Shadowing Practice: my childhood bedroom - Learn English Speaking with Video

Thank you.

This bedroom is kind of like a time capsule because it really hasn't been touched ever.

Like it has not been changed in any way since I was a kid.

And there is some weird shit in here.

Like there is some weird shit in here.

and every time I come home, like I find new stuff.

Every single time.

I can go on like a treasure hunt in here and I'll always find something new and something weird

and something I didn't find the last time.

The only thing that's different about it is

that my dad decided to put all of his musical equipment in my room

and so now it kind of looks like a recording studio mixed with my childhood bedroom, but it's still my childhood bedroom.

Oh, is

this kindergarten?

Oh my god, that was me in kindergarten.

The haircut was kind of good.

Like, I would get that haircut again.

Kind of makes me want to get that haircut now.

You know, Like if it worked for her then, why wouldn't it work for me now?

It's the same me.

Yeah.

Holy shit.

These books were so good.

I would literally buy one of these from a bookstore and read the whole thing in like two days.

And they were so good.

I think I'm going to read this again.

Like hopefully I'm not too old to read it.

You know when you like go back and you look at something again

that you used to love when you were a kid.

And it's just like not the same now that you're older.

Like that might happen with this book.

But I'm gonna give it a try.

I might read it later.

I remember getting these with my mom for back to school.

And so my mom and I went to go get me, you know, new shoes for the school year.

And I remember I picked these out and I remember I got home and I

forced my mom to let me put them on

and I just ran around the house for like two hours in these

and I thought that they were the sickest fucking shoes I'd ever seen in my life.

Unfortunately, they are hideous.

I had no idea.

I mean again, I was seven so like although Balenciaga came out with shoes

that looked just like this everybody would buy them so what does that say about society, you know?

Oh!

This has milk stains all over it.

Those are milk stains.

I remember I used to wear this every morning and then

And then I would watch Napoleon Dynamite on the TV and eat my breakfast.

And my breakfast was usually some sort of cereal with milk.

And this thing has fucking milk all over it still.

Okay, thank God.

Why did I smell it?

I was obsessed with the idea of remote control powered toys as a kid.

I thought that was the most genius concept and the most exciting concept of all time.

It really never even knew how, it couldn't even fly.

These remote control toys for kids never actually work and it's so, such a heartbreaking thing for a kid to go through.

This was a school art project.

I say on here that I'm thankful for my teacher.

Which is exactly, like that is how you know I was teacher's pet because I really didn't need to do that.

But I was like, maybe I'll get a little extra love from the teacher

if I give her a little shout out on my art project.

That is manipulation and the fact that I was manipulating that young personally worries me.

Oh my god.

I don't know where my dad and I got this because neither of us wanted to eat it.

It just like sat on our kitchen counter for literally six months and then we started pranking each other with it.

So like I'd put it under his pillow.

He would put it on the back of the toilet seat.

You know, goofy shit like that.

There's this thing called needle felting where basically you take wool yarn almost

and you poke it with a needle over and over again, and then it starts to stick together and create like a little stuffed animal.

And so my mom and I got super into this for probably a month and then we never did it again.

I actually made this little bunny and honestly, super cute.

But I remember the process of creating these little things.

It was so time consuming and you'd accidentally poke yourself in the hand with a needle and it was like, it was really, it could get potentially frustrating,

which is why I quit making them.

Let's see.

Authentic Hello Kitty earring.

Literally, I could go on Depop and sell this for like $80 now.

I won't.

They're kind of- they're kind of- they're kind of good.

Wait, there's no way there's a fucking blockbuster coupon in here.

Valid from May 1st to June 15th.

2004. What the fuck?

Also, why is this in my room?

In 2004, I was three years old.

Like, this wouldn't have been abuse to me.

I don't think I knew how to use a coupon when I was that age.

Nooo.

Uh-uh.

Not the fucking Victoria's Secret pink sweet and flirty body mist.

That actually smells fucking terrible.

Oh my god, it literally- it just made me get like a minor eyebrow headache.

Yeah, that's pretty awful.

I thought I was such a baddie.

I would wear these to my little middle school dances.

I thought that like really truly boys were gonna finally like me if I wore these.

It might have been repelling them.

It reminds me of things I just don't want to think about ever again, you know?

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This is like the type of thing I would beg my parents to buy me.

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I would be like, you guys, no, you guys don't get it.

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This is like going to change my life.

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And then they'd be like, no, it won't.

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So like for most kids, you know, they like play with a toy for a week and then they get bored of it.

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Like for me, I probably was carrying this thing around for like six months and like never got sick of it.

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And that's what, that's why I'm different from other kids and I'm not like other kids.

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Stop it.

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If these earrings ever come back, which just, I feel like they will because everything comes back.

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Like I already have a stash.

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I have every color.

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I have a hard time believing that these were ever really actually cute.

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Oh no. This is like all I knew how to paint.

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So I just have like all these paintings of these weird triangle characters.

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Like couldn't I have done like a square creature?

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Like why did they all have to be triangles?

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They don't understand.

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It's fine, but...

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Oh.

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Was I trying to design clothes?

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I don't know how old I was when I drew this.

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Based on the handwriting, I must have been like 14.

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If I were to show this to somebody who sews clothes, they would be like, babe, there's nothing there.

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You didn't give us anything.

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if you want this money you can have it thank you

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for writing i do know how to make fairy homes

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if you want me to i can

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and since you are a since you are a fairy can

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i grant some wishes please write dac listen like i i

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need i need to explain a little bit i used to be obsessed with fairies

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and I thought that fairies were real and I wanted to be a fairy and I wanted to meet fairies

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and so I'd make fairy houses in my backyard

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and you know things like that so that fairies could move in

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and I'd write them little letters and that was

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that situation um hi fairy I'm not a very good seller

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but just writing to say hello from Emma to fairy please write back please I mean Um,

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no. All about me.

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Name, Emma Chamberlain.

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Hair color, caramel.

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Come on.

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What does that even mean?

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Occupations, cello, and needle felting.

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I played the cello.

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No, listen, this is complete bullshit.

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I played the cello for literally six months in middle school.

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And on this all about me school project, I decided that it would be appropriate to say

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that my occupation was playing cello as if I knew anything about the cello.

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Like I took orchestra class in middle school, but I didn't actually like know how to play the cello.

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Like I didn't know what is going on.

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What is that?

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I didn't know how to play the cello.

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I was like faking it.

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Like when we would do performances for our families and stuff, like I would just pretend like I was playing the cello.

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I wasn't even actually playing it.

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Needle filting on the other hand, I mean, I showed you earlier, like I was definitely doing that, you know, for like a month.

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Favorite food, pasta, true.

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Favorite band, the shins in the Beatles.

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Okay, favorite book, Dear Dumb Diary.

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Wait, I wonder if I can find that.

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This was my absolute favorite book.

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It was so edgy.

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It's like journal entries.

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I mean, they're not real.

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Fake journal entries from this girl and they're all funny.

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And I mean, this book was genuinely, this book shaped who I am today.

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Oh my God.

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This might seem insignificant to some, but these tank tops with the built-in training bra, my God, when I bought one of these, I was like, yes, I am a woman.

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Maybe I'm losing my mind, you know?

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Stuff like this, it is like an artifact.

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Like it should go in a museum.

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And like this tiny little iPhone 4 case, I mean like this stuff deserves to go in a museum.

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Like this stuff is rare.

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I sewed this myself, like cute, like it's cute.

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I had this phase where I would just wear Old Navy fleece pajamas everywhere.

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I would wear them to the mall.

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I would wear them to the grocery store.

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I would have worn them to school if it wasn't against dress code.

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You can get away with it when you're 11, but when you're older, it's just not good anymore.

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Oh my God, should I use it?

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This is literally 10 years old.

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How does it still work?

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Do I need to call poison control?

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I probably shouldn't have used that.

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These were all the rage.

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All the girlies would be fighting each other over who had the most flavors of these EOS lip balms.

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It was like not good for the community.

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Like people, and like they were like selling out at stores.

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Everybody was fighting over these.

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It was really, it really caused some violence these things.

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I mean, you can just tell that these haven't been touched in, you know, 12 years.

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Like they just, you can tell.

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They just have that look.

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Like you know when you go into your grandma's nail polish drawer

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and you pull out nail polish and it just looks like this because it's just been sitting there

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untouched for 10 years longer 20 years fuck it what else

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is in here I mean it's like I swear to god

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it's never-ending you guys oh fuck I just stepped on an

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outlet I just found a good ass hat wait this is cute I hated hats growing up

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so like this one just got shoved in that drawer over there.

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This is such a good, this is such a good hat.

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I feel like I just won the lottery.

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See, look, I'm, this is like productive.

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Me digging through my room is productive.

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I swear.

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I feel so bad for my parents

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because I used to make them take me to like those places where you can paint pottery all the time.

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Just for me to be this bad at painting pottery.

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Like I had zero artistic ability and I just feel bad for them.

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You know, the amount of money they spent

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and like this is what their daughter made you know

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and I mean they're good sports

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but it's just look at my fancy little Easter dress I

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even had a purse wait what does an 11 year old keep in their purse let's find out

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tic-tacs that expire in 2010 okay so these are

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so definitely won't be eating these although part of me kind of wants to eat one

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and just see what like what What happened?

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Yeah, I don't want to do that, actually.

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Everybody's mom made their Halloween costumes for them growing up, I feel like.

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This was one of my moms.

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It's honestly fucking great.

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I was the corpse bride, and it's like this white dress that has dirt all over it, fraying, you know, lace and stuff.

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She killed it.

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This is gorge.

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I wish I could say that like I was some sort of visionary as like a six-year-old when it came to painting.

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It's just not the case.

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It's just not the case.

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Not everybody is built like that.

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So I love when I find journals.

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Jackpot.

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Oh, this was my high school diary.

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My teacher won't let me run first student council.

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YOLO.

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What?

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My birthday was so fun.

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I'm 15.

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Yay!

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It's finals week and I don't even know where to start.

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My stomach is feeling pretty good right now so hopefully it stays this way.

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No babe.

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IBS doesn't go away.

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I'm so stressed about college.

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I just don't even know how to prepare myself.

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I really want to go to a good medical school.

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I just wrote the best essay of my life.

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I'm really excited about it.

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I'm also worried about my math test because my teacher hasn't graded it yet.

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I need all my grades to stay at A's before finals.

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I'm nervous.

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Shut up.

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I'm so excited for summer.

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It's going to be awesome.

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I'm going on amazing vacations and I'm going to take a bunch of amazing pictures.

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Instagram has controlled my life since I was 15.

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I'm trying to find a college to buy a sweatshirt for, but I'm really struggling.

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It doesn't matter if you buy a sweatshirt for a college, you're not going.

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I'm not excited to be sophomore though because sophomore year seems boring but i'll make it lit-aff

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oh my god i'm starting to get into when i was

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when i first started my youtube channel i'm passionately in love with making videos

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but i don't have much footage this summer i'm going to make a lot of videos

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and i did lately i've been having really bad mood swings and the other day i I want to find more diaries.

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I love diaries.

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No. I shouldn't have drawn that on my childhood toy.

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I'll leave a little smiley face on it for when I find it again in like five years instead of a wiener.

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Fine, I'll put a small wiener on there.

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Wait, this is actually so cute.

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I feel like I could sell this online for a lot of money.

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I don't know why I keep thinking about different ways that I can sell my old things on Depop.

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Authentic vintage sheep bag mini purse made in 2001 vintage.

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$90.

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I absolutely cannot deal with the duct tape era.

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What were we all doing?

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We were putting duct tape on everything.

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People were making outfits out of duct tape and wearing it in public.

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What, why?

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There was like this certain era, it was like 2008 through like 2013,

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where like everybody was making the weirdest decisions.

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People were obsessed with duct tape.

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People were like obsessed with mustaches.

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I can't be the only one that remembers that.

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People were wearing jeggings.

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Like there was so much chaos.

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This, oh my God, this is the most beautiful children's jacket I have ever seen.

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Up until right now, I was like, yes, I want to have kids when I'm older, but I wasn't like excited about it.

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I literally want to get pregnant right now.

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Who bought this for me?

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Who, who the, this is a work of art.

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Toot and Puddle, best children's Christmas book.

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that exists and I don't want to hear it.

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Emma, but what about the night before Christmas?

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Actually shut up.

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Are you kidding me?

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On Christmas Eve, I will whip this book out and read it just because I deserve it.

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But I'm not going to read it now because that's not how that works.

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You have to read Christmas books only on Christmas Eve and that's also, again, a rule that I have and I don't want to hear anything about it.

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I don't think parents should let their children read Christmas books on any night of the year except for Christmas Eve.

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Why?

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Because that makes it special.

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And I don't want to fight you guys about this.

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Ow.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This video has 297 sentences and 2866 words to shadow. The speech runs for 18:01. The speaker talks at a natural 159 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. Only 81% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 less common words from the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

needle /ˈniː.dəl/ (noun) — A long, thin, sharp implement usually for piercing as in sewing, embroidery, acupuncture, tattooing, body piercing, medical injections, sutures, etc; or a…
tape /teɪ̯p/ (noun) — Flexible material in a roll with a sticky surface on one or both sides; adhesive tape.
diary /ˈdaɪ.ə.ɹi/ (noun) — A daily log of experiences, especially those of the writer.
duct /dʌkt/ (noun) — A pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another.
bedroom /ˈbɛdˌɹum/ (noun) — A room in a house, apartment, hotel, or other dwelling where a bed is kept for sleeping.
shoe /ˈʃu/ (noun) — A protective covering for the foot, with a bottom part composed of thick leather or plastic sole and often a thicker heel, and a softer upper part made of…
purse /pɚs/ (noun) — A small bag for carrying money.
haircut /ˈhɛə(ɹ)kʌt/ (noun) — The act of cutting of the hair, often done professionally by a barber, hair stylist, or beautician.
remote /ɹəˈməʊt̞/ (adjective) — At a distance; disconnected.
toy /tɔɪ/ (noun) — Something to play with, especially as intended for use by a child.
polish /ˈpɑ.lɪʃ/ (verb) — To shine; to make a surface very smooth or shiny by rubbing, cleaning, or grinding.
productive /pɹəˈdʌk.tɪv/ (adjective) — Capable of producing something, especially in abundance; fertile.
nail /neɪl/ (noun) — The horny plate or appendage at the ends of the digits of various animals, including most reptiles, birds, and mammals (both nonhuman and human).
occupation /ˌɑkjʊˈpeɪʃən/ (noun) — An activity or task with which one occupies oneself; usually specifically the productive activity, service, trade, or craft for which one is regularly paid; a…
vintage /ˈvɪn.tɪd͡ʒ/ (noun) — The yield of grapes or wine from a vineyard or district during one season.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

go on /ˈɡoʊˌɒn/ (verb) — To continue in extent.
come back (verb) — To return to a place.
go in (verb) — To become obscured by clouds.
grow up (verb) — To mature and become an adult.
look at (verb) — To observe or watch.
shut up /ʃʌt ʌp/ — Stop talking (usually in the form of making annoying, irrelevant, or false comments, during a period of peace and quiet, or when one is not allowed to talk)…
book on (verb) — To register (for duty).
come on /ˌkʌm ˈɒn/ — Come along with me; join me in going.

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 89 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, didn't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: authentic /ɔˈθɛn.tɪk/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/, thankful /ˈθæŋkfəl/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: shoe /ˈʃu/, polish /ˈpɑ.lɪʃ/, occupation /ˌɑkjʊˈpeɪʃən/, vacation /veɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/, potentially /pəˈtɛnʃ(ə)li/
Long words — get the stress right: occupation /ˌɑkjʊˈpeɪʃən/, kindergarten /ˈkɪndəɹˌɡɑːɹt(ə)n/, potentially /pəˈtɛnʃ(ə)li/, accidentally /ˌæk.sɪˈdɛnt(ə)li/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like needle, tape, diary.

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
“Used to” used to + verb — a past habit or state that is no longer true	used to love · used to wear · used to be
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on	have been repelling · i've been having
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	hasn't been touched · has not been changed · have done
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	been touched · has not been changed · was obsessed

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