Shadowing Practice: Bài 12 - Đi Chơi Sở Thú - Learn English Speaking with Video
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So Meg, we are talking about animals.
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Do you like to go to the zoo?
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I love to go to the zoo.
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Okay, so when you go to the zoo, what animals do you like to watch?
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I really like to watch giraffes.
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Giraffes are so tall and giraffes look really soft and friendly.
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So I wish that I could touch a giraffe someday.
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Oh, that's so true.
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There is a zoo near my house in California and you can walk up some stairs
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and then you can feed the giraffes
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and their face is the same height as your face
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and they look really really cute and yeah giraffes are great oh giraffes are
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so cute maybe someday i can feed the giraffes i like how giraffes look i love their face
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and i also love camels also
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because i think camels have a similar face they look really
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cool i don't think camels are very cute really yeah They're so hairy.
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Camels have so much hair that they look ugly.
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Oh, really?
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Oh, I like camels.
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They always look cool and relaxed.
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They do look relaxed, but I like giraffes better than camels.
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Well, what about llamas?
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Llamas are kind of like camels and are kind of like giraffes.
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They kind of have the same face.
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Do you like llamas?
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I think llamas look cute, but I've heard that llamas aren't very friendly.
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Really?
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Have you heard about llamas spitting at people before?
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No, actually I think I heard camels do that, but maybe llamas do it too.
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Hmm, I'm not sure.
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Okay, so what about other animals?
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What other animals do you like at the zoo?
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I really like the zebras because zebras are black and white with stripes.
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So the zebra stripes are really cool, and zebras are similar to horses.
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So sometimes I think I could ride a zebra if I had one.
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Yeah, that would be cool.
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Thebras do look pretty cool.
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Are there any other animals?
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Well, there's one animal that I'm afraid of, and that's a bear.
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Yeah, bears are pretty scary.
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Bears are really scary, and they're so big with huge teeth and giant claws,
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and I feel like a bear would eat me if I met it in person.
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Actually, have you seen a bear in the wild?
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No, I've never seen a bear in the wild, and I really don't want to.
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Oh, wow.
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In California, sometimes you can see bears in the wild, small black bears.
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And actually, the black bears are not that dangerous.
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Really?
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Yeah.
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I mean, you need to be careful when you see a black bear in the wild, but they almost never attack anybody.
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So the one animal you must be afraid of, though, is the mountain lion.
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So there are mountain lions also in California, and they are scary.
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so maybe I should avoid mountain lions too yeah
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if you walk in the wild and you see a mountain lion maybe it's too late you're already in trouble
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maybe I'll just keep going to the zoo
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This A2 speaking lesson is built on the video “Bài 12 - Đi Chơi Sở Thú”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: giraffe, bear, camels, llamas, animal. This video has 55 sentences and 514 words to shadow. The speech runs for 3:06. The speaker talks at a natural 166 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 80% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start. 12 of its 55 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.
Key vocabulary in this video
14 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| camel noun | /ˈkæm(ə)l/ | A mammalian beast of burden, much used in desert areas, of the genus Camelus. |
| lion noun | /ˈlaɪən/ | A big cat, Panthera leo, native to Africa, India and formerly much of Europe. |
| scary adjective | /ˈskɛə.ɹi/ | Causing fear or anxiety |
| relax verb | /ɹɪˈlæks/ | To make something loose. |
| someday adverb | Sometime; at some unspecified time in the future. | |
| stripe noun | /stɹaɪp/ | A long region of a single colour in a repeating pattern of similar regions. |
| ugly adjective | /ˈʌɡli/ | Displeasing to the eye; aesthetically unpleasing. |
| stairs noun | /ˈstɛɹz/ | A contiguous set of steps connecting two floors. |
| spit verb | /spɪt/ | To evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc. |
| hairy adjective | /ˈhɛɹ.i/ | Having a lot of body hair. |
| claw noun | /klɔ/ | A curved, pointed, horny projection on each digit of the foot of a mammal, reptile, or bird. |
| giraffe noun | /d͡ʒəˈɹæf/ | A ruminant in the genus Giraffa of the African savannah with long legs, a highly elongated neck, yellow fur patterned with dark spots typically in the form of… |
| llama noun | /ˈlɑː.mə/ | A South American mammal of the camel family, Lama glama, used as a domestic beast of burden and a source of wool and meat. |
| zebra noun | /ˈzɛb.ɹə/ | Any of three species of subgenus Hippotigris: Equus grevyi, Equus quagga, or Equus zebra, all with black and white stripes and native to Africa. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- Do you like to go to the zoo?
- Do you like llamas?
- Have you heard about llamas spitting at people before?
- What other animals do you like at the zoo?
- Actually, have you seen a bear in the wild?
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 11 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, I'm, I've. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like camel, lion, scary.
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.