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Vanessa:
I'm going to tell you an embarrassing story, but we are going to use this embarrassing story
to help improve your English skills. One of the best ways to improve your English skills is to
shadow, which means repeat after someone else when they're speaking. So today you are going to repeat
after me as I tell you this embarrassing story that happened to me and your English skills are
going to level up. Let's do it together. Hi, I'm Vanessa from Speak English With vanessa.com, and
lik
e always, I have created a free PDF worksheet for today's fun repeat with me English lesson.
You will learn all of the important vocabulary, pronunciation points, and it includes the entire
story that you're going to hear today so that you can go back and review it. At the bottom of the
free worksheet is Vanessa's challenge question, so that you never forget what you've learned
and you don't embarrass yourself too. You can click on the link in the description to
download that free PDF works
heet today. All right, let's get started with
how this lesson is going to work. You're about to hear the story of my smelly
embarrassment, something that happened on the first week that I was living in Paris with
a French family. As I tell you this story, I'm going to be explaining the expressions
and the pronunciation that I use so that you can repeat after me. We'll practice repeating
and shadowing throughout this story. I want to challenge you to be an active participant in
this lesson.
If you just listen to me speak, watch me speak, it's okay, but I want you to
be active. I want you to really repeat after me out loud. There's something powerful that
happens when you hear your own voice using English. When you hear someone else's
voice, it's kind of separate from you. It's distant, but when you use the language
yourself, you start to grow that confidence, overcome the fear of speaking, and really feel
like you can use English in your life. So that's what the goal is for t
oday's lesson. Let's get
started with my smelly embarrassment story. I'll explain some vocabulary and pronunciation and
you will speak out loud repeating with me. Let's do it. I know exactly what it's like to feel
embarrassed when you forget the words you want to say or you don't understand important
instructions. When you feel embarrassed, you feel shy or ashamed. Let's practice this
word embarrassed. Embarrassed. Embarrassed. I felt embarrassed. Okay. What we're going
to do is you're goi
ng to watch me say that sentence one more time. You'll listen to
my voice and then we will pause and I want you to say it out loud. I want you to repeat
the exact same words that I said. Say it out loud using your voice. Let's do it. I know
exactly what it's like to feel embarrassed when you forget the words you want to say or
you don't understand important instructions. Great work. Let's go on to the next sentence of
the story. As a French learner, I felt frustrated that I couldn't underst
and my French host family.
Let's talk about that word frustrated. It means you feel annoyed, sometimes angry, because you
can't do something or something's out of your control. Let's talk about the pronunciation.
The word is frustrated. The emphasis is on the beginning of this word. It should be, I felt
frustrated, not I felt frustrated. It should be, I felt frustrated. Can you say that
sentence with me? I felt frustrated. Okay, we're going to go back. You'll watch the
original sentence on
e more time and then we'll pause so that you can repeat after me and
say it out loud. Let's go. As a French learner, I felt frustrated that I couldn't
understand my French host family. I almost ruined my host family's clothes
because I couldn't understand them. Let's talk about the word ruined. Ruined
means to destroy something completely, and the pronunciation of this word is ruined.
I ruined it. Can you say it with me? I ruined it. All right. Let's go back to that
sentence. You'll listen
to it and then repeat it. I almost ruined my host family's
clothes because I couldn't understand them. When my host mom asked me to hang up the
wet laundry, I misunderstood. I thought she wanted me to turn off the washing machine. Let's
talk about those two phrasal verbs. In English, they're very different, but in French, these are
the words and they sound almost exactly the same to a non-French speaker. In English, we use the
verb to hang up to talk about hanging up clothes. I hang up the
clothes. Can you say this? I hang
up the clothes. The other phrasal verb to turn off is used when we're closing down something, I
turn off the machine. Can you say it with me? I turn off the machine. All right, let's go back
and listen to that full section again and then you'll repeat it with me. Let's watch. When my
host mom asked me to hang up the wet laundry, I misunderstood. I thought she wanted
me to turn off the washing machine. Great work. Let's go on to the next section.
I made th
at mistake for three days in a row. I turned off the machine instead of hanging up the
laundry. After three days, my host mom asked me, Vanessa, our clothes are still wet and starting
to smell bad. Why didn't you hang up the laundry? Let's take a look at that simple verb to ask. In
the past tense, it can be tricky to pronounce. I said, my host mom asked me, what is happening
here? The K really gets just forgotten. In this word in fast American English, you're
going to hear American English
speakers say, my host mom asked me. Asked me. You might
hear when they're speaking slowly people say, asked me. Asked me. Asked me with a K, but
it's really a lot trickier to say it like that, so I invite you to say it in the simple
way. Say this with me. My host mom asked me. My host mom asked me, why didn't you
hang up the laundry? I just turned it off. All right, let's go back and repeat that
sentence and then you will say it out loud as well and we'll move on to find out what
happened
to that wet laundry. After three days, my host mom asked me, Vanessa, our clothes are
still wet and starting to smell bad. Why didn't you hang up the laundry? I told her that I
had followed her instructions exactly. Then she told me the difference between to hang up
and to turn off in French. We laughed about it for a long time. Let's take a look at this nice
word. Instructions. There's a lot going on here, so let's break down the pronunciation.
Instructions. Instructions. Instructions. Ins
tructions. Say the sentence with me. I followed
the instructions. I followed the instructions. All right, let's go back and watch that
original sentence and then you're going to repeat it with me out loud. Use your voice. I am
listening. No matter where you are in the world, my magical teacher ears can hear you, so
you better be speaking out loud. Let's do it. I told her that I had followed her
instructions exactly. Then she told me the difference between to hang up and to turn off
in Fren
ch. We laughed about it for a long time. I wish that someone had helped me to figure out
how people really speak in their daily lives so that I could speak naturally too. Let's take a
look at this lovely word, naturally. Interesting, there is a C, but listen to how it sounds.
Naturally. It sounds like a CH. Let's break down this word. Naturally. Naturally. Naturally.
Let's say this sentence together. I want to speak naturally. I want to speak naturally.
This means you don't want to speak ju
st like a textbook or kind of robotic. You want to
speak like yourself. You want to feel like yourself when you're speaking in English,
even though it's not your native language, you want it to feel natural and for your speech
to just be naturally coming from your mouth. I want to speak naturally. All right, let's
go back and listen to that sentence and I want you to repeat out loud with me. I
wish that someone had helped me to figure out how people really speak in their daily
lives so tha
t I could speak naturally too. Great work repeating after me. In conclusion,
it took many hours of practicing on a daily basis and some smelly, moldy laundry to be
able to finally speak in my second language, French, smoothly, confidently, naturally,
and that is what I want for you. I want you to be able to go out into the world
and create relationships and connections with people in English. So I want to hear
from you. Let me know in the comments your embarrassing stories. Let's read each
other's comments and support each other because the best thing you can do when you
feel embarrassed is just to laugh about it. And don't forget to download today's free
PDF worksheet with all of these expressions, pronunciation tips, and the full story so that you
can practice reading this out loud and repeating it out loud so that your voice gets used to using
English and you can level up your speaking skills. That's the goal. You can click on the link in the
description to download that
free PDF worksheet today. Well, thank you so much for learning
English with me and I'll see you again next Friday for a new lesson here on my YouTube
channel. Bye. But wait, do you want more? I recommend watching this video next where you will
learn to think and speak in English about your vacation and your vacation plans, even if your
vacation didn't go too well. I'll see you there.
Comments
🙂DON’T FORGET what you have learned in this lesson: 👉 Download the free PDF worksheet for this lesson here: https://speakenglishwithvanessa.ck.page/88e1ef2bde
Great channel. No musical inserts, no songs. Only the teacher's speech. It’s impossible to watch other channels, it’s a complete disco. Musical background, inserts at the beginning and end of the videos. And here is the clear sound of speech.
Please, do this often. I enjoyed this a lot.
Vanessa one of the best teachers
On Monday the 18th I have a job phone interview. I’ll let you know how embarrassing it was, but I promise you that I will face my fears. Thanks for everything, Vanessa. 😊
Vanessa, I love this kind of exercise. Please, tell us more stories that we can repeat and record naturally manner of speaking English.
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I did love this story from you, Vanessa! My hats off to you for your amazing essential lessons! Love you always!
Vanessa is absolutely the best native English teacher we've ever had ❤❤❤. She's so charming, patient and friendly when speaking in front of her audience remotely. Well, that's the nice way she is. I loved her embarrassment story about learning a language which was French. The two languages are significantly different, I love learning English no matter how proficient I am already, French is a beautiful language, but I'm still truly unfamiliar with it. In my case, I decided to start learning Italian as my third language. I can only speak English and Spanish, and I just want to expand my horizons beyond what I've certainly achieved, because as you all might have known, life is too short to get used to one or two languages in an ever-changing world that has been becoming more interconnected than ever. Regarding any embarrassing moments throughout my life, I don't remember that much of what I had gone through, let's say... I can only remember a few embarrassing situations some time in my school years. I was giving a presentation to my teacher and classmates while I wasn't confident enough to explain key points about a specific topic the right way. I was simply reading out loud the information shown on a huge paper instead of explaining the topic in a convincing, precise way by using my own words, you know, something quite typical as a homework, to name just one of them. After all, thank you so much for bringing your wonderful English lessons to me, I definitely appreciate all of them 😊💜. I'll never give up on my goals. I'd be pretty glad if you are willing to read my long comment, in case you want to.
Vanessa, you 're really gifted in teaching. Your lesons Never let learners be bored but are verry well caught. Many thanks.
Thank you Vanessa! I watched your Youtube lesson for the first time. You spoke English so clearly that I enjoyed your lesson!
Thank you Vanessa. Your a great teacher.
I like this shadowing method...do some more video like this pls
What a usueful lesson! Thank so much, Vanessa 💝.
Thank you so much for this speaking/shadowing lesson Vanessa!! I really want you to provide more speaking related lessons👍 Because, we can learn how to write, read and listen to English even if we study alone. But when it comes to speaking, it is not easy to do. To your query, my most embarrassing experience I have experienced ever is I accidentally wore my father's socks and left for school. After that my friend pointed me out!
Thank you so much my teacher Venessa ...your teaching way is very clearly and simple understand English language properly... Know lm growing the muscle of my English so.
Same as weeks ago, am here again to follow your videos, which is helpful for me, so thanks teacher Vanessa.
Thank you so much. Repeating and shadowing are the best exercises to improve our pronunciation and fluency easily.
You are a magical teacher. I have had over 10 teachers in my life, but they did not help me progress much. I thought there was something wrong with me and this language, but thanks to you, I am discovering an incredible method to progress slowly and calmly. Thank you very much.
Hi, Vanessa! It is an amazing channel! Thanks for this! With love from Ukraine ❤