Shadowing Practice: I Shift Energy — Official Music Video - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Mmm, mmm, mmm
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You see, I'm not afraid of darkness I shift it I am the queen
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I shift energy
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You throw shade, I turn it into shine
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You send pain, I make it divine
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Every scar you tried to give me I wear it like art, baby, it's alchemy
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Your words don't break me, they bend into light
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Your doubt just fuels my fire at night I don't fight, I transmute I take your chaos,
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I make it truth I'm the queen, I shift energy in And I make it holy,
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every wound becomes gold
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Every no becomes my throne I shift energy, that's my power
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Pain to peace, storm to flower
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Every shadow, I make it hard I turn your poison into heart I shift energy,
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that's my fire I rise higher and higher and higher I shift, I rise, I glow, I heal
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That's how I make the dark mix kneel
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They threw stones, I built temples
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They sent lies, I grew pets
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They called me too much, I became more
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They shut the door, I built the floor
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They said, you can't, I said, watch me They said, you're weak, I said, that's not me I danced through pain,
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I danced through grace I'm made of storms and sacred space, you see I'm not against you,
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I'm just for me I learned that power isn't control,
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it's creation So when the world throws trash, I make gardens
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When they curse, I make poetry I shift energy,
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that's my power
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Pain to peace, storm to flower
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Every scar is my divine design
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Every tear becomes a holy sign I shift energy,
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that's my fire I rise higher and higher and higher I am the queen, I am the light
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But me, I'm you
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And you have this power inside
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Remember Everything you touched
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You can transform
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That's Empiratrix energy
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “I Shift Energy — Official Music Video”. This video has 39 sentences and 426 words to shadow. The speech runs for 3:24. The speaker talks at a steady 126 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. Only 53% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| flower noun | /ˈfloʊɚ/ | A reproductive structure in angiosperms (flowering plants), often conspicuously colourful and typically including sepals, petals, and either or both stamens… |
| divine adjective | /dɪˈvaɪn/ | Of or pertaining to a god. |
| scar noun | /skɑɹ/ | A permanent mark on the skin, sometimes caused by the healing of a wound. |
| pet noun | /pɛt/ | An animal kept as a companion or otherwise for pleasure, rather than for some practical benefit or use. |
| temple noun | /ˈtɛm.pl̩/ | A house of worship dedicated to a polytheistic faith. |
| shadow noun | /ˈʃædəʊ̯/ | A dark image projected onto a surface where light (or other radiation) is blocked by the shade of an object. |
| trash noun | /tɹæʃ/ | Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse. |
| poetry noun | /ˈpoʊ.ə.tɹi/ | Literature composed in verse or language exhibiting conscious attention to patterns and rhythm. |
| tear verb | /tɛɹ/ | To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate. |
| darkness noun | /ˈdɑɹk.nɪs/ | The state of being dark; lack of light; the absolute or comparative absence of light. |
| chaos noun | /ˈkeɪˌɑs/ | The unordered state of matter in classical accounts of cosmogony. |
| sacred adjective | /ˈseɪkɹɪd/ | Characterized by solemn religious ceremony or religious use, especially, in a positive sense; consecrated, made holy. |
| shine verb | /ʃaɪn/ | To emit or reflect light so as to glow. |
| shade noun | /ʃeɪd/ | Darkness where light, particularly sunlight, is blocked. |
| bend verb | /bɛnd/ | To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means. |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 11 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, can't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: shadow /ˈʃædəʊ̯/, trash /tɹæʃ/, shine /ʃaɪn/, shade /ʃeɪd/
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 flower, divine, scar.
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.