Shadowing Practice: Chinese English Names - Jimmy O. Yang - Learn English Speaking with Video

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I grew up very stereotypically in Hong Kong.
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Like, like my real name is not even Jimmy.
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That's my English name.
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My real name is Man Shing.
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In Cantonese, Man Shing.
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It stands for 10,000 success.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, yeah.
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I had very ambitious parents, and now I'm telling dick jokes and doing Tai Chi on stage, so...
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Jimmy was just kind of like an arbitrary English name that just sounded easy.
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And my dad, he named himself Richard.
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I was like, Dad, why'd you name yourself Richard?
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He was like, because I want to be rich.
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It makes so much sense.
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And then they named my older brother Roger, after the James Bond actor Roger Moore.
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Yeah, but my brother hated that name.
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He was like, man, it makes me sound like an old white guy.
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So eventually he changed his own name to Roy.
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So now he sounds like an older white guy.
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And now his full name is Roy Roger, which is the oldest white guy to ever white.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This video has 19 sentences and 178 words to shadow. The speech runs for 1:06. The speaker talks at a natural 163 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 83% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.

Key vocabulary in this video

8 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

WordPronunciationMeaning
ambitious adjective/æmˈbɪʃ.əs/Having or showing ambition; wanting a lot of power, honor, respect, superiority, or other distinction.
arbitrary adjective/ˈɑː.bɪ.tɹə.ɹi/Based on individual discretion or judgment; not based on any objective distinction, perhaps even made at random.
stereotypically adverbIn a stereotypical manner or way.
joke noun/ˈd͡ʒoʊ̯k/An amusing story.
actor noun/ˈæk.tɚ/Someone or something that takes part in some action; a doer, an agent.
rich adjective/ˈɹɪt͡ʃ/Wealthy: having a lot of money and possessions.
grow verb/ˈɡɹəʊ/To become larger, to increase in magnitude.
eventually adverb/ɪˈvɛn.t͡ʃu.ə.li/In the end; at some later time, especially after a long time, a series of problems, struggles, delays or setbacks.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

WordMeaning
grow up verbTo mature and become an adult.

Gramática en este vídeo

Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:

EstructuraEn el vídeo
Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosaRoger, which is
Superlativos the -est / the most … — lo más alto o lo más bajo de un grupothe oldest
Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — algo que ocurre ahora o en estos díasI'm telling

Pronunciation to watch

  • Long words — get the stress right: arbitrary /ˈɑː.bɪ.tɹə.ɹi/, eventually /ɪˈvɛn.t͡ʃu.ə.li/

How to practise with this video

  1. Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
  2. Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
  3. Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like ambitious, arbitrary, stereotypically.

¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?

Shadowing es una técnica de aprendizaje de idiomas respaldada por la ciencia, desarrollada originalmente para la formación de intérpretes profesionales y popularizada por el políglota Dr. Alexander Arguelles. El método es simple pero poderoso: escuchas audio en inglés nativo y lo repites en voz alta de inmediato, como una sombra que sigue al hablante con solo 1-2 segundos de retraso. A diferencia de la escucha pasiva o los ejercicios de gramática, el shadowing obliga a tu cerebro y músculos de la boca a procesar y reproducir simultáneamente patrones de habla reales. Las investigaciones muestran que mejora significativamente la precisión de la pronunciación, la entonación, el ritmo, el habla conectada, la comprensión auditiva y la fluidez al hablar, convirtiéndola en una de las metodologías más efectivas para la preparación del IELTS Speaking y la comunicación en inglés en el mundo real.

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