Shadowing Practice: 10 Things Fredo Can't Live Without - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Make sure they ain't got my sort -called and account number.
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Else I'll be suing GQ.
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What's good GQ?
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This is Freddo and this is my 10 essentials.
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This is my duffel bag, NBA edition.
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Let's see what we got to start with.
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Card holder, bruising bad but does the job.
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Cash is a thing of the past.
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I used to roll with money and stuff like that when I was younger and excited, but I just need these two.
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That's all I need.
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I keep some SIM cards in there.
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So I got a beige and one of the buy ones.
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I got a couple, man.
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Apart from my Nando's card, I got a Wingstop card as well.
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I don't even know where that is, man.
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That just gets passed around my area.
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And yeah, my Nando's one, they took it back from me.
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I had an argument with one of the staff there.
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Yeah, the woman just phoned me and was like, yo, we got to take back the card.
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I still get Nando's every day though.
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So maybe they give me a new one soon.
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It wasn't even me.
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One of my little guys had an argument with them.
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And you know Nando's are cool, but they just had a funny employee.
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But apart from that, it was always love.
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I used to go to the same Nando's every day in my area.
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Big up Lisa.
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I used to get four mils a day.
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The bottles of lemonade and all that.
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But yeah, they used to show love.
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Wingstop, what did they give you?
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I think four mils as well, you know.
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But they was a bit tight.
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I think they didn't give you a drink or something, I can't remember, man.
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Peppermint tea.
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I don't drink green tea or coffee or hot chocolate or tea with milk in it.
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Just this with free sugars.
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Anywhere we go, I got this.
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Boy, you could say every song off Twindings because I drink this every morning.
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I don't even feel right if I don't drink this.
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Gets my belly right, gets me right.
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When I go and do shows on my right, what will we have?
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Rizla, prawn cocktail, walkers, Hennessy, and some fruits.
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I'm bored obviously, not peppermint tea, peppermint tea is a morning situation only.
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My next essential is my phone, but mainly Deliveroo and Uber Eats.
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I do like 2 ,000 a month on Deliveroo.
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Who's my most prized contact?
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My mum, I'll say.
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In jail, my top three essentials are phone.
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You need a phone in there or you're going to be bored.
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So I've done some
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Snapchat videos in Wandsworth, and they gave me 20 weeks to do 10 extra for it.
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Everyone does Snapchats in jail, but by that time I was rapping, so they were watching me a bit harder.
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Another one would be Dove Salt.
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One of my top three essentials is here.
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I found it in youth jail.
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Deeper Base.
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Now this is key.
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If you've got sensitive skin and all that, use this.
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I used to have eczema when I was young and I didn't really know what I was doing.
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I used to put cocoa bar on my skin, Radox, all these kind of stuff that my skin don't like.
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And then I went to Juvenile, YOI one time and the nurses gave me this and it cleared up my skin,
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and I've never used no cream ever since then.
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Sometimes people ask me, like, what's your skincare routine?
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It's only this.
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Big up Dippo base.
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I'm on whatever marketing schemes you lot got going on.
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Break me off on the lifetime supply, because these are like £22 each or something, you know.
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It's not cheap.
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I only started using aftershave like two, three years ago, before I used to just shower and just, you know, feel fresh.
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I remember one time we went to Costa Rica and shot a video with Miss.
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He come in the car and I thought, yo, this you smells rich.
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So I thought to myself, I want to try that.
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I went through a couple, but this is the one I like the most.
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It's Louis Vuitton and it's like a oud kind of fragrance.
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More like an Arab incense kind of smell than like a perfumey kind of smell.
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Jewelry, but jewelry to do is loved ones.
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My friend Binnie passed away in 2020.
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The back says R .I .P.
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Billy the Kid.
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Hi, Road Boy Forever.
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Yeah, I got a few like this for some of my friends who we lost on the journey.
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Yeah, so I'd hear up A and Hoosh and just told them I want a Cuban, like I had this Cuban rule.
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And it's got big stones in the middle, but they were flat.
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So I hear up A and told them we want the risen stones as big as possible.
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And yeah, we just went back and forth.
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They send you like a CAD design of how it will look.
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You can get to see it like in a plastic film.
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Same time I was making this, A didn't tell me he was making a similar one for Heddy One.
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So I didn't want to seem like I was buying his style,
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so I had to go back to the drawing board and put these two carrots in each as the full stops,
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just to give it a little bit of difference.
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Heddy One got his one first, but this one's the daddy one, though.
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I probably ran through about 100 of these.
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Corona came, everyone had their masks on, and I just got used to it.
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And then when Corona was finished, I just kept wearing masks, and it's just like a swag now.
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But I really wear it to try and cut through,
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put my hood on, when I'm not trying to be seen or just keep it low somewhere that might be big.
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But yeah, no, I ain't wearing it for fashion.
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Airpods.
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I've been on the Trini Wave lately, so Cayman 6.
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Plumpy Boss, Skelly Twirl, Brad, all Trinny Bad music right now, since I came back from the Caribbean.
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If I could get anyone to listen to one album in their life, I'd recommend 50
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Cent Get Rich or Die Triant, for sure.
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PG Vest, designed by me and the team.
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PG is my clothing brand, stands for parental guidance, a luxury streetwear brand that can cater for everyone, some expensive pieces, some not so expensive pieces.
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Vests, t -shirts, cargoes, combats, gilets, we got jackets coming, basketball jerseys.
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We're working, but these are the world's best vests.
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Most vests are loose, saggy, once you wash them.
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But these vests here, they just get tighter and tighter.
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Make sure you get some.
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I don't know, when God made my teeth some kind of way, the chicken and the greens, they just get caught up in there,
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and I have to have a toothpick.
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And then they're kind of addicted.
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Sometimes I just find myself doing them for no reason.
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Nah, nah, I don't walk around them in my mouth all day.
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I just pick, pick, pick and dash it.
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It's more the feeling of when it goes in the gap of my teeth that I like.
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I ain't trying to look cool.
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Nah, nah, I can't do no tricks with a toothpick.
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I don't do no tricks with my mouth.
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That was Freddo on GQ, 10 Essentials.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “10 Things Fredo Can't Live Without”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: Vest, essential, tea, card. This video has 123 sentences and 1248 words to shadow. The speech runs for 6:13. The speaker talks fast, about 201 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. Only 79% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| vest noun | /vɛst/ | A sleeveless garment that buttons down the front, worn over a shirt, and often as part of a suit; a waistcoat. |
| trick noun | /ˈtɹɪk/ | Something designed to fool, dupe, outsmart, mislead or swindle. |
| mask noun | /mæsk/ | A cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection. |
| bore verb | /boɹ/ | To inspire boredom in somebody. |
| jewellery noun | /ˈd͡ʒʊ-/ | Collectively, personal ornamentation such as rings, necklaces, brooches and bracelets, made of precious metals and sometimes set with gemstones. |
| mil noun | /mɪl/ | An angular mil, a unit of angular measurement equal to ¹⁄₆₄₀₀ of a complete circle. At 1000 metres one mil subtends about one metre (0.98 m). Also ¹⁄₆₀₀₀ and… |
| clothing noun | /ˈkloʊðɪŋ/ | Any of a wide variety of articles, usually made of fabrics, animal hair, animal skin, or some combination thereof, used to cover the human body for warmth, to… |
| sensitive adjective | /ˈsɛn.sɪt.ɪv/ | Having the faculty of sensation; pertaining to the senses. |
| walker noun | /ˈwɔkɚ/ | The agent noun of to walk: a person who walks or a thing which walks, especially a pedestrian or a participant in a walking race. |
| lately adverb | /ˈleɪt.li/ | Recently; not long ago; of late; not long since. |
| nurse noun | /nɝs/ | Anyone performing this role, regardless of training or profession. |
| lifetime noun | /ˈlaɪf.taɪm/ | The duration of the life of someone or something. |
| routine noun | /ɹuˈtin/ | A course of action to be followed regularly; a standard procedure. |
| daddy noun | /ˈdædi/ | Also used as a term of address: a father; one's father. |
| luxury noun | /ˈlʌk.ʃə.ɹi/ | Very wealthy and comfortable surroundings; the state of being that they create. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| clear up verb | /klɪəˈɹʌp/ | To clarify, to correct a misconception. |
| come back from verb | To become successful, confident or effective again after an injury, setback, failure, embarrassment, etc. | |
| cut through verb | To take a shortcut through. | |
| go back verb | To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time. | |
| go back to verb | To stem from; to originate in. | |
| go through verb | To travel from one end of something to the other. | |
| pass around verb | To distribute something through a group by giving several items to one or more people to then give to others in a row, line or circle; to spread something to… | |
| take back verb | To retract or withdraw (an earlier statement). |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- Let's see what we got to start with.
- I don't even know where that is, man.
- Wingstop, what did they give you?
- Who's my most prized contact?
- Sometimes people ask me, like, what's your skincare routine?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| “Used to” used to + verb — a past habit or state that is no longer true | used to roll · used to go · used to get |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | is loved · was finished · be seen |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | I've done · I've been |
| Past continuous was/were + -ing — an action in progress at a moment in the past | was rapping · was doing · was making |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 32 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, didn't, ain't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: luxury /ˈlʌk.ʃə.ɹi/, dash /ˈdæʃ/, beige /ˈbeɪʒ/, gilet /ˈʒɪleɪ/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like vest, trick, mask.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.