تدريب Shadowing: Mary McCarthy's Most Rogue Marathon Technique Tips 🏃🏻♀️ - تعلم التحدث بالإنجليزية عبر الفيديو
Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 36 sentences and 333 words to shadow. The speech runs for 1:25. The speaker talks fast, about 234 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. Only 77% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.
Key vocabulary in this video
12 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| marathon noun | /ˈmæɹəθən/ | A 42.195-kilometre (26-mile-385-yard) road race. |
| mathematics noun | /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/ | An abstract representational system studying numbers, shapes, structures, quantitative change and relationships between them. |
| sprint noun | /spɹɪnt/ | A short race at top speed. |
| physically adverb | /ˈfɪz.ɪ.kli/ | In a physical manner. |
| attract verb | /əˈtɹækt/ | To pull toward without touching. |
| genuinely adverb | /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/ | In a genuine manner; truthfully, truly. |
| purely adverb | /ˈpjʊɹli/ | Wholly; really, completely. |
| aggressively adverb | In an aggressive manner. | |
| naivety noun | /nɑːˈiːvti/ | naïveté |
| split verb | /splɪt/ | To divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line. |
| smoke verb | /sməʊk/ | To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette or cigar, burning material in a pipe, etc. |
| mate noun | /meɪt/ | A fellow, comrade, colleague, partner or someone with whom something is shared, e.g. shipmate, classmate. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| warm up verb | /ˌwɔː(ɹ)m ˈʌp/ | To become warmer. |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 19 contractions and reduced forms, such as I've, you're, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: marathon /ˈmæɹəθən/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/
- Long words — get the stress right: mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/, genuinely /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like marathon, mathematics, sprint.
ما هي تقنية التظليل الصوتي؟
التظليل الصوتي (Shadowing) تقنية تعلم لغة مدعومة علمياً، طُورت أصلاً لتدريب المترجمين الفوريين المحترفين. الطريقة بسيطة لكنها قوية: تستمع لصوت إنجليزي أصلي وتكرره فوراً بصوت عالٍ — كظل يتبع المتحدث بتأخير 1-2 ثانية. تُظهر الأبحاث تحسناً كبيراً في دقة النطق والتنغيم والإيقاع وربط الأصوات والاستماع والطلاقة.











