Shadowing Practice: 🎧📝 English Listening Practice | Describing People (Audio 2) | ESL Listening Test (A1–A2 Level) - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Dear Diary, I want to tell you about someone I met today.
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Her name is Sonia, and she is really cool.
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Sonia has long, wavy brown hair.
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She wears glasses, and they make her look really smart.
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She has big brown eyes that always seem to be smiling, even when she isn't talking.
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Sonia is not very tall, but she walks with a lot of confidence.
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What I like most about Sonia is her personality.
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She is so friendly and kind.
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She always helps people when they need something.
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Today, she helped a boy in our class who dropped all his books.
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Sonia also has a great sense of humor.
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She told a joke during lunch and everyone laughed.
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I think she makes people feel happy just by being around
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them I hope we can become good friends She seems like
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the kind of person who would always have your back That's all for now, Mia
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Thank you.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This A2 speaking lesson is built on the video “🎧📝 English Listening Practice”. This video has 16 sentences and 158 words to shadow. The speech runs for 1:19. The speaker talks at a steady 120 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 85% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| humour noun | /ˈhjuːmɚ/ | The quality of being amusing, comical, funny. |
| wavy adjective | /ˈweɪvi/ | Rising or swelling in waves. |
| joke noun | /ˈd͡ʒoʊ̯k/ | An amusing story. |
| laugh verb | /læf/ | To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and… |
| lunch noun | /lʌnt͡ʃ/ | A light meal usually eaten around midday, notably when not as main meal of the day. |
| confidence noun | /ˈkɑn.fɪ.dəns/ | Self-assurance. |
| friendly adjective | /ˈfɹɛnd.li/ | Generally warm, approachable and easy to relate with in character. |
| smile verb | /ˈsmaɪl/ | To have (a smile) on one's face. |
| personality noun | /ˌpɜɹ.səˈnæ.lə.ti/ | Of people, a set of non-physical psychological and social qualities that make one person distinct from another. |
| tall adjective | /tɔl/ | Having great vertical extent (usually reckoned from the bottom of the feet to the very top of the head) when standing. (For instance, somebody with a height of… |
| drop noun | /dɹɑp/ | A small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own rounded shape through surface tension, especially one that falls from a source of liquid. |
| wear verb | /wɛ(ə)ɹ/ | To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, perfume, etc. |
| glass noun | /ɡlɑːs/ | An amorphous solid, often transparent substance, usually made by melting silica sand with various additives (for most purposes, a mixture of soda, potash and… |
| smart adjective | /smɑɹt/ | Exhibiting social ability or cleverness. |
| dear adjective | /dɪɹ/ | High in price; expensive. |
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | person who would |
| Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — something happening right now or around now | isn't talking |
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 humour, wavy, joke.
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.