Shadowing Practice: Learn Real-Life British English - In Bath! | Comprehensible Input B2 - Learn English Speaking with Video
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do you want to learn english the natural way well in this video
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you're going to learn english with the comprehensible input method all you need to do is just watch and listen
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and you will learn a new english vocabulary today
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i'm in bath in the west of the uk it's a pretty famous place to come
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so going to go take a look around
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Bath
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and let's see what I can find here as you can see I'm at the train station right
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now I'm at the Digcott Parkway train station
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and this is my first stop on the journey
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and I'm going to get on a train right here
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and I'm going to head to Bath that's where I'm going today I'm going to Bath.
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I woke up bright and early to wake up
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and make this video today bright and early so
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so yeah I'm about to head over to Bath now I'm going to get on the next train
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and I'll head over there now.
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So let's go to Bath.
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I'm going to take a look at this one, and I'm going to take a look at this one,
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and I'm going to take a look at this one, and I'm going to take a look at this one,
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and I'm going to take a look at this one, and I'm going to take a look at this one,
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and I'm going to take a look at this one, and I'm going to take a look at this one.
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The train doors will open on the left -hand side in the direction of travel.
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Please certify that you have all of your personal belongings with you
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and find the gap between the train and the platform edge.
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Okay guys as you can see I have reached
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Bath so I am now in Bath and you may be wondering why why is it called Bath?
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Why is this place called called Bath?
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Well the reason is because there are baths here.
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There are Roman baths here so that's that's why it's called Bath and it's a really nice place.
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To get here from London only takes about an hour
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and 20 minutes on the train so
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if you do ever find yourself in London I would recommend a day trip to Bath.
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Now if you've watched enough of my videos by now I'm sure
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that you know that the first thing I like to do
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when I make a video like this is I like to get a coffee,
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just a small cup of coffee just to perk me up a bit
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so that's what I'm going to go and do now.
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thank you very much put the lid on it here
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as you can see I got my cappuccino coffee I just need this just to perk me up a bit
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before I start talking to the camera because when you're walking around
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and you're talking to the camera you need to be awake you need lots of energy
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so this just helps to perk me up a bit before I start filming
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okay so I can hear music coming from that direction so I'm just going to go and Check it out.
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Let's see where this music is coming from.
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It seems like she's visiting.
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you see the problem with the weather today is
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that it's just it's a bit hard to know what to wear
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this morning i was like okay i better wear three layers
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i've got my jacket my shirt and my t -shirt because i was thinking oh it's quite cold
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so three layers is a good idea but now we're at midday now i feel a bit too hot
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you know so now i'm gonna have to take off this jacket
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and change layers again
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and that's that's what i don't like about the weather today
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you know the weather is a little bit keeps changing there's clouds
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and then there's sun
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and then there's clouds it's just like the weather is decent
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i guess it's kind of okay it's not freezing cold
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it's not boiling hot like i wish the weather would just
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decide what it wanted to be it's like the weather just keeps changing its mind
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it doesn't want to be too hot it doesn't want to be too cold
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and it's just like it keeps changing between like hot
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and cold which is like it's really annoying so i don't really like today's weather to be honest
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Don't really like it.
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It's annoying.
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So this here is called a weir.
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Yeah, it's called a weir.
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I mean, don't worry too much about that word, but you can see this controls the water of the river.
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So I don't know exactly, but it controls the water levels.
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And it's called a weir.
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If you had never heard of a weir before, then don't worry, because I had never heard this word in my life either.
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so it's my first time learning what a weir is
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so don't worry too much about this this word you probably won't need it in your daily life
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here there's a little bookshop see we have lots of paperback books so these are called paperbacks
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here
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and we have some more paperback books this is a john grisham book
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i'm just gonna flick through the pages here see i'm just flicking through the pages
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there let's take another paperback book and let's flick through the pages on that one
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Now the reason that this place is called Bath is because there are Roman baths here.
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The Roman baths are about 2 ,000 years old
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and you can go in and you can take a look at the old Roman baths.
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Tickets cost about £29 so I've decided
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that I'm not going to go into the baths myself to film
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but here are some images here are some videos of the roman baths
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so that you can see for yourself you see bath is actually built on top of a natural hot spring
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so naturally there is hot water a hot spring underneath this area
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and the romans built on top of that
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and that's where they built their roman baths a really important part of british history is during the roman period
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so I believe it was about 43 AD
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when the Romans actually invaded England for the first time
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and the Romans stayed here for about 400 years
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so a big part of early British history is the Roman period you know
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and all over the country you can see things from the Roman period old Roman walls old Roman architecture
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so yeah the Romans invaded England for about 400 years the
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funny thing is they never invaded Scotland the Romans briefly tried to invade Scotland
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and then I think they just kind of realized it just wasn't worth the hassle to try and occupy
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Scotland at that time because the Scottish people were quite hard to deal with
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so instead the Romans just built a big wall
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which is called hadrian's wall hadrian's wall is still there today by the way you can go
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and see hadrian's wall
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but the hadrian's wall was built to keep out the scots to keep out the scottish people
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because they were just too much to deal with for me
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the funniest part of the roman period of history is
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that most of the romans didn't really like it here
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when they came to the uk they basically said they hate this country
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because the weather is always miserable it's raining it's cloudy
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and the romans also said the british people were kind of uneducated kind of stupid kind of not very sophisticated
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that's what the romans thought of the british people when
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when they first arrived here and for a lot of roman soldiers having to go
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and spend time in britannia as it was called the Romans are the ones who named this place yeah
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they called it Britannia but
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when the Roman soldiers came here
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it was kind of a place one of the worst places to go
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they didn't really like coming here they would prefer to be in Italy
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or in France you know but having to come to Britannia
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that was kind of a bad deal for the Roman soldiers they didn't like the weather
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and and they didn't like the British people either.
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Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
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oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
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guys one of the best things you can do for your english if you're quite a busy person
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and you don't have a lot of free time in the
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day is to try to get at the minimum 30 minutes
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of comprehensible input in english each day a lot of people
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waste time sort of deciding what to do they sort of sit around thinking okay
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I want to study English today should I get out a textbook should I try
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and do some speaking practice should I read something
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and they just sort of waste a lot of time
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and they waste quite a lot of time just deciding what to do maybe they waste 10
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or 15 minutes each day just sort of deciding oh what
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should I do today to study English a lot of people
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I think feel a bit lost in terms of what they should do right they're at the intermediate level
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and they just don't really know what they're supposed to do to get to the next level of English.
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A lot of intermediate learners just feel like they they're not really improving and nothing is really changing.
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If you're an intermediate learner of English the answer is actually quite simple.
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You need more vocabulary.
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Most of the time what is holding you back is that you just don't know enough words.
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Like yes you know some words you can kind of express yourself in a way
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but you don't know that many words and that's kind of the problem
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if you were to get a few more hundred hours of comprehensible input your level of vocabulary would increase
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and increase and increase and all of these new words
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that you learned with comprehensible input would be learned with the correct pronunciation
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and in a context so that you deeply understand each new word
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that you learn so that you deeply understand each new word and each new expression idiom phrasal verb
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because it's been used in context and then
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when you come to speak English you actually have a really deep understanding of all this vocabulary
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that you've learned because you've learned them not in a dictionary not in a list of words
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but you've actually learned them in context
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in videos like this in comprehensible input videos and
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when you learn vocab through comprehensible input you'll find
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that it just gets very deep in your mind and that
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when you speak you can sort of use it more naturally
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and more smoothly anyway like i was saying the great thing
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about comprehensible input is you don't really need to decide what to do every day
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if you've got half an hour you can go straight to this youtube channel
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or straight to english sponge .com and just start watching immediately
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and start making the most of your time learning english and you're not really wasting time deciding what to do.
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study english that day because it is obvious what you're going to do you're going to go
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and get your 30 minutes minimum daily comprehensible input
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and no time is wasted because you can go straight to the comprehensible input videos
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and you can just start watching immediately
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and there's no messing around sort of deciding what you should do on each day
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so that's a really another benefit of comprehensible input i think is
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that you you really waste no time of course on english sponge .com we have more than 900 videos now.
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So you don't need to waste any time deciding
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which way you're going to go to watch your comprehensible input videos or trying to find the right video for your level.
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On EnglishSponge .com we have organized all of the videos into their correct level.
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You know we have spent a good amount of time making sure
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that each video is in its correct level so
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that you know what you're getting
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and you don't have to spend time looking around YouTube trying to find like the video
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that feels like it's right for you anyway that's enough of that I'm gonna keep looking around
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Bath probably for like another hour I'll look around
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Bath a bit more and then I'll head home so let's go
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let's take a look inside this church now I assume that the door is open so let's take a look inside.
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Please take off your hat whilst in church.
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so guys this is the curb down here
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you see this this is the curb right
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there this is called a curb there you go
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i'm going to keep reminding you i'm going to keep reminding every video
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that this here is called a curb i'm just going to remind you every single video from now on
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so guys I'm just going to enjoy a nice little stroll
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by the canal here just by this nice canal the thing with doing these travel videos is
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that it really takes
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it out of you you know what i mean like walking
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around all day traveling here doing a lot of walking a lot of steps every day doing all
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this uh walking around for the whole day
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it really takes out of you like it's really tiring is what i'm saying it does make you feel tired
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and by by the time i finish one of these chapel videos i do feel like quite tired
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and like i want to go and line down and lie down
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but what i'm saying is
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that it really takes out of you doing these um doing these travel videos
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so doing these travel videos it really takes out of you sometimes however
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i really do enjoy making these kinds of videos
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so i'm definitely going to keep doing it it gives me a good reason to go to new places
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and and travel to places that i've been before
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but travel around to you know random areas like this like the canal in bath
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i don't think i've ever been here before
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so doing these videos definitely gives me an excuse to go and go places that I wouldn't usually go
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which is pretty cool at the same time it does take
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it out of you doing these kind of long travel videos overall
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Bath really is a very nice place
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it's probably one of the nicest places in England it's just really pleasant really pleasant just to stroll around
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Bath and just look at the georgian architecture
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and check out the roman baths so
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if you are going to visit the uk i would definitely recommend it's about an hour
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and 20 minutes from london and you can take a train here
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so it's quite a good option i think
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if you're thinking of um of visiting the uk i I would definitely check out
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Bath if I was you.
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Okay, guys, thank you for watching this video of me walking around Bath today.
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I hope you enjoyed watching me wander around this nice town.
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Like I said, if you do like learning English with comprehensible input, on EnglishSponge .com.. we have more than 900 videos now
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that you can watch but
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if you would prefer to stay here on youtube
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you can check out this playlist here where you can watch me wander around different places in the uk
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and learn english at the same time anyway thank you for watching this video
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and I will see you in the next one.
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Bye -bye.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Learn Real-Life British English - In Bath!”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: bath, roman, english, comprehensible, input. This video has 216 sentences and 2654 words to shadow. The speech runs for 20:20. The speaker talks at a steady 131 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 86% 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 |
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| bath noun | /bɑːθ/ | A tub or pool which is used for bathing: bathtub. |
| input noun | /ˈɪnpʊt/ | The act or process of putting in; infusion. |
| weir noun | /wɪɹ/ | An adjustable dam placed across a river to regulate the flow of water downstream. |
| vocabulary noun | /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/ | A usually alphabetized and explained collection of words e.g. of a particular field, or prepared for a specific purpose, often for learning. |
| curb noun | /kɝb/ | A concrete margin along the edge of a road; a kerb (UK, Australia, New Zealand). |
| paperback noun | /ˈpeɪ.pɚˌbæk/ | A book with flexible binding. |
| invade verb | /ɪnˈveɪd/ | To move into. |
| soldier noun | /ˈsoʊld͡ʒɚ/ | A member of a ground-based army, of any rank, but especially an enlisted member. |
| layer noun | /ˈleɪ̯ɚ/ | A single thickness of some material covering a surface. |
| remind verb | /ɹəˈmaɪnd/ | To cause one to experience a memory (of someone or something); to bring to the notice or consideration (of a person). |
| canal noun | /kəˈnæl/ | An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation. |
| intermediate adjective | /ɪn.tə(ɹ)ˈmi.di.ət/ | Being between two extremes, or in the middle of a range. |
| flick noun | /flɪk/ | A short, quick movement, especially a brush, sweep, or flip. |
| naturally adverb | /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/ | In a natural manner. |
| cloud noun | /ˈklaʊ̯d/ | A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| look around verb | To inspect a building or area. | |
| check out verb | To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.). | |
| flick through verb | To browse rapidly. | |
| keep out verb | To refrain from entering a place or condition. | |
| take off verb | To remove. | |
| wake up verb | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | To stop sleeping; to awake. |
| walk around verb | To walk with no planned destination; to meander. | |
| get out verb | To leave or escape. |
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 | have reached · you've watched · I've decided |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | is called · are called · is actually built |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | cold which is · ones who named |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 87 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, you're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: bath /bɑːθ/, underneath /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/, smoothly /ˈsmuːðli/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: dictionary /ˈdɪk.ʃəˌnɛ.ɹi/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, intermediate /ɪn.tə(ɹ)ˈmi.di.ət/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, architecture /ˈɑː.kɪˌtɛk.t͡ʃə/, miserable /ˈmɪz(ə)ɹəbəl/
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 bath, input, weir.
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.