Shadowing Practice: Add Up Usage, Pronounce, Meaning, Definition, Sentence Examples - Learn English Speaking with Video
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The President's budget will add up to 800 full -time IRS employees devoted to detecting
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and bringing to justice those who unlawfully hide assets and income.
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Mr. President, there are already voices saying the numbers don't add up.
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they're a rut for health care in history.
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So this is usually about daily effort.
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The large choices and the small choices that you make that add up over time.
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It's about So the math just doesn't add up.
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But as the granddaughter of Greek immigrants, she also understands that our goal when we put together a budget is not just to make the numbers add up.
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But their numbers have to add up.
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I am suggesting that those highest expressions of our humanity can only flourish
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when our economy functions well and proposed budgets add up and our environment is protected.
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Relationships are being forged, and I'm pleased that altogether
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the deals and commitments being announced at this forum add up to more than $9 billion dollars in trade
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and investment with Africa.
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But if you add up all the fossil fuel resources in Southeast Asia and Africa, they have less than 10 percent of the world's fossil fuels.
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As a girl, she was diagnosed with diabetes.
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And that's a disease with costs that can add up quickly if you don't have insurance, can eat away at your dreams.
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According to one study, if women around the world participated in the labor force,
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it could add up to $28 trillion of additional output for the global economy, $28 trillion.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 19 sentences and 253 words to shadow. The speech runs for 1:51. The speaker talks at a steady 137 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 85% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| fossil noun | /ˈfɑsl̩/ | The mineralized remains of an animal or plant. |
| commitment noun | /kəˈmɪtmənt/ | The act of sending a legislative bill to committee for review. |
| output noun | /ˈaʊtpʊt/ | Production; quantity produced, created, or completed. |
| participate verb | /pɑːˈtɪs.ɪ.peɪt/ | To join in, to take part, to involve oneself (in something). |
| resource noun | /ɹɪˈzɔːs/ | Something that one uses to achieve an objective, e.g. raw materials or personnel. |
| forum noun | /ˈfɔːɹəm/ | A place for discussion. |
| humanity noun | /hjuˈmænɪti/ | Humankind; human beings as a group. |
| announce verb | /əˈnaʊn(t)s/ | To give public notice of, especially for the first time; to make known. |
| asset noun | /ˈæsɛt/ | A thing or quality that has value, especially one that generates cash flows. |
| diabetes noun | /ˌdaɪəˈbiːtiːz/ | Diabetes mellitus; any of a group of metabolic diseases whereby a person (or other animal) has high blood sugar due to an inability to produce, or inability to… |
| mathematics noun | /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/ | An abstract representational system studying numbers, shapes, structures, quantitative change and relationships between them. |
| altogether adverb | /ɔl.tuˈɡɛð.ɚ/ | Completely, wholly, or without exception. |
| detect verb | /dɪˈtɛkt/ | To discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing. |
| immigrant noun | /ˈɪmɪɡɹənt/ | A non-native person who comes to a country from another country to permanently settle there. |
| propose verb | /pɹəˈpəʊz/ | To suggest a plan, course of action, etc. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| add up verb | To take the sum of; to total. |
| add up to verb | To have a particular effect in combination. |
| eat away at verb | To erode. |
| put together verb | To assemble, construct, build, or formulate. |
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 | is protected · being forged · being announced |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | those who unlawfully |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 5 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, doesn't, I'm. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/, altogether /ɔl.tuˈɡɛð.ɚ/
- Long words — get the stress right: participate /pɑːˈtɪs.ɪ.peɪt/, humanity /hjuˈmænɪti/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/, altogether /ɔl.tuˈɡɛð.ɚ/, unlawfully /ʌnˈlɔːfəli/
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 fossil, commitment, output.
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.