Shadowing Practice: My First 24 Hours in Hanoi Was CRAZY - Learn English Speaking with Video
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the boys really at a local spot our first real meal
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in vietnam we just made our first friend in vietnam the
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homie ronald what's up mom he's making a sugar cane juice push it through the machine
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and it's making juice right there you know why we got the sugar cane juice
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Because we need something to pour this in.
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Welcome Vietnam!
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Welcome Vietnam, thank you!
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Do they eat certain types of dogs?
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Is there some dogs that they eat, some dogs that they don't eat?
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what the fuck did the boy just do okay it's my
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first official day in vietnam hanoi we got a couple activities
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we're gonna do today first i'm walking down here to the
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bank to exchange some u .s dollars for some vietnamese dong their money's called dong
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so i'm about to go exchange a couple hundred dollars for some dong
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so i can actually buy some stuff
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and then i'll show you guys what their currency looks like it's eight in the morning right now
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but my hotel said they're completely booked so i gotta go back
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and talk to the manager either they're gonna let me book another night at this hotel
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or i have to check out at 12 noon
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and find a new hotel i'm gonna be in hanoi for the next two days
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and then we're headed into the jungle to ninbin
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but look this is the streets of hanoi look at this
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motorbikes riding on the sidewalk look as i was telling you
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they got the whole family on there they got the little kids on there they got the garbage bags on there
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this is crazy bro hanoi vietnam my 13th country this is
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sick all right let me figure out where this bank is
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is this the bank this can't be the bank bro all
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you have to do is hold it i already got a
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recording okay what what did you say you said you thought i was drunk
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hey she said that i looked like i was drunk because of my american accent
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you know we just got the dong on uh pulled out 10 million we're a vietnamese millionaire yeah Yeah.
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What's your name?
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My name is Han.
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Han?
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Han.
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Oh you can call me Hannah.
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Hannah?
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Yeah.
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No, I like saying the original names.
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I'll meet like someone from Asia and they try to use like a Western name
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so that like Westerners can understand them more.
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But I prefer the original name.
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So it's pronounced Han?
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Han, yeah.
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Han.
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Yeah, H -A -N hey hon yeah okay hon thank you
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for my mic okay this is hon she just hooked me up with the dog thank you
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so much okay have a great yeah yeah I got my
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YouTube channel you have YouTube oh yeah yeah I'll type my
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channel like that's me right there okay okay thank you
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so much for the money okay bye bye see you have
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a great day um thank you is uh cam un
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cam un yeah cam un yeah okay cam un thank you all right bye
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she was dope bro the vietnamese are hella cool i came in there
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and she was like counting the money out super slowly for
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me she was like this is 500 000 this is a million this is two million
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and then afterwards she's like are you drunk i was like
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i'm not drunk why would i be drunk it's like eight in the morning
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and she's like you sound very drunk she's like yeah i don't know
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if it's because of your accent your american accent uh you sound drunk
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and i was like i'm not drunk i'm on zero sleep
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i just traveled here for 30 hours she was awesome though
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oh is this the banh mi look these are the famous vietnamese sandwiches they're called banh mi
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but i gotta i got a food place in mind that i saw my boy travel escapes go to penthouse chilling
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there's my view of hanoi in the daytime crazy street down there but anyway
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so this is my room this was like 33 dollars a night i think it's more on the higher scale
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but i needed a good hotel for some sleep all right
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let me show you guys what this dong's looking like this
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is their biggest bill five hundred thousand dong a half a
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million dong right there two of these makes a million two
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hundred thousand two hundred thousand dong there's ho chi min there's the boy the boy ho chi
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and there's fifty thousand fifty thousand dong i'm curious what it's gonna be like
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when i buy something super small because like
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if that's all the bills do they have like ten thousand five thousand one thousand
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or do they have coins i don't know i'm curious i'm curious to see
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if they have coins
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and whatnot i think i'm in like a little central square
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here check these out check this monument out maybe these are
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like some viet kong soldiers fighting against the evil americans the evil capitalists trying to overthrow communism
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and then wait till we get over here this is like
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a whole little park area a bunch of trees i'm not sure what this is like a little shrine
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or something but this right here looks super cool i gotta check out of my hotel in three hours
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and then i don't know where the boy is gonna go
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that's the fun part about traveling i guess i don't know
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where i'm gonna stay i'm gonna have to book the hotel i'm gonna have to figure it out but for now
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check this out
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i'm on a mission to walk to the hanoi train street where the train flies through the middle of town
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and you have a coffee i love hanoi so do i
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so far this place is awesome see if I can zoom in.
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I forgot how to do that.
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That's Ho Chi Minh. Is this a trash?
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No, that looks like...
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Oh, here we go.
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Here we go.
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Don't litter not in your home country not in a foreign
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country don't do it bro look at all these baddies bro oh my lord the boy's really at a local spot
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there's not a single foreigner in here i found this place from this dude named travel escapes on youtube
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and he said you want to go where you don't see any other westerners
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if you see some westerners eating there you don't want to
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go there you want to go where you see all local
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people eating i didn't even know what i got i just said i just said what do you recommend
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and she said this so i got it
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and then i'll show you guys what it is i don't
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know it's going to be some sort of pho this is
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the real traditional local spot not a foreigner in sight i
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don't want to film all these people in case they don't want to be filmed
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but i'm really i'm sitting in the little stool.
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It's a real travel mode.
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Real undisclosed location.
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Real locals.
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My first real meal in Vietnam.
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I'm pretty sure this is pho.
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I mentioned pho so I'm pretty sure that this is my first time trying real Vietnamese pho.
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Let's go man.
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I'm so hyped.
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I don't got that many subs yet but if anybody's watching my channel and they want to come right as came
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pho thon and she said thon is like her grandpa this is his name
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and this is their shop this is their family shop it's this one family
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and they cook up and
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that shit was gas i'm gonna let you guys know how much it cost right now
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that huge bowl of pho
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and like two little like bread things don't even know what
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it was it kind of tasted like a donut 55 000 vietnam dong to usd two dollars
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two dollars for
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that fat bowl of pho with hella beef it was a
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beef two different types of beef she said two different types
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of beef whoa check out this little alleyway there's probably some
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good food back there there's probably some bomb food back there
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two dollars for a huge bowl of pho with some little
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bread on the side in the u .s you're paying what 15 16 17 bucks for a bowl of pho
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that was crazy bro that was so delicious and they're so nice thank you is
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come on come on and i looked up delicious what was delicious i tried to say it
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and they were all laughing thumb on i was trying to say delicious thumb on
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and they were laughing because they were like look at this
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but when you're in a foreign country
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and you try to say some words in their language they
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love it don't be scared to try to say some of their language
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and nervous because suck at pronouncing it they actually appreciate it
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if you try to say a couple words in their language
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but that was freaking delicious
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that was a perfect lunch now i'm on my way to
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the most famous attraction in hanoi it's called train street it's a touristy spot
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but i'm a tourist so who gives a rib let's go mingle with the other tourists
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and watch this train fly by let's go Vietnam first day this is
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so sick bro I'm loving Vietnam got some graffiti right there
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and we got Ronald McDonald dude the boy from Scotland yeah
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mom we just made our first friend in Vietnam the homie
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Ronald he's 19 he's traveling across Vietnam that's the one bike
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yeah all right we're on the we're the train street right
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now these are the tracks right down here is the famous
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train street where the train's gonna fly through ronald's gonna get a beer
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and they put a you put a bottle cap on the railing
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and the train runs over the bottle cap and flattens it
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and it's like a little souvenir
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and then ronald invited me to go to a art museum with the boy
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so now we're not solo now we got the homie.
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And we're about to cross this crazy traffic.
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What did you think of that?
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Fucking like a boss, man.
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That's nerve wracking crossing that traffic, but that's how you got to do it that's how the locals do it you walk straight into oncoming traffic
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and you just pray they don't smack you bro they got balls
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but they just grow up doing that
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and have you seen them on the motorbike they'll have like
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six people on it they'll have like the father the daughter the grandbaby
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and they're just like smashing on the motorbike i'm like none
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of them are holding on either yeah they're just like on the back chilling like it's all good but
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so this is the famous train street right here all these
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shops on the side where you sit you get a coffee you get a beer
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and you watch the train oh maybe in a bit brother you watch the train zoom by
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while everyone's posted hopefully you're not too drunk following the tracks
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ronald's got the osmo pocket 3 big osmo boy he's got
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the dji action 5 what's good ronald's just starting out it's his first video ronald's first video Hanoi, Vietnam.
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It's with Dane's Journey, bud.
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Honored to be in the first video.
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Dane's Journey.
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What is it?
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Rodster?
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Rodster on the road.
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Rodster on the road?
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Rodster on the road.
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Oh, what are they?
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They're setting up like awnings?
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Looks like they're just setting up awnings.
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Because they know it's about to get busy.
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Because everybody's about to pull up We picked the American spot with all the American plates
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oh there's people on it
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that was actually crazy bro it was
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so close i didn't touch it i had two hands occupied
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that was nuts bro
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that was nuts all right canada peace canada we out we
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out what's good what's good good later bro peace kevin see you bro
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uk uk
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and america are on the move scotland wait you oh yeah you guys you guys don't like the uk right
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when oh no yeah yeah
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when i was in uh scotland there was like a big protest
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and they were they were calling it yuckland very same eclipse yuckland like like yuck like it's yucky
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and uh it was i like accidentally walked into it it
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was like a big protest saying like they want to be
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their own country yeah not a part of the uk no oh
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so i like this to you right now when i said uk no
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that was like a diss no we do actually like
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this is the weirdest looking chicken i've ever seen in my life look at its feet
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is this like an infection are these chickens like
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injured and they have like a foot infection are they supposed to be like that I don't know.
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That doesn't look right.
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That doesn't look right.
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They can barely walk.
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If anybody's seen a chicken with feet like this before, leave a comment.
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Look at his eyeball.
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His eye looks all messed up.
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I don't know what's going on with these chickens, but look at that.
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I've never seen nothing like that in my whole life.
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If anybody knows what's wrong with these chickens' feet, let me know in the comments.
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This guy's got it the worst.
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Alright, buddy.
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Have a good one.
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See ya.
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The boy's having a heat stroke.
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I just accidentally walked like 30 minutes because I got the wrong address.
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I went to the wrong hotel that I'm supposed to go to.
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I'm comming it up.
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I'm comming it up.
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But low -key, it was a gift from God because look at this.
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Incredible.
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That's awesome.
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I'm so pumped, bro.
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My hotel is actually next to the sick cathedral, bro low -key i was low -key burnt
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that i walked 30 minutes for nothing but now it's not that bad now that we got the cathedral
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boom top viewpoint got the city of hanoi it looks sick with all the trees super green
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linked back up with the boy rano No!
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Look at all the Vietnamese unks The Vietnamese unks playing some sort of hood game.
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I think I'm getting attacked by mosquitoes.
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But, uh, the Vietnamese unks right there playing some hood checkers or something.
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This is, like, the park.
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Look at this.
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Fat park and there's all these games playing.
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It looks like it's, like, hood.
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Like, this is, like, the Vietnamese hood.
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They're playing cards.
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They're playing, like, different games, checkers and stuff.
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this is where the unks post this is where the vietnamese unks post up
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and smoke cigs and gamble friday night gambling with the unks
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she's making a sugar cane juice so this is a sugar cane she pushed it through the machine
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and it's making juice right there
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sugar cane juice it's fire you know why we got the sugar cane juice yeah dude
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because we need something to pour this in
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night time at saint joseph cathedral in hanoi vietnam look at those birds flying away straight majestic
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alright you guys we're about to fill up the potion here we go we got the local local sugar cane juice hello
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I'm gonna pick this up don't worry
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I spilled the vodka
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don't want it oh let's go oh all right we just made the magic potion sugar cane juice
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with the sky vodka cheese cheese boom let's get a taste of this concoction Have a taste, didn't you?
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Nice Packed Straight fight
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Me and the boy Ronald are out here Me and the boy Ronald are out here D Hanoi,
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Vietnam We're smacked off the vodka And the sugar cane juice Bro,
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in this neighborhood just this neighborhood just turned into like a crazy party all of a sudden oh okay
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so this is beer street this is the cracking street they're
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not ready they better reach up okay we just made it
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to beer street in hanoi vietnam this is supposedly the walking street like bangkok
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or patia or phuket
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but in hanoi vietnam this is the nightlife beer street you know we're rocking ho chi minh hat
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and we're about to slide through me
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and the boy ronald i heart vietnam i want one that says i heart boom boom
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team jong un the north face here we are hanoi walking street beer street it's called bi street let's go
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here's a walk down beer street it's lit it's fun
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but you guys already know from my previous videos it ain't
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got nothing on bangla road beer street don't got nothing on bangla road
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i'm telling you right now hanoi is lit they don't got nothing on bangla road It's a bit of beer shit, there's too many beers.
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My boy Rodney's got to hit Bangla Rhodes.
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Oh, almost got hit.
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7 -Eleven, so we can buy more happy water.
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That's a good choice.
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That fool just asked me if I wanted weed coke.
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He's like, weed coke?
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That's crazy in Vietnam.
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Straight communists.
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I didn't think they were on that here.
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The past five minutes has been fucking crazy Did he ask, did that guy ask you if you wanted weed and coke?
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Yeah, and I was like, come I'm already 10 beers deep,
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boy Yeah, dude We're out here on Beer Street,
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Hanoi It's low -key lit Whoa, bro, this actually goes like down there I think we should go down this way I'll take the rest
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Because that way it's too crowded Almost done with the vodka,
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almost done with the sugarcane juice.
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Oh, fuklam.
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Fuklam.
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Fuklam.
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Fuklam.
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One beer, man.
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Oh, come.
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Fuklam.
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These fools are hustlers.
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He's like, one beer, man.
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You say no, and he's on to the next one.
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Okay.
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He's on to the next one.
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We need to hit 7 -11.
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7. Bro, this is smelling so good.
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Everything here smells so good.
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My boy's so tapped into the phone right now.
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He downloaded Tinder.
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He's so locked in.
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He's messaging like six different shakes right now.
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The boy's so lit.
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The boy's so lit.
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Oh, dude.
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boys first time on tinder in asia he's going up the
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boys low -key smacked off the sugar cane mixed with the
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vodka bing bing bing bing no no come come come bro i feel like
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when i do it it's like is it racist am i racist
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when i go like bing bing bing no no no with
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the accent i don't know why they don't like me
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because like when you do it they don't care bro
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but whenever i do it they give me the dirtiest look have you noticed
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that whenever i do it they give me the dirtiest look
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yeah they're like they look at me like you wife but
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when you do it white trash yeah exactly they look at me like i'm like trailer party
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which i am it's white trash out here white trash made it all the way to vietnam boy still fading
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all right that was the end of beer street should we go back and go down the crazy part yes Alright, let's turn around.
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all right we're on beer street
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hello hello happy hour yeah happy hour happy hour
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everyone's mugging the camera here what's up bro what's up brother
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everyone's mugging the camera here they're not liking the camera in
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thailand they love the camera bro whoa why is it cold
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right here this is great we need a show right here i know look they walk past you
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and they They look at the camera and they mug it What's up man?
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Welcome Vietnam, thank you Happy hour Happy hour What's good my friend?
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Sugar cane We need one more Sugar cane with vodka Okay, we walk to the end and come back Okay,
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okay See you guys, see you Why not?
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Sugar cane mixed with vodka excuse me bro
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bro hey we finally got our first welcome to vietnam i love when they say that
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i love
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when someone welcomes me to their country it feels good welcome to thailand welcome to jordan feels good
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when they welcome you to their country even though they just want I want you to buy a beer Yo,
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this street is wild Yeah
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Beer streets nutty Oh, they got usc at least they got usc that's pretty hard
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that looks like a good spot to chill
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no thank you for now bro no thank you uh come come come come come
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y 'all better buy travel insurance because you're about to get hit by a motorbike fan
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happy hour we already got happy 7 -eleven doggy
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all right i'm ready to hit 7 -eleven get another sky
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vodka what you want i want some fucking beer where you
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at how come you ain't haven't got a beer yet i don't like them guys you don't drink like
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that no i'm saying i don't like them guys sketch me
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out no you gotta get used to forget it's like your
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first day in asia yeah you gotta get used to
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that you just walk by it that's their job you know
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they're trying to just reel in as many tourists as possible
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to buy a drink buy a drink buy a drink
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so you walk down straight they just hound you he's not even listening to me
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so locked in on that tinder bro he's
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so locked in what she said she said she wants to meet you for dinner
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or what yeah but she hasn't messed me back oh you said 7 30 anyway right she said 7 30.
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i said yeah no problem what time is it right now 7 20.
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but has your phone even charged up yeah how much you at 19.
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oh you're up a little bit whoa what's this is this alcohol let's see what's
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good they have gray oh they got gray goose all right
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y 'all hold up let me see what's good with this gray goose it's already lit
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we're doing it smoking gas straight smoking gas in vietnam
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wait show me
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that again on the on the camera on the phone no no no camera no no okay
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so this guy's team has to have a look at some
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hoers quite nervous Jay yeah I need to update you guys
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on some some video hold on let me let this guy
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go we're through okay okay he's waving me through as you see I'm by myself
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so my boy my boy Ronald he did he left the boy hanging it was nutty bro me
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and Ronald got picked up by these two crazy vietnamese dudes
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and they were like hey come back to our store we
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got a bunch of chicks come hang out with us
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and all these girls they're gonna like you guys you're you're american you're scottish let's go
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so he brings us back to this room right we go
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to this like private club with all these vietnamese girls right
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my bro went up with the vietnamese girl he went up
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there he was up there for like a fat minute i'm
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sitting down there waiting for him they were trying to get
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me to go up i was like no i'm not going
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up i'm drinking i'm chilling i'm having a good time let's drink let's smoke we're chilling
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and then once i said i wasn't gonna go up with
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the chick they were trying to kick me out all right this is so dangerous
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i'm drunk walking this is so dangerous anyway they tried to kick the boy out
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and they're like yo you need to get out
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if you're not finna hang out with one of these girls i was like i'm not leaving my boy
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because my boy's 19 he's a youngster this is first country
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he's ever traveled first time traveling bro i wasn't about to leave my boy hanging
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so i was like i'm not going nowhere
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so i'm sitting there waiting waiting waiting for a fat minute my boy finally comes out
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he's looking pale as a ghost bro he's looking like casper the ghost
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and he's like let's go let's go let's go let's go
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we dip off i'm like what happened what happened what happened
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he's like i don't know i guess he said he went up there
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and it was a bad experience
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and they were like threatening him with like cops i'm trying to extort him for money or something and uh
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all right she was looking at me crazy who's this white boy trying to film a video in vietnam
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doing my thing anyway he said that the chick he said
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that they were trying to extort him or something like steal his money
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so we took off we got out of there we dipped
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and he straight up told me he's like yo i'm leaving
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he's like i'm going to my hotel he's like i'm feeling crazy
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so he left tea dipped we stopped at a 7 -eleven i bought a whole nother bottle of sky vod
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and at this point i'm wandering i don't even know where
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my hotel is this typical 07 typical 07 wandering through a
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third world country don't even know where my hotel is at
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but who gives a rape
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because the universe has got the boy the universe has got the boy okay look hot take right here
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so in vietnam Vietnam, some of the cultures, eat dog.
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Look at this cute little dog.
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Oh, what a cute dog.
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It's like, do they eat certain types of dogs?
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Do they only eat certain types of dogs?
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Is there some dogs that they eat, some dogs that they don't eat?
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Are some dogs...
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Come on!
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thank you thank you brother whatever they're smoking i don't know what it is
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tastes terrible i don't know what they smoke i don't know
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what they smoke out of these pipes it's not weed it's
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some fairy dust something crazy bro about to start tripping here's another doggy
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so my question is like is there certain dogs
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that they eat like do they eat the cute dogs do
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they eat the ugly dogs is there certain dogs they don't
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eat i don't know i'm i'm curious about the doggage i've been asking around
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because i want to try it it's their culture in some provinces in vietnam they eat dog i heard
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that it's unpopular with the younger generation the younger generation of
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the vietnamese don't like to eat dogs it's more of an older tradition it's more of an older vietnamese tradition
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that they eat dogs wait
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that's that's my that's my hotel right there it's more of an older vietnamese tradition
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that they eat dogs
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but i've been asking for it i've been searching for it
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i haven't seen it at least in hanoi capital city i
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guess they said it's more of a northern thing i'm going to the north in two days
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so hopefully we're going to be able to try some dog i guess that sounds crazy but
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hopefully we're going to be able to try some dog
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but that's my question is
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if i want to do a deep dive hello no thank you no thank you come come come come
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so thank you means come on
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and i guess my boy he's actually studying vietnamese come come
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come come my boy's studying vietnamese she just laughed at me my boy's studying vietnamese
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and he said come on is thank you but
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if you say come come come come come come it's like no no no no no no i guess
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but she laughed at me so
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don't take facts from me bro i'm drunk off sky vibe with the orange shoes don't listen to me
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but there's that but anyway yeah
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so then i just ran into this dutch couple from the
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netherlands i said yo boy i've been in netherlands i went to em
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and i went to amsterdam look at this tree let's walk down this alleyway crazy alleyway
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but all right
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so this is the end of of night one in vietnam
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my hotel i'm pretty sure is down here oh no here's
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big here's big bro smoking the pipe again though there's big
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homie smoking another pipe dog good thing he didn't offer it to me
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because i'm not ready to smoke vietnamese fairy dust again
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but my hotel right down here we're about to get there through the crazy alleyways of vietnam
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that's a fire restaurant that's a fire restaurant if you see the little stools
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and not a white person in sight you know it's gonna be packed me
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and my boy he was like let's eat at this restaurant i was like yo this ain't gonna be good
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because it was all whiteys It was a bunch of foreigners And the shit was ass Look, this, fire
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If you're a whitey And you sit down right there And you just say bring out whatever you recommend Promise
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It's gonna be like a couple bucks It's gonna be like two, three bucks And it's gonna be flame out the game It's gonna be delicious
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And it's gonna be like a couple bucks
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But we went to some Upper class restaurant
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and i paid like 14 bucks and it was it was butt cheeks
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and look at this we just popped out at the gangster cathedral just like that
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but it's the end of the video fam this is the
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end of the video for tonight tonight's video was nutty bro tonight's video was crazy
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who is 07 bro who am i i'm just walking around filming random shit
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when i get a couple drops of alcohol in me the videos get 10 times better
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because the whatever the inhibition the inhibition goes down
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almost got smacked by a motorbike the nervousness goes away i press record i just start going
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but anyway this is the end of my first full night in hanoi we did it hello
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i'm from america america yeah where city uh oregon oregon southern oregon okay
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southern oregon let's go much love brother much love what a nice what a nice bro
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a little vietnamese chiller anyways i was trying to do my outro
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so this is the end of my first full night in
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vietnam today was absolutely crazy we met the homie ronald from
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scotland we spent the whole day with the boy ronald we
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went to the museum i got drunk ronald didn't get drunk
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weak weak sauce just kidding he's only 19 he's a young
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buck you know he's he's coming up the first night of
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hanoi was crazy we got two more days in hanoi vietnam then i'm making my way up to the north
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and the real majestic travel series is about to begin i'm
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talking mountains i'm talking motorbike loop i'm talking beautiful architecture not architecture what's
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that called geography mountains geography you guys get the jib i'm
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rambling vietnam's awesome i had a crazy first night in hanoi
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this is the end of the video dane's journey tap in
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stay tapped in entertaining travel videos i'm trying to make it as entertaining as possible for you guys
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and be ready for the next video dane's journey the boys out
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 484 sentences and 5272 words to shadow. The speech runs for 39:38. The speaker talks at a steady 133 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 82% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| cane noun | /keɪn/ | The slender, flexible main stem of a plant such as bamboo, including many species in the grass family Gramineae. |
| juice noun | /d͡ʒuːs/ | A liquid made from plant, especially fruit. |
| dong noun | /dɔŋ/ | The currency of Vietnam, 100 xus. Symbol: ₫ |
| vodka noun | /ˈvɑdkə/ | A clear distilled alcoholic liquor made from grain mash. |
| bing noun | /bɪŋ/ | A slag heap, i.e. a man-made mound or heap formed with the waste material (slag) as a by-product of coal mining or the shale oil industry. |
| delicious adjective | /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/ | Pleasing to the sense of taste; tasty. |
| buck noun | /ˈbʌk/ | A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret, salmonid, shad, skunk and kangaroo. |
| chill verb | /tʃɪl/ | To lower the temperature of something; to cool. |
| curious adjective | /ˈkjʊɹ.i.əs/ | Tending to ask questions, or to want to explore or investigate; inquisitive; (with a negative connotation) nosy, prying. |
| trash noun | /tɹæʃ/ | Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse. |
| boom verb | /bum/ | To make a loud, hollow, resonant sound. |
| beef noun | /bif/ | The meat from cattle or other bovines; especially, that from adults. |
| weed noun | /wiːd/ | Any plant unwanted at the place where and at the time when it is growing. |
| accent noun | /ækˈsɛnt/ | A higher-pitched or stronger (louder or longer) articulation of a particular syllable of a word or phrase in order to distinguish it from the others or to… |
| eleven noun | /əˈlɛv.ən/ | A cricket team of eleven players. Hence first eleven - the team of best cricket players (at a school), second eleven - the "B" team, etc. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| go up verb | To move upwards. | |
| go down verb | To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one. | |
| walk down verb | To continually advance (on an opponent) and punch (the opponent) in order to control the fight and dominate the opponent, while shrugging off the opponent's… | |
| go back verb | To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time. | |
| set up verb | /ˌsɛt ˈʌp/ | To make ready for use. |
| sit down verb | To assume a sitting position from a standing position. | |
| ask around verb | To enquire of different people about something. | |
| bring out verb | To elicit, evoke, or emphasize (a particular quality). |
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 | has been fucking · i've been asking |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | i've ever seen · I've never seen · hasn't messed |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | be filmed · be packed |
| Past continuous was/were + -ing — an action in progress at a moment in the past | was telling · was trying · were laughing |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 209 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, gonna. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: cathedral /kəˈθiːdɹəl/, thumb /ˈθʌm/, threaten /ˈθɹɛt.n̩/, overthrow /ˌoʊvɚˈθɹoʊ/, thon /ðʌn/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: delicious /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/, trash /tɹæʃ/, infection /ɪnˈfɛkʃən/, shake /ˈʃeɪk/, attraction /əˈtɹækʃn̩/
- Long words — get the stress right: architecture /ˈɑː.kɪˌtɛk.t͡ʃə/, accidentally /ˌæk.sɪˈdɛnt(ə)li/, geography /d͡ʒiˈɑɡɹəfi/, supposedly /səˈpoʊ̯.zɪd.li/, millionaire /ˌmɪl.i.əˈnɛə(ɹ)/
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 cane, juice, dong.
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.