Shadowing Practice: "I Bet I Can Get Jensen" - Learn English Speaking with Video
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One night in June of 2024, in a Taipei bar, a Chinese businesswoman named Alice Huang made a bet with some technology executives
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that she could get Jensen Huang, the CEO of NVIDIA, to come meet them.
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After midnight, he showed up wearing his black leather jacket and joined the group for some whiskey drinks.
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One of the executives who was there told the story to the New York Times.
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Alice Huang, who is not related to the NVIDIA CEO, was a top executive at a Singapore -based company called Megaspeed.
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In the three months after the meeting, Megaspeed bought a billion dollars worth of NVIDIA technology.
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In the next nine months, it bought another billion dollars worth.
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On paper, this was all legal.
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Megaspeed built data centers in Malaysia and then rented the computing power to Chinese companies, mostly Alibaba.
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The U .S banned selling its most advanced AI chips to China,
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but it's okay to rent the computing power to Chinese companies in a neighboring country.
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But in late 2024, a U .S.
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Commerce Department official visited Megaspeed's Malaysian data center and found NVIDIA chips still in their boxes.
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Investigators began to suspect that some of the chips were being moved on into China.
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And then, as the Times revealed this past October, things got worse.
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U .S.
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intelligence had concluded that Alice Wong was a Chinese intelligence asset reporting to China
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and that she developed a close personal relationship with Jensen Wong.
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President Trump was briefed about a year ago and decided not to do anything.
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The Times reported that he didn't want to risk NVIDIA chip sales, which are helping drive the stock market.
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Jensen Huang was never told about the intelligence finding.
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NVIDIA says that it's the CEO's job to meet with customers, that Megaspeed got no secrets,
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and that the company found nothing wrong in its investigation into the smuggling allegations.
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Jensen Huang has said that NVIDIA can account for all Megaspeed's chips.
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Ultimately, stopping the chips from going to China came down to two judgments.
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One was NVIDIA's word about his customer.
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The other was a president weighing in intelligence funding against trade with China in an economy that NVIDIA's sales are helping boost.
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In a case like this, American export controls are only about as good as those two decisions.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “"I Bet I Can Get Jensen"”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: Nvidia, chip, Huang, China, Megaspeed. This video has 28 sentences and 386 words to shadow. The speech runs for 2:03. The speaker talks fast, about 189 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. Only 76% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| chip noun | /t͡ʃɪp/ | A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material. |
| reveal verb | /ɹɪˈviːl/ | To uncover; to show and display that which was hidden. |
| boost verb | /buːst/ | To lift or push from behind (one who is endeavoring to climb); to push up. |
| commerce noun | /ˈkɑ.mɚs/ | The exchange or buying and selling of commodities; especially the exchange of merchandise, on a large scale, between different places or communities; extended… |
| leather noun | /ˈlɛðɚ/ | A tough material produced from the skin of animals, by tanning or similar process, used e.g. for clothing; often denotes leather from cattle when no qualifier… |
| jacket noun | /ˈd͡ʒæk.ɪt/ | A piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse, often waist length to thigh length. |
| midnight noun | /ˈmɪd(ˌ)naɪt/ | The middle of the night: the sixth temporal hour, equidistant between sunset and sunrise. |
| judgment noun | /ˈd͡ʒʌd͡ʒ.mənt/ | The act of judging. |
| export noun | /ˈɛks.pɔɹt/ | Something that is exported. |
| asset noun | /ˈæsɛt/ | A thing or quality that has value, especially one that generates cash flows. |
| weigh verb | /weɪ/ | To determine the weight of an object. |
| conclude verb | /kənˈkluːd/ | To end; to come to an end. |
| neighboring adjective | /ˈneɪbəɹɪŋ/ | Situated or living nearby or adjacent to. |
| investigator noun | /ɪnˈvɛs.tɪˌɡeɪ̯.təː/ | One who investigates. |
| whiskey noun | /ˈwɪski/ | A liquor distilled from the fermented mash of grain (as rye, corn, or barley). |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| come down to verb | To reach by moving down or reducing. |
| show up verb | To appear, arrive, or attend, especially suddenly or erratically. |
Pronunciation to watch
- Long words — get the stress right: investigator /ɪnˈvɛs.tɪˌɡeɪ̯.təː/, allegation /ˌæl.ɪˈɡeɪ.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 chip, reveal, boost.
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.