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Okay, hey, today let's practice English together.
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We are going to practice English speaking while walking.
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Because I'm an English learner and speaking in real life is like one of the best ways to practice.
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And today we are going to practice in a very very beautiful place.
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Yeah, we are going to take a walk around beautiful streets.
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Look, right here we got street musicians.
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It's like a band and they are playing some music.
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And the people are watching the way they are playing.
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He is playing the guitar and singing.
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That's cool!
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There are so many people today. On this street. And it's really loudly.
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Like, seriously.
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I can't hear myself.
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Yeah, you can chill here in the shade.
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It's hot summer day.
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Bro, it's hot summer day in Moscow.
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Yeah, like, that's really loudly.
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Today I wanna go to some very beautiful place.
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I've never filmed that place for you guys.
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I've been there only once in my life.
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Truth be told, that's one of the best views I've ever seen.
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Today I'm going to go there.
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While going there we are going to take a look at what's going on on this street.
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There are so many activities today There are so many things going on like
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Right here as I guess like you can buy a book Or just get it to read Wait,
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I wanna walk around this thing This green thing to take a look a bit closer Yeah,
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there are like plenty of different different books And maybe you can just take it for free.
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I'm not sure.
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It's all in Russian, in my native language, because I'm a Russian native speaker.
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Yeah.
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And on the both sides of the street there are restaurants, and there was a grocery store,
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for example, there was a cafe, bars and stuff and stuff and things of that nature like shelves to shelves with books
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oh you can buy it here is the price like a big collection wow oh I'm sorry
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I just hear someone.
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These are portraits.
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These are portraits.
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Faces of some woman.
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He's an artist and he's been painting.
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He's been drawing a face of a woman.
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That's very, very beautiful.
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It looks so realistic like.
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Look at that.
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That's realistic and all these drawings are faces of real people.
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Oh, that's scary. That looks scary, bro.
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One, two, three artists.
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Oh, and here we got a grocery store with Chinese stuff, Chinese food.
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I wanna get in, I wanna explore the Chinese store.
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Wait, hold on, hold on.
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It's really Chinese, look at that.
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Wait.
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What can we get here?
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Does anybody know Chinese here?
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Guys, do you speak Chinese?
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If you speak Chinese or if you're from China, let me know in the comments.
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We got snacks, drinks.
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What is that?
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Is that a leg of a chicken?
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That's a chicken.
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No. Chinese.
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Russian drinks, Russian drinks.
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Alright, Chinese candies.
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Wait.
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Chinese candies We are in the Chinese store right now.
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I know only I know only one word in Chinese.
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Ni hao Also got cookies really narrow aisles like only for one person to be honest You can get an umbrella
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in case it's raining and toys You can pay for everything Alright, guns
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Chinese guns.
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Alright, let's get out.
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Let's get out of here.
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Let's get out of here.
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Wow, I want to get this one By the way, W song, WW song.
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I love that song Wow, here you can got condoms.
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It's for condoms.
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The whole store is dedicated to condoms.
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I've never seen that before.
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Bakery.
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French.
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We got French, we got Chinese, we got condoms, we got Russian souvenirs.
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Where are you going to go?
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not natural but looks very beautiful and it makes shade you know
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when it's hot when it's sunny this construction makes shades and here is the Russian parts
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all right just let's count how many different cultures we are going to see today.
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It was already around 4.
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What is that?
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Turkish dinner and waffle.
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Alright then.
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Here is the restaurant dedicated to green bike.
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It's a green bike.
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Wow!
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It It looks like a mini castle.
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Like mini mini castle.
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And just a regular house where people live.
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Imagine like if you live there and you have an apartment with a view of this street.
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Isn't it great?
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It's so clean right here. So cool.
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So many, many, many people.
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It's already like a road for cars.
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But the whole this area and that area behind, it was only for walking, for pedestrians.
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Look at that!
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Robots.
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Delivery robots delivery robots.
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And this guy is changing a battery over the robot just to get them ready to operate on the streets.
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That's real flowers.
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Yeah, that's nice.
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And then they're going to put food inside these robots and deliver the food to people.
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Yeah, here's the robot.
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Come on, come on, man, come on.
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And here is again the artist.
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And here we go, here we are.
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American place bro, American place.
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Look at that.
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The story behind the place is that I went here once with my friends and I got Belgium burger, right?
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Belgium with two really thick waffles, very very tasty waffles and we got American hot dogs and other snakes.
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So it's called California.
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Again, it's written in Russian language.
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That's kind of weird because they were supposed to write it in English
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if they want to present themselves as an American restaurant.
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But it's alright.
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We got Oscar, golden statue.
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We got a Charlie Chaplin.
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Someone, I don't know who is that.
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an American restaurant but I don't want to go inside like
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and I love this weather it's already evening like it's going
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to be sunset in a couple of hours the Sun is right there you see
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that star the closest star to our planet Earth
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really hot star the temperature of the Sun as far as I remember is around 6,000 degrees Celsius
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That's again Turkish cuisine.
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We have many many different cuisines.
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You can read it.
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Turkish cuisine.
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It's like a Turkish street, honestly.
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We have owls, owl cafe, cafe with real owls.
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Look at that, yellow eyes with real owls.
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It's just a big apple.
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Wow.
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Look at that.
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It's like 10 meters.
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I don't know.
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You can go actually inside.
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And what can you buy inside?
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Apples.
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Cherry.
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Cherries, different cherries.
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It's not an apple, it's cherry.
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Okay, okay.
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I was wrong, guys.
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I was wrong.
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That's a huge cherry.
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Never mind.
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Guys, I'm thirsty so I'm going to go in a grocery store to buy a bottle of water.
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Let's go.
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Grocery store.
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The door open.
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Open.
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I need a bottle of water, a bottle of water.
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Not here, not here, not here, not here.
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Right here.
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Ice cream.
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Don't really wanna.
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Port of water.
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Chips.
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Mexican chips.
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Nachos.
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Wait, I wanna compare the price.
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More expensive, more expensive, cheaper, but wait, is it like still water?
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Yeah, it's still water.
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Oh, by the way, there is like a cafe right inside the store where they cook
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and you can buy already cooked food Meats and pizza and something, croissants.
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Yeah, you can sit right here and just eat.
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Booooom!
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The tallest building we've seen today.
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Wow, it's very very tall.
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I got a hydration break a little bit.
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Hydration break.
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Not to get dehydrated.
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Hydration.
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That's cool word.
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Hydrated.
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Like in a desert.
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Like in a desert.
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Plus 40, maybe plus 80.
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I'm melting.
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Alright, and now we are getting closer to the place.
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I was so excited to show you.
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Here is the bridge over the river and we are going to sit there.
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Wait, I need to go there.
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Correct.
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Green grass.
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Well cut.
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That's LUN.
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That's LUN.
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That view was better during the night.
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And here, in real life, it looks better than on the camera.
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I see the camera right now and the camera doesn't do any justice.
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It doesn't do any justice.
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In real life, it looks better.
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We got Moscow downtown, skyscrapers, river, a bridge.
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Yeah, you'd better guys to come here and see this with your own eyes.
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With your own eyes is going to be better.
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if I stop like this like
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if I'm here again at night I will film it
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and I will show you to you in my group chat
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on telegram here by the way guys I have a group chat for English learners
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on telegram I created that chat so you guys can find the speaking partners
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or just make more friends from all over the world.
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You can join, the link is going to be in the description and in the pinned comment.
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Wow, I should definitely come by here in the night.
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Yeah, just chilling, you see, a person.
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And here you can stay next to other people and enjoy the view.
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What a nice sky!
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I'm just scared like... Is it reliable?
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Is this floor reliable?
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Hope I'm not gonna fall.
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Oh man it's It's really old, look at this.
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Like, I can actually fall so I don't know.
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I don't wanna go there.
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I better go inside.
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This bridge looks very good inside.
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Okay, I went out of that bridge and I'm going toward the big fountain.
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And this building is a railway station.
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Look at how many birds!
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Pigeons!
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No, no, no, no, it's not pigeons!
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What is that?
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Sparrow, not sparrow.
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Raven, too small.
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I have no idea.
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Well, and here is the fountain.
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So yeah, guys, right now I'm going to go home.
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I hope you enjoyed this video.
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I hope you're having a good day and learned something new in terms of English.
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Thank you guys!
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Keep going!
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Learning English!
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Love you!
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Bye bye!
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “LEARN ENGLISH with This Vlog”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: Chinese, store, Russian, inside, English. This video has 236 sentences and 1637 words to shadow. The speech runs for 18:51. The speaker talks slowly, about 87 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| robot noun | /ˈɹoʊ.bɑt/ | An intelligent mechanical being designed to look like a human or other creature, and usually made from metal. |
| cherry noun | /ˈt͡ʃɛɹi/ | A small fruit, usually red, black or yellow, with a smooth hard seed and a short hard stem. |
| café noun | /ˌkæˈfeɪ/ | A coffee shop; an establishment selling coffee and sometimes other non-alcoholic beverages, simple meals or snacks, with a facility to consume them on the… |
| grocery noun | /ˈɡɹəʊ.s(ə.)ɹi/ | Retail foodstuffs and other household supplies. |
| hydration noun | /haɪˈdɹeɪʃən/ | The incorporation of water molecules into a complex with those of another compound. |
| waffle noun | /ˈwɑf.əl/ | A flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern, often eaten hot with butter and/or honey or syrup. |
| cuisine noun | /kwɪˈziːn/ | A characteristic manner or style of preparing food, often associated with a place of origin. |
| owl noun | /aʊ(ə)l/ | Any of various birds of prey of the order Strigiformes, families Strigidae and Tytonidae, that are primarily nocturnal and have forward-looking, binocular… |
| shade noun | /ʃeɪd/ | Darkness where light, particularly sunlight, is blocked. |
| learner noun | /ˈlɜɹnəɹ/ | One who is learning; one receiving instruction. |
| sparrow noun | /ˈspæɹoʊ/ | The house sparrow, Passer domesticus; a small bird with a short bill, and brown, white and gray feathers. |
| dedicate verb | /ˈdɛdɪˌkeɪt/ | To set apart for a deity or for religious purposes; consecrate. |
| telegram noun | /ˈtɛləˌɡɹæm/ | A message transmitted by telegraph. |
| pigeon noun | /ˈpɪ.dʒɪn/ | One of several birds of the family Columbidae within the order Columbiformes. |
| loudly adverb | /ˈlaʊdli/ | In a loud manner; at a high volume. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| get out of verb | To leave, exit or escape from; to become free of. |
| walk around verb | To walk with no planned destination; to meander. |
| get out verb | To leave or escape. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- I've never filmed that place for you guys.
- I've been there only once in my life.
- Today I'm going to go there.
- What can we get here?
- Where are you going to go?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on | he's been painting · He's been drawing |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | I've never filmed · I've been · I've ever seen |
| Superlatives the -est / the most … — the top or bottom of a group | the best · the closest · The tallest |
| Future with “going to” be going to + verb — a plan or something you can see coming | are going to practice · are going to take · I'm going to go |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 40 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, wanna, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: hydration /haɪˈdɹeɪʃən/, shade /ʃeɪd/, shelf /ʃɛlf/, musician /mjuˈzɪʃən/
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 robot, cherry, café.
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.