Luyện nói tiếng Anh bằng Shadowing qua video: My Embarrassing First Week at the Gym | English Listening Practice | Bonus 182

Hello and welcome to the Q -Lips English Podcast.

My name is Andrew.

How's it going?

Thank you for clicking play and joining me for this English study session today.

In our bonus episode series, what I do is I tell you some stories from my everyday life.

I'm a Canadian, but I live abroad in Seoul, South Korea, and I hope that by listening along to my stories, you will be able to improve your English fluency.

That's what it's all about here at Q -Lips, is becoming clearer and more confident English communicators.

So if that's what you want to do, if that's what you want to achieve with your English, then I'm here to help you.

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Today's story is all about trying something new.

Recently, I tried something new for the first time.

In fact, it's something that I've been meaning to do for a long time, and I finally got around to doing it.

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Let's get started with my story for today, which is about trying something new.

So about three weeks ago, my wife and I both signed up for gym memberships.

And not only just a basic gym membership, but we signed up for personal training classes, one -on -one classes with a personal trainer.

And I'm going to tell you that story now because it's pretty funny.

There are some really funny moments and some embarrassing things

that I went through in my PT classes that I think are funny and I'd like to share with you.

And I think it's just something that many people go through when trying something new.

Whenever we're rookies at something, beginners at something, there are often some funny or embarrassing situations that we have to go through because,

well, it's new and we don't know what we're doing, right?

We're amateurs.

And so, yeah, I have a few of those stories that I'll share with you here today.

So to start at the beginning,

essentially my wife and I decided to join the gym just because we're starting to get older now.

I mean, we're not too old.

We're middle -aged, I suppose.

We're in our early 40s.

However, the older you get, the more your muscle deteriorates.

Deteriorates.

Deteriorates means to become weaker and to break down.

So as you age, the muscle that you have deteriorates and breaks down.

And I have to be honest and say that I'm not really a super strong, muscly guy anyways to begin with.

So I probably don't have that much muscle to start with.

So as I get older, if I lose that muscle, well, that's just going to be bad for my health in the future.

I want to be able to be strong and mobile in the future,

be able to walk without too many issues and just have a happy and healthy life as I get older going forward.

So that was really the main motivation for signing up for the gym.

It's not like I really wanted to become a bodybuilder or anything, or I really wanted to have an amazing body.

I mean, if those things come as a side effect, okay, cool.

I guess that would be cool, but that's not my main motivation or main focus.

And for my wife, her motivation is pretty much essentially the same thing.

She just wants to be healthy as she ages and going forward, have a happy and healthy life.

But she's also a little bit concerned about some high blood sugar readings that she's been having recently.

At our home, we have one of those little needle guns

that you can prick your finger with and check your blood sugar with, with a blood sugar monitor.

And we do that from time to time just to make sure we're in a healthy range

and usually i'm pretty healthy in

that regard i don't know why however my wife is a little bit higher than she would like

so she's not really quite in the danger danger zone yet however it's something that's on her radar

that she's worried about to an extent and And so...

As we were searching for some strategies that you can do to improve the glucose, is what we call it, the glucose in your blood,

that sugar level in your blood, one of the suggestions was actually going to the gym and working out so you can build some muscle.

I'm not a scientist, so I don't know exactly why this works, but apparently if you have more muscle mass, then it's good for lowering your blood sugar.

So I guess those were our main motivations, just being happy and healthy and mobile going forward as we age

and also to maintain and perhaps even improve my wife's blood sugar

so that it doesn't keep growing and getting higher and higher

so we live in an area of the city here we live in Seoul South Korea

which is this huge city of course

and one of the things that's great about living in a big city is the convenience especially

if you live in a very population dense area which we do

so that means that very close to where we live probably within just a one kilometer radius

if we drew a circle one kilometer wide around our home,

then I didn't count, but probably between 10 to 20 gyms are in that area.

Like there are gyms all over the place.

So we had too many options, really.

It's almost too many options.

And so we were researching about what gym would be the best fit for us.

And there are just a range of gyms in our area we went

and we toured a couple of them we saw the cheapest one first

because both of us have the idea and this might change going forward

but our initial idea is just to go to the gym maybe twice

or three times a week i don't think we'll be going

there every single day we already do other exercise i like to run my wife likes to swim

so our idea was to supplement our regular main exercise with the gym so we weren't expecting to go there

five or six days a week

so i thought well let's just go to a cheap gym that'll be okay we can do our workouts

and come home and that'll be that so we checked out the cheap gym

and the cheap gym in our neighborhood is just this huge

gym i think that's how they're able to give a cheaper membership price is it's huge

and because it's huge there's a lot of equipment

but there's a lot of people there as well

and it felt almost more like a warehouse than a gym so that was okay

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but i'm a little bit of a self -conscious person in the gym i don't know about you

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if you've ever worked out in a gym but

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because i don't have a lot of experience doing it it can feel a little bit uncomfortable for me

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and especially when there are many many people around then sometimes it stresses me out to be honest

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so you gotta weigh the pros

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and the cons the pro okay it's a cheaper price the con there are many people around

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and okay so that was our first option

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and then we went to another gym

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that was again pretty close to our place not too far however it was underground

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so it was in the basement of the building

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and I didn't really like that it felt a little stuffy

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and just a little claustrophobic being in the basement I don't

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know for whatever reason I thought it would be better

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if you could open the windows

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and not just have to rely on the air conditioning get

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some circulation I'm sure working out in a basement is fine

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but for me it just felt a little claustrophobic and damp

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and just not so great in there yeah so

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that was the second one we checked out and then the third gym

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that we checked out is the one

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that is closest to our home it's probably only about 200 meters away from our front door

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so it's very very convenient to visit it's on maybe the second

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or third floor of a building

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so it's not in the basement it's got lots of windows lots of natural light

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so these were the pros the cons of this gym it's

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more expensive I would say this is more of a boutique style gym so it's smaller however it's not so busy.

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So that issue that I feel of being stressed out around a bunch of other people while exercising, especially as a noob when I don't know exactly what I'm doing,

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I don't really feel that at this gym because there aren't a ton of people, which is nice.

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However, because of that luxury, because I think I'm not alone.

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I think a lot of people are like me.

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They maybe like working out more by themselves.

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I guess it's case by case, person by person, but I have that feeling that is the case.

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So maybe because of that, it is a little bit more expensive.

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However, while we were talking about our options and discussing it together, my wife and I decided that probably if we're going to stick with going to the gym,

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and to stick with something means to keep doing it without quitting, right?

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Continuously.

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So if we're going to continuously go to the gym, make a good habit of exercising at the gym often, then we must choose a gym that's close to our place.

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If we choose a gym that's far away, and even those other two gyms that we checked out, they weren't too far away,

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but we had to walk maybe 10 or 15 minutes to get to them.

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Again, as the crow flies, they're not very far.

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And as the crow flies is a great expression, a kind of idiomatic expression that means just the distance between one point and another point.

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You could imagine a crow, which is one of those blackbirds, you know, the blackbird, the crow.

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if it were to fly from point A to point B, it would just fly in a straight line, right?

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So in terms of pure distance from our home to those gyms we checked out, it's not very far, just a few hundred meters.

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However, there are traffic lights and some very long traffic lights that you have to wait for.

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And so that adds up and some congestion, like lots of people.

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And yeah, it just takes more time than you would expect to walk to a gym and any excuse you can get, I think when you're exercising, you're like, ah, it's kind of far.

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It's kind of busy.

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It's just so easy to put off and delay.

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So for that reason, we decided that we should go with the closest gym to our home.

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And even though it costs more money, that's eventually what we decided to do.

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Now, we tried the gym first.

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We signed up for a tour and a consultation.

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We met the staff there and they introduced the facility to us, explained about the different programs they offer, the equipment that they have,

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and they gave us a consultation and met with us and gave us their sales spiel.

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Sales spiel is, you know, when you go to any place where they want to sell you something, a car dealership, a furniture store, a gym, right?

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The gym staff are trying to sell you the membership.

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The sales staff at a car dealership, they're trying to sell you the car.

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So the spiel is kind of like that routine speech that the salesperson gives every customer.

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They have it memorized and they can just say it very quickly

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and very smoothly to try and convince you to sign up for the gym

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or to buy the car or whatever it may be.

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so the staff at the gym gave us the sales spiel

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and uh i have to say i wasn't quite convinced yet i heard the spiel

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and i was like okay thanks and then we went home

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and thought about it and then i actually took advantage of a trial personal trainer session

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that they offered they had a pretty discounted price i think

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it was maybe less than ten dollars american for a one

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hour session with one of their personal trainers to see if that would work for you.

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And so I did that session and I thought it was good.

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I liked the trainer.

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We vibed.

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We got along pretty well.

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And so after doing that, I thought, okay, let's do it.

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Let's sign up.

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So my wife and I, we both signed up for, actually, we're sharing a set of 10 personal training sessions with this trainer.

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So I'm going to do five and my wife is going to do five.

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And the idea is that hopefully we'll only need to do five sessions and we'll learn a good exercise routine,

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learn how to use the equipment.

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And then after we can do it more on our own, personal training is great.

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I have now completed four, four sessions with the trainer and they've been really fun and really helpful and really hard so far.

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However, it is really quite expensive, so I don't think I can do it for too much more longer.

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But yeah, so far, so good.

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And my wife has been enjoying her sessions as well.

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We both do them at different times, so we're not really overlapping.

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We thought about doing them together, to be honest.

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We asked the trainer, is it a good idea to do them together?

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But we both have different goals with the kind of training

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that we want to do

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and just some of the movements are different for the physiology between my body

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and my wife's body so for that reason the trainer suggested doing them separately

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and this is a little bit of an aside

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but another reason why I wanted to sign up

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and do the personal training sessions as opposed to just going to the gym

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and figuring things out myself or watching a YouTube video and then trying to emulate what I saw on the YouTube video, because I think that's another.

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popular way

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that people exercise these days is instead of having a personal trainer you can just watch a tutorial on youtube

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and then practice yourself

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so instead of doing those the reason why i wanted a personal trainer was for the korean practice

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because what awesome korean practice right i get to talk with a korean trainer in my target language the language

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that i'm learning as a second language, Korean, for an hour at a time in a real -world situation.

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Actually, over the summer, I did some online tutoring sessions with two different Korean tutors, and those were really cool.

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I found them to be super, super helpful and super, super fun to just chat online, one -on -one, in a video call with a tutor for an hour each week.

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That was great.

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However, it's so easy almost in that kind of situation because there are no distractions.

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You're focused one -on -one.

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The tutor is using a good microphone and me too.

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I'm using a good microphone and I have good headphones so the audio is clear and everything.

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But I get stressed with my Korean, maybe you when you're learning English as well, is that sometimes when we go out into the real world,

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then it can be a lot more difficult call it.

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You have these chaotic situations.

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You have people who are talking at the same time.

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You have loud background music.

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You have other loud sounds, maybe traffic sounds or sirens.

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And yeah, it can be chaotic in the real world.

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So although I think that one -on -one tutoring are great and helpful, why not get some real -world training as well?

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And so talking with my personal trainer as I'm training has been great.

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I'm kind of two for one -ing, I suppose.

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I get a mind workout with the Korean language and I get a body workout with the training as well.

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And that kind of situation is really, really great because the gym,

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actually this is something that I don't like about gyms is that they play really loud music.

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I'm a music snob.

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Maybe Q -Lips listeners, you guys know that I'm a music snob.

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So I'm pretty particular about the kind of music I like to listen to.

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Usually that kind of upbeat pop music that gyms are blaring is okay, but it's not necessarily my style from time to time.

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I can groove with it, but usually it's not my style.

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So yeah, that's a bit of a pet peeve of mine, but it's great for the language training aspect of it because

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that loud music is playing and I have to try and focus on what my personal trainer, my trainer is saying.

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And so that's good, I think, for building my Korean skills as well.

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And also there are some real world consequences to not understanding something.

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Like if my trainer says to move like this or to slow down or go faster,

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I really have to pay attention and follow his instructions or else, you know, maybe I could injure myself or hurt myself.

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I'm carrying weight.

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I'm doing something difficult.

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And so it's really good for me to focus on what he's saying

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and important for me to focus on what he's saying.

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So that is another one of the motivations behind why I decided to sign up for a gym membership.

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So yeah, a few weeks ago, my wife and I had our first sessions.

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And like I said, they've been good.

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We've been doing it now for three weeks, maybe four weeks or so.

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But there is a funny story that I wanted to share with you.

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And that's really the purpose of today's episode.

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So let me get to the funny, embarrassing story.

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And I guess this was my second session with the personal trainer.

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He's a great guy.

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He's maybe a decade younger than me.

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He's got a lot of experience weightlifting.

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He has been in body building competitions before.

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And yeah, just a great trainer so far.

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I have nothing bad to say about him.

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However, I told him that right now I'm in the process of training for a marathon.

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Maybe listeners will know that I love marathoning.

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I love running and I am doing a big marathon at the start of November.

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So right now I'm about six weeks away from that.

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And that is my main focus right now is I don't want to do too much intense weightlifting

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or anything or work out too hard at the gym because I need to focus on training for the marathon.

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And I told my trainer after the marathon, then if you want to push me a little bit and give me some more intense workouts,

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okay, at that time we can do them I'll be down to do them then

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but before the marathon I kind of just want uh an introduction to the gym

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how to use the equipment and how to do the movements and the lifts because some of them are quite complicated.

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You have to have your body in a certain position

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and your toes pointed a certain way

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and your knees bent at a certain angle

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and your hip bent at a certain angle

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and your breathing needs to be right and your neck

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and your head and your back and actually it's very confusing some of these poses

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that you need to hold while doing certain lifts can be quite complicated and quite confusing.

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But I told the trainer, hey, don't work me out too hard until after the marathon and then we can increase the intensity.

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But before then, I just want to take it easy and learn how to do some of these movements.

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So my trainer said, yeah, that's cool.

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I understand.

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No problem.

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You focus on your marathon training and just come in once a week with me

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and I'll give you an orientation to the gym until after the training is finished for the marathon

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and then we'll ramp up the intensity. So cool.

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So I believe it was my second time at the gym and the first session we did legs, leg, like lower body workout.

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And then the second session was upper body workout.

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And I have to say that probably like most people actually,

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I think most humans have stronger legs than stronger arms and stronger upper body.

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Certainly that is the case for me where I have a lot more power in my lower body

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and not as much power in my upper body.

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So as we were practicing doing some of the upper body workout stuff,

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like some bench press, I was doing the bench press and I was doing some other exercises, an overhead press, I think it's called,

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where you have a barbell and you have to lift it up over your head.

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I was doing that one and then the final exercise I was doing that day was a dumbbell fly.

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A dumbbell is the name of that weight

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that you just hold in your hand

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and a fly movement is where you're moving your arm out to the side almost like a bird flaps their wings.

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It's kind of that motion where maybe that's why they call it a fly

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because it looks like you're flying and flapping wings as you're doing this exercise.

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So the final exercise of the day was the dumbbell fly.

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Now, most of the training session that I was doing that day was in a pretty empty gym.

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There weren't too many people in the gym at that time.

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However, as I was getting closer to the end of my session, it started to fill up and there were some people coming in.

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And so maybe the gym had like 10 or 15 people

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and it wasn't super busy or anything but there were some other people

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and there were a couple of younger guys who were also

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doing some dumbbell exercises right close to where I was doing them

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and these younger guys I guess maybe they were gym rats

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a gym rat is somebody who hangs out at the gym

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and exercises often because they had pretty good bodies they were pretty strong

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and they knew they looked like they knew what they were

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doing really well they had heavy heavy dumbbells I don't know how heavy but they were certainly much, much bigger than the dumbbells that I was using.

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And they were just ripping these flies out.

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No problem.

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Whereas the trainer told me, okay, Andrew, since this is your first time, we're going to do just very lightweight.

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And he gave me one of the lightest dumbbells that they had in the gym, which was a pink dumbbell.

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And I think it was only two kilograms.

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Maybe it was even one kilogram it was just like this super small little pink dumbbell and

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so he said okay Andrew let's do some flies you're going

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to do 15 of these flies with the pink dumbbells

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and I thought okay this is going to be no problem like this is a ridiculously small amount of weight

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and 15 seems like no problem so I did the first set okay

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and a set means like a group of lifts

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so I did 15 repetitions and those 15 repetitions

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that would be one set so we use these expressions in English

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when talking about weightlifting reps and sets

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so I was gonna do three sets total and each set had 15 reps so I did the first set, no problem.

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However, it did feel like as I was getting to 13, 14, 15, started to feel the burn in my arms and in my shoulders a little bit.

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And then I did the second set.

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Okay.

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And then it was time to do the final set.

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And for the final set, as I hit like number 10, then it really started to burn.

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And my trainer went behind me and was guiding my arms.

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So he's helping me to lift just this two kilogram pink dumbbell up.

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And at the same time, beside me, there are these younger guys who are just ripping the flies with these heavy weights.

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And yeah, I just felt a little bit embarrassed at that moment.

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Like, oh my gosh, I have really no strength at all.

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I felt very humbled, I suppose.

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I mean, I already went into this experience with a pretty healthy beginner's mindset,

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I think, whereas like I'm not going to do any ego lifting.

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Ego lifting, this is another gym idiom, just means lifting weight that's too heavy for you because your ego,

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your sense of who you are is overly confident

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and you want to prove yourself even though you really don't have that skill or that ability.

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You want to show like you're strong but maybe you aren't really strong.

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We call that ego lifting.

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So I think I went in with the expectation

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that I'm okay with just starting at the very very very

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beginning that's cool I don't need to do any ego lifts I don't need to show off

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and try and pretend like I'm strong if I don't have

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that strength but at the same time in

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that moment having the trainer stand behind me and guide my arms open

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and help me so that I could complete the lifts

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when it was only a two kilogram pink dumbbell

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while being juxtaposed juxtaposed means put side by side side by

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side with these other guys who are doing this exercise with

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much heavier weight with no problems at all it felt a little bit embarrassing a little bit humbled

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but at the end of the day it was no big

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deal I mean it's not like those guys who are really

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good at weightlifting it's not like they were laughing at me

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or anything they just minded their own business they didn't even look at me i think

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so it's all in my head all in my mind

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but i think it's good everybody's a beginner at some point right

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and so the main thing for me now is just to keep going not quit

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and but i feel like it's been pretty good so far

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and good for my body good for my mind good for my korean

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and i'm gonna keep it up i'm gonna do it

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so that's my story guys i wanted to tell you today was about finding a gym

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and working out with a personal trainer and that embarrassing experience with the pink dumbbells.

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To end this episode today, I want to tell you that the Q -Lips hotline is open again.

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Actually, a few weeks ago, in I think it was bonus episode 179,

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I asked for listeners to leave me a voice message and to tell me a story about a terrible, stressful morning that you had.

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And Q -Lips listeners from around the world, you responded.

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I got lots of responses and I'm going to share those responses with you in the next episode from next week.

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So you can look forward to hearing your stories in our next bonus episode

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but I also want to open the hotline again by the

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way I'm going to nickname it the Q -Lips hotline for now

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if you have a better name suggestion for me let me know I'm not 100 % sure

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if Q -Lips hotline is a good name or not

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but it's all I could think of for now

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but with our new app it's really easy guys I'm going

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to put a link in the description for this episode

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and you'll just click that link

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and on your phone I suggest using your phone it's easier to do this on your phone than your computer

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so phone or tablet but just click that link on your phone

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or tablet and it's going to open right to an audio recorder just hit record

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and you'll have two minutes to share an audio story

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and after you share your story then it will automatically be sent to me

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and I'll have the audio file well before

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that happens you'll have a chance to review it so

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if you want to check and see you know sometimes maybe you didn't like the way

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that you said something that can happen, right?

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So if you want to rerecord, that's okay.

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And then once you're okay, you're satisfied, just hit send and it will automatically send me the file and you're finished.

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You don't have to do anything at all other than that.

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So it couldn't be easier to send me your audio story.

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And I hope again, I'll get some great participation from Q -Lips listeners from around the world.

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But what I want to know for this week's request for

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the Q -Lips hotline is why don't you share a story

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with us about a time where you had an awkward

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or a funny or an embarrassing experience because you were a beginner or because you were trying something new.

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I told you this week about my story about lifting pink weights at the gym.

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That was my embarrassing story, but I want to hear from you as well.

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So follow the link in the description for this episode, and you could submit your story.

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After a few weeks, I'll collect all of them, and we'll listen to them together in an upcoming bonus episode.

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And definitely, I'm excited to hear what you have to say.

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So don't be shy.

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be active with your English.

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This is a great chance to be active with your English

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and to be confident with your English and to build your skills.

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Of course, listening is part of the equation.

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We need to do lots of English listening as we're building our English fluency.

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And certainly you've done that here today, spending time with me.

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But in addition to that, we do need to speak and practice speaking as well.

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And so here's your chance to do that.

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So I'm eagerly waiting for your story.

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Okay, guys, I think that's going to bring me to the end for this week.

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Thank you for listening all the way to the end.

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Amazing job.

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Please take care and I'll catch you in the next Qloops episode.

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Until then, bye -bye.

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Phương Pháp Shadowing Là Gì?

Shadowing là kỹ thuật học ngôn ngữ có cơ sở khoa học, ban đầu được phát triển cho chương trình đào tạo phiên dịch viên chuyên nghiệp và được phổ biến rộng rãi bởi nhà đa ngôn ngữ học Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Nguyên lý cốt lõi đơn giản nhưng cực kỳ hiệu quả: bạn nghe tiếng Anh của người bản xứ và lặp lại to ngay lập tức — như một "cái bóng" (shadow) đuổi theo người nói với độ trễ chỉ 1–2 giây. Khác với luyện ngữ pháp hay học từ vựng bị động, Shadowing buộc não bộ và cơ miệng phải đồng thời xử lý và tái tạo ngôn ngữ thực tế. Các nghiên cứu khoa học xác nhận phương pháp này cải thiện đáng kể phát âm, ngữ điệu, nhịp điệu, nối âm, kỹ năng nghe và độ lưu loát khi nói — đặc biệt hiệu quả cho người luyện IELTS Speaking và muốn giao tiếp tiếng Anh tự nhiên như người bản ngữ.

Phương pháp shadowing: đọc hướng dẫn từng bước đầy đủ →

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Simplified Speech #186 – Christmas 2023

Lifestyle change | Learn English with real stories | Bonus 98

Special delivery | Learn English with real-life stories | Bonus 127

Chatterbox #244 - Meeting celebrities [English listening practice]

Home alone for the weekend | English listening practice | Bonus 161

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Chatterbox #309 – Quiet quitting

Simplified Speech #32 - Dancing

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