Shadowing Practice: Daily English Conversation - Learn English Speaking with Video

two one welcome to sao paulo biggest city in brazil and the most crazy

so first of all what is your name brother my real name is hongison hongison yeah handsome

but i prefer hongi so in english could be ran yeah

so like randy yeah it's it's it's how people know me here yeah on internet actually and internet

so you're popular internet it yeah i use it to be

no i yes i am i'm a content creator i'm a bartender

and i make videos about cocktails

and i use the pov the point of view i put the gopro on my forehead

and i show how is how is to be a bartender

behind the bar you know my in my point of view

so that's why i think my content got viral that's interesting how many subscribers do you have

if we consider all the social media i would say about

eight million followers holy guacamole that's a lot that's amazing high five for

that brother probably because of your mustache i like it a lot

yeah it was so interesting

that i i met you in a randomly in the english

-speaking event yes it was a bar multi -lingual bar

and then you suddenly pass by like hey you want to

record a video we can do it like tell me more

about you like yeah i'm the biggest influencer bartender influencer in

the world i'm like what i always approach people like trying to make friends

or having conversation to improve the english to practice who are majority of your viewers

99 from brazil oh wow yeah because i know i not only

but i most make videos in portuguese damn extent can you

guess five top countries where our audience is with the u

.s for immigrants that's number two you're really close oh damn you'll probably never guess number one really because it's

so easy is it give me a tip that's the con

oh you guys are going to laugh in a second that's the country

that a lot of americans go for to have fun and spend their money

and meet meet lovely people from one of the warmest tropical countries in the world is it brazil yeah

i don't think that many americans come to brazil i like yeah i met many europeans here more like Way more.

I think the French people is the most common like in those places that I visit Like most Europeans.

I think Americans prefer They prefer hotels high -quality thing.

They prefer to spend money

They were taught literally by the way quick word for you guys to learn literally literally literally

It's hard to pronounce um literally americans were taught to spend money that's their culture that's

that that's how the entire united states were built by teaching

people how to spend money how to mess up their health

by eating a lot of sugar to spend more money that's the goal how did you learn english first First of all,

I started doing Duolingo, so my plan was to move to São Paulo to work as a bartender

and learn some English because here we have more opportunity to know gringos that speak English and even Brazilians that speak English.

Most Brazilians don't speak English, so they don't judge,

but some of them think that they speak spanish

and they they start to juju if you miss or

if you do what i said like using a brazilian a

portuguese word with a spanish accent that's what i love about international community just like our platform foxu .com uh

that no one judges you i'm encouraging every single person to

make mistakes to things up that's completely fine the goal is to have a pleasant conversation

and number one to practice your speaking number two to practice your listening

because for example today you talk to a person from india

tomorrow you talk to someone from china yeah then after tomorrow you talk to someone from switzerland

or from france or italy or ukraine poland

and you get used to listening and understanding different accents

and mainly you meet people from all over the world by

the way here's the coolest story you're gonna freaking love it

there's a brazilian with a level A1 who can barely speak English, who's trying hard because he has a young kid.

And he joined our platform.

He was speaking to me and to several people.

And then he told me that his goal is to make money, learn English, and then to make money to support his family.

and the thing is i told him yo why don't you start teaching portuguese on preply .com

and yesterday he sent me a message i'm going to attach

it right here he's already taught three people in one day

and he started making money by teaching portuguese from brazil

while his goal was to make money by learning english that's insane how many opportunities will open up to you

if you will simply talk to people that's why internet is so special because they can connect people that

can have gangs without losing for no like you know how

can i win win it's a win -win women yeah women

situation yeah right yes yeah yeah that's it that's the expression

when this situation yeah you guys gonna love this part it's

so green yeah looks like a dream let me show these

guys this view you're going to freaking love it trust me dang so good

so good i've got you oh those are what do you call those that's a parrot parrots yeah yeah

but we call papagaio look at

that bird you guys are you guys are living in such a tropical place in brazil you got

so many things

that you get used to you don't even recognize yeah how

lucky you guys to live this life right here for us foreigners

when we come to brazil like

but we still be in sao paulo right it's the biggest

city in the south exactly how many followers do you have

on youtube right now we have 25 000 something we did cross 25 okay i believe yesterday oh that's not mistaken

yeah yep we're slowly growing by the way it's a really

good reminder thank you to hit this big fat thumb up

button below yeah to subscribe to our channel right now

and also guys leave a comment right below this video

and tell us where are you from if you're new here

because number one uh our the highest amount of our subscribers

are from brazil number two us can you guess number three

india india number three you got it i'm good i'm good

you got it then japan philippines indonesia mexico vietnam colombia poland

how do you remember ukraine i mean i analyze it quite

quite often to see who's first who's not in south korea south korea is also big by the way it's

so crazy interesting fact in brazil you are not able to live from the from the youtube with 25k followers

it's not possible i don't think you can live off of it anywhere else to be honest it depends

because i saw that there are many content creators in the us yeah that like they make content about

and a specific thing like cards

and they they can have a lot of money not a lot

but enough you know yeah

if they sell courses here's the thing you guys all know me as a guy who travels

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and teaches you english helps you to improve your english what's

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my main gig is software development boot camp i run a

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boot camp pretty much it's a tech school in the united states yeah

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that helps people to become tech professionals

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and by the way we have a lot of people from brazil

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and from all over the world i have a guy in

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brazil who makes six thousand dollars per month in brazil six

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thousand dollars per month yeah we're doing what uh doing software quality assurance okay yeah

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and he's working for american company i have a guy i

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have a girl in africa who south africa it's insane today

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she sent me a message i'm going to attach a screenshot

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right here she got a job offer eighty thousand dollars for

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the united states even in europe it's a good salary in brazil it's amazing salary yeah

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when you say those numbers you are talking about like by year right 80 000 per year

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which is about six seven thousand dollars per month yeah

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so my ticket it's very low

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so my goal is to sell to more people yeah with

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a short price yeah low price price quantity pretty much yeah

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i would love to to teach people how to make more money in brazil

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if you have a family yeah you cannot afford for a

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good life you know yeah in Sao Paulo actually in Brazil some some cities in the countryside for sure

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but in Sao Paulo if you have a family with one child

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and your wife

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or your husband I think to living a good life in Sao Paulo you need at least like maybe three thousand dollars.

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Capivara.

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Capivara.

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Fuck.

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Capivara.

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Honestly speaking, we're just, we're thinking right now to do an immersive experience for people in Sao Paulo for one week.

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We're just thinking

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and discussing this idea with our team to rent a big house with the 10 bedrooms

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and have people live with the foreigners.

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For example, take three to four foreigners

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and six to seven brazilians who want to learn english yes

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and spend every single day possibly they will go to their work

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and come back but spend mornings

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and evenings together non -stop talking english possibly preparing them for an interview in english yes

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but it's an immersive experience

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that everyone needs in order to speak english right i agree

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even me like last year i was traveling around brazil

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and i stayed like two months in a hostel very international

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hostel in pipa what is pipa pipa is uh like it's

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a village where we have a lot of beautiful beach landscapes i don't know why

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but it's very hyped by gringos yeah

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so there are many gringos there yeah it's a nice place

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and i stayed there for two months in the hostel living with gringos

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and brazilians that speak english

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so it was a very that's the best yeah immersive experience experience

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and it was very good too i don't know

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if i improved my english but i think i got more confident

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because i was just waking up starting speaking english exactly and

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when you play with the duolingo it's awesome

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that you play you might learn some words yeah you might remember them

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but if you don't speak english you will never start speaking english simply it's a confidence

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that you have to confidence problem you have to get through one of the things

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that people love about this youtube channel is

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that i did i recently opened up a platform where people

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from more than 100 countries right now join calls just like we had an event

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but they join online calls every single week to talk completely for free to each other

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so you meet foreigners every single time you talk to someone

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else just like on this picture right here with all of these countries by the way guys

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if you're interested to join the link is right below this video or right here yeah

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bless you bless you that's what you say bless you it's

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so peaceful here yeah it is right i love it yeah imagine you have only one month

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and you when you need to learn english

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because you're gonna have an interview to get your dream job

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what would you do with this month for me one month

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i need to to practice all day

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because you know it depends on the level yeah like

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if i didn't know anything or just basic yeah just for example I would go to

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that hostel that I mentioned yeah to stay with Gringos

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and having conversation English

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because I think in one month you are not able to learn English yeah

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but you are able to get content exactly so

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and improve it quite a lot yeah if I have time I would

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uh study some uh keywords yeah to the vocabulary yeah yeah to improve your vocabulary yeah damn

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that was the plan when i

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when i moved to sao paulo to be honest oh wow

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yeah i moved to sao paulo to work as a bartending

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and try to learn more english to work in the cruise ship onward

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so oh that's a great idea yeah

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so the plan was to be our cruise ship bartender i

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wasn't happy about my job yeah like working six days a week like only one day off like only

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monday you know so monday no one is by stealing everyone is working exactly

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so i couldn't do anything i posted a video just trying to not get viral

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but have some followers to invite me to their parties weddings you know yeah birthdays and

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that was the plan to to to create a to being

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an entrepreneur from the first video until my one million followers on tiktok it was just two months

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two months one million followers jeez i got viral very fast it was crazy with the knowledge

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that i have now

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if i had this viral content again i would make more money you are who you are

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because you went through that process there's no regrets

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but i yeah i think

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that now i i know how to deal with the public

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the followers content well you have an amazing story imagine

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that there is someone just like you 10 years ago watching

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this video right now what would be the recommendation to

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that person i think that the things has changed for me

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when i started to study something like yeah studying to apply for um to being a policeman oh wow yeah

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so in Brazil we have to do an exam to work as a policeman

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and I was studying like 10 hours per day during 10 months

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because it was lockdown but one day I just woke up

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and I thought damn I don't want to work as a policeman for the rest of my life

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so yeah i i'll do something different huh maybe i my plan was to work in something

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that i didn't need the state like my plan was to have a job

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that i could do in everywhere independent remote yeah

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not remote but independent if i want to move to england

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if i want to move to australia yeah everywhere i can work

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and i can have a good salary or something so i use

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that mindset about studying yeah to study about

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or attending this change my my brain you put your energy is something

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that made you grow it depends like can be like training

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like you're gonna be better you know for you yeah it's going to be better for your body

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if you study about one thing

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that you like it's going to be good for your brain yeah

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when you are studying you you learn

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that your body has to be like in good not good shape

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but healthy exactly

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so you start to eating better you start to training you

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start to use your time to study the point is just

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to start one way yeah like the others one is going

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to be automatic i think it's pretty much set the clear goal yeah

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and follow it yeah hey thank you so much for wisdom

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “Daily English Conversation”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: english, brazil, month. This video has 223 sentences and 2675 words to shadow. The speech runs for 16:36. The speaker talks at a natural 161 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 86% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.

Key vocabulary in this video

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

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
follower noun	/ˈfɒləʊə(ɹ)/	One who follows, comes after another.
bartender noun	/ˈbɑɹˌtɛndɚ/	One who tends a bar or pub; a person preparing and serving drinks at a bar.
viral adjective	/ˈvaɪɹəl/	Of or relating to a biological virus.
salary noun	/ˈsæləɹi/	A fixed amount of money paid to a worker, usually calculated on a monthly or annual basis, not hourly, as wages. Implies a degree of professionalism and/or…
depend verb	/dɪˈpɛnd/	To be contingent or conditioned; to have something as a necessary condition
bless verb	/blɛs/	To make something holy by religious rite, sanctify.
policeman noun	/pəˈliːsmən/	A police officer, usually a male.
remote adjective	/ɹəˈməʊt̞/	At a distance; disconnected.
insane adjective	/ɪnˈseɪn/	Exhibiting unsoundness or disorder of mind; not sane; utterly mad.
cruise noun	/kɹuz/	A sea or lake voyage, especially one taken for pleasure.
creator noun	/kɹiːˈeɪ̯təː/	Something or someone which creates or makes something.
boot noun	/but/	A heavy shoe that covers part of the leg.
tropical adjective	/ˈtɹɑ.pɪ.kəl/	Of or pertaining to the tropics, the equatorial region between 23 degrees north and 23 degrees south.
accent noun	/ækˈsɛnt/	A higher-pitched or stronger (louder or longer) articulation of a particular syllable of a word or phrase in order to distinguish it from the others or to…
vocabulary noun	/vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/	A usually alphabetized and explained collection of words e.g. of a particular field, or prepared for a specific purpose, often for learning.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
wake up verb	/ˌweɪk ˈʌp/	To stop sleeping; to awake.
come back verb		To return to a place.
get through verb	/ɡɛt ˈθɹu/	To overcome; to endure.
go through verb		To travel from one end of something to the other.
mess up verb		To make a mess of; to untidy, disorder, soil, or muss.
open up verb		To open.

Grammar in this video

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

Structure	In the video
Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result	if you don't speak english you will never · if I have time I would
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	were taught · were built

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 44 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, I'm, you're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “sh” and “zh” sounds: examination /ɪɡˌzæm.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/, recommendation /ˌɹɛkəmɛnˈdeɪʃən/, assurance /əˈʃʊɹəns/, screenshot /ˈskriːn.ʃɑt/, moustache /ˈmʌstæʃ/
Long words — get the stress right: vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, automatic /ˌɔː.təˈmæt.ɪk/, examination /ɪɡˌzæm.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/, recommendation /ˌɹɛkəmɛnˈdeɪʃən/, entrepreneur /ˌɑn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɝ/

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 follower, bartender, viral.

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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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Phrasal verbs you will hear

Grammar in this video

Pronunciation to watch

How to practise with this video

What is the Shadowing Technique?