Shadowing Practice: 🎧 أول حلقة من بودكاست تعلم الإنجليزية – التحية والتعارف للمبتدئين A1 🎧 Episode 1 – English Podcast - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Welcome to the A1 Listening Development course.
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Our goal in this course is to improve your listening skills.
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Just make sure you're in a quiet environment.
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It's best to close your eyes while listening and focus on listening.
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Repeat each episode as you listen.
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Let's get started.
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Hello and welcome to today's English lesson, talking about greetings and introductions.
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My name is, your name, and in this first episode, we are going to learn how to introduce yourself in English.
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It's a very important skill, especially when you meet new people.
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So let's get started.
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First, when you meet someone, the most common thing to say is hello or hi.
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These are friendly ways to greet people.
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You can also say good morning, good afternoon, or good evening, depending on the time of day.
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Now let's learn how to introduce yourself.
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When you meet someone, you can say, hello, my name is your name.
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What's your name?
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This is a simple and polite way to start a conversation.
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You can also say, hi, I'm your name.
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Nice to meet you.
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Nice to meet you is a friendly way to say that you are happy to meet someone.
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Let's practice together.
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Pause for a few seconds.
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Repeat after me.
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Hello, my name is your name.
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what's your name?
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Pause for repetition.
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Great.
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Now let's talk about how to ask about someone's age.
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You can say, how old are you?
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If you want to tell someone your age, you can say, I am your age years old.
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For example, if you are 25 years old, you would say, I am 25 years old.
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Let's practice this together too.
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Pause for a few seconds.
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Repeat after me.
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How old are you?
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Pause for repetition.
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And now say your age.
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I am your age years old.
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Pause for repetition.
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Fantastic.
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Now let's look at how to say goodbye.
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When you finish a conversation, you can say goodbye, bye, or see you later.
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These are all friendly ways to end a conversation.
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Well, that's all for today's lesson.
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You did an excellent job.
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Remember, practice is the key to improving your English.
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Try to practice these phrases when you meet someone new, and soon you will feel more confident.
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Thank you for listening, and I hope you enjoyed this first episode.
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See you in the next one.
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Thank you.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “🎧 أول حلقة من بودكاست تعلم الإنجليزية – التحية والتعارف للمبتدئين A1 🎧 Episode 1 – English Podcast”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: meet, pause, listening, practice, repetition. This video has 50 sentences and 392 words to shadow. The speech runs for 3:07. The speaker talks at a steady 126 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 90% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

WordPronunciationMeaning
pause noun/pɔːz/A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
lesson noun/ˈlɛs.ən/A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided.
skill noun/skɪl/A capacity to do something well; a technique, an ability, usually acquired or learned, as opposed to abilities that are regarded as innate.
introduce verb/ˌɪntɹəˈdus/To cause (someone) to be acquainted (with someone else).
goodbye/ɡʊdˈbaɪ/Farewell; a formula used to another person or persons when the speaker, writer, or person addressed is departing.
phrase noun/ˈfɹeɪ̯z/A short written or spoken expression.
depend verb/dɪˈpɛnd/To be contingent or conditioned; to have something as a necessary condition
polite adjective/pəˈlaɪt/Well-mannered, civilized.
greet verb/ɡɹiːt/To welcome in a friendly manner, either in person or through another means such as writing.
greeting noun/ˈɡɹiːtɪŋ/A conventional phrase used to start a letter or conversation or otherwise to acknowledge a person's arrival or presence.
repetition noun/ˌɹɛp.əˈtɪʃ.ən/The act or an instance of repeating or being repeated.
friendly adjective/ˈfɹɛnd.li/Generally warm, approachable and easy to relate with in character.
repeat verb/ɹɪˈpiːt/To do or say again (and again).
quiet adjective/ˈkwaɪ̯.ət/With little or no sound; free of disturbing noise.
introduction noun/ˌɪntɹəˈdʌkʃn̩/The act or process of introducing.

Sentences worth repeating

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

  • Just make sure you're in a quiet environment.
  • You can also say, hi, I'm your name.
  • You can say, how old are you?
  • Let's practice this together too.
  • How old are you?

Pronunciation to watch

  • The “sh” and “zh” sounds: repetition /ˌɹɛp.əˈtɪʃ.ən/, introduction /ˌɪntɹəˈdʌkʃn̩/

How to practise with this video

  1. Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
  2. Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
  3. Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like pause, lesson, skill.

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.

Shadowing technique: read the full step-by-step guide →