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I am in the train station.
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Today we're travelling to Busan and we will learn lots of English along the journey.
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I am standing on the platform, which is the place that you wait for your trains.
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And to my right, there are the tracks.
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These are the lines that the train runs on.
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Each section of the train is called the carriage or the car.
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Now, time to get on the train.
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We've just arrived at the hotel and what a view.
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In the distance I can see huge ships on the horizon.
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There's a statue of a whale in the water.
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And there are lots of white birds.
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These white birds are called seagulls.
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Ooh.
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There's also a lighthouse.
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There are people walking along the beach.
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Cool.
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Let's go down to take a closer look at everything and explore this area.
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So we are in Gamcheon Culture Village, which is a giant village full of colorful houses,
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cute little alleyways, and right now we are on the view point.
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Looking over the view.
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We're going to go in, check it out.
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The sun is setting so everything is beautiful.
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go see inside.
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There's lots of art and colourful things.
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I'm walking down the steps and through the wooden gates.
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Can't close that.
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We're walking down a small alley and this is actually a corrugated roof.
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It's made of metal and corrugated means it has wavy lines or ridges so the rain can run off and drain out.
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These stairs are pastel pink and this wall is pastel green.
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Pastel is a lighter version of a colour.
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It has more white in it, it's more pale, just like my skin.
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You'll notice guys I have fewer layers on.
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I'm not as wrapped up because it's warmer here in Boussain, which is nice.
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This is a mural which is wall art and it's a mural of the Little Prince, which is a book that I read in my French class actually.
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And this phrase, tu seras pour moi unique au monde, means you will be uniquely mine in the world and I will be uniquely yours.
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It's a beautiful book and if you haven't read it, I would recommend it.
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Okay, this
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is a truck.
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On the back of the truck there are vegetables,
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sweet potatoes, and there is a voice coming out of a speaker, a loudspeaker.
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It's obviously selling fruit and vegetables.
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DIY.
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DIY stands for do it yourself and it refers to jobs that you do at home.
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Like hanging up a painting.
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Do it yourself.
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We have lots of little toys and figures outside this shop. And it's Totoro.
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Totoro.
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Where is Totoro?
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Grandmother's memory.
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Oh.
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So this is kind of like fun and unusual, this place place.
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A great word we can use to describe something fun and unusual is quirky.
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I am a little bit quirky as well.
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I'll try not to fall over again.
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And it's very hilly this area.
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Hilly means it has lots of hills and we can I use it as an adjective.
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This area is very hilly.
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Should we go through here?
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Wow.
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This really is quirky, it's very unusual.
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There aren't many places in the world that you see colourful houses like this and lots of hills, winding alleys.
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Beautiful sunlight.
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I mean look at that.
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Good word to describe a view?
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Stunning.
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Can describe a view, person or food.
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That is stunning.
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Oh, hello.
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Wow.
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Up there there is a woman painting the wall yellow.
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She's painting the wall yellow with a giant paint roller.
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Now it's time.
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It's time. For a photo shoot.
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It's chilly.
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In this picture a blonde man wearing a white puffer jacket is looking into the distance at the colourful houses.
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In this picture Chang is walking uphill holding a handbag and looking towards the Sun.
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Behind me is Gamcheon Culture Village,
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a village built on a hill with loads of colourful houses clustered together.
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Clustered means they are all very close together.
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You can see the rooftops of the houses and right now the sun is setting.
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It's dipping behind the hill and everything looks pretty.
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Where's your gloves?
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My gloves, they're in my pocket.
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Yeah, my gloves.
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I'm putting on my gloves now because I'm chilly.
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Chilly means slightly cold.
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I'm not freezing, that means very cold.
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I'm just a bit chilly.
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A bit nippy actually, we say nippy in the UK.
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That's better.
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Feeling good.
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I want a drink, some hot drink.
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I don't know, let's go find one.
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A pink house?
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Just what I've always wanted.
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Well, when I said let's grab a drink, I didn't expect this.
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This is about the most feminine drink I've ever had in my life.
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Barbie.
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I ordered a pink smoothie, and I don't know what I expected to be honest.
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It's even got sprinkles on.
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Good word for you guys.
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These are sprinkles.
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Colorful sweet things on top of the drink.
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Sprinkles.
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This is extremely feminine.
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I'm not sure I can drink it.
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I can and I will.
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Thankfully I asked for it with no sugar, but it looks like it's got a lot of sugar in still.
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It's alright.
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It tastes like strawberry and yogurt.
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I've just been beaten to my knees.
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I've just got brain freeze.
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Brain freeze is when you eat too much ice cream or drink something really cold and your head really hurts.
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We call that brain freeze.
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And it's literally taking me down to the floor.
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Meow.
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A cat.
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A friendly cat?
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She's meowing.
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Meow.
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And this is a caricature shop.
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A caricature is a cartoon drawing of a person or an animal where the facial features are exaggerated.
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So they might do you with a massive nose or big ears.
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This is a very famous restaurant apparently and people have left their reviews on bunting.
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This is bunting and they've left them with these colourful pens.
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And these pens are in a pot.
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There are pots and books on the shelf and generally pens, pencils, rulers, rubbers, we call that stationary.
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Stationary.
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Okay.
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Yeah, there please.
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Thank you.
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And then we got mine.
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This is a dumpling soup.
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Thank you so much.
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It's short, a little sour, delicious.
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Okay, thank you so much.
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How lovely.
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So here we have the beef soup,
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the dumplings, and you can see the steam rising off the food.
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It's steaming hot, we can say.
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The soup is steaming hot.
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I'm just gonna burn my mouth.
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Hmm.
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Oh yeah.
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Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
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There we go.
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Transparent floor, transparent floor.
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You can see through the glass floor and we call that transparent.
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They gave us some lollipops.
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I don't know why but maybe so you can have a suck while you watch the view.
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This is cool.
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Flying through the sky, first night in Busan, I'm about to suck on a lollipop.
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and our hotel is just over there in the bay.
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It's very pretty.
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You can see a skywalk down there, which we're going to go on tomorrow.
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First impressions of Busan?
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Very enjoyable.
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Great food, cool place, nice beach town.
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Hopefully we don't fall in the ocean.
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You can see the cityscape.
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Cool word.
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the buildings, the streets, the lights.
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The cityscape is basically the urban version of a landscape.
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Good morning.
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Morning world, it's day two in Busan.
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The sun is shining, it's a gorgeous day, and we have found a very cute coffee shop.
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So we're gonna get some brunch now.
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Breakfast, lunch, brunch. So pretty in here.
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Just chilling next to the plants and this place is beautiful.
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Chang just ordered eggs in hell, which is like eggs in tomato sauce with sourdough bread.
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I ordered a hummus bowl.
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Hummus is mashed chickpeas and then we got two coffees
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and then after we eat I'm gonna show you guys around they have a very cute dog as well
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which is so breakfast has arrived and not only does it look delicious
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but there's also some delicious English right now this is a coffee in in a glass and it sits on a saucer.
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This is a saucer.
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I have cutlery to eat my food, a knife, a fork and a spoon.
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Cutlery.
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I've ordered a hummus ball.
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There is half an avocado,
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homemade sourdough bread, hummus with pistachio nuts and olive oil on,
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and then a lovely green salad with kale, lettuce, grapes, dill, radish and walnuts.
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We have some sourdough bread in a metal dish to dip into Chang's dish
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which is a tomato sauce with broccoli and cheese on top.
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There are also some eggs inside.
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And this is very hot, I can't touch this.
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This is called a cast iron dish.
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A cast iron dish.
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Iron is metal and it's the material it's made from.
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And finally, a bottle of Tabasco.
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Cheers guys!
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A person who makes coffees is called a barista.
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A person who serves you food is called a waiter if it's a male, and a waitress if it's a female.
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Be kind, eat good food, smile a lot, pet the dog, be you, say thank you.
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The baubles are hanging by the window, watching the view.
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The wine bottles are wearing woolly hats.
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The washing is hanging on the washing line.
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It's a sunny day and in the distance,
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the bridge stretches from one side of the river to the other.
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There is more washing hanging from the washing line, and there is a kettlebell on the floor.
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So maybe the person who hung these clothes liked to work out while they waited.
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I love this place.
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They pay close attention to detail, which means every little detail is well thought of, well thought about.
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They have the bookshelves, the quotes on the wall, good music, the wooden ceiling fans,
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the large lampshades, great furniture, great decoration, and it's a really warm,
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cozy, light, bright feeling in here.
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It's lovely.
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If you ever come to Busan, I would highly recommend this place.
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Koshonee.
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We just
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got out of the taxi and about to head to the museum.
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But look at this place, it's very cool.
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What do I see?
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I see very big ships.
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That red thing is a crane and it's used for lifting very heavy things.
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There are giant rubber tires on the edge of the ship and big thick ropes.
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So you would call this place a port.
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A port is a place where ships come and go.
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It's different to a dock.
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A dock is like a car park for ships.
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A dock is a place where ships rest.
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But this is an industrial port.
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And that is a giant yacht suspended in the air.
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Let's go.
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So we are going to the art museum.
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Eternal nature.
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Eternal means living forever ever.
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Chang is inserting the card into the slot,
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clicking next and paying 38,000 won.
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The ticket is printing, now the ticket has printed.
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Chang is taking the card and let's go!
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The infinite circle.
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Purple vehicle.
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In this room, there were projections of waterfalls on the walls.
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And the floor was made of mirrors.
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So it made you feel like you were in a giant waterfall.
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This room was Chang's favorite because she loves the smell of roses.
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Super sweet, the sound was amazing and the light was unreal.
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These are sunflowers and they are slowly fading into a rose.
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These lilies are also fading into roses.
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There are pink petals on the black floor.
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These flowers are transforming from dead to alive, colourful and bright.
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There was a piano, so I had to go and tinkle around, improvise, play some keys.
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The next room was a tornado room.
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A tornado is a strong whirlwind.
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Heavy rain.
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This room was trippy.
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This room had to be my favourite of the entire museum.
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They were playing Claire de Lune while showing us Van Gogh's artwork.
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This was probably the best museum I've ever been to in my life.
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It was full of light shows and digital art.
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It was pretty special.
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There is a UFO flying across the screen, and a manta ray floating above Busan's cultural village.
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Everyone is.
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Hello.
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We just had the most amazing experience in the art museum and just been in the gift shop.
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There you go.
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And now in a photo booth.
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Standard procedure.
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Photos in 3, 2, 1.
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Okay, we got another one.
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Let's see the resort.
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3, 2, 1.
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Cute.
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We just had the most wonderful time at the museum.
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It was really immersive, meaning the light and the sounds and the smells really immersed you.
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gave you a powerful feeling.
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And now we're in another cultural village.
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It feels like Greece or something here.
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Apparently there's loads of artwork in this area and it's right by the coast.
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So the plan is to look at the art, find a cafe, drink some nice coffee and then I've got a YouTube live stream.
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So this will be me in the future.
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I will have done that YouTube livestream in a few weeks time.
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That's the plan for now.
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Tonight, get dinner and continue to explore the lovely Busan.
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Let's go.
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And look at this, guys.
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It's printing on blocks of wood.
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Printing images, printing pictures on a block of wood.
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And that mechanism is going back and forth, left and right.
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Zee, zee, zee, zee, zee, zee.
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Philadelphia cheese ice cream.
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Ordering an ice cream, of course.
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It's just about warm enough.
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Mmm.
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Be right back.
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It's vanilla ice cream with melted chocolate on top and the chocolate solidifies, meaning it hardens.
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It goes from melted to solid.
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Ice cream in a tub.
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We call this a tub.
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Small tub.
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Different than a cone.
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Yeah.
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A cone is a triangle one that is made of wafer and you eat it.
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This is a tub.
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Ice cream in a tub or ice cream in a cone?
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This one's a tub.
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We just stopped to get some stickers for the fridge,
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some fridge magnets for decorating in our fridge back home and the best thing ever had to come back for this
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is Mario in a tux, tuxedo and peach
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so that's going to take pride of place on a shelf in our house and this is a gift shop
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this is a sign for a cafe On the sign it has Korean writing
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and an image of a champagne glass or a champagne flute.
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This is another cocktail glass.
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You okay there?
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Do you want to hand me something?
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Alright guys we're going up some very very steep stairs.
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Steep means it's whoop.
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You alright there Chuck?
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Want me to grab the camera?
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I feel like I'm pulling you up a mountain.
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There we go, steep stairs to the probably too bright Great view for you, but that looks incredible.
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I'm just about to hop onto the YouTube live stream, so I'll see you there.
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Or maybe in the future, I will have seen you there.
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And I'll be doing more regular live streams on YouTube.
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I want to make it useful for you guys and to interact with you in real time.
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On top of that, I have my English platform, Sprout.
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And on Sprout, I will be doing four group classes per month.
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So we'll have a live interaction, you and me, and actually be able to chat together.
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So if you sign up for the super subscription, then you get access to four group classes per month,
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which at $10, that's $2.50 per group class.
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It's a bloody steal.
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I hope you get benefit from these, and if not, I'll see you on the YouTube ones.
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We just left the cafe and look how cute these alleys are.
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The sunlight is shining on the bricks and making them a really vibrant orange.
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Here we have the plants outside somebody's house.
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A green ladder or some steps leading up to a platform.
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And this house is the white and blue.
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It really looks like grease.
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And there's a mysterious woman.
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This is a map and it's showing us where we are and all the different sites and locations like cafes,
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restaurants and places to walk.
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What's Chang found?
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She's looking at a metal grate with padlocks.
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People have declared their love for each other with these padlocks, just like the ones we saw in Seoul.
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A wheelbarrow, classic.
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Remember, wherever you are in the world, have a nice day.
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What does it say?
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Keep your voice down, alright.
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I need to keep my voice down.
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Okay, we've got our first artwork.
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There is a shark sticking out his pink tongue, holding a coconut, and smiling in a seedy way.
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He's wearing a sailor's hat or a captain's hat.
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very cool and when artwork is painted on the wall like this we call it a mural
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and this one is a picture of a dolphin wearing a
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hawaiian shirt there are flamingos on his shirt he's holding a cocktail with a lime wedge in.
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Ah, it's a little kitty cat.
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Hello.
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Look guys.
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We've got a sleepy kitty.
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That is chilling.
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There is a cat bathing, enjoying this sunset.
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How beautiful this is.
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Employable!
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That means incredible in French.
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A very pink door.
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And up here, we have some parasols to stop the sun, to shade you from the sun.
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And a sign. And look who's here.
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It's Santa.
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Here Santa is climbing up a ladder, either trying to burgle the place to rob them or give them presents.
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Ho ho ho ho ho, Merry Christmas.
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Style.
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A purple hat.
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That is the coolest restroom I've ever seen.
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A restroom is a toilet or a bathroom and it's beautifully designed with mosaic stones.
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Mosaic stones are lots of different pieces of porcelain stuck together in this jagged, uneven pattern.
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And there, hello, you can see me in the mirror.
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Incredible isn't it?
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Ah, it's a swinging bench.
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Do you want to sit in it?
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Get a load of that.
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Hit my funny bone.
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Your funny bone is that, well it's not even a bone, it's a nerve in your elbow and when you bash your elbow in it it's really painful.
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We call that our funny bone and I just hit mine.
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Anyway, get one of you guys.
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I'll get you in the sun with a nice backdrop because actually it's Chang I'm taking a photo of.
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There we go.
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Cheese, kimchi.
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The sun is setting, the sky is red, and the final word of the day is a verb.
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The sun is glowing.
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Glowing means giving off a soft light.
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The glowing sun is setting behind the mountain.
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Thank you for watching, I hope you learned lots of English, and I will see you guys in the next episode.
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You can actually just stare at it as well.
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I'm grateful for you.
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If you're still watching this video, thank you.
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You're a legend and I appreciate you.
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I wanted to take this time to sit down and talk with you about my new English learning platform, Sprouts.
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And I want to share all the value that you can have on Sprouts.
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So we just released a new feature which is J.I.
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It's an AI version of me that you can talk with to improve your English.
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Now why is this better than talking with ChatGBT?
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Well on Sprout you can watch a video at your level, whether that's A1 or C1,
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and then after you watch that video you can speak with J.I about that video.
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He will ask you questions about what happened in the video, what you think about the video, what words you learned in the video,
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and through this you will be practicing your speaking, your outputs.
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You're also practicing listening, learning through comprehensible inputs.
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On Sprout we have thousands of videos
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and they are all designed to help you become fluent in English through the listening process through immersion.
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I've designed it in a way that I want it to be this all-in-one platform
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for you to be able to become fluent in English, for you to be able to practice all things,
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listening, speaking, writing, building vocabulary and this is only just the beginning.
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I'm really excited about
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what Sprout will continue to grow and evolve into and I really hope that you're there with me on this journey.
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I want to be able to grow myself
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and I want to give you the platform to be able to grow your English too.
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So I appreciate all your support and you can check out Sprouts.
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There is one week free.
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Try out Super.
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Let me know what you think of J.I and thank you.
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Take care, have a lovely day.
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Bye bye.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 411 sentences and 3470 words to shadow. The speech runs for 36:28. The speaker talks slowly, about 95 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound. Only 78% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| colourful adjective | British standard spelling of colorful. | |
| bone noun | /boʊn/ | A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates. |
| wash verb | /wɑʃ/ | To clean with water. |
| dish noun | /dɪʃ/ | A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle. |
| artwork noun | /ˈɑɹtˌwɝk/ | A painting, drawing, sculpture or other piece of creative, visual art. |
| freeze verb | /ˈfɹiːz/ | Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature. |
| whoa | /woʊ/ | Stop (especially when commanding a horse or imitative thereof); calm down; slow down. |
| chili noun | /ˈt͡ʃɪli/ | The pungent, spicy fresh or dried fruit of any of several cultivated varieties of capsicum peppers, used in cooking. |
| glove noun | /ɡlʌv/ | An item of clothing, covering all or part of the hand and fingers, but usually allowing independent movement of the fingers. |
| unusual adjective | /ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/ | Not usual, out of the ordinary. |
| pen noun | /pɪn/ | A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks. |
| delicious adjective | /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/ | Pleasing to the sense of taste; tasty. |
| soup noun | /sup/ | Any of various dishes commonly made by combining liquids, such as water or stock, with other ingredients, such as meat and vegetables, that contribute the food… |
| stairs noun | /ˈstɛɹz/ | A contiguous set of steps connecting two floors. |
| transparent adjective | /tɹænsˈpæɹənt/ | See-through, clear; having the property that light passes through it almost undisturbed, such that one can see through it clearly. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| walk down verb | To continually advance (on an opponent) and punch (the opponent) in order to control the fight and dominate the opponent, while shrugging off the opponent's… | |
| check out verb | To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.). | |
| close together adjective | Near each other in time or space. | |
| fall over verb | To fall from an upright or standing position to a horizontal or prone position. | |
| get out of verb | To leave, exit or escape from; to become free of. | |
| give off verb | /ɡɪv ɒf/ | To emit; to produce and send forth; to come across in some manner. |
| go back verb | To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time. | |
| go through verb | To travel from one end of something to the other. |
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result | if you haven't read it, I would recommend |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | We've just arrived · haven't read · I've always wanted |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | is called · are called · been beaten |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | platform, which is · Village, which is · Boussain, which is |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 60 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, I've, we're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: thick /θɪk/, bath /bɑːθ/, booth /buθ/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: wash /wɑʃ/, dish /dɪʃ/, unusual /ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/, delicious /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/, shine /ʃaɪn/
- Long words — get the stress right: unusual /ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/, stationary /ˈsteɪʃəˌnɛɹi/, interaction /ˌɪn.təˈɹæk.ʃən/, mechanism /ˈmɛk.ə.nɪ.zəm/, mysterious /mɪˈstɪɹi.əs/
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 colourful, bone, wash.
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.