Shadowing Practice: q&a with stormi (and aire) - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Hi, I'm Bear.
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Welcome to my movie.
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Hi, it's Stormy and Bear.
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And today I'm asking my mom a few questions so she can answer it.
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Okay, first question.
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What is your most used emoji?
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My favorite emoji is the hearts or maybe the...
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Used emoji.
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Okay, you're right.
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So probably the hearts.
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The heart emoji was nice.
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What food could you eat every day?
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Mmm.
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Sushi?
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Or like Greek food, like kebabs and couscous?
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Is that boring to you?
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Yeah.
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Is that boring?
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I yawned all over again.
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What about you?
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What?
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Girl, is your questions all mine?
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Okay, sorry.
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What's your favorite thing about lovey?
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Oh, by the way, Stormi came up with all these questions herself herself.
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It took a lot of work.
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You're so cute.
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I can't even take it.
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How did you get so big?
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When did you get this big?
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So cute, right?
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I'm a robot.
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Are you gonna be a good helper?
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Yep, Mommy.
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Okay.
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And that's my cookies again.
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That's my cookies again.
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Okay, favorite thing about lovey my favorite thing about lovey is
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I really love her energy like I like to be around
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her I think she you're both yawning during the interview yeah
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you I just think she really like lights up the room
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and I love that's my favorite thing about her okay what
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is your favorite snack right now my favorite snack right is caviar.
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Chips and caviar.
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Yeah?
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Can I sit here and then when I'm done sitting, they're gonna come back here.
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Sure.
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Eric's gonna go sit off screen.
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Okay.
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What is something you can teach us to cook?
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I would love to teach you to cook Thanksgiving food so that every Thanksgiving you can make it it for me. For you?
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Yes, I don't want to have to cook every year.
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If you can give your 10 year old self a piece of advice, what would it be?
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I would tell her to just keep on being herself and
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that one day you're gonna have an almost 10 year old just like you times 10.
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Okay, did Lovey ever ground you?
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She did.
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How?
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She said you're grounded.
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For doing what?
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What does this say?
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I'll tell you when you're a little older.
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Mommy, Mommy.
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Okay.
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You'll be happy?
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Wait, come tell me, ask the camera.
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Tell me a question.
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If you be poopy, you look nice and then you're a stinky butt.
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I'm not a pain.
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What was your favorite TV show as a kid?
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My favorite TV show as a kid was Hannah Montana.
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Hannah Montana?
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Probably.
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I don't know.
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I feel the pressure to move fast because my interviewer is going so fast.
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What did your childhood bedroom look like?
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My childhood bedroom was different than yours.
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It was not pink.
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It was not perfect and cutesy.
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It was very dark and black in school.
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Mommy, can I see it was poly now and I can go back in?
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Yep, yep, sure.
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What's your favorite color?
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My favorite color is pink.
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Who's the funniest person in our family?
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Lovey's pretty funny.
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We have a lot of funny, funny people.
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Maybe Rob, Chloe, but Rob.
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What was your first job?
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My first job was working the cashier at my mom's store.
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Smooch?
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Smooch.
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What do you like about me and Eric?
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My favorite thing about you is how friendly you are.
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I think you make friends really easily and you're just...
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What?
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I do not make friends really easily.
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I think you do.
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I'm like, please, can you be my family?
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I'm like, okay.
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I don't think so.
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When I go to drop you off at school, it's like all the girls come running.
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Starry's here!
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And you make friends so easily everywhere you go, no matter how old they are, who it is.
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You make friends so easily.
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And I wish that I was more like that when I was your age.
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And I love what I love about Ayers.
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He's so funny.
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One sec.
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My interviewer has left.
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I'm gonna go.
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Hi, I'm here, welcome to this.
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My, this is If you're going to do another collection with me, what would the thing be?
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I would do, so our first collection was butterflies, right?
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So I would just do whatever you want to do.
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Maybe we do more butterflies.
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What would you want to do?
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Probably, I don't know.
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Probably a cookie or something.
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A cookie collection would be so cute.
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Okay, if you're gonna do another makeup collection with A-wellbidded people.
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I think like poopy emoji theme, since he loves the poopy emoji.
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What was your favorite trip we've been at?
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Me or you?
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A favorite trip we took together?
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Turks and Caicos.
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Me too.
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Okay.
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What is your favorite thing to do with us?
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Make cookies.
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Make cookies.
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Yay!
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You guessed it!
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Okay.
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Who has the worst dance moves in our family?
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Probably your Auntie Kiki or...yeah.
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I think she would be okay with me saying that.
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Who would you trust to plan your birthday and who would you not trust to plan your birthday?
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I would trust you to plan my birthday and I wouldn't trust Ayr.
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You wouldn't trust Ayr?
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I don't think he would know what to do to do.
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I think you would...
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I would go to Turks and Caicos for three, four a week and then New York for
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two weeks and back to Turks and Caicos for four weeks and then to Japan for eight weeks.
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Wow!
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We would be gone until my next birthday.
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Okay, what was your favorite movie?
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My favorite movie is Spirited Away.
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Were you a good student in school? When I tried.
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I was a really good student.
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Okay.
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Who is your favorite sister?
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I don't like to pick favorites.
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Who's the favorite of the day?
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The favorite of the day would be Kendall.
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Okay, now some speed questions.
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Staying home or going out?
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Staying home.
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Shopping or traveling?
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Traveling.
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Summer or winter?
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Right now, winter, but usually summer.
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Pizza or pasta?
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Pizza.
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Disneyland or Universal?
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Disneyland.
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New York or LA?
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I like New York.
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I think I like New York too.
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Pool or ocean?
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I like ocean.
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Ocean.
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Early bedtime or staying up late?
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Staying at a plate.
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Dogs or cats?
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Cats.
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Beach or snow?
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Beach.
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I thought you just said you liked winter.
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I know it's confusing but I would say beach.
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Coffee or matcha?
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Coffee.
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Pajamas or getting dressed?
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Mine is pajamas.
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I think mine is pajamas too too sweet
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or salty sweet i think sweet salty like you if you like accidentally put too much salt morning or night
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why it's night
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because you get to sleep yeah probably night you get to
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get clothes in the morning you have to get dressed get up get in the car
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and get some weight i think heels or sneakers Heels.
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Texting or calling?
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Calling.
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What?
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Calling?
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Yeah.
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Last time I asked you, you said texting.
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Really?
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Okay, Instagram or TikTok?
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Right now, Instagram.
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Okay, that was all the questions.
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You did such a good job!
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Stormy came up with all these questions herself.
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And you're just so big and perfect.
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I love you.
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Thanks for doing this with me.
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My best friend.
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Well, we lost air, but that wraps up my kids basically storming.
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Interviewing me.
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Do you want to say anything?
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Goodbye.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “q&a with stormi”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: favorite, emoji, cookie, trust. This video has 211 sentences and 1245 words to shadow. The speech runs for 9:40. The speaker talks at a steady 129 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 83% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start. 66 of its 211 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| emoji noun | /ɪˈmoʊ.d͡ʒi/ | A digital graphic icon with a unique code point used to represent a concept, object, person, animal or place, originally used in Japanese text messaging but… |
| cookie noun | /ˈkʊki/ | A small, flat, baked good which is either crisp or soft but firm. |
| lovey noun | /ˈlʌvi/ | An informal mode of address (associated most often with actors and the like). |
| pajamas noun | /pəˈd͡ʒɑ.məz/ | Clothes for wearing to bed and sleeping in, usually consisting of a loose-fitting shirt and pants/trousers. |
| poopy adjective | /ˈpuːpi/ | worthless; unpleasant |
| caviar noun | /ˈkæv.iˌɑɹ/ | Roe of the sturgeon or of certain other large fish, considered a delicacy. |
| yawn verb | /jɔn/ | To open the mouth widely and take a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired or bored, and sometimes accompanied by pandiculation. |
| interviewer noun | /ˈɪntɚvjuɚ/ | One who interviews. |
| salty adjective | /ˈsɔlti/ | Tasting of salt. |
| heel noun | /hil/ | The rear part of the foot, where it joins the leg. |
| snack noun | /snæk/ | A light meal. |
| butterfly noun | /ˈbʌ.tə(ɹ).flaɪ/ | A flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, distinguished from moths by their diurnal activity and generally brighter colouring. |
| bore verb | /boɹ/ | To inspire boredom in somebody. |
| couscous noun | /ˈkus.kus/ | A pasta of North African origin made of crushed and steamed semolina. |
| cutesy adjective | /ˈkjutsi/ | Overly, affectedly or unnecessarily cute; too cute to be taken seriously. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| come up with verb | To manage to produce, deliver, or present (something) by inventing, creating, thinking of, or obtaining it. |
| come back verb | To return to a place. |
| get up verb | To move in an upward direction; to ascend or climb. |
| go out verb | To leave, especially a building. |
| light up verb | To illuminate, to bring light to something, to brighten. |
| sit off verb | To give less than full effort; to let off on energy or pressure. |
| stay up verb | To remain awake; to not go to bed. |
| wrap up verb | To cover or enclose (something) by folding and securing a covering entirely around it. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- What is your most used emoji?
- What's your favorite thing about lovey?
- Who's the funniest person in our family?
- I'm like, please, can you be my family?
- What was your favorite trip we've been at?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | has left · we've been |
| Superlatives the -est / the most … — the top or bottom of a group | the funniest · the worst |
| Future with “going to” be going to + verb — a plan or something you can see coming | gonna be · gonna come · gonna go |
| Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — something happening right now or around now | I'm asking · is going |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 39 contractions and reduced forms, such as you're, I'm, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: cashier /kaˈʃɪə/, sushi /ˈsuːʃi/
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 emoji, cookie, lovey.
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.