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The defense would like to call its first witness.
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Right there.
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He's such a non-lawyer, he doesn't even know the prosecution goes first.
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And you obviously don't know Jarvis v the state of New York, 1937, when calling of the first witness is of such special nature as to disrupt the flow of the trial once it's started.
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What the hell special nature are you talking about?
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When the defense wants to call the prosecutor as its first witness.
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Harvey, unless you have something to overturn this, I'm gonna need you to have a seat.
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Mr. Spector, you said there's no record of me ever having an apartment in Boston.
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Can you explain to the jury why there's no record of you ever having lived there?
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I'm not the one on trial here.
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No, you're not.
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You're the one in that chair, so why don't you answer the question or we can stop this whole thing right now.
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There's no record of me living there because I sublet up there when I had my place down here.
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So it is possible that a person not have a Boston address without it meaning that they didn't attend Harvard.
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Great.
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Thank you so much.
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This witness is excused.
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What exactly is your reason for not having an address up there? unless you're too afraid to answer my questions.
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No, I'm not afraid of you at all.
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My reason is that I chose to live with my friend Trevor during that time.
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The only problem with that is your friend Trevor has lived in Brooklyn his entire life.
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Exactly, a three-hour and 20-minute drive from Harvard.
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So you say you made that drive every day?
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No, I only went up for tests because that's all I had to do.
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I guess you needed some extra tutoring, huh?
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You expect these people to believe
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that you graduated from the most competitive law school in the world without ever going to class?
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See, that's funny because you actually expect these people to believe
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that I never went to law school at all
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and yet still somehow managed to convince the smartest lawyers in the world to make me their youngest partner ever.
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Whose story is looking more far-fetched now?
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Oh, no answer?
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Great.
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No more questions, Your Honor.
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I don't know if you've noticed this or not, but he's kicking your ass.
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And I'm about to kick back.
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Are you two discussing something that defense should be made aware of?
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Just talking about the Knicks.
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Now is the prosecution ready to call their first witness?
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The prosecution's first witness is this affidavit from every single member of the defendant's supposed graduating class.
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Objection, Your Honor.
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I haven't seen that.
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Well then let me read it to you.
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We collectively come forward to swear the following regarding Michael James Ross.
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We never saw him.
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We never knew him.
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We never heard of him.
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And it makes us sick that he's taking the good name of Harvard Law School and throwing it down the toilet.
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Please find him guilty on all counts.
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Your Honor, I moved to strike that document right now.
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On what grounds?
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On the grounds that it's completely fabricated.
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Where's your proof?
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Besides the fact that I actually went to Harvard, there's no way you could have contacted all of those people since last night.
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Then I suggest you call every one of these people and put them on the stand.
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But when you do, every single one of them is gonna look you in the eye and say, Who the hell are you?
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What?
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No snappy comeback?
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You can try to trick these people all you want.
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But the fact is, you didn't go to Harvard, and this proves it.
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Objection, he's testifying.
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What I'm doing is winning.
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All right, that's enough.
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I think this is a good time to take a break.
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It's done?
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Yes.
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It won't hold up forever, but it will hold up for now.
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Thank you, Benjamin.
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I didn't expect it for a couple of hours.
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I haven't had a chance to get you any bacon.
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That's quite a right, Michael.
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This one is on the house.
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You know, you never asked if what they're saying about me is true.
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I didn't need to.
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I knew it was true the second I heard it.
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I don't understand.
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All these kids who went to Harvard, they never gave me the time of day.
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All they cared about was letting me know where they went to school and I didn't.
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You've never done that to me.
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Not one time.
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I don't know what to say.
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Say that when you're done and you've beaten this thing, you won't start acting like some asshole who went to Harvard.
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I can't really promise you that, Benjamin.
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I'll have gone to Harvard.
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That's not funny, Michael.
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Is the prosecution ready to call its next witness?
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The prosecution calls Rachel Zane.
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Objection.
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Your Honor, the witness cannot object to testifying simply because she intends to take the first.
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The witness doesn't have to testify because she's my wife.
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What?
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I have a marriage certificate here from the state of Nevada showing
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that the witness and I were married in Las Vegas six weeks after we started dating.
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Both of you up here now.
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Where the hell did you get that?
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What do you mean?
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You didn't marry her and you know it.
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Why do I have everything I need proving I did?
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Because you did some bullshit to get out of this.
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Oh, look who's crying about it now.
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Keep your voices down.
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You think this is a joke?
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You try this in court, Gibbs is gonna prove you're not married, and Rachel's gonna go to jail for perjury.
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He's right.
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You better know what the hell you're doing.
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Who said that I was gonna use this in the real trial?
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I get it.
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This is a fake, just like you.
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I said keep your goddamn voice now.
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This is as real as that affidavit was, okay?
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Now, you wanted to rattle me, I've rattled you.
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What are you gonna do about it?
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Prosecution calls Rachel Zane to the stand.
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Objection!
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We just went over this!
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When spousal privilege is invoked in the moment, prosecution has the right to challenge the validity of the marriage.
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This is ridiculous.
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Objection overruled.
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Miss Zane, take the stand.
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We can skip swearing her in since she's just gonna lie about it anyway.
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Objection!
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Ms. Zane, if you got married six weeks after dating the defendant, why are you engaged to him right now?
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Because we did it on a whim.
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And we'd planned to have an annulment, but once we fell more in love, we thought that it might be wonderful to reveal it to our families after we were married again.
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And how exactly did it go when you got married the first time?
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We were in Las Vegas.
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Yeah, yeah, I don't give a shit where you were.
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What color was your dress?
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What color was the cake?
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Objection.
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Who was there?
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Were there any witnesses?
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Your Honor, he's badgering her.
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Come on.
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And what goddamn time was it?
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Your Honor, get him off of her!
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Tell me right now.
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Let the witness answer.
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The dress was white.
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And the cake was vanilla with a buttercream frosting.
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It was a small ceremony at around 10 p.m.
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And I remember the man who married us like it was yesterday.
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Because it was the most special day of my life.
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And when you came up with this story, did Mr. Ross at least give you the courtesy of letting you make up your own memories of your supposedly sacred day?
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Objection.
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If he represents himself at trial, you won't have a real wedding for at least two to five years.
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Harvey.
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And I've got one more question.
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Did you vow to remain faithful to Mr. Ross throughout your marriage?
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Yes, I did.
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Yeah, then I guess when you cheated on him with Logan Sanders, it means you lied to him at that non-existent ceremony just like you're lying to all of us right now.
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That's enough.
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If you want to bring more outside information to dispute this marriage, feel free, but for right now...
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This witness is excused.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “Harvey Destroys Mike in Mock Trial”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: witness, objection, Harvard, prosecution, Honor. This video has 154 sentences and 1392 words to shadow. The speech runs for 7:12. The speaker talks fast, about 193 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 85% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start. 34 of its 154 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| objection noun | /əbˈd͡ʒɛkʃən/ | The act of objecting. |
| prosecution noun | /ˌpɹɑ.sɪˈkju.ʃən/ | The act of prosecuting a scheme or endeavor. |
| testify verb | /ˈtɛstɪfaɪ/ | To make a declaration, or give evidence, under oath. |
| affidavit noun | /ˌæfɪˈdeɪvɪt/ | A signed document wherein an affiant makes a sworn statement. |
| rattle noun | /ˈɹæ.təl/ | Any of various plants of the genera Rhinanthus and Pedicularis, whose seeds produce a rattling noise in the wind. |
| annulment noun | /əˈnʌl.mənt/ | An act or instance of annulling. |
| badger noun | /ˈbæd͡ʒɚ/ | Any member of species of the genera Meles, Arctonyx, Mellivora or Taxidea, of mammals. |
| buttercream noun | A type of thick, sweet icing or cake-filling made by creaming butter (or sometimes another fat, such as margarine) with powdered sugar. | |
| fabricate verb | /ˈfæb.ɹɪ.keɪt/ | To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to construct; to build. |
| invoke verb | /ɪnˈvoʊk/ | To call upon (a person, a god) for help, assistance or guidance. |
| overrule verb | /ˌoʊ.vɚˈɹul/ | To rule over; to govern or determine by superior authority. |
| overturn verb | /ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈtɜː(ɹ)n/ | To turn over, capsize or upset. |
| perjury noun | /ˈpɜː(ɹ)d͡ʒəɹi/ | The deliberate giving of false or misleading testimony under oath. |
| snappy adjective | /ˈsnæpi/ | Rapid and without delay. |
| spousal adjective | /ˈspaʊzəl/ | of or relating to marriage |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| come up with verb | To manage to produce, deliver, or present (something) by inventing, creating, thinking of, or obtaining it. | |
| get out of verb | To leave, exit or escape from; to become free of. | |
| go over verb | To look at carefully; to scrutinize; to analyze. | |
| go up for verb | Of the fielding side, to appeal for the batsman or batswoman to be out. | |
| hold up verb | To wait or delay. | |
| make up verb | /ˌmeɪk ˈʌp/ | To constitute, to compose. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- I'm not the one on trial here.
- What exactly is your reason for not having an address up there?
- You think this is a joke?
- What are you gonna do about it?
- What color was your dress?
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 | has lived · you've noticed · haven't seen |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | is excused · should be made · is invoked |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | kids who went · man who married |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 47 contractions and reduced forms, such as gonna, you're, didn't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: objection /əbˈd͡ʒɛkʃən/, prosecution /ˌpɹɑ.sɪˈkju.ʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: prosecution /ˌpɹɑ.sɪˈkju.ʃən/, affidavit /ˌæfɪˈdeɪvɪt/, validity /vəˈlɪd.ɪ.ti/, prosecutor /ˈpɹɑ.səˌkjuːˌtəɹ/, supposedly /səˈpoʊ̯.zɪd.li/
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 objection, prosecution, testify.
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.