Shadowing Practice: 5 day hike on Durmitor mountain - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Durmitor, Durmitor, you have to know how to pronounce Balkan,
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it's not Durmitor, Durmitor Come on!
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Oh shit!
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Ah rocks!
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Montenegro, Wednesday, June 2021 and I'm ready to start my new Highlander adventure.
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Almost 100 kilometers of Mountain Durmator.
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So let's see what this mountain has to offer.
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Let's go!
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This is the crew that will be hiking on Dermitov mountain.
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It's nearly the beginning and we've already lost the trail.
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So we're wandering across dense forests of Montenegro.
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I think everything's gonna be all right.
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Oh, the sun.
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So yeah, let's go.
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Because of this high snow year, there was a reroute.
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So we had to road walk a little bit.
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And now I'm here.
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some mountains and yeah it's not marked it's not well marked just GPS track
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so I'm following it have to go up I'm bushwhacking
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again I'm not happy with this GPS track have to go back it's pretty steep I don't know where I'm going
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Bloody hell.
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So this dog down there is Chips,
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I named him Chips and he's following me for last hour or two and he's a kind of cool dog.
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He found a patch of ice and snow and he's enjoying it.
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looking at me and I think he wants to follow him again.
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Yeah, he's a good dog.
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So let's go.
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Chips!
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What was that?
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Run!
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Don't throw me chips.
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You have a damn chip.
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Chips.
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Here we go.
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Everything's going to be better.
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I don't like cows, they're unpredictable just like those.
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Yeah!
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There's a checkpoint down there.
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The first one, I took my stamp and I'm going on.
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I got cheese pie here, it's good.
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I'll keep on going.
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Me and my friend, Chips, he's my companion.
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Let's go!
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Oh my god, super tough!
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It's really steep and it's really long.
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Oh my god!
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I have some pains here in my belly.
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I don't know what it is, but it's not good.
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I need to keep on moving.
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Almost there.
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The pass is somewhere there.
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I cannot see where.
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Almost there. so This
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is kinda steep But it's okay!
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Oh my god!
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Come on!
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Oh shit!
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Good!
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Oh my god!
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Super cold for my tushy!
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I love you.
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It's a dense forest and we are hiking.
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We need to get to the checkpoint and it's three of us including dog.
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We made it.
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We're almost there.
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The checkpoint number two is there.
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So we're gonna go there.
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It was tough, right?
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Chips Wow, chips Chips it
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He got the dinner And the dinner is Cevapi Nice She's a happy
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Charlie, Le Perret Amen.
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So I had a late start.
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I have a problem with a headache and maybe a higher temperature.
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I'm not sure.
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So we are lost again?
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Still lost.
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Still lost.
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We are still lost in the woods.
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There are no marks from the road and no trails that I can tell.
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So this is checkpoint 3.
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We came from another direction because we took a reroute because of non-existing routes in the forest.
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So yeah, here we are.
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It's quite beautiful.
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Looks like a glacier lake.
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It looks outstanding.
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The cliffs are really awesome.
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The only problem is the tiny little mosquitoes.
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and there's more than one.
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And they're probably buzzing around my head.
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There's some flies, but they don't bother me.
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It's morning
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in the camp.
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It was pretty cold in the night, but I was okay.
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It's beautiful here on this lake.
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So I have to pack up and I think the next checkpoint is on Tara river.
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So I had to get there.
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And I don't know is the GPS track okay.
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Because last two days we had some troubles finding the trail. so I
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don't know why they saw it for one finger.
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But probably one finger and two, the other finger.
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Yeah so
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What do we have here?
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This is called technically breaking a trail since there is no trail.
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We need to break our way through the woods to create the trail.
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fun times or not I don't know is this fun or not you tell me I don't see them
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they disappeared in the bushes
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So this is Tara River Canyon you can see the big rocks they are super vertical and I'm going down
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to this nice place on Tara River hopefully the river is good for swimming yeah I bet it is let's go
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and Tara River Canyon is the second deepest one on the planet after Grand Canyon this is the deepest one right
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The I'm
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sorry.
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I'm sorry.
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The last steps of Highlander Durbitor, Montenegro.
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Yeah!
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We are reaching the finish line on the fourth day of adventure.
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Woo!
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Good job!
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Your night is my night Not a night You can't drink it
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You can't drink it
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “5 day hike on Durmitor mountain”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: chip, trail, checkpoint, river, Durmitor. This video has 119 sentences and 802 words to shadow. The speech runs for 20:35. 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 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| chip noun | /t͡ʃɪp/ | A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material. |
| checkpoint noun | /ˈt͡ʃɛkˌpɔɪnt/ | A point or place where a check is performed, especially a point along a road or on a frontier where travellers are stopped for inspection. |
| steep adjective | /stiːp/ | Of a near-vertical gradient; of a slope, surface, curve, etc. that proceeds upward or downward at an angle approaching vertical. |
| reroute verb | /ɹiˈɹut/ | To change the route taken by something. |
| hike noun | /haɪk/ | A long walk, usually for pleasure or exercise. |
| dense adjective | /ˈdɛns/ | Having relatively high density. |
| bushwhack verb | To travel through thick wooded country, cutting away scrub to make progress. | |
| glacier noun | /ˈɡleɪ.ʃɚ/ | A large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill. |
| mosquito noun | /məsˈki.toʊ/ | A small flying insect of the family Culicidae, the females of which bite humans and animals and suck blood, leaving an itching bump on the skin, and sometimes… |
| pronounce verb | /pɹəˈnaʊns/ | To declare formally, officially or ceremoniously. |
| wander verb | /ˈwɑndɚ/ | To move without purpose or specified destination; often in search of livelihood. |
| unpredictable adjective | Unable to be predicted. | |
| headache noun | /ˈhɛdeɪk/ | A pain or ache in the head. |
| buzz noun | /bʌz/ | A continuous humming noise, as of bees; a confused murmur, as of general conversation in low tones. |
| disappear verb | /dɪsəˈpɪɹ/ | To vanish. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| go back verb | To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time. |
| go down verb | To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one. |
| go up verb | To move upwards. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- I think everything's gonna be all right.
- I don't like cows, they're unpredictable just like those.
- I got cheese pie here, it's good.
- It's a dense forest and we are hiking.
- What do we have here?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | are lost · are still lost · is called |
| Obligation: must / have to / need to saying that something is necessary | have to know · has to offer · had to road |
| Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — something happening right now or around now | we're wandering · I'm following · I'm going |
| Future with “going to” be going to + verb — a plan or something you can see coming | gonna be · Everything's going to be · gonna go |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 32 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, we're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
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 chip, checkpoint, steep.
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.