Shadowing Practice: Dr Strange being DONE for 10 minutes straight - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Gormammu, I've come to bargain.

Magic?

What is this, a birthday party?

Who is this clown?

Hey!

How did you do that?

Lots of birthday parties.

What did that creature want with you?

Where are your parents?

Take her back to the sink.

She took my slingy.

She took your slingy.

Open your eyes.

So, how did you know you were made of magic?

Because my Nana says that we have it in our family, and sometimes I get these tinglings in my hands.

Should talk to your physician.

Peter!

This still may be the best chance we have against Nana, So, conversely, it may also be his best chance against us.

Well, if we don't do our jobs.

What is your job exactly besides making balloon animals?

Wow.

Protecting your reality, douchebag.

Steven.

Wong.

What do you want, Strange?

Books on astral projection.

You're not ready for that.

Try me, Beyoncé.

Come on.

Strange, wait, we're so close.

Skip it.

I've been dangling over the Grand Canyon for 12 hours.

I know, I know, I know.

So Earth has wizards now.

The preferred term is Master of Mystic Arts.

You can leave that now.

What did you just do to me?

I pushed your astral form out of your physical form.

What's in that tea?

Psilocybin?

LSD?

It's just tea.

What just happened?

What's happened?

For a moment, you entered the astral dimension.

What?

So let's just focus on the good news, okay?

No, let's just focus on the bad news.

As of now, you have detected zero multiversal trespassers.

So, get on your phones, scour the internet, and...

Scooby-Doo this shit!

You're welcome.

You know, it's isn't your custom to bow in the presence of the Sorcerer Supreme?

Yeah, I'm aware of the customs.

Do you ever laugh?

Come on, just give me the book.

I'm really sorry to bother you, sir, but...

Please, it's safe to have the universe together.

I think we're beyond you calling me sir.

Okay Steven that feels weird, but I'll allow it Steven listen.

I am so call me sir great I want to protect the stone

and I want you to thank me now go ahead I'm

listening for what Nearly blasting me this space who just saved

your magical ass me seriously don't know how you fit your head into

that helmet admit it I know how to reorient the spirit to better heal the body The spirit to heal the body.

All right, huh?

Don't!

Dude, what are you doing?

You gotta go!

This is why I never had kids.

I'm not gonna kill you, kid.

I just bust my ass trying to save your life, remember?

Tell me, Mr. Doctor.

All right, look, my name is Dr. Stephen Strange.

You are a doctor?

Yeah.

All this is kind of your mess.

You know, I know a couple of magic words myself, starting with the word please.

Please, Scooby-Doo, this shit.

Where'd you get this cape from anyway?

It's not a cape, it's a cloak, and I suggest you let go.

You took this old suit from the Strange Museum, didn't you?

Strange Museum?

You're a taker.

Why don't you take some mustard, huh?

You cannot beat a river into submission.

You have to surrender to its current and use its power as your own.

I control it by surrendering control?

That doesn't make any sense.

But I thought you stopped the spell.

No, I contained it, but it would appear that a few of them squeaked through.

After you left, I detected another worldly presence.

I pursued it into the sewers where I found that slimy green son of a gun.

You should have ducked out when I told you to.

I tried to bench you, you refused.

Unlike everyone else in your life, I don't work for you.

And do- You die in the thwamu, thwavadus.

What?

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I shall know him thwamu, thwavadurva.

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You die in the thwavadurva.

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Oh, stop it.

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He said stop it!

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Give me the box.

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If you knew where he was, why didn't you call me?

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You don't have a phone.

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No, I don't have a phone, but you could have sent an electronic letter.

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It's called an email.

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Yeah, do you have a computer?

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No, what for?

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Uh-huh.

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Anyway, my father...

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Acupons, you're great.

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Yeah?

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What about that one?

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You're showing me an MRI scan.

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I do not believe this.

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Each of those maps was drawn up by someone who could see in part, but not the whole.

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I spent my last dollar getting here.

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The Sorcerer Supreme has higher duties, yes.

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Wait, I thought you were the Sorcerer Supreme.

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No, he got it on a technicality, because I blipped for five years.

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Oh.

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Well, congratulations.

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If I'd been here, then I would...

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You'd burn the place down.

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You two.

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No one said stop shoveling.

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Fuck!

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Come on, it's not permanent.

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Like he'll stop in a few minutes? About three weeks.

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You cannot stop this, Mr. Doctor.

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Look, I don't even know what this is.

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It's the end and the beginning.

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The many becoming the few becoming the one.

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look if you're not going to start making sense i'm just gonna have to put this thing back on

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so my aunt may yes oh thank you happy no i'm

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annoyed no it's a nickname how old happy hogan he used to work with corny storage

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but then he was kind of dead in my head i'm

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sorry i i'm confused as to the relationship here i mean

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what what is he your ward no i'm peter by the

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way dr strange oh you're using your made-up names um i'm spider-man then this ship is

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so i reject it Because I do not believe in fairy tales about chakras or energy or the power of belief.

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There is no such thing as spirit.

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We are made of matter and nothing more.

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Look, I left a very nice wedding to save a smart-ass kid from getting eaten by an octopus. Whose wedding?

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Christine's you went holy shit you married Christine to mine.

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Yes, I do.

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No, I didn't yes No,

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I know I uh um I'm sorry about that sir.

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I mean You went to the Grand Canyon he could have used your help.

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No, no, it's okay.

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It's okay.

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These are my new friends Thank you very much for your help.

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Good luck.

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Handle me.

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Who are you?

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Loki.

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You think you're some kind of sorcerer?

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Don't think for one minute you second rate.

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All right, bye-bye.

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All things die.

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In the end our sun burns out, our universe grows cold and perishes.

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But the dark dimension, it's a place beyond time.

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That's it, I'm putting this thing back on.

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Oh my god, I'm dead!

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You're not dead, you've just been separated from your physical form.

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My physical?

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What?

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How are you doing that?

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I have no idea.

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You should know.

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We're able to do that.

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If he gets his hands on all six stones, Tony...

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You could destroy life on a scale hitherto undreamt of.

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Did you seriously just say hitherto undreamt of?

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Are you seriously leaning on the cauldron of the cosmos?

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Is that what that is?

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Where do we start?

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Don't like that map?

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Oh, no, it's really good.

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It's just, you know, I've seen it before in gift shops. Did it work?

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Did it work?

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No. You changed my spell six times.

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Five times?

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You changed my spell.

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You don't do that.

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Dreamwalking, you hypocrite.

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This time it's gonna take more than killing me to kill me.

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I'm a ticket and you're talking to me about healing through belief.

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Are you telling me

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that you didn't even think to plead your case with them first before you asked me to brainwash the entire world?

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I mean when you put it like that then I will not hesitate to let either of you die.

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I can't because the universe depends on it.

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Nice.

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Good.

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Moral compass.

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Restream.

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Restream.

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At this temperature, a person can last for 30 minutes before suffering permanent loss of function.

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Me?

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But you'll likely go into shock within the first two.

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What?

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Surrender, Steven.

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Move!

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Don't do this.

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Ow.

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I'm sorry, sir, but...

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I have to try.

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I have a question.

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Oh, God.

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Why?

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Any late fees I should know about maiming, perhaps?

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Oh, you know, people used to think that I was funny.

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Did that work for you?

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All right, well, it's been lovely.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “Dr Strange being DONE for 10 minutes straight”. This video has 216 sentences and 1429 words to shadow. The speech runs for 10:09. The speaker talks at a steady 141 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 82% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start. 55 of its 216 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.

Key vocabulary in this video

The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
sorcerer noun	/ˈsoɹ.sɚ.ɚ/	A magician or wizard. Sometimes specifically male.
astral adjective	/ˈæstɹəl/	Relating to or resembling the stars; starry.
surrender verb	/səˈɹɛndə(ɹ)/	To give up into the power, control, or possession of another.
heal verb	/ˈhiːl/	To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure.
hitherto adverb	/ˈhɪðəɹˌtu/	Up to this or that time.
restream verb		To stream again or differently (in various senses).
slingy adjective		Tending to bowl the ball with a slinging action, i.e. faster but less accurate.
undreamt adjective	/ʌnˈdɹɛmt/	Not dreamed; not dreamt.
bargain noun	/ˈbɑːɹɡən/	An agreement between parties concerning the sale of property; or a contract by which one party binds themself to transfer the right to some property for a…
dimension noun	/daɪˈmɛn.ʃən/	A single aspect of a given thing.
detect verb	/dɪˈtɛkt/	To discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing.
brainwash noun	/ˈbɹeɪnwɒʃ/	A distorting effect upon one's memory, belief, or ideas, as by propaganda.
cauldron noun	/ˈkɔːl.dɹən/	A large bowl-shaped pot used for boiling over an open flame.
chakra noun	/ˈt͡ʃɑː.kɹə/	Any of (at least) seven centres of spiritual energy in or near the body, according to Ayurveda philosophy.
dangle verb	/ˈdæŋ.ɡəl/	To hang loosely with the ability to swing.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
burn out verb		To destroy by fire.
draw up verb		To compose (a document), especially following a standard form; prepare a plan.
go ahead verb	/ˌɡoʊ əˈhɛd/	To proceed with; to begin.
make up verb	/ˌmeɪk ˈʌp/	To constitute, to compose.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

How did you do that?
What did that creature want with you?
What is your job exactly besides making balloon animals?
Where'd you get this cape from anyway?
You think you're some kind of sorcerer?

Grammar in this video

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

Structure	In the video
“Used to” used to + verb — a past habit or state that is no longer true	used to work · used to think
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	I've come · have detected · you've just been separated
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	were made · was drawn · are made

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 62 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, you're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “sh” and “zh” sounds: dimension /daɪˈmɛn.ʃən/, brainwash /ˈbɹeɪnwɒʃ/, perish /ˈpɛɹɪʃ/, shovel /ˈʃʌv.əl/, projection /pɹəˈd͡ʒɛkʃən/
Long words — get the stress right: psilocybin /ˌsɪ.ləˈsaɪ.bɪn/, technicality /ˌtɛknɪˈkælɪti/

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 sorcerer, astral, surrender.

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.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

Key vocabulary in this video

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Sentences worth repeating

Grammar in this video

Pronunciation to watch

How to practise with this video

What is the Shadowing Technique?