Shadowing Practice: LOVE & OTHER DRUGS (a paris vlog) - Learn English Speaking with YouTube
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As you can probably already tell by the lack of masks,
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which honestly looks foreign to me now,
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this is an old vlog.
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I visited my friend Damon in Paris last fall,
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and by the time I came back I was packing up to move across the country,
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and then apartment hunting in New York,
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and then Miss Verona came to down.
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Basically I was waiting to post this till travel was normal again,
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but it looks like that that might not be for a long, long time.
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So anyways, here's this vlog.
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I fucking miss human beings,
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dude, and I hope that life will be like this again soon.
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Can you angle it more towards the water?
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Not towards me!
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Don't hit those people!
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You think it's gonna shoot that far?
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Ashley, it'll go way over there.
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Watch for the married couple, don't ruin their day.
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Umm...
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It's not going!
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Woo!
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Welcome to Paris.
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Oof, I love Prosecco.
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Brunch in Paris at 7pm.
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Eww, it's so zoomed in!
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But like, it's kind of charming to be that close to the camera.
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Not when you look like this.
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Are you kidding me?
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Okay, this is David.
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When did we meet?
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It was like a year and a half ago.
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We met on La Brea Avenue, because Ashley was editing.
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She was like an editor.
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You were an editor back in the day.
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Yeah.
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And I needed an editor.
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And then I met Ashley and I'm like,
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you can't be an editor.
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You need to edit your own videos and focus on your own channel.
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It's weird thinking back because when I met you,
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I had like 80,000 subscribers.
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It was such a little YouTube channel and you were the first person that was like,
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this is a thing.
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And I was like, no,
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it's not gonna be a thing.
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Because you have to,
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I swear there's a moment where you have to jump to the charts Just stop working for the week
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or work for yourself and that's when it finally takes off Not
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that I'm trying to take credit for it Well thanks to David,
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this is the man who made this view
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Yeah, it's so pretty!
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So Damon is curled up on the floor of the Airbnb right now,
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looking up photos of the party we're about to go to.
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What's it called?
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It's called La Possession and it's one of these that's like,
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Y'all n'y n'a à l'air tu n'a Paris.
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It's like one of those.
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I've been to these kinds of parties,
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but I've never been to one this hard.
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Like, even I'm a bit scared, actually.
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Like, we grew up in the States thinking that,
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like, we're the freest country ever!
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And then you go to La Possession.
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What's happening?
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Just like, people are themselves.
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Without worrying about other people judging them.
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Damon's showing me all these photos of people with their shirts off.
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Girls and guys.
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So That'll be me tonight You say who?
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Everybody has their shirt off.
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I'm not seeing one shirt That's the dress code Ashley These are the sexiest hands I've ever seen.
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Look at this These are the hands of somebody who's either having sex or right about to If we were being smart,
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we would start getting our outfits ready.
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What can we use?
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Like tie it around Hey,
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that's a little modest to be honest.
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That's a little high coverage for me
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Dress sexy, but I can't wear a dress
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and we also have to prepare an option for if I take my shirt off Okay,
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so this is a corset option Wow that works already first option Good to go.
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Okay, okay.
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I have that and then jeans,
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which I feel like is what you would approve of.
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Skirt.
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No. Oh, I also have plaid pants,
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but I feel like this is a little business woman.
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That's tomorrow.
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That's the hangover look.
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You pair that with like a white tee,
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with like this white shirt.
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I mean, you said no dresses.
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I brought like a black dress.
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I feel like you think we're going to like a party in the Louvre.
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You'll see everyone there will be in running sneakers.
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You'll think they're part of like the cross-country team.
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See, that bothers me, because the first thing I look at somebody's like outfit,
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Even for guys, I like look at their face and then I look at their shoe game.
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And if the shoes are bad, it's a no-go.
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Yeah, that's a deal breaker.
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You got some Jordans.
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Homeboys can I like...get it.
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For a guy's shoes, are the strongest indicator of his perception of his own personality, you know?
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Yeah, tell us what kind of guy you're looking for.
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We'll like look at the shoes tonight.
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I wouldn't date a straight guy who wears Reeboks, I think.
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But you'd date a gay guy who wears Reeboks.
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I could take a little bit of a Vans guy as long as he's not a skater
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and he's more of a nerdy Vans guy.
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What would your exes wear?
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Well, that might not be the best.
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I would not date a Birkenstocks guy anymore.
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My perfect type of guy is a guy who wears brogues or like oxfords or something.
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Like something that's a little bit fancy,
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but I feel like we're not gonna see that tonight.
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Yeah, just just take the Eurostar back to London and then you might find that there.
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No, I'm like really skinny right now, but that's fine.
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Again, it's a body positive place, Ashley.
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I love how we're all for body positivity,
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but we all hate our own bodies still.
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But I feel like even when you have a good body,
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you still don't think it's good enough.
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No one's happy, but maybe that's the lesson after all.
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That if we all realize that everyone's unhappy with their body,
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then why can't we all just be happy with our bodies?
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I could do like a workout tank top.
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And I have good side pecs.
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Just not front pecs?
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Ha!
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It gets a little iffy from the front.
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Like I'm trying to go out and I'm trying to look sexy tonight, to be honest.
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I'm going out, I wanna flirt,
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I wanna meet people, but it's like I have all these quirky clothes.
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It's not sexy.
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My entire wardrobe is quirky non-sexy clothes, are you kidding me?
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You have a corset in gold, are you kidding me?
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That's so sexy.
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You think I wanna show up in my...
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Actually.
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I think our problem is that we both dress like Sherlock Holmes characters.
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Yeah, and it's like I enjoy that during the day.
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But then my thing is like when I go to the club,
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why am I so worried that people are gonna not find me sexy when I like wearing that?
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Yeah, I think people will find you sexy in that you look good in that stuff anyway.
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I'll have to work really hard I found the shirt.
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It may be a little dirty.
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Don't smell it, but Ashley,
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this is how they do it at the raves.
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You just wear some sneakers.
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You don't look too pretentious,
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but you still look kind of cool
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You just have some chest region coming up I just have a shirt that'll bust open mid-song
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Here's my Matrix stripper outfit Oh yeah Can we see the full look with it off?
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Woo!
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That's how Ashley's gonna be tonight It's gonna look good Dang
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Any extra additional footage will be on Ashley's phone Please excuse the horrible quality Heartbroken and weary
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Yeah, it's a good 8.30pm and Ashley just woke up.
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I've been up the whole day.
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Not the orange juice Hello,
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it's us Back in the exact same spot that you saw us earlier We are alive
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We made it home I love how this Paris vlog is just us at home Yeah,
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okay, this was my first time at a rave Yeah,
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the thing with raves here It's like exactly what you picture
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in a movie You show up to the location You walk in,
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the bouncers are like, come inside And then you get inside And you're walking into a container factory
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that ships to West Africa.
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That's where we were.
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We were in a container factory.
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You make your way through the crowd
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and you're feeling like a little tipsy from the drinks
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and you make your way to the dance floor and then you see someone who's cute.
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Enter.
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He was an overall in a room.
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He was
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so cute oh he was yes he was wearing overalls he was adorable i got a picture of them
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and everything these eyebrows
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that cheekbones the lips you have to save this picture forever look how happy you look
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this is happiness move to paris stay here oh my god yeah he's beautiful you guys would make
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a beautiful couple oh well good thing you're in london he's
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only a train right away i have a feeling it won't work out
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but we'll keep you guys updated i don't know i don't know
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if he was as into me as i was into him
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that's how it goes here i think we're more like cheery
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and enthusiastic about love
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and they're just like i was just trying to have like
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a one night thing i think the confusing thing especially
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when you're kind of under the influence i'll say it's this french guy
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and he's like I think I'm falling in love with you like it is
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that I said yeah he was like really sweet
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and he was like how long are you here he really
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seemed like he wanted to like spend the rest of the time with me
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but then the next morning when you're like hungover
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and shit he's like get your croissant
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and leave I've had this before where I've gone on like
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I think it was literally two dates with a guy here
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and he was like a French Prince Charming
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and then third date this man wrote me a sonnet like a poem
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and all over it was like you are the love of my life
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and your eyes are so beautiful like the blue of the ocean.
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I was like, dude, one,
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like we've seen each other at night.
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You haven't even seen what my face looks like.
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He's like, dude, you're doing a lot.
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You don't know that you love me.
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Come on.
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Did you see him after that?
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Was that too much?
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Oh yeah, I've seen him many times.
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We've become friends.
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Like I said, everyone I meet on like Tinder these days is,
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it's like a friend app at this point.
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I've noticed that that's a trend here.
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They're very romantic, but sometimes I'm like,
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are you being romantic for the sake of being romantic?
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Are you being romantic because it's what you feel?
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Yeah.
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I think it's like the opposite of in America there's like social pressure to be less romantic
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and to care less but I think here it's like sleazy romance Which is fine sometimes Yeah,
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it's still fun, still floats my boat Anyway, how was it?
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What did you end up doing?
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Nothing!
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I went straight home to bed like a good boy
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I had an experience from an app
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and I went over to some guy's place
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and then another guy showed up and another guy showed up and I was like This is hot but...
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Yeah, count the total number of guys there Yeah,
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just do the math, do the math.
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But I eventually subtracted myself from the equation and got out of there because I was not having it.
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Then I came home and then Ashley also came home.
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And there we were, two beans on the couch.
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We couldn't even go out to eat, we ordered Uber Eats.
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My body will not pass through that door today.
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Let's compare the time that I left and the time that Dave left.
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Okay, these are my boots.
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They look the fucking same as before.
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These are Damon's shoes!
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They used to be white!
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I don't know where Sarah Lynn got the heroin from.
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Damon and I are watching BoJack and we're literally pausing
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and replaying it because we're so in awe of how they wrote this line.
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Wait!
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You're telling me you're dumb-drone down the tower and drowned downtown Julie Brown's dummy-drumming dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dowsing your newly found goose-down-hammer-down-gum?
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Yes!
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I don't think I'm like down.
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Oh my god!
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Legend!
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I love her!
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You can't You can't You can't You can't Oh,
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hello Oh, hello Oh Odd but Oh,
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we love a clean entrance Oh,
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that looks so nice Okay
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Thanks
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Okay, I'm coming!
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Hop on, baby!
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Hold on!
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Oh, this is so cute!
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Which point do I go up there?
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Oh, there's an upstairs!
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Yes!
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So, I went on a date here
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and I talked to a guy in this bathtub And then we had our first case in the bathtub Everyone's like,
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where are they?
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So we broke into somebody's house Brought our little plank with us
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This is the Parisian way This is my first persona in Paris On this trip miraculously Woah woah woah woah
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That's not a croissant Do you not call this a croissant?
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No!
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It's a croissant with chocolate inside Did you meet this guy on like Twitter or something?
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Yeah we can say that
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It was
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so cute on the day though We sat in the back as well Our knees are really close right now
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Just like put that foot,
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and then you apply more pressure!
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I ate footsie, and it led to lip-seed.
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I still follow this on Instagram.
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That's why you follow 800 people.
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All your grind dates!
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Okay, this boy from the rake last night,
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we DM'd each other on Instagram,
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and I was gonna move my train tonight so that...
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There's still room for you to move this train.
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I know but it's like 11am and my train is at 9 And...
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That's a lot of hours Anyway,
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he seemed like he was interested in going out tonight But now,
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there's no response He's at work Yeah,
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but he's gonna get off work
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and save us I don't want someone to DM me at 6 being like I'm really aiming out now,
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yeah That's what they'll do,
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that's what happens Is that how friend boys are too?
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They don't like flake it without realizing it I call it the friendship with you
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But they're also split with like people Yeah What's a different kind of a boy?
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I like it
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How we met That's how I start every video But I am an experienced return off of that
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You should get one up here Content!
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Oh, it's like a painting, what the fuck?
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It's not weird.
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No. It's too ugly.
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This red wine talk is over.
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My name is Damon.
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And your name is Ashley.
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I was gonna say my name is David So is it tasting better?
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A little bit.
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I need to compensate for the fact that my boy didn't message me down.
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You don't know this.
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Checking?
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Just one last time Ashley.
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I literally have been checking.
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He said he was free.
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I know!
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Why would you say you're free if you're not gonna respond?
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He said I'm free at 6, what about you?
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This is what I told you this.
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This thing called French Oblivion, Ashley.
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He's gonna go home, it'll be like 8 p.m.
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I'm gonna be like oh um oh that's right you're free.
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Oh well.
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It's a little too far now.
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I guess what about tomorrow?
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I thought I was safe with those overalls Get yourself a fuckboy overall You know he's come on please
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This is what they do We can go get breakfast tomorrow morning.
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In this lesson, you will enhance your English speaking skills by practicing with a fun and engaging Paris vlog titled "Love & Other Drugs." This video captures moments of friendship, travel, and heartfelt reflections in a vibrant city. By shadowing the speaker, you will improve your pronunciation, rhythm, and intonation, all of which are essential for becoming a fluent English speaker. The vlog's conversational tone and relatable content provide an excellent opportunity for immersive learning.
Key Vocabulary & Phrases
- Brunch: A meal that combines breakfast and lunch, often enjoyed in a leisurely setting.
- Prosecco: An Italian sparkling wine, commonly served during brunch or celebrations.
- Apartment hunting: The process of searching for a place to live.
- Vlog: A video log; a type of blog that includes video content.
- Charming: Pleasant and attractive, often in a quaint or delightful way.
- Subscribers: People who follow a user’s content, often on platforms like YouTube.
- Editing: The process of preparing content for publication, which can include cutting, arranging, and refining video footage.
- Human beings: A term that refers to people, reflecting a sense of connection and community.
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- Start Slowly: Begin by watching the video at a slower speed, allowing yourself to catch every word clearly. You can adjust the playback speed on most video platforms.
- Repetition is Key: Play short segments of the video multiple times. Pause after each sentence or phrase and repeat what you hear. This helps reinforce pronunciation and intonation.
- Mimicking Emotion: Pay attention to the emotional undertones in the speaker’s voice. Emulate their enthusiasm or hesitation to capture a more authentic sound. This is a critical aspect of shadowspeaks effectively.
- Focus on Rhythm and Flow: Observe the natural rhythm of the speaker’s speech. Attempt to replicate not just the words, but the musicality of how they speak.
- Record Yourself: After practicing, record your own voice while you speak along with the video. Compare your recording to the original to identify areas for improvement in your shadow speech.
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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.
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