Shadowing Practice: AVATAR (IMAX) | Jake Sully's Epic Speech - Toruk Macto Recruiting the Clans Scene - Learn English Speaking with Video
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I will speak now.
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I will speak now.
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You would honor me by translating.
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I will speak now.
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You would honor me by translating.
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The Sky People have sent us a message...
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...that they can take whatever they want...
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...and no one can stop them.
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But we will send them a message.
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You ride out as fast as a wing can carry you.
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You tell the other clans to come.
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Tell them Torek Maktou calls to them.
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You fly now. With me.
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My brothers.
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Sisters sisters We will show the sky people That they cannot take whatever they want And that this This is all
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Who's the war?
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I'm not
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going to die.
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YAAAHHHHH!
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He rode out to the four winds.
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To the horse clans of the plain.
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Back to the side!
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To the Akran people of the Eastern Sea.
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To our children's children!
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When Turuk Mokto called them, they came.
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Mokto go!
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The End
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Everyone on this base, everyone of you, is fighting for survival.
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That's a fact.
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There's Aboriginal horde out there massing for an attack.
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Now, these orbital images tell me
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that the hostile's numbers have gone from a few hundred to well over 2,000 in one day.
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And more are pouring in.
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In a week's time, there could be 20,000 of them.
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At that point, they will overrun our perimeter.
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Well, that's not going to happen.
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Our only security lies in preemptive attack.
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We will fight terror with terror.
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Now, the hostiles believe that this mountain stronghold of theirs is protected by their deities their deity.
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And when we destroy it, we will blast a crater in their racial memory so deep
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that they will come within a thousand clicks of this place ever again.
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And that, too, is a fact.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 42 sentences and 293 words to shadow. The speech runs for 4:43. The speaker talks slowly, about 62 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound. 83% 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 |
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| terror noun | /ˈtɛɹɚ/ | Intense dread, fright, or fear. |
| clan noun | /klæn/ | A group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in fact or belief, especially when the exact genealogies are not known. |
| translate verb | /tɹænzˈleɪt/ | To change spoken words or written text (of a book, document, movie, etc.) from one language to another. |
| deity noun | /ˈdi.ə.ti/ | Synonym of divinity: the state, position, or fact of being a god. |
| plain noun | /pleɪn/ | An expanse of land with relatively low relief and few trees, especially a grassy expanse. |
| survival noun | /sɚˈvaɪ.vəl/ | The fact or act of surviving; continued existence or life. |
| blast noun | /blæst/ | A violent gust of wind (in windy weather) or apparent wind (around a moving vehicle). |
| racial adjective | /ˈɹeɪʃəl/ | Of or relating to a race (or a people). |
| pour verb | /poɹ/ | To cause (liquid, or liquid-like substance) to flow in a stream, either out of a container or into it. |
| hostile adjective | /ˈhɑstəl/ | Not friendly; appropriate to an enemy; showing the disposition of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence or a desire to thwart and injure. |
| theirs | /ðɛɚz/ | That or those belonging to them; the possessive case of they, used without a following noun. |
| perimeter noun | /pɪˈɹɪm.ɪ.tə/ | The sum of the distance of all the lengths of the sides of an object. |
| orbital adjective | /ɔɹ.bət.l̩/ | Of or relating to, or forming an orbit (such as the orbit of a moon, planet, or spacecraft). |
| crater noun | /ˈkɹeɪ.tɚ/ | A hemispherical pit created by the impact of a meteorite or other object. |
| horde noun | /hɔɹd/ | A wandering troop or gang; especially, a clan or tribe of a nomadic people (originally Tatars) migrating from place to place for the sake of pasturage… |
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 terror, clan, translate.
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.