Shadowing Practice: Fun new scam taking over YouTube Shorts - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Beep beep beep!
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Got ourselves, uh, some hot tea, some, uh, Juicy Goss.
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Here's a shorts channel one of you forwarded to me.
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I am simply a girl.
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Lovely little pink banner.
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Oh, how adorable.
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Posting girls being girlies!
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Claim your $750 Shein, Sephora, and Target gift cards.
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And then a weird shady link.
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Okay, well, I'm not gonna click on that.
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But anyways, they're grinding it out.
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They got 314 videos, hundreds of millions of views on YouTube.
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Uh-oh.
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I spy with my little eye a whole bunch of white-ass border.
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Never a good sign, especially when said border has caption and emoji as the title.
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Also not a good sign when every single title of every short is the same f*ing copypasta thing.
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Get your Sephora card from my bio, boo! and it is the same for every single one.
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Oh my god.
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Yep.
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Okay.
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So let's just click on a random one.
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Alrighty.
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Daddy's girls really stay winning.
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All right, sick.
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We're not going to watch this because it's probably a stolen meme from somewhere, right?
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And if you go to the description, there is no description.
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Remember the title is get your Sephora card from my bio.
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So they're prompting you to click the link in their bio.
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Alright, here's where it gets juicy.
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Go to the comments section.
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Oh, never a good sign.
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Dislikes disabled by owner.
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Hey, what are you hiding coward?
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Anyways, sorry, never a good sign.
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Just claim the $750 Sephora gift card.
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Thank you so much.
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Please put a Roblox card too.
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Just got the $750 Shein card from your bio.
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Thank you so much.
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Please stop tricking people into selling personal info.
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Hey, that's quite a bold claim I don't know man.
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I don't know if I like that JK.
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I am NOT a bot at all That's usually how I start my conversations Hey,
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just want to let you know what's up not a bot
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the $750 for a card is legit I just got the Shein card oh my god Many such cases
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and by the way every single video is like this every single one latest one uploaded 11 hours ago.
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Oh, there we go.
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We got one.
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There are literally three visible comments here.
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And this one is OMG.
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I just got my Sephora gift card.
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And this is from so very legit people, definitely not bots at all.
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So that's already shady AF,
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as they say, this whole channel is using stolen content so that you sign up for their like gift card voucher network,
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which probably isn't real and legit.
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It's all, it just screams shady, right?
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Using other people's content to hook viewers into some sketchy ass scam.
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Allegedly, it gets worse because you brave people, you brave fans and viewers of judge of Jack's films.
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You also showed me this channel.
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Here's a channel called girlies daily.
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Hey, this banner sure looks similar.
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Hmm.
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That's so weird.
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Let's see the bio.
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Posting girls being girlies.
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Claim your $750 sheet in Target Sephora.
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This is a different channel, by the way.
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Completely different channel.
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It's not quite as large.
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Oh, this, it just started like barely a month ago.
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This is a month old and it already has way more views than your channel probably has, right?
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That's ridiculous.
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Hundreds of videos.
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Wait, I'm sorry.
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Let's analyze that.
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Over 200 videos starting from February 16th of this year.
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It is currently March 28th.
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So a month and a half, they are just go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, with all this beautiful content, you know, just girlies being girlies, right?
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Well, you know, it's about the titles, get your Sephora card for bio.
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Wash, rinse, repeat.
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Anyways, let's click this one.
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No, no description yet again.
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Likes, dislikes are also disabled by this base owner.
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Wow, thanks for the gift card guys go get it.
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This is from Ivy Pookie came to me fucking real as shit dude.
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Hell yeah, just girlies being girlies.
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Let's go to their most recent one Yes No The JJJ community has already found this channel Just got my J.J.
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Jackshwilms gift card for forehead reduction.
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I love slop films, slop films lover.
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This is not God made.
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God made!
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Uh, let's leave a really cool comment.
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Yup, it's official.
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This girly girl is getting her sh-shopping on with her 750 Sephora gift card.
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Miracles do happen and send.
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Ugh, what is wrong with me?
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I am not a bot, by the way.
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Very real and send.
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Okay, I fucked it up with doing it twice, but that's fine.
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Isn't the internet a scummy fucking place?
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This network, this is no longer like, maybe it is a person.
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It could be one person doing this, but we can officially call this a network now.
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So these are just the two that were shown to me.
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I would not be surprised if there were third,
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fourth or possibly fifth entries into this little franchise here of just stolen ass content for girls by girls.
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If only you could like report these or maybe like report a channel.
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I don't know if you can actually do that.
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That'd be, oh shit, you can.
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Cool.
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Report user.
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I'm gonna say spam and scams actually.
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It's kind of like a select abusive videos.
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Oh my God.
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It's all of them, but I feel like I can't do all of them.
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So let's just do the top three and make it four driving viewers to shady gift card site.
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Possible botting in commons.
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My name, Jeff.
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All right.
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I forgot to ask the most important party here.
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React bot, what do you think of girlies daily and other such channels?
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Slay.
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People are asking about a dent check.
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You're gonna be disappointed.
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There is no dent, like there's not gonna be a fucking dent.
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Okay, that's pretty, that's pretty fucking bad.
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Beep, beep, beep, beep.
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Guys, I fucked up.
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As you may know, we recently kicked off a new newsletter called Credit the Creators,
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where every week we feature a creator of the week as voted by the readers.
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And in our latest issue, I congratulated YouTuber Zabarian because I believed they won the poll.
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We give readers four options, four creators, and they get to vote on them.
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And whoever wins that poll becomes next week's creator of the week.
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And we publish these newsletters every Friday.
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That means my team and I work hard on Thursdays to finalize all of the details, right?
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We finalize the tip of the week.
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We finalize not just the nominees, but also the little blurbs describing each video.
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And of course, we finalize the creator of the week.
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We make sure that whoever won the poll wins the feature, right?
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I messed up bigly and big time because on Thursday, the poll was very close.
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It was waffling back and forth between Zyberian and another channel, a Poke animation.
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And throughout the week, throughout this past week, the polls kept going back and forth between those two options.
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So on Thursday, when we were finalizing at the newsletter, Zyberian was in the lead in the polls.
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And I figured, all right, let's give it to Zyberian.
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I think they won.
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Oops.
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Look what happened on the next day.
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Boom, baby.
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A pokey animation actually won the poll.
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After the thousands of votes had been tallied completely and the polls were finally closed on Friday, it was a pokey animation that won.
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What I'm trying to say is I made a continuous lapse in judgment.
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So to make up for this in this Friday's newsletter, I will be shouting out not one, but two creators of the week.
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I will feature the winner of the current poll that is happening right now for readers of our newsletter.
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And I will also feature a pokey animation, the rightful creator of the week,
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because their video is a very skillfully done animation, kind of an epic animation too, that I highly recommend you guys watch.
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We will link to it below here, of course, here on Jetta Jacks Films.
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Having said that, this kind of goes to show just how close the polling was.
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Despite thousands of votes, the lead kept waffling back and forth between these two creators.
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What I'm trying to say is your votes count.
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So if you want to vote in these polls that get pretty dang close, the only way to join in those polls is to subscribe to our Credit the Creators newsletter.
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So every Friday, you get four new nominees to vote for.
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You get a new creator of the week.
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You get a tip on how to make your content stronger.
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It's an awesome community.
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People are already really like invested in this.
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The competition is super fierce, but it's less about the competition because even though we do have a creator of the week, every newsletter really features five creators total.
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And that's what we're really trying to do here is feature more talented and deserving creators.
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So, link below so you can subscribe and get a new issue every Friday.
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ReactBot, do you fuck with credit to creators?
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They talk too much.
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Fuck you! That was fucking brutal.
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GAME!
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My man!
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Dude is smashing his drums right now.
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GAME!
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Got genuinely...
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Uh-oh.
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Oh, hell no!
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Tegel.
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GAME!
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Stop stealing!
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What You'll Practice in This Lesson
In this lesson, you'll analyze a casual, conversational video about a common online scam, focusing on understanding informal speech patterns, identifying tone shifts, and practicing real-world listening comprehension. You'll also work on shadowing to mimic the speaker's natural rhythm and emphasis, which is key for improving English pronunciation and fluency.
Key Vocabulary & Phrases
- Juicy Goss: Informal term for interesting, often personal or secret information (e.g., "She shared some juicy goss about the party").
- Grinding it out: Working hard consistently, even if it's tedious (e.g., "He's grinding it out to finish the project on time").
- Copypasta: A block of text that's copied and pasted repeatedly (e.g., "The comment section was full of the same copypasta").
- Shady: Suspicious or untrustworthy (e.g., "That link looks shady—don't click it").
- Prompting: Encouraging or urging someone to do something (e.g., "The ad is prompting viewers to sign up").
Practice Tips for Shadowing
The video features a conversational, slightly energetic tone with pauses and emphasis on key points (like "uh-oh" or "never a good sign"). To practice shadowing effectively, start by watching the video without sound and reading the transcript aloud to match the speaker's mouth movements—this helps with pronunciation. Then, play short clips (5-10 seconds) and repeat them immediately, focusing on copying the speed and intonation. A good shadowing site can help you slow down the audio if needed, letting you break down tricky phrases like "hundreds of millions of views" or "disabled by owner."
Pay attention to the speaker's casual language, such as "boo" or "sick," which add warmth to the dialogue. Shadow speech exercises like this train your brain to process and reproduce natural English quickly, making your own speech sound more fluent. Remember, shadow speak isn't just about repeating words—it's about matching the speaker's attitude and rhythm. Practice daily with this video, and you'll notice improvements in your ability to understand and mimic real-world conversations.
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.