Shadowing Practice: Dave Navarro Opens Up About His Mom’s Murder (2001) - Learn English Speaking with Video
Les maken...
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You are an amazing guy.
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I mean, I applaud you.
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In fact, people always say to me, who are people that you think have gone through adversity and risen and all that?
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You're one of those people to me.
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I don't even know how, as a child, that you were able to concentrate on guitar and play the guitar with your background.
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Do you know anything about Dave Navarro's background?
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No, I do not.
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If I can bring up some of your tragedy, without just turning into a telethon.
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No, no, absolutely.
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Your mother was killed at an early age by a guy who raised you.
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It was a guy that she was dating, and I wouldn't say he raised me.
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I think that that guy got lost in the translation.
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He lived with you for a while.
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He just had to be living with you at the time.
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No, and truth be told, he was, you know, I did trust the guy.
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Right.
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And I was close to him.
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Right.
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And why not?
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I mean, you have two options.
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How old were we talking?
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I was 15.
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Right.
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15 years old, his mother was taken away from him.
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Wow.
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Your parents were divorced.
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But it was a violent kind of thing?
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Yeah.
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Your mom was murdered.
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Yeah, yeah.
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And your mom was this beautiful woman.
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She was on The Price is Right.
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I mean she was doing well.
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Yeah, she was she was um it was actually my mother
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and my aunt who happened to be there And
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and they were murdered yeah by this one guy
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and the guy got away with it for like 10 years But the freaky thing is that TV show
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America's most wanted got the guy yeah, could you you knew who did it?
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Oh, yeah.
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How did you know he was the guy who killed your mom?
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Well, I kind of put two
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and two together I mean I had a gun to my
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head a couple weeks You know we did I said I didn't know that yeah, so like there was a point where
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where he had broken into the house and kind of held me up
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and handcuffed me and basically got pretty violent and then let me go.
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Who was this guy?
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I mean, were they broken up at the time?
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Yeah.
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He was so in love with her that if he couldn't have her, no one else could.
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Yeah.
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I mean, that's what you would think.
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I mean, there's no logical explanation for something like that.
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Yeah.
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But I mean, I think in that irrational thinking, that's what was going on.
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The guy's locked up in prison now.
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Yeah.
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Have you ever been able to say to this guy why'd you take my mother from me?
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No, no, no, I mean cuz I don't I don't think that any answer he could give me to that Yeah, what would be satisfied?
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Yeah, it's gonna be satisfactory.
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The guitar save you like were you like one of those
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kids who just like sat in his room play guitar when all this happened?
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I started at 11 So I kind of had that as an avenue.
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All right when you're that age or for me You don't know where to go with that kind of stuff No, and
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and you don't know who to talk to you kind of
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don't even have the dialogue to talk to anybody about that kind of thing I mean, it's just so overwhelming right and so So I just kind of turned to music.
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You know, to me, to come back from something like that, after your mom is killed, your aunt, I mean, just your whole family, and I guess your dad was distant.
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Did you have brothers and sisters?
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No, no. That's it.
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No, my dad was there.
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He just, you know, he loved this woman, and so, you know, we were both kind of like...
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Devastated.
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Yeah, we were both devastated.
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Was your whole life uprooted in the sense also that you had to move?
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Yeah, where'd you go?
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Well, my parents were divorced, and I was living with my mother, and I ended up just moving in with my dad, which was in the same city.
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And the weird thing about it, and a connection I made years and years later, which was I used to spend Wednesday evenings with my dad.
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Right.
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And for some reason, he couldn't see me one Wednesday and he saw me on a Thursday instead.
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Right.
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And that's when this happened.
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Wow.
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You could have been there.
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And if I was, yeah.
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And if that little chance didn't happen, I probably would have gotten killed too.
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If you hadn't gone to visit your father.
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Right.
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Right.
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So, and I kind of believe, you know, I mean, and it's unfortunate it's taken me years and, you know, I had to create much more trauma in order to get to this place for somehow, you know.
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Yeah, I mean, because you went like, and understandably, you went like crazy from this.
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Yeah.
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And I understand that the drugs and all that kind of stuff.
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I'll tell you something about the drugs and all that stuff.
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And I appreciate, you know, you suggesting understandably I went to that.
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Absolutely.
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At the same time, though, I can confirm that there was part of me that used
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that trauma as an excuse to pretty much get away with whatever I wanted.
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Right.
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So you said, oh, yeah, I'm allowed to do drugs because my mother was killed.
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And whatever else.
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Oh, poor me.
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I've had this horrible thing.
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And you can excuse this.
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You can excuse that.
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And it took a lot of damage inflicted upon myself.
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I'll say.
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I mean, I was reading some of the stuff that, I mean, I don't know where we got all this stuff from.
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Maybe some of it's not true.
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You tell me.
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Yeah, let's clear it up.
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Your heroin addiction got so bad you had sores on your face that exploded.
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No one would even go near you and stuff.
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Yeah.
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I mean, here you are.
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You're such a good -looking guy.
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I wonder how people, you know, because his skin looks perfect.
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How do people come back from that?
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Yeah, how do you come back?
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Why do you not have any scars on your face?
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Why are you so lucky?
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You know what?
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I have no idea.
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You don't know.
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I really don't, and I do feel totally blessed and lucky to be able to come back from something like that.
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Yeah.
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And you know what?
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And if anything else, it's like, and I hate to sit here and sound like arrogant and like I've got some message for anybody.
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But the truth of the matter is I was pretty bad and it's possible to come back.
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If you came back, anybody could.
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I hate to say that because that implies that I'm as bad as it gets.
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But I was pretty bad and I've discovered that life is a beautiful thing.
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Who Will Benefit from This Video?
This video is ideal for intermediate to advanced English learners focusing on speaking practice and real-life conversation flow. The dialogue’s mix of emotional storytelling and casual Q&A makes it perfect for practicing natural pacing, empathy, and understanding conversational turns—key skills for everyday interactions. It’s also great for those working on shadowing technique, as the speakers use a relaxed, conversational tone that’s easy to mimic.
Words & Idioms Worth Stealing
- Put two and two together: Figure something out by connecting clues. Example: "I put two and two together and realized he was lying."
- Got lost in the translation: Misunderstood or misrepresented. Example: "My joke got lost in the translation, and no one laughed."
- Got away with it: Avoided punishment for a bad act. Example: "He got away with taking the money until someone noticed."
- Broken up: Ended a romantic relationship. Example: "They broke up last month after three years together."
How to Get the Accent Right
Focus on the speaker’s pacing—he pauses naturally to emphasize emotion, which is key for realistic pronunciation practice. Notice how "I mean" and "you know" are used as filler words to keep the conversation flowing; mimic these to sound more natural. Pay attention to the stress in words like "adversity" (ad-VER-si-ty) and "violent" (VY-o-lent). For shadowing, pause the video after short phrases ("I was 15," "He got away with it for like 10 years") and repeat them, matching the tone and rhythm. This will help you master conversational intonation and build confidence in expressing complex emotions in English.
Grammatica in deze video
De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:
| Structuur | In de video |
|---|---|
| Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet | was killed · be told · was taken |
| Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding | guy who raised · guy who killed · kids who just |
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | have gone · I've discovered |
Wat is de Shadowing-techniek?
Shadowing is een wetenschappelijk onderbouwde taalleermethode die oorspronkelijk is ontwikkeld voor professionele tolkentraining en gepopulariseerd door polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. De methode is eenvoudig maar krachtig: je luistert naar native Engelse audio en herhaalt het onmiddellijk hardop — als een schaduw die de spreker volgt met slechts 1–2 seconden vertraging. In tegenstelling tot passief luisteren of grammaticadrills, dwingt shadowing je hersenen en mondspieren om echte spraakpatronen tegelijkertijd te verwerken en te reproduceren. Onderzoek toont aan dat het de uitspraaknauwkeurigheid, intonatie, ritme, verbonden spraak, luisterbegrip en spreekvaardigheid aanzienlijk verbetert — waardoor het een van de meest effectieve methoden is voor IELTS Speaking-voorbereiding en echte Engelse communicatie.