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Speak English Naturally With Me | Easy Comprehensible Input Vlog

English shadowing practice · 451 sentences · 17:53 long · 3107 words

Speak English Naturally With Me | Easy Comprehensible Input Vlog

About this practice session

This page turns the YouTube video “Speak English Naturally With Me | Easy Comprehensible Input Vlog” into an English shadowing exercise. The recording is split into 451 short sentences that you can play one at a time, repeat after the speaker and record your own version for automatic pronunciation scoring.

The speaker talks at about 229 words per minute, a fast pace, with an average of 6.9 words per sentence. That makes it best for advanced learners; slow the playback down or loop each sentence at first.

How to practise with this video

  1. Play the first sentence and listen while reading the transcript. Notice the stress, the pauses and where the intonation rises or falls.
  2. Replay it and speak along with the speaker, copying the rhythm rather than reading word by word.
  3. Record yourself straight after the original. ShadowEcho scores each word for accuracy, fluency and completeness.
  4. Compare your recording with the original, retry the words marked in red, then move on to the next sentence.
  5. Practise 10–15 minutes a day. Coming back to the same video after a few days is an easy way to measure progress.

Transcript (English)

  1. Welcome back to a new video guys.
  2. Today we are in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
  3. Today we have a clear and
  4. natural comprehensible input vlog.
  5. In this video we will be walking
  6. around the city, visiting different places,
  7. and describing everything using comprehensible input.
  8. This video is part of my 3,000
  9. most common English word series
  10. designed to help you
  11. understand up to 95% of spoken English.
  12. If you want to get the PDF, it's in the description.
  13. Let's get started.
  14. Okay guys, so we're in Vietnam and
  15. let's describe everything around us
  16. with comprehensible input with very clear, natural English.
  17. What are these called right here?
  18. What are these called?
  19. These are stools.
  20. These are stools.
  21. The stools I am used to are about this tall
  22. and usually you sit on them when you are at a counter.
  23. It's very common to have stools in bars
  24. or in your kitchen around the counter.
  25. However, these stools are very short.
  26. You can see how much shorter they
  27. are compared to a regular-sized stool.
  28. So in my experience in Asia, the stools are a lot smaller
  29. because people just sit very low to the ground.
  30. They sit very low to the ground.
  31. In the West, we do not sit that low to the ground at all.
  32. So it is like a little uncomfortable to
  33. sit like that for extended periods of time,
  34. but it's not too bad if I'm being honest.
  35. So if you look over here, this is I guess what a typical
  36. area in District 1 looks like in Vietnam.
  37. Currently, we are in District 1,
  38. which is the most famous district for tourists in Vietnam.
  39. You can see many vehicles here, which is surprising.
  40. Usually, you see a lot more scooters,
  41. but inside this area right here, there are just scooters.
  42. but yeah, they just have scooters there.
  43. Over here, we have a tree and
  44. there are many trees along this road.
  45. And here, we have cardboard boxes that have been opened up
  46. and flattened and placed on this cart.
  47. The person that owns this will probably sell it later.
  48. But if you go over here, you can see the cafe apartments.
  49. The cafe apartments, and we are about to go over there
  50. and check out the view and drink a coffee.
  51. This is not our first day in Ho Chi Minh.
  52. We've been here for a few days, but
  53. this is the first time we're filming.
  54. And we're just going to explore all the tourist sites
  55. and just explore Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam.
  56. This is our second time in Vietnam.
  57. The last time I was here was with my younger brother.
  58. That was three years ago.
  59. This time, I'm here with my
  60. older brother three years later.
  61. But I am excited to be in Vietnam.
  62. Vietnamese food is some of my favorite food.
  63. And we have been indulging
  64. heavily in that food, haven't we?
  65. Yeah, we have.
  66. We had some good Vietnamese hamburgers last night.
  67. look up there, dude.
  68. To me, that looks like the Avengers Tower.
  69. If you put like an A on it, like the Avengers logo, dude,
  70. that would literally look like the Avengers Tower.
  71. Anyways, today, we'll be talking
  72. at a normal, natural English pace,
  73. at a normal, natural English pace,
  74. but we'll be talking clearly.
  75. So, try your best to follow along and shadow.
  76. And if there are moments you don't understand something,
  77. just rewind a few seconds.
  78. You can also turn on captions in
  79. the corner by clicking the CC button.
  80. And you can follow along there
  81. as well, if you want captions.
  82. But anyways, we are walking on the
  83. sidewalk here in Ho Chi Minh City.
  84. It's not too hot today, but it
  85. still is hot compared to Canada.
  86. So, I just opened up my weather app,
  87. and it's currently 30 degrees Celsius in Ho Chi Minh City,
  88. but it feels like 34 degrees.
  89. But it's only 11 a.m.
  90. It's not the hottest time of day yet.
  91. Around noon, 1 p.m., 2 p.m.,
  92. that is when it will be the hottest.
  93. And today, there is a high of 35
  94. degrees, so it will be very hot today.
  95. What about rain?
  96. Rain, no rain, but it is very sunny.
  97. I wish I brought my umbrella.
  98. I low-key need it.
  99. Look at the sidewalk here.
  100. It's very stained, eh?
  101. Yeah.
  102. It's very, very stained.
  103. It's like stained like black almost.
  104. I wonder what that is.
  105. Do you have any guesses?
  106. Honestly, I don't know.
  107. Like, it's not sticky.
  108. I think it's from food, like cooking oil maybe.
  109. Oil.
  110. Yeah, okay, oil.
  111. It's kind of like darker, and that's
  112. what oil looks when it stains something.
  113. Anyways, can you guys tell me why this wall is here?
  114. This wall is to hide the construction on the other side.
  115. So currently, they are probably
  116. building something on the other side of this,
  117. and they put this wall here to hide it.
  118. I guess this is what they're building.
  119. A mall with a pool, like a rooftop pool.
  120. That's what they're building here.
  121. But I do really like the vibe in Vietnam.
  122. I love it.
  123. It's nice.
  124. Like, look, just look.
  125. I just like looking out at stuff.
  126. Although, I will say one thing,
  127. there is a lot of noise pollution.
  128. Noise pollution is a term that
  129. refers to like the sounds of a city.
  130. It's honking, like you hear all that honking,
  131. the sounds of vehicles, the sounds of people working.
  132. Noise pollution.
  133. There is a lot of noise
  134. pollution that you have to get used to.
  135. And in Vietnam, people park their scooters everywhere.
  136. All along the sidewalks, you'll see scooters parked.
  137. Like, look at this.
  138. Everywhere you look, there are scooters parked.
  139. Isn't there a stat that there are
  140. more scooters than people in Vietnam?
  141. Yeah, it's like 2 to 1 or something.
  142. We should lowkey eat something, eh?
  143. You hungry?
  144. I thought you said you weren't hungry today.
  145. Oh, I'm hungry every day.
  146. I'm not hungry for dinner, though.
  147. Let's see if we find anything good along the street.
  148. Yeah, if we see something good, we'll definitely stop by.
  149. What about the Sony Fujifilm Nikon Canon store?
  150. Oh, I think this whole street is cameras
  151. What do you think they sell there?
  152. I think they sell Canon, Nikon, Fujifilm and Sony.
  153. Are you sure?
  154. What makes you say that?
  155. I don't know.
  156. I just got a hunch.
  157. A hunch?
  158. He has a hunch that they sell cameras.
  159. I don't know.
  160. I would bet they don't.
  161. If I bet you $100 they don't, would you take that bet?
  162. I would take that bet.
  163. You would?
  164. I would.
  165. Oh, confident.
  166. Okay, so we are now at 7-Eleven,
  167. and we just came here to get
  168. something to drink since it's so hot out.
  169. And to also cool down, because
  170. these stores are always cool,
  171. because they have the AC running.
  172. But I think I'll get a Picari sweat.
  173. I think electrolytes are good.
  174. It's just kind of small, though.
  175. Look at those 2 plus 1.
  176. You think these are good?
  177. Those are electrolytes, too.
  178. Is it revived zero calorie?
  179. Okay, I'll get 2 of these then,
  180. and then we'll get a third one.
  181. Hopefully these taste good.
  182. As you guys know, I love trees,
  183. and this is a really cool tree.
  184. This is lowkey a perfect Tree for an urban area, is it not?
  185. Because it gives you shade.
  186. I'm pretty sure this is called the shade tree.
  187. Oh, really?
  188. Because this is literally like
  189. an umbrella, a natural umbrella.
  190. And here you can see the tree is supported by this metal,
  191. so that it grows straight directly upwards.
  192. So this is used as support, and it's actually quite nice.
  193. It has a bed around the tree trunk.
  194. It's quite nice.
  195. They should put flowers in here, though.
  196. I don't know if they planted
  197. these or these are just natural,
  198. but they should put flowers.
  199. Maybe during spring, there are flowers.
  200. Maybe.

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