Shadowing Practice: FIGHT CLUB Clip - "Burn" (1999) Brad Pitt - Learn English Speaking with Video
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As the fat renders, the towel should float to the surface.
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Like in Boy Scouts.
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I can imagine you as a Boy Scout.
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Keep stirring.
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Once the towel hardens, you can skim off a layer of glycerin.
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If you were to add nitric acid, you got nitroglycerin.
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If you were to add sodium nitrile and dash to sawdust, you got dynamite.
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Yeah, with enough soap, one could blow up just about anything.
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Tyler was full of useful information.
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Now, ancient peoples found their clothes got cleaner when they washed them at a certain point in the river.
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Do you know why?
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No. Human sacrifices were once made on the hills above this river.
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Bodies burnt, water seeped through the wood and ashes to create lye.
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This is lye, the crucial ingredient.
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Once it mixed with the melted fat of the bodies, a thick white soapy discharge crept into the river.
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Answer your hand, please.
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What is this?
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This is a chemical burn.
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It will hurt more than you've ever been burned, and you will have a scar.
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What are you doing?
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A guy who's meditation worked for cancer could work for this.
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Stay with the pain.
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Don't shut this out.
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No, no, no. Look at your hand.
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The first soap was made from the ashes of heroes, like the first monkey shot into space.
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Without pain, without sacrifice, we would have nothing.
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I tried not to think of the word serum.
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Flash.
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Stop it!
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This is your pain.
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This is your burning hand.
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It's right here.
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I'm going to my cave.
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I'm going to my cave.
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I'm going to find my power animal.
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No!
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Don't deal with it the way those dead people do.
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Come on!
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I get the point of dead weight.
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What you're feeling is premature enlightenment.
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It's the greatest moment of your life, man.
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And you're off somewhere missing.
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I am not.
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Shut up.
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Our fathers were our models for God.
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If our fathers bailed, what does that tell you about God?
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No, no, no, I don't.
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Listen to me.
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You have to consider the possibility that God does not like you.
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He never wanted you.
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In all probability, he hates you.
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This is not the worst thing that can happen.
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It isn't.
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We don't need him.
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We don't agree.
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Fuck damnation, man.
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Fuck redemption.
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We are God's unwanted children.
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So be it.
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I'll get some fucking water.
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Listen, you can run water over your hand to make it worse, or look at me.
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Or you can use vinegar to neutralize the burn.
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Please let me have it.
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Please.
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First you have to give up.
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First you have to know, not fear, know that someday you're gonna die.
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You don't know how this feels!
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It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.
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Congratulations.
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You're one step closer to hitting the bottom.
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Go, go, go.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “FIGHT CLUB Clip - "Burn" (1999) Brad Pitt”. This video has 71 sentences and 481 words to shadow. The speech runs for 3:25. The speaker talks at a steady 141 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 83% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| sacrifice noun | /ˈsæk.ɹɪ.faɪs/ | Originally, the killing (and often burning) of a human being or an animal as an offering to a deity; later, also the offering of an object to a deity. |
| cave noun | /keɪv/ | A large, naturally-occurring cavity formed underground or in the face of a cliff or a hillside. |
| soap noun | /soʊp/ | A metallic salt derived from a fatty acid, commonly used in cleaning products. |
| ash noun | /ˈæʃ/ | The solid remains of a fire. |
| towel noun | /ˈtaʊ̯əl/ | A cloth used for wiping, especially one used for drying anything wet, such as a person after a bath. |
| thick adjective | /θɪk/ | Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension. |
| wash verb | /wɑʃ/ | To clean with water. |
| acid noun | /ˈæsɪd/ | A sour substance. |
| flash verb | /flæʃ/ | To cause to shine briefly or intermittently. |
| congratulations | /kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/ | Expressing praise and approval, expressing approbation. |
| layer noun | /ˈleɪ̯ɚ/ | A single thickness of some material covering a surface. |
| crucial adjective | /ˈkɹuː.ʃəl/ | Essential or decisive for determining the outcome or future of something; extremely important; vital. |
| monkey noun | /ˈmʌŋki/ | A member of the clade Simiiformes other than those in the clade Hominoidea containing apes, generally (but not universally) distinguished by small size, tails… |
| someday adverb | Sometime; at some unspecified time in the future. | |
| cloth noun | /klɒθ/ | A fabric, usually made of woven, knitted, or felted fibres or filaments, such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use. Sometimes… |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| blow up verb | To explode or be destroyed by explosion. | |
| give up verb | To surrender (someone or something); to inform on (someone). | |
| shut up | /ʃʌt ʌp/ | Stop talking (usually in the form of making annoying, irrelevant, or false comments, during a period of peace and quiet, or when one is not allowed to talk)… |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- Do you know why?
- What are you doing?
- I'm going to my cave.
- I'm going to find my power animal.
- What you're feeling is premature enlightenment.
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | you've ever been burned · we've lost |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | been burned · was made |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 19 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, you're, I'm. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: thick /θɪk/, cloth /klɒθ/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: ash /ˈæʃ/, wash /wɑʃ/, flash /flæʃ/, congratulations /kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/, crucial /ˈkɹuː.ʃəl/
- Long words — get the stress right: congratulations /kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/, probability /ˌpɹɑ.bəˈbɪl.ə.ti/, ingredient /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/, enlightenment /ɪnˈlaɪtənmənt/
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 sacrifice, cave, soap.
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.