Shadowing Practice: Charlie Kirk's Most Viewed Video EVER - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Do you feel proud of yourself for debating college kids who are unprepared to speak in front of an audience like yourself?
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Hold on, hold on, hold on.
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You're 30 years old.
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We can agree you're 30 years old, right?
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Do you think that's a little bit silly?
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Are you a voter?
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I am a voter.
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I'm a registered voter.
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Oh, so I vote and you vote.
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So I'm talking to voters of this country that will determine the future of Western civilization.
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That's what I'm doing here today.
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Yeah?
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Wait, hold on.
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How is it any different than a professor talking to you?
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Than a professor talking to you?
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Who are you?
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Well, important enough for you to come up to a microphone.
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Actually, when I first saw this ad, I thought it was like an improv comedy thing.
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It looked so ridiculous that I didn't even think it was real.
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Well, no, you can see.
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Look how popular
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Trump is on your campus.
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How does that make you feel?
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That's not comedy.
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that is a five alarm fire for Kamala Harris because she's probably going to lose Pennsylvania.
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Look.
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But no, I just want to be clear.
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Is there something wrong with talking to voters?
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No, there's nothing wrong with talking to voters.
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Well, that's what we're doing here today.
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It's an open mic.
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I think that you push a dangerous agenda.
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Such as?
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Your stance on abortion rights, for example.
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Here we go.
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Okay, so...
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Let me ask a question.
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What is your name?
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Jean.
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Jean.
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And what is your understanding of the current
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Republican Party's stance on federal intervention and abortion?
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Well, I know that they want to bring it back to the states, right?
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So it sounds like you do know
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that the Republican Party's current stance on abortion is they're against a federal ban on abortion.
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I do understand that, yes.
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And we're talking about a presidential election as the important election that we're talking about here.
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I understand that, yes.
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Great.
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So, again, I think this open dialogue is great.
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I think it's great you're here challenging Charlie,
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and I think it's great that he's willing to travel campuses across this country to talk to the next generation.
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We need more conversation.
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Now, where's the disagreement, though, on content?
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Because you could criticize style or why you're talking to people or dunk on someone personally, but where do you actually disagree with the substance?
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I agree with the way that you edit content and specifically frame it so that people look bad talking to you.
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You, the way that you edit your content.
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We post unedited content.
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Let me just, let me just ask you one thing though.
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Cause we could, you could, personal, personal insults can fly in all directions.
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Where is an area where you have a disagreement with the conservative movement, with Donald Trump, with Charlie Kirk, perhaps with myself.
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I was a presidential candidate last year.
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I think we need to talk about that more in the open.
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And the more we do, the stronger our country is going to be.
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We've got a long line of people, but I want to hear from you one substantive area where you have an authentic disagreement
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and i'd be glad to address
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it i'm sure charlie would too just in any anything any
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political relating to any political topic where you have a disagreement let's air
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it okay um i disagree with uh the some of the uh laws
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that are being pushed in Congress that are against the LGBTQ community and the trans community.
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Okay, so let's talk about that.
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I'm going to give you my view, and then I want to hear yours.
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Okay.
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My view is that if you're a fully grown adult, 18 or above, you're free to live how you want,
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dress how you want, marry who you want if you want, if you're over the age of 18.
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I agree.
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But you are not free to indoctrinate children in schools who are not yet of the age of consent.
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You are not free, just as you're a 17 year old
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or a 15 year old can't get a tattoo on their own,
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I don't think that you should be able to go until the age of 18.
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And so the lines that I draw here is that men are free to claim to be women in swimming pools.
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You're not free to claim trophies in a women's sports competition.
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You're not free to enter a women's locker room.
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You're not free to change a language.
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And you're not free to actually indoctrinate our children who are under the age of five in schools.
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Do we agree on the fact that adults should be able to live freely while still treating children differently?
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If so, we're on the same side of this issue.
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Listen, I agree with the majority of what you said.
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However, I don't think that you're understanding the implications of the laws that are trying to be passed.
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Look, we've got a head start on the conversation.
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We've got a long line behind you.
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But my only ask is forget the personal attacks or the stylistic attacks focus on substance
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The more we debate that the stronger we're going to be as a country.
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Thank you for coming.
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Thank you I don't think you're focusing on substance though.
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That's the issue
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But he intentionally tried to provoke substance out of you and you said, well, I'm worried about some laws
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Congress should pass.
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I have to ask, what laws are you talking about? Can you be specific?
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I'm sorry, I'm very nervous, but this is what you do.
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This is what you do.
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You take people and you put them under the spotlight and you...
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Well, hold on.
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I didn't ask you to come up here.
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You voluntarily came to the front of the line.
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You didn't have to do that.
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You're purposely antagonizing people on campus.
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How?
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Asking people to come up by spreading your weird agenda.
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How?
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what what agenda is I'm confused though to Charlie I'll say this well we'll end on this
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and we'll go to the next question
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when I was 18 I'm not gonna blame
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you for this I also took for granted a lot of the stuff
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that the media force fed me
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because that's what you know at the age of 18
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you say there are some vague laws making their way through Congress
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they're hostile to you know how I don't think those you know about exist
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but I don't blame you if that's what the cable media is feeding you
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but let's get to the specifics and then we're able to actually have an open dialogue.
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That's one of the things I've learned over the last 20 years.
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I think that the issue is we're getting our media from different sources.
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Both people are getting media from these skewed sources.
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The facts that you're presenting are not always correct.
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And that's why we're here with no TV screens between us.
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So people who have policy -based substantive disagreements, we invite those.
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I think that's how we're going to get our country back.
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And as it relates to trans, which you brought up, 18 or above,
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you're free to live how you want you're not free to force that onto somebody else or especially kids.
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If we agree on that, we make some progress.
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Thank you.
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Disagreements, yeah.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Charlie Kirk's Most Viewed Video EVER”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: disagreement, voter, agree, laws, hold. This video has 132 sentences and 1243 words to shadow. The speech runs for 6:34. The speaker talks fast, about 189 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 85% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start. 21 of its 132 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| voter noun | /ˈvoʊtɚ/ | Someone who votes or is entitled to vote. |
| disagreement noun | /dɪsəˈɡɹiːmənt/ | An argument or debate. |
| abortion noun | /əˈbɔɹ.ʃn̩/ | A spontaneous abortion; a miscarriage. |
| substance noun | /ˈsʌbstəns/ | Physical matter; material. |
| agenda noun | /əˈd͡ʒɛn.də/ | A temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to. |
| stance noun | /stæns/ | The manner, pose, or posture in which one stands. |
| translation noun | /tɹænzˈleɪʃən/ | The conversion of text from one language to another. |
| jean noun | /d͡ʒiːn/ | Denim. |
| edit verb | /ˈɛdɪt/ | To change a text, or a document. |
| dialogue noun | /ˈdaɪəˌlɑɡ/ | A conversation or other form of discourse between two or more individuals. |
| relate verb | /ɹɪˈleɪt/ | To tell in a descriptive way. |
| disagree verb | /dɪsəˈɡɹi/ | To fail to agree; to have a different opinion or belief. |
| topic noun | /ˈtɑpɪk/ | A subject; a theme; a category or general area of interest. |
| confused adjective | /kənˈfjuːzd/ | unable to think clearly or understand |
| ridiculous adjective | /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/ | Deserving of ridicule; foolish, absurd. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| come up verb | To emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly. |
| bring up verb | To mention. |
| come up to verb | To approach. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- Do you think that's a little bit silly?
- Are you a voter?
- That's what I'm doing here today.
- Than a professor talking to you?
- How does that make you feel?
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 unprepared · being pushed · be passed |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | kids who are · children who are · people who have |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 57 contractions and reduced forms, such as you're, I'm, we're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: abortion /əˈbɔɹ.ʃn̩/, translation /tɹænzˈleɪʃən/, intervention /ɪntɚˈvɛnʃən/, civilization /ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, intentionally /ɪnˈtɛn(t)ʃənəli/
- Long words — get the stress right: disagreement /dɪsəˈɡɹiːmənt/, ridiculous /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/, intervention /ɪntɚˈvɛnʃən/, differently /ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/, civilization /ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/
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 voter, disagreement, abortion.
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.