Shadowing Practice: Fishing with The Biebers - Learn English Speaking with Video
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What's up everybody it's Haley and Justin
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and we are taking a walk we're gonna go do some fishing
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and you are watching episode 6 of the Beavers on Watch.
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We are on our property we're walking to a pond
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that is on our property Haley's not much of a fisher woman she likes to come and hang in.
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I like to help make sure the fish get thrown back in.
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And we don't get hurt.
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She tends to feel bad for the fish.
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I hate seeing a fish.
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So this is our walk.
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We take this walk pretty much every day.
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This is the walk you've seen during the Stuck With You video.
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Which we're so grateful that we get to be a part of.
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So thank you to everybody who was involved with the Stuck With You video.
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This is the pond that we fish in.
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Justin comes here every day Every morning I get up early Before I go and make some music I get up
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I come here, I fish, I listen to music
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I get inspired Do you want to take me as I get ready to catch these sons of guns?
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Yeah So walk us through it,
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baby So right now we have a spinner hook on here which is going to help attract the fish.
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I tried fishing with worms for a few days.
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And I had so many weeds on the bottom of this pond that it just kept getting caught at the bottom.
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So what I try to do is I cast it away.
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And then as soon as the lure hits the water, I start reeling it in almost like fly fishing, keep it at the top of the water so the fish get attracted to it.
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Such a clear day today.
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But as you can see, like every time I reel it in, you get kind of some seaweed, so.
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We've got a lot of animals out here.
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We have, what's the thing that they, a muskrat?
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There's a lynx, there's a muskrat, we have a fox, got a bunch of little toads.
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You catching the bottom of the lake?
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Come over here, man.
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I love you.
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Hi, I love you.
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I'm so grateful for you.
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Thank you.
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I'm grateful for you too.
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I'm grateful that I get to wake up next to you every day.
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Same.
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How'd you sleep last night?
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I'm so well.
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Me too.
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Did you have any dreams?
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I think I did, but I don't remember.
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Yeah.
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apparently they say you actually do dream every night
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but sometimes you just don't remember at all yeah yeah well maybe i could be wrong about that got a bite there
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what are you thinking what are you feeling today tell how
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about tell everybody your favorite fishing memory favorite fishing memory yeah
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because you did fishing a lot as a kid you went
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fishing a lot as a kid i did your grandpa taught
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you how to fish my grandpa taught me fishing a lot
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when i was younger uh my favorite fishing story is uh
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speak louder there's a couple of really good ones one good one is uh i mean they're not really
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that interesting i mean i went to the fishing derby a lot
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when i was young what's the fishing derby fishing derby is
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just you got a bunch of people who they stopped the the strafford avon river
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and you just got a lot of people who um
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you know go and uh go and fish and there's different prizes biggest fish smallest fish heaviest fish,
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longest fish, widest fish, stuff like that.
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Tell the story that you told me the other day about what your friend did.
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Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
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So a buddy, uh, to win the fishing derby, he stuffed the fish full of gravel so it weighed more,
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which is kind of ruthless if you think about it.
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Shoving gravel down a fish's throat, it's kind of ruthless. And?
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What?
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And he won, didn't he?
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I think he won for like the heaviest fish or something.
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But we used to, you know, ride like going boats and really fish for like big fish, like big northern pike, which would,
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you know, be like, I caught a fish that was like almost as big as me.
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um i did go to camp i went to girl scout camp as a kid um
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which was fun
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and sleep over at it no it wasn't a sleepaway camp
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you came home at the end of the day every day
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my parents actually didn't ever let me go to sleepaway camp
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really yeah for some reason my mom didn't want me to i'm scared
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that someone's gonna have any i don't know she just didn't want me to she wouldn't let
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um i went to girl scout camp
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and then i went to dance camp every year for like
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no the one time it was sleep away it was in miami
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and my mom came with me
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and we like i didn't sleep in the dorms i we
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like rented a place yeah i went to a place called hidden acres camp is
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that sleep away yeah it was a sleep away camp
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and uh i went to like a basketball camp there one time
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and then i went to uh like a mom's camp a mom camp yeah it was me
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and my mom and then it was like a bunch of other kids
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and their moms and so we like did like mom activities like we made like macaroni necklaces
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and stuff were you really little or i wasn't that little i was like 10.
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i mean that's kind of little but but yeah we did like a bunch of mom like bonding activities
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I learned how to swim in the deep end on that camp trip.
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And so then you get the incentive.
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The incentive is you get like a bracelet for the deep end.
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And then every morning we do ducky dip.
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You wake up at six and you go and do the cold dip.
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Really?
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Yeah, it's called ducky dip.
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Those were the days, man.
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Those were the days.
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It was kind of similar.
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And we fish like this.
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But we fish off a dock.
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I think that's why I brought it up because we fish off a dock, but you catch like these little fish, but every time you cast it in the water, you catch something.
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Really?
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Yeah.
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Like it was like so stock full of like little mini fish
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it was so fun and we like made the we made the uh the uh fishing poles
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so it would just be a stick
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tied with you know the string around the end
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and you just lift it up out of the water and you'd like
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catch was that fun yeah it was fun
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so our crew we did like uh it wasn't like a crew
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but i'm just saying like during our uh camp experience we would all eat together
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and like while we're eating together
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if you have your elbows on the table they call you out in song
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so like everybody has to always have their elbows off the table
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and if you have your elbows on the table they're like
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justin justin if you're able get your elbows off the table this is not a horse's stable
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but a first guy's dining table stand up stand up
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and they'd make you stand up
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and then they'd have like whoever caught you has to like has like um a rule
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that you have to do like stand up on your chair
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and sings chair and sing chair and sing
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and they'd make you stand up on your chair and sing
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or they'd say or they'd say walk around
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that you gotta like run around the whole dinosaur it's like a whole thing
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but it's just all for like entertainment pretty much
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but it was fun that's funny it just swam by it
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it just swam by it i got one i got one you got one oh he let go you seen
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that yeah Did you get that?
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Yeah.
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The next couple.
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Oh, man.
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I'm luring this guy.
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Got him.
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Oh, good job.
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Got him.
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Told you.
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Good work.
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Oh, baby.
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Disappointment.
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It's written all over my face.
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Wait, try again.
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No. it's all good let's just go inside aww honey that was so bad it's all good
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but you had him I did I have it on tape
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alright well there she goes another day in the life of the beavers um
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stay tuned to watch the next video um and see what we do next.
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I love you, babe.
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Peace.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “Fishing with The Biebers”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: fish, fishing, camp, mom, sleep. This video has 148 sentences and 1468 words to shadow. The speech runs for 9:45. The speaker talks at a natural 150 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 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
The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
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| elbow noun | /ˈɛlboʊ̯/ | The joint between the upper arm and the forearm. |
| derby noun | /ˈdɝ.bi/ | Any of several annual horse races. |
| pond noun | /pɑnd/ | An inland body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is smaller than a lake. |
| swim verb | /swɪm/ | To move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural means. |
| ducky noun | /ˈdʌk.i/ | A term of endearment. |
| muskrat noun | /ˈmʌskɹæt/ | A semiaquatic rodent of the tribe Ondatrini. |
| sleepaway adjective | Of a camp or event in which participants sleep away from home. | |
| beaver noun | /ˈbivɚ/ | A semiaquatic rodent of the genus Castor, having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet, native to the Northern Hemisphere. |
| ruthless adjective | /ˈɹuːθləs/ | Without pity or compassion; cruel, pitiless. |
| lure noun | /lʊə/ | Something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure. |
| reel verb | /ˈɹiːl/ | To wind on a reel. |
| gravel noun | /ˈɡɹævəl/ | Small fragments of rock, used for laying on the beds of roads and railways, and as ballast. |
| grandpa noun | /ˈɡɹæm.pɑː/ | grandfather. |
| scout noun | /ˈskaʊ̯t/ | A person sent out to gather and bring back information; especially, one employed in war to gain information about the enemy and ground. |
| incentive noun | /ɪnˈsɛntɪv/ | Something that motivates, rouses, or encourages. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
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| stand up verb | To rise from a lying or sitting position. | |
| get up verb | To move in an upward direction; to ascend or climb. | |
| come over verb | To affect in a sudden, unprecedented or surprising manner; to overwhelm a person's ordinarily contrary impulse. | |
| run around verb | To be very busy doing many different things. | |
| wake up verb | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | To stop sleeping; to awake. |
| walk around verb | To walk with no planned destination; to meander. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- We've got a lot of animals out here.
- We have, what's the thing that they, a muskrat?
- You catching the bottom of the lake?
- How'd you sleep last night?
- Did you have any dreams?
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 | here which is · people who they · people who um |
| Verb + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — verbs that are followed by the -ing form | hate seeing · kept getting · start reeling |
| Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — something happening right now or around now | are taking · are watching · we're walking |
| Future with “going to” be going to + verb — a plan or something you can see coming | gonna go · is going to help · gonna have |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 39 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, didn't, they'd. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: ruthless /ˈɹuːθləs/, throat /ˈθɹoʊt/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: shove /ʃʌv/, fisher /ˈfɪʃɚ/
- Long words — get the stress right: macaroni /ˌmæk.əˈɹoʊ.ni/, disappointment /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪntmənt/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like elbow, derby, pond.
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.