Shadowing Practice: Bro Sued his MOM🧐😿🙀😧#judge - Learn English Speaking with Video
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We're here suing your mother for $1 ,050.
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It's the value of a PlayStation you say she threw against the wall and broke when you guys got into an argument.
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Is that true?
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That's right, Your Honor.
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Explain what happened.
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You see, I like to play video games every day, and I soon hope to turn that ambition into a career.
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And she does not understand that this is something that I really want.
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She just doesn't understand.
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She smashes the one thing I love.
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So how did it get to the point where she smashed it?
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One little mistake, one tiny mistake of not picking up my little sister, and she goes off and destroys the one thing.
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Wait, that's a little mistake? Of course.
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You forgot to pick up your sister?
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I do it every week.
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So how did you forget?
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I was too busy chasing my dreams.
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I was too busy doing what I love the most.
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So you were supposed to go pick your little sister up from where, school?
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That's cheerleading practice, but I do that every week.
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Could she not do that?
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She doesn't even work that much.
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Okay, so you do it every week, and this time you forgot?
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Just once.
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So, Ms. Ortiz, did you break the video game?
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I did, and I would do it again in a heartbeat because he is throwing.
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I absolutely would.
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I have only ever wanted what's best for you.
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Oh, really, man?
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And you are throwing away your life.
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So, I want to understand from you, as his mother, he forgot to pick up his sister.
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What were your instructions to him?
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Were you working?
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What happened?
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So, first of all, that was the straw that broke the camel's back
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because Jose does not do anything around the house at all.
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That's not true.
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The only thing, he gets an allowance, and the only thing I ever ask him to do is pick up his sister from cheer practice.
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And I do that every week.
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On Tuesdays and Thursdays.
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But you didn't that one time.
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You left her stranded there.
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No, I did not.
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She has so many people to ask.
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You could have asked her mom's friend.
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All right, all right.
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Mr. Ortiz, let your mother speak.
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Go ahead, ma 'am.
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Thank you.
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So he has one responsibility to pick up his sister on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
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Which I do.
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Because I work a double shift.
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He not only did not remember to pick her up, but when we came home, he was playing video games and didn't even care.
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I said, you left your sister, and he shrugged and went back to playing his video game.
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Did you just shrug, Mr. Ortiz?
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Well, I just, I acknowledge what she said, but I just didn't think it was a big deal because I do it every week.
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If she was just at school, do you really think that's a big deal to you?
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Yes, it is, because cheerleading practice happens after school and
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so after that's over parents come and pick up the child
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and the children who are left over whose parents don't come are left with the coach
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or the teacher which is an inconvenience right exactly hold on the coach
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or the teacher then has to find out how are they going to get
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that child home it's a huge inconvenience
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but she was not stranded was she she had a teachers
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and coaches there no she was stranded because you didn't come get her
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and then your mother came together
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but i was busy doing what i want to do what i want to point out also
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that this is the latest in a long string of incidents
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that have happened since he's become addicted to video
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that's not true my parents visited from florida
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he came out for five minutes for the whole two weeks
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they were here he comes out of his room to eat
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and go to the bathroom and then the rest of the time he's in there playing
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that is not true let me ask you this you say
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he still gets an allowance at 18 years old i just wanted him to focus on his school work
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and when he was a little boy he took everything
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so seriously he worked
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so hard at his studies that's why i bought him his first video game console to begin with
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because i wanted him to have
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so you actually got him his first one i did
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but this one you did not buy i did not
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so mr ortiz you bought this all on your own yes with the money i gave him from his allowance
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but i earned
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that money you no i do chores
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i pick up your i pick up my sister wait is your allowance based upon you doing chores
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and then getting the money exactly what do you have to do i pick up the laundry
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i do my room i do the dishes everything she tells me to do laundry
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and i pick up my sister what a laundry machine no
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no no laundry dishes the trash clean your room exactly the trash yes right
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and pick up your sister of course and so mom is
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that true like are those the chores he's required to do
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and then he gets payment for those no no those are every once in a
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while he volunteers or he used to he doesn't do it anymore yes i do
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but he is not required for
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that allowance to do anything except pick up his sister
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which he didn't do i don't believe in paying kids to do things
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they already need to do to learn responsibility
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so cleaning up your room
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you're not getting no money from me for cleaning up your room you better clean up your room
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because in this house we live in a clean house
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but i clean it well washing dishes washing clothes that doesn't matter
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that in my opinion that is not something you need to be paid to do now
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if you're doing something outside of the realm of something you
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Bro Sued his MOM🧐😿🙀😧”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: pick, sister, allowance, ortiz, laundry. This video has 102 sentences and 1034 words to shadow. The speech runs for 5:00. The speaker talks fast, about 207 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 87% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| allowance noun | /əˈlaʊəns/ | Permission; granting, conceding, or admitting. |
| laundry noun | /ˈlɔːn.dɹi/ | A laundering; a washing. |
| dish noun | /dɪʃ/ | A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle. |
| strand noun | /ˈstɹænd/ | Each of the strings which, twisted together, make up a yarn, rope or cord. |
| wash verb | /wɑʃ/ | To clean with water. |
| trash noun | /tɹæʃ/ | Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse. |
| smash verb | /smæʃ/ | To break (something brittle) violently. |
| inconvenience noun | /ɪnkənˈvinjəns/ | The quality of being inconvenient. |
| earn verb | /ɝn/ | To gain (success, reward, recognition) through applied effort or work. |
| chase verb | /t͡ʃeɪs/ | To follow at speed. |
| string noun | /stɹɪŋ/ | A long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together. |
| volunteer noun | /ˌvɑlənˈtɪɹ/ | One who enters into, or offers themselves for, any service of their own free will, especially when done without pay. |
| sue verb | /sjuː/ | To file a legal action against someone, generally a non-criminal (civil) action. |
| acknowledge verb | /əkˈnɑ.lɪd͡ʒ/ | To admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in. |
| instruction noun | /ɪnˈstɹʌkʃən/ | The act of instructing, teaching, or providing with information or knowledge. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| pick up verb | To lift; to grasp and raise. | |
| clean up verb | To make an area or a thing clean; to pick up a mess; to tidy. | |
| come together verb | /ˈkʌm tʊˈɡɛðɚ/ | To assemble; to congregate; to combine. |
| find out verb | To discover, as by asking or investigating. | |
| go ahead verb | /ˌɡoʊ əˈhɛd/ | To proceed with; to begin. |
| go back to verb | To stem from; to originate in. | |
| go off verb | To explode. | |
| point out verb | To identify among a group of similar subjects, or in a scene where the subject might not be readily seen or noticed, with a gesture of the body. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- Wait, that's a little mistake?
- You forgot to pick up your sister?
- That's cheerleading practice, but I do that every week.
- Ortiz, did you break the video game?
- What were your instructions to him?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | are left · was not stranded · was stranded |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | have only ever wanted · have happened |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | children who are · teacher which is |
| Past continuous was/were + -ing — an action in progress at a moment in the past | Were you working · was playing |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 14 contractions and reduced forms, such as didn't, doesn't, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: dish /dɪʃ/, wash /wɑʃ/, trash /tɹæʃ/, smash /smæʃ/, instruction /ɪnˈstɹʌkʃən/
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 allowance, laundry, dish.
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.