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Music Hello everyone, it is currently 7 43 a.m.

And I am going downtown to a coffee shop with my friend It's called manana

and I heard they had really really good matcha and

so I'm really excited We're gonna go down there to finish our calculus homework and a physics lab Anyway, I'm gonna take you guys along with me

and hopefully it's a productive day and I'm gonna go pack my bag right now Okay,

let me show you guys what I'm bringing today It's not really a lot.

So I just have my macbook, my folders, my calc physics notebook, and then I have my sony headphones My pencil case and my charger.

Okay So i'm all packed up and i'm ready to go

and my friends about to be here So i'll see you guys at the coffee shop

The very first thing that I worked on were my calculus assignments, and we're currently learning series and sequences right now, and this is definitely by far the hardest unit for me.

Our test is actually coming up pretty soon, so it's really important that I finish these assignments earlier so that I could go back and study them if needed.

I also highly recommend studying with a friend

because I feel like it truly deepens your overall understanding of a topic or a concept.

After finishing my three calculus assignments, I decided to work on my physics lab, which was due really soon, and it was a total of 11 pages long.

It wasn't that bad though, because it was an online simulation, and so all you really had to do was mess around with the variables and collect data that way,

but still, it did take around two hours to finish. so So

the reason why I'm at Google right now is

because one of our friends actually invited us to kind of give us a tour of the office

and spend the day there.

It was such a cool experience and I was even able to get a matcha latte from their own personal cafe.

The rooms were so cool, like the study area with all these bookshelves, it was so beautiful and the food was also delicious.

I'm

going

to go to the next video.

Thank you.

I'm not

sure if they're sick.

and I have no idea Just swimming through our dreams

Work through what you love to do and I will watch right over you With your heart,

I'll never toy and throw the other half of me Drink and sip and laugh with me Save me from myself

I promise that you'll stay here You and I can lay I want you until the end of time girl

don't you worry about me it ain't new to me

okay so i just got home and i bought a few things from daiso

and a store called pink box which is kind of like a k-pop store

but it also sells jewelry and like hair accessories and all

that stuff so i'm gonna do a little haul for you guys

and show you guys what i got okay

so from daiso it's a little crumbled

but i like am always running out of gift bags

and this week i actually have three birthday parties to go to

so i got some cute bags to put my presents in i got this really cute washi tape

and there's four different kinds and i think it's just

so cute anyway so i also got this washi tape

and then the last thing that i got from daiso is this pot So here's what the pot looks like.

It's super simple and it's just like it has a hole at the bottom

and I'm actually going to gift this pot away in a potted plant

because I recently propagated some of my string of hearts

and I'm going to gift that away and give my friend a little cute potted plant.

Okay so moving to what I got from Pink Box.

These are all items that I'm probably gonna gift away to my friends for their birthdays.

So the first thing that I got were these like super cute Snoopy socks

and they're just stripes on the edge

and I'm gonna give these away to my friend Joy because she loves Snoopy so I thought that would be fitting.

And then I got another pair of socks and I'm gonna give these away to my friend Caitlin.

There's like these little flowers and this little cat

and it has like small little ruffles on the top

and I just thought that was so cute the last thing

that i got was slime and it's like korean slime i think

but it's just clear and it just has like these flower sequences kind of

and later on amazon i'm probably gonna pick up a few more things to buy for them

because this is not everything that i'm gonna give for their birthday parties so yeah that was my little haul.

I want someone like you You recognize the baby sitting around one hand Tangled in love,

stuck by you From the glue

Don't forget to kiss me

Or else you'll have to miss me I guess I'll be stuck forever By the glue on you you

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This video has 65 sentences and 891 words to shadow. The speech runs for 6:47. The speaker talks at a steady 131 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

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

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
calculus noun	/ˈkæl.kjə.ləs/	Any formal system in which symbolic expressions are manipulated according to fixed rules.
assignment noun	/əˈsaɪn.mənt/	The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks.
matcha noun	/ˈmɑ.t͡ʃə/	A type of powdered green tea, traditionally used in Japanese tea ceremonies.
slime noun	/slaɪm/	Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive; bitumen; mud containing…
washi noun		A tough paper used in traditional Japanese art forms.
sock noun	/sɑk/	A knitted or woven covering for the foot.
glue noun	/ɡlu/	A hard gelatin made by boiling bones and hides, used in solution as an adhesive; or any sticky adhesive substance.
haul verb	/hɔl/	To transport by drawing or pulling, as with horses or oxen, or a motor vehicle.
bookshelf noun	/ˈbʊkˌʃɛlf/	A shelf or shelves for storing books for easy visual reference.
crumble verb	/ˈkɹʌmbəl/	To fall apart; to disintegrate.
deepen verb	/ˈdiːpən/	To make deep or deeper
mañana adverb	/məˈnjɑː.nə/	Tomorrow.
propagate verb	/ˈpɹɒpəˌɡeɪt/	To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production.
ruffle noun	/ˈɹʌfəl/	Any gathered or curled strip of fabric added as trim or decoration.
stripe noun	/stɹaɪp/	A long region of a single colour in a repeating pattern of similar regions.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Meaning
come up verb	To emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly.
go back verb	To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time.
go down verb	To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one.
pick up verb	To lift; to grasp and raise.
sit around verb	To spend time sitting idly, not doing anything important.
work through verb	To get past a difficult or stressful situation by thinking or talking about it.

Grammar in this video

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

Structure	In the video
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	lab, which was · box which is
Future with “going to” be going to + verb — a plan or something you can see coming	gonna go · gonna do · I'm actually going to gift
Future with “will” will + verb — a decision, promise or prediction	i'll see · will watch · I'll never toy
Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — something happening right now or around now	am going · I'm bringing · is actually coming

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 39 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, gonna, I'll. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “sh” and “zh” sounds: bookshelf /ˈbʊkˌʃɛlf/, simulation /ˌsɪm.jəˈleɪ.ʃn̩/
Long words — get the stress right: calculator /kæl.kjə.leɪ.tɚ/, accessory /əkˈsɛs.(ə.)ɹi/

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 calculus, assignment, matcha.

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.

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Key vocabulary in this video

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Grammar in this video

Pronunciation to watch

How to practise with this video

What is the Shadowing Technique?

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