Shadowing Practice: DAILY ENGLISH SPEAKING CHALLENGE COLLECTION #16 - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Hi, good morning.
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This is Tommy and this is my daily English speaking challenge.
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And these are three things that you need to avoid when learning English.
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Number one, overcomplicate learning English.
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A lot of people think that they have to use advanced words
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or idioms or complicated grammar structures when they speak English
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but no native speakers they don't do
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that they focus on fluency instead of perfection as long as
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you can express your ideas using English the rest doesn't matter
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speak English with a smile on your face not pressure you've Got it!
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Number 2.
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Translating in your head first in Vietnamese before speaking English.
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You know translating only slows you down and it makes you more embarrassed when speaking English.
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Instead, learn English by phrases and try to make examples with every new word that you learned.
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So remember to think in English, not translate.
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And number three, fear of making mistakes.
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Think about that my friend.
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If you are afraid to fall, how can you learn to walk?
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Same with learning English.
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You have to be okay with making mistakes.
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You have to be okay with using wrong grammar or mispronouncing the words.
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That's a part of your learning progress.
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So learn to speak English with mistakes.
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So what about you?
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What do you think is stopping you from speaking English fluently?
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Let me know in the comments.
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And if you have been stuck in learning English, you need somebody to help.
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Let me be that person.
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Over the past four years, I've helped lots of people overcome their fear of speaking English and even fall in love with this language.
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Leave me a message and I can't wait to be with you.
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I hope you have a beautiful day.
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Peace.
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Hi, good morning.
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This is Tommy and this is my daily English speaking challenge.
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I have a question for you today.
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Are you still waiting for the opportunities?
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This is something that you might need to hear today.
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And this might be the reason why your life hasn't changed.
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Because you keep waiting for the opportunities to come.
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But you know what my friend?
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opportunities don't just come you have to go
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and look for them you have to go
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and work for them you have to go
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and create them my friend a lot of people just sit there doing the same things
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and expecting the different results they wait for luck they wait for the miracle
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and they believe that one day their life will magically change.
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But that's not how life works.
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You know, you work hard, you put in the efforts, and one day it pays off, period.
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That's it.
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That's life.
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That's the truth.
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So don't wait my friend.
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Get up, do it, go for it, and create the opportunities.
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I hope you have a beautiful day.
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Peace.
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your daily activity in English.
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Whenever you're doing anything, just describe in English.
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It's just like what I am doing right now.
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You know, it's 5 o'clock in the morning and I am going for a walk.
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It's cold here.
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It's really scary here because I am at the abandoned water park.
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You see, those are something really simple that I can use but then when you do so,
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you are training your brain to think in English and it makes your speaking easier.
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Tip number two, practice the conversations even before they happen.
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You know a lot of people wait, they wait until the conversation starts and then they freeze.
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So why not just imagine the conversations?
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You know, predict the questions that you may get, a job interview, a meeting or maybe a conversation.
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So practice and practice speaking out loud, not in your head, not on paper.
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out loud in front of the mirror and watch your facial expressions and your body language
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So you know what when the real situation comes your mouth is already ready tip number three record yourself
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Some people may think that nah, I don't want I hate my voice You know,
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I don't want to watch myself on a video But let me ask you this question my friend.
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If you don't even like it, what is yours?
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How do you expect others to like you?
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Record yourself my friend.
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Speak English about any topic for 30-60 seconds.
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Watch it again, listen to your own voice, notice your mistakes, fix them and record again.
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That is how you are taking progress.
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So tip number four, use technology as your daily speaking partner.
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You know, you can use ChatGPT, Gemini or other AI tools.
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A lot are available.
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So use them to take your ideas practice, asking them simple questions and answering them.
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For example, hey, I want to practice English speaking with you.
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Absolutely, I'm here for it.
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See?
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So, what about you?
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How do you practice English speaking alone?
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Let me know in the comments.
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And if you are stuck in learning English and you need somebody to help, you know, I can't wait to be that person.
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Over the past four years, I've helped thousands of Vietnamese people overcome their fear of speaking English and even fall in love with this language.
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So let's make this journey beautiful together.
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Leave a message, I'll reach out to you.
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Hope you have a beautiful day.
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Peace.
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Always choose to be kind.
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Even if nothing comes back in return.
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Even if no one sees it.
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Even if they don't care.
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Or even if what they say anything about you.
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still choose to be kind.
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And it's not a strategy.
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It's not about the rewards or the compliments or what you get back.
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It is a decision that you make.
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It is a life that you are creating.
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It is the peace that you are building
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for yourself when no one is watching and that is something that no one can ever take away from you
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So always choose to be kind Hope you have a beautiful day Peace Hi, good morning.
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This is Tommy and this is my daily English speaking challenge So I have a quick question for you today.
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Are you expecting a perfect life?
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You look at what other people show you on social media and you start feeling small, you start feeling down.
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They have a perfect life, they have a perfect job, they drive a perfect car, they wear the perfect outfit,
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they travel the world and you compare your life to theirs.
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You start feeling small but my friend,
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listen There's no such thing as a perfect life really
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social media only shows the highlights not reality really people never show you their struggles
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and their problems so why are you looking at the best days of other people
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and compare to the worst days of yours.
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My friend, there is no standard for success.
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There are so many ways to get to the top of the mountain and you are on one of those paths.
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So you can use it as motivation to work harder,
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to try harder, but never feel ashamed, Never feel behind my friend.
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You're gonna get there by one way or another.
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Keep working.
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The person that you should compete is the version of you from yesterday.
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I hope you remember that.
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Focus on your journey.
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Keep working hard.
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Keep believing in yourself and you're gonna get there my friend.
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So I hope you Have a beautiful day.
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Peace.
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Hi, good morning.
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This is Tommy.
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And this is my daily English speaking challenge.
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And these are seven lessons that people learn too late in life.
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Lesson number one.
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People come and go.
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Some important people can become a stranger.
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And a stranger can become important overnight.
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So, accept it, my friend.
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Lesson number two Your diet isn't just what you eat
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It's what you read what you watch and who you spend your time with So protect your mind my friend
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Lesson number three you have to let people down to be happy You can't please everyone
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so choose your mental health that choice matters So, lesson number four.
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You don't need to explain everything.
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You know what my friend?
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Not everyone deserves an explanation.
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So sometimes peace is more important than being understood.
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Lesson number five.
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Progress will always beat perfection.
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You know, small steps but done daily will always win.
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waiting to be ready.
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Lesson number six, quality over quantity.
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One real connection is always better than many fake ones.
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And the last one, fun is personal so stop copying others.
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Find what makes you happy and do that.
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So what about you?
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What are some of the valuable lessons that you have learned.
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Share with me in the comments and I hope you have a beautiful day.
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Peace.
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This is the most important skill that you need to learn in 2026.
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And once you can master this skill, your life will transform.
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And it's not English, It's not about communication or confidence.
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The most important skill that you need to learn is to be okay with being disliked,
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being judged, and being misunderstood.
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Why?
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Because, you know, we miss out on a lot of opportunities because we are afraid of upsetting others.
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We're afraid to speak English because you know we think that somebody may judge us.
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We're afraid of trying new things because somebody may not like it.
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But my friend, you are not here to try to fit into every box.
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And no matter how hard you try, you can't do that my friend.
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You know, people come and go.
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Not everyone will stay with you forever.
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neither with their opinions, their judgments and their Christisms
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so start living for you my friend you have to be responsible for your life
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because yeah no one else does so I know
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that you have a lot of plans in 2026
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but I do hope that you learn to be okay with being disliked being misunderstood and being judged.
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I hope you have a beautiful day.
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Peace.
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You feeling sad my friend?
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Listen up.
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Somewhere someone in the hospital is praying to be healthy again.
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Just do it.
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Do it happy, do it sad, do it confident, do it bored, do it tired.
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Just do it because you can.
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Good tip.
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Hi, good morning.
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This is Tommy and this is my daily English speaking challenge.
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This is the most powerful word that I want you to keep saying this year.
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No. So you know, I used to be a kind of person who said yes to everything everything,
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every offer, every invitation and every request.
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And it stood a lot of my time, really.
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One day I stopped and I realized that when I said yes to everything,
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I was actually saying no to the most important thing in my life.
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So I learned to say no and since then my life started getting so much better.
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I've had more time for myself, for my goals, for my dreams, and for what truly matters.
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Maybe you don't believe me when I say this, but when you say no, people actually respect you more.
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Why?
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Because you respect your time, you respect your boundaries, your promises.
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So, yep, some may leave and some will come.
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And that is how you know who are the right people.
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So, yep, I hope that in 2026 you learn to say no more often.
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And I hope you understand that saying no is not selfish.
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It's a form of self-love.
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And in many ways, it's a way of loving others others and I hope you have a beautiful day.
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Peace.
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Hi, good morning.
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This is Tommy and this is my daily English speaking challenge.
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Wow.
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And I want you to stop saying that you are not good at English or that English is too hard for you.
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Why?
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Because it's so dangerous my friend.
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What you're doing is that you keep telling yourself, you keep training your mind to believe in what you say to yourself every day.
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That you are not capable, that you are not good at English, that you can never do it.
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And you will just believe in what you say because you'll keep repeating to yourself that you can't do it.
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So you will just stop before you practice
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or you will just stop before you start so instead change the way
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that you talk to yourself every day retrain your brain to work for you my friend not against you
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so start small start today stop the negative self-talk my friend and let it work for you.
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Start telling your brain that you are good at English and you're learning growing.
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Maybe you make mistakes, maybe you're not perfect right now, but that is how you learn.
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So I hope you understand that your mind,
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your brain It's listening to you and it is ready to help you grow.
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So, take the small step today by putting down in the comments
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that you're good at English and you will keep learning every single day.
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So, I hope you have a beautiful day.
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Peace.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “DAILY ENGLISH SPEAKING CHALLENGE COLLECTION”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: English, speaking, peace, beautiful, daily. This video has 227 sentences and 2191 words to shadow. The speech runs for 18:28. The speaker talks at a steady 119 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 91% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| translate verb | /tɹænzˈleɪt/ | To change spoken words or written text (of a book, document, movie, etc.) from one language to another. |
| misunderstand verb | /mɪs.ʌn.də(ɹ)ˈstænd/ | To understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly. |
| dislike verb | /dɪsˈlaɪk/ | To have a feeling of aversion or antipathy towards; not to like. |
| perfection noun | /pɚˈfɛk.ʃən/ | The quality or state of being perfect or complete, so that nothing substandard remains; the highest attainable state or degree of excellence. |
| grammar noun | /ˈɡɹæm.ə(ɹ)/ | A system of rules and principles for the structure of a language, or of languages in general. |
| overcome verb | /ˌəʊ.vəˈkʌm/ | To surmount (a physical or abstract obstacle); to prevail over, to get the better of. |
| fluency noun | /ˈfluːənsi/ | The quality of smoothness of flow. |
| fluently adverb | In a fluent manner, as expressing oneself easily, especially in a foreign language. | |
| magically adverb | /ˈmæd͡ʒ.ɪ.kli/ | In a magical manner; by magic, or as if by magic. |
| mispronounce verb | /ˌmɪspɹəˈnaʊns/ | To pronounce (a word, phrase, etc.) incorrectly. |
| overcomplicate verb | To make something excessively complicated. | |
| retrain verb | /ɹiːˈtɹeɪn/ | To train again; especially, to train or study in a new subject or job |
| compliment noun | /ˈkɑmpləmənt/ | An expression of praise, congratulation, or respect. |
| bore verb | /boɹ/ | To inspire boredom in somebody. |
| theirs | /ðɛɚz/ | That or those belonging to them; the possessive case of they, used without a following noun. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| get back verb | Return to where one came from. |
| get up verb | To move in an upward direction; to ascend or climb. |
| listen up verb | To listen closely; to pay attention. |
| pay off verb | To bribe, especially to deter oversight. |
| speak out verb | To assert or promote one's opinion; to make one's thoughts known. |
| take away from verb | To subtract a quality from; make something seem not so good or interesting. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- Are you still waiting for the opportunities?
- If you don't even like it, what is yours?
- How do you expect others to like you?
- Are you expecting a perfect life?
- You know what my friend?
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 | have been stuck · are stuck · being understood |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | have been stuck · I've helped · hasn't changed |
| Verb + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — verbs that are followed by the -ing form | keep waiting · practice speaking · start feeling |
| Possibility with “might / may” might/may + verb — something that is possible but not certain | might need · might be · may get |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 35 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, you're, can't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: perfection /pɚˈfɛk.ʃən/, ashamed /əˈʃeɪmd/, facial /ˈfeɪ.ʃəl/, selfish /ˈsɛlf.ɪʃ/, invitation /ɪnvɪˈteɪʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: misunderstand /mɪs.ʌn.də(ɹ)ˈstænd/, invitation /ɪnvɪˈteɪʃən/, motivation /ˈmoʊ.tə.veɪ.ʃən/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like translate, misunderstand, dislike.
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.