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slow english podcast today i am in my living room as you can see there are some lights around me

the tv in the background is playing one of my favorite youtubers best ever food review show

let me know in the comments guys who is your favorite youtuber

and you don't have to say me it's okay behind me

you can see my living room this is my living room

and right now i'm going to sit down on the sofa

i am sitting down on the sofa i told you in a previous slow english podcast

that red is my favorite color and today we have a lot of red in our scene.

I have my red bracelet, my red shorts, these are shorts,

my red bandana that I got from China.

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and also the cushions on the sofa are red as well and also if you look at the tv

you can see he is also wearing a red bandana was

i inspired by him no red has always been my favorite color.

Anyway, I'm going to sit down here on my little bench and I'm going to cut this red watermelon.

I think the theme for today is red.

So now I will cut my red watermelon.

I have been craving watermelon recently so i went to the store

and bought a watermelon this is my water bottle

and i just took a sip of water

i'm going to take a sip of water i'm taking a sip of water and I took a sip of water.

Now, the watermelon is wrapped in this saran wrap.

That's just this clear wrap that protects your food from bugs,

dust, and anything that can contaminate your food.

I'll take the saran wrap off and place my watermelon on my plate.

Now I think we can start cutting.

This right here is a knife.

This is a knife.

The handle is turquoise blue and the blade is stainless steel.

How should I cut this?

How do you normally cut watermelon?

Let me know in the comments.

I was going to buy a full watermelon

but I wanted to get one that was ready to eat

so I just got this one because I can see it looks ready to eat and it looks very delicious.

You can see there are black seeds in the watermelon.

Now let me tell you a little bit about my day so far.

I woke up in the middle of the night i think around three

or four a .m because it was storming out and it was

so loud did you also wake up leon the storm

and yeah i woke up because it was very loud

and i was like what's going on and i just heard it storming

and pouring rain outside it was raining cats and dogs

so i just cut the watermelon in half let me go place this half on the counter

so i'll just cut the one half anyway i woke up in the middle of the night

because it was raining a lot you can kind of see behind me

it is very overcast it has been raining a lot recently then after

that my alarm went off at 8 a .m

and i had a lot of trouble getting up I was very tired for some reason

and I just hit snooze on my alarm and kept sleeping until 8 45.

From then I finally kind of woke up.

I checked the time again and I was like it's been 45 minutes since my alarm went off.

I should get up now.

So I didn't get up right away.

I went on my phone for a little bit and was scrolling through different apps and social media.

After that, I got up and I got ready to go to the gym.

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and start working toward the english you actually want to use to the gym

there is a gym in my building

so i just went down to the floor that the gym is on

and i uh went to the gym today was leg day

and uh it was kind of hard because i was tired and

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so let me just describe this scene for you guys

i had my water bottle in my right hand my phone in my left hand

i walked out of the gym down the hallway towards the elevator i clicked the button to call the elevator

or you can say i pressed the button to call the elevator after a few moments the elevator doors opened

and i stepped into the elevator from there i needed to tap my key card

so i put my phone in my pocket i took my wallet out

and i took the key card out

that you need to use the elevator i tapped the key card i pressed my floor button

and i went up after

that i got out of the elevator i went towards my door

and i tapped the keypad and then put in my pin after

that i just had a shower wash my body

because i was sweaty so i shampooed my hair

and then i conditioned my hair with conditioner

and then i shaved i shaved today after shaving i got dressed

and then i started to work

and i worked for a few hours until i felt hungry

and that is when i ordered food today i I had pho, I had pho, and that was around 11 a .m noon.

So I had pho for lunch.

And now we are here.

A few hours later, I was hungry, so I decided to go to the supermarket and buy a watermelon.

I also bought a carton of milk because I enjoy milk and I haven't had it in a while.

So I bought milk as well besides

that we really don't have anything in our fridge

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because we tend to just order food I would like to cook more

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because it's easier to track what you're eating if you cook it yourself

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but one I don't really enjoy cooking

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that much I can see Leon looking at me like this guy's about a lie no

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I really don't enjoy cooking that much but I love eating

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and the reasons I don't enjoy cooking are it takes too much of my time

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because i'm a slow cooker i like to measure everything out precisely

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and follow every single step and do all this stuff

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if i could cook off the top of my head

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then i feel like i would enjoy it a lot more

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but i just don't like watching a recipe video 20 times

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and still need to watch it over

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and over again to understand the next step

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so i'm just not not a good cook and

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that can obviously be fixed with a little bit of practice

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but I'm just pretty busy so I also don't have time

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so it takes a lot of time because I'm slow I don't have a lot of time and

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It's just much more convenient to order food in, which I know is not the healthiest, although I can order healthy options.

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But I will admit, the majority of the food I order is not healthy.

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Recently, I would say three or four out of the past seven days, I have ordered pizza.

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I know, I know, pizza i should stop ordering pizza

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but let me ask you a question do you think

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i ordered today to eat what do you think i ordered today

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if your guess was hawaiian pizza you are correct

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i ordered hawaiian pizza i i know i should start to eat healthier

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i did eat fall today for lunch though which is relatively healthy

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and now i'm going to be eating some watermelon

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and normally i only eat two meals a day

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or at least i try to eat and actually something interesting

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or at least it's interesting to me

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when i was in university in canada that's where i grew up

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when i was in university i uh would fast every single day for the whole day so let me explain in my

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second and fourth year

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because those were the only two years i was physically on campus in canada

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because my first year was completely online

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because of the pandemic let's not get into that because i hated

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that time so my first year of uni completely online i felt like i missed out so much

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second year of uni was in person on campus although a month of that was online because

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pandemic again and then my third year of uni i went to south korea for a year for exchange

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and my fourth year was back in canada on campus

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so really i only spent two years in canada on campus

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and for both of those years i fasted the whole day

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so i would wake up around 7 a .m i would get ready have a shower

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and head to school or the campus sorry by 8 a .m

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and i would get to campus usually it would take about half an hour

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or 30 minutes from there i would go to my classes

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and when i didn't have classes i would just go to the library and study study study

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let me tell you all i did in uni was just study i studied

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so much really that's all i did study

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and go to the gym that's all i did

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and then in my fourth year i was part of a lot more university clubs business clubs

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and also i was on a water polo team

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so my fourth year i was doing more than just studying

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but i was still mainly studying let me drink some water

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but for both of those years i did not eat anything on campus one the first reason was

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i didn't bring food with me

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because i didn't have time in the morning to prepare a meal

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or to prepare lunch or snacks

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or anything the second reason was i didn't buy anything on campus

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because in my opinion it's overpriced

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I'm not gonna pay fifteen to twenty dollars every single lunch just to eat I feel like

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and I was a student too

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so I was broke I wasn't working during uni I only worked during the summers

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so I didn't want to spend all my money on food

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when I had food at home so I would just fast throughout the whole day

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so 24 hours and I would eat at the same time every night 10 p .m.

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I would head home and I would arrive home cook and eat by 11 p .m.

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and yeah I was fasting for two years which honestly

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when I was doing it it was

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so easy I was never hungry I was never like tired I always had energy it was perfectly fine now

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if I fast or not even fast now

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if I go without eating food for like eight hours I'm like hungry low energy

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and everything so I do think once you get into the rhythm of fasting it is a lot easier

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but it takes some time to get into it I would like to get back into fasting

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because I think it is very beneficial for your health

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and also it's easier to lose weight when you're fasting

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but yeah anyway you can see i sliced all the watermelon

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i'm debating whether i should cut off the watermelon rind or just leave it like this

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i feel like i should just leave it one

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because it takes a lot of time to do that

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and two at least you have something to hold on to

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because there isn't very much rind

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you know let me know in the comments guys do you have any funny university stories

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or anything interesting

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that has happened to you i think

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this would be a cool concept let me know in the

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comment what you think would you like me to create a google form

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and put it in the comments actually

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you know what i will do it for this video you can go to the description

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and find a google form where you could ask me questions submit personal stories funny stories

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or something that happened to you or something that you're thinking about recently

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or you can ask questions about English

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or talk about your progress in English you can submit any type of question story event

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or anything there and I will do slow English podcast videos like this where I'll talk about anything

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and i will also read some of your questions and answer them

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if you guys like that idea go to the description

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and fill out that google form

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and you have the chance to potentially be featured in my upcoming slow english podcast videos

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that being said did something unexpected it happened to you

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while in uni did you go to uni did you enjoy

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it where did you go to uni you can also let me know in the comments

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that was one thing i did during university it was

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because i was too lazy to cook and uh it saved money

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and it was just so convenient and i had friends

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that thought i was crazy

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they're like how can you go the whole day the whole day without eating anything now

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if i saw someone do

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that i would ask them the same thing how do you do that even though i had

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also done it in the past but

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when i went to korea it was the complete opposite i ate

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so much korean food I ate two to three meals meals a day

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and on top of that I would go to the convenience store

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and get food too but I didn't gain weight

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or I didn't gain a lot of weight actually I lost weight

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while I was in Korea and that's just

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because I was very active I was going to the gym I was going

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and exploring new places walking around hanging out with friends

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so i was eating a lot but also burning a lot of calories

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and uh yeah i actually remember

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when i first landed in korea i didn't know where to eat

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or what to eat and the area i was staying in was near sincheon

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because i went to yonsei university

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and a lot of the restaurants i went into on the first day

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you needed to be at least two people

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and i didn't know anyone yet

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so for the first few days until i started to meet more people

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i was kind of like uh how do people eat here

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if they just want to go out by themselves to eat

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but i guess they just order in i can't order food in korea

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or at least at that time i couldn't

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because i didn't have a korean bank account

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and i didn't set up any food delivery apps

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so it was like kind of impossible for me to order food so i had to go out to eat

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and uh yeah that was a little interesting

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but eventually i met a lot more people i made a lot of friends we would go out to eat

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and then i found restaurants you could just go by yourself

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and i tried a lot of korean food my favorite korean foods are jimdak and dong jimdak number one

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that's my favorite number two dakgalbi that is very good number three oh this is hard kimchi jiga

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or jokpal one of those two i know there is kbbq

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that my brother said and uh korean fried chicken

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but i didn't go with those because they're just like they're

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so mainstream and so popular that obviously they're going to be in the top two

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so excluding those because clearly those are

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in the top two

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i give you my top three excluding those let me know in the comments what is your favorite

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cuisine do you like japanese food korean food french food spanish food german food american food let me know

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and also let me know what your favorite meal is in the comments

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and also one thing i haven't done in a

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while is ask you where you're from so let me know in the comments where are you from?

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I'll go first.

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I'm from Canada.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “LEARN ENGLISH by Listening to Slow, Natural Conversations”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: eat, english, watermelon. This video has 255 sentences and 2966 words to shadow. The speech runs for 20:49. The speaker talks at a steady 143 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. Only 81% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.

Key vocabulary in this video

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

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
elevator noun	/ˈɛləˌveɪtɚ/	Anything that raises or uplifts.
meal noun	/ˈmiːl/	Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity.
pizza noun	/ˈpi.tsə/	A baked Italian dish of a thinly rolled bread crust typically topped before baking with tomato sauce, cheese, and other ingredients such as meat or vegetables.
hungry adjective	/ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/	Affected by hunger; having the physical need for food.
wrap verb	/ɹæp/	To enclose (an object) completely in any flexible, thin material such as fabric or paper.
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…
alarm noun	/əˈlɑɹm/	A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy.
shave verb	/ˈʃeɪ̯v/	To make (the head, skin etc.) bald or (the hair) shorter by using a tool such as a razor or electric clippers to cut the hair close to the skin.
sofa noun	/ˈsoʊ̯fə/	An upholstered seat with a raised back and one or two raised ends, long enough to comfortably accommodate two or more people.
lesson noun	/ˈlɛs.ən/	A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided.
knife noun	/ˈnaɪ̯f/	A utensil or a tool designed for cutting, consisting of a flat piece of hard material, usually steel or other metal (the blade), usually sharpened on one edge…
submit verb	/səbˈmɪt/	To yield or give way to another.
convenient adjective	/kənˈviː.niənt/	Serving to reduce a difficulty, or accessible with minimum difficulty; expedient.
unlimited adjective	/ʌnˈlɪm.ɪ.tɪd/	Limitless or without bounds; unrestricted.
vocabulary noun	/vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/	A usually alphabetized and explained collection of words e.g. of a particular field, or prepared for a specific purpose, often for learning.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
get up verb		To move in an upward direction; to ascend or climb.
wake up verb	/ˌweɪk ˈʌp/	To stop sleeping; to awake.
check out verb		To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.).
get over verb		To overcome.
cut off verb	/ˌkʌt ˈɔf/ [ˌkɐɾ ˈɔf]	To remove by cutting.
fill out verb	/fɪl ˈaʊt/	To complete a form or questionnaire with requested information.
get out of verb		To leave, exit or escape from; to become free of.
go off verb		To explode.

Grammar in this video

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

Structure	In the video
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on	have been craving · has been raining
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	has always been · it's been · haven't had
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	is wrapped · is built · be fixed
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	guys who is · though which is

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 54 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, didn't, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “sh” and “zh” sounds: shave /ˈʃeɪ̯v/, potentially /pəˈtɛnʃ(ə)li/, delicious /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/, beneficial /ˌbɛn.ɪˈfɪʃ.əl/, cushion /ˈkʊʃən/
Long words — get the stress right: elevator /ˈɛləˌveɪtɚ/, unlimited /ʌnˈlɪm.ɪ.tɪd/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, potentially /pəˈtɛnʃ(ə)li/, 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 elevator, meal, pizza.

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.

Shadowing technique: read the full step-by-step guide →

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