Shadowing Practice: Practice Shadowing the RIGHT Way! - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Hello everyone!
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Welcome or welcome back to my channel.
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I'm English teacher Claire, a native speaker from the U .S and English teacher.
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If you are practicing shadowing to sound more fluent in English but you aren't really seeing results,
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you may be doing it wrong.
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In this video I'm going to clarify how to shadow the right way,
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so you don't just mindlessly repeat words, but you actually start to sound more natural,
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fluent, or like a native speaker when speaking.
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At the end, you will shadow a short English text with me.
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So let's get started.
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English made easy with Claire.
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First of all, what is shadowing?
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If you haven't tried it before,
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shadowing is when you listen to a native speaker and speak at the same time or slightly after,
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mimicking their tone, rhythm, and pronunciation of the words.
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Now, when shadowing is done correctly, it will train your brain, your ears, and your mouth all at once.
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But it only works if you do it right.
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So let's go over my top five tips to improve fluency through shadowing.
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So my first tip is to use audio that matches your level or is even slightly easier than your level.
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You don't just want to parrot sounds without really understanding what you're saying.
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If it's too hard, you'll burn out fast.
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So make sure the speaker or the text
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or the clip from the TV show is at a level
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that is either easier than your current level
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or right at your current level so you don't get overwhelmed if it's too difficult.
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My next tip would be when you're first starting out practicing shadowing is to use a transcript.
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This helps connect what you see written on the page with what you are saying in English.
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And it's okay to read along with the text when you are shadowing at the beginning or for the first time.
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Over time, you can move away from the text and train your ears.
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So for today's shadowing practice at the end, I have attached a transcript of it in the description of this video.
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So be sure to click the link.
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All you have to do is put in your name
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and email to sign up and get your free transcript from today's lesson.
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Okay.
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My third tip, and this is probably the most important one when it comes to shadowing is to focus on the intonation.
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Don't just copy the words, copy the melody of the speaker's speech.
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So when the intonation goes up, make sure you go up and when it falls down,
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you want to follow that trend as well.
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So we can think of the language kind of having a musical rhythm to it.
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And so much about sounding natural isn't necessarily about getting rid of any accent you may have.
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It's about getting the pitch and the stress of both the words and the full sentences correct.
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So if you focus on the intonation and the stress over anything else,
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that is going to be your best tool for sounding natural in English.
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Tip number four, this one might seem a little bit weird, but it is a one of my tips would be to walk while you shadow.
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Walking helps you focus and it gets the whole body involved.
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Try it during your next shadowing session.
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Practice walking as you shadow the speaker and see how that helps.
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My final tip, tip number five, is to record yourself.
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Now for some of you, this one might feel a little uncomfortable to record yourself, but trust me.
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it's really helpful in getting feedback on how you're doing.
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If you have a recording of yourself saying the text and the original recording of the speaker you shadowed,
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you can compare how your intonation matches theirs.
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Now, if you're thinking it would be really great
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if I could get a native speaker to give me feedback on my shadowing recording instead of just myself,
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I offer that in my community to my community members.
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So the link to join my community is also in the description of this video.
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And that's where you'll find all of my course material, exclusive video lessons.
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You can access live calls with me every week and also be a part of a community of English learners.
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So check that out below.
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If you've enjoyed this video so far, be sure to click the like button and subscribe to my channel
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if you haven't already so you can see my future video lessons, and of course, share it with a fellow English learner.
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Now, if you want to put these tips for shadowing into practice, let's begin with the shadowing practice for today's video.
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I'm going to read a short story about a Zoom call that has gone wrong,
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so we will also learn some handy phrases in the work environment while also practicing our intonation and pronunciation of the language.
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It was Monday morning and our weekly team meeting had just started on Zoom.
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It was Monday morning, pause after the comma, and our weekly team meeting had just started on Zoom.
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Intonation goes down at the end of a sentence.
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I logged in a minute early, but of course, half the team was still connecting.
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I logged in a minute early.
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Logged in means to begin the call or put in your details in order to join a website or a call.
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But of course, half the team was still connecting.
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The team being the people you work with.
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Our manager, Lisa, was already speaking.
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Our manager, Lisa, always pause when you see a comma.
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So before and after Lisa, I did a small pause.
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Our manager, Lisa, was already speaking, but her audio kept cutting in and out.
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But her audio kept cutting in and out and out and out.
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We drop the ending of and and it allies with the next word when it starts with a vowel.
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When someone's audio cuts in and out, it means that the audio is not consistent.
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Sometimes we hear it, sometimes we don't.
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You're on mute, someone typed in the chat.
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You're on.
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You're on.
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These words also allied together.
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You're on becomes you're on.
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You're on mute.
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Someone typed in the chat.
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A few awkward seconds later, she came back with, Can everyone hear me now?
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A few awkward seconds later,
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awkward means something that's uncomfortable because it's not exactly what people usually expect
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or how you would want a social interaction to go.
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If it's awkward, it's just a little uncomfortable.
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She came back with, to come back with something means to give that response.
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Can everyone hear me now?
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Can everyone hear me now?
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The intonation goes up because it's a question.
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Can everyone, can everyone, can, can becomes can can everyone hear me now we all
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nodded though one person's video was frozen on a weird face
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we all nodded pause at the comma the one person's video was frozen on a weird face.
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If your video is frozen, it means you stop moving.
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And if you're making a weird face, that would be a weird face.
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And another was clearly eating cereal off screen.
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And another was clearly eating cereal off -screen.
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Off -screen means we couldn't see them on the video,
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but clearly they were eating their breakfast at the meeting.
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Maybe you could hear it or it was obvious to everyone else they were doing this, but you couldn't see them on camera.
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Then, just as we started discussing the quarterly goals,
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you'll notice here my intonation each time is floating up a bit because I always have to take pauses after the comma,
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and I want to indicate that I'm still continuing my sentence.
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We don't want monotone.
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Then just as we started discussing the quarterly goals, Alex's microphone started making, it starts not to become understandable.
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That's why intonation is so important.
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Then just as we started discussing the quarterly goals,
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Alex's microphone started making that awful robotic sound.
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A robotic sound means a sound you might hear from technology,
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maybe when it's not functioning correctly, or it sounds unnatural, like a robot or like a computer.
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Lisa tried to be polite.
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Lisa tried to be polite, but eventually had to say,
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Alex, I think your connection's a bit unstable.
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Alex, I think your connection's a bit unstable.
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If someone has an unstable connection, it means their internet is not very good.
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Alex dropped out of the call completely.
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Alex dropped out of the call completely.
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To drop out of a call online means to lose connection to that call,
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means to leave the call unexpectedly.
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Then rejoined with a different background and said.
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Then rejoined with a different background and said.
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Again, we want to emphasize or stress the words that are most important in the sentence.
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Here we're pointing out his background is different.
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So we can stress that word.
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Then rejoined with a different background and said.
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sorry, my cat stepped on the router.
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Sorry, my cat stepped on the router.
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A router is that device where you get Wi -Fi.
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We all laughed and the tension eased a bit.
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We all laughed and the tension eased a bit.
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Tension eased a bit, eased a bit, eased a bit.
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All of those sounds allied together.
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Eased a, eased a, a bit, a bit.
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And the T is a stopped T sound.
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So we often wouldn't speak like eased a bit and emphasize each or pronounce clearly each consonant.
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But we allied through when there's a vowel between two consonant sounds
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and we often drop the T at the ends of words in the American accent.
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And the tension eased a bit.
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Tension is referring to that awkwardness we had earlier on in the story.
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So if there's tension in a conversation, maybe it's because of awkwardness.
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Maybe it's because someone's upset or angry.
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And if the tension eased, that means the tension went away a little bit.
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We somehow made it through the whole agenda.
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We somehow made it through the whole agenda.
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And as we wrapped up, there's a new idea being introduced.
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So my intonation goes up.
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And as we wrapped up, Lisa smiled and said, Lisa smiled and said,
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All right, I'll follow up with the notes.
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All right, I'll follow up with the notes.
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To follow up with something means to contact someone again about something that was previously discussed.
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So to follow up with a conversation or to follow up with notes on a meeting means to visit them again.
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All right, I'll follow up with the notes.
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Assuming the Wi -Fi gods are on my side today.
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Assuming the Wi -Fi gods are on my side today.
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To say the Wi -Fi gods are on my side is a kind of amusing
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or funny way to say that the Wi -Fi is working for me that day.
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You could use this for different situations as well.
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Maybe if your shadowing practice is going really well, you could say the shadowing gods are on my side today.
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Okay, now we're going to read the whole thing without stopping.
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And this time you will practice shadowing along with me.
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So of course, that means to say it at the same time as me
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or just slightly behind me to make sure you are matching my intonation,
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rhythm, and pronunciation of the words.
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It was Monday morning and our weekly team meeting had just started on Zoom.
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I logged in a minute early, but of course half the team was still connecting.
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Our manager, Lisa, was already speaking, but her audio kept cutting in and out.
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You're on mute, someone typed in the chat.
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A few awkward seconds later, she came back with, can everyone hear me now?
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We all nodded, though one person's video was frozen on a weird face,
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and another was clearly eating cereal off screen.
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Then, just as we started discussing the quarterly goals,
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Alex's microphone started making that awful robotic sound.
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Lisa tried to be polite but eventually had to say,
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Alex, I think your connection's a bit unstable.
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Alex dropped out of the call completely then rejoined with a different background and said,
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sorry my cat stepped on the router.
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We all laughed and the tension eased a bit.
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We somehow made it through the whole agenda
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and as we wrapped up Lisa smiled
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and said all right I'll follow up with the notes assuming the wi -fi gods are on my side today.
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Let me know how today's shadowing practice went for you in the comments below.
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Don't forget to click the link to get your transcript of today's story
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so that you can practice reading along as well as shadowing me at the same time,
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if that would be helpful to you.
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I also included the English words and phrases
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that we learned as we went along in today's shadowing practice
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so that you can practice studying those terms as well and build your vocabulary.
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If you want to see more shadowing videos for me, check out my shadowing playlist.
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And again, there's lots more where that came from,
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also with personalized feedback that you can find in my online community, also linked below.
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I'll see you guys next time.
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Happy learning.
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Bye.
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