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Welcome to episode one of our series, English You'll Actually Use.
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In this series, we're going to break down textbook English versus real English
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so that you can start sounding like a native English speaker.
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Are you ready?
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Well, then let's jump right in section.
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One of our lesson is the word you were never taught.
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You see textbooks teach the dictionary word native speakers, however, reach for a completely different one.
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And that's the word that makes you sound like you belong.
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If there are moments when you're speaking and people look at you and they're looking at you in a weird way, or you feel like when you're speaking,
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your like native speakers, it's because you've been using textbook English.
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So let's check out a few situations and compare textbook English versus real English.
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Here's our first situation. Being out.
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in the rain.
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Now, textbook English is very wet.
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This is a correct statement, but it's textbook English.
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However, Real life English is the word drenched,
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which means soaked completely through every layer of clothing, heavy with water.
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You see the difference.
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Very wet?
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Yes, it's very true, but that's textbook English.
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When I go outside, if it's raining heavily, I can say, "Oh man, I'm drenched." Textbook English, very wet.
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Real life English drenched.
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What about this situation right here?
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Let's say you're going to a coffee shop.
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Now textbook English would be.
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very tired.
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Maybe you are feeling tired at the coffee shop, but real life English is wiped.
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It means completely drained of energy, usually after a long stretch of effort.
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So yes, you're tired, but you'd say, ah, I'm wiped.
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I need to get some coffee.
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I need some energy again.
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Textbook English, very tired.
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Real life.
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English is wiped.
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What about our third situation?
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Our third situation is dealing with an airport.
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Now you could describe this individual sitting at the airport by saying, stressed, but that is textbook English.
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On the other hand, real life English is frazzled.
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Frazzled means mentally scattered and worn out from too much going on at one time.
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In English, real life English, we say frazzled.
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Now, very tired.
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Yes.
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Good example.
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Stressed.
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Yes.
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Good example.
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Very wet.
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Yes.
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Good examples, but they're textbook examples.
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Now you have the real life English examples, which leads us to section number two, forget the textbook phrase.
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You see the expression you learned.
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It's technically correct.
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The expressions you've learned in classes from your teachers, from a textbook, they're technically correct.
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but many of them are not used in real life by native English speakers.
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The real expression the real life expression is what signals you're
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a real speaker not you A student let's check this out for comparison situation.
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Number one, going back to our situation in the rain.
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Now textbook English is, it is raining heavily.
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It is raining very heavily.
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Now that's a good sentence.
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That's a good expression.
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It is raining heavily.
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but we're looking at textbook English in comparison to real life English.
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This is what real life English would sound like.
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It's Coming down hard.
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Look at the comparison.
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Listen to the comparison textbook English.
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It is raining very heavily real life English It's coming down hard Very subtle.
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But there is a difference.
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There's nuance.
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Textbook versus real life.
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And what about this situation.
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Now, situation number two, going back to The coffee shop.
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Textbook English now.
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How have you been recently?
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Again, very good question.
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It makes sense.
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The grammar is all correct.
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How have you been recently?
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But real life English is what have you been up to?
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What have you been up to again, a subtle difference, but if you say, what have you been up to immediately?
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A person will feel like your English is amazing.
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It's not textbook English again.
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How have you been recently is textbook English, real life English.
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What have you been up to?
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What about our third scenario?
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Our third scenario again, at the airport, we're at the airport.
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And this is an example of textbook English.
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There are many people here Again, there are many people here.
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Great sentence, great expression describes the situation very well, but listen to the subtle nuance.
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Now we're going to get real life English.
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Real life English is this place is packed.
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This place is packed.
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Something that native English speakers, including me, your English teacher, teacher Tiffany, we say all the time.
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Whoa, this place is packed.
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We're saying there are a lot of people in this location or at this location.
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Here now is section number three.
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How they actually describe it again,
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English you'll actually use, you see descriptive words separate flat English from vivid English, the textbook word.
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It does the job, but the real word, the real life word makes people picture it.
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They can envision it.
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They can visualize it in their minds. For example.
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Going back to our situation, situation number one.
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The rain textbook English would describe this by saying the wet street.
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Now that is a true statement.
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The street is wet in the image, but listen to the difference.
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Now we're going to look at real life English with the term slick.
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The streets were slick, which means smooth and dangerously slippery from rain.
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slick.
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You're hearing the difference.
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Again, the grammar is not the issue.
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We're trying to go from textbook to English you'll actually use.
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From textbook English to real life English.
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Here's our second situation.
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The coffee shop.
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Now textbook English describing the situation would be the busy coffee shop.
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Once again.
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There are lots of people.
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So yes, the coffee shop is busy, but that is textbook English.
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Real life.
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English is buzzing.
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The cafe was buzzing, meaning alive with low chatter and quiet energy.
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Textbook English, the busy coffee shop.
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Real life English, the cafe was buzzing.
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You see now you're learning English.
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You're so intelligent, but you have to understand the difference between textbook English and real life English.
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This is why this series is important.
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Situation number three, back to the airport.
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Textbook English.
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The crowded airport.
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but real life English bustling.
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The terminal was bustling, meaning full of fast, busy movement in every direction.
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Textbook, crowded airport, real life.
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The terminal was bustling.
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You're seeing the difference you've learned properly.
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You've learned a lot, but you have to understand the difference between
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textbook English and real life English leading us to section number four.
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The full picture in one breath.
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You see textbook English describes what's there.
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Real English answers the questions a native speaker's mind is already asking the five W's, you know it, who, what,
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when, where, and why without sounding like a list.
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So I want you to pay attention to this comparison right here.
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Looking at our first situation again, the rain.
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Now, textbook English would describe it like this.
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A woman is on the street.
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It is raining.
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She has no umbrella.
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She looks unhappy.
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These are facts being stated.
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You're describing the picture, but it still feels like a textbook.
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It doesn't feel like real life English.
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This is why.
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Real life English would describe it in this way.
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A young woman is rushing home through downtown on a Tuesday evening after work,
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because she got caught in a sudden downpour without an umbrella.
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You heard the difference.
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Real life English answers the who, what, when, where, and why.
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Answering these questions makes you sound more realistic, more fluent.
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Textbook English versus real life English.
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Look at this scenario.
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Scenario number two, situation in the coffee shop.
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Now describing this situation, our textbook would be Two friends are at a coffee shop.
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They are drinking coffee.
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They are talking.
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They look happy.
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Stating the facts, describing what we see in the image, but it still feels like a textbook.
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Listen closely now.
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The real life English version answers each of the five W's.
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Two old college friends are catching up at their favorite neighborhood cafe on Saturday morning
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because they haven't seen each other since one of them moved across the country last year.
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The who, the, what, the, when the, where, and the,
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why each of these W's can be found in the real life English description.
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And what about this situation again at the airport?
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The textbook English to describe the situation.
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We have this, a man is at an airport.
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He has a suitcase.
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There are only a few people at the airport.
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He looks tired.
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Textbook English though.
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You're giving me the facts.
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You're stating the points.
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You're describing what you are seeing.
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But listen closely to the real life English version.
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The real life English version is a businessman is dragging his
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carry on through the terminal during the Sunday evening rush at JFK.
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Because his connecting flight home from a week long work trip just got delayed for a second time.
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You hear all of the details, all of the information added into the response added into the description of the image.
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Textbook English versus real life English, which leads us to section number five.
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Same scene, different speaker again.
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Same scene, different speaker.
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You see, when a native speaker describes a moment, they don't recite facts.
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They tell a tiny story.
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This is where everything you've learned in the first four sections comes together.
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The word, the expression, the descriptive language term, the five W's.
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Now we're putting them together.
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Same scene, but different speaker.
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Listen to our first situation.
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Again, we have the rain.
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Textbook English would sound like this.
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I was walking home from work.
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The rain started.
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I did not have an umbrella.
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I got very wet.
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I was unhappy.
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You're giving me the facts.
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You're giving me the details.
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I know what happened, but it still sounds like a textbook.
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Listen to the real life English version.
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Here we go.
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I was on my way home from work when the sky just opened up out of nowhere.
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Of course, I'd left my umbrella at the office.
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By the time I got to my building, I was drenched like water in my shoes, drenched, not exactly how I wanted to end.
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my Tuesday.
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Okay.
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You hear the difference, the textbook English version versus the real life English version.
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Then we have this situation again, back to our coffee shop.
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And this is the textbook version to describe what happened.
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I met my friend at a coffee shop.
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We had not seen each other for one year.
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We drank coffee, We talked for two hours.
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It happened was a good day.
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Now I gave you all the information, but it still sounded like a textbook.
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It still sounded robotic, just relaying facts, relaying details.
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But now we have the real life English version.
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Thank you.
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I finally caught up with Sarah this weekend.
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It had been over a year since she moved to Denver.
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We grabbed coffee at that little place on 5th.
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The one with the good pastries and ended up sitting there for almost three hours.
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hours.
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Honestly, it felt like no time had passed. At all.
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You felt like I was telling you a story, right?
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That felt real because it was real life life.
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English.
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And what about our situation with the airport?
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Again, textbook English first.
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It would be...
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I was at the airport.
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My flight was late.
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I was very tired.
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I waited for many hours.
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Finally, I went home.
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It's as if I'm stepping you through the details, but not connecting them.
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Listen to the real life English version.
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So I just got back from a brutal trip, five days, three cities.
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And of course, My flight home got delayed twice.
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By the time I finally made it to baggage claim at JFK, I was completely frazzled.
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All I wanted was my bed and a quiet Sunday textbook, English versus real life.
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English.
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I hope you learned a lot and I'll talk to you in the next lesson.

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本節課你將學到什麼？

這節課通過對比“課本英語”和“真實英語”，幫你擺脫生硬表達，說出更像母語者的口語。我們會拆解3個日常場景的實用詞彙，還會教你如何通過影子跟讀法（shadow speech）練習發音和語調。無論是準備雅思口語練習，還是想提升日常交流能力，都能在這裡找到實用方法。

核心詞彙與短語

  • drenched：表示“渾身溼透”，比“very wet”更生動。比如淋雨時可以說“Oh man, I'm drenched.”。
  • wiped：形容“精疲力竭”，比“very tired”更口語。在咖啡店可以說“I'm wiped. I need some coffee.”。
  • frazzled：指“因事情太多而心力交瘁”，比“stressed”更貼切。機場場景可用“I'm so frazzled with all the flights.”。
  • 課本英語 vs 真實英語：學會區分兩者，讓你的表達更自然。

練習技巧：影子跟讀法（shadow speech）

看YouTube學英語時，試試影子跟讀法：播放影片後延遲1-2秒跟讀，模仿母語者的語速和語調。這節課的內容語速適中，適合初學者。練習時注意“drenched”的重音在第一個音節，“wiped”要讀得簡短有力，“frazzled”的“z”音要發清楚。每天堅持10分鐘，不僅能提高英語發音，還能讓口語更流暢。記住，犯錯沒關係，重點是敢說、多說！

無論是日常交流還是雅思口語練習，這些實用表達和技巧都能幫你更自信地開口。現在就開啟影片，開始練習吧！

影片中的語法

說話人最常用的結構，並附上影片中的原話：

結構影片中的用法
現在完成時 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去發生但與現在仍有關聯的事you've learned · have you been · haven't seen
被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的were never taught · is wiped · is frazzled
過去進行時 was/were + -ing — 過去某一時刻正在進行的動作was buzzing · was bustling · was walking
現在進行時 am/is/are + -ing — 此刻或近期正在發生的事you're speaking · is dealing · is raining

什麼是跟讀法？

跟讀法 (Shadowing) 是一種有科學依據的語言學習技巧，最初開發用於專業口譯員的培訓，並由多語言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。這個方法簡單而強大：您在聽英語母語原聲的同時立即大聲重複——就像是一個延遲1-2秒緊跟說話者的影子。與被動聽力或語法練習不同，跟讀法強迫您的大腦和口腔肌肉同時處理並模模擬實的講話模式。研究表明它能顯著提高發音準確性，語調，節奏，連讀，聽力理解和口語流利度——使其成為雅思口語備考和真實英語交流最有效的方法之一。

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