Shadowing Practice: How Anthropic uses Claude in Product Management - Learn English Speaking with Video
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What excites me about being a product manager now is that I can move and iterate much faster.
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I can use Claude to test my product ideas before I even get anyone else in the loop.
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I can operate much more independently, which is extremely empowering.
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Getting data as a product manager is like a pain point.
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Usually you have to ping a data science person to help you, or often product managers can write some kind of basic SQL themselves
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and will have to query a database that they don't know that much about.
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I started using
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Cloud Code pretty quickly, figured out that we could use it for data analysis workflows.
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Our data science team set up a BigQuery MCP, which essentially connected all of our BigQuery product data tables to Cloud Code.
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You don't need to know how to write SQL.
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You just need to be a human interpreter of that data and that result.
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So here I am in Cloud Code, and I want to show how you can use
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Cloud to access product data.
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Before I started this demo, I used Cloud to generate some synthetic product data that shows light mode versus dark mode usage on a product.
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I've said I want to explore the fraction of dark mode usage over the past three months.
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I'm going to tell it the data table to look for.
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So it just popped open this graph.
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This is like pretty impressive.
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It's done a whole bunch of stuff I didn't ask for, like add a seven day rolling average, add the overall average.
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The graph is nicer than what I would have put together if I had done this myself.
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Say I wanna iterate on this a little bit and take a look.
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Maybe we wanna look at light mode and dark mode usage by plan type.
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Can you actually plot it by plan type?
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It's asking me for permission to make edits, sure.
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And now we have a plot of the data by plan type.
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If I had to do this on my own, it would take me possibly hours, if not more.
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Another way that my team uses Claude is to help with generating evals.
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Evals are a way that we evaluate AI systems and AI products.
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Claude is really great at this, actually.
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So you can kind of just give Claude the situation and the product experience that you're trying to build.
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Maybe a couple example test cases and ask it to expand the option space of test cases.
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So really quickly you go from one or two examples to test to like 50 examples to test.
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My hope is that with Claude, product managers are able to spend more of their time on product strategy, customer conversations and decision making,
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and less time on coordination and operations.
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I would say it's like more than automation for me.
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Like it's things that I wouldn't have otherwise necessarily even been capable of doing independently.
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So it's actually like extending what I can accomplish on my own.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “How Anthropic uses Claude in Product Management”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: product, Claude, Cloud, mode, test. This video has 37 sentences and 510 words to shadow. The speech runs for 2:53. The speaker talks at a natural 177 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. Only 81% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| usage noun | /ˈjuːsɪd͡ʒ/ | A custom or established practice. |
| generate verb | /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ə.ɹeɪt/ | To bring into being; give rise to. |
| independently adverb | /ˌɪndɪˈpɛndəntli/ | In an independent manner. |
| graph noun | /ɡɹæf/ | A data chart (graphical representation of data) intended to illustrate the relationship between a set (or sets) of numbers (quantities, measurements or… |
| necessarily adverb | /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/ | Inevitably; of necessity. |
| impressive adjective | /ɪmˈpɹɛsɪv/ | Making, or tending to make, a positive impression; having power to impress. |
| essentially adverb | /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/ | In essence: by nature. |
| connect verb | /kəˈnɛkt/ | To join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object. |
| expand verb | /ɪkˈspænd/ | To change (something) from a smaller form or size to a larger one; to spread out or lay open. |
| extend verb | /ɛkˈstɛnd/ | To increase in extent. |
| versus | /ˈvɝsəs/ | Against; in opposition to. |
| database noun | /ˈdeɪtəˌbeɪs/ | A collection of (usually) organized information in a regular structure, usually but not necessarily in a machine-readable format accessible by a computer. |
| explore verb | /ɪkˈsploɹ/ | To examine or investigate something systematically. |
| edit verb | /ˈɛdɪt/ | To change a text, or a document. |
| loop noun | /luːp/ | A length of thread, line or rope that is doubled over to make an opening. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| figure out verb | To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce. | |
| put together verb | To assemble, construct, build, or formulate. | |
| set up verb | /ˌsɛt ˈʌp/ | To make ready for use. |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 9 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, wanna, didn't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, accomplish /əˈkɑm.plɪʃ/, fraction /ˈfɹæk.ʃən/, coordination /kəʊˌɔːdɪˈneɪʃən/, automation /ˌɔ.təˈmeɪ.ʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: independently /ˌɪndɪˈpɛndəntli/, necessarily /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, coordination /kəʊˌɔːdɪˈneɪʃən/, automation /ˌɔ.təˈmeɪ.ʃən/
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 usage, generate, independently.
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.