Shadowing Practice: Eat Like This to Lose Fat | Dr. Andrew Huberman & Alan Aragon - Learn English Speaking with Video
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When they adopt a diet of the following things, meat, fish, eggs, Parmesan cheese as the only category of dairy,
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so hard cheese, fruit and vegetables, olive oil, butter, coffee, tea, fine, but no sodas or anything, except diet sodas.
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They lose significant amounts of body fat, probably some water too.
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So they're not eating any starches, no rice, no oatmeal, no bread, no pizza, nothing.
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They've all managed to lose anywhere from 25 to 50 or even 60 pounds.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “Eat Like This to Lose Fat”. This video has 5 sentences and 77 words to shadow. The speech runs for 0:31.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| soda noun | /ˈsoʊdə/ | Sodium bicarbonate. |
| egg noun | /ɛɡ/ | An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, often housing an embryo within a membrane or shell… |
| pizza noun | /ˈpi.tsə/ | A baked Italian dish of a thinly rolled bread crust typically topped before baking with tomato sauce, cheese, and other ingredients such as meat or vegetables. |
| butter noun | /ˈbʌtɚ/ | A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk). |
| pound noun | /ˈpaʊ̯nd/ | A unit of weight in various measurement systems. |
| adopt verb | /əˈdɑpt/ | To take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child. |
| dairy noun | /ˈdɛə.ɹi/ | (also dairy products or dairy produce) Products produced from milk. |
| olive noun | /ˈɑ.lɪv/ | A tree of species Olea europaea cultivated since ancient times in the Mediterranean for its fruit and the oil obtained from it. |
| 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… |
| oatmeal noun | /ˈoʊtmil/ | Meal made from rolled or round oats. |
| starch noun | /ˈstɑɹt͡ʃ/ | A widely diffused vegetable substance, found in seeds, bulbs and tubers, as extracted (e.g. from potatoes, corn, rice, etc.) in the form of a white… |
| cheese noun | /t͡ʃiz/ | A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk. |
| diet noun | /ˈdaɪət/ | The food and beverage a person or animal consumes. |
| meat noun | /mit/ | The flesh (muscle tissue) of a killed animal used as food. |
| category noun | /ˈkæt.ɪ.ɡ(ə.)ɹi/ | A group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria. |
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 soda, egg, pizza.
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.