Shadowing Practice: ENHYPEN 'What Makes You Beautiful (Original by One Direction)' Lyrics - Learn English Speaking with Video

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You're insecure, don't know what for You turn your heads when you walk through the door
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Don't need makeup to cover up
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Being the way that you are is enough
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Everyone else in the room can see it
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Everyone else but you, oh
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Baby, you light up my world like nobody else
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The way that you flip your head gets me overwhelmed
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But when you smile at the ground, it ain't hard to tell
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You don't know, you know you're beautiful
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If only you saw what I can see
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You understand why I want you so desperate
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Right now I'm looking at you and I can't believe you don't know
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You know you're beautiful
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That's what makes you beautiful
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Na -na -na -na -na -na -na -na
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Na -na -na -na -na -na
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Na -na -na -na -na -na -na -na
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Na -na -na -na -na -na
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Breaking the light on my wall like nobody else
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The way that you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed
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But when you smile at the ground, it ain't hard to tell
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You don't know, oh -oh, you don't know your beauty
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Breaking the light of my world like nobody else
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The way that you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed
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But when you smile at the ground, it ain't hard to tell
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You don't know, oh -oh
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You don't know you're beautiful
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You only use so what I can see
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You understand why I want you so desperately
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Right now I'm looking at you and I can't believe
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You don't know, oh -oh
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You don't know you're beautiful
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Oh -oh You don't know you're beautiful
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Oh -oh That's what makes you beautiful Thank you.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “ENHYPEN 'What Makes You Beautiful (Original by One Direction)' Lyrics”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: beautiful, overwhelmed, flip, smile, nobody. This video has 34 sentences and 281 words to shadow. The speech runs for 2:11. The speaker talks at a steady 128 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 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
flip verb/flɪp/To throw so as to turn over.
desperate adjective/ˈdɛs.p(ə.)ɹɪt/In dire need (of something); having a dire need or desire.
desperately adverb/ˈdɛs.p(ə.)ɹət.li/In a desperate manner; without regard to danger or safety; recklessly.
insecure adjective/ɪnsəˈkjʊɹ/Not secure.
overwhelm verb/ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɛlm/To engulf, surge over and submerge.
smile verb/ˈsmaɪl/To have (a smile) on one's face.
nobody noun/ˈnoʊ.bə.di/A person dismissed as unimportant.
beauty noun/ˈbjuti/The quality of being (especially visually) attractive, pleasing, fine or good-looking; comeliness.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

WordMeaning
cover up verbTo conceal or disguise.
light up verbTo illuminate, to bring light to something, to brighten.
walk through verbTo explain (something) to (someone), step by step.

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 24 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, you're, ain't. 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. 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 flip, desperate, desperately.

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.

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