Shadowing Practice: Дикая охота в Якутии 🇷🇺 Медведь и Редчайший баран - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Дикая охота в Якутии 🇷🇺 Медведь и Редчайший баран”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: ram, hunter, trophy, bear, sheep. This video has 522 sentences and 5861 words to shadow. The speech runs for 48:17. The speaker talks at a steady 121 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. Only 78% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| hunter noun | /ˈhʌntɚ/ | One who hunts game for sport or for food; a huntsman or huntswoman. |
| trophy noun | /ˈtɹoʊfi/ | An object, usually in the form of a statuette, cup, or shield, awarded for success in a competition or to mark a special achievement. |
| ram noun | /ɹæm/ | A male sheep, typically uncastrated. |
| sheep noun | /ˈʃiːp/ | A woolly ruminant of the genus Ovis. |
| carefully adverb | /ˈkɛɹf(ə)li/ | With care; attentively, circumspectly. |
| meter noun | /ˈmitəɹ/ | A device that measures things. |
| ridge noun | /ɹɪd͡ʒ/ | The back of any animal; especially the upper or projecting part of the back of a quadruped. |
| lamb noun | /ˈlæm/ | A young sheep; especially, one younger than nine months. |
| rifle noun | /ˈɹaɪfəl/ | A firearm fired from the shoulder; improved range and accuracy is provided by a long, rifled barrel. |
| expedition noun | /ɛkspəˈdɪʃən/ | A military journey; an enterprise against some enemy or into enemy territory. |
| frequency noun | /ˈfɹiːkwənsi/ | The rate of occurrence of anything; the relationship between incidence and time period. |
| harsh adjective | /ˈhɑɹʃ/ | Unpleasantly rough to the touch or other senses. |
| terrain noun | /təˈɹeɪn/ | A single, distinctive rock formation; an area having a preponderance of a particular rock or group of rocks. |
| rank noun | /ˈɹæŋk/ | A row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers. |
| friendship noun | /ˈfɹɛn(d)ʃɪp/ | The condition of being friends. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| run away verb | To flee by running. | |
| come across verb | To change sides; to cross over to work for the opposition. | |
| lie down verb | To assume a horizontal position. | |
| set up verb | /ˌsɛt ˈʌp/ | To make ready for use. |
| work out verb | /ˌwɝk ˈaʊt/ | To calculate. |
| burn off verb | To dissipate as the result of heat. | |
| calm down verb | To become less excited, intense, or angry. | |
| clean out verb | To clean, especially to tidy by removing the contents. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- What kind of radios do you have?
- Are we going to take the hide?
- Did you hear the shot just now?
- I wonder what it 's actually doing here… right now?
- Did you collect the genetic material?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result | If a hunter will meet |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | have chosen · have been · have seen |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | is headed · is located · is designed |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 31 contractions and reduced forms, such as n't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: gather /ˈɡæðɚ/, thoroughly /ˈθʌɹ.ə.li/, worthy /ˈwɝ.ði/, nevertheless /ˌnɛvɚðəˈlɛs/, thick /θɪk/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: sheep /ˈʃiːp/, expedition /ɛkspəˈdɪʃən/, harsh /ˈhɑɹʃ/, friendship /ˈfɹɛn(d)ʃɪp/, conservation /ˌkɑnsə(ɹ)ˈveɪʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: expedition /ɛkspəˈdɪʃən/, conservation /ˌkɑnsə(ɹ)ˈveɪʃən/, navigation /nævɪˈɡeɪʃən/, congratulations /kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/, nevertheless /ˌnɛvɚðəˈlɛs/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like hunter, trophy, ram.
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.












