Shadowing Practice: I Tried Speedrunning Granny - Learn English Speaking with Video

Today we're speedrunning all three granny games, starting with the first one, and our timer starts as soon as we're able to move, where we'll pick up this flashlight and we're heading downstairs.

I can make sure I don't get any fall damage by the way, by landing on that cabinet first, so it isn't that long of a fall.

And basically, how each granny game works, is they have a certain amount of presets.

Granny 1 and 2 have 5 presets, and granny 3 has 6.

So rather than every object being in a truly random place, it's gonna match what preset it is.

Every time we go back to the main menu, the preset goes up by one.

And after five, it resets back to one.

So we can use that to do our runs on preset four.

Another thing that's random is Granny's starting spawning location.

So this time we got a lucky spawning location where she's not able to catch us just yet.

And she should be coming up to us in a good amount of time.

So what I'm going to do is open up that with our key.

We're going to bring this book over to this part.

And then we're going to get this weapon, which is going to be this crossbow along with one of these darts

and we're going to bring that over to Granny because she should be coming over here.

We can shoot her right in the chest and that's going to make her be gone for the next two minutes.

We can also go shoot that hand.

That way we bring down a screwdriver and Granny's dead body is just kind of sitting there on the floor, but I'm not going to worry about it too much because now we can bring this book over.

We can press that switch and it opens up whatever this is.

We want to put the book there and that's going to drop a key for us for later.

But right now I do want to pick the crossbow back up we're going to take

that along with one of its ammo, go over here, go through these doors, and head over to the basement.

Because there is going to be our next tool we want down here, all I have to do is go over to this room, aim it on that target, that's going to be able to open up the door, and we can grab the hammer.

And it is pretty nice right now

because we do have free rain over the house just because Granny is gone for a good amount of time, but if we aren't fast enough, she will be able to catch up to us.

So I got to make sure I'm going fast this entire time, but that's kind of the point anyway, since we are speed running.

But what I want to do right here is bring both the hammer and also these pliers that we got normally.

With the pliers, we can use that on that switch.

With the hammer, we can get down that plank.

And then we can go to the screwdriver that we knocked down earlier using the crossbow.

After this, we want to head back over to this secret room where there's going to be this hole.

And with the screwdriver, there's going to be this thing, which we can unscrew really quick and get a blue key.

With this one, I then want to do this movement where we're just dropping these things over

and over again while we're moving backwards.

That way we can bring both the blue key back along with this screwdriver

because we still do need it for a couple more things then i want to drop

that there i want to use this key on

that padlock on the door

and then we're heading back up to the room where we put the book in earlier

because there's going to be this key right there

and we can do this tech again where you want to land on the bell

that way we don't have the falling animation because it does take a

while and i don't really want to worry about it but then we're bringing both the screwdriver and this key

over to this secret door.

We can use that key to open that up.

And then we're going over to the spider area.

We do actually have to fall down there.

There's no way to prevent that, but it's a brand new area.

And this spot is creepy.

You can see there's spiders going through along with that big spider, which we have to get lucky here and hope that the spider doesn't go to the right.

If it goes to the right, it's just a lost run, but we did get the luck we needed.

So we can finally use this screwdriver on this set of things.

We can grab this red key and we should be good to go from here.

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But anyways, all we got to do is hope

that Granny hasn't been able to respawn yet because she could get an unlucky spawn location if we're not lucky.

But we're back over by the basement.

All we have to do is go back up, miss that turn kind of right there.

But we open that door and get our time of 333.

Granny's not too happy, but we got it done.

Now we're on to Granny 2 and for this one, we're using preset 1.

And in this game, we now have to deal with both Granny and Grandpa.

So two people we got to worry about.

But of course, we're going to have some good ways of dealing with them.

First of all, though, I'm just going to be coming up these stairs.

And we know that Granny is going to be coming by here too.

So I can kind of just chill here for a second by this closet.

We'll see that Granny does walk by just ready to hit us with that stick.

I don't want that to happen.

But in preset one right here, there's going to be this crowbar.

So we want to grab that first.

We can move that.

And now Granny probably did hear us.

So we want to be heading over to this door.

We can use the crowbar to open that up and then we can get these pliers.

Now, Granny's going to be coming after us.

But thankfully, in this room, if we go to the second drawer, there's going to be the stun gun.

So I can pick that up.

We can shoot Granny right in the chest again.

And yet again, it's going to get her gone for two minutes.

We know that Grandpa's going to be coming by too.

So same thing.

I'm going to shoot him.

And then on his chest, there's going to be the security key, which we can use to open up this door.

And then in here, there is going to be this door handle, which for some reason, yeah, they keep a door handle in that drawer.

I guess it makes sense for the security room, but we're going to be climbing up here.

We're going to be going in this spot

and getting this hand wheel before heading right back down here

and now we have to collect a bunch of different items

there's going to be this blue key we want we can

bring it over there there's going to be grandpa's dead body please get out of my way

but we got to get these pliers

and yeah this dude is literally just sitting there i want to move

that painting out of the way and then we can get rid of

that electricity and start bringing everything else over along with this door handle along with this hand wheel

and then one more thing we need is the crowbar thankfully

this time grandpa's body actually went away he was sitting there for way too long

but we'll move that over we'll go grab the master key

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and yeah this is basically just four things you have to move over at the same time with

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that crowbar we didn't get the best throw in the world

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but we're going through we have plenty of time

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because both of them are still dead for a while

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and i can just keep going forward with this honestly there's

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not too much to say about this specific point it's mostly

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just about item management before bringing this hand wheel down there we can get that going

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and then finally all we got to do is head back

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upstairs where there's going to be the crowbar we can use

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this on those different wooden planks next up we can go

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grab the security key kind of move it forward to try to do some slightly better navigation with that stuff

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but we can bring the key over there we can use the door handle to actually open it up

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and that's going to be time 218 now it's two people

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upset instead of just one now finally we have granny three and we're going to be using preset three for this run.

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But this run way more than the other two is incredibly RNG dependent.

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You have to get very good luck to actually be able to continue the run, at least if you want to do it as efficiently as possible.

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And the reason behind that is both granny

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and grandpa have to spawn in ideal locations

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and grandpa needs to go straight to his bedroom so he can go to sleep.

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If you don't get those odds, which are very unlikely, then you have to reset the run.

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So yeah, I have done that lock picking a lot of times, but the very first thing we need to do is pick up this fuse, and we saw that we did get the good luck of Grandpa going into his room,

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so with this fuse, I can put it right there while he goes to sleep, and the reason we wanted him asleep was so we could pick up his shotgun and shoot him directly in the chest.

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Then Granny's gonna come over towards us as well, but we can pick up another bullet, deal with her too, and now they're both gone, at least for now.

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After that, I can pick up this generator cable, and we're gonna be saving that for later, because right now, I want to pick up one more piece of shotgun ammo

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and go back into the basement

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because in here there's going to be a crowbar We want to get along with a key.

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So we got to make our way over here

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And it's pretty easy walking as we're going through this pretty mysterious basement I'm not gonna lie

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but we want to shoot this window that's what especially we needed the shotgun for you can use a slingshot

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if you don't want to use the shotgun but

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that takes way more time to actually get

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which is why getting grandpa to go to sleep right away is the most important thing for this run

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but after this we're pretty much just going to pick up both the key

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and the crowbar

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and move them over just like you normally would in granny gameplay it is nice for this run

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because we do get two minutes and 30 seconds rather than just the two minutes

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so pretty much certainly we should be fine as long as i don't just play terribly

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but after this i want to bring the crowbar right there

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and we're just going to leave it on the floor

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and then it's time to bring over both this key

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and the generator cable so we can actually go over to the generator

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so yeah pretty much same thing i guess we can talk

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about how much we love granny's walls in this game like i like

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that wallpaper you have granny you know you're really making the place look nice

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but after this we can start going outside which they have this huge yard covered in a wall.

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I would be terrified if I was trying to get out of this place.

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I'm not even going to lie.

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But out here, they will have this shed, which we can use the red key to actually get into.

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Then we can pick up the generator cable, put it on the generator and turn that on.

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So now we have power.

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All that's left is to go up to the roof so I can start making my way over here.

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I wish our person had a better sense of urgency.

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They're like walking and having a leisurely stroll when they know Granny and Grandpa will be back at some point, but they just do not care at all.

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But this time we can actually bring the crowbar up

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and you remember that we dropped our fuse over here earlier in the run

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So with this we finally do our last bit of lock picking to get through this door

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And here i'm just hoping that I have enough time

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because i'm not really checking my timer too specifically on

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when we killed granny and grandpa

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So I gotta be a little bit worried about them spawning in an unlucky location

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And me just dying losing the run and then having to reset for so much more time, but we can open that up we're coming over to this spot.

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We drop down, we can pick up this wheel, then we can head through this chute, get through there, and all we have to do at this point is go through the yard

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and make it over to the gate to escape.

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I didn't know at the time, but we took out Granny and Grandpa around 40 seconds in, so we were more than fine.

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This is about when they would start respawning, but yeah, they're not going to be able to catch up to us at this point, so all we have to do is wait for this gate to go down,

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go through this door, and that's going to be time 322.

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And that's 35th for Granny 1, 7th for Granny 2 And 1st place for Granny 3 At least for the PC version There are faster phone speedruns Alright,

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “I Tried Speedrunning Granny”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: granny, key, door, pick. This video has 167 sentences and 2437 words to shadow. The speech runs for 9:41. The speaker talks fast, about 252 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 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
granny noun	/ˈɡɹæni/	A grandmother.
crowbar noun	/ˈkɹoʊˌbɑɹ/	An iron or steel bar, often with a flattened end which may also be hook-shaped, to be used as a lever to manually force things apart.
preset adjective	/ˈpɹiːsɛt/	Set in advance, especially as a default.
grandpa noun	/ˈɡɹæm.pɑː/	grandfather.
screwdriver noun	/ˈskɹuˌdɹaɪvɚ/	A hand tool or power tool which engages with the head of a screw and allows torque to be applied to turn the screw, thus driving it in or loosening it.
spawn verb	/spɔn/	To produce or deposit (eggs) in water.
generator noun	/ˈdʒɛnəɹeɪtə(ɹ)/	An apparatus in which vapour or gas is formed from a liquid or solid by means of heat or chemical process, as a steam boiler, gas retort etc.
pliers noun	/ˈplaɪ.ə(ɹ)z/	A pincer-like gripping tool that multiplies the strength of the user's hand, often used for bending things.
shotgun noun	/ˈʃɑtɡʌn/	A gun which fires loads typically consisting of small metal balls, called shot, from a cartridge.
basement noun	/ˈbeɪsmənt/	A floor of a building below ground level.
spider noun	/ˈspaɪ̯dɚ/	Any of various eight-legged, predatory arthropods, of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs to catch prey.
crossbow noun	/ˈkɹɒsbəʊ/	A mechanised weapon, based on the bow and arrow, that shoots bolts.
fuse noun	/fjuːz/	A wick or cord used to convey flame to gunpowder, a bomb, or similar explosive.
reset verb	/ɹiːˈsɛt/	To set back to the initial state.
hammer noun	/ˈhæmɚ/	A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
pick up verb		To lift; to grasp and raise.
go through verb		To travel from one end of something to the other.
open up verb		To open.
come over verb		To affect in a sudden, unprecedented or surprising manner; to overwhelm a person's ordinarily contrary impulse.
get out of verb		To leave, exit or escape from; to become free of.
get through verb	/ɡɛt ˈθɹu/	To overcome; to endure.
back down verb		To take a less aggressive position in a conflict than one previously had, or has planned to have.
back up verb		To move backwards, especially for a vehicle to do so.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

Granny's not too happy, but we got it done.
I don't want that to happen.
I'm going to shoot him.
I'm not even going to lie.

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	hasn't been · have done
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	are speed · would be terrified
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	weapon, which is · odds, which are
Advice with “should” should + verb — saying what is a good idea	should be

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 62 contractions and reduced forms, such as we're, I'm, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “sh” and “zh” sounds: shotgun /ˈʃɑtɡʌn/, flashlight /ˈflæʃˌlaɪt/, leisurely /ˈliʒɚli/, slingshot /ˈslɪŋʃɒt/, navigation /nævɪˈɡeɪʃən/
Long words — get the stress right: generator /ˈdʒɛnəɹeɪtə(ɹ)/, navigation /nævɪˈɡeɪʃən/, mysterious /mɪˈstɪɹi.əs/, animation /ˌæn.ɪˈmeɪ.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 granny, crowbar, preset.

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.

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