Shadowing Practice: How to Not Let People Bring You Down I Robert Greene - Learn English Speaking with Video
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There's a difference between narcissism and true self -love.
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So if you learned at an early age, three or four or five years old, that you're actually a good person,
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that you're worthy of love and affection from other people, that you have skills and abilities as you get older that are actually worthwhile,
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that will contribute, then you have an anchor in your life.
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You have a degree of love of yourself, confidence.
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So every time later in life where you have blows, where people hit you with doubts, but they try and sabotage you.
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They try and insinuate that maybe you're not so good, or they play these games.
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You're going to get this blow and it's going to depress you
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and it's going to lower you down and it's going to affect you.
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We're all like that.
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Nobody can't suffer from that, myself included.
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But what happens is if you have that level of self -love that you developed at an early age, you will rise back up.
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You'll start going, no, it's not true that I'm this way.
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It's not true what they're trying to tell me.
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I'm actually worthy.
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And I know it because I've done things in my life.
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I've accomplished this.
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I've helped this other person.
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It raises you back up.
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It's like a thermostat that you have inside of yourself.
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So the degree that you have that love will bounce you back up
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and you'll be able to tell yourself at first their doubts kind of hit you.
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We're all human.
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But then you go, no, it's crap.
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They're playing a game.
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I'm not going to fall for that.
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But if you were wounded very early on and you never develop
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that self -love and you have a lot of doubts about yourself already
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and you're insecure and you're riddled with like bullet holes
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and wounds inside of yourself where things can leak through
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and people tell you those things it's going to bring you down
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and you're going to not rise back up you get depressed
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and you'll find it very difficult to rise back up
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so the way you have to handle it in life
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if you're in your 20s or 30s or 40s
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or even in your 50s you have to develop it you have to go back
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and go I'm beating up on myself I have all these insecurities these people are effectively manipulating them
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because I'm allowing them to manipulate me.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “How to Not Let People Bring You Down I Robert Greene”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: doubts, rise, self. This video has 38 sentences and 414 words to shadow. The speech runs for 1:56. The speaker talks fast, about 213 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 87% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| worthy adjective | /ˈwɝ.ði/ | Having worth, merit, or value. |
| wound noun | /ˈwund/ | An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body. |
| manipulate verb | /məˈnɪp.jʊ.leɪt/ | To move, arrange or operate something using the hands |
| suffer verb | /ˈsʌfɚ/ | To undergo hardship. |
| 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. |
| contribute verb | /kənˈtɹɪb.jut/ | To give something that is or becomes part of a larger whole. |
| bullet noun | /ˈbʊlɪt/ | A projectile, usually of metal, shot from a gun at high speed. |
| depressed adjective | /dɪˈpɹɛst/ | Unhappy; despondent. |
| leak noun | /liːk/ | A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape. |
| accomplish verb | /əˈkɑm.plɪʃ/ | To finish successfully. |
| anchor noun | /ˈæŋ.kəː/ | A tool used to moor a vessel to the bottom of a sea or river to resist movement. |
| bounce verb | /baʊns/ | To change the direction of motion after hitting an obstacle. |
| affection noun | /əˈfɛk.ʃən/ | The act of affecting or acting upon. |
| worthwhile adjective | /ˌwɜː(ɹ)θˈwaɪl/ | Good and important enough to spend time, effort, or money on. |
| insecure adjective | /ɪnsəˈkjʊɹ/ | Not secure. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| back up verb | To move backwards, especially for a vehicle to do so. |
| beat up on verb | To hurt someone by hitting or kicking them many times. |
| go back verb | To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- It's not true what they're trying to tell me.
- I've helped this other person.
- I'm not going to fall for that.
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 24 contractions and reduced forms, such as you're, I'm, I've. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: worthy /ˈwɝ.ði/, worthwhile /ˌwɜː(ɹ)θˈwaɪl/, thermostat /ˈθɝməstæt/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: accomplish /əˈkɑm.plɪʃ/, affection /əˈfɛk.ʃən/, sabotage /ˈsæb.əˌtɑʒ/
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 worthy, wound, manipulate.
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.