Shadowing Practice: K2-34 Nhu Thuy - DAY 71 - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Hello, Washington DC is on the Potomac River.
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This river is important to the history and culture of the city.
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Today I am at an outdoor seafood market near the Potomac River.
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Some say it's in the oldest outdoor seafood market in the United States.
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I'm here to buy seafood.
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Let's see what they have.
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Excuse me, can you help me?
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Sure, what do you need?
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Hey, Anna, what are you doing here?
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I work here.
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You know, it's not easy to be a writer.
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Yeah, I heard that.
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Sorry, but this job is great.
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I work outside by the river and I can eat all the free seafood I want.
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That's a great piece.
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In fact, I am here to buy some seafood for my dinner party.
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You can the right place.
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They have the fresh seafood town.
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How much money can you spend?
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I can only spend $50.
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Okay, what do you want?
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First, I want to buy some shrimp.
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True thing, follow me.
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How much food do you want?
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How much do I need for 5 people?
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Give her a pound of food.
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Okay, now I want to buy some crops
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The crops here are delicious They are the best because they come from the nearby chaps the peak bite
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Walk this way

Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This video has 29 sentences and 214 words to shadow. The speech runs for 2:24. The speaker talks slowly, about 89 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound. 84% 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

12 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

WordPronunciationMeaning
seafood noun/ˈsiːfuːd/Food from the sea, including that derived from fish, shellfish, crustaceans, cephalopods, seaweed, algae, marine mammals, and other marine organisms.
outdoor adjective/aʊtˈdɔː/Situated in, designed to be used in, or carried on in the open air.
crop noun/kɹɑp/A plant, grown for it, or its fruits or seeds, to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose.
delicious adjective/dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/Pleasing to the sense of taste; tasty.
pound noun/ˈpaʊ̯nd/A unit of weight in various measurement systems.
bite verb/baɪt/To cut into something by clamping the teeth.
shrimp noun/ʃɹɪmp/Any of many swimming, often edible, crustaceans, chiefly of the infraorder Caridea or the suborder Dendrobranchiata, with slender legs, long whiskers and a…
chap noun/t͡ʃæp/A man, a fellow.
writer noun/ˈɹaɪ.təɹ/A person who writes, or produces literary work; an author can refer to themselves as "the writer".
excuse verb/ɪksˈkjuz/To forgive; to pardon; to overlook.
nearby adverb/ˌnɪə(ɹ)ˈbaɪ/Next to, close to.
peak noun/piːk/A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.

Pronunciation to watch

  • The “sh” and “zh” sounds: delicious /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/, shrimp /ʃɹɪmp/

How to practise with this video

  1. Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
  2. Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
  3. Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like seafood, outdoor, crop.

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