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Now, I'm just curious, you bought a place, or you got a place, and they had chickens there, and you decided we're just gonna go with this?
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Well, wait, yeah.
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We were actually really excited that we were gonna, they weren't taking the chickens.
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Okay.
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They just told us how to feed them and what they require, and they love pasta, they love, uh, they love to be talked to.
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You're feeding your chickens pasta?
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Hey man, I just did what I was told.
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Ha ha ha!
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Ah yeah!
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Get ready to laugh and learn English with today's lesson with Jennifer Aniston.
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So I'm Izzy and every week here on Learn English TV series,
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we make new lessons with your favorite movies and TV shows to help you understand fast speaking natives without getting lost,
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without missing the jokes and without subtitles.
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Now let's get started by watching the first part of the clip, then we'll learn with it, then we'll go to the second part, do the same, and at the end of the video,
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you'll test your comprehension by watching the entire scene again without any subtitles, and I bet that you'll be able to understand it 100%.
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You'll see.
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What have you brought?
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You came out with something.
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Oh, Conan, these are my very own, well, no. Fresh eggs.
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Wow.
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They're big.
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Oh, yeah.
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Everybody's talking about my eggs.
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Well, I'm giving them to you, Conan.
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Wow.
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These are really, these are eggs that come from where?
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We inherited 12 chickens on our property. And so.
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This is you and your fiance.
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And my fiance.
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Justin, yeah.
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So, you know, they pop them out like crazy, so we just keep giving them away.
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And so I figured I may as well actually give, I'd keep talking about it, so I actually thought I'd give them to you.
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These are like super, these are fresh eggs that come from your farm.
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Yeah, you may have a twin in there.
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Now I'm getting sad.
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I know.
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Then I'll eat it!
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Uh...
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This is...
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Don't feel bad, that's actually a really good egg to eat.
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No, these are.. these look amazing.
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Thank you so much for this.
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How did you come to have chickens?
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You're welcome.
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They look so winfy on your desk, actually.
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No, they don't.
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They look...
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We'll put Eisenhower next to them, and then they look masculine.
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There we go.
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Alright, so these advanced English expressions that you just saw highlighted in blue, we're gonna analyze all this vocabulary now now.
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Now if your goal is to remember all these words forever, never forget them, and actually be able to use them when you speak,
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then you'll want to practice with this lesson with Jennifer Aniston on her own app.
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It really helps you become more fluent because on there you don't just watch it passively.
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You can tap on the words and later also practice with vocabulary flashcards,
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So click the link in the description below and continue from there.
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And now let's break down all the advanced vocabulary.
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At the beginning of the clip Jennifer says, These are my very own fresh eggs.
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Which sounds like she laid the eggs herself, not the chicken.
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Check it out.
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What have you brought?
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You came out with something.
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Oh Conan, these are my very own...
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Well, no. Fresh eggs.
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Wow!
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They're big!
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That's gonna get a lot of tabloid coverage.
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Talking about my eggs?
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Well, I'm giving them to you, Captain.
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Wow!
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A tabloid is a type of newspaper or magazine that often focuses on celebrity gossip and sensational stories rather than serious news.
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Connie is joking that the tabloids will be interested in Jennifer's story about her laying eggs herself.
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This is, uh, these are really, these are eggs that come from where?
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Today.
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We inherited 12 chickens on our property, and so.. is you
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and your fiance my fiance Justin yeah so
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if someone in your family dies and you receive something from them like money
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or a house that's called inheriting in this case though jennifer is using the word more casually she
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and her fiance got 12 chickens from the previous owner
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when he bought this property
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that is a piece of land usually with a house on it
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so when she says we inherited 12 chickens she just means the chickens were already there when they got the place.
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Check out this example from the movie The Pink Panther, where they talk about inheriting an expensive diamond.
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I'm investigating the murder of Yves Glouin.
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Yves!
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Fascinating man.
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Would you happen to know what he paid for the Pink Panther?
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He inherited it.
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It cost him nothing. And so...
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This is you and your fiancé.
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And my fiancé.
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Yeah.
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What is a fiancé?
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A sibling?
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A man you're married to?
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A man you're engaged to?
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If you have a fiancé, that means you and this person are engaged.
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You have formally agreed to get married, but haven't yet.
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Jennifer is talking about Justin Thoreau, her fiancé at the time.
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This word comes from French, but it is widely used in English.
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It's pronounced fiancé.
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And by the way, we refer to an engaged woman as fiancé.
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Same pronunciation, but slightly different spelling, with two E's.
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So, you know, they pop them out like crazy, so we just keep giving them away.
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And so I figured I may as well actually give, I'd keep talking about it, so I actually thought I'd give them to...
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These pop-outs is an informal way to say something comes out quickly or suddenly.
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For example, you could say, I opened the cabinet and a spider popped out.
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I nearly screamed.
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So when Jennifer describes her chickens popping out eggs like crazy, this is a funny way of saying the chickens lay eggs really quickly or frequently.
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Also, there's some nice connected speech in this phrase.
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Connected speech is when natives cut, link, and morph words when they speak.
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Let's listen to it again.
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So, you know, we can't.. they pop them out like crazy.
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Natives often drop the initial sounding pronouns like him, her, and them.
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So what we hear a lot of times is im, er, and the em.
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In this phrase, all the words get linked, so instead of pop them out, we hear pop him out.
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Listen to Jennifer and repeat.
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Pop them out like crazy.
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Pop them out like crazy.
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So, you know, we can't, they pop them out like crazy, so we just keep giving them away.
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To give something away means to give it to other people for free.
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Since the chickens are producing a lot of eggs, Jennifer and Justin can't eat them all, so they give some to their friends.
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And, uh, so I figured I may as well actually give, I'd keep talking about it, So I actually thought I'd give them to you.
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This is a casual way of saying, I thought, as in, I thought it'd be a good idea.
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Check it out in this example.
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So, uh, yeah, I was thinking maybe you didn't get that last message.
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The last message I left or, uh, one before that.
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So, uh, I figured it.
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You figured what?
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Hey, how are you?
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How you been?
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You could have emailed.
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You could have sent a text.
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Yeah, but the damnedest thing.
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None of my devices were working.
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So I figured I should just come and deliver the message in person.
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This is such a great expression to use in everyday conversations.
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And if you want to make sure that you use it next time you speak English, I highly recommend you practice the vocabulary that you learned today on our app.
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All of these expressions are saved as smart flashcards that help you remember the words forever.
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These are like super, these are fresh eggs that come from your farm.
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Yeah, you may have a twin in there.
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Now I'm getting sad.
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I know.
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Then I'll eat it.
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She's joking that one of the eggs might have two yolks inside, like twin chicks.
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This sometimes happens in fresh eggs, especially from backyard chickens.
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The word twin, by the way, refers to a brother or sister who was born on the same day from the same mother.
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Don't feel bad, that's actually a really good egg to eat.
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No, these look amazing.
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Thank you so much for this.
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How did you come to have chickens?
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They look so wimpy on your desk, actually.
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No, they don't.
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They look...
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A little bit.
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We'll put Eisenhower next to them and then they look masculine.
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There we go.
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Wimpy means not very impressive.
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She's saying that the eggs look small or unimpressive sitting on Connor's desk.
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Wimpy may also be used to describe a weak person, like in this example.
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And you told me this was a nice English lady with her wimpy brother, and she's gonna get herself killed.
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I know because she's crazy.
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No, they don't.
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They look...
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There, we'll put Eisenhower next to them and then they look masculine.
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There we go.
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Dwight D.
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Eisenhower was a U.S president and a famous military general.
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On his desk, Conor has a mug in the shape of Eisenhower that serves as a pencil holder.
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Now let's go to the second part of the clip and we're gonna practice a lot of connected speech.
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Let's watch it.
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Now, I'm just curious, you bought a place, or you got a place, and they had chickens there, and you decided we're just gonna go with this?
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Well, yeah, we were actually really excited that we were gonna, they weren't taking the chickens.
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Okay.
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They just told us how to feed them and what they require, and they love pasta, they love to be talked to.
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You're feeding your chickens pasta?
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Hey man, I just did what I was told.
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Maybe they're playing a joke on you.
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Skidded pasta, yeah.
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They love lobster salad.
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Yeah.
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Now, I'm just curious, you bought a place, or you got a place, and they had chickens there, and you decided we're just gonna go with this?
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When something unexpected happens, and you decide to accept it without making any changes, you might say that you're just gonna go with it.
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Mona is surprised that Jennifer and her fiancé decided to keep the chickens
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that came with the house instead of getting rid of them.
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Now let's take a look at the advanced pronunciation that we hear in some phrases in this part of the clip.
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Now, I'm just curious, you bought a place, or you got a place, and they had chickens there.
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Something similar happens in these two phrases.
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Bought a place and got a place.
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In American English, when the T sound comes between two vowel sounds, it often changes to a flap T, which sounds like a soft, quick D sound.
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So instead of bought a place, you get bought a place, and got a place becomes got a place.
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Now try to listen and repeat.
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You bought a place, or you got a place.
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You bought a place, or you got a place.
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And you decided we're just gonna go with this?
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In casual, fast speech, the T in just is often dropped or softened.
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So instead of we're just, you'll hear we're just.
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The common reduction of going to is gonna.
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And in this phrase, gonna and go get linked together in one chunk.
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Gonna go.
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Or just gonna go.
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And finally, the TH from with morphs into the TH from this.
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So we only hear one TH sound. With this.
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Now listen and repeat.
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And you decided we're just gonna go with this?
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Yeah, we were actually really excited that we were gonna...
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They weren't taking the chickens.
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Okay.
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They just told us how to feed them and what they require.
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And in his last phrase, we already know the word just gets reduced.
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And the D sound at the end of told smoothly links to us.
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Just told us.
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Now, like we saw earlier, the T in two appears between two vowel sounds, so it turns into a soft D sound.
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Howda.
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Howda.
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And them becomes um again.
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Feed them.
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Just told us how to feed them.
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Okay.
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They just told us how to feed them and what they require and they love pasta.
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They love to be talked to.
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Jennifer means that chickens love attention and enjoy it when humans speak to them.
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This is the passive form of the verb, which can be tricky in English.
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To talk to, to be talked to.
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Hey man, I just did what I was told.
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Maybe they're playing a joke on you.
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Feated pasta!
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Yeah!
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They love lobster salad!
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If you play a joke on someone, you're tricking them just for fun.
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The idea of chickens eating pasta sounds pretty weird.
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So Kona jokes that maybe the previous owner was just making fun of Jennifer.
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Hey man, I just did what I was told.
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Maybe they're playing a joke on you.
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Feated pasta, yeah.
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They love lobster salad.
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Lobster salad is a fancy dish made with lobster meat, which is seen as expensive and luxurious in American culture.
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All right, guys, are you ready to test your comprehension by watching the entire clip again, this time without any subtitles?
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Let's do this, and I'm gonna ask you some quiz questions.
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My eggs well a tabloids more like a International newspaper Encyclopedia or gossip magazine
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I'm giving them to you wow This is these are really these are eggs
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that come from where today we inherited 12 chickens on our property
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and so this is you and your fiance and my fiance Justin yeah
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so you know what does the phrase inherited mean here
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acquired unexpectedly together with the property we can't we they pop them out like crazy
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so we just keep giving them away and
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so I figured I may as well actually give I'd keep talking about it
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so I actually thought I'd give them to you.
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These are like super these are fresh eggs that come from your farm.
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If you have too many eggs and can't eat them all you can give them away, give them out, or give them up.
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You may have a twin in there.
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Now I'm getting sad.
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I know.
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Then I'll eat it.
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Don't feel bad, that's actually a really good egg to eat.
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When Aniston says, you may have a twin in there, what does she mean?
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There may be two identical eggs, some surprise inside the egg, two yolks inside one egg.
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No, these are, these look amazing.
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Thank you so much for this.
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How did you come to have chickens?
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They look so wimpy on your desk, actually.
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No, they don't.
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They look, we'll put Eisenhower next to them and then they look masculine.
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There we go.
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The word wimpy describes someone who is weak or lacking courage.
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Is that true or false?
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Now, I'm just curious, you bought a place, or you got a place, and they had chickens there, and you decided we're just gonna go with this?
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Well, yeah, we were actually really excited that we were gonna, they weren't taking the chickens.
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Okay.
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They just told us how to feed them and what they require, and they love pasta, they love to be talked to.
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You're feeding your chickens pasta?
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What does the phrase, love to be talked to, most likely mean?
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You love talking to someone, you love it when someone is talking to you.
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Hey man, I just did what I was told.
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Maybe they're playing a joke on you.
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Feated pasta, yeah.
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They love lobster salad.
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Haha, yeah, great job.
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Now remember to go and practice everything they learned today on the RealLife app.
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I would be on set working.
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I'd come and sit in my chair and just scroll, scroll, scroll, scroll, scroll.
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And it was, it was becoming a problem.
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I was just obsessed with it and I was obsessed to find out what they thought about me.
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So I decided to make an announcement and say that I'm taking a break from social media.
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And the thing that really upset me is the press ran with that.
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And they tried to make out that I was having this mental breakdown.
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They took the story in the wrong direction.
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Oh, look, he's not the perfect happy-go-lucky kid you think he is.
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He's having a nervous breakdown in New York.
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Kind of painted people looking for help in the wrong light.
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Who Will Love This English Learning Video?
If you’re a intermediate learner aiming to improve English pronunciation and understand fast, casual speech—this video is for you. Jennifer Aniston’s warm, conversational tone makes it perfect for english speaking practice, while the funny talk show setting keeps it engaging. Whether you’re learning English with YouTube or using a shadowing app, this dialogue helps you pick up natural rhythm and humor, so you can follow real-life conversations without subtitles.
Fun Words & Idioms to Add to Your Vocabulary
The conversation is packed with everyday phrases. Here are a few to steal:
- "Pop them out like crazy": To produce something quickly and in large amounts (Aniston uses it for her chickens’ eggs!).
- "May as well": A casual way to say "it’s a good idea to" (e.g., "I may as well give you these eggs").
- "Winfy": A playful, made-up word meaning "cute but not tough"—great for adding personality to your speech!
Mastering Jennifer Aniston’s Smooth Pronunciation
Aniston speaks with a relaxed, American accent—perfect for shadowing practice. Notice how she shortens words: "they’re" sounds like "they-er" and "gonna" (for "going to") flows quickly. Focus on her intonation when joking—she raises her voice slightly to emphasize humor, like when she says, "You’re feeding your chickens pasta?" To practice, try shadowspeaks techniques: pause the video, repeat her lines, and match her speed and tone. A shadowing app can help you compare your pronunciation, but even repeating aloud with the video will boost your fluency.
This lesson proves that learning English can be fun—especially when you’re laughing along. So grab your device, hit play, and start speaking like a native, one funny conversation at a time!
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | be talked · was told · is widely used |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | have you brought · have formally agreed |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | verb, which can · meat, which is · someone who is |
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.