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Did you ever feel like you wanna be Someone else for

just one day Did you ever feel like you wanna see

Through another pair of eyes Did you ever think I might

wanna be With anyone else for just one day Did you ever really think of me When I walked away The book, the dunks

and the bottle of Jack The smoke's a slob jar in my eyes Now you think you know what you think,

you're fine You think you'll figure me out tonight But you'll never know what I won't share Cause I don't care,

I don't care You think you'll figure me out tonight But I don't care And I wonder If I'm just killed Alright,

I just picked up some breakfast from Pura Vida.

There's like a few things that I need to do every day to feel like I had a great day, and one of those things is hitting my calorie goal for the day.

I'm doing like a little bulk right now, not an excessive one, and so I'm trying to hit 3 ,800 calories per day,

and usually if I eat this fire egg wrap from Pura Vida with some turkey bacon, it's like 900 calories, 44 grams of protein.

Sometimes I'll eat at home, but if I'm in a rush or if I have nothing in my fridge, this is kind of like my go -to.

Getting the big breakfast in for me literally just helps me hit that goal.

If I don't eat this big breakfast, I'm just cooked for the rest of the day.

I have to like eat basically every second.

But yeah, a thousand calories first thing in the morning.

I can just eat like a normal person for the rest of the day.

I've been pretty locked in recently.

This year I started trying to wake up at 6 30 in the morning

and i've been doing it on and off depending on travel like sometimes i'll travel

and it'll get all screwed up

but today i woke up 6 30 a .m it's getting cold now

so honestly the mornings are getting tougher

and depending on whether i eat breakfast at home

or not i try to leave the house by like 7

30 i just feel like i have to go somewhere to work in the mornings

if i just stay at home it just feels

so slow all right i just finished my breakfast i'm actually

about to go in here to work this is a hotel lobby i'm not going to say which one

but i've been coming here in the mornings just to work

i love the feeling of working out of a hotel lobby

when i'm traveling so i get to recreate

that feeling here in new york i literally just order a coffee

and i work out of there all morning

but yeah we got our early morning wake up we got our big breakfast in

and about to get a work session in

so we're off to a good start on the morning

but we got a lot more to do today

so i'm going to take you guys along share my formula for a really productive solid day all Let's do it

All right, just finished solid work session.

It's 1 p .m.

Now.

I'm so hungry and tired Got a lot of work done.

Still have more to do though.

I'm here with Vince

Vince from Taiwan

Vince and I have been working together a lot It's been really good honestly

Because I used to just work alone And working with someone is

so much better than working alone I feel like I'm pretty used to working alone

But I have lots of friends who also work for themselves

Or maybe work remote So it's just nice to like meet up with friends

And get work done together I feel like the co -worker experience Is something

that I never really got to experience So getting some work done with friends.

It's kind of the closest thing I have to

that anyways I'm gonna go home for my lunch break now since I've been going for like five hours, and I'm starving Yeah, I'm gonna go.

Are you gonna leave soon?

Oh, you are?

Okay.

Oh my god Alright, see you in a bit.

Bye All right, I got this package.

I think it's a tripod that I ordered I don't know why

but I keep breaking on my tripods all right this is

the new feature of the new tripod are you ready oh

sick it just opens up now you can put it down

it's kind of fun just do this that's pretty useful actually very quick

which is something I need all right for lunch today we

have a chicken shawarma bowl it's 800 calories got 38 grams of protein

and it's from this meal kit service

that I get once a week I like that it has the calories

and the macros listed here

so I can just type it into my nutrition app I

feel like calculating reading the macros on things is kind of hard, unless it's.. already written out for you obviously you can make an estimate

but i like knowing exactly what i'm eating also just really

convenient i guess to have meals ready especially during the week i feel like i don't really have

that much time to cook and yeah it tastes good so no complaints check it out yum i'm starving

all right i just had lunch that's my new poster by

the way i just put it up the other day i

feel like i can add some more like over here maybe

but i've just been busy i have not had the chance

to figure out what i want to do with the apartment like i need to buy some plants

or something but yeah anyways we've been working on a lot of other things

when it comes to work i'm mostly working on youtube stuff

by the way i'm trying to hire some editing help so

if you're an editor you should shoot me an email with

your portfolio i work on stuff for my brand copyright we actually just did a drop

which went really well there's like a few sizes left i think we're sold out of a bunch of sizes

but you can check it out if you want

and yeah i'm working on some like side project stuff i'm always working on something on the side actually

but right now i'm really excited about one of my side

projects since it's just a side project for now i'll just leave it at

that but another thing i've been working on is this excel sheet

that i'm staring at so this excel sheet

that I'm working on is essentially like a tracker of all my daily habits

so when I wake up in the morning I log what time I woke up my weight in the morning

and my sleep score from my aura ring the night before

and then at the end of the day I log my total calorie intake my protein intake

and the next morning I'll write down how much screen time I had the night before

and you have a few other things I like to track

but those are the big ones essentially what I built is

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a dashboard where I can see how I'm doing each month

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and I actually created this little fun ranking system based off of Valorant where depending on the category

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and your current metric for it it'll put you in a rank

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and it'll actually auto categorize it this is like somewhat of an interesting formula

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and yeah it just auto updates

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and it gives you a rank this is my weight rank

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right now I'm like around 170 pounds got like screen time ranks my screen time is pretty bad at the moment.

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So yeah, it's just interesting to see essentially how I rank up in all these different categories of life.

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I feel like I've never accomplished something by accident without measuring it.

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I feel like anytime I hit a goal that I actually set, it was because I was measuring it literally every single day.

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There's just things that I care about and categories of life that I want to improve in.

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So it just made sense to me that I should measure all of it.

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It's just for me really, but I have been making improvements in my life in all areas

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because I'm actually measuring it

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and i also want to reach certain ranks i don't know

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i think it's the gamer in me like i get really motivated by stuff like

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that so now

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that i have it set up it just like automatically updates everything i do have to log everything individually

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but yeah it's not that bad the fun thing is like i set my own goals

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and my own standards for what i think is really exceptional what i think is a radiant

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which is like a high rank in valorant is different than what someone else might think

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so i like that i set my own rules for what certain ranks are

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and most importantly it shows me like how i'm actually living

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my life like the real numbers the numbers don't lie i'm

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gonna go for my afternoon snack now this is uh my

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midday pre -workout meal i usually just load up on some

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greek yogurt some granola some honey it's actually usually around like 600 calories

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which is insane But I just load up on granola and yeah

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There's like a five -minute period where the sun sets in New York

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and the sun is just hitting all these buildings And

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that time is literally right now like look at this look

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at this right now perfect timing literally just caught the sunset

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Empire seat building all lit up I feel like I always miss this

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because I'm at the gym whenever the sun is setting.

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I'm running late today though So that's why I caught it today.

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Anyways, I'm gonna go to the gym now today.

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We're hitting back I'm gonna try to film as much as possible, but we'll see because this is a giant camera, and it's kind of hard to get shots But I'll try my best.

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All right

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I got you amazed a lot of blue eggs.

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She's cheating my pants in the condo A -D -D -6, I gotta get laid My jacket off white, don't mean that it's beige I clean up real nice, I don't got a maze I ain't been a night,

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I'm still rockin' babe Live on paradise, I don't see the shade Know the back end, I'm back on the road Know the protect, paid off her show Drippin' is rough, mother's be long Hoes by the pair,

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I'm never alone Sleep on the lyrics, come on, they go soft Drop eight in a two, and let it dissolve Bombin' my dinner, young girl on the ball Rock the whole concert and hopped in the floor I'm foreign's a toy,

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I'm still a kid 10k this year for Coachella, it's lit Bro's got an umbrella so cover her weed.

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Open some money, let them in a trench.

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Light them all diamonds cause I won't revenge.

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We stretch like a lime and I really got rage.

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Some more fancy yellow diamonds in my pee.

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Don't get it confused, I'm still banging the seat.

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Okay, I just got back from the gym.

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Had a really good workout.

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I've been just doing like a classic push -pull leg routine

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where I hit most body parts two times a week

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and recently i've been trying to just focus on my form i think i'm doing like 50 of the weight

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that i was doing before but it feels

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so much better i feel it's

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so much more i don't know maybe it was just like me ego lifting

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or wanting to get the weight up each time i feel

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like i was making decent progress before with bad form so now that i'm like locked in on form i'm excited

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dieting and working out is definitely one of those things where you have one good workout

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and i feel like it doesn't really mean anything

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or you hit your calorie goals for one day and so what

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but yeah i think seeing the progress as months go by

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is like super sick i feel like i always thought about this stuff in like a shorter time scale

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so sometimes i'd be like oh like in three months i want to look like this

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but now i'm in the mindset of like what can i do in three years like three months is nothing

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so yeah i'm proud of my progress i'm just trying to keep it up i'm gonna go shower

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all right i made myself some dinner i literally just heated this up

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but it's a burger with fries which is crazy i mean it legit just tastes like a real burger so good

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i normally just throw something on the tv

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when i'm eating dinner watch a youtube video or something

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but today we're gonna unbox something instead kind of crazy unboxing something

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while eating a burger okay I don't know why I got two

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but I got this aura ring sizing kit

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because I'm upgrading my aura ring I've been using my aura ring to track my sleep on

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and off since like 2021

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and I've been using the second generation one for a long time

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so I'm getting a gen 4 now

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Which is the latest one sleep is definitely very important to me I feel like

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if I get eight hours I have an amazing day

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if I have less than eight hours depending on how little

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sleep I get My day could be really bad There's certain things I'm willing to sacrifice

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But I feel like sleep is one of those things where it actually affects my day -to -day performance

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So it's not something that I want to sacrifice I literally always check my score first thing in the morning, and I guess it's just like having a little report card for your sleep This is just a sizing kit

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so I can try on different sizes might actually move up on size Sometimes in the morning.

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I feel like my finger is swollen anyway speaking of sleep I need to sleep soon, so I'm going to finish this burger That's the thing is

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if I want to sleep early I need to also eat early

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and I also need to hit my calorie goals because

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if I don't have my calorie goals after I eat dinner

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I'm scrambling to try to fit in some extra food

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and it gets too late and I end up eating late And whenever I eat right before I go to bed, I end up having terrible sleep.

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Anyways, I hope this video is interesting.

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I feel like this is really like my day -to -day routine.

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A lot of times when I film these videos, I have interesting things going on.

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So I point the camera at it.

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But this is really like my average day.

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And honestly, looking back on a week and feeling like I crushed every day that week.

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And I did everything that I need to do each and every day.

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That's kind of like the best feeling.

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So that's what I chase nowadays.

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I'm just trying to be consistent.

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I know it's going to compound.

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Not every day is perfect.

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Some days are good, some days are bad.

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But yeah, honestly, whenever I have a bad day, I just try to make the next one better.

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Thank you guys for watching as always, and I will see you in the next one.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “my productive routine living alone in NYC”. This video has 204 sentences and 2657 words to shadow. The speech runs for 14:00. The speaker talks fast, about 190 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. Only 80% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
calorie noun	/ˈkæləɹi/	A non-SI unit of energy, equivalent to 4.184 kilojoules, that can raise the temperature of a kilogram of water by one degree Celsius. This is the unit normally…
rank noun	/ˈɹæŋk/	A row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers.
depend verb	/dɪˈpɛnd/	To be contingent or conditioned; to have something as a necessary condition
burger noun	/ˈbɝ.ɡɚ/	A hamburger.
anyways adverb	/ˈɛn.iˌweɪz/	Anyway, anyhow, in any case.
aura noun	/ˈɔːɹə/	A subtle emanation or exhalation of any substance, such as an aroma or odour.
meal noun	/ˈmiːl/	Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity.
essentially adverb	/ɪˈsɛnʃəli/	In essence: by nature.
workout noun	/ˈwɝk.aʊ̯t/	An exercise session; a period of physical exercise.
formula noun	/ˈfɔː.mjʊ.lə/	Any mathematical rule expressed symbolically.
diamond noun	/ˈdaɪ.ə.mənd/	A glimmering glass-like mineral that is an allotrope of carbon in which each atom is surrounded by four others in the form of a tetrahedron.
sheet noun	/ʃit/	A thin bed cloth used as a covering for a mattress or as a layer over the sleeper.
routine noun	/ɹuˈtin/	A course of action to be followed regularly; a standard procedure.
sacrifice noun	/ˈsæk.ɹɪ.faɪs/	Originally, the killing (and often burning) of a human being or an animal as an offering to a deity; later, also the offering of an object to a deity.
lobby noun	/ˈlɑ.bi/	An entryway or reception area; vestibule; passageway; corridor.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
wake up verb	/ˌweɪk ˈʌp/	To stop sleeping; to awake.
end up verb		To bring to a conclusion.
clean up verb		To make an area or a thing clean; to pick up a mess; to tidy.
figure out verb		To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce.
hit back verb		To retaliate
open up verb		To open.
pay off verb		To bribe, especially to deter oversight.
pick up verb		To lift; to grasp and raise.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

I've been pretty locked in recently.
Are you gonna leave soon?
Anyways, I'm gonna go to the gym now today.
Light them all diamonds cause I won't revenge.
Don't get it confused, I'm still banging the seat.

Grammar in this video

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

Structure	In the video
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on	i've been doing · i've been coming · have been working
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	I've been · It's been · i've just been
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	friends who also · fries which is
Superlatives the -est / the most … — the top or bottom of a group	the closest · my best · the latest

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 115 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, I've. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “sh” and “zh” sounds: essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, sheet /ʃit/, rush /ɹʌʃ/, crush /kɹʌʃ/, shade /ʃeɪd/
Long words — get the stress right: essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, automobile /ˈɔː.tə.məˌbil/, portfolio /pɔːtˈfəʊ.liˌəʊ/, importantly /ɪmˈpɔɹ.tənt.li/, exceptional /ɪkˈsɛpʃənəl/

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 calorie, rank, depend.

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Key vocabulary in this video

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Sentences worth repeating

Grammar in this video

Pronunciation to watch

How to practise with this video

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