Shadowing Practice: Slow English Vlog 🇺🇸 | Breakfast & Morning Routine (B1–B2) - Learn English Speaking with Video

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music music music music music music music Good morning!

This is Bo from Bo's Slow English.

I just woke up.

I probably look like I just woke up.

I'm in Lake Arrowhead, which is a two hour drive.

Well, it took us four hours yesterday but normally it should be a two-hour drive from Los Angeles.

We are staying at an Airbnb,

and it was so nice to take Nari out for her first little walk so that she can use the restroom

because where we live in our apartment, we live in a condo building, so we have to put a leash on,

walk outside, go down the stairs.

There's just a lot of obstacles in order to take her out for her first morning bathroom break.

Hey Nari, come say hi to the camera.

Oh, downward dog.

I'm not sure what we're doing today, but you are coming with me.

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We are in high altitude.

It's a little above 5,000 feet above sea level,

and my body is very sensitive to high altitude.

I get dehydrated pretty easily and oh my face looks so puffy today.

Because we are not too far away from home I decided

to bring a jug of water from my special water machine at home.

I know some of you may be thinking why is this girl so high maintenance or maintenance?

Because I am!

because I care about my health and there is no water filter here

so we would have had to go out to get bottles of water anyway.

So I brought my own water from home.

I poured it into this mug and I quickly took my medication before I forgot.

Right here.

So that's always the first thing that I do in the morning.

You ready to eat?

Okay, Nari's ready to eat, so I need to wash her food bowl,

and I'll put my camera on a tripod so that I can wash and talk.

This is the extra battery pack

that gets attached to the bottom of my camera and then this gets screwed on to the tripod.

She's waiting patiently for breakfast.

Yesterday we washed the dishes by hand, I think.

Oh, maybe they're just rinsed, but we will put them in the dishwasher before we leave.

We're only here for a quick 48-hour trip.

And this is Nari's food bowl, so I need to wash that.

And this is the air fryer pan that we had put in our oven because we were cooking these little sausages.

I'll show you.

Oh, we ate all the sausages, so I can't show you.

But this morning, we might have some turkey bacon, which we can cook in the air fryer.

It makes it really crispy.

And our favorite sourdough bread, maybe we'll have some of that with some hummus.

Oh, I forgot to take out Nari's food.

So Nari eats rabbit with lentils, zucchini, and mixed greens.

Plus, I top it off with this lamb dry food.

She eats high quality food so that she stays healthy and she lives for a long time.

Can you bring her water bowl, please?

Are you walking to the coffee shop?

So there goes my husband.

Okay, back to Nari's breakfast.

So here's her water bowl.

She drank a lot of water last night because I think she was feeling the effects of being in high altitude.

And it's her very first time being in the mountain, being away from home.

Well, I did adopt her from Korea.

There's an organization that adopts dogs from Korea.

So she came all the way over from Korea and I adopted her as a four-year-old and now she's seven!

Right, Nari?

I'm just going to rinse her water bowl and then wash her food bowl.

I'm going to rip off a paper towel so I can dry it.

This was a can opener we used last night for a can of beans.

I'm going to pour her a fresh bowl of water.

She also gets special water. And now her food.

I have to find the forks.

There's several drawers here.

My guess is in this one.

ta-da we did it i'm gonna get a fork

and i will open up her wet food

and i like to break it up with the fork first while it's in its container

then I pour some into her bowl like this

and I think we're going to exercise a lot today

so she'll get extra food

and I have to break it up further otherwise she will

take a big chunk of food out of her bowl

and spit it on the ground

and try to break it up herself now I have her dry food I I have a measuring cup

so I can easily scoop some out.

Oh yeah, I'm giving you lots of food today, Nari.

And then I like to pour some water in there.

Pets need extra water because sometimes they don't drink it.

And especially for cats, cats always need extra water.

It's good for their kidneys.

Okay, go eat your food.

Come on.

Okay, I think she's feeling a little bit confused because we're not at home.

There you go, Nari.

We'll do some ASMR.

I need to make my matcha, so I'm going to warm up some water.

I have to pour my water into the kettle.

The tricky thing about using a kettle for matcha is I cannot gauge the temperature,

and matcha requires a specific temperature, just like coffee does.

So I just need to watch it so that it doesn't overcook or steep the matcha tea.

I'm trying not to make too much noise because Nari gets spooked easily,

especially in a place she's never been to.

Spooked means, like, scared.

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Okay, I'm actually going to let the lid open a little on a tilt so I can check the water.

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And then I will turn on the stove.

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So pressing in and turning counterclockwise to ignite the fire.

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And we're going to bring it to medium.

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So this vlog might end up being just a vlog in the Airbnb.

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And then the next vlog might be us going out for a hike.

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I think that's what we plan on doing today.

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I never really know what I'm going to film in each vlog.

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because I have to film many minutes of content to ensure that after I edit the video,

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I have at least 10 minutes of footage that I can use.

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So right now, I've been filming for about 20 minutes, and I have been talking for most of it.

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So I think I'm going to end up cutting off the video today while I'm still in the house.

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So check out the next vlog after.

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I brought my creamer.

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It's a powdered creamer that has added fat and benefits for brain fuel.

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See?

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So this is basically a powdered version of creamer.

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And just in case you're wondering what the ingredients are,

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it says grass-fed butter, MCT oil, which is a type of oil that comes from coconut.

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and the reason why I put this in my matcha is so that it makes me feel smarter.

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It actually does make me feel smarter.

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I don't think it's a placebo.

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Placebo is when you take something, like ingest something in your body,

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and you just think that it's providing benefits for you, but it's actually not.

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This actually works.

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I'm going to put a scoop of this in my mug.

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oh i want to quickly talk about the speed in

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which i'm talking right now it's moderate pace it's not too

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slow it's not too fast i receive many comments from my subscribers you talk too slow you talk too fast.

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I can't please everyone in every vlog.

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So I'm trying to find a happy medium.

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A happy medium is a balance between the two.

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So I am starting to do a new vlog series called Storytime,

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which is where I talk about my life.

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And it's meant to be a listening practice as well as shadowing.

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So check those out.

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The first one that I posted was about being a Korean American

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and the second one which I posted right before I came here is about how music has influenced my life.

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I have been surrounded by music in many different ways throughout my life including playing the violin.

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I've dabbled in other instruments, which means I've tried other instruments like bass guitar, piano.

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I can play a little bit of drums, not too much.

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And I also sang in school.

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I was in acapella groups and I've also been to many concerts

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and most of them are not well-known artists because I like to discover new and up-and-coming artists.

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So check out that vlog.

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I think you'll like it.

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Here's my massive bag of matcha.

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Please tell me I brought the whisker.

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Oh yay.

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Here's my electric whisker.

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Oh and then I put in this little Ziploc bag.

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Well Ziploc is a brand.

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This is an off-brand of Ziploc that uses compostable ingredients, meaning it's biodegradable.

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So if this is on the street, eventually it will break down with nature.

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So I brought my matcha scooper and I'm going to take a nice chunk of matcha out of here.

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So matcha is a powder and it looks like this.

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I don't know if you can see.

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And I'm going to just tap it in here.

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I usually do a little bit more.

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And now I need to check the water temperature.

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It sounds like it's boiling.

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Yes, it's starting to warm up.

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I think I will cut it off, cut off the heat.

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As soon as I see the first bubble, oh, there it is.

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Okay, I'm cutting it off so I don't overcook the matcha.

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I'm going to put this lid back on, and then I will press this button.

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I'll press this button here to open up the spout, like that.

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then I will pour the matcha into the mug just a little bit to start

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because I have to mix it with the electric whisker I'm going to turn it on

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there it goes I love this beautiful green color green is my favorite color it always has been

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because it reminds me of tranquility and nature.

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Let me know in the comments what's your favorite color and why.

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I'll shake off any residual matcha and then I'll pour the rest of the water into the mug.

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I don't like using kettles.

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Kettles make me nervous.

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when I was really young in seventh grade I got a

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second degree burn on my thigh this is my thigh

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because a hot cup of water spilled on my leg

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and it burned off the top layer of my leg

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so I've always been nervous of kettles

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because kettles seem a little bit unstable to me at home i have an electric kettle where it just feels more safe

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hi nari let's see it's 8 17 a.m i took my medication at 7 55 i have to wait 30 minutes

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before I drink caffeine or eat any food post taking medication.

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When I say post I mean after.

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So the way it would be written is you write post post-taking medication.

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You can basically use

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that word for a lot of scenarios like for example where i work full-time i work in a medical clinic

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and i provide post care to clients

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which means after you receive treatment here is how you take care of your skin

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so that's post care post dash care poor nari she's starting to shake a little bit

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because she's just nervous in an unknown territory.

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Come here, Nari.

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She's a pretty easy dog.

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The only thing where it can be a little bit challenging with her is

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when she's nervous or anxious it takes over her brain

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and she won't listen sometimes like right now she won't eat

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which i know she will and sometimes if i tell her to come

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and if she's having an anxious moment she will not come because she's frozen.

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I feel so bad for her.

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I think I will get some turkey bacon going here.

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When I say going, I mean cooking.

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It's a very casual way of saying you're going to do something.

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You're switching out the verb cooking for going so here's the turkey bacon and i have to first line the

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oven tray i have to line it with parchment paper so when i line the parchment paper it will catch

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the drippings or the juice and then I'll stick it in here we use this for

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when we toasted the bread

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and I need to wash the airfry tray I'm actually going to set

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that parchment paper lined tray here and then I'll put the airfryer tray on top

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and let's see there's one two three four five six seven eight pieces of turkey bacon

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if we have four each I think that would be good

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because I don't want to put it back in the fridge

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and wrap it up since we're leaving tomorrow I don't know

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if I can fit that many turkey bacons on this tray actually.

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So I'm going to just go ahead and cut these in half like

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that and I will line the tray with turkey bacon.

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I know a lot of you have been waiting for me to create more of those cooking videos

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that I used to make

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but I don't really cook at home to be honest with you

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and when I do it's the same food all the time.

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I have a routine.

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All right it is now lined.

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This does not have have air fry instructions

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so I need to look up the temperature of the air fry

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and the number of minutes turkey bacon air fry recipe it says preheat the air fryer

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which i don't feel like doing i think i need a

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different recipe oh thanks for turning on the light i didn't even think about

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that so it says cook at 380 degrees or 390 degrees for 8 to 10 minutes and flip halfway through

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um i'm going to do 375 degrees fahrenheit

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and we'll probably air fry for like six

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or seven minutes turning the dial to 375 keeping it on air fry

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and here we go

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and let me just set a timer siri set a timer for three minutes perfect how was the coffee

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haven't tried it yet but the place is pretty cool I took a lot of pictures

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makeshift coffee stand it's like um where those motor home called

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Airstream a mini Airstream so what did you get got an Americano which is

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espresso with hot water is that one

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or two shots the reviews say it's they just do one

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so people complain about that so

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when I was in line a guy ordered a latte with four shots whoa

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so if in Los Angeles or other places four shots equals eight espressal shots

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but here four shots equals four so every when you say one shot in Los Angeles or somewhere else it

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it's typically two.

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That's the standard.

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Oh.

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When did you become such a coffee connoisseur?

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The timer has gone off.

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So I'm going to stop it.

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By the way, when a timer or alarm is making its sound,

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you say that the alarm has gone off.

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You don't say that the alarm is on.

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oh it looks crispy no it doesn't look crispy okay i'm

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sure we have oven mitts somewhere in this drawer we still

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have a couple left do you want to i don't have any way of wrapping this up

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so i was thinking we should we should just eat it

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all today it's actually good gabriel put his back in the oven because he wants it more crispy.

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I'm going to finish eating my turkey bacon and I need to drink my matcha.

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And then I'll make a new vlog for when we go out and about into the town.

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Maybe we'll go hiking.

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And see you soon.

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I hope you enjoyed today's vlog.

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Let me know what you've learned.

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Thank you.

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Bye.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “Slow English Vlog 🇺🇸”. This video has 263 sentences and 2756 words to shadow. The speech runs for 23:56. The speaker talks at a steady 115 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. Only 80% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.

Key vocabulary in this video

The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
matcha noun	/ˈmɑ.t͡ʃə/	A type of powdered green tea, traditionally used in Japanese tea ceremonies.
vlog noun	/ˈvlɑɡ/	A weblog using video as its primary presentation format.
bacon noun	/ˈbeɪ.kən/	Cured meat from the sides, belly, or back of a pig.
kettle noun	/ˈkɛ.təl/	A vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food, usually metal and equipped with a lid.
pour verb	/poɹ/	To cause (liquid, or liquid-like substance) to flow in a stream, either out of a container or into it.
tray noun	/tɹeɪ/	A small, typically rectangular or round, flat, and rigid object upon which things are carried.
crispy adjective	/ˈkɹɪs.pi/	Having a crisp texture; brittle yet tender.
timer noun	/ˈtaɪmɚ/	A device used to measure amounts of time.
oven noun	/ˈʌ.vn̩/	A chamber used for baking or heating.
medication noun	/mɛdɪˈkeɪʃən/	A medicine, or all the medicines regularly taken by a patient.
creamer noun	/ˈkɹiː.mɚ/	A jug for holding cream.
fryer noun		A machine or container for frying food.
parchment noun	/ˈpʰɑɹt͡ʃmənt/	Material, made from the polished skin of a calf, sheep, goat or other animal, used like paper for writing.
whisker noun	/ʍɪskə(ɹ)/	That part of the beard which grows upon the sides of the face, usually of the male, or upon the chin, or upon both.
altitude noun	/ˈælt.ɪˌtjuːd/	The absolute height of a location, usually measured from sea level.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
check out verb		To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.).
cut off verb	/ˌkʌt ˈɔf/ [ˌkɐɾ ˈɔf]	To remove by cutting.
end up verb		To bring to a conclusion.
go off verb		To explode.
open up verb		To open.
wake up verb	/ˌweɪk ˈʌp/	To stop sleeping; to awake.
warm up verb	/ˌwɔː(ɹ)m ˈʌp/	To become warmer.
burn off verb		To dissipate as the result of heat.

Sentences worth repeating

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

You ready to eat?
Can you bring her water bowl, please?
Are you walking to the coffee shop?
I think that's what we plan on doing today.
When did you become such a coffee connoisseur?

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 filming · have been waiting
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	she's never been · has added · has influenced
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	Arrowhead, which is · oil, which is · instruments, which means
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	have been surrounded · would be written · is now lined

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 77 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, I'll. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “sh” and “zh” sounds: medication /mɛdɪˈkeɪʃən/, anxious /ˈæŋkʃəs/, dishwasher /ˈdɪʃˌwɑʃɚ/, makeshift /ˈmeɪkˌʃɪft/, patiently /ˈpeɪʃəntli/
Long words — get the stress right: medication /mɛdɪˈkeɪʃən/, ingredient /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/, biodegradable /(ˌ)baɪoʊdəˈɡɹeɪdəbl̩/, condominium /ˌkɑn.dəˈmɪn.i.əm/, tranquility /træŋˈkwɪlɪti/

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 matcha, vlog, bacon.

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Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.

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Key vocabulary in this video

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Sentences worth repeating

Grammar in this video

Pronunciation to watch

How to practise with this video

What is the Shadowing Technique?