| sensor noun | /ˈsɛn.sɚ/ | A device or organ that detects certain external stimuli and responds in a distinctive manner. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| wake up verb | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | To stop sleeping; to awake. |
| check up verb | To verify through brief investigation or revisit for assurance that there are no problems. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- What are we talking about?
- Will you feel better or worse?
- What can you say about this?
- How did your behavior change?
- You started to go in the morning?
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 are well-treated, it will be · if you really will have |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | those who are · those who actually · pulse, which can |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | is measured · was balanced · was called |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | have passed · you've experienced |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 35 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, I'm, didn't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: recommendation /ˌɹɛkəmɛnˈdeɪʃən/, chiffon /ʃɪˈfɑn/, correlation /ˌkɔɹ.əˈleɪ.ʃən/, expectation /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/, revolutionary /ˌɹɛvəˈluʃənɛɹi/
- Long words — get the stress right: recommendation /ˌɹɛkəmɛnˈdeɪʃən/, indicator /ˈɪn.dɪˌkeɪ.tə(ɹ)/, personalize /ˈpɜː.sə.nə.laɪz/, organism /ˈɔɹ.ɡəˌnɪz.əm/, correlation /ˌkɔɹ.əˈleɪ.ʃən/
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 distress, pulse, gadget.
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.