Shadowing Practice: Advanced Pronunciation - Day 23 - What Is Emotional Intelligence - Learn English Speaking with Video
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If you're an aspiring leader or manager, there's an important element you need to consider when evaluating your knowledge and skills.
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Emotional intelligence.
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Also known as emotional quotient or EQ, emotional intelligence is the ability to understand and manage your emotions and those of the people around you.
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Emotional intelligence is typically divided into four competencies.
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self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management.
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Self-awareness is at emotional intelligence's core.
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It's your ability to not only understand your strengths and weaknesses, but recognize your emotions and how they affect you and your team.
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Self-management is your capacity to manage your emotions, particularly in stressful situations, and maintain a positive outlook despite setbacks.
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Social awareness is your aptitude for recognizing others' emotions and organizational dynamics.
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Those who excel in social awareness practice empathy.
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They strive to understand colleagues' feelings and perspectives so they can be better communicators and collaborators.
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Relationship management is your capability to resolve conflict and influence, coach, and mentor others.
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It requires both self and social awareness and channeling them into interactions.
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Building your emotional intelligence helps you grow as a leader and motivate and coach colleagues more effectively.
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In turn, you can advance your career and organization.
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Do you want to improve your emotional intelligence?
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 17 sentences and 234 words to shadow. The speech runs for 1:46. The speaker talks at a steady 132 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. Only 80% 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 |
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| awareness noun | /əˈwɛɹ.nəs/ | The state or level of consciousness where sense data can be confirmed by an observer. |
| emotion noun | /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/ | A person's internal state of being and involuntary physiological response to an object or a situation, based on or tied to physical state and sensory data. |
| colleague noun | /ˈkɒliːɡ/ | A fellow member of a profession, staff, academic faculty or other organization; an associate, a workmate. |
| element noun | /ˈɛləmənt/ | One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based. |
| 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. |
| discover verb | /dɪˈskʌvə/ | To find or learn something for the first time. |
| explore verb | /ɪkˈsploɹ/ | To examine or investigate something systematically. |
| interaction noun | /ˌɪn.təˈɹæk.ʃən/ | The situation or occurrence in which two or more things act upon one another to produce an effect; the effect resulting from such a situation or occurrence. |
| weakness noun | /ˈwik.nɪs/ | The condition of being weak. |
| resolve verb | /ɹɪˈzɑlv/ | To find a solution to (a problem). |
| divide verb | /dɪˈvaɪd/ | To split or separate (something) into two or more parts. |
| dynamics noun | /dɑɪˈnæm.ɪks/ | The branch of mechanics that is concerned with the effects of forces on the motion of objects. |
| capability noun | /ˌkeɪ.pəˈbɪl.ɪ.ti/ | The power or ability to generate an outcome. |
| outlook noun | /ˈaʊtˌlʊk/ | A place from which something can be viewed. |
| evaluate verb | /ɪˈvaljʊeɪt/ | To draw conclusions from examining; to assess; to appraise. |
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | Those who excel |
Pronunciation to watch
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/, interaction /ˌɪn.təˈɹæk.ʃən/, organizational /ˌɔː(ɹ)ɡənɪˈzeɪʃənəl/, quotient /ˈkwoʊʃənt/, unleash /ʌnˈliʃ/
- Long words — get the stress right: interaction /ˌɪn.təˈɹæk.ʃən/, capability /ˌkeɪ.pəˈbɪl.ɪ.ti/, organizational /ˌɔː(ɹ)ɡənɪˈzeɪʃənəl/, collaborator /kəˈlæbəɹeɪtɚ/, communicator /kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪtə/
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 awareness, emotion, colleague.
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.