Shadowing Practice: Learn Real-Life English: What I Eat in a Week 🍽️ | Comprehensible Input - Learn English Speaking with Video
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are you ready to learn some real life english with comprehensible input well good because today
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i am going to show you what my family eats in a whole week let's go all right my friends
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i hope you are ready to learn some real life english with my real life
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so in this video i'm going to show you guys the kinds of things that my family eats every week,
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including what Abby eats.
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Remind me later to show her formula, Amor.
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My wife's over there feeding Abby.
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Oh, okay.
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One thing I wanted to say, I just called her Amor.
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A lot of people ask in the comments, you call her me Amor.
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What does that mean?
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That's Spanish, guys.
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It means my love.
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Okay.
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We call each other amor all the time.
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And I know somebody who speaks Chinese or Hindi is thinking, what is mi amor?
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It means my love.
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My wife and I spoke Spanish for the first year of our relationship almost,
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so it's very normal for us to speak to each other in Spanish.
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All right, now another comment that I read recently, somebody said, I'd like to see what your family eats on normal days.
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So in this video, guys, I'm going to show you all the things that we would eat in a completely normal week.
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And let's start with the groceries that we just bought.
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Okay?
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And that will be today's first vocabulary word, groceries.
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Groceries can be things like food, things like diapers, if you have a baby.
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It can be toilet paper.
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It can be shaving.
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cream but normally when we say we're going to get groceries we're talking about food things like that
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so we just went
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and bought a bunch of groceries okay
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we bought a lot of groceries these are all the groceries we bought all right
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so that's word number one now in this video i'll only shadow practice shadowing with the words
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that I think are a little bit more difficult to pronounce.
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And I do think groceries is a word that's worth practicing so that you can say it well.
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So let's shadow that together.
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When I say it, you say it after.
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Groceries.
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Groceries.
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Okay?
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Now this is called a receipt.
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Okay?
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And on the receipt, it tells you how many different things you bought and how much all of it costs.
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Okay.
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So this is kind of cool because I can show you all the food
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and things that we bought and I can show you how expensive things are here in the United States.
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So first I'll tell you how much we paid for all this
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and then you can see how much food that got us.
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So guys, for everything I'm about to show you, I paid $375 dollars.
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Okay.
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Now that's a lot of money.
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All right.
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I'm not rich.
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I think that's a lot of money,
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but the thing is we bought a bunch of meat and things that are going to last throughout the whole month,
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pretty much the next, at least the next two or three weeks.
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So let's see what can $375 get you here in the United States.
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We've got some delicious bread and this is for the dinner I'm going to make tonight.
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I'm going to show you guys that.
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I can't wait to make that.
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Got a big container of mushrooms which is also going to go into tonight's meal.
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this big giant bag of carrots, guys, was only $4, and they're organic, so that's a really good deal that will also be used tonight.
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And then I think that's all that we bought today that's going into the dish I'm going to make tonight, tonight's dinner. But chicken nuggets.
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Every American child loves chicken nuggets and Connor goes crazy for these guys.
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So these are just an easy thing that he can eat, a snack that he can make himself in the air fryer.
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We've got these sausages and these are already cooked and they're actually, they have good ingredients.
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That's why I like to shop at this store called Costco.
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They have a lot of healthier options, food made with quality ingredients.
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So these are cooked already.
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They're super fast to make.
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All you have to do is heat them up and we can use them to make a super quick dinner.
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So let me show you an example of what my family would do.
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on a night maybe when I'm working and my wife needs to cook.
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She's trying to hold the baby and she still needs to make dinner.
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So these are called tortellinis.
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It's a pasta filled with cheese.
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So we would make these tortellinis with this creamy Alfredo pasta sauce.
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And then for a meat, we can cut up some of these sausages.
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So with these three things, we can make two nice, easy dinners for the family, and they taste really good.
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My favorite meat, guys, is beef.
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This is just a big piece of beef
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that we will put in the slow cooker one day maybe and make pot roast or sandwiches.
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Here we have milk.
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Now my family uses a lot of milk
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so I got six of these containers of milk
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and these will last us probably like two weeks because we drink a lot of milk.
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My wife likes to eat it with granola or cereal.
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Connor will have granola or cereal with milk in the morning before school.
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And I just like to drink milk with my meals.
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And I've been drinking milk my whole life, guys.
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So I have strong bones.
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All right.
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Hey, Abby, I'm going to show them what you eat because Abby is the most expensive eater in this house.
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I'll talk about that a little later.
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And if she's still awake she could help show me what she likes to eat.
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This is frozen fruit guys and my wife makes something that is a good vocabulary word.
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What do you make with this?
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A smoothie.
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Now that'll be our next vocabulary word.
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We won't shadow it but it's good to know what a smoothie is.
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So a smoothie is when you take fruit like this, you take milk or juice, you put it in a blender,
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a blender, blend it all up, and then you have a thick drink that we call here in the United States a smoothie.
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So my wife likes to get frozen fruit to make smoothies.
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We've got some cheese, which we will use for millions of things.
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We like to eat quesadillas a lot.
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Frozen vegetables.
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Just, you know, a normal dinner, guys, a lot of times.
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We'll just have some meat, some white rice, and some vegetables.
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That's a completely normal dinner for us.
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here I have a whole bunch of chicken and this chicken
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will go with this yogurt in one of our family's favorite dishes which is
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butter chicken my wife said
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so guys I'm showing you what my family eats I cannot say
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that this is what a typical American family eats because we're not a typical American family.
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And honestly, guys, the way that I eat has been influenced so much by you guys.
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When I made all my cooking videos and I learned about your guys' dishes from your countries, it changed the way I eat forever.
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So it's completely normal for us to have feijoada one day, which we had like three or four days ago,
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for us to have butter chicken the next day, for us to have borscht.
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We eat crazy foods for an American family, and no other American family that I know eats like we do.
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So, guys, this is my absolute favorite kind of meat, which is beef.
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But if you notice, there's a lot of fat in this, a lot of fat.
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And fat is what, baby?
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Flavor.
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Flavor.
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Flavor.
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So this is going to be the meat we use for tonight's dish, which you guys will see.
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It's going to be incredible.
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These are like burgers, hamburgers, but they're made out of the fish, salmon.
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And these are fully cooked too.
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You could just put them in the air fryer and make a sandwich very easily.
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My wife really likes those.
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Speaking of hamburgers, we have normal hamburgers and this is one of the only American dishes that we eat regularly.
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We do like to make hamburgers.
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We'll cook up some onions, put some pickles.
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Connor likes ketchup.
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I just like mustard and onion and pickles.
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And we'll make hamburgers at least every couple of weeks.
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But it's really good to have this big bag in the freezer.
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And whenever Connor wants something, you know, if he wants to eat and I'm not eating, I'll just make him a burger.
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And when you have a family, that's important.
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Having easy, fast options of things that you can eat.
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because you don't want to have to stop and cook for an hour just so your kid can have a quick lunch.
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We've got some coffee.
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This is cold brew coffee.
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I like these too, but my wife really likes them.
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So she doesn't drink coffee like I do every day, but she does like to have a nice cup every now and then.
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And buying these two together like this saved me like $3 because normally they're almost $6 or $7 each.
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But when I bought both of them like this, it was only $8.
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So that's a good deal.
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Yeah.
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Then we've got a Japanese -style fried rice and chicken.
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And my wife wanted to try this.
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But this is pretty cool too, guys.
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It's just a super simple, easy meal that you can microwave.
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that's something else that makes us different than most American families.
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We don't have a microwave guys.
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So my wife will probably just cook these on the stove.
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But yeah that looks something nice and easy my wife can make when I'm working because when I'm home I'm the chef.
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All right guys now this.
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This is a watermelon
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and oh my goodness did you know this is not a normal watermelon
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this is not a normal watermelon guys this is a yellow watermelon
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that's interesting we like to try new cool fruits so normal watermelon is red inside this one is yellow
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oh it sounds juicy
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what i mean she explained
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that that's not we get more things from the store right
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yeah okay guys my wife wanted me to explain something that this is not like all the shopping we will do.
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What we do at this store, Costco, is we go and buy big pieces of meat, okay?
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And then later, we'll go to the other stores that are close
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and buy little stuff like bananas and spices and things like that.
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But it's a lot cheaper if you go and buy the big things here.
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So that's what we do at Costco.
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Here's an example, guys, and I'm going to give you a good vocabulary word here.
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And the word is in bulk.
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Do you know what in bulk means, wife?
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Good.
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If my wife doesn't know, she's been living here for five years.
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Many of you probably don't know either.
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Buying something in bulk means you get a big container of it and save money. So here,
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this is buying toilet paper this is buying toilet paper in bulk
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so you can see guys this is a whole lot of toilet paper
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and we are a family of four three of us use toilet paper
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and this big thing lasts a long time
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I know a lot of you guys in the world parts of the world where they don't use toilet paper are thinking, oh, that's gross.
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That's how it is here in the United States, guys.
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But this is a big, huge thing of toilet paper.
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And usually I give my mom a couple of these so she doesn't have to worry about going to the store.
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But this is buying in bulk.
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And that's the next vocabulary word.
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So this is buying milk in bulk.
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This is definitely buying carrots in bulk.
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and this is buying toilet paper in bulk.
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All right guys that is $375 worth of groceries here in the United States.
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I have to put all this away
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and in a little bit I'll show you what that little girl eats that's so expensive.
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Alright guys, back to the video.
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Alright guys, now like I said,
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I'm going to tell you about what Abigail eats and why she is the most expensive member of our family to feed.
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And that's saying a lot because I like steak and other really good foods.
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So I'm here in my car.
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I'm waiting at Connor's school to pick him up.
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So I have about 10 minutes.
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I decided I would use this time to tell you guys about what Abigail eats.
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And I have two pieces of vocabulary for you.
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So for a newborn baby, and newborn baby is what we call babies who were just born all the way up until about three months old,
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which Abigail is, you really have two options to feed them.
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Okay.
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And number one will be the first vocabulary word to breastfeed.
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Okay.
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Breastfeeding.
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And breastfeeding is when a mother gives the baby her own milk from her breasts.
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Okay.
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Men don't have breasts.
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We call this part on a man chest.
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Women have breasts, and women use their breasts to feed their babies sometimes.
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So breastfeeding, which is our vocabulary word, is when a mother gives her baby her milk, what we would call breast milk.
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So there's a lot of benefits to breastfeeding.
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Okay.
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One benefit, it doesn't cost money.
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It's free.
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Breastfeeding is free.
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That's awesome, right?
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Another benefit, as long as the mother is eating good nutritious foods,
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there's a lot of vitamins and healthy things inside the breast milk that are good for the baby's brain and body.
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Okay. So that's great.
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Breastfeeding is great.
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It's what women have been doing since the beginning of time.
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So it's natural, and I think that if a woman can, she should try to breastfeed her baby.
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Well, my wife tried to breastfeed Abigail, but because of Abigail's stomach problems, we could not.
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Okay?
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And it's because Abigail has acid reflux, which means she throws up a lot.
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And breast milk is very thin.
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It's not thick.
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It's thin like water.
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Okay?
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It's not thick like a heavy cream.
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It's very thin like water.
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So when Abby drinks things that are very thin, it comes right back up.
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Also, we think she has sensitivities to things like possibly soy, but definitely cow's milk.
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So if my wife eats cheese, milk, anything that has cow milk in it,
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it will make Abby sick and hurt her stomach so we couldn't breastfeed Abby.
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So we had to go with the second option, which is also the next vocabulary word, formula.
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Now, what is formula?
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Well, formula is an artificial milk, okay?
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It's man -made, which means, you know, it's not natural.
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a man -made milk for babies to drink.
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They try and make it similar to breast milk,
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and it's for moms who can't breastfeed because they don't make enough milk or they don't want to breastfeed.
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Everybody's different.
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Let's shadow that word because the U in there is actually really good, especially for Spanish speakers.
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People like my wife will want to say formula, but formula is how we say it in the United States formula.
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This is the formula that we give Abigail.
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And it comes like this.
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It's already a liquid.
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And this is the only one that we've tried that she can drink without hurting her stomach and that she likes.
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This formula is...
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It's hypoallergenic, which means it does not have the things in it that can upset a baby with the sensitivities like Abby.
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And it's thicker, which is why I think she likes this one.
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But the bad thing about this formula, this is literally the most expensive formula that there is.
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So guys, I have to buy these in bulk.
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I order a big giant box of these off of Amazon.
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and that's what we feed Abby.
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Like this, they could just sit outside, but when you open it, it has to go in the refrigerator.
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So that's the bad part.
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It costs a lot of money and it takes more work
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because you have to keep it in the refrigerator
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and then you have to heat it up before she drinks it
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because it doesn't feel good for her to drink cold stuff.
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So how much does it cost to feed Abigail?
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Well, every time I order one of those big boxes, it's about $70.
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Okay?
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And she's eating more and more and more, but one of those lasts her a little bit more than a week.
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So it costs probably $300.
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I would say maybe an average of $300 a month to feed Abigail her formula.
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guys that would be a lot of meat
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that would be a lot of steak
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that would be a lot of you know groceries
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that we could buy but the thing is she needs it it's the only one
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that makes her feel good and i would do anything for her
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so if she needs
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that expensive formula her dad's gonna get
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it for her all right guys connor will be coming out of his school in any moment
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i just wanted to tell you about what Abby eats
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and it really it it's unfortunate that that formula costs
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so much because the people who need
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that formula they really really need it it's probably the only thing they could give their kids
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that will stop their kids from screaming all day
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so it would be nice if they made
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that formula cheaper to help the people who are already in trouble
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but they make it more expensive because they know we have to have it
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and your options are buy the expensive stuff
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and your baby will be okay or you buy the cheap stuff
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and your baby screams all day so they know
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that a parent will pay anything to stop their baby from feeling bad
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just like me
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so that's what Abby has to eat guys now I'm going to make something absolutely delicious absolutely delicious for dinner
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and like I said our family is not normal
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we eat food from all over the world every week
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this night we're going to have a French dish probably my favorite French dish
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that I've tried so far and it is called beef bourguignon
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so I'll show you guys what that is in a little bit gotta get Connor
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and head home see you in a bit hey guys
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so I just wanted to say that actually my daddy is lying
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and I really don't even eat that much
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so don't believe my dad he's not telling the truth all right guys bye okay guys our dinner is done
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this is called beef bourguignon now guys the next
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and maybe the last piece of vocabulary do you know what this is, wife?
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It's not a spoon.
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It's a ladle.
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Ladle.
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And a ladle is a deep spoon for scooping up liquids.
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So, this is actually an interesting dish, guys.
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It comes from France.
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Abigail's looking at me.
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She's like, wow, my daddy's a YouTuber.
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Guys, this used to be a peasants dish
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which means poor people's dish they would cook the tough cuts of meat
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that nobody wanted very slow uh for hours
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and hours to make it tender they would use whatever vegetables they had
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and they would use red wine that's what's in this dish guys beef red wine carrots and mushrooms.
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Oof.
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Can't wait, guys.
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Absolutely cannot wait.
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We'll ladle it out into the bowl here.
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We got our carrots.
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Mmm.
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Mmm.
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Did I say mushrooms?
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Mm -hmm.
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Yeah.
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And, guys, the sauce is almost red.
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Oh, there's bacon in there, too, for some smokiness.
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The sauce is almost red because of the wine.
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I want to show Abby a little bit of a food.
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Okay, well sure.
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Without my face.
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Abby's moving around because she wants to be in the video, guys.
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Alright, my beef bourguignon.
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Trying to show you the dish on the new camera. That is beef bourguignon.
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Look at the flavor in that sauce, guys.
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You could just see the flavor.
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Alright, now one other person wants to say hello.
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Hi, Abby.
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Hi, wife.
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No, don't.
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Guys, my wife thinks she doesn't look good.
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I look terrible right now.
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Let me tell you.
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You are the most beautiful new mom on earth.
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Abby, your mommy is so beautiful.
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Yeah, sure.
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Boom, back to dad.
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All right, guys.
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Oh, we have one more thing that's going to go with this.
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All right, guys so with any delicious stew one thing you must must have
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hot crusty bread all right let's try this all right guys let's cut some bread
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and you know it's good bread when you could hear
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that oh you guys hear that crunch all right so I want to try this bread with this red wine sauce
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so guys beef vegetables bread these are the things that humans have been eating for thousands of years.
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It's in our DNA to love this.
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And man, absolutely incredible.
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Let's try a piece of the beef.
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It just falls apart, guys.
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Wow.
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Okay, my wife always tells me that I take too long and she doesn't get to eat.
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So let me finish the video there.
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Thank you guys for spending some time with me.
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I hope this was interesting for you and I'll see you in the next video.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Learn Real-Life English: What I Eat in a Week 🍽️”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: eat, milk, wife, formula. This video has 381 sentences and 3851 words to shadow. The speech runs for 27:12. The speaker talks at a steady 142 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 85% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| formula noun | /ˈfɔː.mjʊ.lə/ | Any mathematical rule expressed symbolically. |
| dish noun | /dɪʃ/ | A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle. |
| groceries noun | /ˈɡɹoʊ.s(ə.)ɹiz/ | Retail foodstuffs and other household supplies; the commodities sold by a grocer or in a grocery store. |
| beef noun | /bif/ | The meat from cattle or other bovines; especially, that from adults. |
| 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. |
| bulk noun | /bʌlk/ | Size, specifically, volume. |
| breast noun | /bɹɛst/ | Either of the two organs on the front of a female human's chest, which contain the mammary glands; also the analogous organs in males. |
| toilet verb | /ˈtɔɪ.lət/ | To assist another (a child, etc.) in using a toilet. |
| shadow noun | /ˈʃædəʊ̯/ | A dark image projected onto a surface where light (or other radiation) is blocked by the shade of an object. |
| flavor noun | /ˈfleɪvə/ | The quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect. |
| thin adjective | /ˈθɪn/ | Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite. |
| thick adjective | /θɪk/ | Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension. |
| delicious adjective | /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/ | Pleasing to the sense of taste; tasty. |
| vegetable noun | /ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bəl/ | A plant raised for some edible part of it, such as the leaves, roots, fruit or flowers, but excluding any plant considered to be a fruit, grain, herb, or spice… |
| carrot noun | /ˈkæɹət/ | A vegetable with a nutritious, juicy, sweet root that is often orange in colour, Daucus carota, family Apiaceae, especially the subspecies sativus. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| back up verb | To move backwards, especially for a vehicle to do so. |
| cut up verb | To cut upward. |
| fall apart verb | To disintegrate, to break into pieces. |
| make out of verb | To construct from; to create (something) using (a material or substance). |
| move around verb | To relocate to new homes repeatedly; to not live in any one place for long. |
| throw up verb | To vomit. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- I'm going to show you guys that.
- I can't wait to make that.
- I'll talk about that a little later.
- What do you make with this?
- Do you know what in bulk means, wife?
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 | I've been drinking · she's been living · have been doing |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | somebody who speaks · mushrooms which is · dishes which is |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | is called · are already cooked · are cooked |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | has been influenced · have added · I've created |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 78 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, doesn't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: thin /ˈθɪn/, thick /θɪk/, smoothie /ˈsmuːði/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: dish /dɪʃ/, shadow /ˈʃædəʊ̯/, delicious /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/, mushroom /ˈmʌʃˌɹuːm/, artificial /ˌɑː.tɪˈfɪʃ.əl/
- Long words — get the stress right: vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, sensitivity /ˌsɛn.səˈtɪv.ə.ti/, ingredient /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/, refrigerator /ɹɪˈfɹɪd͡ʒ.əˌɹeɪ.tɚ/, artificial /ˌɑː.tɪˈfɪʃ.əl/
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 formula, dish, groceries.
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.