Shadowing Practice: 451 日本人は丁寧すぎる？！#日本語ポッドキャスト - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Hi everyone, I'm ByteSize Japanese.
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Today, I'm from Australia, and I'm from England, and I'm from Japan.
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I think it's not just that I don't know.
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I think I can feel like I'm going to go to the airport.
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But I think that's a very nice country.
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The service is very careful.
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It's very careful.
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So, if you are driving a bus, this is a way of driving a bus.
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If you are driving a bus, or a little bit of a bus,
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or a little bit of a bus, or a little bit of a bus,
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or an announcement, Like, I'm at 2 minutes late to the Maru Maru Park.
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I'm at the急ぎ of the customers who are very much of your trouble.
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There are a lot of丁寧 and things that are on the way to get to the airport.
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Like, I'm driving or bus.
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So I'm like, I'm going to go to Japan.
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And I'm going to go to the restaurant.
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I'm going to go to the restaurant.
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But I'm going to go to the restaurant.
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This is why the buyer is a seller in the bag itself ...
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especially very丁寧に the bag itself.
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Now, the buyer's data is very small and simple and inexpensive.
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And then I'm not standing there.
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It's not that I'm not sure.
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But I think that I'm not sure if I'm not sure if I'm not.
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And then I can't wait to get it to be a kind of a manner that I can't do.
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I think it's a bit difficult to do.
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I'm just going to get it to be a bit difficult.
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I'm feeling very difficult.
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It's a bit difficult to do with my body.
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But I am at a time when I was in high school.
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I was a kid who was 12 or 14 years old.
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I was in the college of the ballet ball club.
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I was in the first place.
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I was in the first place.
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It was a rule.
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I was in the first place.
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I was in the first place.
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but then I have to stay on it.
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I'm not going to sit on it.
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But I'm not going to sit on it.
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I'm not going to sit on it.
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That's a rule.
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It's weird.
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I don't know if you have a salaryman or a lot of learning.
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So, I'm going to learn from the club.
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It's a weird rule, but it's a weird rule.
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The client's丁寧 is very good, but it's a job that is hard to do with people's work.
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I really think that I have a little bit of a conversation.
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I have a little bit of a hotel or salon.
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But I think the client is always the way to go to the client.
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I'm going to go to the client's side and head and put it on the side.
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I think it's a good time.
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I don't want to go on that.
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I'm not sure.
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I'm not sure.
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This is what I talked about earlier.
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When you I talked about the client's phone.
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The client's phone is the client's phone.
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The client's phone is the phone.
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I think that's the case.
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I think that's a very nice thing.
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I think I'm going to think about it.
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So I think I have a lot of things.
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I don't think I have any idea.
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I don't think I have a work culture.
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I think I have a lot of work culture.
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I think I have a lot of work culture.
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I think it's a very old system that's still still there.
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For example, I think it's an Australian business.
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I'm looking for a job that I'm looking for.
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Australia's company, the home page is a very simple thing.
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It's a smartphone that looks easy.
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But if you're a company,
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20年前に作ったホームページまだ新しくしてないんですかみたいなそんなホームページがたくさんあります とかまあパソコンでは見れるけどなんかスマホだったらめっちゃ見にくいみたいなそんなホームページもたくさんあるし
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だから And now, I'm working at the hotel, and I'm working at the hotel,
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and I'm getting a lot of other companies from the company.
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So, I'm talking about the phone, like, like, a sauna, or a camera,
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or a consultant, or a consultant, or a phone, or a phone like,
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like, mecha mecha, 電話でそういう宣伝をしてくるんですね。
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それもね、私なんか、 その電話をしないといけない人が かわいそうだなって思う。 それだったらその会社が 人を使うんじゃなくって FacebookとかインスタとかTikTokでも Googleでも今ね、
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広告作れますよね。 誰でも簡単に。 I'm not using it.
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Facebook or Instagram or TikTok or Google.
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There are many people who can't create it.
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There are many people who can't create it.
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It's not easy to do that.
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But I think it's a lot of people who have a lot of people who are in the world.
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like you can't go you can't send it you can't use
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you can't you can't use you I I think it's very old.
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I think it's very interesting.
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I think it's hard to think about working-yousness.
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But it's a very nice country, but it's a very nice country.
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That's what I want to say.
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How do you think about Japan?
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It's a very nice country, and it's a very nice country.
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I think that's not that much.
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I think I live in the house like a car, and I have a lot of coffee,
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and I have a lot of coffee in the bag.
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I have a lot of coffee in the bag.
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I have a lot of people who are so angry.
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Yes, I have been there.
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There are many people who have been there.
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I don't know, but it's like this.
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I've been talking about 10 minutes.
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I'm going to finish this with my own thoughts.
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I'm going to listen to you.
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If you want to support this podcast, Patreon, and I'm going to support you.
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I'm going to do it now!
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Thank you so much!
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Thank you!
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I hope you all work and勉強!
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See you next time!
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Bye!
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “451 日本人は丁寧すぎる？！”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: bus, bag, driving, rule, difficult. This video has 111 sentences and 942 words to shadow. The speech runs for 11:23. The speaker talks slowly, about 83 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound. Only 81% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 12 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| consultant noun | /kənˈsʌl.tənt/ | A person or party that is consulted. |
| announcement noun | /əˈnaʊns.mənt/ | An act of announcing, or giving notice. |
| 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… |
| smartphone noun | /ˈsmɑɹtfoʊn/ | A mobile phone with more advanced features and greater computing capacity than a feature phone. |
| buyer noun | /ˈbaɪ.əɹ/ | A person who makes one or more purchases. |
| ballet noun | /bælˈeɪ/ | A classical form of dance. |
| salon noun | /ˈsælɒn/ | A large room, especially one used to receive and entertain guests. |
| cellar noun | /ˈsɛləɹ/ | An enclosed underground space, often under a building, used for storage or shelter. |
| inexpensive adjective | /ˌɪnɪkˈspɛnsɪv/ | Involving little expense; reasonable in price; cheap. |
| mecha noun | /ˈmɛkə/ | A large armoured robot on legs, typically controlled by a pilot seated inside. |
| salaryman noun | /ˈsæl.əɹ.i.mæn/ | An employee, a worker; now especially a Japanese white-collar worker who works long hours yet has an insignificant position within the corporate hierarchy. |
| sauna noun | /ˈsɔː.nə/ | A room or a house designed for heat sessions. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- I think it's not just that I don't know.
- I'm going to go to the restaurant.
- It's not that I'm not sure.
- I think it's a bit difficult to do.
- It's a bit difficult to do with my body.
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | kid who was · people who can · people who have |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | have been |
| Future with “going to” be going to + verb — a plan or something you can see coming | I'm going to go · I'm just going to get · I'm not going to sit |
| Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — something happening right now or around now | are driving · I'm driving · I'm not standing |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 56 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, can't, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- Long words — get the stress right: inexpensive /ˌɪnɪkˈspɛnsɪv/, salaryman /ˈsæl.əɹ.i.mæn/
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 consultant, announcement, podcast.
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.