Shadowing Practice: ENGLISH SPEECH | JD VANCE: Student's Immigrant Checkmate (English Subtitles) - Learn English Speaking with YouTube
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I did not agree with many of the things
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I did not agree with many of the things
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that you said right ahead of this
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but I don't think that's my point to discuss here what
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I want to ask is you are married to a woman
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who is not Christian in her Wikipedia I mean I just looked
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that up I wanted to know what her faith was I didn't know this before
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but she still calls herself Hindu you are raising two kids three kids in internal racial,
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cultural, racial, religious household.
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How are you maintaining or how are you teaching your kids not to keep your religion ahead of their mother's religion?
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Or how are you teaching them that your kind,
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their dad kind, who got here just a few years
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or a few decades ago is different
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or is better than your mom's kind who got here just a generation before how are you balancing
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that and when you talk about too many immigrants here what is
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when did you guys decide
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that number why did you sell us a dream you made us spent our youth our wealth in this country
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and gave us a dream you don't owe us anything we
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have worked hard for it then how can you as a vice president stand there
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and say that we have too many of them now
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and we are going to take them out to people who are here rightfully
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so by paying the money that you guys asked us you gave us the path
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and now can now how can you stop it
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and tell us we don't belong here anymore so
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and one more thing i'm sorry one more thing do you have to be a lot there i don't know
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if i'm going to remember all this
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but i will try i'm sorry i'm sorry i had to say all of this
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and please take it with you i mean i'm saying all
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of course no no go ahead i have no intention of causing a scene here
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or anything but we're not close to causing a scene don't worry
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but we talked about christianity all of this i'm I'm not even Christian and I'm here standing to sow support.
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Why are we making Christianity one of the major thing
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that you have to have in common to be one of you guys,
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to so that I love America just as you do Why is that still a question?
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Why do I have to be a Christian?
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Okay, so I there was a lot there
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and I'm gonna try to respond to as much of it as I can so on on the question of Immigration,
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so first of all I can believe that we should have lower immigration levels,
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but if the United States passed a law and and made a promise to somebody,
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the United States, of course,
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has to honor that promise.
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Nobody's talking about that.
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I'm talking about people who came in in violation of the laws of the United States of America,
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and I'm talking about in the future reducing the number,
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reducing the number of people.
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Sorry, what?
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Can I continue on that?
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Because when you just said you are not stopping with the people who came here legally, right?
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But you are pushing out policies that hurt us.
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And these policies are not even solving the problems.
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These policies are just creating chaos.
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No, no, ma'am.
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Okay, so again, I'm going to finish answering the question.
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And then if I've answered all nine of your questions in less than 15 minutes,
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then we can keep on going.
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We got to have a little fun, right?
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So here's the thing.
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I can believe that the United States should lower its levels of immigration in the future
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while also respecting that there are people who have come here through lawful immigration pathways that have contributed to the country.
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But just because one person or 10 people or 100 people came in legally and contributed to the United States of America,
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does that mean that we're thereby committed to let in a million
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or 10 million or 100 million people a year in the future?
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No, that's not right.
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We cannot have, I'll go and finish,
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we cannot have an immigration policy where what was good for the country 50
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or 60 years ago binds the country inevitably for the future.
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There's too many people who want to come to the United States of America,
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and my job as vice president is not to look out for the interests of the whole world,
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it's to look out for the people of the United States.
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Now, you asked a personal question about our interfaith household.
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And yes, my wife did not grow up Christian.
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I think it's fair to say that she grew up in a Hindu family,
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but not a particularly religious family in either direction.
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In fact, when I met my wife,
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we were both, I would consider myself an agnostic or an atheist.
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And that's what I think she would have considered herself as well.
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You know, everybody has to come to their own arrangement here.
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The way that we've come to our arrangement is she's my best friend we talk to each other about this stuff.
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So we decided to raise our kids Christian.
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Our two oldest kids who go to school,
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they go to a Christian school.
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Our eight-year-old did his first communion about a year ago.
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That's the way that we have come to our arrangement.
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But thank you.
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My eight-year-old was also very proud of his first communion.
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Thank you guys.
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I'll tell him that Ole Miss wishes him the best.
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But I think everybody has to have this own conversation when you're in a marriage.
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I mean, it's true for friends of mine who are in Protestant and Catholic marriages,
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friends of mine who are in,
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you know, atheist and Christian marriages.
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You just got to talk to your,
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the only advice I can give is you just got to talk to the person that God has put you with,
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and you've got to make those decisions as a family unit.
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For us, it works out.
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Now, most Sundays, Usha will come with me to church.
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As I've told her, and I've said publicly,
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and I'll say now in front of 10,000 of my closest friends,
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do I hope eventually that she is somehow moved by the same thing that I was moved in by church?
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Yeah, I honestly do wish that because I believe in the Christian gospel,
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and I hope eventually my wife comes to see it the same way.
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But if she doesn't, then God says everybody has free will,
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and so that doesn't cause a problem for me.
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That's something you work out with your friends,
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with your family, with the person that you love.
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Again, one of the most important Christian principles is that you respect free will.
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Usha's closer to the priests who baptized me than maybe I am.
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They talk about this stuff.
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My attitude is you figure this stuff out as a family,
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and you trust in God to have a plan,
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and you try to follow it as best as you can.
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And that's what I try to do.
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I want to make a final point.
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So I don't want to cut you off.
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I want to be respectful to all the people behind you in line.
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But I want to make this point about immigration, okay?
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if you ask the question,
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what is the exact right number of immigrants for the United States to let in,
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it is just very specific on the context.
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If you go back to the 1920s,
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the United States passed an Immigration Reform Act
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that effectively cut down immigration to close to zero for 40 years in this country.
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And what happened over those 40 years?
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The many, many people who had come from many different foreign countries and different foreign cultures,
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they assimilated into American culture.
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And there was an expectation that they would assimilate into American culture.
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I think we have two problems in our immigration system today.
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And my guess is you're probably a slightly more leftist political persuasion,
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liberal political persuasion, maybe not.
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But here's the thing.
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I remember back in my establishment GOP days,
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when I was still very early getting involved in Republican politics,
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I remember a conservative think tank person who told me that one of the reasons why immigration was really good
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is that if you had enough diversity in a country,
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people would mistrust each other and they wouldn't join labor unions.
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Okay?
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So when I see a lot of left-wing people who theoretically support organized labor saying,
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we need to flood the country with a limitless number of immigrants,
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they're unwilling to set any limitations on it,
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my response to that is,
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you are destroying the very social trust on which American freedom and prosperity was built.
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And that is really important to me.
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So the honest answer to your question,
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what is the exact number of immigrants America should accept in the future?
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Right now, the answer is far less than we've been accepting.
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We have got to become a common community again.
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And you can't do that when you have such high numbers of immigration,
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which is one of the reasons why we have the immigration policy we do.
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About This Lesson
In this lesson, you will practice listening and speaking skills by engaging with a thought-provoking discussion on immigration, culture, and personal identity. This dialogue emphasizes real-life experiences and questions surrounding the immigrant experience in the United States. By utilizing the shadowing technique, you will enhance your ability to improve English pronunciation and fluency through repeated practice, grasping the nuances of how various cultural identities interact. The lesson is designed to help you articulate your thoughts and express complex ideas clearly.
Key Vocabulary & Phrases
- Immigration levels - Refers to the number of immigrants allowed to enter or stay in a country.
- Faith - A strong belief in a particular religion or belief system.
- Internal cultural dynamics - The ways in which different cultural identities interact within a single context, such as a family or community.
- Promise - An assurance that one will do something or that a given condition will occur.
- Pushing out policies - The act of implementing regulations that affect a group of people or situation, often with negative implications.
- Chaos - A state of complete disorder or confusion, often resulting from political or social policies.
- Christianity - A major world religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
- Racial and cultural identity - The aspects of a person's identity connected to their race and culture, which can influence personal perspectives and societal interactions.
Practice Tips
To effectively improve your speaking and pronunciation using the shadowing technique, follow these steps:
- Listen Actively: Pay close attention to the speaker's tone and pace. Understanding the rhythm of their speech is critical to effective shadow speak.
- Repeat in Real-time: As you watch the video, try to replicate what you hear immediately after the speaker finishes a sentence. This will help you match their intonation and pronunciation.
- Break It Down: If the dialogue is fast, break it down into smaller sections. Focus on repeating each part until you feel comfortable before moving on to the next.
- Use Contrast: Notice the difference between formal and informal speech patterns. The video explores both, enabling you to practice switching between them.
- Record Yourself: After practicing with the video, record your own voice and compare it to the original. This feedback will help you analyze your pronunciation and make necessary adjustments.
By incorporating these tips and regularly practicing through shadow speech, you will see significant improvements in your English pronunciation and confidence in speaking.
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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