Shadowing Practice: Billie Eilish Rates Being Homeschooled, Goths, and Invisalign | Over/Under - Learn English Speaking with Video
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(upbeat music) (drum roll) - Babies, oh, I love babies.
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Babies love me because I think they see me as one of them and I really do think that.
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They see me and they're like "Oh my God another baby".
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Oh yeah, they love sucking on these, it's crazy.
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I mean, I do too though, because I have a iron deficiency so this shit tastes good.
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Like have you guys liked the taste of blood?
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(laughing) Do you, does anyone here like the taste of blood, because I like it.
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I like the taste of blood.
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I like the taste of pennies, and metal, and poles, and jewelry.
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Dirty jewelry tastes so good.
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It's got that, like, oh, I think my mom gives me iron pills.
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She's nodding her head over there.
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My mom definitely gives me iron pills.
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I used to literally suck on pennies and shit.
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I would lick poles, my dumb ass.
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(laughing) Don't they make you constipated?
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They don't make me constipated.
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I don't get constipated.
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I poop, I poop just fine.
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I love pooping, go on.
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(drum roll) Pooping, underrated, one billion percent underrated.
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Pooping is my favorite part of the day.
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There was one day I pooped eight times.
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That was the best day of my life, and they were all solid good poops too.
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Like no bullshit poops, you know what I'm saying?
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I wasn't like I'm done.
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I wasn't also like -- Those are the bad poops.
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When you poop a, like, yo, I'm really talking about poop out here.
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(laughing) I love pooping, dude, but here's the thing.
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It's really about your diet because you can have miserable poops.
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People who don't like pooping are probably people who eat like shit.
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Sometimes when you eat like shit your poop is incredible.
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Sometimes it's horrible.
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You eat a bunch of hot Cheetos, that is burning poop.
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Burning, like a lighter down there, like wshew, hold it there.
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(drum roll) What?
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I don't know, I'm really flipped out by teenagers, dude.
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I am one too (burps) so I don't know.
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(drum roll) Overrated.
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Overrated as hell, prom, eww.
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It's where the most beautiful girls get asked by the worst dudes to prom and they're like yeah 'cause they finally found someone that likes them.
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Why is every pretty girl with a horrible looking man, I don't understand.
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Listen, I'm not shaming people for their looks, but I am though.
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You give an ugly guy a chance, he thinks he rules the world.
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I swear to God because they got a hot girl they can be horrible?
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Like, you're still ugly though.
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Can't change that, maybe that's why.
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Maybe that's why guys with small dicks get huge mansions.
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To make up for it, you know.
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Or like really nice cars (laughs), you know?
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(drum roll) Invisalign can suck my dick.
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Honestly, Invisalign, you what, here's the thing.
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When I got it, the first time, it was the worst.
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I would not have, I would have rather cut off my nose or some shit instead of having Invisalign, but it did work really well and very fast and it's off now and I'm good, so fine, it's fine.
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Shit is expensive as fuck, and dude, I mentioned it in my album and I still didn't get it for free.
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I still had to pay OD money, so stupid.
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So stupid, I gave them so much, stupid promo, and those bitches still make me pay.
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For a little clear grill, but Invisalign doesn't wanna give me free Invisalign, so, fuck 'em, overrated.
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(drum roll) You know, I've never sleep walked.
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My mom, one time was like, "Billie, you rapped a whole verse while you were sleeping." (laughing) She said that while I was asleep she was, what was it, you were laying next to me and I rapped a whole verse.
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I was asleep, I rapped.
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I don't sleep walk, that shit is terrifying.
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That's terrifying and then there's like stories about people waking up with a knife like over someone and they don't remember it, yeah, okay.
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Oh I was sleep walking, don't sleep walk, that shit is creepy.
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Tie yourself to your bed, I don't care.
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Do some bondage on yourself, I don't care.
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(drum roll) Well, I've never been to school.
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I grew up homeschooled, stayed homeschooled, never was not homeschooled.
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The thing is like I still learned everything, you know, but I learned it in life.
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I learned how to do math by cooking with my mom and seeing how many halves are gonna make this amount, you know, if we doubled this recipe how many more do we have to put in this batch right here.
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And so that's how I learned math, and then I learned how to build shit from my dad.
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What I'm saying is I learned shit in life.
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I didn't have to like-- 'Cause I feel like when you're sat down and somebody's like shoving things in your throat you're not gonna wanna eat them.
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Everybody forced everybody's kid to eat broccoli, right.
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Nobody likes broccoli, but maybe you weren't forced to eat broccoli.
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You're like, "Shit, this shit is good "as hell with some butter." I mean, there's a lot of ways to do it.
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I think some people do it the wrong way which is just makes your life horrible and miserable and boring.
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That's mainly because of your parents 'cause parents are lazy as fuck.
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That's why they send their kids to school in the first place.
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I don't wanna teach you, bitch.
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(drum roll) You know what, I actually really like high heels.
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I think high heels are really dope and I've been feeling the urge to put them on recently.
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Like just an urge, I don't know what it is.
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I don't know why these things happen.
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I got acrylic nails, I wore hair extension the other day.
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I don't know what is going on.
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Weird shit, I'm not used to it, I don't know.
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I don't know, I love heels.
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I think heels are really dope, I think they're really cool.
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I think sometimes they're designed really well.
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They're really pretty, I think it's a really cool idea too.
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I know the bitches are uncomfortable too, so there's that but comfort is not always key.
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These pants, suck to wear but they're fire though.
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So I wear them.
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(drum roll) Underrated because I think, for awhile, they were kinda frowned upon and I don't think people give goths credit for giving everyone now all of their fashion influence, you know what I'm saying?
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Because I literally saw an old ad for, like an old motivational video thing, about this girl that wears all black and she's pretty emo, goth, whatever.
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She goes to school and nobody likes her and everybody makes fun of her and I just was watching like if that was now, and there was one girl who dressed like that, she would be, like everyone would idolize her.
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Everyone would think she was so cool.
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I just think that people don't give goths enough credit, you know, because that's what people wear now.
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Chains and chokers, and those pointy chokers and shit.
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That all came from that whole emo world, you know what I'm saying?
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I remember like when I was 10 or 11, you'd wear all black and people were like, "What are you, goth?" When you wear a shirt that's black and some pants that are black too.
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People don't give them enough credit, man.
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Everyone's goth now.
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(drum roll) Oh, underrated.
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I have a tree house that my dad built us, that's so high in the tree in our back yard and I can go so high that I'm like sitting at the top of the tree, it's crazy.
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I can see the whole neighborhood, it's amazing.
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And I used to sit up there and write songs in the rain with my ukulele and I also had a pulley.
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So I'd put the pulley over the branch, I'd be down there, I'd put the ukulele in the pulley, I'd go up into the tree, I'd grab the rope, I'd pull it up, I'd grab the ukulele, I'd climb up more into the tree.
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I'd sit on my little thing and I'd write a song with my little notebook.
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(drum roll) Whoo-hoo underrated, oh my God.
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Avril Lavigne was everything to me, dude.
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I love Avril, I really, I love Avril Lavigne.
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I only love her, there's nothing else there.
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Just love, only love.
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There's like almost no artist like that.
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Avril Lavigne and Justin Bieber I only love.
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Her, Tyler, Gambino, and Bieber to be honest, made me, I would not be, and Lana probably.
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Yeah, there's no way, my God, she has my number though.
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She texts me sometimes, whoa it's so cool.
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She's like "Hey babe, it's Avril xo." Oh my God, geesh.
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What You'll Practice in This Lesson
Learn English with YouTube by analyzing casual, conversational speech from a popular video. This lesson focuses on understanding informal vocabulary, natural humor, and relaxed tone—key skills for IELTS speaking practice and real-world communication. You’ll practice shadowing to mimic the speaker’s pace and intonation, helping you sound more fluent and confident.
Key Vocabulary & Phrases
- Iron deficiency: A lack of iron in the body, often causing unusual cravings (e.g., "I have an iron deficiency, so I like the taste of metal").
- Underrated: Not given enough credit (e.g., "Pooping is underrated—best part of my day").
- Overrated: Given more praise than it deserves (e.g., "Prom is overrated as hell").
- Flip out: To feel confused or overwhelmed (e.g., "I’m flipped out by teenagers—even though I am one").
- Make up for: To compensate for a weakness (e.g., "Guys with small dicks get huge mansions to make up for it").
Practice Tips for Shadowing
The video’s tone is casual and fast, with lots of pauses, laughs, and burps—perfect for practicing natural speech. Use a shadowing app to replay short clips (5-10 seconds) and repeat immediately. Focus on matching the speaker’s rhythm: pause when she laughs, stress words like "one billion percent" for emphasis, and mimic her relaxed pronunciation of "dude" or "eww." For shadow speech practice, record yourself and compare it to the video—note if you’re rushing or slowing down too much. This helps improve English pronunciation by training your mouth to form casual sounds. For IELTS speaking practice, focus on the conversational structure: she shares personal stories, uses humor, and gives opinions—skills that boost your speaking score. Repeat sections about "iron deficiency" or "prom" to master how to explain ideas clearly, even with informal language. Keep practicing daily—you’ll notice your fluency improve in no time!
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| “Used to” used to + verb — a past habit or state that is no longer true | used to literally · used to sit |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | was not homeschooled · weren't forced |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | People who don · way which is |
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.