Shadowing Practice: Marriage proposal - Learn English Speaking with Video
בחר מצב תרגול
כל מצב פותח חדר תרגול במסך מלא.
84 משפטים
אם המשפטים קצרים או ארוכים מדי, לחץ על ערוך כדי להתאים אותם.
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So, Sarah, do you like this place?
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Is the food good?
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It's really wonderful, Alex.
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The quiet atmosphere, the food, everything is perfect.
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But honestly, I've been wondering all evening, why did you take me to such an expensive restaurant tonight?
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It's not my birthday, and our anniversary isn't until next month.
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Do I really need a special reason to take you somewhere nice?
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Just seeing you smile here makes everything worth it.
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But actually, tonight is a very special night.
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Really?
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What do you mean?
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What day is today?
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Today is the day I ask you to spend the rest of your life with me.
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Alex!
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Sarah, look at us.
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We've been together since our poor university days, eating cheap street food and dreaming about the future.
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After graduation, when life was hard and I struggled to build my career, you never left my side.
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I know I'm not rich, I'm not perfect, and I still make many mistakes.
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But you always believe in me, love me, and give me a warm home to return to.
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Having you in my life is the greatest luck I could ever have.
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I don't just want you as my girlfriend anymore, Sarah.
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I want you to be my family.
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Will you marry me?
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Look, this ring is the newest design, and it has the biggest diamond in the store.
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Oh, Alex, I'm so touched.
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My heart is beating so fast.
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This diamond is huge and so shiny.
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Wait, which store did you buy it from?
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I bought it at P &J.
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It is the most famous and trusted store in our country, right?
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I spent two months of my salary picking it out for you.
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Wait, what?
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P &J?
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Are you serious right now?
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Yeah.
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Why do you look so shocked?
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Did I do something wrong?
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Alex, haven't you checked the news on Facebook recently?
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There's a massive scandal right now.
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People found out that some P &J branches were selling fake diamonds.
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Everyone is running back to the stores to check their rings.
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What?
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Fake diamonds at a huge brand like P &J?
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No way.
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I paid a fortune for this.
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It even came with a fancy certificate.
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Certificates can be fake too, Alex.
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The news said they mixed real diamonds with cheap, shiny stones.
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Look at how big this diamond is.
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It looks almost too clean.
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Are you sure it's not a piece of expensive glass?
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Oh my god, I don't know anymore.
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The sales lady was so nice.
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She swore to me it was a top quality natural stone.
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Did I just buy a fake diamond to propose to the love of my life?
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I can't stop laughing.
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This was supposed to be the most romantic proposal in the world, and now we are sitting in a candlelit restaurant crying over a fake P &J diamond.
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Don't laugh, Sarah.
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I want to cry.
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I saved money for months.
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I practiced my proposal speech in front of the mirror 50 times.
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And now I ruined our most precious moment with a fake ring?
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Hey, look at me, Alex.
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Put the ring box down and take my hands.
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You didn't ruin anything.
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But Sarah, you deserve a real diamond.
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Listen to me.
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When you talked about our past, about our hard days after university, my eyes were full of tears.
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That is what matters to me.
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Your love for me is real, your care for me is real, and the life we built together is 100 % real.
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A fake stone from PMJ cannot change the real feelings in your heart.
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You really mean that?
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You're not mad at me?
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I'm not mad at all.
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It actually makes our proposal unforgettable.
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Who else gets proposed to with a fake diamond from a famous store?
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We will have a great story to tell our children later.
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you are the most amazing woman in the world sarah
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but i swear tomorrow morning at 8 a .m we are standing in front of
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that pnj store
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if this diamond is fake i will fight them until they
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give me a real one for you deal we will fight them together tomorrow
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but right now put this suspicious ring on my finger fake
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or real my answer is yes thank you my love i promise i will check the next diamond under a microscope myself.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 84 sentences and 726 words to shadow. The speech runs for 4:12. The speaker talks at a natural 173 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
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| diamond noun | /ˈdaɪ.ə.mənd/ | A glimmering glass-like mineral that is an allotrope of carbon in which each atom is surrounded by four others in the form of a tetrahedron. |
| proposal noun | /pɹəˈpoʊzəl/ | A scheme or design. |
| ruin noun | /ˈɹuː.ɪn/ | The remains of a destroyed or dilapidated construction, such as a house or castle. |
| certificate noun | /səˈtɪf.ɪ.kɪt/ | A document containing a certified statement. |
| propose verb | /pɹəˈpəʊz/ | To suggest a plan, course of action, etc. |
| finger noun | /ˈfɪŋɡɚ/ | A slender jointed extremity of the human hand, (often) exclusive of the thumb, and the corresponding part, irrespective of including a thumb, in many other… |
| mirror noun | /ˈmiɹɚ/ | A smooth surface, usually made of glass with reflective material painted on the underside, that reflects light so as to give an image of what is in front of it. |
| atmosphere noun | /ˈætməsˌfɪɹ/ | The gases surrounding the Earth or any astronomical body. |
| shock noun | /ʃɔk/ | A sudden, heavy impact. |
| romantic adjective | /ɹoʊˈmæn(t)ɪk/ | Fantastic, unrealistic (of an idea etc.); fanciful, sentimental, impractical (of a person). |
| marry verb | /ˈmæɹi/ | To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife. |
| salary noun | /ˈsæləɹi/ | A fixed amount of money paid to a worker, usually calculated on a monthly or annual basis, not hourly, as wages. Implies a degree of professionalism and/or… |
| fancy noun | /ˈfæn.si/ | The imagination. |
| tear verb | /tɛɹ/ | To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate. |
| fortune noun | /ˈfɔːtjuːn/ | Destiny, especially favorable. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| find out verb | To discover, as by asking or investigating. |
דקדוק בסרטון הזה
המבנים שהדובר משתמש בהם הכי הרבה, עם המילים המדויקות מהסרטון:
| מבנה | בסרטון |
|---|---|
| שם תואר מובהק (Superlatives) the -est / the most … — לציין את הגבוה או הנמוך ביותר בקבוצה | the greatest · the newest · the most famous |
| עתיד עם “will” will + verb — החלטה, הבטחה או ניבוי לגבי העתיד | Will you marry · will have · will fight |
| הווה ממושך (Present continuous) am/is/are + -ing — משהו שמתרחש כרגע או בסביבה הקרובה לזמן הזה | is beating · is running · are sitting |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 14 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, can't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: shock /ʃɔk/, suspicious /səˈspɪʃ.əs/, graduation /ˌɡɹæd͡ʒuˈeɪʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: certificate /səˈtɪf.ɪ.kɪt/, graduation /ˌɡɹæd͡ʒuˈeɪʃən/, unforgettable /ˌʌnfə(ɹ)ˈɡɛtəbəl/
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 diamond, proposal, ruin.
מהי טכניקת השאדואינג?
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