Shadowing Practice: ADVANCED PRONUNCIATION - Day3 - Conversation - Food - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Oh, this is delicious.
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Amazing.
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Cheryl, don't you want to try it?
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No, thanks.
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Too many calories.
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And we need to go.
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I'll ask for the check.
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I love desserts.
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Do you know how many calories are in that cake?
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No. And don't tell me.
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Or how much fat was in your steak?
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And your fried shrimp?
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Or how much salt was on your french fries?
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Do you want us to just eat raw vegetables?
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Vegetables are good.
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Or how about smaller portions and no dessert?
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No dessert?
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You need to take care of your body.
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Eat healthy food.
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Have vegetables for snacks instead of potato chips and cookies.
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You're right.
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Tomorrow I'm eating lots of vegetables.
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Really? For snacks.
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And I'm having potato chips, cookies for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
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You're terrible.
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What are you doing?
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I'm trying to get the check.
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Finally. Do you want that?
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I'm sorry.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “ADVANCED PRONUNCIATION - Day3 - Conversation - Food”. This video has 29 sentences and 150 words to shadow. The speech runs for 1:29. The speaker talks slowly, about 101 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound. Only 80% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding. 11 of its 29 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.

Key vocabulary in this video

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

WordPronunciationMeaning
vegetable noun/ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bəl/A plant raised for some edible part of it, such as the leaves, roots, fruit or flowers, but excluding any plant considered to be a fruit, grain, herb, or spice…
dessert noun/dɪˈzɝt/The last course of a meal, consisting of fruit, sweet confections etc.
chip noun/t͡ʃɪp/A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material.
potato noun/pəˈteɪ.təʊ/The edible starchy tuber of the plant species Solanum tuberosum.
cookie noun/ˈkʊki/A small, flat, baked good which is either crisp or soft but firm.
snack noun/snæk/A light meal.
fry verb/fɹaɪ/To cook (something) in hot fat.
calorie noun/ˈkæləɹi/A non-SI unit of energy, equivalent to 4.184 kilojoules, that can raise the temperature of a kilogram of water by one degree Celsius. This is the unit normally…
delicious adjective/dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/Pleasing to the sense of taste; tasty.
steak noun/steɪk/Beefsteak: a slice of beef, broiled or cut for broiling.
shrimp noun/ʃɹɪmp/Any of many swimming, often edible, crustaceans, chiefly of the infraorder Caridea or the suborder Dendrobranchiata, with slender legs, long whiskers and a…
lunch noun/lʌnt͡ʃ/A light meal usually eaten around midday, notably when not as main meal of the day.
breakfast noun/ˈbɹeɪkˌfæst/The first meal of the day, usually eaten in the morning.
salt noun/sɒlt/A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a food ingredient, seasoning, condiment, and preservative.
cake noun/keɪk/A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.

Sentences worth repeating

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

  • Cheryl, don't you want to try it?
  • I'll ask for the check.
  • Do you know how many calories are in that cake?
  • Do you want us to just eat raw vegetables?
  • Tomorrow I'm eating lots of vegetables.

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

StructureIn the video
Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — something happening right now or around nowI'm eating · I'm having · are you doing
Obligation: must / have to / need to saying that something is necessaryneed to go · need to take

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 9 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, you're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

  • The “sh” and “zh” sounds: delicious /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/, shrimp /ʃɹɪmp/, portion /ˈpoɹʃən/

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 vegetable, dessert, chip.

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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