Shadowing Practice: TRIPLET Q&A AND HWACHAE - Kalogeras Sisters - Learn English Speaking with Video

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It's 3 a .m and we're severely dehydrated make watch it with us.
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Hey guys today.
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We are gonna be making What is it called again?
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Croce?
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Croce?
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Croce?
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We're gonna be doing a little Q &A and making some watch
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Don't forget to like comment subscribe
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Turn your notifications on
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we're gonna be posting once a week
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and we have this new idea i think we're gonna do like a little cooking series
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so oh yeah let us know what you guys think about
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that we'd like to thank you guys so
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so much for 10k subscribers already like that is thank you actually crazy
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and uh we love all of you guys the first thing
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we need to do is we need to get fruit okay
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we got do we need kiwi in here raspberry strawberry
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peaches blueberries where's the yellow mango these are like this is
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strawberry where's this got it i think you got it look where kayla's got it you can see
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that one strand of hair i feel like those tiktokers
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that like to try a bunch of exotic fruit except like
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the only exotic actually have no exotic fruit here let's get right into it we need three knives
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and i'm just gonna grab it from the restroom you just need to turn around like you need to
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because look you can see look just don't ask questions all right
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if anyone says anything about my hair in the comments okay
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wait we need a clear bowl sorry okay why oh we don't have any clear bowls
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when have we ever had we have this you crazy we should have bought a clear bowl
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okay you don't want to be here we're making a big
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thing of watching like we're not making a pussy bowl watch it we're not making crotch it
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pretty loud all right guys this is the only option
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that we have we did not buy strawberry milk or sprite
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so we're gonna make it well how are we gonna make
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sprite i don't know we don't have limes we have carbonated
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we don't have the lime no whatever we have carbonated water
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and lemon all right oh you kind of need lime whatever
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guys we were not prepared you guys are getting started on
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that oh q
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and a q name we should start off with our names oh yeah yeah i'm sunday i'm demitra
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and i'm ellie people were confused in the comments
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because we call each other like kalia and mia my middle name is kalia
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and her middle name is mia
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so who's the fastest who would be the fastest i think
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me absolutely me oh absolutely what do you think who are you putting money on okay long distance
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or short distance long distance oh yeah long distance oh short
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distance you yeah oh we were on the same page about
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that yeah yeah okay next question Look at that cross section Oh Have we ever been mistaken as triplets We are triplets
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So weird I'm a Pisces, she's a Leo And she's a Gemini I've been mewing guys, don't worry What?
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Is that a new video?
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No, nobody said you need to mew Oh really?
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How tall are you?
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According to Sunday, I'm like 6 '9 mine sunday's like 310
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and then ali's five feet according to sunday's math
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but what we're doing right now is we're hey that looks
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so gross oh why did you show me that don't look at it
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wait a second what is wrong with this guys ours is
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all our fruit bag what is your ethnicity we are greek
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100 percent what is our fear i have a bad thing hers is trickle trickle mania oh my How do you,
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how do you be more confident?
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Is that a diss?
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Is that a diss?
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Are you guys, are you guys jealous of Eliana for being so pretty?
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They are.
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Um, what's the best thing about being triplets?
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We would know.
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Um, what is your dream country to go to?
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Japan.
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We're going this summer.
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Austria.
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What? Since when?
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Don't ask questions.
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Who's the most annoying sibling?
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uh i'll say you know who you are though can you brush your hair
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wow actually you're cutting that out next question how do you refresh your
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how do you refresh your curls oh for me i will take this portion of my hair from like here
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to here and then i will wet it down
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and do my curl routine on there and just leave this
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because this part always looks good i will i actually don't refresh my curls
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like if it looks bad the day
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that i do my hair it looks bad the whole week that's true like i don't even care
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and she does not care what is your favorite sibling one
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of them above i'd say probably say it um today
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you still haven't sent me my money for doing your hair yeah
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i feel like i you should you owe me 50 dollars me yeah because you need to hack your head
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i agree you have to send back no that's not true you guys said
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if you make your hair look good
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and you did it yes i did no you didn't my hair does it look good no
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okay no we paid her to do our hair for this video a hundred bucks each
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no but actually my hair does look good give us another 360 real quick
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i'm gonna be going crazy i think this was the same
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spoon i used to eat it with that's kind of nasty
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that's disgusting it's fine now let's make the strawberry milk so i'm just gonna do i'm gonna blend this
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frozen strawberries with coconut milk with coconut milk do you guys ever wish you had a brother
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i used to not really no i don't and then i walked in
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and i was like why would i wish my wife's i
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really like this one is a really good question um yes
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yes do any of you have a boyfriend i do tell them the story
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and how you guys met they were neighbors when i was six and he was seven
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what's something you instantly notice about each other i actually like kayla answer
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that question for me what is something you instantly notice about
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each other i think can your parents tell you apart add
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a little bit of no the answer is they actually
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so our parents actually don't they can't tell us apart um what's the next question
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no Romeo Romeo in the video can you guys try remaking McDonald's wait wait Kayla can you answer
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that can we do that or no do what
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who is the llama of the trio I would say should
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we do it this big yeah I would say I am
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too I'm gonna put some ice in a bowl that's such
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a pretty color oh my god it's heavy it's a pretty
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color pink we don't have ice guys like no guys like actually like like that's like
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did you always love having curly hair yes we always wore our hair natural guys we don't
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and we've always loved it do you like us upstairs don't
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look at the back of my head downstairs favorite shopping brand aritzia biggest it
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when guys have a hot bowl of something and they're like eating it
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and they're going like this favorite beauty tip my favorite beauty tip has to be just be beautiful be beauty
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okay next question how many pets do you have four we have one bird one cat two dogs
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okay carbonated water and then we need to put lime are you sisters or just friends
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what are your favorite things about each other i really like
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when kelly shut the fk up um my favorite thing about ellie is
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when she goes to school so i don't see her for the whole day
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and then like when she comes home she only hangs out with her boyfriend we really love each other
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okay next question wait we should try this it looks what is your favorite food my did you know
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my favorite food is um no chili are you greek orthodox
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yes can you do a video on an in -depth hair
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routine hair care routine soon i will just tell you what i do
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so i go in with an oil and i where's the bowl massage my scalp and
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oh it's got the jelly oh yeah what's the best part the jelly this is the best part
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it's 3am and we're severely hydrated
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dehydrated we're severely hydrated okay now dump it no not at the same time at the same time okay 3,
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2, 1 okay ready?
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no no no that goes last wait we didn't even they didn't even see
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oh short of one no like I feel like lowkey this is our
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do you think this is gonna be good do we mama do you think this actually tastes good i hope
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so because this is huge this is
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so much wasted fruit we're gonna eat it all oh we're
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gonna eat it all now get like a huge mixture all of last video we had to cut off
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so much because i completely forgot how to say my r's what is
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that okay who's slacked
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and left the entire wrapper inside for like a plum this
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is definitely the passion it says passion for you who's getting
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the first try um do you want a gold no oh they're like okay now we just like understand
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whose hair is actually not our short whose hair is that because it's not ours
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all right first taste test no you have to eat it with this spoon
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guys you just grab it on first try why do i have to eat it with
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that spoon y 'all don't double dip is it is it actually bad guys
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promise it's definitely a quache
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oh my god it's repulsive i've never heard of quache not
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gonna lie i like it yeah you have it no i
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haven't am i the only one who thinks it tastes really bad it's refreshing but like
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if i woke up at 3am i just want water like
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this is 3am i'm severely dehydrated let's make watch it oh my god honestly that's coming out of your head
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It's connected to my head.
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Pull it.
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Whose hair is this?
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Okay, whose hair is this?
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Whose hair is this?
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Whose hair is this?
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For real, whose hair is this?
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I don't know if they can see that.
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Can you pull that out of my head?
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I don't even care.
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Guys, guys, whose hair is this?
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I don't see.
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I don't see.
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Whose hair is this? Whose hair is this?
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Okay, guys, my stomach actually hurt.
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You know what I'm doing is so good in this?
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Hear me out.
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Okay?
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Right.
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rice what rice yeah like coconut rice yeah what are we
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gonna do with this guys we need to do something
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or condensed milk oh that would be good we should do that or just add honey or something
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condensed milk would be bust yeah but that's just gonna be
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so unhealthy not really i wonder what other people do with
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the rest of the watching yeah they could not be eating
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this up like my stomach is killing we're gonna eat it all it's an abnormal amount that we made yeah
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i think this is abnormal we're gonna add to next milk okay i won't no
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but like put it in a different yeah put it in a different bowl put it in this bowl
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okay i feel like this is gonna be much better should i add the rest of it
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because like we're not gonna use this oh that's gonna be
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way too much way too much way too much i'm sorry
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i can't keep acting like i like this like the coconut milk is repulsive i like it
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but like it's like like every time i i like swallow
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it like sits right here like it doesn't go all the
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way down oh yeah you're right no i will throw up
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if i do want can i edit your videos please do
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yeah we love them what is the best childhood memory with each other probably
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when i know
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when me i think me down the stairs who is the
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favorite child i am my mom's i'm my dad i'm my
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grandma's who's the best kid me who do you guys think's the best kid it doesn't even say that yeah
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but who is me no stop it you're the worst favorite
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drink probably watching what made you start making youtube videos i guess people just asked us too
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and we were like you know what we should and
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that sounds like so much fun so we started
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and i'm very honestly youtube videos are my favorite thing to do in the world like it's
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so fun can face recognition tell the difference between you guys
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or no no wait yes describe each other's personality in one word three two one it's a real condition y 'all
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okay well thank you guys again so much for 10k subscribers like it's
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so surreal um we love all of your guys's edits we see every single one everyone like every oh
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and then we try to see every single one like
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if we don't tag us and then we'll see them again just like keep on if you listen really closely
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stop bye guys

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “TRIPLET Q&A AND HWACHAE - Kalogeras Sisters”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: hair, favorite, whose, bowl. This video has 203 sentences and 2281 words to shadow. The speech runs for 15:12. The speaker talks at a natural 150 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 86% 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:

WordPronunciationMeaning
strawberry noun/ˈstɹɔˌbɛɹi/The sweet, usually red, edible accessory fruit of certain plants of the genus Fragaria.
refresh verb/ɹɪˈfɹɛʃ/To renew or revitalize.
lime noun/laɪm/Any of several green citrus fruit, somewhat smaller and sharper-tasting than a lemon.
coconut noun/ˈkəʊ.kə.nʌt/A fruit of the coconut palm (not a true nut), Cocos nucifera, having a fibrous husk surrounding a large seed.
severely adverbIn a severe manner; with severity.
carbonated adjective/ˈkɑɹ.bəˌneɪ.təd/Containing carbon dioxide gas under pressure, especially pertaining to beverages, as natural mineral water or man-made drinks.
dehydrate verb/diːhaɪˈdɹeɪt/To remove water from; to dry up.
triplet noun/ˈtɹɪplət/A group of three notes of even rhythm played or written where two of those notes would ordinarily be; a form of tuplet.
curl noun/kɜɹl/A curving piece or lock of hair; a ringlet.
spoon noun/spuːn/An implement for eating or serving; a scooped utensil whose long handle is straight, in contrast to a ladle.
exotic adjective/ɪɡˈzɑtɪk/Foreign, especially in an exciting way.
condense verb/kənˈdɛns/To concentrate toward the essence by making more close, compact, or dense, thereby decreasing size or volume.
diss noun/dɪs/Ampelodesmos mauritanicus syn. Ampelodesmos tenax, a reedy grass used for cordage.
hydrate noun/haɪˈdɹeɪt/A solid compound containing or linked to water molecules.
repulsive adjective/ɹɪˈpʌlsɪv/Tending to rouse aversion or to repulse; disgusting.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

WordPronunciationMeaning
cut off verb/ˌkʌt ˈɔf/ [ˌkɐɾ ˈɔf]To remove by cutting.
go in with verbTo commit to something with; to partner with.
send back verbTo return (something) to its origin.
throw up verbTo vomit.
turn around verbTo physically rotate (usually around a vertical axis) for a half turn (180 degrees), a whole turn (360 degrees), or an indefinite amount.

Sentences worth repeating

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

  • How tall are you?
  • Who's the most annoying sibling?
  • It's connected to my head.
  • Can you pull that out of my head?
  • You know what I'm doing is so good in this?

Grammar in this video

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

StructureIn the video
“Used to” used to + verb — a past habit or state that is no longer trueused to eat · used to not
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters nowhave we ever had · have carbonated · haven't sent

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 103 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, gonna, we're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

  • The “th” sounds: unhealthy /ʌnˈhɛl.θi/, ethnicity /ɛθˈnɪsɪti/, orthodox /ˈɔɹθədɑks/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/
  • The “sh” and “zh” sounds: refresh /ɹɪˈfɹɛʃ/, notification /ˌnoʊtɪfɪˈkeɪʃn̩/, massage /məˈsɑ(d)ʒ/, brush /bɹʌʃ/
  • Long words — get the stress right: carbonated /ˈkɑɹ.bəˌneɪ.təd/, ethnicity /ɛθˈnɪsɪti/, notification /ˌnoʊtɪfɪˈkeɪʃn̩/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/

How to practise with this video

  1. Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
  2. Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
  3. Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like strawberry, refresh, lime.

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