Shadowing Practice: A City You Visited ~ Marie Claude - Learn English Speaking with Video
Choose a practice mode
Each mode opens a full-screen practice room.
Download App
Everything you need to speak fluently
Same Channel
Recommend Video
A2Lesson 24-1- Yesterday Was Amazing!
A2Learn French Through Songs with Lyrics | Places & Directions in French | French for Beginners A1–A2
A1English City Vocabulary | Describe Where You Live | A1 English Listening
A2LPTD1 Unit 15 Monet’s Garden
B1Day Trip to Ho Chi Minh City Beach! (Vung Tau)
A25.7 Open Doors
B2I Came to Alexandria, Egypt Just for This… and Found Way More!
A2Where Are You From? | Slow & Easy English Conversation for Beginners (A1-A2)
A2A Day in My Life 16: Taking the Train
B1Europeans Left SPEECHLESS Seeing The Other Side Of America
![Christmas in NYC | ice skating, christmas shopping & best cafes ❄️🚕🍎 [solo travel]](https://img.youtube.com/vi/1FFXTAzvGcc/mqdefault.jpg)
B1Christmas in NYC | ice skating, christmas shopping & best cafes ❄️🚕🍎 [solo travel]
![Lili à Paris [FRENCH VLOG with 🇫🇷 SUBS] - Montmartre, best pizza in France, métro-boulot-dodo.](https://img.youtube.com/vi/tFp0Rf8WiKg/mqdefault.jpg)
B1Lili à Paris [FRENCH VLOG with 🇫🇷 SUBS] - Montmartre, best pizza in France, métro-boulot-dodo.
Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “A City You Visited ~ Marie Claude”. This video has 22 sentences and 182 words to shadow. The speech runs for 1:09. The speaker talks at a natural 157 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. Only 81% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| memorial noun | /məˈmɔːɹi.əl/ | Something, such as a monument, by which someone or something is remembered. |
| invite verb | /ɪnˈvaɪt/ | To ask for the presence or participation of someone or something. |
| cherry noun | /ˈt͡ʃɛɹi/ | A small fruit, usually red, black or yellow, with a smooth hard seed and a short hard stem. |
| blossom verb | /ˈblɑ.səm/ | To have, or open into, blossoms; to bloom. |
| pink noun | /ˈpɪŋk/ | A color reminiscent of pinks, the flowers. |
| roof noun | /ɹuːf/ | The external covering at the top of a building. |
| tree noun | /tɹiː/ | A perennial woody plant taller and larger than a shrub with a wooden trunk and, at some distance from the ground, having leaves and branches. |
| photo verb | /ˈfəʊ̯.təʊ̯/ | To take a photograph of. |
| sister noun | /ˈsɪs.tɚ/ | A daughter of the same parents as another person; a female sibling. |
| path noun | /pɑːθ/ | A trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians. |
| spring noun | /ˈspɹɪŋ/ | An act of springing: a leap, a jump. |
| grow verb | /ˈɡɹəʊ/ | To become larger, to increase in magnitude. |
| trip noun | /tɹɪp/ | A journey; an excursion or jaunt. |
| wonderful adjective | /ˈwʌndəfl̩/ | Tending to excite wonder; surprising, extraordinary. |
| airport noun | /ˈɛɹ.pɔɹt/ | An airfield (an area designated for the takeoff and landing of aircraft), including one or more runways and (for commercial airports) one or more passenger… |
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. |
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like memorial, invite, cherry.
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.