Shadowing Practice: Lili à Paris [FRENCH VLOG with 🇫🇷 SUBS] - Montmartre, best pizza in France, métro-boulot-dodo. - Learn English Speaking with YouTube
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Hello!
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Well, where are you?
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I am at Paris.
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I arrived here evening.
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I arrived here evening in Tahiti.
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And how to say it?
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It's a little strange.
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I'm passing from 35 degrees to 10 degrees.
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We're going to do like the last time.
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We're going to spend together.
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I wanted to stay a few days before
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to go south to Nice to be able to enjoy Paris and see some friends and family here.
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So today I would like to work,
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see my friends and see an exhibition this afternoon.
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So I'm going to take you with me and we're going to flannel.
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We're going to flannel, it's an excellent French word.
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We're going to walk without any precise but.
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It's super beautiful.
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It's really beautiful.
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Look at all the new things.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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You need to come back in the car and then come back and go and go and go.
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It's a good idea.
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I want to go.
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It's a woman who talked about it because she found beautiful buildings in the street.
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It's true that people sometimes get everything and n'importe what.
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They get all new buildings in super-état.
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I don't know why.
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Just because they're in a place.
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They're in a place.
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Tell me what you think of this sculpture.
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Why not?
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After all, why not?
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The people who see me talk at my phone should say that I'm completely tired,
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I'm completely crazy.
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Or they don't care.
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Because the reality is that most people care about what you do.
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And that's better.
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In reality, I think it's a good therapy.
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It's good to kill the ego.
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You see.
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To go to the cafe where I want to work,
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we're going to take the train to La Défense.
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The Defense is a bit like the business district,
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the business district, where there are big tours for the audits,
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the financials etc. This kind of big tours,
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the kind of gratis to the American American.
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The Defense is a bit like the CBD of Paris.
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You can find it beautiful?
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What is it there?
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Simone Weil is a political woman.
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She is the first member of the European Parliament.
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And it is also the woman who has legalized,
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who voted the law for the legalization of of the divorce in France in 1975 I believe.
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Today she is in the Panthéon.
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The Panthéon is the place where the illustrious characters have done a lot for France.
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And she is a very appreciated woman for everything she has done.
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The sense of life is to find your gift.
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The goal of life is to give it.
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Look, there is an old school of boys because there was a time in France where the school was not mixed.
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There was a school of boys and a school of girls.
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We are going to see the vine of Montmartre because there is a place in Paris where there are vines.
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I never went so far so we are going.
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Look, it's so cute here.
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Imagine you live in this small street.
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I feel like I'm the only French here.
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Incredible!
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I'm going to be here!
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And here are the vines where we produce the wine from Clos-Montmartre.
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The good frankette.
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When we say that we make a dinner at the good frankette,
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It's to say that we don't take the head.
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We don't worry about doing a dinner perfectly in the rules of art.
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We make a dinner quite spontaneous where we don't worry about the rules of table,
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the good ways, etc. We don't worry about the good frankness,
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between friends, without taking the head.
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Céramique!
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I love the poules, the little poulettes.
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They are beautiful, like everything.
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La République de Montmartre,
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c'est une association qui vise à faire perdurer l'esprit de tous les artistes qui ont fait la réputation de Montmartre.
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Les chanteurs, les musiciens, les plasticiens,
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etc. Un mirage vaut mieux que mille mots.
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Un mirage, vous savez ce que c'est.
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Et un mal, un mal,
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it's like a disease and the words are the plural of mal
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you are bow you are going to say we are at montmartre
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and we will not even see the sacred coeur no but look at it we see here Voilà,
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ça suffira pour aujourd'hui.
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Vous savez, je veux vous dire quelque chose d'assez intéressant.
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C'est qu'aujourd'hui, j'ai eu deux remarques contradictoires sur mes taches de rousseur.
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Ce matin, j'ai rencontré un homme africain,
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je ne sais pas de quel pays.
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Il était africain et il me dit,
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il me dit, vous êtes très très belle parce que vous avez des freckles,
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you have a tache of rouseur.
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They didn't know how to say tache of rouseur.
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And so I said thank you, it made me pleasure.
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And later in the day,
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I met a couple of Korean.
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So I know if the Korean prate attention to their peau,
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to the beauty of their peau etc. And the lady told me
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that I have the taches of rouseur so I put a lot of cream because the Korean
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finds it very nice they don't like the taches of rouseur.
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It has to be unis and completely blanche.
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And so I thought it was quite interesting to see how the criteria of beauty differ in in terms of countries,
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which is considered beautiful somewhere,
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it does not be elsewhere.
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And by the way I come,
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the taches of the rouseur,
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it is not not considered something very beautiful.
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In Tahiti, we call it the caca mouche,
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literally the caca of the mouche.
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So fly!
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And it's not very flat.
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And we always told me that you have caca mouche,
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you have caca mouche.
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and then I was quite complexed by that and then in France,
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I told myself that it's so beautiful the edges of the rouseur,
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I would love to have it so it's funny because I spent my life hiding it now,
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to protect me from the sun,
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I put the sun cream every day It's good!
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It's good!
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It's good!
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It's good!
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It's good!
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Do you also make a dance when you eat and it's good?
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Do you all make this dance?
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It was very nice!
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I'm Violetta and Alfredo.
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I worked well.
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I worked well.
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I worked well and I read well.
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Look at this beautiful!
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Look at the infernal machine.
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All these people who went to work this morning,
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they took the metro, the train, or the RER.
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They come home at night.
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When we go to work in the metro and we go to the house,
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it's a routine that we call in French metro, boulot, dodo.
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The boulot is the word familiar for work.
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Metro, boulot, dodo.
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It's a not a long time, not a long time.
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It's a very routine.
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Metro, boulot, dodo.
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How did you remember this morning when I told you that I was full of energy?
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and then after one day in Paris I am already a little bit of energy
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we have to be spontaneous on where we are going on? we are going to go to pizza
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ok we are going to go to pizza it's not a problem it's not a problem it's not a problem
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and you said that it was the best pizza in France I would like to say we are going to pizza,
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take the courses at Aurélie,
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otherwise you will continue to talk like a chef.
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During 7 years, I say like that,
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thanks Aurélie, I can say we are going to pizza.
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Thank you Aurélie.
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It's kind of a fool.
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friends we are in the best pizza in France she was voted best pizza in France in 2023
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and she is at the 53th place in the world's world class on we'll see what it does
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but it promises I'm going to ask my friend Dasha Dasha,
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what's the most disturbing you about the Parisians?
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Dasha, what's the most disturbing you about the Parisians?
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When I arrived, I was in the middle of the bus and I arrived,
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what's the most when I was at the grocery store?
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You ask something and you speak with an accent and they don't understand you,
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so they say what you want,
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and you say I want to buy a baguette and they don't understand,
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they make a face that you don't understand,
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you think you said something really humiliating and horrible and
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that it's not possible and sometimes I even wonder why this face? they haven't understood it which face?
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like that like that it's not true everyone even the people I know the French people
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it's horrible, it's not cool
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At the beginning it was really good It was something I told you So I was just paying for a baguette
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And the chochard Thank you It's a magic thing Let's see what yours is Yes,
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it's good There's nothing to me that really I love their art to live.
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They are always in company,
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they always do something together.
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They are very strong, the French do something in the team.
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I love it, I would like to learn.
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It's really the art of living,
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how they spend time, etc. I think it's a real life.
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They can enjoy simple pleasure,
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like eating well, enjoy the sun.
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It's really an art to live for that.
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The pleasure is simple.
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What do you feel about the French?
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French, they don't do any effort to understand.
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Even a little friend doesn't understand what you say.
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So that's...
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After...
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What else is there?
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It's a bit like this way to plan when you ask me,
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you have to answer me but there is always a but after You can't just say it's okay,
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you have to say it's okay but after it's okay So add something negative,
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it doesn't really me nerve but I think it's like that It was absolutely excellent.
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What did you think?
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Yes, it was very good.
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It's always good.
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And dessert?
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We had a dessert?
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Yes, it was tiramisu, it was very good too.
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But I still prefer pizza.
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Pizza is really extraordinary.
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Tiramisu is also good, but pizza is really extraordinary.
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We recommend you to come here.
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Now we are going to sleep.
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And...
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Big kiss!
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Ha ha ha!
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About This Lesson
In this lesson, you will immerse yourself in the lively experience of exploring Paris through the lens of a French vlog. You’ll practice essential English speaking skills by mimicking the natural flow of conversation, which is exemplified in the provided transcript. The dialogue features casual phrases and observations about the city, making this an ideal opportunity for learners to enhance their fluency and expressiveness in spoken English. By engaging with this content, you'll not only improve your vocabulary but also become familiar with everyday conversational tones, which is crucial for effective communication.
Key Vocabulary & Phrases
- Arrived here - Used to indicate reaching a destination.
- Work and see friends - Practical phrases for balancing professional and personal life.
- Exhibition - Refers to an event where art or information is displayed.
- Beautiful buildings - A phrase used to describe aesthetically pleasing architecture.
- Café - A small restaurant that serves coffee and snacks, commonly found in Paris.
- Business district - An area where commercial activities are concentrated.
- Why not? - An informal suggestion implying positivity and openness to ideas.
- Good therapy - A phrase expressing the therapeutic benefits of an activity.
Practice Tips
For effective shadowing practice using this video, aim to mimic the speaker’s pace and intonation. The conversational style is casual yet engaging, making it ideal for IELTS speaking practice. Focus on maintaining the rhythm of their speech as you repeat the phrases aloud. Here are some tips to enhance your shadowing experience:
- Start slow: Initially, play the video at a reduced speed. This allows you to capture the nuances of pronunciation and intonation without feeling rushed.
- Repeat immediately: After hearing a phrase, try to repeat it right away. This helps reinforce memory and improves verbal fluency.
- Record yourself: After shadowing, listen to your own voice. Compare your tone and speed to the original speaker to identify areas for improvement.
- Engage with the content: Try to visualize the scene being described, such as the beautiful buildings in Paris. This contextual understanding can make it easier to remember vocabulary.
- Use shadowspeaks: Incorporate this into your routine. Use shadow speech techniques consistently to develop your speaking skills over time.
By focusing on these techniques, you'll not only enhance your speaking ability but also grow more confident in expressing thoughts similar to those shared in the video. Enjoy your practice and immerse yourself in the dynamic culture of Paris!
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