Shadowing Practice: Intenté Completar Un Album en 48 Horas - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Hello, how are you?

I'm in Los Angeles, also known as Los Santos.

And I decided to take this trip to try to make a challenge that I've never done before.

And it's to complete this album in less than 48 hours.

As you know, Gengar has always been my Pokemon favorite.

But the second one has always been my spiritual animal.

Slowpoke.

And as you know, there are hundreds of thousands of cards in the world of TCG Pokemon, with a lot of art and different types.

But the Slowpoke only exists in about 40 or 42, without counting the variations.

There's everything, from the old cards to full arts precious.

And the goal is to find absolutely all of them before I'm here.

That's about 48 hours.

No easy to find a Pokemon of this kind and specific that it's not a super-stress like Gengar, Pikachu or Eevee.

It's quite complicated.

But well, the rules that I'll put are the following.

The main goal is to collect and fill all this album with all the different art of Slowpoke art, without the variations.

I can't use cards that I already have in my collection at home to fill this album, and I can't buy any online cards.

The main goal is to collect all the artes, without import the language, and fill this album.

There are cards of all types, and some with prices...

...but it would be worth it.

Everything is for giving love to this little gordo.

Rosita.

With a look of bobo.

Okay, let's go to the first place called...

Burbank Sportcard.

And I think I can follow more than 50% of the cards I'm looking for.

Let's see if we have a look.

That's a good name.

I have to find the hockey.

We have to find Pokemon.

Here I have a lot of cards.

Obviously, I don't want to buy cards because if I lose my heritage.

The goal is to buy singles.

But if I see a specific card that I don't find in single, I find in the form.

What I want to say is that if I don't find the card, if it's degraded, maybe I'll lose my head and I'll buy it.

The Charizard Dorado is precious.

I've been looking for this for a long time and I'm not sure.

I've seen my life with such a lot of products.

It's incredible.

They're even in Korean or Chinese.

This is a bad news.

This is Irina's filming and I'm laughing because I have a chip.

What's this card?

1.050€.

This is where the chicha is.

This is where we are looking for singles.

But these are very expensive.

There must be some more solid area.

I'm looking for slowpokes.

You have and I'm looking for other slowpokes.

It's kind of a hard one.

Yeah, I know.

They said they have a lot of albums with a lot of cards on the other side.

So let's see if we start.

They said that there are chances of finding one are quite a lot of albums.

I know I know that this one was easy but slowpokes only have 42 cards in total in everyone

and in total it may not be as easy as it seems Okay, a guy is very mago, he is taking a box of Pokemon cards that are all singles of between $1 and $2 Thank you

He said that we can see here if we find something but it's a bit of a bit, I thought I would have to have more How is it possible that Ludicolo has more cards than slowpokes?

I don't know if I just said it true or not, but I always live in all parts.

I'm a Pokemon Mexican.

Zero Slowpokes, I'm glippin.

Why did you decide to make a slowpokes?

Because it's my spiritual animal.

I was a little bit older.

I had in my Skype photo photo, when I was using Skype, I had a photo of slowpokes.

It's like it represents...

It's not a fake one.

And here, there's everything.

There's Japanese, English, but zero.

These are the last ones that remain in the box.

and we have no found any one okay

this one, if there is no one here, I'm going crazy I've said that this box is of 1$

which is a good news because there are a lot of slowparks that cost 30 centimos,

40 centimos here can be something and these are more specials We can find some fuller,

there are very few slowpops and they are expensive, but who knows.

The car is in this box, let's go to the small box.

The car is in the box.

What a shock.

I thought it was this.

We just had to detonate all this car, there was nothing, and there was no slow pokes.

I understand.

I thought this would be so difficult.

I have had luck, but I had to fall and I bought a box of terastro in Japanese.

Here I can put a slow pump, it's the last thing I can do.

I can't go from here with my hands, with my hands.

Next goal is Rift Sports.

I have to look at everything, as you can see.

Second store, God, that's all.

God, God, please.

25 centavos, but now I have about 50 centavos.

Pokemon.

I'm not going to be afraid of this.

Zero, zero.

Zero, no, it's a slowpoke.

Why?

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I'm getting crazy trying to find a slowpoke.

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There's no slowpokes in LA.

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Oh, that's beautiful.

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Thank you.

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This can be incredible.

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The first slowpoke we found is a shiny and it is very beautiful.

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25 pavos, these are the car.

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I'm going to look at where the slowpokes are.

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I just found this card here.

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It's the most expensive one of the ones we are looking for.

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This can be a very old collection.

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And, without grading, there are 300 cards of pavos.

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So I'm going to ask if it's a card.

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For if, I don't know, there's luck and it's a game.

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Do you have any unified minds?

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Or anything like that?

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Okay, okay.

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Okay, well, you're done.

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And enjoy a little.

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Okay.

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Well, he said to check out here that there's a slowdown.

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The MVP of the day?

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I Two.

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Two.

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Two.

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Two.

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Oh a

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Aquí con cuatro cartas

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25 dólares y estos tres que son muy bonitos muy cute

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y es el comienzo es el comienzo de una gran colección

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Vale pues ya ha llegado el hotel y vamos a colocar

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las primeras cartas en el álbum pero aquí estamos chicos las primeras cuatro cartas in the first page.

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The main protagonist of the day.

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A little bit, folks.

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A little bit.

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Shiny.

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Slowpoke in the beach.

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Slowpoke in the beach.

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Slowpoke in the Japanese.

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There are many pages left to be filled. But we're going well.

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Well, we've reached the last place where we can find these cards.

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And it's Frank and John's collective show.

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It's a place that only happens on Wednesdays and Wednesdays and...

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It's...

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I don't know if I'm going to have a chance, but it's the last...

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The last one.

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What bad is that I only have one hour and a half.

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Because I've been to see the Odyssey of Nolan.

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Chop, chop, off.

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You can't enter, eh?

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And basically people put their stands.

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It's like a expo manga or something like that, where a lot of people come to sell things, not only cards, but also toys, exclusive merchandise, retro...

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This is Japan, I don't know why, but it's sold out.

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It's a dress of gardewares, real and...

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I better not keep talking.

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Okay, as we have a little time, I think it's better to ask and pray.

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How low?

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How long?

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Only slowpoke, no slow bro, no slow king.

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Only slowpoke.

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They have a lot of slow bro, but slowpoke costs a lot.

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I knew it would be difficult to do this.

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It's a weird thing.

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He told me that he didn't find anything.

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I'm crazy, I knew it would be would be so difficult.

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He said that there could be a slowpaw here, but this is good.

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Side-up. But this looks good.

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This can actually...

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Have a slowpaw in there.

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Please, slowpaw.

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This one we have, it's the only one I've found.

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Thank you, thank you.

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I'm fine.

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Oh, really?

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Oh, okay...

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Maybe you are discovering why there is no. I just said the guy that, because for the new set, I would have said this because it was not open yet, Slowpoke is looking very popular.

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Just now, man.

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Just now everyone is giving love to Slowpoke.

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I think it's good.

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I think it's bad for the video, but it's good for Slowpoke.

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Hey!

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Hey!

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Oh, for fin!

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14?

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14!

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14!

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14!

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Oh, ok, thank you.

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I don't know how it was, I've never seen this in real life.

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Wow, that's beautiful.

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I love it.

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If you would like to take a look, you can take a look over here.

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There's maybe some slowpook and slowpook and slowpook.

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Ok, ok.

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I said I checked these albums, I think there are three in total, because it says that maybe there's a possibility of a slowpook.

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We have to go to the front.

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We have to go to the front.

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Yes, man.

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Another one.

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Another one.

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Guys, it's the same.

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Guys, do you remember this nice person who is atenting us?

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Well, while we were reviewing album after album, this giga chat was secretly looking in a box with powder that had hidden in the other tienda.

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And you won't believe what I found.

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I'll be everywhere in LA and there you go.

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Do you need a reversal for this one?

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Why not?

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Oh my God.

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Oh, the Pokemon Go.

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Oh, this is precious.

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This is me encanta.

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This is super beautiful.

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Look at where we are, we are already in the last stand of cards of all the people.

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There was no more.

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There was nothing.

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There was no cards.

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And this genius, I found all of them.

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The crazy.

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There are some rivets and stuff.

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But it's a lot of fun.

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Wow.

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I also fell so well this man who just bought me a card that I've always loved.

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It's very played, but it's a new one that came out with the first Pokemon movie.

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I went to see him at the game

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and I think they gave me one of these and I didn't know what I did with it.

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I lost it because I had 8 years old.

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I bought it to remember this place and it's a good person.

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He doesn't understand.

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I'm telling you to go for the beautiful ones.

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I love it now.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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I'm sorry, I'm sorry, we've already achieved a 35% of the collection, I think my calculations are not correct.

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This guy told me that there are a lot of places more, not only this part, and we should go to the number 300.

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We're going to go with more time, because he's going to have a lot of things, But it's the mission We're in the slowparks We have a lot of...

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Like...

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Monhollow, Holland, Troll The violers?

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Let's see Slowparks, Slowparks Maybe there's the Full Art of Slowparks Slowparks Oh,

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that's the Pokéball one, right?

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Awesome This one is the Pokeball version This one is cool,

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it's gonna be I think there will be nothing And this one is one of the difficult ones

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This one is super old Oh my god, that's beautiful Thank you so much.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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The dog in Japanese. In Japanese.

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Tenemos otro, chicos.

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Tenemos otro.

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Me llevo estas tres.

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La única en cuenta para la colisión es esta, pero estas son bonitas también, así que me llevaré a esta también.

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Vale, me va a costar 3$, pero como me ha llevado tanto, obviamente me voy a dar una propina, porque si no me sentiré mal.

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3$.

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Yo estaba aquí buscando media hora.

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Quedaban muchas tiendas por explorar, pero poco tiempo para que cerraran.

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We needed at least one more to not feel that this challenge was a failure.

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We were from the end of the end of the end, and we continued our journey to get more cards.

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This one looks more expensive.

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Look at all the big ones.

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I have to have a slowdown minimum.

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One minimum.

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Look at this one.

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I think this one will be the most expensive one.

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It's a option, but it will be worth it.

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This is the most expensive card of all the ones I'm looking for.

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It's the most expensive card in the world.

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So I've had to get money.

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But we'll have the crown crown.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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It's perfect.

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This person is very low, he is...

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It's possible that he has a slow poke.

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I think I have it, but not in reverse.

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My friend, and then this one.

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That one, you get this one, and you take this one, you get two slow poke.

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Real slow poke, that slow poke.

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How much for that one?

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Three, three.

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You take him.

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You live with these people now.

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You live with them now, okay?

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Dude, never come back.

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Where are you guys from? To Spain.

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Oh, yeah, Spain.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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What?

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I have a wild memory.

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Thank you.

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How much for this?

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How about one of these?

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Welcome to America.

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No, man.

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Oh, yeah.

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I can't believe you.

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Come on, man.

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Thank you, man.

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You're the best.

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You're the best.

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Nick Storm, the best one.

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Thank you.

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Bye, guys.

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Bye bye

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to make it so if you want to follow this search of slowpokes

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and like and you know love to the gorditos rositas well, we are getting to the hotel

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and making a recuento we have in total 4 4 12 new cards, right? plus the 4

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that we had yesterday no is not bad, obviously, there is a lot of work ahead, these are the variants and the new precious that I bought.

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Oh, my God.

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There are a lot of different cards that we have, because remember that we are looking different, all the artes never created from Slowpoke.

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And even this one I have a Pokeball and it is very beautiful, I have to pick up the record, obviously.

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It doesn't count for the challenge, because we are looking different, and this one we had here, without the Pokeball.

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But it is not bad, the truth is not bad.

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I put the album and we see how it looks.

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wow this is precious not because it is the most expensive

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but it is also very expensive but also

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because it is very expensive okay well I'm here revisiting

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and really I have like 23 for complete the collection

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so we are not going to go well we are almost for the half

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but of course to find the last I think we will have to do another challenge

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and in fact it has been a 48 hours then it will be 48 days or or years or years,

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I don't know but it's good, it's good, it's good I like to do this album the real thing is 84 years old

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and the good thing is that we have already removed the most expensive cards so when we complete this, the host will be more...

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.. but this...

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “Intenté Completar Un Album en 48 Horas”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: card, slowpoke, box, expensive, album. This video has 315 sentences and 2590 words to shadow. The speech runs for 18:22. The speaker talks at a steady 141 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 82% 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
poke verb	/poʊk/	To prod or jab with an object such as a finger or a stick.
centavo noun	/sɛnˈtɑːvoʊ/	Currency unit (hundredth of a peso) in Mexico.
centimo noun		A cent, i.e. ¹⁄₁₀₀, of certain (mainly historic) Iberian and Latin American currencies, and presently of the euro (coinage version in Spanish), as a coin or…
chico noun		A Latin-American boy; a Latino.
cuatro noun		Any of several stringed instruments of Latino origin; a Venezuelan ukulele-like instrument with four strings; a Puerto Rican violin-like instrument with ten…
slowdown noun	/ˈsloʊˌdaʊn/	A reduction in speed, or a decrease in the level of production, economic activity, etc.
tienda noun	/tiˈɛndə/	In Cuba, Mexico, etc., a booth, stall, or shop where merchandise is sold.
tres noun		A three-course stringed instrument similar to a guitar; the Cuban variant has six strings, and the Puerto Rican has nine.
vale noun	/veɪl/	A valley.
chop verb	/t͡ʃɑp/	To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions.
paragraph noun	/ˈpæɹəɡɹæf/	A passage in text that starts on a new line, the first line sometimes being indented, and usually marks a change of topic.
variation noun	/ˌvɛəɹiˈeɪʃn̩/	The act of varying; a partial change in the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing.
bonito noun	/bəˈniːtoʊ/	Any of various marine fish of the genus Sarda that are related to and resemble the tuna, but smaller.
chicha noun	/ˈt͡ʃiːt͡ʃə/	A fermented beverage from South and Central America, most commonly made from maize, grapes or apples.
commodore noun	/ˈkɑ.mə.dɔɹ/	A naval officer holding a rank between captain and rear admiral.

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.).
come back verb	To return to a place.
come out with verb	To say (something) unexpectedly.
look over verb	To check quickly; to make a brief or cursory visual inspection of.
pick up verb	To lift; to grasp and raise.
sold out adjective	Completely sold; of which no more is in stock.

Sentences worth repeating

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

Why did you decide to make a slowpokes?
Do you have any unified minds?
You can't enter, eh?
Do you need a reversal for this one?
Where are you guys from?

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	I've never done · has always been · I've seen
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	person who is · man who just
Superlatives the -est / the most … — the top or bottom of a group	the most expensive · the best
Past continuous was/were + -ing — an action in progress at a moment in the past	was using · were reviewing

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 65 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, I've. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “sh” and “zh” sounds: variation /ˌvɛəɹiˈeɪʃn̩/, calculation /ˌkælkjuˈleɪʃn̩/

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 poke, centavo, centimo.

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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