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Hi everyone. I hope you're all doing

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well. Welcome to a new episode of Easy

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English. So today I wanted to show you

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what it's like to go inside a store and

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make a conversation with the shop owner

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or shop vendor. Uh hopefully you can

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learn some useful vocabulary from when

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you're going into a store in England

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lovely gift. Don't forget to subscribe

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enjoy. Here we go.

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>> [music]

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>> Hello.

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>> Hi.

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>> How's it going?

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>> Yeah, not too bad. You yourself?

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>> Yeah, I'm pretty good. It's a nice day

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outside, isn't it? Shame to be stuck

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inside.

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>> It [laughter] is.

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>> Yeah. I go

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>> I'm interested. Your store is amazing.

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Um,

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>> well, anything anything you want to look

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at and try try on. There's a you can try

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anything in the back there. That's a a

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changing room.

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>> Great. Thank you. And what what kind of

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store is this?

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>> Um, it's uh it sells mod clothes, you

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know, based on 60s style.

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>> Cool.

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>> Hello.

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>> Hello.

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>> How's it going?

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>> Yes, it's good. I'm fine.

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>> How's your day going today? Is it okay?

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Yeah, it's really good today. Yeah. Nice

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weather.

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>> It is nice weather. That's very English

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thing to speak about.

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>> Yeah. Yeah. [laughter] Yeah. We always

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talk about the weather. Yeah.

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>> And what is the store? Tell me.

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>> Yeah. We're selling the Japanese toys.

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>> Cool. So, and our shop name is Tokyo

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Monster.

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>> Yeah.

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>> So, we today is just the first year.

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>> Yeah. Yeah. So, we normally sell uh the

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toys, anime product from Japan.

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>> Cool.

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>> Yeah. So, you can see Yeah. I I show you

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around the shop.

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>> Yeah, I would love for you to show me

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around.

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>> Hello.

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>> Hi. Yeah. How you doing?

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>> I'm good, thanks. How are you?

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>> Yeah, good, thank you.

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>> Uh, what is your shop about? Can you

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tell me what you're selling mostly?

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>> Yeah, sure. So, we sell house plants

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mostly, but we also sell all the things

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that are to do with house plants like

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soil, substrates,

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equipment. Um, we're also a gift shop,

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so we have candles and terrariums.

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>> And what what's mod? I know the word

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mods, but do you know where it comes

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from?

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>> Well, it it's it's an abbreviation for

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modern, and it was when the world

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changed slightly in the 60s when it was

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sort of young people um had their own

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culture and mod was one of the first

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ones.

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>> I like the name as well, Tokyo Monster.

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That was a super cool name for a store.

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and decide the name and decide the logo.

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>> Are you the shop owner?

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>> Yeah.

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>> Nice. Okay. And how long have you owned

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the shop for?

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>> Uh one year.

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>> One year. Okay.

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>> We opened on last year February.

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>> Nice. And is it going well? Are you a

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popular store?

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>> Yeah, it's it's quite good.

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>> Yeah. Yeah.

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>> Nice. What else do you have? I'm

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interested. What's your like most

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popular product that you usually sell?

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What are people looking for at the

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moment?

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>> Probably um a house plant. Um is it for

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me to move? Is that right?

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>> Yeah, go for it. show me.

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>> Um, so these plants are called moras.

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They're um probably our like number one

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sellers. They're prayer plants, so they

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move around with the different lights.

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They sort of lift their leaves up and

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down.

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>> All right. Okay. Are they easy to look

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after?

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>> Yeah, they're very easy to look after.

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They You just need to water them when

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the soil dries out. Um, it's probably

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about every 10 days at the moment. And

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just need to be somewhere with like a

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bright but indirect light.

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>> Okay. And you keep them inside?

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>> Yes, they're all indoor plants.

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>> Okay. How how much is that one?

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>> £12.

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>> 12. That's quite cheap. What's the most

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like expensive thing you can buy in your

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store? You think?

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>> Hello.

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>> Good morning.

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>> How's it going?

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>> Very good, thank you. Yourself?

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>> Yeah, pretty good morning, thank you

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very much. Um, what is it that you're

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selling here today?

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>> Uh, we sell donuts, uh, we sell coffee,

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uh, soft drinks, uh, we do a toasties,

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toasted sandwiches.

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>> What's a toasty?

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>> Uh, it's like a a couple of slice of

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bread with whatever you you have in

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between and it goes into a contact roll.

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>> Ah, okay. Is that a popular thing that

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people order here in Brighton? in the

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summer mostly for lunch uh for snacks,

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but usually the donuts and the coffee

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and the soft ice cream is our most

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popular.

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>> Um so we've got this cactus over here.

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>> Oh yeah.

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>> So that is massive.

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>> Which is [laughter] quite big. Um and

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this one's £200.

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>> Okay. And is that one easy to take care

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of?

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>> Very very easy. It just needs to be in

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direct sunlight basically. You just make

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sure you don't overwater it.

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>> We we didn't sell so expensive. Yeah.

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[clears throat] But uh this one

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>> ah

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>> this one is around 100 pound

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>> and that's why it's so high up. No one

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no one can guess.

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>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. [laughter] Yeah.

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Because uh we we are we are not too

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brave to sell so expensive.

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>> Wow. It's a really colorful store. I

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really like it.

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>> And then we have so many Pokemon card.

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Yeah. And and I think now the one

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popular should be the Japanese Pokemon

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card.

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>> Still.

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>> Yeah. When I was in school, it was it

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was crazy.

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>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And this year again.

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>> Really? It's popular again.

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>> I remember this.

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>> Yeah.

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>> I used to watch Dragon Ball.

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>> Oh, really?

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>> A I love Dragon. That's really cool.

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>> I love the music.

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>> Yeah.

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>> Hello.

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How's it going?

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Are you okay?

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>> Yeah, good. Thank you.

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>> I like your store. It's very colorful.

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>> Thank you [laughter] so much.

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>> What is it that you're selling in your

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shop?

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>> Uh, we are selling handmade crochet

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[music] and knitting products.

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>> Wow. Yeah, they're really pretty.

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>> Thank you.

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>> Do you make them yourself?

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>> Uh, yeah, but we are team because it

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take long time.

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>> Okay.

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>> Yeah, we are 20 lady.

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>> Oh, really? Wow.

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>> We are independent and local.

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>> So, what are people buying today?

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they tend to be um buying this sort of

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style. Again, this this is kind of going

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back 50s60s style um of of jumper.

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>> Hello.

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>> Morning. How are you?

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>> I'm very good, thank you. How are you?

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>> Good, thanks.

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>> Uh what what are you selling in this

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shop? What is it about?

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>> So, uh, this shop, Busham Gallery, was

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it's essentially two best friends that

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have made their dream come true.

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>> Cute. That sounds good.

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>> So, um, we've got Shyama, who is this

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wonderful jungly botanical artist.

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>> Oh.

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>> And then her best friend Claire is a

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jewelry designer and maker.

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>> The 99 is is actually the name of the

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chocolate stick. Ah, I have it here.

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>> Yeah, exactly. So, chocolate stick which

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which is a flake and that is called 99

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and when you have the ice cream with the

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stick then you call it 99 but it's not

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99 p everyone,

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>> right? Yeah. Cuz it used to be 99 p.

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Which one is like really popular that

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people like the most?

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>> Uh for now strawberries are popular. We

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have different uh types of strawberry

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design.

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>> Yeah, they're really cool.

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>> Yeah,

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>> they look Wow, they're really cool.

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>> Thank you. We do encourage people. This

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isn't online. We are in a real shop. So,

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we do say to people, come in, pick these

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objects up, look at them, hold them,

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>> um feel the weight of them, look at the

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details of them. I think in this day and

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age of the digital world, it's so

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beautiful to come into a real shop and

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look at real lovely things.

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>> I agree. So, uh, how much would this

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chunky net jumper over here?

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>> Well, there we are. I have to look at

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the price because, uh, as I say, I'm I'm

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That's £55.

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>> Nice. Okay. But it's good quality, isn't

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it?

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>> It is good quality.

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>> It will last you longer than some fast

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fashioned. Indeed.

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>> Also,

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>> Oh, yeah. A

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>> seagulls are our bests sellers.

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>> Yeah, for the for Brighton.

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>> Yeah.

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>> And you also have the football team.

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>> Yeah. [laughter] This

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>> Yeah, that's really cute. How How long

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does that take for a beginner?

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>> Yeah, maybe one day.

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>> One day.

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>> But making small shapes are sometimes

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harder than crochet.

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>> It also smells wonderful in here as

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well. It's really nice.

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>> And it's warm.

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>> It's always warm up [laughter] here,

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trust me. Um yeah, in it's it's

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interesting. I'm a bit nose blind to

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them, but people always come in and

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mention how lovely it smells. And I do

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then make a joke about you have to buy

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all the diffusers, [laughter] have all

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the candles opened cuz it's obviously

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some mixture.

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>> Yeah. Well, I have a terrible sense of

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smell, but it's nice in here.

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>> I believe it is.

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>> Thank you very much. Show them around

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your store.

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>> You're welcome. Thank you so much for

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watching me. I'm Zanep and our shop name

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is Anna.

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Um, thank you. [laughter] Thank you.

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That was really nice. Thank you. Nice to

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meet you.

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>> Me, too.

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>> Well, really nice store. I love it so

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much.

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>> Thank you so much.

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>> It was nice to meet you.

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>> Yeah, nice to meet you.

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>> Thank you very much for showing me

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around your store.

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>> No problem at all.

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>> I'll leave you alone now, but thank you

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for showing me your store.

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>> Nice to meet you.

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>> Nice to see you.

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>> Well, thank you very much. It was really

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nice to meet you. Have a nice rest of

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your day.

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>> Thank you. You too.

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>> Thank you for watching this week's

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episode. Hope you all enjoyed it and

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learned some useful vocabulary for going

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inside a store in the UK. Uh, let me

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know in the comments below where you'd

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like me to go next time to make some

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conversations. And as always, we'll see

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you next time to