Slow English Podcast #1 | Listen and learn clear, slow, natural English — Transcript

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1. 0:00Hello everyone, welcome to my first slow
2. 0:05English podcast. In this podcast, you
3. 0:09will listen and then you will repeat
4. 0:14after me. You will repeat after me. This
5. 0:18will help you practice your
6. 0:19pronunciation,
7. 0:21your accent, and your confidence when
8. 0:26speaking English. I will speak slowly
9. 0:30and clearly during the whole video. I
10. 0:34have never seen it before. And we
11. 0:38arrived in Bangkok at 400 p.m. It only
12. 0:42snowed once. Do you know them all? Let's
13. 0:46get started. So, recently I went to
14. 0:51South Korea with my older brother. South
15. 0:57Korea is what?
16. 1:01South Korea is a country. And the
17. 1:05capital of South Korea is Soul. Soul.
18. 1:10What is Soul?
19. 1:13Soul is a city. Soul is a city. Now,
20. 1:19this isn't my first trip to South Korea.
21. 1:24I have been to South Korea before.
22. 1:28Around three years ago, I was an
23. 1:32exchange student in South Korea. An
24. 1:37exchange student is a student that
25. 1:39studies in a different university,
26. 1:42usually in a different country for one
27. 1:44semester or even two, like in my case.
28. 1:50So I studied in Soul, South Korea for
29. 1:55two semesters. The university I studied
30. 1:59at was Jon University. That was 3 years
31. 2:04ago. My first time in South Korea, I had
32. 2:09no idea how public transit worked. So,
33. 2:13it was very very difficult for me to
34. 2:17navigate and get around South Korea, but
35. 2:23I figured it out and now I am a
36. 2:27professional.
37. 2:28I like using neighbor maps because you
38. 2:32can't use Google Maps. Google Maps
39. 2:35doesn't work in South Korea. So, you
40. 2:39have two options.
41. 2:42Neighbor maps or cacao maps? I prefer
42. 2:47neighbor maps. What do you prefer? So,
43. 2:51me and my brother arrived in South Korea
44. 2:55on the 28th
45. 2:58of November.
46. 3:01November is a month and we stayed for
47. 3:05exactly one month. So, we left on the
48. 3:0928th of December. And I remember that
49. 3:15was on a Sunday. A Sunday. Sunday is a
50. 3:21day of the week. Sunday. Do you know
51. 3:26them all? Monday,
52. 3:29Tuesday,
53. 3:31Wednesday,
54. 3:33Thursday,
55. 3:34Friday,
56. 3:36Saturday,
57. 3:38Sunday. Good job. The area my brother
58. 3:41and I stayed in was called Hung. Hung is
59. 3:46a neighborhood in Seoul. It is a very
60. 3:50popular and trendy neighborhood
61. 3:53especially for younger people because
62. 3:57there are many universities
63. 4:00surrounding Hungai for example Yoni
64. 4:04University Iwa women's university soong
65. 4:08university Hongik University and there
66. 4:12might be more but I don't know them all.
67. 4:15I don't know them all.
68. 4:18I only know those four universities.
69. 4:22During our trip to Korea, we enjoyed a
70. 4:26lot of very delicious Korean food. Some
71. 4:31of my favorite Korean food include
72. 4:34takali,
73. 4:35jokal, jimduck, kimchi, jig,
74. 4:40and Korean barbecue. Those are my five
75. 4:46favorite Korean foods. What are your
76. 4:50favorite foods? Let me know in the
77. 4:54comments. Make a sentence
78. 4:57in the comments. My favorite food is my
79. 5:02favorite foods are during our trip in
80. 5:07Korea. It only snowed once and only for
81. 5:12about 30 minutes. It didn't snow for
82. 5:16very long, but it snowed a lot. It
83. 5:22snowed a lot. We even made a snowman.
84. 5:26And I know Korea is cold, but I didn't
85. 5:29expect it to be so cold. When I got
86. 5:33there, I was freezing. I wanted to buy a
87. 5:38big puffy winter jacket. A big puffy
88. 5:42winter jacket to cover my whole body
89. 5:46from head to toe. But I decided not to
90. 5:51because I would then have to carry that
91. 5:55winter jacket with me all throughout
92. 5:58Asia because I am going to be visiting
93. 6:03many countries in Asia. I have already
94. 6:08been to South Korea. I won't be going
95. 6:11north. And right now I'm currently in
96. 6:16Thailand. I am in Thailand. After
97. 6:20Thailand, I will be going to Malaysia,
98. 6:24then Vietnam,
99. 6:26then China, then India, then Japan, and
100. 6:31after that I haven't decided where I
101. 6:33want to go. Maybe Taiwan, maybe the
102. 6:37Philippines, maybe Indonesia, maybe Hong
103. 6:41Kong. There are many places I would like
104. 6:44to visit. Now tell me, do you guys enjoy
105. 6:49traveling? Do you like to travel? I
106. 6:54personally love traveling, but I like
107. 6:59staying in one place for at least two
108. 7:04weeks. I don't like to travel every day
109. 7:09or every week. I like to stay in one
110. 7:13place for at least two weeks and if I
111. 7:19like it then I'll stay for one month.
112. 7:22That is why I stayed in Korea for one
113. 7:27month because I knew I would love it.
114. 7:31While I was in Korea, I also met up with
115. 7:34one of my Korean friends, Johnny, for
116. 7:38dinner. We had this raw fish that we
117. 7:41wrapped in leaves and put other toppings
118. 7:44on before we ate it. I personally am not
119. 7:48a huge fan of raw fish, but it is very
120. 7:54traditional in Korea to eat that raw
121. 7:57fish at the start of winter. So, we went
122. 8:00to go and eat it. One of my favorite
123. 8:04things to do while I'm in Korea is to
124. 8:08visit Gyongbokung Palace. That is the
125. 8:11really big and famous palace in Korea.
126. 8:17The palace was so beautiful and it was
127. 8:21such a beautiful and sunny day the day I
128. 8:24went. We also were able to see the
129. 8:27changing of the guard. That was a very
130. 8:30special thing to see because I have
131. 8:33never seen it before. I have never seen
132. 8:38the changing of the guard before. And
133. 8:41before we left Korea, we got to
134. 8:44experience what Christmas was like in
135. 8:47Korea. I have never spent Christmas in
136. 8:51Korea. This was my first Christmas in
137. 8:55Korea and it was very beautiful. We went
138. 8:59ice skating. Then we went to the stream
139. 9:01with many lanterns. And at the end, we
140. 9:05went to a Christmas market. That was a
141. 9:09highlight. While I was in Korea, I also
142. 9:13did some shopping. Not a lot, but I did
143. 9:18buy some things. I bought a pair of
144. 9:21shoes. I couldn't decide which pair of
145. 9:24shoes to buy, the one on the right or
146. 9:27the one on the left. I ended up buying
147. 9:30the one on the left since I thought it
148. 9:33looked more unique.
149. 9:36I also bought two new pairs of jeans,
150. 9:40one blue pair and one black pair. And I
151. 9:44bought one pair of sweatpants. Overall,
152. 9:48my trip to Korea was amazing. I love
153. 9:52Korea. After our month in Korea, we took
154. 9:56a flight from Seoul to Bangkok. Our
155. 10:00flight was at 12:00 p.m. and we arrived
156. 10:03in Bangkok at 400 p.m. It was a 6-hour
157. 10:07flight, but with the time change, it was
158. 10:09only 400 p.m. in Bangkok. We have been
159. 10:13here for a few days now. We've spent New
160. 10:16Year's here and we have visited many
161. 10:19temples and palaces. If you guys want to
162. 10:23hear about my trip to Bangkok or more
163. 10:27about my trip to Korea, make sure to let
164. 10:30me know in the comments that you want
165. 10:32more slow English podcasts. If you guys
166. 10:37like this type of video, I will make
167. 10:40more for you. Now, your final task for
168. 10:43today is take out your phone, open up
169. 10:45your camera, and record yourself talking
170. 10:48about what you learned today. Today, I
171. 10:51learned
172. 10:53I want to travel to
173. 10:56my favorite food is. So, your homework
174. 11:00is to answer those questions and record
175. 11:03yourself with your phone. This will
176. 11:06allow you to track your progress. If you
177. 11:08guys want to get more videos like these,
178. 11:11check out my Patreon because I post
179. 11:14there three times a week. The most
180. 11:17important part of learning a language
181. 11:19and the reason why everyone learns a
182. 11:21language is to be able to speak the
183. 11:24language. These videos help you with
184. 11:26your listening. But how can you practice
185. 11:28your speaking even more? You need to
186. 11:30practice by shadowing. Shadowing is just
187. 11:33repeating after a native English speaker
188. 11:35to practice your pronunciation, your
189. 11:38accent, and your confidence. And I've
190. 11:40started making videos specifically just
191. 11:42to practice those three things. So, if
192. 11:45you guys want to become more confident
193. 11:46in English and become truly fluent,
194. 11:49check out my Patreon in the description
195. 11:51where I give you guys three new videos
196. 11:53every week to practice your
197. 11:55pronunciation, your accent, and most
198. 11:58importantly, your confidence. I'll see
199. 12:00you guys there. We are going to be
200. 12:02learning English as I clean up my
201. 12:05pronunciation, your accent, [music]
202. 12:07your rhythm, and your confidence. It was
203. 12:09just a roundabout way of her politely
204. 12:12trying to spare my feelings. The a-hole
205. 12:14for giving all of my co-workers a
206. 12:16different reason for why I have missing
207. 12:19fingers [music] so I wouldn't take
208. 12:21legal. Came down to he companywide
209. 12:23training on his behavior. He chooses
210. 12:25not. But I was already so cranky.
211. 12:29Okay, so we're in um I did so much
212. 12:31shopping in Mushima. The jeans and one
213. 12:34hoodie which
214. 12:37this lesson I want you to shadow [music]
215. 12:39you will become fluent in English. Bye
216. 12:43guys.