Shadowing Practice: وصلت الجزيرة الأكثر كآبة في العالم - ممنوع تولد أو تموت فيها | القطب الشمالي 🇳🇴 سفالبارد - Learn English Speaking with Video

There is a city in the middle of the earth.

Not allowed to die here, not allowed to be born here.

In the middle of the island, you can imagine everyone living here is not a child.

There is a city in the south, which is allowed to die or to be born in the south.

It is a city of the world, a year long ago from the desert.

It's land of the polar bear.

In these days, it's not a shadow of the sky.

There is a day of the day of the day.

If the world war was over, you will find the dust of the world's water.

Even in the northern world.

Oh my God!

Where are we?

With this city, we can't have a city in Foltz about Australia A part where Cancel,

the region of Israel Oh, it's going to be a city of Ireland You're watching the

rest of the region of our city In the city of Israel

The only way to this city is just from the way

to the Naroj The way to this city will return to the Norwich With the idea of this city, no one will need a visa for it

It's not anyone who can do it here

We're in Oslo This system is an interior of Naroj The building of the European region in Europe in February 2nd

The third-finger entered the world's level and from the lower level in the water There are 5 products of it,

of course, which are the products of the oil and oil which are the most international products in Europe after Russia

Welcome to Norway Welcome to Norway It's a big deal of wood,

wood, wood, wood, wood, and wood.

The fish is a big part of it.

Many countries take the fish from here.

We are coming to the border, this is a scary thing.

Norway celebrates its independence day.

Norway!

I tell you that Norway is the most powerful in the world.

It is the most powerful in the world.

What is the most powerful in the world?

It is an Iraqi.

Think about it because the Iraqi people have a lot of knowledge about the oil and gas.

They are the most powerful in Iraq.

It is an actual story of the most powerful in the world.

Now the Norwegian people are the most powerful in the world.

Do you see this today?

After two days in Oslo, we reached the lower west of Nروj, the city of Tromsø.

We said it was Bariis, the city of Nروj.

And it was a good place in Bariis.

Okay, we reached Tromsø, the lower city in Nروj.

Oslo, Tromsø and Svalbard.

From that moment, we are in the desert, the desert outside Europe.

It's in the middle of the city

It's in the middle of 4 years I have a love for you to get rid of it

But our main goal was the city of Svalbard The city of which will come from Europe

with a foreign aircraft Let's go to Svalbard We are going to Svalbard Svalbard

We got to the island in the island

and we told you that there is a danger There are a lot of people who are going to come to us.

What is the The The We are going to go with the aircraft.

We are going from Europe to Spalbort.

Oh God, God, We are We are We are We are We are We

are We are We are We are We are We are We are Welcome to Amazing Eswar Park Where are we?

Aasifah There is a lower northern border This is the first thing you can see in the morning Where are we?

12.00 pm That's it This is the airport It's a day of the day.

You can take a bus and get a car.

This is not a place to follow any of the Nروids.

But it's a foreign country that makes it a leader to defend the Nروids.

Hello everyone.

This is the house.

You can leave your luggage in your luggage room right beside the room there.

Why are these people living here?

There's a small village We're going to get to the day of our day 1.30am 1.30am

We're in this town now The Lungirben This is the Arrkabell In the northern border, the desert is located but there's no road and in the southern border,

there's no road but there's no desert

All of them are in the 1st place Everything is in

the 1st place It's a place There is a mall here There is a cafe There is a few more Three

Let's try to find a cafe

This is the cafe We are going to get to this town This is the only cafe Where are you from?

In the town, there are only 2 people

And 2 people live in this town They say that the military is allowed Why?

Because the people here are all with this This is the one-time supermarket

This is the one-time supermarket Let's see what they buy

in the small market Let's go to the one-time market What can we do to collect?

This place is a place for everything

This place is a place for everything This place is a place for the wood This place is tax free

All of the Narrوج is coming here.

Anyone can live here.

What's your gender?

You can live here and live here.

It's not that the woman is born and the man will die in this desert.

You can take the Narrوج to die.

I'm from Norway, mainland Norway.

But you don't need a visa to live here.

So we have a big melting pot of different cultures.

It's really fun.

A lot of good food.

Okay, okay.

A lot of nationality here.

A lot of nationalities, yeah, plenty.

But they said you're not allowed to die here.

Not allowed to die here, not allowed to be born here.

If you get too sick or too old, then you have to leave the island.

Yeah, nobody can die and be born here.

First of all, we have a hospital, it's actually nearby, yellow building.

And this hospital doesn't have very proper equipment for giving birth.

So even if the woman is about to give birth, she's immediately sending to Tromsø, to the nearest town in Norway.

We are sending the helicopter and the helicopter is sending to her to Tromsø.

Basically one month before she's giving birth, she's already sending to Tromsø.

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Nobody can die here because of the permafrost.

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Basically, even the body will be on the ground, the frost will push up the body.

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How is it like living here in faraway town?

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It's pretty great.

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It is very isolated, but everyone here cares for each other.

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Because we have to have each other's back, far away from civilization.

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My name is Alena.

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It was two days ago, it was my anniversary, I'm here two years.

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I love nature very much and I feel like I wanted to connect with the nature in the most way.

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Yeah, and actually in this place I had a lot of different transformation, like for my soul.

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Actually, we are visitors here because it's the land of the wild animals.

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It's the land of the polar bears.

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Why do people live here?

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To make the river Yes, all these are the river They have the river Look, there is a freak fog

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But the freak is for the river There were days of

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Soviet Union There was even Russia here There was even a Russian city here So here there was a new river

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I'll tell you that this is the end of the river

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And the city is broken It will only happen to the sea

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Look at the only one who spoke with us She came to Russia

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Hello Nice to meet you This is a plant that put a benzene in the world

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In the second day we went to this cage It is called the cage of the day of the day

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This is the cage of the trees

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The trees are hidden here in the Spalbarn

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Where are all the trees of the world There are all kinds of trees

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that are in the middle of the world

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Even the northern part of the country has been put in the desert

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From all countries in the world When the world ends, they are all going to get rid of the desert When they don't find it in the country

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There is a cave under the earth

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And the temperature of the earth is 18 degrees under the earth They are going to get rid of the desert

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This is a bank, a bank of the bank It's a world's country In 2015, they opened the cage

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and opened the cage of the cage from Syria after they were destroyed in Hلب from the cage of the cage

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In 2017, they were sold from these cage in Lebanon and Greece

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and they were sold to the rest until they didn't go

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to the rest The gene bank in Aleppo was ruined This system saved the seeds The whole idea is

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that the world will end up in a war and we can see it here Some of them are like movies

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The blue light The blue light is the most The whole thing is scary Do you live here?

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Bye.

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Do you mind to be in a video?

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No, I don't have time, sorry.

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Oh, really?

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Brother, do you live here?

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Just a minute.

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Do you mind to be in a video?

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No, I don't have time.

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No time?

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No time, sorry.

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Hey, do you live here?

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Yes.

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Do you mind to be in the video?

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But I'm in a hurry, sorry.

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Really?

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Yeah, sorry.

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No problem, no problem.

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Hey, hey guys, do you live here?

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Yes.

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Do you mind to be in the video?

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No, I'm sorry.

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Thank you for asking.

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Hello, how are you?

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This is Angie, she's from Philippines and she lives here.

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I've been here for six years now.

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Do you feel bored here?

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Yeah, there are times, yes.

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And mostly just reading, staying inside, visiting my favorite local places like cafe,

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spend time with myself with a cup of coffee and a book,

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and also escaping the reality or escaping the busy world that they have back in their hometown.

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There are times that you just like get sad without really any reason.

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Like you don't have the same energy.

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Yeah, so I was just living in the Philippines and then I met this wonderful man in the Philippines.

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I recommend you this.

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He found out that it was possible for someone to just stay here without any visa.

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So he asked me if I wanted to follow him.

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I said, yeah, we can try.

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Yeah, and so we did try and then in 2018 I moved up here.

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Anybody can come here and work here?

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Yeah, according to the treaty, yes.

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Since you have to travel to Norway in order to travel to Svalbard, then you need to have a Schengen visa.

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So that's what I did.

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I got myself a Schengen visa, entered Norway and then came to Svalbard.

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You are allowed to stay in Svalbard as long as you have a job or you can finance yourself.

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I work at a guest house which I love so much.

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I think the average salary for an average person would be around 30,000 Norwegian kroners.

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Minus the tax already.

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3,000 euro.

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But one person can work multiple jobs at the same time.

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We are in the house, we are not going to make a picture of someone

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We are going to show the life here The last thing is not only in the urban

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In the urban and the Russian I am going to drive the car to Russia Bro, we must be more and more We are not going to talk about it

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “وصلت الجزيرة الأكثر كآبة في العالم - ممنوع تولد أو تموت فيها”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: Norway, cage, desert, Svalbard, allowed. This video has 187 sentences and 2020 words to shadow. The speech runs for 13:58. The speaker talks at a steady 145 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 88% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.

Key vocabulary in this video

The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
cage noun	/keɪd͡ʒ/	An enclosure made of spaced bars, normally to hold animals while providing some ventilation.
café noun	/ˌkæˈfeɪ/	A coffee shop; an establishment selling coffee and sometimes other non-alcoholic beverages, simple meals or snacks, with a facility to consume them on the…
visa noun	/ˈviːzə/	A permit to enter and leave a country, normally issued by the authorities of the country to be visited.
nationality noun	/ˌnæʃ.əˈnæl.ɪ.ti/	Legal membership of a particular nation or state, by origin, birth, naturalization, ownership, allegiance or otherwise.
supermarket noun	/ˌsupɚˈmɑɹkət/	A large self-service store that sells groceries and, usually, medications, household goods, and/or clothing.
luggage noun	/ˈlʌɡ.ɪdʒ/	The bags and other containers that hold a traveller's belongings.
polar adjective	/ˈpoʊlɚ/	Of, relating to, measured from, or referred to a geographic pole (the North Pole or South Pole); within the Arctic or Antarctic circles.
helicopter noun	/ˈheliːˌkɔptə(ɹ)/	An aircraft that is borne along by one or more sets of long rotating blades which allow it to hover, move in any direction including reverse, or land; and…
benzene noun	/ˈbɛn.ziːn/	An aromatic hydrocarbon of formula C₆H₆ whose structure consists of a ring of alternate single and double bonds.
faraway adjective	/ˈfɑɹəweɪ/	Distant.
permafrost noun	/ˈpɝməˌfɹɔst/	Permanently frozen ground, or a specific layer thereof.
isolate verb	/ˈaɪ.sə.leɪt/	To set apart or cut off from others.
hometown noun	/ˈhoʊmˌtaʊn/	An individual’s place of birth, childhood home, or place of main residence.
bore verb	/boɹ/	To inspire boredom in somebody.
locate verb	/ˈloʊˌkeɪt/	To place; to set in a particular spot or position.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Meaning
find out verb	To discover, as by asking or investigating.
move up verb	To promote, put onto a higher level.
push up verb	To make (something) higher; to increase.

Sentences worth repeating

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

Do you see this today?
Do you mind to be in a video?
Brother, do you live here?
Hey, do you live here?
Do you mind to be in the video?

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	be born · is allowed · is located
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	south, which is · anyone who can · course, which are
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	has been put · I've been

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 19 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, I'm, we're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “sh” and “zh” sounds: nationality /ˌnæʃ.əˈnæl.ɪ.ti/, civilization /ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/
Long words — get the stress right: nationality /ˌnæʃ.əˈnæl.ɪ.ti/, supermarket /ˌsupɚˈmɑɹkət/, helicopter /ˈheliːˌkɔptə(ɹ)/, civilization /ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/

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 cage, café, visa.

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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