Shadowing Practice: This Attraction in Da Nang Vietnam Shocked Us! 🇻🇳 - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Hey guys, good morning!
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Welcome to a new video.
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So we left Hanoi yesterday and we are now in the beautiful city of Da Nang.
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And Da Nang is very well known for Bana Hills.
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Bana Hills is where you'll find the famous bridge with the two stone hands.
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And in this video, that's where we're going.
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Let's go check it out.
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Let's go! So one
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hour later we finally made it here at the bottom of mount chua
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so if you didn't know already bana hills is actually situated on top of a mountain
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and we have to ride a cable car
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that stretches over five kilometers to get to the top apparently
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this is one of the longest cable car in the world and it's quite scenic
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So now we're heading up to the cable car and that will bring us to the Golden Hats.
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Thank you.
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Alright guys, here we go.
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Anthony wanting to go to Bonahills for quite some time now and it's finally happening.
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I've always wanted to see the golden man.
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Yeah.
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Sleepy.
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Sleepy.
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Sleepy.
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One, two, three.
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Whoa.
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Thank you.
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Alright guys, so we're inside the cable car now.
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Like I said earlier, it stretches over 5 kilometers long.
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Crazy.
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I believe it's around 5,000 above sea level.
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So it's pretty high up.
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It's kind of gloomy, so I can't really show you guys the view.
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Sorry, guy just told us it takes about 20 minutes to get up there.
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And since it's quite high up, it's definitely going to be colder up there.
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That's why we got our sweaters, we got our jackets.
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Oh my gosh, it's so cold up here.
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It feels like there's snow outside.
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Hi!
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What's Jurassic Park?
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Alright guys, so we're here now and we're walking to the Golden Hats.
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Plus, you can barely see it unfortunately because it's quite foggy today.
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Guys, we made it!
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We're here!
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We're here!
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I don't care if it's foggy, it still looks majestic up here.
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The fog kind of adds to it, to the beauty of it, it's gorgeous.
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It's so cold up here.
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Wow, wow.
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The air is so fresh.
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So we're heading to the other hand, I can't even see it.
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But I'm sure it's over there.
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Guys, look, we're here!
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Ant's gonna touch it.
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I finally touched the golden hand.
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It's since it's quite chilly.
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We've been on here for like 20 minutes now.
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Just admiring the fog.
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It's beautiful up here.
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I wish you could see more though.
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Yeah like the view for example.
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Yeah unfortunately we're not gonna get many like photos
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or even footage really because of all the fog
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and all of the people but it was still a surreal experience to finally be here.
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I know 100% check this out the bucket list.
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Yes.
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As always guys if you're wondering where we booked our tour we booked it on Kluke
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and we do have a discount code for you
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if you want to save some money you can use our code janet
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and kluke if you're planning a trip
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and want to save money on tours activities hotel transfers etc you can use that
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and you will save money all right we're heading to starbucks
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it's cold we need a hot drink i know it's like
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a mall up here they have everything yeah we want to get a hot drink
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because we're going to be up here for a bit
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because it's not only just the hands here yeah there's also a flower garden
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that we're going to go to next and a french themed village
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all right we got our coffee finally now we can explore
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it didn't feel right this is
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so nice on my hands we got some warm cup of coffee can't beat that on a cold day
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So we're heading down to the garden now to be honest I don't know how any flowers are alive right now.
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All the flowers are blooming Am I in Europe?
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Oh look at the grandma grandpa That's gonna be us Alright,
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so the garden is actually so beautiful.
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All the flowers are bloom.
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I don't know.
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Are these real?
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They're kind of dying.
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I mean, the weather sucks.
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I wish it weren't as foggy as it is today so that we could actually see everything.
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But hopefully you get lucky if you do go here.
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Yeah.
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It could be the time of the month.
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Or the time of the month the time of the year.
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It's their winter season.
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So if you come here in the summer, I'm sure the weather's better.
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Yeah.
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This garden is actually huge.
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Like this whole place is huge.
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I didn't expect there to be so much to do here at the top.
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I thought it was just the golden, I was gonna say Golden Gate Bridge.
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I thought it was just the golden bridge, but there's so much to do up here and there's so much food.
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Chad and I were just saying that you won't go hungry here
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because it's so developed food stalls restaurants cafes there's starbucks up here
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and down there very very developed here
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which i'm really surprised about also guys you can totally diy this
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if you really wanted to but ann
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and i we just decided to book a tour
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because it's just more convenient for us yeah
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when you book a tour you don't have to worry about the admission tickets the hotel transfers lunch is included
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so it's just more convenient for us but i will say
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that this is a tour that you could probably easily DIY yourself
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because there are taxi transfers and it wasn't too far from Da Nang.
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It was about an hour drive and that's not too bad I think.
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So next stop is the French Village and Fantasy Park.
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So apparently we have to go back on the cable and go even higher to get to those two places.
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That's crazy, this place is massive.
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Friendly Fantasy Park has an indoor amusement park where you can play games.
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So we're even higher now.
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Before we check out the French Village and the fantasy world, we're actually gonna have lunch first.
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It feels like we're stepping into a very luxury hotel.
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Like this place is so modern.
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What the heck?
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And it's on top of the mountain.
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Yeah.
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Bro, what the heck?
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Got an amusement park in here.
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On top of a mountain.
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We're in a mall?
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What in the...
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I feel like we're in a mall.
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Like a very luxury mall, like Shangri-La mall or something.
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Guys, to get to our buffet, we went down like six escalators already.
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I wish you could see how far we've walked from the entrance all the way to the buffet.
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Yeah, there's a quad like seven eight floors, bro.
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I'm actually like my boy.
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This is an entire mall
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So I didn't expect the buffet to be this grand there's literally like a thousand people in here They got sushi,
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they got Korean food, they got Vietnamese food, bro they have everything.
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Guys, this is probably one of the best buffets I've been to and it's on top of a mountain.
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So look at the variety on my plate.
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I got Japanese food, I got Vietnamese food, I got Korean food.
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Insane man, insane buffet.
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So I thought the golden hands was gonna be the highlight of today, but I think it's this buffet.
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So when you book this tour, it's an option to add buffet or not, but come on now, you definitely gotta add the lunch buffet.
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It's a no brainer.
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Oh, this is a cool pop park.
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Guys, like I said earlier, this place is so overwhelming.
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Yeah, it's like never-ending.
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This place is huge.
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It's kind of like a Disneyland almost.
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Yeah, kind of.
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Oh no!
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I want this one.
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I want stitch.
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Turn it.
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Oh, here we go.
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It's so cute.
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Oh, it's heavy.
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It's so cute though.
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I got jealous of ants, so I'm going to get one.
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But this time it's Pikachu.
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Look.
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Ohhhh!
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What is that one?
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Whoa!
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That's crazy!
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I like that one!
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Alright, they even have a wax museum here.
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It's 100,000 per person.
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You know, we have to check it out.
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That don't look like Trump.
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This is- it's actually creepy, eh?
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I don't know anyone in here.
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They don't look like themselves.
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Don't go in here.
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You don't know him?
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Who's that?
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You don't know him?
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That's definitely not Kobe Bryant.
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Do they really have green eyes?
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That's like Jordan if you see him at like a fitness center.
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That's Tiger Woods on crack.
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It's not Bobby!
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Bro, who the f* is this one?
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It's Michael Jackson.
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That does not look like Michael Jackson.
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Michael Jackson.
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Guys, just take a wild guess who you think this is.
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Just take a wild guess.
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Who is it?
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That's Maddie Pacquiao.
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Oh John Travolta, they did you right? so they did you right.
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Alright, just walking around the French village.
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Kinda reminds me of our time in France.
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Yeah, in Normandy.
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In Normandy, France.
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I kind of do wish now that the fog wasn't here
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so we could really see like the buildings and everything
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because we saw pictures We just saw pictures inside of what it looks like
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when it's sunny and it looks incredible It's so vibrant the colors are so nice especially of the buildings And the views!
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Yeah, but you win some,
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you lose some I feel like I'm in Belle's village in Beauty and the Beast This looks like a movie set Whoa!
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Wow They
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got a club here!
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Alright guys, we are now at the very bottom and this is where we end the vlog.
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It's been an amazing day.
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First of all, we got to ride one of the longest gondola.
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We got to see the golden bridge with the golden hands.
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we got to eat at one of the best bofets we've had
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and we got to visit a whole indoor amusement park on a mountain which is
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so crazy i did not expect bana hills to be this cool this exciting as always thank you all
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so much for watching don't forget to like share and subscribe
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and follow us on social media for daily updates we'll see you in the next one peace
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “This Attraction in Da Nang Vietnam Shocked Us! 🇻🇳”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: golden, buffet, park. This video has 212 sentences and 1735 words to shadow. The speech runs for 17:31. The speaker talks slowly, about 99 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound. 85% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| buffet noun | /bəˈfeɪ/ | A counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought. |
| mall noun | /mɔːl/ | A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct. |
| foggy adjective | /ˈfɒɡi/ | Obscured by mist or fog; unclear; hazy. |
| sleepy adjective | /ˈsliːpi/ | Tired; feeling the need for sleep. |
| amusement noun | /əˈmjuzmənt/ | Entertainment. |
| heck | /hɛk/ | Hell. |
| indoor adjective | /ˈɪndoɹ/ | Situated in, or designed to be used in, or carried on within, the interior of a building. |
| convenient adjective | /kənˈviː.niənt/ | Serving to reduce a difficulty, or accessible with minimum difficulty; expedient. |
| blooming adjective | /ˈbluː.mɪŋ/ | Opening in blossoms; flowering. |
| brainer noun | /bɹeɪ.nə(ɹ)/ | someone with a certain type of brain |
| escalator noun | /ˈɛs.kə.leɪ.tɚ/ | Anything that escalates. |
| excite verb | /ɪkˈsaɪt/ | To stir the emotions of; to cause to feel excitement. |
| gloomy adjective | /ˈɡlumi/ | Not very illuminated; dim because of darkness, especially when appearing depressing or frightening. |
| gondola noun | /ˈɡɑndələ/ | A small long, narrow boat with a high prow and stern, propelled with a single oar, especially in Venice. |
| overwhelm verb | /ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɛlm/ | To engulf, surge over and submerge. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| check out verb | To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.). |
| do up verb | To fasten (a piece of clothing, etc.); to tighten (a nut etc.) |
| get up verb | To move in an upward direction; to ascend or climb. |
| go back on verb | To be treacherous or faithless to; to betray. |
| go down verb | To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one. |
| walk around verb | To walk with no planned destination; to meander. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- Let's go check it out.
- I've always wanted to see the golden man.
- Alright guys, so we're inside the cable car now.
- We're in a mall?
- You don't know him?
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 | I've always wanted · We've been · we've walked |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | is actually situated · is included |
| Superlatives the -est / the most … — the top or bottom of a group | the longest · the best |
| Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — something happening right now or around now | we're going · we're heading · we're walking |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 65 contractions and reduced forms, such as we're, don't, gonna. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: sushi /ˈsuːʃi/, gosh /ɡɑːʃ/, admission /ədˈmɪʃən/
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 buffet, mall, foggy.
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.