Shadowing Practice: How I would learn English if I started now - 2024 - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Hey guys, welcome to Lingua Marina.

Today we're going to talk about learning a language in 2024.

Yes, if you're in 2024 and you're not utilizing technology in your learning process, you have to watch this video up to the very end

because the world has changed so much and it's changing every single day.

So today we're going to try some of the latest apps.

A lot of them are free.

We're going to chat to celebrities.

We're going to practice our English.

We're going have a conversation with ai

so make sure you watch this video carefully

because these apps will help you a lot

and i have two devices here that we're going to use

and i'm going to show you everything and honestly i am

so jealous guys because when i was learning english and

when i really needed to practice in 2004 2005 i couldn't like there was no technology i remember

that i was sitting on skype

and i was just looking for random people to chat with uh

that was in german though for English I already had a host family

that I visited in the UK

so they were very kind to interact with me even

when I was at home but I really like practice

and the number one thing that I would change

if I started learning English now I would practice from day one

and if you can relate to this you should change something

so basically my process was let's learn a lot of words

let's learn a little grammar let's just take tests every month I remember

when the teacher would do like dictations so she would basically say words

and we had to write them down correctly and understand it's important

but also understand that it could have been better if we dedicated

that time to actual practice now the first device

that i'm going to show you they're actually sponsoring today's video it's a phone like device called jarvis

and translator and what it basically does it helps you translate

and helps you practice english so there are two features

that i particularly like so first of all it has this built -in network connection

which means you don't have to connect to wi -fi

and it's available in so many countries including russia and united states

and uk and china so the connection works almost everywhere

which is very important because

if you travel to a foreign country sometimes the roaming fees are impossible

and i actually had a conversation with my husband using this device he replied in russian let's listen to it Dima, I am very hungry.

What are you cooking today?

Dima, I am very hungry.

What are you cooking today?

I am cooking today.

I am cooking barbecue today.

I can't wait to eat it!

another thing you can do imagine i am 14 years old i am back home in russia

and i want to practice

and i can ask this device to translate something for me

it is very difficult for me to speak with an american accent it seems to me

that americans speak too quickly i think it's pretty cool

so you basically say a phrase in your own language

and it translates for you another thing you can do with this device is pointed at text

and it's going to translate everything i showed it of something

that i had on my screen in english

and asked it to translate everything into russian

and it did it i like that this device is very specific to translation

and practicing english because when i take my phone i'm

so tempted by all of the other apps

and i feel like it's great for traveling

when you're not sure you're going to have the connection or will be able to use your phone.

Jarvisin is basically like a native speaker.

It supports 108 online languages and accents.

Order Jarvisin Translator 2 using a link in my description

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Jarvisin Translator 2 helps you with real -time translations for practicing English and having natural conversations with others.

Now, if you don't want a separate device to learn your English and want to do everything on your phone,

of course, we'll have to practice with ChatGPT, and I feel like their AI is just out of this world.

And this app is actually great for having a real -time conversation in English.

Let's actually have this educational conversation.

Give me some tips to sound more American.

Sure, I'd be happy to give some tips on sounding more American.

Here are a couple of key points to focus on.

First, pay attention to your vowel sounds as they often differ significantly between American English and other accents.

You understand, right?

Another thing.

Let's try this.

Imagine you are Britney Spears.

Can you talk to me as Britney?

All right.

Let's channel a bit of Britney Spears.

What do you want to chat about?

Or is there something specific you'd like Britney to say or do in our conversation?

Can she say hi to Marina?

Absolutely.

Here it goes.

Hey, Marina, it's Britney.

Just wanted to drop in and say hi.

Hope you're having a fabulous day.

How's that? okay so here she's like she doesn't speak britney's voice

but it was also cool right having this conversation now

if you actually want to talk to a celebrity

i have something else to show you this app is called fanchat .me

and it has some celebrities you want you can talk to they have lisa they have jenny jenna ortega

but i like elon musk let's ask him a political question who will you support during 2024 elections

i'll sell neutral and let people decide everyone has potential i don't think

so no okay um what companies have you started i started spacex tesla neural link the boring company

and open ai always exploring new frontiers it's not elon

revelation it's not even

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but it's it's fun okay it doesn't motivate me uh to speak to a celebrity

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but when i think about marina in 2004 i would totally appreciate practicing english with someone like elon musk

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and i don't care if the information is not 100 correct

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and true this is basically it's a fan chat it's not me talking to elon

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but this is kind of cool

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that you can create any experience for you to immerse into language

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and by the way chat gpt this fan chat is free now there is another super hyped up app

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that can help you learn english with somebody else

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and i'll tell you the story about this app first i chatted with someone who studied their use cases

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and they told me that one of the use cases

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that girls do they create their ex -boyfriend and they ask character ai

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and i'm talking about this app to imagine

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that they're walking into a restaurant and there is their ex with his new girlfriend

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and they're like let's just practice this conversation i would never think this would be the use case

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but when i think about myself 17 years ago i'll be like yeah

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that might give me some extra motivation to like imagine

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that my ex spoke english and you know i have a conversation with him

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so bear that in mind i like that with ai we can just create this external motivation for us to speak English.

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So as you understand character AI lets you create

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an AI character that you can talk to

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and for example they have this psychologist here

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and by the way I was just at a conference here in Silicon Valley

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and somebody told me all of the experts are going to be replaced by AI and that person was really smart.

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So we don't know how much time we have

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Marina actually being in front of the camera maybe AI will replace me soon

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but you will keep watching guys right please please okay anyways uh

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you can chat with a psychologist try with voice okay let's try voice enable hey you mentioned

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that you're feeling numb can you tell me more about what

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that feels for you personally okay i'm gonna tie my problem i am afraid of speaking English

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because people will laugh at my mistakes and accent.

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Let's see what it says.

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I can see you're feeling quite anxious about how to communicate in English

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and that speaking to English speakers can be uncomfortable for you, maybe even a bit frightening.

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Would you like to talk about it some more?

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Yes, please.

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Great.

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I'm glad to hear it.

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Let's start from the beginning.

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Why do you think you're afraid to speak English?

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i am afraid of being judged that's a common problem on this channel right

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and that's a perfectly normal response to have being judged by others is never a comfortable experience

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it can be quite painful to be looked down on especially

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when we think

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that we're trying our very best pretty cool right these are the types of dialogues

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you can have on character ai and they have many more characters

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and it's all free

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so you can talk to a therapist you can talk to your ex

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you can talk to a movie character now figure out the first tip start having conversations as soon as possible

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but the next question would be marina

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but how do i work in my pronunciation

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and of course i'm going to recommend something that is free as well

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and it's so cool so i would normally use google to ask how to pronounce words

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and my least favorite word is recommendation

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And another one is conversation.

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I stumble when I have to pronounce them.

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For some reason, like it's been a while, I'm working on it.

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The more times I say these words, the better it gets, but still.

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So basically, I'm asking Google how to pronounce recommendation.

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Recommendation.

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Recommendation.

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Okay, but here you have the button called practice.

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Let's practice.

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Recommendation.

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Try to say me instead of ma recommend how to improve

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so see it actually sees my mistake try to relax your jaw

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and lips so it noticed a sound that is not there yet recommendation

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yay i did it so recommendation recommendation amazing you can just practice words in google

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and you can listen to the correct pronunciation this is my absolute favorite feature

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that google has recently released i started seeing it recently

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and i think this is part of their new releases

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that are ai driven so very happy for them and very happy

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that now i can use their feature if you want a separate app

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that can help you with pronunciation elsa app is another app

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that you can use bold voice app they're both ai powered

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and you will have a separate app to practice your english

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and they will remember your mistakes so you know there are

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so many tools these days it's very important that you select the ones

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that are natural to you

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so for example i have two phones one phone is for work another one for content creation

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because the problem is when i take my work phone i just lose myself in those chats

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and i don't create content so

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if i have this intention of creating content i take a phone

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that is not connected to any chats and the same happens now we have

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so many apps we have so many different features everywhere so

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if you want a dedicated experience to learn english choose an app

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if you want an undisturbed experience choose a separate device there is no instagram no notifications ai is getting more

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and more advanced ai is getting more and more exciting

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but also scary

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but my advice to you is start using it start experimenting with it know you're an enemy it's not enemy

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but like know what's going on in the world get used to it and experiment

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because ai helps you learn a language ai can create a

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study plan for you ai can do anything for you start utilizing it of course be careful

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and please subscribe to this channel share this video with anyone who's learning a language

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and i will see you very soon in my next videos hope this was useful bye

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “How I would learn English if I started now - 2024”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: english, app, practice, conversation, chat. This video has 193 sentences and 2073 words to shadow. The speech runs for 12:31. The speaker talks at a natural 166 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 85% 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

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
recommendation noun	/ˌɹɛkəmɛnˈdeɪʃən/	An act of recommending.
marina noun	/məˈɹinə/	A harbour for small boats.
translate verb	/tɹænzˈleɪt/	To change spoken words or written text (of a book, document, movie, etc.) from one language to another.
celebrity noun	/səˈlɛb.ɹɪ.ɾi/	Fame, renown; the state of being famous or talked-about.
accent noun	/ækˈsɛnt/	A higher-pitched or stronger (louder or longer) articulation of a particular syllable of a word or phrase in order to distinguish it from the others or to…
translation noun	/tɹænzˈleɪʃən/	The conversion of text from one language to another.
translator noun	/ˈtɹænzleɪtɚ/	A person or thing that translates various forms of text.
pronounce verb	/pɹəˈnaʊns/	To declare formally, officially or ceremoniously.
pronunciation noun	/pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/	The formal or informal way in which a word is made to sound when spoken.
hungry adjective	/ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/	Affected by hunger; having the physical need for food.
connect verb	/kəˈnɛkt/	To join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object.
experiment noun	/ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/	A test under controlled conditions made to either demonstrate a known truth, examine the validity of a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy or likelihood of…
motivation noun	/ˈmoʊ.tə.veɪ.ʃən/	Willingness of action especially in behavior.
psychologist noun	/ˌsaɪˈkɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/	An expert in the field of psychology.
utilize verb	/ˈjuː.tɪ.laɪz/	US, Canada, and Oxford British English standard spelling of utilise.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Meaning
figure out verb	To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce.
look down on verb	To regard or treat as inferior.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

We're going to chat to celebrities.
What are you cooking today?
I can't wait to eat it!
What do you want to chat about?
Would you like to talk about it some more?

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	was let · is pointed · is called
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	has changed · it's been · has recently released

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 46 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, you're, we're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “sh” and “zh” sounds: recommendation /ˌɹɛkəmɛnˈdeɪʃən/, translation /tɹænzˈleɪʃən/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, motivation /ˈmoʊ.tə.veɪ.ʃən/, intention /ɪnˈtɛnʃn̩/
Long words — get the stress right: recommendation /ˌɹɛkəmɛnˈdeɪʃən/, celebrity /səˈlɛb.ɹɪ.ɾi/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, experiment /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/, motivation /ˈmoʊ.tə.veɪ.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 recommendation, marina, translate.

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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Key vocabulary in this video

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Sentences worth repeating

Grammar in this video

Pronunciation to watch

How to practise with this video

What is the Shadowing Technique?