Shadowing Practice: This Cookie has Korea in a Chokehold.. - Learn English Speaking with Video
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So apparently, there's a new trend taking over South Korea.
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The Dubai Chewy Cookie, aka, Dootonku.
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It's constantly on national news, people are making ads just to track them down, it's also a new way for girls to confirm if a guy's single or not.
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No more, are you single?
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Now it's, Dootonku moho booshatseyo?
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Hihihi, moho baakkuna.
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And in the middle of all this chaos, the only thing my brain keeps going back to upon seeing this cookie is the Alphaba Fierro bed scene from Wicked.
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Yeah, bro!
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So what the hell is Doo-Jun-Koo?
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Well, it's the latest offspring of Dubai Chocolate, which according to the most reliable source on planet Earth,
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is a style of chocolate bar filled with ...kadaif? and a pistachio ...tahini cream.
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It was created in 2021 by...
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A Filipino chef and Sarah Hamouda, a British Egyptian engineer.
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Now if you know Korea, you know they take trends to another level.
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One day an oppa perms his hair and suddenly it's a nationwide standard.
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Korea is a collective society with one of the fastest moving cultures on earth.
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So when Dubai chocolate first arrived in Korea, oh you know they'd be making it dope as desserts.
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And that leads us to the Dubai Chewy Cookie.
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I had to try it myself.
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So using my Tuzonku tracking app, I head outside the first time in a month in zero degree weather and search for my first Dubai Chewy Cookie.
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Now my boss actually recommended me this place
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and he offered to get me some and these aren't cheap so I was like I have always loved and respected you.
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So we have here some Dubai chocolate treats.
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My boss got all of this for me and I don't know what to do.
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He's doing something nice.
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What?
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This is a giant Dubai chili cookie and we're gonna try it.
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Wooo!
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I'm really excited about this.
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This is a trash bar.
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It's on the phone.
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Citrus, dojongku.
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I'm not sure what you're doing.
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I'm not sure what you're doing.
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I'm not sure what you're doing.
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I'm not sure what you're doing.
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Citrus.
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Thank you.
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I love you.
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Thank you.
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I love you.
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Apart from the fact that one cookie is 400-600 calories
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and I probably reached my daily intake in the span of 10 minutes, these desserts are actually pretty good.
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Not really pistachio person, but I get the hype.
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Also, can someone tell me how is this a cookie like how I don't get it?
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Where's the cookie early the next morning?
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What's up boys?
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Now I have decided to come here and make my own version of a don't cool.
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You know why?
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Because where's the cool into tone cool?
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There's no cool cool.
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So so I have decided to make my own version of to turn cool because I I am a really great baker.
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I just broke some glass.
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I just broke my fridge.
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I have went ahead and ordered some ingredients.
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No one has told me that it is going to be this expensive to make dozongku.
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All of this cost me $15,000.
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That's crazy.
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Be sure to like, subscribe, share, and comment so that I can get those money back.
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See this guy?
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Number one, a bowl of .
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Now I've watched some TikTok recipes And they told me to put some pistachios in white chocolate with the.. uh...
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Kadaipu. So...
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Oh!
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Oh!
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Ooh!
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Oh, noo maaiseo.
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I'm gonna put it in the microwave.
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This is pistachios bread.
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Oh, I think we used a whole jar and this might not be enough.
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Maybe I should have learned from my mistakes and follow a recipe this time But who cares who cares?
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Mmm Ew now we're gonna put in the white chocolate.
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Mmm.
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That's not much.
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That's not much.
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Let's get it.
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Oh, ah Hmm this is what we have What is that?
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That's her carayif.
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And I guess we're gonna mold them into balls and we're gonna freeze it.
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We're gonna freeze our balls.
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Let's form some balls.
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We're gonna put it in the refrigerator.
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Here comes the fun part.
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We're gonna redeem ourselves with our chocolate chip cookies.
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This time I'm gonna read the instructions.
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Let's see.
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Butter 2 chip grams.
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This is 230 grams so 70 would be 1 third of this.
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Math.
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I love math.
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This is one third.
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Melt this butter.
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Half an egg.
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We have to preheat the oven and then we cook it.
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Sorry.
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Did a little like a psycho, I'm sorry.
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So let's preheat the oven.
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Oh, we're such responsible people today.
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Here's our cookie dough.
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Hi.
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Now I'm gonna cover these little kaderipu balls that we make in cookie dough.
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And it's gonna be a actual Dubai cookie.
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Yeah, boy.
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You know, let's add in another marshmallow.
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Oh, this looks nice.
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I'm gonna try three, but since they're like really big cookies, I think we should freeze it first before...
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I actually try to bake it.
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Itaba, babies.
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10 seconds later.
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I'm too impatient.
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Let's get it out.
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Shoop.
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Now we're gonna make the actual marshmallow skin.
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This is a lot of butter.
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Okay, maybe I should take off this butter.
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Am I doing it right?
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You know what, I'm gonna leave this for it later.
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Can we put in the marshmallows?
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Oh, oh, so soft.
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Good, good, good, okay.
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That's it, we got it.
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This is our marshmallow.
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Woo!
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Mmm!
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Oh my god, it's so good!
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And our cookies are also finished.
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That's our cookie.
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It looks better than last time.
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Mmm!
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Mmm!
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Mmm!
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Mmm!
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I'm wrong.
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Mmm!
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Okay, let me go butter up my fingers.
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Ah!
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Come on!
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We're gonna dip the cookies in some white chocolate, and then we're gonna freeze it so that we can have the chocolate shell.
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Oh my god.
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That's it.
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That's how you do it babies.
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Now we have our cookies dipped.
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And we're gonna freeze it.
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Two very boring minutes later.
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We have here some ingredients.
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I also have other ingredients so that we can make other types of dojongku, but we're gonna see how that goes.
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Whoa, 대박.
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Tada!
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That's our first dojongku.
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Wait, is it ripping?
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It's ripping!
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Wait, dust it with chocolate powder?
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Nice!
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Put it like that.
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I'm gonna put a cookie with it.
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Moisturize me.
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Sometimes I do these things and I think to myself, Who am I doing this for?
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Who's gonna come and eat all the cookies and trash that I've touched?
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Ta-da!
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We have our chuchongku.
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I don't have enough marshmallows so...
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Heyyyyyy!
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Now we're gonna try cutting into these.
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You ready?
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Oh, it is heavy.
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Woooooo!
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Woah!
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You have to buy a chewy cookie in the form of an actual cookie.
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That's it.
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That's it.
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Mmm.
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This is probably over 2,000 calories.
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But at this point, who cares?
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Mmm.
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It's really delicious.
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10 out of 10.
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Aside from the cookie, I've also made some other versions of duchonku that I wanted to try.
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So I put a sugar cookie in duchonku.
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That's how it looks.
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Mmm.
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It's delicious.
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Mmm.
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Bruh, I like what I made for the first time.
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This is nice.
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Next one, I made a s'mores duchonku.
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I've grilled some s'mores and I added to the bottom layer.
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So it's the ultimate double marshmallow Jujongku
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And lastly I had some cookie dough left so I have put the cookie dough in my Jonduk cookie
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Which is probably bad.
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So we call this the cookie dough Jujongku aka Salmonella Jujongku Mmm!
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That's nice.
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Anyways, I don't think I really like pistachio that much.
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Dubai, Chewy Cookie.
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Last bite.
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I'm done here.
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Thank you for watching.
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Goodbye.
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Now I have to clean up my mess.
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It's fun.
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It's fun.
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It's fun.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “This Cookie has Korea in a Chokehold.”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: cookie, chocolate, Dubai, marshmallow, cool. This video has 201 sentences and 1285 words to shadow. The speech runs for 10:03. The speaker talks at a steady 128 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. Only 76% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| cookie noun | /ˈkʊki/ | A small, flat, baked good which is either crisp or soft but firm. |
| marshmallow noun | /ˈmɑɹʃˌmɛl.oʊ/ | Marsh mallow, a species of mallow, Althaea officinalis, that grows in marshy terrain. |
| chewy adjective | /ˈt͡ʃuː.i/ | Having a pliable or springy texture when chewed. |
| pistachio noun | /pɪsˈtæʃioʊ/ | A deciduous tree (Pistacia vera) grown in parts of Asia for its drupaceous fruit. |
| dough noun | /doʊ/ | A thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such as water, eggs, or butter, that is made into a particular form and then baked. |
| freeze verb | /ˈfɹiːz/ | Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature. |
| ingredient noun | /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/ | One of the substances present in a mixture, especially food. |
| moho noun | The North Island takahē, an extinct rail of New Zealand. | |
| preheat verb | /pɹiːˈhiːt/ | To heat beforehand or in advance, to heat something in preparation for further action. |
| citrus noun | /ˈsɪtɹəs/ | Any of several shrubs or trees of the genus Citrus in the family Rutaceae. |
| 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… |
| gram noun | /ˈɡɹæm/ | A unit of mass equal to one-thousandth of a kilogram. Symbol: g. |
| whoa | /woʊ/ | Stop (especially when commanding a horse or imitative thereof); calm down; slow down. |
| dessert noun | /dɪˈzɝt/ | The last course of a meal, consisting of fruit, sweet confections etc. |
| oven noun | /ˈʌ.vn̩/ | A chamber used for baking or heating. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| clean up verb | To make an area or a thing clean; to pick up a mess; to tidy. | |
| go ahead verb | /ˌɡoʊ əˈhɛd/ | To proceed with; to begin. |
| go back to verb | To stem from; to originate in. | |
| take off verb | To remove. | |
| take over verb | To assume control of something, such as a business or enterprise, and sometimes by force. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- No more, are you single?
- I'm really excited about this.
- I'm not sure what you're doing.
- Am I doing it right?
- Can we put in the marshmallows?
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 | have always loved · have decided · has told |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | was created · are also finished |
| Advice with “should” should + verb — saying what is a good idea | should have · should freeze · should take |
| Superlatives the -est / the most … — the top or bottom of a group | the latest · the fastest |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 66 contractions and reduced forms, such as gonna, I'm, we're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: marshmallow /ˈmɑɹʃˌmɛl.oʊ/, pistachio /pɪsˈtæʃioʊ/, impatient /ɪmˈpeɪʃənt/, nationwide /ˌneɪ.ʃənˈwaɪd/, instruction /ɪnˈstɹʌkʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: ingredient /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/, refrigerator /ɹɪˈfɹɪd͡ʒ.əˌɹeɪ.tɚ/
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 cookie, marshmallow, chewy.
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.