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Hey everybody, welcome to this A1

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English listening practice video. You

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can use this video to train your

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listening and comprehension as I speak.

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You ready? So today I'm going to talk

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about cooking. I do not know how to

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cook. So I do not know a lot about this

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topic. However, I like eating so I like

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talking about food in general. I am

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lucky because my wife cooks very well.

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She has a natural talent for cooking.

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So, she cooks well. That means that I

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eat well. Let me tell you about some of

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the things that my wife cooks. Since she

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is Mexican, she likes cooking Mexican

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food. Sometimes she makes tacos, which

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are delicious. There are many types of

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tacos, so my wife can cook different

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tacos each time. I also cooked tacos in

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the past, but I don't cook well, so my

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tacos weren't very good. I cooked tacos

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lenua, tongue tacos, but I didn't cook

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them very well. My wife cooks much

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better. The only thing that I cook well

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is eggs. I love eggs and I eat them

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almost every morning. I think eggs are

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the best breakfast food. I usually eat

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scrambled eggs, but I also eat other

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types of eggs, too. My favorite type is

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eggs benedict. M. This is my favorite

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breakfast. Have you tried eggs benedict?

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So, my wife also makes pasta. She makes

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really good pasta. She doesn't buy the

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pasta in the box that you buy from the

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store. She makes the pasta by hand. She

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makes the noodles and they taste so

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good. When you make pasta by hand, it

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tastes better. I love all types of

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pasta, but my favorite is ravioli. For

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me, ravioli is the perfect food.

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Actually, I like all Italian food. When

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we were in Italy, we ate some amazing

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food. My wife also cooks a lot of meat.

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We like eating different cuts of steak

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every week. We try to buy cheap meat

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because meat can be expensive. We don't

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want to spend a lot of money, so we buy

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cheap meat. My wife cooks the meat in a

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pan, which is easy. Other people cook

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their meat on a grill. We don't have a

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grill, so we use a pan. I think that

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meat tastes good if it's cooked on a pan

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or on a grill. Meat is always good. I

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hope my wife cooks meat tonight. She

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also cooks really good breakfast. She

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makes really good pancakes. I like to

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eat pancakes with maple syrup and peanut

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butter. I know that's a little strange,

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but it's delicious. I love pancakes and

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peanut butter. My wife also cooks

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chilakilles, a common Mexican breakfast.

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This is my favorite breakfast in the

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world. I love chilakilles.

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This dish has tortilla chips, salsa,

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cheese, and cream. I like it with eggs

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on top. It's so good. I don't know which

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is better, breakfast or dinner. In my

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family, we cook dinner 5 days a week.

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The other days we go out to eat dinner

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or we eat dinner with other people.

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Sometimes we eat dinner with my parents

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and other times we eat dinner with my

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sister. Tonight we will eat dinner with

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my parents and my mother will cook

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dinner. When I was a kid, my mother

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cooked dinner every weekday. Every

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evening, we ate dinner at 6:30 p.m.

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every day. Do you eat dinner at the same

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time every day? In the US, it's common

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for families to eat dinner together. We

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sit together at the table. We eat and we

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talk about our day. Dinner time is

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important in the US. In other countries,

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people eat dinner late, like at 8:00

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p.m. or 900 p.m. But this is too late

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for me. I don't want to eat dinner late.

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I like eating dinner at 5, 6, or 700

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p.m. This is a good time for dinner.

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What do you like eating for dinner? I

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like every type of food from every

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country. I can eat anything and I love

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trying new foods. Like I said, I don't

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cook well, but I eat well. Maybe I will

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learn to cook in the future, but I don't

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know. I don't like cooking and I don't

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have the natural talent to cook. I

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prefer eating, not cooking. My wife

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cooks very well, so I don't need to

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learn. I'm thankful for that. Okay, we

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are finished for today. Leave a comment

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and tell me if you like cooking. I'll

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see you next video.

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