Shadowing Practice: 3 Kasım 2026 - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Hello and welcome to Real Easy English, the podcast where we have real conversations in easy English to help you learn.

I'm Neil.

And I'm Beth.

You can find a video version of this podcast and a worksheet to help you learn on our website, bbclearningenglish .com.

How are you today, Beth?

I'm okay, Neil.

I'm a little bit tired.

How are you?

I'm very well.

I'm fine.

Great.

Good, good.

Well, today we're going to talk about mistakes.

So hopefully I won't make many mistakes being tired.

No, mistakes.

Mistakes can be things that are wrong, like a mistake in a maths problem.

But we can also use mistake to talk about really big things in life, decisions that you've made, actions that you've taken.

Yes, that's true.

So I think let's start the conversation.

Let's do it.

So Beth, have you made any mistakes recently?

Yes.

So I recently left my suitcase on a train by mistake.

Oh no.

So I was traveling from home to leeds on the train um

and i got to the station at leeds

and there were loads of people and they were they were football fans

and they were singing really loudly and i just wanted to get off the train

and that's what i did and then i realized about half an hour later

that i didn't have my suitcase oh no

so that's a bad mistake did you get it back i did i was

so lucky the train stopped at leeds so when i realized i ran and said to the people on the platform

my suitcase is on the train and they held the train for me

and i ran up the platform i grabbed my suitcase

and then they blew the whistle and the train went oh i was

so lucky but yeah that was a big mistake and i will not make that mistake again everybody says that

so earlier we said that mistakes can be small things like my suitcase

but there are big mistakes that we can make

so have you ever made a a big mistake do you think yeah well once um i had a job

that i really really enjoyed i was teaching at a school in prague in the czech republic teaching english

and i loved the job and i had loads of really good friends

but i had this feeling

that I needed to go move somewhere else do something else with my life and so I resigned

but then about a week or

so later I realized I really really didn't want to leave

that school so I went back to the boss

and I said I've changed my mind I want to stay

and he said well it's too late

because I've given your job to somebody else oh no that's

so sad so you left your job left Prague no actually a bit like your suitcase

Beth um it ended up it ended up being okay

because the person who took my job um then decided

that he didn't want the job either so in the end I did stay.

So when we make mistakes, Neil, sometimes we then have a regret or we regret the thing that we did.

That means that we feel bad about it or we wish that we'd done something differently.

Do you have any regrets?

Yeah.

When I was a kid, I guess I was probably 12 or 13 I had some piano lessons

and I quit as soon as I could my parents gave me

that choice and I regret that because I love music

and I play guitar

and I think it I would have enjoyed playing piano

I always think to be honest you shouldn't have any regrets

because whatever you've done you've learned something from it even

if something bad happened then you know for next time

and it's a kind of self -improvement thing

that is a very positive attitude to mistakes beth yeah i think it's important to learn from your mistakes

and that's a common expression in english to learn from your mistakes

Let's recap the vocabulary we've learned in this podcast, starting with mistake.

And a mistake is an action that is wrong or that you do when you don't mean to.

And we can make a mistake.

That means we do something wrong.

Or we can do something by mistake, which means we do something accidentally, without meaning to.

For example, I left my suitcase on the train by mistake.

We also heard regret, which means feel bad or sorry about something you've done or a mistake that you've made.

And we heard learn from your mistakes, which means remember the mistake and then not do it again the next time.

That's it for this episode of Real Easy English.

You can test yourself on what you've learned with a worksheet on our website, bbclearningenglish .com.

See you then.

Goodbye.

Bye.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “3 Kasım 2026”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: mistake, train, suitcase, regret, beth. This video has 81 sentences and 828 words to shadow. The speech runs for 5:41. The speaker talks at a steady 146 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 82% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.

Key vocabulary in this video

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

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
suitcase noun	/ˈsutkeɪs/	A large (usually rectangular) piece of luggage used for carrying clothes, and sometimes suits, when travelling.
regret verb	/ɹɪˈɡɹɛt/	To feel sorry about (a thing that has or has not happened), afterthink: to wish that a thing had not happened, that something else had happened instead.
beth noun	/bɛθ/	The second letter of the Phoenician alphabet, 𐤁
podcast noun	/ˈpɑdˌkæst/	A program, especially an audio program, produced on a regular basis, delivered over the Internet in a compressed digital format and designed for playback on…
piano noun	/piˈænɪː/	A percussive keyboard musical instrument, usually ranging over seven octaves, with white and black colored keys, played by pressing these keys, causing hammers…
guitar noun	/ɡɪˈtɑɹ/	A stringed musical instrument, of European origin, usually with a fretted fingerboard and six strings, played with the fingers or a plectrum (guitar pick).
lesson noun	/ˈlɛs.ən/	A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided.
goodbye	/ɡʊdˈbaɪ/	Farewell; a formula used to another person or persons when the speaker, writer, or person addressed is departing.
differently adverb	/ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/	In a different way.
accidentally adverb	/ˌæk.sɪˈdɛnt(ə)li/	In an accidental manner; by chance, unexpectedly.
mathematics noun	/mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/	An abstract representational system studying numbers, shapes, structures, quantitative change and relationships between them.
resign verb	/ɹɪˈzaɪn/	To give up; to relinquish ownership of.
whistle noun	/ˈwɪs(ə)l/	A device designed to be placed in the mouth and blown, or driven by steam or some other mechanism, to make a whistling sound.
vocabulary noun	/vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/	A usually alphabetized and explained collection of words e.g. of a particular field, or prepared for a specific purpose, often for learning.
loudly adverb	/ˈlaʊdli/	In a loud manner; at a high volume.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Meaning
end up verb	To bring to a conclusion.
get off verb	To move from being on top of (something) to not being on top of it.
go back to verb	To stem from; to originate in.
run up verb	To run (towards someone or something); to hasten to a destination.

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	you've made · have you ever made · I've changed
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	person who took · mistake, which means · regret, which means
Past continuous was/were + -ing — an action in progress at a moment in the past	was traveling · were singing · was teaching
Future with “will” will + verb — a decision, promise or prediction	won't make · will not make

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 24 contractions and reduced forms, such as you've, I'm, didn't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: beth /bɛθ/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/
Long words — get the stress right: differently /ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/, accidentally /ˌæk.sɪˈdɛnt(ə)li/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/

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 suitcase, regret, beth.

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.

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