Shadowing Practice: How to Improve English Pronunciation with ChatGPT - Learn English Speaking with Video
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In this video, I'm going to show you how to use the free version of ChatGPT to improve your pronunciation.
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This is a new thing.
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This is a new feature.
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It's very powerful.
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It's very cool.
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And I'm really excited about it
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because I think it's going to be a great way for English learners like you to really get that natural sound.
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I'm going to show you how to do it.
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Let's just hop over to ChatGPT.
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So here we are in GPT 3 .5.
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So this is the free version, right?
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The new feature is that you can now listen to every single response.
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Not just that, you can listen to every response in a very natural native sounding voice.
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Now you can choose the one you want to use, but it is very natural, and it sounds exactly like a native English speaker.
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It doesn't sound robotic.
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Now, before, if you wanted to listen to native pronunciation, you could watch a movie or a TV show,
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but you don't get to choose the sentence that you hear.
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What if you want to practice a specific sentence to learn the pronunciation of a specific sentence?
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How do you do that?
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Well, you can go and look up the individual word pronunciation, right?
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You can click on, you can go to the dictionary and click on the little sound icon next to each word, but that's just the individual word.
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That's not the whole sentence.
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You can't learn how a sentence flows naturally doing it that way.
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But now it is possible.
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You choose the sentence.
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How do we do this?
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So it's extremely simple.
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I'm going to give you the prompt to use.
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Remove the quotation marks from this.
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Don't do or say anything else.
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Now, this is important because if you have another request, then you're going to get a lot of text back, more than what you want,
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and then you have to listen to all of that too.
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No, no, I just want to hear this sentence.
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That's all.
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I just want to listen back to it because I'm working on my pronunciation.
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When I can hear it several times, then I can shadow it,
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follow along, and repeat after it and hear it as many times as I want, right?
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So this is a very specific request.
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We're trying to subtract something and get nothing else.
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Here's what I want to say.
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I'm really looking forward to our meeting next week.
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It'll be great to catch up and discuss our plans, okay?
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Now, if I just look up, I'm really looking...you can look up how to pronounce these things individually,
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and you can look for examples in movies and TV shows, but that's not very efficient, right?
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I want to hear it 20 times to say it naturally.
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Okay, so let's do that.
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Now, what we get back should be just that, just what we want to hear without the quotation marks.
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Okay, so here we go.
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And we have only what we want to hear, nothing else, and the little sound icon.
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So let's see, let's see if we can listen and improve our pronunciation.
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Here we go.
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I'm really looking forward to our meeting next week.
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It'll be great to catch up and discuss our plans.
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So first, that's very natural sounding.
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That is a native English speaker.
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This voice, I believe, is called sky.
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i think it's a pretty good one now i want to
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listen to it again this is where you then do what's
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called shadowing the shadowing method is where you listen to something many times
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develop your listening skills a great way to improve your listening repeat repeat repeat
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until you can say it yourself
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so i'm just going to pick out the first four or five words and i'm going to try to say that myself.
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I'm really looking forward to our meeting next week.
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It'll be great.
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So I can stop it too, which is cool.
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I'm really looking forward to our meeting next week.
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I'm really looking.
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So what I'm hearing is that there's a flow between words.
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She's not stopping her voice between words.
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She says, I'm really looking.
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I'm really looking.
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She doesn't say I'm really looking.
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I'm really looking forward to.
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I'm really looking forward.
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I'm really looking forward.
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I'm really looking forward to our meeting next week.
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I'm really looking forward to our meeting next week.
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I'm really looking forward to our meeting next week.
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It'll be great to catch up and discuss our plans.
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So does she say it'll or it will?
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It'll, it'll, it'll, it'll be great.
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It'll be great.
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It'll be great.
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I'm really looking forward to our meeting next week.
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It'll be great to catch up and discuss our plans.
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It'll be great.
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It'll be great.
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It'll be great to catch up and discuss our plans.
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So you can listen to it as many times as you need.
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Again, this is free.
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You get exactly what you need.
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You can search any sentence, any word.
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Again, it was possible to search words before in any dictionary, but very difficult to have a whole sentence or two sentences
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that you can actually get the pronunciation for the full thing
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in a natural way very cool try this out let me
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know how it goes play around with it use the shadowing method to improve your pronunciation
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and if you have any questions let me know in the comments
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if you haven't done so already don't forget to hit the like button
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and subscribe and I will see you in the next one.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “How to Improve English Pronunciation with ChatGPT”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: forward, sentence, listen, pronunciation, meeting. This video has 99 sentences and 943 words to shadow. The speech runs for 6:18. The speaker talks at a natural 150 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 90% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| pronunciation noun | /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/ | The formal or informal way in which a word is made to sound when spoken. |
| shadow noun | /ˈʃædəʊ̯/ | A dark image projected onto a surface where light (or other radiation) is blocked by the shade of an object. |
| naturally adverb | /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/ | In a natural manner. |
| icon noun | /ˈaɪ.kɑn/ | An image, symbol, picture, portrait, or other representation, usually as an object of religious devotion. |
| dictionary noun | /ˈdɪk.ʃəˌnɛ.ɹi/ | A reference work listing words or names from one or more languages, usually ordered alphabetically, explaining each word's meanings or senses, oftentimes also… |
| quotation noun | /kwoʊˈteɪʃn̩/ | A fragment of a human expression that is repeated by somebody else, for example from literature or a famous speech. |
| efficient adjective | /ɪˈfɪʃənt/ | Making good, thorough, or careful use of resources; not consuming extra. Especially, making good use of time or energy. |
| skill noun | /skɪl/ | A capacity to do something well; a technique, an ability, usually acquired or learned, as opposed to abilities that are regarded as innate. |
| subscribe verb | /səbˈskɹaɪb/ | To write (one’s name) at the bottom of a document; to sign (one's name). |
| individually adverb | /ˌɪndɪˈvɪd͡ʒ(u)əli/ | As individuals, separately, independently. |
| prompt verb | /pɹɑmpt/ | To lead (someone) toward what they should say or do. |
| pronounce verb | /pɹəˈnaʊns/ | To declare formally, officially or ceremoniously. |
| robotic adjective | /ɹoʊˈbɑtɪk/ | Of, relating to, or resembling a robot; mechanical, lacking emotion or personality, etc. |
| learner noun | /ˈlɜɹnəɹ/ | One who is learning; one receiving instruction. |
| subtract verb | /səbˈtɹækt/ | To remove or reduce; especially to reduce a quantity or number. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| look forward to verb | To anticipate, expect, or wait for, especially with a feeling of approval or pleasure; to be excited or eager to. | |
| catch up verb | To pick up suddenly. | |
| look up verb | /ˌlʊk ˈʌp/ | To have better prospects. |
| follow along verb | To continue behind or beside an animal, person, vehicle or other object, especially as a companion. | |
| get back verb | Return to where one came from. | |
| pick out verb | To remove by picking. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- I'm going to show you how to do it.
- How do you do that?
- How do we do this?
- I'm going to give you the prompt to use.
- We're trying to subtract something and get nothing else.
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — something happening right now or around now | I'm working · We're trying · I'm really looking |
| Future with “will” will + verb — a decision, promise or prediction | It'll be · it'll or · will see |
| Future with “going to” be going to + verb — a plan or something you can see coming | I'm going to show · it's going to be · I'm going to give |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 48 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, it'll, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, shadow /ˈʃædəʊ̯/, dictionary /ˈdɪk.ʃəˌnɛ.ɹi/, quotation /kwoʊˈteɪʃn̩/, efficient /ɪˈfɪʃənt/
- Long words — get the stress right: pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, dictionary /ˈdɪk.ʃəˌnɛ.ɹi/, individually /ˌɪndɪˈvɪd͡ʒ(u)əli/
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 pronunciation, shadow, naturally.
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.