Shadowing Practice: God’s Eye Mountain 🇻🇳 | Núi Mắt Thần - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “God’s Eye Mountain 🇻🇳”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: meo, cold, hungry, eat, listen. This video has 371 sentences and 2853 words to shadow. The speech runs for 24:49. The speaker talks at a steady 115 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. Only 70% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding. 98 of its 371 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.
Key vocabulary in this video
14 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| hungry adjective | /ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/ | Affected by hunger; having the physical need for food. |
| alright | /ɔlˈɹaɪt/ | Used to indicate acknowledgement or acceptance; OK. |
| rush verb | /ɹʌʃ/ | To hurry; to perform a task with great haste, often not properly or without thinking carefully. |
| delicious adjective | /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/ | Pleasing to the sense of taste; tasty. |
| wholesome adjective | /ˈhoʊl.səm/ | Promoting good physical health and well-being. |
| meow | /miˈaʊ/ | Used to indicate the cry of a cat. |
| cardio noun | /ˈkɑɹ.di.oʊ/ | Exercise with the goal of raising the heart rate by walking or running on the treadmill. |
| chia noun | /ˈt͡ʃiː.ə/ | A Mexican sage grown for its edible seeds, Salvia hispanica. |
| exercise noun | /ˈɛk.sə.saɪz/ | Any activity designed to develop or hone a skill or ability. |
| cook verb | /kʊk/ | To prepare food for eating, typically by heating it, combining it with other ingredients, seasoning it, preparing it for serving, etc. |
| friendly adjective | /ˈfɹɛnd.li/ | Generally warm, approachable and easy to relate with in character. |
| universe noun | /ˈjunəˌvɝs/ | The sum of everything that exists in the cosmos. |
| breath noun | /bɹɛθ/ | The act or process of breathing. |
| highway noun | /ˈhaɪweɪ/ | A main public road, especially a multi-lane, high-speed thoroughfare. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| check out verb | To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.). |
| figure out verb | To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce. |
| get back to verb | Return to (an activity) |
| go down verb | To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one. |
| go out verb | To leave, especially a building. |
| sit around verb | To spend time sitting idly, not doing anything important. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- Can you see me on the side?
- Good morning, good sleep, good sleep, not you?
- Do you think I can get the wife here?
- Can you sit here a little bit?
- What are you doing here?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on | I've been doing · You've been learning |
| Possibility with “might / may” might/may + verb — something that is possible but not certain | may mắn · mấy đùa |
| Future with “going to” be going to + verb — a plan or something you can see coming | I'm going to go · I'm going to take · gonna check |
| Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — something happening right now or around now | are you doing · I'm doing |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 129 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, gonna. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: rush /ɹʌʃ/, delicious /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/
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 hungry, alright, rush.
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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