Shadowing Practice: you've clicked far too carelessly - Learn English Speaking with Video

Les maken...
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Oh Wow everybody look we got a winner Somebody clicked the weird little guy Yeah,
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you think that's cool?
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You think you've done something here?
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That really freaking hurt like that actually really hurt that you ever been clicked on here watch
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Hmm you got some sort of subsonic force field going on I'm sure you'll feel that tomorrow though Anyway, thanks for clicking on me.
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I really want to be left alone though, so I'm gonna give you $20 to screw off, go find something else to do.
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Get it?
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It's funny money.
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Yeah.
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Either way, no, seriously.
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I'm not giving you the $20, but go away.
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Can you go away?
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Yeah, thank you.
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And don't click on me again, or I'll be upset.
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don't click on me okay?
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Hey you look good by the way I just want to
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be honest you look you look good today okay I'm going now

Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This video has 17 sentences and 151 words to shadow. The speech runs for 1:05. The speaker talks at a steady 139 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 90% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.

Key vocabulary in this video

10 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

WordPronunciationMeaning
subsonic adjectivehaving a frequency too low to be audible
upset verb/ʌpˈsɛt/To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
click verb/klɪk/To cause to make a click; to operate (a switch, etc) so that it makes a click.
hurt verb/hɝt/To cause (a person or animal) physical pain and/or injury.
sort noun/soɹt/A general type.
seriously adverb/ˈsɪɹ.i.əs.li/In a serious or literal manner.
everybody/ˈɛvɹi(ˌ)bədi/All people.
weird adjective/ˈwiɚd/Having an unusually strange character or behaviour.
winner noun/ˈwɪnɚ/One who has won or often wins.
honest adjective/ˈɑ.nɪst/Scrupulous with regard to telling the truth; not given to swindling, lying, or fraud; upright.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

WordMeaning
go away verbTo depart or leave a place.

Grammatica in deze video

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

StructuurIn de video
Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doetbeen clicked · be left
Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog teltyou've done
Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — iets dat nu of in deze periode gebeurtI'm not giving · I'm going
Toekomst met “will” will + werkwoord — een besluit, belofte of voorspellingyou'll feel · I'll be

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 10 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, gonna. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

  • Long words — get the stress right: seriously /ˈsɪɹ.i.əs.li/, everybody /ˈɛvɹi(ˌ)bədi/

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 subsonic, upset, click.

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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