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This looks a bit hectic.

I should have put a little less here.

This is like yeah you're really chowing.

Hello Bo!

It is Tyler and I'm gonna cook for you and make something to drink.

I'm gonna be making margarita.

My mom used to make this all the time when I was younger so let's go.

First double shot of tequila half a shot of what is it called again lime juice okay

here we go and then half a shot of

guys honestly this is my first time making it i always used to watch my mom make it though

my mom is gonna probably shout at me and like you drinking

now i'm just gonna cover it and shake it up

take some lime you put it on some salt just so it's on the edge

last touch is just

that fresh lovely let's go now i'm gonna start cooking for real i'm gonna be making pap chakni

and boudoirs guys

if you're south african please do not judge how i make it everybody makes a difference

so let me be first i'm gonna be making the bruvos

it's like a sausage we use it for almost everything

and then these are some ingredients for the chutney this is

canned tomato this is some garlic salt always some spoons and a knife you know that video of azalea bags

first thing you do is prepare

so you have to chop the chilies guys i love hot food you'll chop the ends off

because nobody likes eating the ends i'm not the best cook i can cook to survive

but guys i don't know these nails i'm struggling chopping i picked this

because it's like my favorite food to eat honestly i always speak about it and people don't know what I mean.

When I say pap and chuff me, they're like, what?

What is that?

So I go, hey, let me just make it.

Now I'm going to chop some onion.

This is when the tears come.

Now a pan.

And the first thing that you have to do...

Guys, am I being messy?

Am I being messy?

Whoops.

The first thing that you put in the pan is some onion.

I love food I just don't like cooking it I can make you some stuff

but don't be expecting every night a whole three course meal

because I'm not one of those girls I'm not like not a smith I promise take your chilies put

that in as well then I'm gonna put some of the garlic crushed garlic

and yeah that's just gonna fry by its own there's no sizzles yeah the silence fry

okay so just let the onions fry with the garlic

and the chili if you're inviting a guy over

and you want to make it seem like you cook fry onions garlic

and chili and the aromas a guy they will imagine

that you're cooking a gourmet meal i'm telling you it works

with the hair for the buddh boss just take it

and plop it in just like

that you just have to turn it over like a few times but it's very easy to make.

I don't know what is in a buddhavos.

I think it's a bunch of different meats mixed together into a sausage.

It sounds disgusting but it's the most...

Can you hear me even?

Oh it's sounding like there's a beat.

Turn it over like every now and then.

Canned tomato.

i'm slaying okay so now i'm just gonna clear up the station a little bit more

and we can start with it is literally maize meal

and you can literally make

so many things out of this i have to wait until this water is boiling

and then we'll start making the film it's not supposed to be lumpy it It mustn't be too wet or too hard.

Like it needs to be the perfect consistency.

So guys, Tyler Plus is out right now.

I'm just excited to start making music for my next album

you know like i'm ready to to go start mixing instantly guys

because yeah as you can see it's flying everywhere

and it's basically gonna start thickening as it cooks i'm not

a professional on making this i just know the end product is gonna be right so don't worry about the process

so now you get a wooden spoon and you start folding it in it's gonna get thicker

but sometimes i have to add a little more i feel

like right now i need to add a little you always

can make it work like that's what i like about pub like

if you feel like it's going wrong there's always a way to fix it

when i was in new york i made it i was craving it

so bad and my sister came to new york for the first time she came to visit me

and now she's staying with me

and oh i feel like a mother my sister wanted to

go out sure i couldn't sleep i was literally waiting for her

and i was calling her like a mom i was like where are you get back

and she didn't message me her phone was off i was

literally crying i was literally crying like where's sydney where's city

and then i went outside and i saw she was in her room the whole time oh being a mother

i don't know how mothers do us yo this is a

workout i'm telling you i feel like i have one bicep it's looking good twisted around around do it again

guys i told you making this is very messy my mom

like whenever she cooks it's always clean i don't know how my mother does it like there's never mess

when my mother cooks and she shouts at us whenever the kitchen looks like this but hey

literally my mother's a super mother the spice

that i use for the chuck me is robinson's barbecue spice

this is the best spice guys you can use this for

everything like marinate your meat chutney food like anything once my

mother put this on popcorn i'm not even joking it smells

literally like a braai like a barbecue this is the best

one more salt hey guys I'm not gonna lie I killed it it's proper

come on okay let me taste it it's just very hot

good this is done i just need to add a little

bit of is this what's this is this the vanilla no

that's not i was gonna put the key line in there yo

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so you just have to add a little bit of vinegar

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this is good everything is basically round about done

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so i'm just gonna clear up and then make a nice presentation to you guys So first,

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I'm just gonna cut up the sausage a little bit.

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You basically start with the puff.

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So make the bowl shake.

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First, you put some oil.

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Okay.

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I think I needed a big bowl.

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Let me use this bigger one.

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Yeah.

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Cute.

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Gonna take some of the gravy and just pour it over.

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Then, just the meat.

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You just add a little garnish.

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Yes.

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That's the finishing touch.

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Ta-da!

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Now we have to try it.

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So we eat this with our hands, guys.

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So take a little bit.

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Grab some gravy.

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Break off some meat.

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And you eat it like...

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Mmm-hmm.

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can i eat the rest thank you guys

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so much for watching me cook this meal i'm gonna go finish the rest off camera

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and yeah thanks vogue love you guys love my tigers bye

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Thank you.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “Tyla Cooks a South African Dinner”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: cook, mother, garlic, add, mom. This video has 128 sentences and 1294 words to shadow. The speech runs for 9:06. The speaker talks at a steady 142 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. Only 81% 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
garlic noun	/ˈɡɑɹlɪk/	A plant, Allium sativum, related to the onion, having a pungent bulb much used in cooking.
chili noun	/ˈt͡ʃɪli/	The pungent, spicy fresh or dried fruit of any of several cultivated varieties of capsicum peppers, used in cooking.
chop verb	/t͡ʃɑp/	To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions.
onion noun	/ˈʌn.jən/	A monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice.
sausage noun	/ˈsɔsɪd͡ʒ/	A food made of ground meat (or meat substitute) and seasoning, packed in a section of the animal's intestine, or in a similarly cylindrical shaped synthetic…
messy adjective	/ˈmɛsi/	In a disorderly state; chaotic; disorderly.
spouse noun	/spaʊ̯s/	A person in a marriage or marital relationship.
chutney noun	/ˈt͡ʃʌtni/	A sweet or savory but usually spicy condiment, originally from eastern India, made from a variety of fruits and/or vegetables, often containing significant…
gravy noun	/ˈɡɹeɪvi/	A dark savoury sauce prepared from stock and usually meat juices; brown gravy.
tomato noun	/təˈmeɪ.toʊ/	A widely cultivated plant, Solanum lycopersicum, having edible fruit.
lime noun	/laɪm/	Any of several green citrus fruit, somewhat smaller and sharper-tasting than a lemon.
spoon noun	/spuːn/	An implement for eating or serving; a scooped utensil whose long handle is straight, in contrast to a ladle.
shout verb	/ʃaʊt/	To utter a sudden and loud cry, as in joy, triumph, exultation or anger, or to attract attention, to animate others, etc.
shake verb	/ˈʃeɪk/	To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
azalea noun	/əˈzeɪliə/	A plant of the obsolete genus Azalea.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
clear up verb	/klɪəˈɹʌp/	To clarify, to correct a misconception.
break off verb		To remove a piece from a whole by breaking or snapping.
cut up verb		To cut upward.
end off verb		Synonym of end up.
get back verb		Return to where one came from.
go out verb		To leave, especially a building.

Sentences worth repeating

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

This is like yeah you're really chowing.
I'm gonna be making margarita.
When I say pap and chuff me, they're like, what?
Guys, am I being messy?
Can you hear me even?

Grammar in this video

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

Structure	In the video
“Used to” used to + verb — a past habit or state that is no longer true	used to make · used to watch
Verb + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — verbs that are followed by the -ing form	start cooking · start making · start mixing
Superlatives the -est / the most … — the top or bottom of a group	the best
Past continuous was/were + -ing — an action in progress at a moment in the past	was craving · was calling

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 61 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, gonna, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “sh” and “zh” sounds: shout /ʃaʊt/, shake /ˈʃeɪk/, garnish /ˈɡɑːnɪʃ/, crush /kɹʌʃ/, presentation /ˌpɹɛzn̩ˈteɪʃn̩/
Long words — get the stress right: margarita /ˌmɑɹ.ɡəˈɹi.tə/, ingredient /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/, consistency /kənˈsɪs.tən.si/

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 garlic, chili, chop.

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Sentences worth repeating

Grammar in this video

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