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Hello. Everyone.
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I'm Jaerim.
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Today is my day off.
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It's my day off.
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I'm not going to work.
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I'm not going.
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Today, instead of resting at home, a jjimjilbang.
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I'm going to a jjimjilbang.
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It's been a while.
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I'm going to relax at a jjimjilbang.
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I'll enjoy the hot rooms, play in the water, and take my time to relax and recharge.
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Shall we go together?
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This is the entrance to the jjimjilbang.
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Entrance. Here, there is a ticket counter.
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Ticket counter.
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Here, you can buy a ticket.
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I booked mine online.
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I booked it.
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I scan the barcode.
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I scan the barcode, and print the ticket.
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The ticket came out.
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Now I go inside the jjimjilbang.
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I go in. Escalator.
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I take the escalator upstairs.
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I go up. Entrance.
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I go in here.
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There are shoe lockers here.
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Shoe lockers.
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I take off my shoes.
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I take them off.
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I take off my shoes and look for number 2477.
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I look for the shoe locker.
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I look for it.
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I put my shoes in the locker.
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I put them in.
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Locker key.
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I take the locker key.
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Women's locker room.
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I go into the locker room.
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In the locker room, I get jjimjilbang clothes and a towel.
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Then, I change into the jjimjilbang clothes.
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I change clothes.
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I changed my clothes and came out.
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First, I look around the jjimjilbang.
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I look around.
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The jjimjilbang has several rooms.
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Each room has a different temperature.
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The atmosphere is different too.
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There are massage chairs, and places where you can lie down and rest.
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The view here is really beautiful.
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This area has air conditioning, so it's cool.
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It's cool. I'll rest here later.
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Now that I've looked around, I'll start using the hot rooms.
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I start. First, I go into the media art room.
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This room is 29.9 degrees.
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The temperature isn't very high.
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Here, you can watch panoramic videos while relaxing in the room.
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Pull. I pull the door.
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I pull it. A video appears on the ceiling.
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Space. It's a video of space.
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The panoramic video is beautiful.
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Beautiful. Under the sea.
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It's an underwater video.
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I watch the video and rest.
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Watching the video quietly feels so relaxing.
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It's relaxing.
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Now, I go outside.
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Push. I push the door.
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I push it. This time, I'll go to the red clay room.
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It's 39.3 degrees.
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This room helps relieve stress.
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When you relax in this room, your stress goes away.
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I open the door and go in.
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I go in. People are lying down.
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I lie down here too.
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I lie down.
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Slowly, I start to sweat.
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I'm sweating.
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It's hot. It's hot.
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I think my stress is starting to go away.
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This is the cloud room.
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This room smells like aromatherapy oils.
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And, music is playing.
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You can rest comfortably.
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I open the door and go in.
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The atmosphere here is really nice.
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White mist comes out, and calm music is playing too.
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The aroma smells so nice.
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When I smell the aroma, I feel more relaxed.
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I feel relaxed.
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This room is 61.1 degrees.
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The temperature is high.
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It's high. It's the charcoal room.
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I open the door and go in.
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Wow, it's really hot.
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It's hot. It's definitely different from the other rooms.
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I start sweating right away.
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In the charcoal room, the ceiling is made of charcoal.
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It's all charcoal.
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Charcoal. This room is 77.6 degrees.
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This is the hottest room here, the fire kiln.
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Fire. Even the name sounds scary.
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It's scary.
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There are a lot of people here.
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Many people enjoy very hot rooms.
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It's too hot for me to stay.
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I can't stay.
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I run away.
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53.4 degrees.
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It's just right.
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For me, around 50 degrees seems just right.
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The salt room is good for your skin.
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If you relax here, your skin gets better.
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The salt room is very impressive.
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It's impressive.
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The temperature isn't too high, and it isn't too low.
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It's just right.
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Lastly, I rest in the hinoki cypress room.
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I can hear birds, and smell hinoki cypress.
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While resting here, I make a sheep-head towel.
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I fold the towel.
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And, I roll the towel.
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I roll it. Ears.
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I make the ears.
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I put it on my head.
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I put it on.
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This is the food court.
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After using the hot rooms, I'm hungry.
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I eat a snack.
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At the food court, there are eggs and snacks like hot dogs, and there are cafe drinks too.
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There are full meals too.
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Korean food.
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Chinese food.
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Western food.
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Korean street food.
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I look at the menu and choose what to eat.
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I choose. One sikhye and one baked egg, please.
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Please place your key here.
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Inside the jjimjilbang, you pay with your locker key.
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I pay. Here you go. Enjoy.
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Thank you. I ordered a baked egg and sikhye.
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Yes. One tteokbokki and fried food set, please.
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Please place your locker key here.
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Thank you. I ordered tteokbokki too.
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Here, I eat the food.
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Number 479.
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The food I ordered is ready.
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It's ready.
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Here, I pick up the food.
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I pick it up.
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I enjoy the tteokbokki and fried food.
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I eat the egg too, and drink the sikhye.
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The sikhye is cool and sweet.
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Now that I'm full, I'm going to play in the water.
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This jjimjilbang also has a water park.
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This is a place where children play.
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I go outside.
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I go to the outdoor area.
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I go outside.
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The view is beautiful.
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The weather is clear, and there are mountains, so the view is beautiful.
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At the pool, I swim and rest while looking at the view.
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I really like it here.
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It's relaxing, and I feel like all my tiredness is going away.
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Everyone, I enjoyed playing in the water, used the sauna, took a bath, and then came home.
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The water slide.
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I went down the water slide too, and it was so much fun.
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It was fun.
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After relaxing in the hot rooms, your stress goes away.
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And, your tiredness goes away too, and you start to feel better.
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You feel better.
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When you come to Korea, make sure to visit a jjimjilbang.
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Give it a try.
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At the jjimjilbang, enjoy the hot rooms, try the snacks, and make a sheep-head towel too.
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It will be fun.
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Then, see you in the next video.
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Bye!
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 177 sentences and 1060 words to shadow. The speech runs for 15:02. The speaker talks slowly, about 70 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound. 77% 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
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| relax verb | /ɹɪˈlæks/ | To make something loose. |
| locker noun | /ˈlɑ.kɚ/ | A type of storage compartment with a lock, usually used to store personal possessions for public use, such as in schools, railway stations, place of work… |
| shoe noun | /ˈʃu/ | A protective covering for the foot, with a bottom part composed of thick leather or plastic sole and often a thicker heel, and a softer upper part made of… |
| towel noun | /ˈtaʊ̯əl/ | A cloth used for wiping, especially one used for drying anything wet, such as a person after a bath. |
| charcoal noun | /ˈt͡ʃɑɹ.koʊl/ | impure carbon obtained by destructive distillation of wood or other organic matter, that is, heating it in the absence of oxygen. |
| cloth noun | /klɒθ/ | A fabric, usually made of woven, knitted, or felted fibres or filaments, such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use. Sometimes… |
| distress noun | /dɪˈstɹɛs/ | Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature. |
| entrance noun | /ˈɛn.tɹəns/ | The action of entering, or going in. |
| sweat verb | /swɛt/ | To emit sweat. |
| snack noun | /snæk/ | A light meal. |
| impressive adjective | /ɪmˈpɹɛsɪv/ | Making, or tending to make, a positive impression; having power to impress. |
| atmosphere noun | /ˈætməsˌfɪɹ/ | The gases surrounding the Earth or any astronomical body. |
| ear noun | /ˈɪə̯/ | The organ of hearing, consisting of the pinna or auricle, auditory canal, eardrum, malleus, incus, stapes and cochlea. |
| scary adjective | /ˈskɛə.ɹi/ | Causing fear or anxiety |
| slide noun | /ˈslaɪ̯d/ | An item of play equipment that children can climb up and then slide down again. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| go away verb | To depart or leave a place. | |
| come out verb | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | To be discovered; to be revealed. |
| lie down verb | To assume a horizontal position. | |
| look around verb | To inspect a building or area. | |
| take off verb | To remove. | |
| go down verb | To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one. | |
| go together verb | To be in a relationship. | |
| go up verb | To move upwards. |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 18 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, I'll, isn't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: cloth /klɒθ/, bath /bɑːθ/, aromatherapy /əˌrəʊməˈθɛrəpi/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: shoe /ˈʃu/, sheep /ˈʃiːp/, massage /məˈsɑ(d)ʒ/, sikhye /ˈʃiːk.jeɪ/
- Long words — get the stress right: underwater /ʌndɚˈwɔtəɹ/, escalator /ˈɛs.kə.leɪ.tɚ/, panoramic /ˌpænəˈɹæmɪk/, aromatherapy /əˌrəʊməˈθɛrəpi/
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 relax, locker, shoe.
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | It's been · I've looked |
| Verb + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — verbs that are followed by the -ing form | start using · start sweating · enjoyed playing |
| Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — something happening right now or around now | I'm not going · are lying · I'm sweating |
| Future with “will” will + verb — a decision, promise or prediction | I'll enjoy · I'll rest · I'll start |
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.