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Welcome to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

It's my second day here

and yesterday I stumbled upon this beautiful skyline with the Landmark 81 and there is an entire area hiding back there.

I have no clue what to expect.

It's supposed to be super modern, different and I'm just so excited.

So join me!

So, first things first, we need to get to our new area.

Wow, these views are seriously impressive.

And there are so many ways to get around the city.

But I highly recommend hopping on a scooter at least once and really feel like you're part of it all.

who just hopped off the bikes right here i would say

it was like a pretty much a head -to -head race

i would say it's a tie honestly he insisted he won

but i don't know and here just arrived with this epic epic view isn't

that crazy and we're here in the wind homes central park

and the entire area i guess is known as wind homes

but it's just like super gray and dark

and i mean the sky is super gray and dark

and just the buildings are super gray and dark

and like overall the first impressions of the entire area is a bit sad

and gray but the park just makes the best out of it

and i'm open to explore what it's all about i saw somebody else is taking some content there

and benches everywhere just a super neat neat and tidy park wow oh and here you have so many koi

fishies and birdies

and just walking around here keeps popping up it reminds me a little bit of Dubai

and back there is a pretty cool bridge reminds me a lot of Singapore like the Helix bridge

and here's just so beautiful you have like a little garden cornfish everywhere super livable

and enjoyable area I know the start of the video is pretty pretty slow

but the views here are really a must -see when you're in Ho Chi Minh.

I don't enjoy it.

Mhm.

On the way, we found a little tennis court.

It's just so, so nicely made.

You have funky little stone walls here.

It's just such an insanely livable area, you know, because you don't have much life in the buildings you have

so much making up for it here and it's just

so fun you know you live here you walk out you have like

so much nature wow let's go on the fun helix bridge now

definitely a cool way to cross over the street

and right now there there's so many little what do you call them kites super cute

and on the other side there's also another like helix bridge

It's really fun.

Perfect little street with nature bushes trees and

You see the park is never ending I think you can really spend hours walking through the park

and still haven't seen everything.

There's also the river

So don't worry.

We're gonna go to the river as well

But for now and you're also amazing area a little kids playground workout area fun fun fun

Wow, what is this?

Yes, funky.

So we decided to grab a quick snack, but overall like a super cozy area.

Lots of restaurants, lots of cafes.

So we'll see if we stop by anything else.

But this already looks pretty, pretty nice.

Looking good.

A little spring onion fried chicken.

But in this area I haven't seen any street food yet So commercial break is over, we're back in the park

Super delicious food and now there's like kites everywhere

It's so so cute, super fun

Also the park has gotten a bit busier I would say

In the half an hour that we didn't spend here

And just barbecue everywhere, so so cute

But now we're going to the water, just gonna take a quick look

But overall it's so fun So fun!

Funky little statues and here a little prominent walk.

The Saigon River Cruise. So cool.

And I'm a bit surprised.

I thought we would see like the District 1 skyline a little bit from here.

But I think we have to walk like all the way around to actually see some buildings.

But for now, I would like to walk the other direction.

I see there's like a little view platform.

Super cool.

And on the other side, you definitely see pretty, pretty beautiful villas.

I bet they have a super dope view on this side nice balconies.

Wow, I would like to live there.

You see here so many like little houses and barbecues. So dope.

I think it's like actual barbecue stations.

You have like a sink and a table.

Let's go check it out.

Yeah, that's so so dope.

Wow, that's cool.

Everybody's grilling here like isn't that an insane barbecue spot wow

and yeah you have a grill I guess

you just have to bring your own gas you have a table I don't know

if you have to rent them or something let somebody know

that you're using it for the day but it's smelling

so good here and I just saw the ladies are wearing like merchandise like something barbecue

so I think you can hire people to cook for you and your family.

That's cool.

You know, at this point, I have been to quite a few like green spaces, parks in major

Southeast Asian cities, and this one gotta be like my top two, maybe top one.

I'm not sure which one would beat this.

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Actually, I think I'm gonna give it a try myself.

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I can just feel it's getting stuck when you're rushing to the airport on a busy day.

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So let's roll back into the adventure.

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Thank you.

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Thank you so much.

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He's making like a little video of people of Ho Chi Minh.

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And it's been really great.

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Honestly, everybody's super smiley.

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Like he usually asks, hey, can I take a video?

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Like you look cute or you look good or I like your outfit.

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And the people just get so excited.

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And it's just so heartwarming.

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I really enjoyed it.

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It's time to go to Landmark 81.

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Wow, just such a great vibe here.

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I know there's a mall downstairs, want to check that out and upstairs is like a little lounge bar type of thing.

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Maybe also go up there.

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I know views right now are so -so, but that was a pretty nice first impression of the park here.

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I think this is like the heart of the area

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because I can imagine like between these buildings it can get pretty sad here and there.

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Of course you have restaurants and bars and cafes, but the park here is really, really something special.

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How do you say hello in Vietnamese?

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Xin chào.

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And thank you?

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Come on.

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Come on.

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I learned.

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I'm Vietnamese now.

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Maybe in Lissi tchau.

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Ah, Lissi tchau.

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Ah, yeah.

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And what's your favorite food?

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Pizza.

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Pizza.

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Me too.

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That's also my favorite food.

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You know, pizza is from Italy, where he's from?

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Yeah.

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Cute seven -year -old practicing English.

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My mother was so, so great.

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She's seven years old from District 12 here.

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And basically she came up to us like, do you speak English?

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I need to...

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I practiced my English and the mom was standing on the side.

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Super cute.

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Didn't film a lot of the conversation because in the beginning we didn't ask for approval,

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but then he asked if we can take a picture of her and then...

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So, super cute girl.

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And like overall, everybody here is just so friendly.

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I'm having the best time in Vietnam so far.

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I think so far might be my favorite country.

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Just the people, the food and areas like that are super, super interesting.

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Let's see what else we can find.

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And just FYI since we're directly underneath it, Landmark 81 was finished building in 2018.

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The constructions took around four years I believe and overall it was such an impressive building.

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Main purpose is like luxury apartments and bars and lounges

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and of course the fancy mall on the bottom but also it's Vietnam's tallest building and it's definitely impressive.

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It slowly starts to light up and down here you have like little attractions

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and so many lights so let's explore more

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wow the lights turned on so beautiful and festive love it

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Wow and here is a busy busy party we can have like a little overview from the bridge

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and it's a super fun wow so cozy

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and here around we have like spa cafe restaurant back

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there is another I think a basketball court the palm trees the mall this looks

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so fun like you know the buildings look a bit sad not gonna lie

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but then you look down here it's like wonderland that's fun yeah

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and here you can really feel win homes smart city

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it's the first one of its kind in the entire vietnam

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and it's just so unique i'm really wondering who lives here

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and how much it is if it's like more upscale

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which i guess but honestly there's like

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so many apartments here i can imagine it's still more

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or less affordable and just standing underneath it reminds me

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so much of Dubai

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but overall the entire area around it way nicer really really fun let's enter the mall win come center

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so first impressions definitely a pretty cool mall it's huge

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so far nothing too crazy looks like most of the fancy malls

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but yeah here we have a couple of cars what brand is that

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cool cool cool oh pretty cool we just saw there's an ice rink downstairs let's go check

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that out that's definitely very fun here

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we have the ticket counter for the sky view how much are the prices

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so in case you're here on maybe a sunny day the ticket to go up is 300 000 and that's around 11,

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12 euros I would say.

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If it's sunny definitely worth it.

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Yeah, I bet you have a nice view of the entire skyline

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But today not so much.

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Wow, the ice rink is huge I knew you could actually see it.

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That's so so fun.

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Wow.

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I love ice skating.

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I'm not the best, but I love it

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Wow, some people here are really really talented.

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I'll be curious how much it is to go in there.

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A little bit of a queue

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Here you can just pause if you care to come.

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Not bad, not bad.

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Now I think I would like to go up to the Sky Lounge

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and see maybe a little bit of a sunset, something.

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At least the light's turning on, you know.

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Wow, it smells so amazing.

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I haven't been in the cinema for so many years.

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It smells so, so good.

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Oh, Zootopia.

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Did I have that in English?

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We buy food.

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Okay, so you buy the cinema tickets?

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I buy the food?

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I guess we'll see what the evening brings, but I would really like to watch a movie.

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I mean, the past four months have been traveling non -stop, but I don't remember the last time I was in a cinema.

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Nice, we're going to blank sky lounge.

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Oh, a lot of traffic.

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Never mind, that was the wrong elevators and there actually some guys are entering their apartments, which is pretty impressive.

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And here are the main elevators to go to the Sky Lounge.

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Hello, a blank Sky Lounge?

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Did you have a reservation?

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Oh no. So maybe you have to wait, we have the waiting list.

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Oh, ok, ok, ok.

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Could've thought that you need a reservation.

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Thank you so much.

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super sad i mean could have thought about the fact that fancy

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Sky Lounge bar will need a reservation, but whatever, I thought it's like a bit not so busy.

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Well, there's a lounge on the 48th floor, which I think can also still look very nice.

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I think it's also going to be a bit cheaper and they have coffee there, which I'm always a fan of.

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So I guess let's go up and see how that looks.

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Otherwise, for the 75th floor, you have to wait around 30 minutes and it also looks a bit pricey.

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I don't know if they have like a minimum money you have to spend to be able to sit there, which I can imagine.

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So if you're here, if you want to go up, make a reservation.

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Oh, that's beautiful.

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Wow, wow, wow. That looks good.

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It looks fun.

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So this is our first time seeing the river at night.

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We did walk around there and we saw this big building with the Vietnam flag, but also the bridge is illuminated it's like turquoise blue

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and you also see the Bitexco tower which just looks

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so impressive like I don't know

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which view is better you can also go up on the sky deck of the Bitexco

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but I think here might also be really good

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and 48th floor already really really impressive

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so let's go check out the cafe here is a corner with a bit less reflections wow

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and you can look all the way down which is also super interesting you see like cords back there so so fun

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perfect thank you so much

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so over here it's pretty busy we got a table on the inside of course you have like tanned windows

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and it's pretty like reflective and outside everything currently is busy

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if you don't have a reservation again here same problem

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but at least we got a seat here

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and the view still super super beautiful we're gonna check out the menu and decide

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if we want to stay let's see how expensive coffee is in vietnam's tallest building oh yeah

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that's crazy expensive oh my goodness here you have some spaghetti some food option just

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so you know what to expect when you come up here cloud.

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Super cool.

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The entire building.

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Wow, down there is a pool.

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That's an impressive view.

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I wonder if the other building is in the way or if you can see the skyline.

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Definitely a really, really fancy hotel.

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Beautiful cafe.

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A bit out of my budget, honestly.

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A bit overpriced.

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So we're going back them.

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Back in the mall honestly like my head hurts a bit I'm not in the best coffee mood

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and I was just expecting something else also different views it was nice

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but like there's kind of glass all around

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and especially the outside sitting was very very low as per Vietnam standards

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but like I could pay 10 euros for a coffee

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but I have to be really really in the mood for one

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I feel like for sunset hours it would have been so beautiful

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but now we saw the lights it was beautiful with a couple of pictures check out my Instagram

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and yeah we did a little bit of a sneaky peeky

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didn't pay for it we are back outside with this super cool view

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and yeah just want to walk around here the area now

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overall I saw some apartments here on Airbnb

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and they were like quite affordable like 15 years a night with a pool with a gym like a condo

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I'm not sure if it's these exact buildings

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but it did say wind home so i guess it's here

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and should we walk here yeah

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now i just want to walk a bit through the buildings see how the vibe is here especially at night

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i feel like it's a bit more busy like during the day people are more like inside

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and overall the tower looks so

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so beautiful it's lit up purple i can see more

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or less where we were like on the ledge and it's going

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so so high up pretty cool okay that's a surprising there's another pool right here

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and a little outdoor gym area again funky little pyramids

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and it's fun the pool is really unexpected though oh there's like a market here that's dope i don't know

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if it's here every day today is saturday

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so let's look for the market now beautiful jewelry

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so nice oh funky designs oh

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and the prices of these things are pretty pretty good that's

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so beautiful so cute and yeah it's honestly pretty pretty huge we have

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so many dresses and also here like calendars

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and bags lots of like handcrafted things here these are

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so beautiful wow all of this is so cute as presents like this is the perfect market

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to find christmas presents

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so fun oh here we have some food

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you want to buy let's get let's try it we got ourselves some dumplings wow the corn dogs look

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so good you want some corn dogs or some corn

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i guess it's turning into a food vlog but everything just looks

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so good i still have to figure out my cash sometimes.

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All right, 30k for a corn dog.

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Yeah, one.

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Oh yeah, she's frying it up.

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It's getting warm.

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First time in Vietnam I tried these crispy thingies.

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Really good.

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Oh, juicy.

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We're recycling our previous cup.

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Come on.

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Nice.

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This is super fun.

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We have

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so many different food stands here wow is it good i just have to think there was a concert

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or something because the boys keep going back and forth and unbuilding everything wow look at these views look

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ah look at all of this here you can have some vietnamese green papaya salad with salty crops

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and this looks so good i guess you can mix yourself like a little platter

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so many good things here this looks so interesting i think it's with chia seeds or something

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these look so good everything looks so good oh i didn't see these snails here

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pretty cool this also looks so good i had this the yeah this one looks nice

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no idea if it's sweet or salty but i guess we're gonna try anything else you fancy?

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These look so fun.

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Brown cake.

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That's brown cake, that's nice.

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So I think here everything is sweet and on the other side you have salty savory.

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I'm excited to try.

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The price is a little bit of a surprise.

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$47.

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Yeah, thank you so much.

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Thank you.

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Let's go try.

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So all of that was $53 ,000.

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I wasn't excited to try and also I think they're just setting up.

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The concert here, I think it's about to happen.

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Looks like it.

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Very exciting and overall like super epic view upstairs here.

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So make sure to check out the area around landmark 81.

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You excited?

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I know this taste.

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I've tried stuff like that in China.

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It's like traditional candy.

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It looks like with beans or something like that.

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I'm not a fan, but it's good.

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This is super cool.

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Reminds me a bit of the Turkish...

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I forgot the name, but...

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This is super nice, but it's really hard to chew.

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It's like sugar glaze, sesame seeds, and just like a dough ring.

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Really nice.

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so i'm on a hunt for water now or honestly something to drink

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and while these lights are definitely not made for tall people

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but wow here you have like super beautiful little what do you call it bowls

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and glasses i personally really like stuff like that it just keeps going

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fountains

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and a little christmas wonderland funky statue cool i think

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i'm gonna pop into circle k just to get some water

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because i don't see anybody selling water here just juices

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and again a little outdoor gym wow this area is really great

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i thought between the buildings would have been super boring

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but no right underneath the landmark 81

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and here the entire lower floor we have like restaurant bar cafe we have like some full i think

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and circle k like convenience stores i think downstairs might be a supermarket i've heard the name before somewhere yeah

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and here a luxury gym by california pretty cool like honestly just so

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so much to do oh wow made it back in China for the concert

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i think they're doing a sound check right now looks so beautiful

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and the man is still hungry so we're gonna choose something salty now as well Ta -da!

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Cheese sticks and skuas I think they're building the.. what do you call it?

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Auditorium Where the people can sit and watch, that's so cute

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We could have

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So I would say we spent like an hour in the outside area, you know, snacking, enjoying the music,

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and now it's almost 8 p .m and we saw that there's Zootopia in English, Zomania, I think in many countries it's called,

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basically like the fun movie with the rabbit and the fox, and I used to love it when it first came out,

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and now the second part is there, and honestly why not, you know, travel has been a bit stressful,

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why not just sit down for a bit, relax, turn off the head, a little fun kid movie.

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We'll see how expensive it is.

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Thank you.

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I'm so excited.

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You know, I wanted to go home a bit earlier.

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I'm looking for the bathroom.

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I wanted to go home a bit earlier and, you know, edit a bit, but the cinema won 4 euros per person.

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270 for two so like 135 per person which makes it around four

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or five euros per ticket which is really amazing

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that's a crazy long queue what's happening all the way back there and the mall is already closed

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So we just came out of the cinema, had a really great time, fun date night and suddenly there's so so many people here,

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I'm not sure for what exactly, I think it's for Avatar,

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I think it's for Avatar but there's multiple movies at once so I cannot say for sure but yeah, at 11pm, busy busy.

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I think we're being criminal, nothing is working anymore.

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wow this is fun this is like night in the museum but night in the mall that's crazy

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have you ever been in the mall at night oh my goodness

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what i love though is there's work roofs and everything

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and they don't care like the door upstairs was closed

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and they're like oh yeah there's tourists walking around they're gonna see

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that the door is closed wow you also see the ice rink wow it's freezing here

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oh that's a very fun experience i like that they're so chill about it

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we're back down at the cinema floor wish us luck finding the actual entrance

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but all of the doors are closed

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i guess the only way out is down through the parking lot i think so many scooters

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at least we're getting our steps in to finish the day off

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and yeah landmark 81 is already turned off everything is going

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to sleep slowly all of the palm trees are off the bridges Amen.

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How is that possible?

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You left two minutes after me and you won.

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It was a crazy, crazy driver.

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Like my dad?

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Yeah.

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Because all the way there, my first driver, yeah, he was flying over the bumps.

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I was like, whoop, flying up a bit.

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And now this one was so sweet, always slowing down on the bumps.

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So I don't complain.

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This time I lost fair and square.

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oh yeah that's cool somebody's home

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but yeah we're back in district one approaching our apartment

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and honestly i gotta say

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i just love the vibe of district one especially where we're

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staying like you see all of these like small little side

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streets the yeah the modern side was super cool definitely i think we have to go left here you sure

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we're gonna get lost in the labyrinth yeah very sure look

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that's where the puppy is always yeah

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we have like a puppy he's always chilling here in the corner during the day

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so i hope you enjoyed our little expedition to the modern side of ho chi minh city vietnam definitely lots

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and lots and lots more to explore all over the city

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but also in that area i know we kind of just did the park

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and the mall

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and a little bit underneath the landmark 81 somethings didn't quite go as I had planned

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but I hope you learn from my mistakes and I'm just so excited.

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We're staying a couple more days in Ho Chi Minh,

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not sure how much I can film because it has been just raining here and there and just honestly a bit unpredictable.

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We were lucky today.

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It was raining in the morning so that's why we left pretty late.

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So excited to explore more of and I hope you come along.

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So I'll see you again in the next one.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “Inside Ultra Modern Vietnam🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City Underrated?”. This video has 438 sentences and 4425 words to shadow. The speech runs for 30:24. The speaker talks at a steady 146 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 84% 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

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

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
mall noun	/mɔːl/	A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct.
impressive adjective	/ɪmˈpɹɛsɪv/	Making, or tending to make, a positive impression; having power to impress.
lounge noun	/ˈlaʊ̯nd͡ʒ/	The act of someone who lounges; idle reclining.
landmark noun	/ˈlændmɑːk/	A recognizable natural or man-made feature used for navigation.
cinema noun	/ˈsɪn.ə.mə/	A movie theatre, a movie house.
fancy noun	/ˈfæn.si/	The imagination.
explore verb	/ɪkˈsploɹ/	To examine or investigate something systematically.
reservation noun	/ˌɹɛz.ɚˈveɪ.ʃən/	The act of reserving, withholding or keeping back.
gray adjective	/ɡɹeɪ/	Of a color between black and white, having neutral hue and intermediate brightness.
remind verb	/ɹəˈmaɪnd/	To cause one to experience a memory (of someone or something); to bring to the notice or consideration (of a person).
corn noun	/ˈkɔːn/	Any cereal plant (or its grain) that is the main crop or staple of a country or region.
euro noun	/ˈjʊɹoʊ/	The currency unit of the European Monetary Union. Symbol: €
underneath adverb	/ˌʌndɚˈniθ/	Below; in a place beneath.
dope noun	[doʊp]	Any viscous liquid or paste, such as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.
salty adjective	/ˈsɔlti/	Tasting of salt.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
check out verb		To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.).
go up verb		To move upwards.
walk around verb		To walk with no planned destination; to meander.
go back verb		To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time.
turn off verb		To power down, to switch off, to put out of operation, to deactivate (an appliance, light, mechanism, functionality etc.).
come along verb		To accompany.
come out verb	/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/	To be discovered; to be revealed.
come up verb		To emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly.

Sentences worth repeating

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

I see there's like a little view platform.
I think it's like actual barbecue stations.
Let's go check it out.
I'm not sure which one would beat this.
Did you have a reservation?

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	haven't seen · has gotten · have been
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	is known · is illuminated · are definitely not made
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	apartments, which is · down which is · person which makes
Past continuous was/were + -ing — an action in progress at a moment in the past	was standing · was just expecting · was flying

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 102 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, we're, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: underneath /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/, smooth /smuːð/, southeast /sawˈθɪjst/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: reservation /ˌɹɛz.ɚˈveɪ.ʃən/, impression /ɪmˈpɹɛʃn̩/, rush /ɹʌʃ/, luxury /ˈlʌk.ʃə.ɹi/, delicious /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/
Long words — get the stress right: reservation /ˌɹɛz.ɚˈveɪ.ʃən/, affordable /əˈfɔɹ.də.bəl/, elevator /ˈɛləˌveɪtɚ/, incredibly /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/, unexpected /ʌnɪkˈspɛktɪd/

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 mall, impressive, lounge.

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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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