Shadowing Practice: 6 Kasım 2026 - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Hello, I'm Neil.

And I'm Georgie.

Welcome to Real Easy English.

You can find a worksheet and transcript for this episode on our website, bbclearningenglish .com.

Hello Neil, how are you doing?

I'm very well, thank you Georgie.

How are you?

Yes, I'm very well, thank you.

Neil, today we're talking about cities.

We both live and work in London, which is a very big city.

It is.

It's a huge city.

Very busy and bustling.

Bustling means there's lots of activity, lots of things going on, busy.

Speaking of, what do you like about living in a big, bustling city?

Well, there are lots of good things about living in a big city.

It's convenient.

It's very convenient.

So there is lots of public transport, which is sometimes good.

And you can get things that you need quite easily.

That's very true.

Yeah.

Yeah, there's also a lot of things to do.

We are lucky in London to have lots of theatres where you can see plays

there's a really good music scene so you can watch

and listen to a lot of live music

if you have no plans on a day you can always find plans um spontaneous plans

so we are really lucky in that sense yeah and

if you like art there's all kinds of exhibitions and galleries and museums

Lots of good things, but there are obviously some bad things about living in a city, aren't there?

Yes.

Do you want to tell us some?

Yeah.

Well, it's very noisy and dirty and busy and expensive.

It's always more expensive in a big city, especially the capital city um

so you can do all of the things

that we just talked about yeah but you have to pay yeah

and things like eating out especially going for a drink is really expensive thing to do in a capital city

i feel like every time i leave the house i just spend loads of money

and that is quite frustrating

but you have to pay for good for good times

i guess yeah have you ever lived in another city apart from london yes

i have i used to live in barcelona

which is quite different to london because well it has a beach

and the sea on one side and on the other side it has mountains

so it's contained by nature and you can get to the nature quite quickly um

which is really nice what about you have you lived anywhere different yeah

i've lived in a few big cities uh a few capital cities actually um i've also lived in spain

but in madrid i lived and worked in prague and

that is a really pretty

it's a beautiful city yeah the architecture looks fantastic nice buildings talking about nice buildings i lived in edinburgh

because i did my

master's degree there and that has beautiful buildings i loved

that city it has a castle on a big rock in the middle

and it's just amazing to look at so we've talked about cities we've been two, what about the future?

Are there any cities you really want to visit or maybe even live in?

Oh, that's an interesting question.

I've never been to Georgia or Armenia or that part of the world.

So I'm going to say I'd like to go to Tbilisi in Georgia.

That's a good answer.

I'd love to go there as well.

For me, I'm desperate to go to Latin America.

I really want to go to Rio de

Janeiro and at the time when the carnival is there, because that sounds really fun and I like to party.

Let's recap the vocabulary we heard during the conversation, starting with bustling, which means busy, with lots of people and activity.

We also heard convenient.

If something is convenient, it means it's very easy to do it.

For example, there's lots of public transport in London, so it's convenient for travel.

And we talked about possible plans for the future using would like to.

For example, I'd like to visit Tbilisi in Georgia.

That's it for this episode of Real Easy English, but we'll be back next week with another conversation in Easy English.

And you should check out our series, the London to Edinburgh Challenge.

We've been talking about Edinburgh today.

It's a beautiful place and you can see it in this series it's on our website, bbclearningenglish .com.

Goodbye for now.

Goodbye.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “6 Kasım 2026”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: lived, london, convenient, cities, bustling. This video has 76 sentences and 747 words to shadow. The speech runs for 5:36. The speaker talks at a steady 133 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 86% 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
convenient adjective	/kənˈviː.niənt/	Serving to reduce a difficulty, or accessible with minimum difficulty; expedient.
goodbye	/ɡʊdˈbaɪ/	Farewell; a formula used to another person or persons when the speaker, writer, or person addressed is departing.
castle noun	/ˈkɑːsəl/	A large residential building or compound that is fortified and contains many defences; in previous ages often inhabited by a nobleman or king. Also, a house or…
architecture noun	/ˈɑː.kɪˌtɛk.t͡ʃə/	The art and science of designing and managing the construction of buildings and other structures, particularly if they are well proportioned and decorated.
exhibition noun	/ɛksɪˈbɪʃən/	An instance of exhibiting, or something exhibited.
desperate adjective	/ˈdɛs.p(ə.)ɹɪt/	In dire need (of something); having a dire need or desire.
carnival noun	/ˈkɑɹnɪvəl/	Any of a number of festivals held just before the beginning of Lent.
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.
spontaneous adjective	/spɑnˈteɪ.ni.əs/	Self-directed; happening or acting without external cause or instigation; proceeding from natural feeling, temperament, or momentary impulse.
transcript noun	/ˈtɹæn.skɹɪpt/	Something which has been transcribed; a writing or composition consisting of the same words as the original; a written copy.
noisy adjective	/ˈnɔɪzi/	Making a noise, especially a loud unpleasant sound
bustle noun	/ˈbʌsəl/	An excited activity; a stir.
frustrate verb	/ˈfɹʌsˌtɹeɪt/	To disappoint or defeat; to vex by depriving of something expected or desired.
recap verb	/ɹiːˈkæp/	To seal (something) again with a cap.
worksheet noun		A sheet of paper or computerized document on which problems are worked out or solved and the answers are recorded.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Meaning
check out verb	To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.).

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

Yes, I'm very well, thank you.
Neil, today we're talking about cities.
Do you want to tell us some?
I'd love to go there as well.

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	i've lived · we've talked · I've never been
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	London, which is · transport, which is · bustling, which means
Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — something happening right now or around now	are you doing · we're talking
Obligation: must / have to / need to saying that something is necessary	have to pay

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 18 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, I'd, I've. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

Long words — get the stress right: architecture /ˈɑː.kɪˌtɛk.t͡ʃə/, exhibition /ɛksɪˈbɪʃən/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, spontaneous /spɑnˈteɪ.ni.əs/

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 convenient, goodbye, castle.

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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