Shadowing Practice: Belle Beauty and the beast lyrics - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Little town, it's a quiet village
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Every day like the one before
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Little town full of little people
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Waking up to say Bonjour!
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Bonjour!
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Bonjour!
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Bonjour!
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Bonjour!
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There goes the baker with his tray like always
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The same old bread and rolls to sell
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Every morning just the same
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Since the morning that we came
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To this poor provincial town
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Good morning, pal!
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Morning, monsieur!
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Where are you off to?
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The bookshop.
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I just finished the most wonderful story about a beanstalk and an ober and a...
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That's right.
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Marie!
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The baguettes!
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Hurry up!
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Look, there she goes.
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The girl is strange, no question.
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Don't be strange.
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Can't you tell?
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Never thought of any crowd.
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Cause her head supports some cloud.
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No denying she's a funny girl that day.
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Bonjour.
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Good day.
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How is your family?
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Bonjour.
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Good day.
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Who is your wife?
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No. I made six eggs.
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That's too expensive.
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There must be more than this provincial life.
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Ah, Belle.
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Good morning.
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I've come to return the book I borrowed.
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Finished already?
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Oh, I couldn't put it down.
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Have you got anything new?
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Not since yesterday.
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That's all right.
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I'll borrow this one. That one?
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But you've read it twice.
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Well, it's my favorite.
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For all places, daring sword fights, magic spells, a prince in disguise.
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If you like it all that much, it's yours. But, sir...
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I insist.
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Well, thank you.
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Thank you very much.
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Look, there she goes, the girl is so peculiar.
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I wonder if she's feeling well.
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With a dreamy fall...
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And her nose stuck in a book.
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A puzzle to the rest of us is Belle.
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Oh, isn't this amazing?
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It's my favorite part because you'll see
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Here's when she means
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Prince Charmaine But she won't discover that it's him till chapter three
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Now it's no wonder that her name means beauty
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Her looks have got no parallel
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But behind that fair facade I'm afraid she's rather odd
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Very different from the rest of us
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She's nothing like the rest of us
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She's different from the rest of us
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She's male Wow, you didn't miss a shot,
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Gaston You're the greatest hunter in the whole world I know
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No beast alive stands a chance against you
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And no girl for that matter
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It's true Ooh, and I've got my sight set on that one.
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The inventor's daughter?
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She's the one.
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The lucky girl I'm going to marry. But she's...
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The most beautiful girl in town.
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I know, but...
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That makes her the best.
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And don't I deserve the best?
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Well, of course.
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I mean, you do, but...
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From the moment when I met her, saw her, I said she's gorgeous, and I fell.
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Here in town, there's only she who is beautiful as me.
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So I'm making plans to woo and marry Belle.
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Look there he goes, isn't he dreaming?
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Monsieur, oh he's so cute!
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He's still my heart, I'm hardly breathing
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He's such a tall darts running in the bridge
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How shall I know?
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Today, may we?
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You call this grave?
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What's up?
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Ten yards!
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Excuse me, I don't get you
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Please let me through His grave is staying
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His grave is staying
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Let him stay
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There must be more than his provincial life
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Just watch, I'm going to make
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Belle my wife
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There she goes, a girl who's strange but special A most peculiar mademoiselle
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It's a pity and a sin, she doesn't quite fit in But she really is a funny girl, a beauty but a funny girl
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She really is a funny girl Bonjour!
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Bonjour!
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Bonjour!
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Thank you.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “Belle Beauty and the beast lyrics”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: Bonjour, goes, town, Belle, funny. This video has 108 sentences and 598 words to shadow. The speech runs for 4:30. The speaker talks at a steady 133 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. Only 81% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.

Key vocabulary in this video

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

WordPronunciationMeaning
grave noun/ɡɹeɪv/An excavation in the earth as a place of burial.
provincial adjective/pɹəˈvɪn(t)ʃəl/Of or pertaining to a province.
marry verb/ˈmæɹi/To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife.
borrow verb/ˈbɑɹ.oʊ/To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.
peculiar adjective/pɪˈkjul.jɚ/Out of the ordinary; odd; strange; unusual.
cloud noun/ˈklaʊ̯d/A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
egg noun/ɛɡ/An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, often housing an embryo within a membrane or shell…
discover verb/dɪˈskʌvə/To find or learn something for the first time.
hunter noun/ˈhʌntɚ/One who hunts game for sport or for food; a huntsman or huntswoman.
spell noun/spɛl/Words or a formula supposed to have magical powers.
sword noun/soɹd/A long bladed weapon with a grip and typically a pommel and crossguard (together forming a hilt), which is designed to cut, stab, slash and/or hack.
gorgeous adjective/ˈɡoɹd͡ʒəs/Sumptuously dressed.
deny verb/dəˈnaɪ/To disallow or reject.
dare verb/dɛ(ə)ɹ/To have enough courage (to do something).
beast noun/biːst/Any four-footed land mammal.

Sentences worth repeating

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

  • Where are you off to?
  • How is your family?
  • Who is your wife?
  • I've come to return the book I borrowed.
  • Have you got anything new?

Grammar in this video

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

StructureIn the video
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters nowI've come · you've read
Superlatives the -est / the most … — the top or bottom of a groupthe most wonderful · the greatest · The most beautiful
Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — something happening right now or around nowI'm making · is staying
Future with “will” will + verb — a decision, promise or predictionI'll borrow · you'll see · won't discover

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 21 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, I've. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

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 grave, provincial, marry.

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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