Shadowing Practice: Why Germans Love Coffee and Cake (Slow German Conversation) - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Kaffee und Kuchen.
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Diese Kombination ist sehr populär in Deutschland.
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Deshalb essen Janusz und ich heute Kuchen und wir trinken dazu Kaffee.
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Janusz, Kaffee und Kuchen, ist das eine richtige mahlzeit in deutschland ich würde das nicht
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eine mahlzeit nennen aber es ist spaß ab 15 uhr nachmittags hat man
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so eine art zwischenmahlzeit vielleicht eine zwischenmahlzeit also eine etwas zwischen
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den normalen mahlzeiten die deutschen essen gerne kaffee und kuchen am
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nachmittag 14 15 16 uhr zwischen dem mittagessen und dem abendessen
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gibt es noch einen leckeren kuchen nicht jeden tag und nicht bei allen aber ich denke gerade
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so bei älteren menschen ist es populär ja und auch
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so in institutionen
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so im krankenhaus im altenheim da gibt es dann kaffee und
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kuchen als im tagesplan ja und neben dem essen was wirklich
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wichtig ist ist die gemütlichkeit genau janos wir haben kuchen gekauft
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gerade wir waren in zwei bäckereien in berlin und haben verschiedene kuchenstücke gekauft sehr typisch in deutschland gibt es Apfel -Kuchen,
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Mohn -Kuchen, Pflaumen -Kuchen, we have a Rosinen -Schnecke and a Bienen -Stich.
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That is also a typical Kuchen in Germany.
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What we still need is coffee and Janusz shows us now how he makes the best coffee.
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So now we make the coffee
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and Janusz shows us how he kaffee zubereitet es
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gibt ein filter es gibt heißes wasser es gibt eine kanne
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und da drin ist der kaffee janus hast du eine lieblings zubereitungs methode ja zu hause habe ich zwei Kaffeemaschinen,
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aber letztendlich finde ich diese, wie heißt das auf Deutsch?
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Ein Handfilter, oder du hast einen Filter und ich glaube das ist Filterkaffee,
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aber es gibt auch Kaffeefiltermaschinen, die haben so etwas in einer Maschine.
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Das schmeckt dir aber nicht?
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Es schmeckt mir alles eigentlich, but I think that's the best I find the best.
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And finally I achieve the best coffee.
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Janusz erreicht the best taste with this method.
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In Germany is all popular.
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Filters, Siebträgermaschinen, Vollautomaten, where you just put the bottle in and click on Cappuccino.
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But you can also, if you're a connoisseur like Janusz, do you want to do it yourself?
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What is that?
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A Milchschäumer, or I use it as a Milcherwärmer.
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Janusz wärmt the milk.
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And the milk comes in the coffee.
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How long does it take, until the coffee is filtered? is?
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A few minutes.
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Okay, coffee takes a long time.
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Especially when you sit on the table and look at how it works.
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The coffee works.
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The coffee works.
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And it works.
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And it's running.
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And the cooking pieces wait for us.
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Great!
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After 15 minutes of coffee, we have finally two coffee.
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Yes.
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And now it's time for the Kuchen.
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Janusz, we have a problem.
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We have no Kuchenteller and no Kuchengabeln.
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Yeah, that's bad enough, yeah?
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I don't know if it's in your countries, but in Germany there are Kuchenteller, Yes, they are smaller.
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There are also smaller Kuchengabels.
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Yes.
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And it bothers me that we can't show them authentically.
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Absolutely.
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Janusz, you can ask yourself a piece of Kuchen.
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Oh, very much.
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What kind of Kuchen do you want?
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I'd like to start a piece of the Kuchen.
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Pflaumenkuchen ist in Deutschland sehr populär in der Pflaumensaison.
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Jetzt möchten wir sehen, wie du den Pflaumenkuchen probierst.
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Und? Is bitter?
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Not bitter, sauer.
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But just a little bit.
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Lecker sauer.
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How tastes the Kuchen taste?
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The Kuchen tastes a little sour.
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Janusz, I take an Apfelkuchen.
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Apfelkuchen is perhaps the most popular Kuchen in Germany.
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And this piece of Apfelkuchen is even gluten -free.
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And with real Apfel -stücke.
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Yes, with real Apfel -stücke.
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Yes.
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Mmm.
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I'm going to try the Apfel -Kuchen.
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Toll.
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Lecker.
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What should I do with the Gabel?
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I'm going to wash them, right?
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I'll take you a new Gabel.
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It's also a Pflaumen -Kuchen -Gabel.
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Cari, what do you do there?
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I do something similar to you with your coffee.
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I specialize myself in German, and that's in our partner app Seedlang.
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Do you know that?
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I have there even a while with it, yes.
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Janusz has also with it.
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At the beginning.
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And there are videos from Janusz.
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C -Lang is an App for German learning and also for French and Spanish learning.
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You can download it on your phone.
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And the great thing is that you can really learn from your own methods and with your own focus.
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What I do now is, I make a flashcard deck from the today's vocabulary.
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For example, the Gabel, the cookie, the coffee, the filter.
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I want to remember these words later, so I search them in the Seedling Dictionary,
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I add them to my reviews and then I can then go back to them later.
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Yes, very smart, very good.
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You could also do it in the French learning.
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Yes, definitely.
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If you want to try this, then just download the app on your phone.
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You can find Seedlang in the App Store of Apple
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and in the Play Store of Google and you can then simply learn your favorite words.
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And you can even choose to choose, if you want to choose a conjugation, plural or the gender of words,
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depending on what you want to learn.
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Janusz, it's time to try another Kuchen.
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Yes, my favorite Kuchen is Mohnkuchen.
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Mohnkuchen is Janusz's favorite Kuchen.
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Janusz will try the Mohnkuchen. Is it?
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It smells and it's so hard.
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we always have the feeling that after I ate the cake, I can make a power net directly.
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Janusz, if I drink too much coffee, I can't sleep.
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How is that for you?
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I think it's the same.
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But the coffee is actually coffee -free.
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What?
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I just drink a coffee -free coffee.
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Yes, I thought about it.
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And I thought that it will be safer if we don't have coffee.
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And I thought I would go all in today and drink for a long time coffee with coffee.
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Yes, but you have to say that he is also delicious as the normal coffee with coffee.
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I don't know, I never drink coffee.
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Janusz, what is that? That is a snake.
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That is a Rosinen -Snecke.
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Janusz, in Deutschland nennt man solche Dinge auch Teilchen.
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Das ist Kuchen, das gibt es auf einem Blech,
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dann gibt es Tortenstücke, das ist so eine runde Torte und es gibt Teilchen,
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so ich glaube auf Englisch würde man Pastry sagen.
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And explain what the word Schnecke means in the original sense.
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A Schnecke is a creature that is slowly on the ground.
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And the Schnecke has a house.
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And this here looks like this.
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This Schnecke goes around.
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And in Polish there is the word Schnecke as a creature not but we actually call this one we call Schnecke.
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Oh, yeah?
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Yeah.
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Say it in Polish.
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Schnecke.
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Oh, okay.
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A piece of Schnecke?
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Rosinen -Schnecke?
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No, thank you.
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I'm going for the fresh and delicious, sweet and sour Pflaumen -Kuchen.
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Na, good.
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And maybe Bienen -Stich.
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Mmm.
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This Bienen -Stich is lactose -free.
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I eat gluten -free and lactose -free.
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And this is actually gluten - and lactose -free.
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It tastes not so sweet.
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But that can also be a benefit.
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Mmh.
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Voll lecker.
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Janusz, du hast den Apfelkuchen noch nicht probiert.
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Gibt es noch Platz im Bauch?
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Ja, es ist Schluss und ich möchte lieber, dass das Geschmäck von dem Pflaumenkuchen länger Der Geschmack.
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Janusz möchte, dass der Geschmack des Pflaumenkuchens noch länger in seinem Mund bleibt oder in seinem Mund verweilt.
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Hört sich ziemlich abenteuerlich an.
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Schön.
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Kuchen ist eigentlich Mehl, Butter und Zucker.
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Ja.
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Ist das eine gute Grundlage?
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Je nachdem.
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Es ist The most important thing is always the amount.
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You don't have to eat from the cookie.
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You have to eat a little bit of the cookie and have a good time.
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And that's again very healthy.
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Janusz, have you been at our coffee -and -kuchen pause?
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Totally, yes.
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It has been fun.
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Then I wish you a nice day.
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And I wish you a nice day.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 198 sentences and 1420 words to shadow. The speech runs for 14:04. The speaker talks slowly, about 101 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound. Only 59% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 less common words from the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
- filter /ˈfɪltɚ/ (noun) — A device which separates a suspended, dissolved, or particulate matter from a fluid, solution, or other substance; any device that separates one substance from…
- cookie /ˈkʊki/ (noun) — A small, flat, baked good which is either crisp or soft but firm.
- gluten /ˈɡluːtən/ (noun) — The major protein in cereal grains, especially wheat; responsible for the elasticity in dough and the structure in baked bread.
- delicious /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/ (adjective) — Pleasing to the sense of taste; tasty.
- bitter /ˈbɪ.tɚ/ (adjective) — Having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance).
- sour /ˈsaʊ.ə/ (adjective) — Tasting of acidity.
- deck /ˈdɛk/ (noun) — Any raised flat surface that can be walked on: a balcony; a porch; a raised patio; a flat rooftop.
- bother /ˈbɑðɚ/ (verb) — To annoy, to disturb, to irritate; to be troublesome to, to make trouble for.
- berlin /bəˈlɪn/ (noun) — A four-wheeled carriage with a separate sheltered seat behind the body.
- snake /sneɪk/ (noun) — Any of the suborder Serpentes of legless reptiles with long, thin bodies and fork-shaped tongues.
- depend /dɪˈpɛnd/ (verb) — To be contingent or conditioned; to have something as a necessary condition
- pause /pɔːz/ (noun) — A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
- vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/ (noun) — A usually alphabetized and explained collection of words e.g. of a particular field, or prepared for a specific purpose, often for learning.
- plural /ˈplʊəɹəl/ (noun) — The plural number. In English, referring to more or less than one of something.
- kuchen /ˈkukən/ (noun) — Any of several types of cake, typically eaten with coffee.
Phrasal verbs you will hear
- come in /ˌkʌm ˈɪn/ (verb) — To enter.
- do with (verb) — Only used in to do with
- go around (verb) — To move or spread from person to person.
- go back to (verb) — To stem from; to originate in.
- go for (verb) — To try for, to attempt to reach.
- look at (verb) — To observe or watch.
- sit on (verb) — To block, suppress, restrain (something).
- think about /ˈθɪŋk əˌbaʊt/ (verb) — To ponder.
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 12 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, I'm, can't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: delicious /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/, conjugation /ˌkɑnd͡ʒəˈɡeɪʃən/, flashcard /ˈflæʃˌkɑɹd/, specialize /ˈspɛʃəˌlaɪz/
- Long words — get the stress right: vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, conjugation /ˌkɑnd͡ʒəˈɡeɪʃən/
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 filter, cookie, gluten.
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Superlatives the -est / the most … — the top or bottom of a group | the best · the most popular · The most important |
| Future with “will” will + verb — a decision, promise or prediction | I'll take · will try · will be |
| Obligation: must / have to / need to saying that something is necessary | have to say · have to eat |
| Future with “going to” be going to + verb — a plan or something you can see coming | I'm going to try · I'm going to wash |
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.