Shadowing Practice: I Don't Even Look Like Me Anymore - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Well, pregame, it's like deciding where I'm going to start.
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And like I've got a bunch of kind of new stuff that I'm working on tonight.
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So it's like trying to, I look at it one last time because I can kind of see those pages in my mind.
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And then once I get started, I'll try to figure them out like, you know.
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more marriage, more singles, and try to anticipate what I might talk about,
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so yeah I'm just trying to get everything to the forefront of my mind.
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It's sometimes you have to kind of shift gears between the meet
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and greet and remembering people and then it's like now it's like remember what you want to talk about.
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They kind of show you where they want to go.
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So sometimes I'll have an idea when I go up, hey, I want to talk about this or that,
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but I'll change my mind when I get up there and start seeing what they're like.
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So that's kind of the fun of it, those trying to figure out, trying to figured them out.
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Is it time?
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One minute?
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Well, I guess that's time.
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Okay, I know you're waiting, so I am so pleased,
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the River Center for the Performing Arts is so so pleased to present Jeff Foxworthy. So kind.
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Thank you.
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That is very kind um thank you for spending your time
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and your money to come see me because I'm what's left of Jeff Foxworthy
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so uh you guys beautiful crowd how you doing up there
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in the Abraham Lincoln seats we're good little piece of advice lock the door um behind you there
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so uh I have to share this with you all this
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has happened to me probably 15 times in the last few months including the Home Depot in LaGrange
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and the tractor supply in Columbus someone has come up to
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me happened last Saturday at the airport in Atlanta lady comes
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up she goes I hate to bother you she goes do you know who you look like
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and I said I forgot I got a pretty good idea and she goes Sam Elliott
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she was kind of cute
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so I said beef is what's for dinner I don't even look like me anymore
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but I guess it could be worse Sam's not bad right
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ladies kind of like Sam she could have she could have said Danny DeVito
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so I am I'm sure it's the the gray hair
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and the gray mustache
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but I'm not about to color it I have earned every one of these the only thing
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that bothers me about that is I'm 67 and Sam's 82 years old,
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so maybe I need to moisturize or something,
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but no, we both probably passed the apex of our splendor, but still hanging in there,
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you know, because I am loving this season of life.
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I think this is my favorite season of life, and I tell my kids all the time, I go, I miss my 30 year old body
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but i would not give up my 67 year old mind and soul to get it back
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it's it's a it's a good spot
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but for the first time you do start thinking about how
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much sand do i have left in the hourglass yeah
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and science has taught us you know that if you eat junk food
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and sit in a recliner and watch tv what's gonna happen to you when you get old you're gonna die Conversely,
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if you will eat healthy and work out every day, you're gonna die you just get a few years tacked on at the end
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and I have seen the years that get tacked on
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and it ain't a big selling point you got the wheelchair
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posse in the lobby of the nursing home all of them
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look like they're about to get their teeth clean you know
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and you know they're thinking I ate kale
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and bean sprouts for this and I'm not making fun of them
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because they don't want to be that way you know nobody
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and they'll tell you that they're like oh I don't want to be a burden
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and usually by the time someone says they don't want to be a burden you're
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so far past burden you can't see it in the rearview mirror you know
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and yeah it's like I don't I'm sorry honey I don't
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I don't want to be a burden you're not a burden mama lean over just a little bit
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so I can wipe your ass and you know how you can tell
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if somebody was a burden is when you go to their funeral
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and you go up to their loved ones
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and you go oh man we're so sorry to hear about your mom and they It was a blessing,
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a big, big blessing, I can tell you that.
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Listen, after the services, if y 'all would like to come back to the house, we're going to have a little food and a DJ and some fireworks.
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So hopefully I'm not quite to that point yet.
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I am trying to age gracefully.
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That's what I'm trying to do is be age appropriate
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because a lot of people aren't a lot of people a
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lot of people fight it like crazy like I have a cousin she has had
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so much work done to her her lips I don't know
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what she did to her lips look like the business end
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of a plunger um like you could push her head against a sliding glass door and she couldn't get off, you know?
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And she's had so many facelifts.
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Her face is stretched so tight, her ears are on the back of her head.
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And you cannot sneak up on her.
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You can't do it.
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But the craziest thing she did, for her 60th birthday, her husband bought her a boob job.
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and let me tell you they got their money's worth on
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this they did not just puff up the empty mittens i
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mean she got torpedoes dude like you know how some women
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will stick their phone in their cleavage she puts her laptop in there and i don't care
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if anybody gets a boob job i mean it's their business i'm just thinking And if you were going to do that, why would you wait till 60?
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I mean, that's like building a giant deck onto a condemned house.
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Some people just get mad about getting older.
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My Uncle Joe was like that.
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But we always do Thanksgiving down at the farm down here.
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And about four or five years ago, he said during one Thanksgiving, he goes, I want to say this to all of y 'all.
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He goes, before y 'all put me in a nursing home, I want you to promise me you'll kill me and make it look like an accident.
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No, Joe, I'm not promising that.
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I'm not going to jail
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so you don't have to live in your favorite place, you know
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and his kids bless their heart they handled it beautifully because
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when it came time
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that he needed to go to a nursing home they just all flew to Spain
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and let him run with the bulls well he was in a wheelchair more like rolling with the bulls
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but they didn't have to go to jail
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and he went out tick -tock famous so that was a great video I can tell you that
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “I Don't Even Look Like Me Anymore”. This video has 98 sentences and 1252 words to shadow. The speech runs for 9:27. The speaker talks at a steady 132 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 83% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| burden noun | /ˈbɝdn̩/ | A heavy load. |
| nurse noun | /nɝs/ | Anyone performing this role, regardless of training or profession. |
| gray adjective | /ɡɹeɪ/ | Of a color between black and white, having neutral hue and intermediate brightness. |
| bother verb | /ˈbɑðɚ/ | To annoy, to disturb, to irritate; to be troublesome to, to make trouble for. |
| bull noun | /bʊl/ | Specifically, one that is uncastrated. |
| lip noun | /lɪp/ | Either of the two fleshy protrusions around the opening of the mouth. |
| blessing noun | /ˈblɛs.ɪŋ/ | Some kind of divine or supernatural aid, or reward. |
| wheelchair noun | /ˈ(h)wilt͡ʃɛɹ/ | A chair mounted on large wheels for the transportation or use of a sick or disabled person. |
| earn verb | /ɝn/ | To gain (success, reward, recognition) through applied effort or work. |
| mirror noun | /ˈmiɹɚ/ | A smooth surface, usually made of glass with reflective material painted on the underside, that reflects light so as to give an image of what is in front of it. |
| gear noun | /ɡɪɚ/ | Equipment or paraphernalia, especially that used for an athletic endeavor. |
| sand noun | /sænd/ | Rock that is ground more finely than gravel, but is not as fine as silt (more formally, see grain sizes chart), forming beaches and deserts and also used in… |
| ear noun | /ˈɪə̯/ | The organ of hearing, consisting of the pinna or auricle, auditory canal, eardrum, malleus, incus, stapes and cochlea. |
| cousin noun | /ˈkʌz(ə)n/ | Chiefly with a qualifying word: Any relation (especially a distant one) who is not a direct ancestor or descendant but part of a person's extended family; a… |
| deck noun | /ˈdɛk/ | Any raised flat surface that can be walked on: a balcony; a porch; a raised patio; a flat rooftop. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| come up to verb | To approach. |
| do up verb | To fasten (a piece of clothing, etc.); to tighten (a nut etc.) |
| figure out verb | To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce. |
| get off verb | To move from being on top of (something) to not being on top of it. |
| get up verb | To move in an upward direction; to ascend or climb. |
| give up verb | To surrender (someone or something); to inform on (someone). |
| go out verb | To leave, especially a building. |
| go up verb | To move upwards. |
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result | if y 'all would like |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | has happened · has come · have earned |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 51 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, you're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- Long words — get the stress right: beautifully /ˈbju.tɪ.fə.li/, anticipate /ænˈtɪs.ɪ.peɪt/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like burden, nurse, gray.
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.