Shadowing Practice: Grilled rice paper tutorial - Learn English Speaking with Video

This video has 6 sentences and 66 words to shadow. The speech runs for 0:31. The speaker talks at a steady 129 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. Only 58% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 less common words from the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

• beef /bif/ (noun) — The meat from cattle or other bovines; especially, that from adults.
• onion /ˈʌn.jən/ (noun) — A monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice.
• sausage /ˈsɔsɪd͡ʒ/ (noun) — A food made of ground meat (or meat substitute) and seasoning, packed in a section of the animal's intestine, or in a similarly cylindrical shaped synthetic…
• shrimp /ʃɹɪmp/ (noun) — Any of many swimming, often edible, crustaceans, chiefly of the infraorder Caridea or the suborder Dendrobranchiata, with slender legs, long whiskers and a…
• chili /ˈt͡ʃɪli/ (noun) — The pungent, spicy fresh or dried fruit of any of several cultivated varieties of capsicum peppers, used in cooking.
• egg /ɛɡ/ (noun) — An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, often housing an embryo within a membrane or shell…
• pizza /ˈpi.tsə/ (noun) — A baked Italian dish of a thinly rolled bread crust typically topped before baking with tomato sauce, cheese, and other ingredients such as meat or vegetables.
• crack /kɹæk/ (noun) — A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.
• butter /ˈbʌtɚ/ (noun) — A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk).
• fold /ˈfəʊld/ (verb) — To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.
• squeeze /skwiːz/ (verb) — To apply pressure (to something) from two or more sides at once.
• chop /t͡ʃɑp/ (verb) — To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions.
• jerky /ˈd͡ʒɝki/ (noun) — Lean meat cured and preserved by cutting into thin strips and air-drying in the sun.
• mayonnaise /ˌmeɪ.əˈneɪz/ (noun) — A dressing made from vegetable oil, raw egg yolks, vinegar or lemon juice, and seasoning, used on salads, with french fries, in sandwiches etc.
• crispy /ˈkɹɪs.pi/ (adjective) — Having a crisp texture; brittle yet tender.

How to practise with this video

1. Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
2. Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
3. Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like beef, onion, sausage.