Shadowing Practice: AmSpec Group - A year in recap (2025) - Learn English Speaking with Video
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2025, a year of remarkable growth, strategic expansion and deepening our commitment to a sustainable future.
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This is the AMSPEC Group Year in Review.
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Our global footprint grew stronger than ever.
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We brought the AMSPEC way to new shores, opening state-of-the-art laboratories and offices to serve our clients locally.
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From Australia to Brazil and from Greece to Argentina, we expanded our capabilities across continents.
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We opened new laboratories in Darwin, Australia, Ventspils, Latvia, Bahia Blanca, Argentina, Curitiba, Brazil, Featherstone, England,
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Athens, Greece, Port Klang, Malaysia, and Tampico, Mexico.
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We established new operations in Flushing, the Netherlands, Sri Lanka, Guyana,
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Lombasa, Kenya, Norway, Norway ensuring efficient on-the-ground support.
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And in key markets like the USA, Brazil, Mexico, UK, Sri Lanka,
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and Singapore, our existing laboratories gained crucial regulatory approvals and equipment upgrades,
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reinforcing trust in the critical energy and agri and food sector.
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We empowered this growth through powerful collaboration.
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We proudly welcomed A and B environmental services into the AMSPEC family,
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significantly expanding our environmental testing services across the United States.
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In addition, we started offering environmental services in the APAC region via our Singapore office.
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In May, we acquired CGN Certification, a recognized provider of sustainability and compliance certifications,
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which strengthened our commitment to providing world-class carbon verification and regulatory compliance services to industries worldwide.
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We expanded into Mozambique through the acquisition of Geochem Mozambique and TJ Calibration, two leading players in their respective sectors,
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bringing ISO 17025 accredited laboratories across Mozambique for the energy and chemical sectors.
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Strategic partnerships like our alliance with Perennial are revolutionizing soil carbon monitoring and supporting responsible land use.
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And by joining the Clean Fuels Alliance America, we committed to advancing the future of renewable energy.
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Behind every achievement is our greatest strength, our people.
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In 2025, our mission to ensure a responsible and sustainable planet reached further than ever.
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Through our new Business Assurance and Sustainability Business Vertical, we aim to improve the global measurement,
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monitoring, reporting and verification of sustainability claims.
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Our AMSPEC environmental team secured a major three-year contract with the Singapore National Water Agency agency.
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In our blogs we shared crucial insights on everything from EU deforestation regulation,
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EU-DR compliance, to greenhouse gas verification, helping clients navigate the path to sustainability.
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From expanding our horizons to launching new services,
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2025 has been a testament to AMSPEC's unwavering promise to provide independent,
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accurate, and trusted testing, inspection, and certification services.
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Thank you to our incredible team and trusted partners worldwide.
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Here's to building on this momentum in 2026.
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There is only one way, the AMSPEC way.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This C1 speaking lesson is built on the video “AmSpec Group - A year in recap”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: Amspec, laboratories, sustainability, environmental, Mozambique. This video has 35 sentences and 429 words to shadow. The speech runs for 3:38. The speaker talks at a steady 118 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. Only 67% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| sustainability noun | /səˌsteɪnəˈbɪlɪti/ | A means of configuring civilization and human activity so that society, its members and its economies are able to meet their needs and express their greatest… |
| verification noun | /ˌvɛ.ɹə.fɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/ | The act or process of verifying. |
| certification noun | /ˌsɜː.tɪ.fɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/ | The act of certifying. |
| accredit verb | /əˈkɹɛd.ɪt/ | To ascribe; attribute; credit with. |
| deepen verb | /ˈdiːpən/ | To make deep or deeper |
| deforestation noun | /dɪˌfɒɹɪsˈteɪʃən/ | The process of destroying a forest and replacing it with something else, especially with an agricultural system. |
| revolutionize verb | /ˌɹɛv.əˈl(j)u.ʃəˌnaɪz/ | To radically or significantly change, as in a revolution. |
| unwavering adjective | /ˌənˈweɪvəɹɪŋ/ | Always on course and steady. |
| empower verb | /ɪmˈpaʊ.ə/ | To give permission, power, or the legal right to do something. |
| footprint noun | /ˈfʊtpɹɪnt/ | The impression of the foot in a soft substance such as sand or snow. |
| reinforce verb | /ˌɹiː.ɪnˈfɔːs/ | To strengthen, especially by addition or augmentation. |
| navigate verb | /ˈnæv.ɪ.ɡeɪt/ | To plan, control and record the position and course of a vehicle, ship, aircraft, etc., on a journey; to follow a planned course. |
| proudly adverb | /ˈpɹaʊdli/ | In a proud manner. |
| greenhouse noun | /ˈɡɹːnˌ(h)aʊs/ | A building used to grow plants, particularly one with large glass windows or plastic sheeting to trap heat from sunlight even in intemperate seasons or… |
| renewable adjective | /ɹɪˈnu.ə.bl̩/ | Able to be renewed; capable of renewal. |
Pronunciation to watch
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: verification /ˌvɛ.ɹə.fɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/, certification /ˌsɜː.tɪ.fɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/, deforestation /dɪˌfɒɹɪsˈteɪʃən/, revolutionize /ˌɹɛv.əˈl(j)u.ʃəˌnaɪz/, measurement /ˈmɛʒ.ə.mənt/
- Long words — get the stress right: sustainability /səˌsteɪnəˈbɪlɪti/, verification /ˌvɛ.ɹə.fɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/, certification /ˌsɜː.tɪ.fɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/, deforestation /dɪˌfɒɹɪsˈteɪʃən/, revolutionize /ˌɹɛv.əˈl(j)u.ʃəˌnaɪz/
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 sustainability, verification, certification.
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.