Shadowing Practice: Behind the Scenes on A P*rn Set w/ Valentina Nappi - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Let's get started.
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Hi, I'm Valentina happy i'm here on set for bang and i just can't wait to start my scene
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so valentina can uh can i borrow you for a moment sure our director is uh
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indisposed at the moment why don't you have a seat there make yourself comfy
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yeah yeah I don't know much about you
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so you tell me you're from Italy tell me about what part
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and what it's like there I'm from originally from Pompeii now I live a little bit more south in Pestum
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so I basically went from one archaeological side to another one in Pompeii there's the Roman ruins
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and in Pestum we have the Greek ruins we have the temples and with the Agrigento is the biggest temples
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they are actually the only time the Greek temples in Italy
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so and also they make mozzarella so
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when I you know I've been traveling here in LA for almost nine years
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so I say I go from la la land to mozzarella
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land what do you do on your free time I spend
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a lot of time with my animals I have a little a little zoo I have a bunny, a dog, a few reptiles,
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chickens, and they take a lot of time, and I travel.
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It's not really free time, it's kind of half of a job, but I travel a lot with my husband for a hot cuisine restaurant,
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like mission -style restaurant.
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Really?
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Yeah.
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Talk to me about that basically I've been traveling for restaurants as long I've been born
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so have like 12 years experience of your spouse experience what's your favorite type of food right now after
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so many years I think it's the kind of the same
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also with porn like I'd rather have to do like a really good experience
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otherwise I just stay home and it's the same thing with porn like
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if I have to go on set
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and you know people don't want to be there the guy
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is not really professional wherever like I just be home with
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my husband I'm sure with him you know what I mean
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I do like has to be everything has to be in a word type of level otherwise
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so I really like creative because since right now my favorite restaurant is Alchemist
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and they combine visual arts with food so So it's a whole hell of experience,
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if you Google it, you're going to see they have a planetarium, that's how you call it in English.
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And while you eat, the images change.
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And they spend 15 million on the restaurant, which is probably the most expensive restaurant that has ever existed.
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No one ever invested that amount of money on a restaurant, so it's a big project and I really like it.
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Amazing.
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Have you ever heard of that restaurant in Nomi?
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Noma?
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Yeah, the one that's about to shut down.
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I went there, I think the day before they got 3 Mission Stars, years ago, I think it was 2009.
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And I went there a few years ago, but I wasn't crazy about it.
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I feel like every chef has, at the beginning it was really good, and then I think every chef has, because it's hard to do avant -garde for a really long time
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so i think every chef has its own area
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and then they kind of you know it's it's a little
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lifespan yeah it's a kind of a lifespan it's hard it's really i would never be i love food uh
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but i will never be a chef because that's a really It's a really hard lifestyle.
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They work a lot.
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what they make like refus chefs become rich most of them they work a lot
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and they will never you know they're maybe they're famous
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but they will never make it like a lot a lot of money mm -hmm
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so how about your friends do you have a lot of friends uh I feel like
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because I travel so much have friends here
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and there everywhere in the world and sometimes it's hard
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but I'm not a lot of friend person because I'm an introvert
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so to me having a lot of social life is it's it's hard I've been doing it
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because you know with porn you have to talk with a lot of people they have fans
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but they're not all your friends no I have like few close friends I think
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that you know that's enough it's not
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that I want to have more friends I'm okay with it
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do you like music I like music what time do I did ballet for eight years
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so I'm into classical music and they also listen to jazz
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but i'm not like an expert like i kind of randomly
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listen to things ballet did you do any um dancing on
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the road as valentina on the road yeah you know like the clubs around the country any of
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that no when i was um
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when i was a kid i did ballet i stopped
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when i was 13 years old basically i grew my boobs
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and i stopped because they thought it was way too curvy to be a ballerina um
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so i stopped how do uh american men differ from italian well i only know people in porn
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so i can only speak about performers versus um non -performers
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and of course i know italian men really well
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because i i live there you know rocco yeah well i mean rocco he's i started with him actually okay
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but he says its own personal there's no many Italian performers
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so I can't you know I can't really compare talk about
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maybe European porn versus American porn people tell me they can
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tell the difference yes here people value time way more than
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in Europe Europe you're gonna stay on set for real long time
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and no much is happening
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so well they have to have coffee right yeah I've seen also English people they have stopped for tea yeah
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I haven't used that in two years, but I left them while I fix you.
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Oh, you left them here?
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Yeah.
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Because sometimes I take luggages and I try to do a lot of things.
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But you need to be back.
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I was going to randomly left for Covid going on in 2019 and they were shutting down everything
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and I remember Trump said he was going to stop on
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the flight from Europe I was like I have to leave now
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and I will not be able to leave otherwise for a really long time Okay.
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Oh, beautiful dog.
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Beautiful.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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Just like that.
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Right there.
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That's perfect.
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Perfect.
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Oh!
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oh uh shuffle from the little yeah yeah yeah yeah
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so perfect like that yes cool 1,
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oh, oh, oh Look at this beautiful, look at this beautiful lady.
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Look at that, amazing.
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Very beautiful.
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Longer enthusiasm.
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Done.
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I have these random questions and I want to have you pick three.
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Okay.
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All right, that's kind of fun.
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Just pick it up.
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Oh, no, no, just pick it up.
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Would you rather be famous or infamous?
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I think in Italy I'm kind of both because I have feminists and the Catholic Church hating on me, but then I have all the people who watch porn who love me
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and then there's those guys in between who did your cough
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but with hate so so you're kind of infamous
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and famous yes all right toss
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that card we don't need it anymore don't throw it i like
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when they throw them it's more dramatic go right at me oh that's kind of sexy
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that was kind of sexy your car yeah damn thing if you could have sex with anyone in the
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world I mean with experience I learned
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that I have to fuck someone before to know
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if I want to fuck them or not like someone can be good -looking
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but then really by that sex so I don't like
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and right now I get turned on a lot by video games characters more than yeah yeah
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which one do you want to have sex with bionetta's father
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interesting that's the first time we got that one all right get rid of
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that card that was hot okay last one last one
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How did it get started in porn?
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So before porn I was webcamming
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and before webcamming I was basically webcamming for free like I
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would just webcam with people to learn about their sexuality so
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when I learned I could make money I was like okay I'll do it you know
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so I can get out of my house
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and at the same time study and then
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while I was doing it I always dreamed about being born
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so send an email to Rocco Sifredi and he replied
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and after three months I was on his set
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and that's how I started
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so I'm guessing he's been inside your butt of course yeah it's funny to me
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when the girls go on his set and they don't want to do anal
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but he's of course trying to get in there i'm like
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it's rocco no it's like you go to a mexican restaurant
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and then you complain that it's spicy right you're like you're like exactly
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yeah just don't go there don't go there don't go there
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you don't like anal don't go to a rocco set period i even know
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that right all right that was that let's get on the next part of our programming Thank you so much. Have fun.
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Yay!
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I will.
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All right, love it.
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Thank you.
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What You'll Learn from This Video
This casual conversation is perfect for building everyday speaking skills. You'll practice natural topic transitions (like shifting from hometowns to food) and expressing preferences ("I'd rather have a really good experience otherwise I just stay home"). It's also great for learning how to talk about hobbies and travel—common topics in real-life chats. Use this clip with a shadowing site to mimic the flow and sound more like a native.
Listen For These Sounds
Notice the connected speech in phrases like "I'm from originally from Pompeii" (the "m" links smoothly to "from") and "a lot of time" (the "t" in "lot" is soft). You'll also hear reductions: "kind of a job" becomes "kinda a job" and "I don't know" sounds like "I dunno." These small changes make English sound more natural—train your ear to catch them, then use shadow speech to replicate them.
Say It Like a Native
Valentina's rhythm is relaxed but expressive. Stress key words like "archaeological," "mozzarella," and "creative" to emphasize important ideas. When she says, "it's a whole hell of an experience," the rise in pitch on "whole hell" adds excitement—mirror that to convey emotion. Practice with shadow speak: play a short line, pause, and repeat it immediately, focusing on stress and intonation. This is how you build fluency fast!
Learning English with videos like this makes practice fun and practical. Whether you're using a shadowing site or just repeating lines, the goal is to make these sounds and patterns your own. So hit play, start shadowing, and watch your speaking skills improve—one natural conversation at a time.
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on | I've been traveling · I've been doing |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | I've been born · has ever existed · Have you ever heard |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | I've been born · being born |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | restaurant, which is · people who watch |
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.