Shadowing Practice: Do You Know When To Stop Talking? - Learn English Speaking with Video
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The best way to find out what the other person wants to say is to listen.
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And the best counseling session is usually the one in which the leader talks the least.
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Listening is more important than just not talking.
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It requires an active effort to convey that you understand and are interested in what the person is saying.
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A friendly expression and an attentive but relaxed attitude are important.
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Make use of phrases like, can you give me an example or can you tell me more?
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Give some other stuff in here.
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The leader must be careful not to place himself in the position of appearing to be the all -knowing judge
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and end up treating the Marine like a child.
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Let's give some good advice here.
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Avoid responses like, you really blew that one, or that sure was stupid.
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That's one of those ones where I was like, who wrote that part of the book?
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Most leaders tend to correct a subordinate when he says something
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that is obviously wrong to set the Marine straight on what he may say.
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If you yield to this temptation, he may just clam up
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and not discuss the problem at all important one with your kids kids tell you about something that's going wrong
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and you immediately jump down their throat bad move they're not you're not gonna hear anything not just in
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that conversation you're not gonna hear anything from them again
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so you got to keep them keep them in the game
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uh one of the most frequent errors made by inexperienced counselors
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is transforming the counseling session into a game of 20 questions avoid questions
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that are yes
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or no direct questions
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this gets in a little bit of the indirect approach direct
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questions unless necessary for seeking information as frequently used in interview
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techniques can also tend to pin a person down make him uncomfortable
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and even result in his not revealing fully the root of the problem consequently only partial assistance can be given
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and the basic problem often remains unresolved neither the marine nor
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the counselor confronts the real problem a more subtle approach is
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needed with gently gentle probing indirect applied by such questions as would you care to clarify
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that for me what would you you said your wife hates you question mark i was like okay cool
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a leader might ask how can i solve someone else's problems when i can't even solve my own
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he can't the purpose of counseling is not to solve a person's problems
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but to help him solve his own problems too often the
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concerned leader unknowingly causes harm by telling the follower what to
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do instead of helping him work out of the problem for himself again
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this is great parenting advice work out of the problem himself
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and reach his own decisions develop a sense of responsibility among
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your subordinates be careful not to be become overly involved in
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the helping process your subordinates must learn to stand on their own two feet
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and take responsibility for their own personal problems don't always expect
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to know what to do in every situation don't feel embarrassed
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if you don't know how to handle the case don't be
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too proud to ask someone else make referrals the most important thing is to help the marine know your limitations
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if the decision is made to seek expert help you should
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become involved in the referral to the next to the extent
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that you ensure contact between your subordinate and the next
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and the helping expert or agency
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so you got to know it's like hey
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this is not my this is not my thing it's not my area of expertise
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and i'll close this book out with this the counseling session does not end
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when the marine leaves your presence a more important responsibility remains for you
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and that is to follow up inform him of the results of your efforts
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if you fail to do this he may believe you just don't care about his problems
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and he will be reluctant to seek help the problem is passed down on someone else
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it's forgotten what impression of you
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and your company is drawn from this not only by the marine
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but the other members of the unit also how will this affect him in doing his job
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he might say to heck with it morale
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and spirit do not grow from such examples
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they breed further problems requiring more leader time with marines often being blamed for creating them
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when they may have been caused by an ineffective display of leadership show
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That you care and that's the closer right there show that you care
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Really truly Mark of a good leader and I was up at council with that's on front.
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I was talking about the The most common thread when you when I think about the leaders that I had
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There's one common thread
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That was I cared about they cared about the boys cared about me and I knew they cared about me
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So showing that you care.
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That's the truly unifying mark of a good leader
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And you know just from I look these are I
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Don't know it doesn't seem like you echo Charles see these as super abstract leadership
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Examples just because they're in the Marine Corps and you were never in the military
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And they apply to everything
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Leadership these leadership things apply to everything how how you interact with your family how you interact with your kids
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How you interact with your friends, your coworkers, your subordinates, your peers, your boss.
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It's everything.
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And by the way, it's also you.
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You are in a lead you're in a leadership position with you
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You're the you're the general you're the soldiers too,
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but you're the general and Every decision that you make is it has impact and Learning the skills of leadership
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They look do they apply to your family?
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Yes.
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Do they apply to your your co -workers and your boss?
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So yeah, they implied all those things but but really
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if you're paying attention the leadership skills
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that we talk about they have to be applied to you as an individual
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you have to apply them to yourself and
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if you're not applying these leadership skills to yourself and applying these leadership principles and living these leadership principles
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everyone else can see that and and it's a problem so apply as always make yourself
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always start by making yourself the aim of these leadership principles
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and that does include being disciplined it includes living discipline
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and the cornerstone of discipline echo charles health
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and fitness means we're working out we're lifting we're training we're sprinting we're training jiu -jitsu
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and by the way training jiu -jitsu are you training jiu -jitsu echo charles
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you know here in there yes for sure
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there's a something called the origin usa immersion camp yeah
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it's freaking awesome it is august 23rd through the 28th
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it's up in maine on a lake a beautiful lake in a beautiful setting
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and it's jujitsu how many jujitsu classes are there a day three three days
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or sorry three sessions three sessions a day of jujitsu some
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of it's rolling some of it's you know um technique some of it's both
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some of it's ecological training the whole nine yards you're gonna get
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it all i would say this about the training it's anything you want
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so it's like this big buffet of like literally which is guided, you know, you gotta gi,
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no gi, gi, but you don't necessarily have to roll in the gi or roll in the no gi or whatever.
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You could do 20 minutes of jiu -jitsu a day.
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You could do zero, technically you could do zero jiu -jitsu a day, or you could probably do seven hours of jiu -jitsu a day.
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Yep, however much you want, any day you want.
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And it could be white belts, it could be blue belts, it could be purple belts, it could be brown belts,
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it could be black belts you got all kinds of people to train with
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and there's freaking epic food I don't know the food is awesome it's like camp food
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but it's awesome yeah like good camp
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barbecues everyone's hanging out stories like it's just it's just a good time
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it's an awesome time hang out with a bunch of people
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and that is August 23rd through the 28th up in Maine you can fly into Portland
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or you can fly into Boston it's like two
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and a half hours from Boston
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it's probably what from Portland hour hour 10 hour 10 maybe hour 15 from portland maine but
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if you want to come up there we'll be up
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there i'll be up there you'll be up there echo charles
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we teach up there it's one of the few times
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you got mad at me no it's one of the few times
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that you've freaking committed a violation i committed it i i went
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i stepped across the line yep as much smack as i talked to echo charles what was the other time
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i i went across line because you always i only remember
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that one yeah there's one time you cross line with me on the other time
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you you like lost your temper
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or you like got annoyed overtly what was it about um we're talking about working out
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and i think you didn't understand what i was saying
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because you know my my knowledge is very vast
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and it becomes very complex and you didn't understand it
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and then you were like what the hell are you talking
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about what were you saying remember the the the what it was the expression moving your body through space oh
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we're talking doing legs and you're like blah blah blah
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and there's categories of of whatever and i was explaining it to you
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and you just you kind of got lost in the woods you know mentally couldn't understand what i'm saying
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and then oh this is that was on the podcast too wasn't it
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while we're recording so if anyone wants to hear me lose my mind it's
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because because echo charles was talking about moving your body through space i remember right i didn't know that
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that was actually like an expression it was a thing yeah
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it's a thing like i've seen in other places now correct
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so you and truth be told in all fairness did you lose your temper no
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but you went from you colored outside the lines as far as you know like being
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you know keeping it playful but um
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like there was genuine irritation in your uh behavior kind i can i can see how
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that would just hit me wrong
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you know what i mean especially with the with the with the uh let's say the tone
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that you would have which the tone that you have sometimes by the way
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when you start exploring your vast knowledge about working out there's a lot of confidence
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that comes in a lot of confidence
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you know what i'm saying you know we could say it's borderline arrogant so probably that Well, okay.
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Yeah. And yeah.
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Okay.
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I understand.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Do You Know When To Stop Talking?”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: leadership, leader, marine. This video has 154 sentences and 1888 words to shadow. The speech runs for 10:02. The speaker talks fast, about 188 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| echo noun | /ˈɛk.oʊ/ | A reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer. |
| belt noun | /ˈbɛlt/ | A band worn around the waist to hold clothing to one's body (usually pants), hold weapons (such as a gun or sword), or serve as a decorative piece of clothing. |
| solve verb | /sɒlv/ | To find an answer or solution to a problem or question; to work out. |
| counsel noun | /ˈkaʊn.səl/ | The exchange of opinions and advice especially in legal issues; consultation. |
| skill noun | /skɪl/ | A capacity to do something well; a technique, an ability, usually acquired or learned, as opposed to abilities that are regarded as innate. |
| principle noun | /ˈpɹɪn.sɪ.pəl/ | A fundamental assumption, fundamental law or guiding belief. |
| discipline noun | /ˈdɪsəplɪn/ | A controlled behaviour; self-control. |
| interact verb | /ɪn.təˈɹækt/ | To engage in communication and other shared activities (with someone). |
| tone noun | /ˈtəʊn/ | A specific pitch. |
| vast adjective | /væst/ | Very large or wide (literally or figuratively). |
| technique noun | /tɛkˈniːk/ | The practical aspects of a given art, occupation etc.; formal requirements. |
| thread noun | /ˈθɹɛd/ | A cord formed by spinning or twisting together textile fibers or filaments into one or more continuous strands, typically used in needlework. |
| commit verb | /kəˈmɪt/ | To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto. |
| indirect adjective | /ˌɪn.daɪˈɹɛkt/ | Not direct |
| temper noun | /ˈtɛmpɚ/ | A general tendency or orientation towards a certain type of mood, a volatile state; a habitual way of thinking, behaving or reacting. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| work out verb | /ˌwɝk ˈaʊt/ | To calculate. |
| come up verb | To emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly. | |
| end up verb | To bring to a conclusion. | |
| find out verb | To discover, as by asking or investigating. | |
| follow up verb | To take further actions remaining after an event; to continue, revisit, or persist; especially, to maintain communication or verify. | |
| jump down verb | To leave an elevated position to a lower position by one jump. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- Let's give some good advice here.
- They look do they apply to your family?
- Do they apply to your your co -workers and your boss?
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 49 contractions and reduced forms, such as you're, don't, we're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: thread /ˈθɹɛd/, throat /ˈθɹoʊt/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: impression /ɪmˈpɹɛʃn̩/, partial /ˈpɑɹʃəl/, violation /ˌvaɪ.əˈleɪ.ʃən/, temptation /ˌtɛmpˈteɪʃən/, limitation /lɪmɪˈteɪʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: necessarily /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/, uncomfortable /ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/, violation /ˌvaɪ.əˈleɪ.ʃən/, technically /ˈtɛk.nɪˌkəl.i/, consequently /ˈkɑnsɪˌkwɛntli/
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 echo, belt, solve.
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.