Shadowing Practice: The Simplest Way to Connect Claude and Power BI - Learn English Speaking with Video

In this video, I'm going to talk about

that how do you connect Claude with Power BI so that when you give prompts in Claude,

Power BI acts automatically.

It's going to be a fun one.

Let's start.

Now, to be able to connect Claude with Power BI Desktop,

we need three applications, two of which you've already guessed it.

Yes, we need Claude Desktop.

That's one.

We need Power BI Desktop and we also need Visual Studio Code.

When you download Cloud Desktop,

you can be on the free version.

There is no need for you to be on the paid version,

although the amount of work

that you can do on the free version in Cloud Desktop is going to be limited

and Power BI Desktop is anyways free.

I would request you at the start that you install these three applications to begin with,

Cloud Desktop, Power BI Desktop,

I'm sure you have that, and also VS Code.

The installation process of any of these three applications is just the standard process.

There is nothing technical about it,

so I'll leave that onto you and after that,

I'll teach you that how do you connect all of these three and have Claude talk to your Power BI desktop.

The very first application that we'll be working inside is VS Code

and that is where we will install the MCP

or model context protocol server for Power BI officially given to us by Microsoft.

Now, I'm going to go over to extensions right here and in extensions,

I will search for Power BI.

You can see that I have already installed that.

So, there was a check mark there.

You can see that I have already installed that.

That's from Microsoft and I have gotten that already.

In case you haven't, you can just click on that and install.

There is going to be an install button right here.

You can just click on install and have this extension installed in your VS Code.

The important thing to note is

that there is no way Claude can talk to an application in your PC like Power BI Desktop.

So the way that it connects to Power BI Desktop is via this MCP.

Although we don't need VS Code for any coding purposes,

we would just want to take that MCP

that we have installed the model context protocol that we have installed feed

that into Claude so that Claude can connect to Power BI Desktop

and start interacting

and you can do a bunch of work in there quick

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Let's get back to the video.

Let's just see that once you've installed this MCP or extension in your VS Code,

how do we then take this and connect to Cloud?

The next thing that I'm going to do is open up a Windows Explorer window

and then I am going to go over to users to take the path where my MCP is installed

and then connect it to Cloud Desktop.

So take a look.

So I am in my C drive wherever you have installed your Windows and we have users in there.

This is me, Chandip Chhabra.

And then I'm going to go over to VS Code.

I have installed some extensions.

So I'll go in the subfolder con extensions.

The Power BI MCP extension is installed in this particular folder,

Analysis Services, Power BI Modeling MCP.

I'll just double click on that within

which I will go on to the server folder and I will find the Power BI modeling MCP.

Now this technically is the place in your entire Windows directory where the MCP server is kept.

I would want to take this position or this particular file and then feed it into Claude.

How do you do that?

Now if you actually open this particular file,

it's going to most likely open in a terminal window

or like a shell in a PowerShell window and you see this particular code right here.

You can copy this code and this is the code

that we will stick inside of Claude so that Claude can talk to Power BI.

And you can take a look that the path

that is mentioned in here is the very path that I have navigated to.

So C, users, my name,

VS code extensions, blah, blah, blah.

And here is the Power BI modeling MCV.

It's encapsulated in a JSON.

So I can just copy all of that from here.

Control c on that and now i'm going to feed this inside of claude the next thing

that i do is i open up claude desktop after i have closed the powershell window

that opened for the executable file next up i'm just going to go over to the top

and i will click on file

and then click on the settings in the settings i will roll down over to developer

and you can see that since i have already connected and that's my Power BI server already connected right here.

Now, I don't really want to disturb my connection at the moment.

I will just tell you how can you do that.

So obviously, you would not see this being connected at the moment.

So you can click on a button and I'm going to click on edit at the moment.

So I'll click on edit and this is going to give me the place where I can make the change.

You can see that there is a cloud desktop config JSON right here.

I'm going to open up this JSON on this json file

needs to point to where your mcp is now this particular file

which is json file you can open up in a text editor in a notepad plus plus

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or in vs code

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that we have just installed it doesn't matter we just want to modify this

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if i double click on the file it opens up in my vs code something like this

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and you can take a look that i have already copy pasted

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that code that i copied it from the mcp there are a bunch of other things as well

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which has helped me to connect in case the code

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that MCP shows is not working somehow in case you would want to take a look at my code instead,

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I can just paste this code somewhere down below the video and you can just paste this code instead.

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Note that what is important is that the command line should point to the directory where your MCP is.

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One more thing to note that you can see

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that we have double slashes in here rather than actually having a single slash.

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So make sure that you change your file directory to have double slashes everywhere

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and rest everything is going to be all right.

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Now once you've done this particular change and you've deleted the original code

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that was kept here and replaced it with the code that we copied.

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Save it, close it and you are done.

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At this stage, you might have to restart your PC once again for that change to take effect.

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But for now, I have two windows open side by side.

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I have a sales model that is open,

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which is where I have got a couple of tables listed right here.

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They are connected.

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And on the other side,

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I have Claude Desktop open.

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Now, I'm going to start prompting Claude Desktop.

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One thing you should keep in mind is

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that the way to check it

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if Power BI is connected to Claude is by again going over to the three dots right here,

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file and then settings, and then making sure that in the developer,

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you have the Power BI MCP connected, something like this.

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Once I've ensured that the connection is working,

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then I can go and talk to Claude to just do some operations on my Power BI report.

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Let's just try to get how many tables are loaded in the current model.

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Let's just see what happens.

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Cool.

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After a bit of soul searching,

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Claude has returned me the answer that there are six tables loaded.

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We have sales table and you can see that here,

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the calendar table, which is right here,

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the products refunds, an empty measures table and the product names table,

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which is right here.

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Let's try one more prompt with Claude.

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Let's just see if it can actually create my total sales calculation,

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which is technically going to be the units from the sales table multiplied with the price in the products table.

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Let's just see if it can figure that out on its own or not.

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All right, that is done as well.

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You can see that Claude has written the measure.

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Go in every single row of the sales table,

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take the units, multiply that with the VLOOKUP of the price.

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And this particular measure, which is total sales measure,

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has been added in our model automatically.

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Let's just go.

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And if I drag this measure to our visual,

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as it gives me the correct results,

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sure enough, it actually does give me the correct results.

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Now, all of this seems very rosy and very attractive

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and then you might just get a high that Claude can do literally everything in my Power BI report.

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But the answer might quite be very different.

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In the next video, I've explored

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that how realistic is to develop a full-fledged enterprise-grade report with Power BI and using Claude prompts.

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I'll highly recommend that you watch that video to get some reality check of what Claude can and cannot do.

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I'll see you in that video.

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Cheers.

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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les

Deze spreekles op niveau C1 is gebaseerd op de video “The Simplest Way to Connect Claude and Power BI”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: claude, code, desktop, click, mcp. Deze video bevat 162 zinnen en 1748 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 7:58. De spreker praat snel, ongeveer 220 woorden per minuut, dus reken op verbonden en ingeslikte klanken. 82% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden; de rest kun je beter vooraf bekijken.

Belangrijke woorden in deze video

De 15 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:

Woord	Uitspraak	Betekenis
desktop zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈdɛsktɒp/	desktop
prompt werkwoord	/pɹɑmpt/	aansporen, aanmoedigen
directory zelfstandig naamwoord	/dɪˈɹɛktəɹi/	gids, repertorium
multiply werkwoord	/ˈmʌltɪplaɪ/	vermenigvuldigen
folder zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈfoʊldɚ/	hechtmap, map
pasta zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈpɑ.stə/	deegwaren, pasta
encapsulate werkwoord	/ɪnˈkæps(j)ʊˌleɪt/	inkapselen
executable bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/ˈɛksəkjutəbl/	uitvoerbaar
notepad zelfstandig naamwoord		kladblok, blocnote
disturb werkwoord	/dɪˈstɜːb/	storen, verstoren
query zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈkwɪɹ.i/	vraag, verzoek
restart werkwoord	/ˈɹiːˌstɑɹt/	herbeginnen
navigate werkwoord	/ˈnæv.ɪ.ɡeɪt/	navigeren
calculation zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˌkælkjuˈleɪʃn̩/	berekening
modify werkwoord	/ˈmɑ.dɪˌfaɪ/	modificeren, veranderen

Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

Woord	Betekenis
look forward to werkwoord	uitkijken naar, zich verheugen op

Zinnen om te herhalen

Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:

Let's get back to the video.
How do you do that?
Let's just see what happens.
I'll see you in that video.

Grammatica in deze video

De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:

Structuur	In de video
Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt	you've already guessed · have already installed · have gotten
Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet	be limited · is installed · is kept
Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding	table, which is · measure, which is

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 31 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'm, I'll, you've. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: directory /dɪˈɹɛktəɹi/, encapsulate /ɪnˈkæps(j)ʊˌleɪt/, executable /ˈɛksəkjutəbl/

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: config /ˌkənˈfɪɡ/, fledged /flɛd͡ʒd/, rave /ɹeɪv/, disturb /dɪˈstɜːb/, refund /ɹɪˈfʌnd/
/æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: encapsulate /ɪnˈkæps(j)ʊˌleɪt/, navigate /ˈnæv.ɪ.ɡeɪt/, calculation /ˌkælkjuˈleɪʃn̩/, interact /ɪn.təˈɹækt/
/g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: config /ˌkənˈfɪɡ/, navigate /ˈnæv.ɪ.ɡeɪt/

Zo oefen je met deze video

Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
Begin op 0,75× snelheid, spreek zin voor zin na en ga terug naar normale snelheid zodra het makkelijk gaat.
Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als desktop, prompt, directory.

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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