Shadowing Practice: Daily Listening #1 | Listen & Shadow for Fluency | Beginner - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Easy Learning English.
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Daily Listening.
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My house.
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I live in a house.
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My house is small.
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My house has two bedrooms.
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My mom and dad sleep in one bedroom.
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My sister and I share the other bedroom.
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My house has a kitchen.
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My mom and dad cook dinner there every night.
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My house has a living room.
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My family watches television there every night.
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My house has a big bathroom.
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My house has a lot of closets.
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My house has a basement.
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My dad has a workshop in the basement.
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My dad makes wood furniture.
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My house does not have a second floor.
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My house has a garage.
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My house has a big backyard.
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My backyard has a maple tree.
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My backyard has a swimming pool.
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My backyard has a vegetable garden.
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My family likes our house.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Daily Listening”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: backyard, dad, bedroom. This video has 24 sentences and 137 words to shadow. The speech runs for 1:12. The speaker talks at a steady 114 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing.
Key vocabulary in this video
14 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
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| backyard noun | /bækˈjɑːd/ | A yard to the rear of a house or similar residence. |
| bedroom noun | /ˈbɛdˌɹum/ | A room in a house, apartment, hotel, or other dwelling where a bed is kept for sleeping. |
| basement noun | /ˈbeɪsmənt/ | A floor of a building below ground level. |
| furniture noun | /ˈfɝ.nɪ.t͡ʃɚ/ | Large movable item(s), usually in a room, which enhance(s) the room's characteristics, functionally or decoratively. |
| garage noun | /ɡəˈɹɑʒ/ | A building (or section of a building) used to store a car or cars, tools and other miscellaneous items. |
| swim verb | /swɪm/ | To move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural means. |
| workshop noun | /ˈwɝk.ʃɑp/ | A room, especially one which is not particularly large, used for manufacturing or other light industrial work. |
| closet noun | /ˈklɑzɪt/ | A small room within a house used to store clothing, food, or other household supplies. |
| vegetable noun | /ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bəl/ | A plant raised for some edible part of it, such as the leaves, roots, fruit or flowers, but excluding any plant considered to be a fruit, grain, herb, or spice… |
| maple noun | /ˈmeɪpl̩/ | Any member of any species of genus Acer, characterized by (usually) palmate, five-lobed leaves and winged seeds, and often grown for syrup or wood |
| pool noun | /puːl/ | A small and rather deep area of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream or river; a reservoir for water. |
| cook verb | /kʊk/ | To prepare food for eating, typically by heating it, combining it with other ingredients, seasoning it, preparing it for serving, etc. |
| kitchen noun | /ˈkɪt͡ʃ(ə)n/ | A room or area for preparing food. |
| bathroom noun | /ˈbæθˌɹum/ | A room containing a shower or bathtub, and (typically but not necessarily) a toilet. |
Pronunciation to watch
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: garage /ɡəˈɹɑʒ/, workshop /ˈwɝk.ʃɑp/
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 backyard, bedroom, basement.
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.