Shadowing Practice: Stay in Touch - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Welcome to English in a Minute.
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If you have ever heard people saying goodbye in American English, you probably have heard this.
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Make sure to stay in touch.
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People who don't see each other often like to find ways to stay in touch.
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But what does that mean?
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It was great to see you at the class reunion.
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Now make sure to stay in touch.
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I want to talk to you before our next reunion.
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I will.
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I'll stay in touch and I'll call you sometime next week.
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Staying in touch or keeping in touch says that you want to communicate with someone.
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It means you want to keep in contact, maybe by phone or email, even though you don't see that person often.
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Make sure to stay in touch.
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And that's English in a Minute.
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Thank you.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This A2 speaking lesson is built on the video “Stay in Touch”. This video has 15 sentences and 138 words to shadow. The speech runs for 0:55. The speaker talks at a natural 152 words per minute, close to everyday conversation.

Key vocabulary in this video

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

WordPronunciationMeaning
reunion noun/ɹiːˈjuːnjən/The process or act of reuniting.
goodbye/ɡʊdˈbaɪ/Farewell; a formula used to another person or persons when the speaker, writer, or person addressed is departing.
communicate verb/kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/To impart or transmit (information or knowledge) to someone; to make known, to tell.
sometime adverb/ˈsʌmˌtaɪm/At an indefinite but stated time in the past or future.
email noun/ˈiˌmeɪl/A system for sending messages and datas by means of a computer network, primarily the Internet, using the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol and the Internet…
touch verb/tʌt͡ʃ/To make physical contact with; to bring the hand, finger or other part of the body into contact with.
contact noun/ˈkɑntækt/The act of touching physically; being in close association.
welcome/ˈwɛl.kəm/Greeting given upon someone's arrival.

Gramática en este vídeo

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

EstructuraEn el vídeo
Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahorahave ever heard
Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosaPeople who don
Futuro con “will” will + verbo — una decisión, una promesa o una predicciónI'll stay

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 4 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, I'll. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

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 reunion, goodbye, communicate.

¿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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