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Hello everybody, welcome back to another Comprehensible Input English vlog,
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where you will be learning English by listening to my voice as I speak slow,
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simple, and clear English.
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Let's get started.
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We've got a couple things that we have to get done today.
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Firstly, I have a doctor's appointment that I have to go to in about one hour.
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My doctor's appointment is at 3.30 and they tell you
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that you're supposed to check in about 15 minutes before the doctor's appointment.
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So I think they want me to be there and to check in at about 3.15.
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Afterwards, we are going to go to my mom's house and we're all going to go and get dinner together.
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You can tell that Allison has been sleeping for a long time because she's got major bedhead right now.
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We call this bedhead when somebody's hair is super crazy because they've been laying down for a very long time.
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And she definitely has very, very major bedhead, don't you?
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She's still a little bit sleepy right now, so she's a little bit quiet.
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because I think she just wants to go back to sleep.
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All right, I have about maybe 10 minutes before I need to leave to go to my doctor's appointment,
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but I noticed that I need to shave pretty badly.
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I have a lot of facial hair that I need to shave off
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because I really don't like having a lot of facial hair
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so I try to shave it pretty regularly
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so I have my razor right here you can see I got a pink razor
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because I'm very manly
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and I'm gonna use this razor to shave my face I don't really get a lot of facial facial hair.
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I've just never really grown a lot of hair on my face.
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So I don't usually use shaving cream because I just don't really feel like I need to use shaving cream.
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I feel like that's more for people who have like bigger beards, but I don't really have much.
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So instead I just take my razor and I usually wet my razor.
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So I'll turn my faucet on and I'll just kind of wet it a little bit.
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And I think this just makes it a little bit softer on my skin so it doesn't really hurt.
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And then I'll just start shaving like this, although I'm probably not going to do it on camera because I'm worried that if I'm focusing on the camera,
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I'm going to accidentally cut myself with the razor.
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So I want to be very careful of that.
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All right, we just arrived at the medical center.
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I believe this is not technically a hospital, because a hospital requires, like, an emergency room, where you go if there's a huge emergency,
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but this one doesn't have that.
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So I think it's not considered a hospital, but we're actually in a little bit of a rush right now because my appointment is starting like right now.
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All right.
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I just finished up with my appointment and the doctor said that everything was good.
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So that was good to hear.
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The only thing he mentioned is that he said I'm a little bit overweight.
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So I got to start exercising a little bit more.
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He did say that.
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Yeah, he said that I'm slightly over the range that they want me to be at, so I gotta stop eating, apparently.
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Time to fast.
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Yeah, I'm gonna have to fast or something and just not eat anything.
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Which is a big problem because we're about to go eat pizza right now, so...
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But I don't think you've eaten a lot today.
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No, that's true.
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I haven't eaten much today, so I'll probably be fine.
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But I got to start exercising more, and I got to start eating less, apparently.
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But overall, that was very quick.
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We were kind of just in and out, and this medical center is, like, right next to our house.
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So it's perfect for us.
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It's nice, because it's not much of a drive.
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And I know some people will drive so far, like 45 minutes, to just go to an appointment that it's just not that long.
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Yeah, that's true.
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And we go here really regularly because Allison needs to have checkups very often.
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Just because when you have a baby, they want to make sure your baby is healthy very often.
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You and I don't go as often to get checkups
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but since we have a baby it's perfect that we have one of these places right next to us.
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Go ahead and practice your English writing skills by answering this question in English in the comments below.
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How often do you go to the doctor to have a regular checkup?
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Let us know down below.
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All right, so we just arrived at my parents' house.
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Right now, my dad isn't here because he's out of town on a work trip.
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So it's just my mom here, and then of course, me, Desiree, and Allison as well.
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And we're just about to leave to go get some dinner
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and we decided to go to a pizza place
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because you really can't go wrong with pizza and it's a new place
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so we're going to be trying it out for the first time
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and I'm very excited because I'm super hungry right now so I'll see you over there.
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Check it out.
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Allison has been practicing standing up recently so right now she's standing up
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and she needs to use her arm to kind of hold herself up as she's practicing, but she's getting pretty good at it.
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Oh, now she's bouncing.
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Okay, nice save.
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The pizza place that we ate at was called Cali Pizzeria, which is named that because we are in the state of California.
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Interestingly, there is a kebab shop in the same area with a very similar name and the same logo.
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So I believe they have the same owner.
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This place has these really colorful chairs that add to the overall atmosphere.
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We got this pepperoni pizza that we added some jalapenos to, which I really like because I like spicy pizza.
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The pizza was super cheesy.
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As you can see, there was a very impressive of cheese pole, as people sometimes say.
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The pizza had a pretty good flavor, but the crust was a little bit too thin for me personally.
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After we finished eating, we decided to go to a favorite store of ours called Marshall's.
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We wanted to look at some toys for Allison because she's been kind of outgrowing her current toys.
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Since we're approaching the month of October, they had this really big and pretty cool selection of Halloween decorations.
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My favorite decorations from this Halloween section were these really cool pillows.
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They also had this very interesting crow-looking guy who was very stylishly dressed.
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I also decided to take a look at their clothing, as Marshalls usually has really good deals on clothes.
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And I tried on this red shirt in their fitting rooms.
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We also spent some time looking through all of the baby clothes for Allison,
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as Marshalls has a huge selection of baby clothes.
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All right, we just got back and we picked up a few different things at the store.
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The first thing we got is this little toy for Allison right here.
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And it's pretty cool because she can press on the top of it right here and then it spins.
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It's a carousel, right?
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Yeah, yeah, it's a carousel because you can see
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that there are some like little horses on it like they would have at a carousel.
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and it kind of just spins around like that.
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It rings, too.
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She's still kind of figuring out how to use it, but she's really going to enjoy using that one.
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And then you got some shoes as well, right?
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I did, yeah.
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They're like slippers.
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These are Crocs.
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They're suede.
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Yeah, the Crocs are really popular, at least here in the United States.
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They're, like, just really kind of trendy, um and those ones are also going to be pretty convenient for you i feel like
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because you can just kind of slip them on
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and off really easily yeah
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and i feel like they would match with like you know
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any outfit since they're just like beige they're not really like
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i don't know they're just really comfy to go out definitely yeah um
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and then i got this shirt as well so
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that was basically all we got for that
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but we're gonna just kind of relax for the rest of the day so i hope you guys enjoyed the video, learning English with me.
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Thank you so much for watching.
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Goodbye.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “Learn English Naturally with Me”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: pizza, Allison, appointment, English, razor. This video has 120 sentences and 1487 words to shadow. The speech runs for 9:46. The speaker talks at a natural 152 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 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
The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
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| 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. |
| razor noun | /ˈɹeɪzɚ/ | A keen-edged knife of peculiar shape, used in shaving the hair from the face or other parts of the body. |
| facial adjective | /ˈfeɪ.ʃəl/ | Of or affecting the face. |
| bedhead noun | /ˈbɛd.hɛd/ | The condition of having unkempt hair, generally as a result of having just woken up from sleep. |
| carousel noun | /ˌkæɹəˈsɛl/ | A pleasure ride, typically found at amusement parks and fairs and accompanied by music, consisting of a slowly revolving circular platform on which are fixed… |
| checkup noun | /ˈt͡ʃɛkʌp/ | A routine visit to the doctor, dentist, or the like. |
| cloth noun | /klɒθ/ | A fabric, usually made of woven, knitted, or felted fibres or filaments, such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use. Sometimes… |
| comprehensible adjective | /kɒmpɹəˈhɛnsɪbəl/ | Able to be comprehended. |
| decoration noun | /ˌdɛkəˈɹeɪʃən/ | The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation. |
| toy noun | /tɔɪ/ | Something to play with, especially as intended for use by a child. |
| faucet noun | /ˈfɔsɪt/ | An exposed plumbing fitting; a tap or spigot; a regulator for controlling the flow of a liquid from a reservoir. |
| outgrow verb | /ˌɑʊtˈɡɹoʊ/ | To become too big in size or too mature in age or outlook to continue to want, need, use, experience, or accept some object, practice, condition, belief, etc. |
| pepperoni noun | /pɛpəˈɹoʊni/ | A spicy salami-style Italian-American sausage made from cured pork and beef seasoned with pepper. |
| slipper noun | /ˈslɪpə(ɹ)/ | A low soft shoe that can be slipped on and off easily. |
| stylishly adverb | In a stylish manner. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
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| stand up verb | To rise from a lying or sitting position. | |
| figure out verb | To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce. | |
| get back verb | Return to where one came from. | |
| go ahead verb | /ˌɡoʊ əˈhɛd/ | To proceed with; to begin. |
| go back to verb | To stem from; to originate in. | |
| go out verb | To leave, especially a building. | |
| look through verb | To take a view of the contents of; search in, either with the eyes or by hand. | |
| pick up verb | To lift; to grasp and raise. |
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
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| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on | has been sleeping · they've been laying · has been practicing |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | you've eaten · haven't eaten · she's been |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | people who have · Pizzeria, which is · guy who was |
| Verb + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — verbs that are followed by the -ing form | start shaving · start exercising · stop eating |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 52 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, we're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: shave /ˈʃeɪ̯v/, facial /ˈfeɪ.ʃəl/, decoration /ˌdɛkəˈɹeɪʃən/, shoe /ˈʃu/
- Long words — get the stress right: comprehensible /kɒmpɹəˈhɛnsɪbəl/, decoration /ˌdɛkəˈɹeɪʃən/, pepperoni /pɛpəˈɹoʊni/, technically /ˈtɛk.nɪˌkəl.i/, accidentally /ˌæk.sɪˈdɛnt(ə)li/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like shave, razor, facial.
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.