Shadowing Practice: Inside Angèle’s Bag | Vogue France - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Hello, it's Angèle from Vogue, and today we're going to look at what's in my bag.
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First thing, I have a little pocket,
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and in fact it's the pocket in which I put my little bijoux and especially my little pierre of sorcery, because they're my little pierre protection.
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So we have Agathe, quartz rose, pierre de lune, labradorite and crystal de roche.
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What I know with the crystal de roche is that it's really a It's a very general protection.
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The quartz rose, it's the love, the tenderness.
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The Agathe, in any case, it's rather for the confidence in itself.
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And in fact, when I don't put it, I still keep it on myself, because it's a bit like a gris -gris.
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After, we don't believe it, we don't believe it.
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I completely believe it.
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Ah, my sign astro, it's Sagittaire, Ascendant Balance.
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Then we have...
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Ah, we have a Bob.
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Ah, well, this one comes from a small shop in New York, and I love it because I love the idea of the tricot,
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but the one is quite rigid, so he doesn't relax, he is good.
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It's a bit my Bob's favorite.
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It's bad, but my phone is very important, because without my phone, I don't have a life, like everyone.
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What's there at the back of my phone?
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There are my two best friends in photos.
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There's a little truffle at four -feuilles.
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There's a strass, because I love the strass.
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There's a cœur, and obviously, Pépette, the reine du monde, my dog.
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I see here the Praline Rose of Lion.
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It's just that I'm addicted to sugar, and that I always had something sucre in my bag.
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And here it was the little pralines that I offered.
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So here I have the jewelry.
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It's not for me, but for me, I'm a pet.
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Well, I'm sure.
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I'm taking a pet everywhere.
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And frankly, I've had a lot of luck with this dog because it's really cool.
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After that, it's a living thing, so obviously there are little constraints, but I think that it's also the constraints that allow me to stay focused.
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Mon chien s 'en fout de savoir ce que je fais dans ma vie, quels sont mes horaires ou mes obligations.
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Elle veut juste ses croquettes, sortir, dormir, des câlins, jouer.
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Et je pense que ça me permet, même dans des moments de stress, de la sortir, de prendre l 'air,
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d 'être dans un truc très réel.
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Et je crois que c 'est bien, en fait.
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Moi, ça me fait du bien, au -delà du fait que c 'est l 'amour de ma vie, évidemment.
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Alors ensuite, qu 'est -ce qu 'on a ?
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I have a pencil with the basic, I love it, but in my daily life it's pretty rare.
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But on the other hand I found something really cool, it's this cream.
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It's a little glowy cream.
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There's a little highlighter in the cream and it's really cool.
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It's really cool, it's really a fool.
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Well, it's a fool, I'm sorry.
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It's a long time.
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Kombucha Glow Moisturizer, cream hydratante kombucha for the skin.
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Then, I'm always with a blush that I love a lot because it's a little glowy.
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So I just put a cream, a blush, a cream and a sourcil.
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This is the Anastasia Beverly Hills, I've taken the blonde, and a gel, but not tinted because it's really transparent.
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Or, for days of fêtes, a kind of gloss a little matte.
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Or, this one that I put since I was a child, Smith's Minted Rose Lip Balm.
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So these two things go together.
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The Covid has been a positive thing in my life, that I can pass incognito with the mask.
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And the glasses are a little different because living in Bruxelles, we can't say there's a lot of sun.
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But I think putting glasses, it gives a little style, even when you're fatigued and you're fatigued.
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I think that a pair of glasses is a little lust.
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I think that I've already learned with the recognition.
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The fact of recognizing that what I see is exceptional and cool.
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I don't think I've always been well -entourated, I haven't always been entourated by people who are not very well -entourated.
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And unfortunately, in this job, we've been able to meet a lot of people who are not really there for the right reasons,
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who are rather there to try to take a bit of this light.
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And I can't really love them, but on the other hand, I'm separated.
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There's my tablet.
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It's really...
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I have everything there.
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It's even a bit of there that I can do music
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and it's true that it's all around me because it's not very encombrant
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and it allows me to be super independent and not necessarily need my computer.
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I don't have all my music programs, for example.
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But in reality, it's especially for the text that it's easy
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because I have a little clavier with it and so I can really write the text and work on it.
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So my screen is what?
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My screen is this.
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It's my favorite painting.
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There's a little bit of the coude, which should not be here normally.
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And it's always a bug.
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And so I'm a fan of this painting.
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And I have one last thing for you.
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I brought the Speculose from the house of Dandois.
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And I think that if everyone can go, it will be a beautiful experience of life.
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I talked about the sucre earlier, but for me it's a bit of a must, especially from Bruxelles.
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The Speculose.
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I think that the book of Chevet which struck me, in any case, really, the first one is King Kong Theory of Virginie Despentes.
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And I think that it's been a revelation in a book that is actually quite short,
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to discover a lot of things and to take a clack of it.
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And the book that I read in this moment and that I forgot to put in my bag,
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it's also from Virginie Despentes, it's her last name.
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If I could change my bag against one another celebrity, I would think that I would change my bag with Diana,
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because it would have been more to know what was her life,
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and what we can read about someone in the objects that she brings or that she brings all the time with her.
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Thank you Vogue, it was Angèle.
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I hope you liked to know what's happening in my bag.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Inside Angèle’s Bag”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: bag, quartz, cream, cool. This video has 84 sentences and 1060 words to shadow. The speech runs for 5:47. The speaker talks fast, about 183 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. Only 78% 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 |
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| quartz noun | /k(w)ɔɹts/ | The most abundant mineral on the earth's surface, of chemical composition silicon dioxide, SiO₂. It occurs in a variety of forms, both crystalline and… |
| crystal noun | /ˈkɹɪstəl/ | A solid composed of an array of atoms or molecules possessing long-range order and arranged in a pattern which is periodic in three dimensions. |
| wallpaper noun | /ˈwɔːlˌpeɪpə/ | Decorative paper-like material used to cover the inner walls of buildings. |
| mask noun | /mæsk/ | A cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection. |
| bucket noun | /ˈbʌkɪt/ | A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items. |
| glow verb | /ɡloʊ/ | To emit heat and light without a flame. |
| blush noun | /ˈblʌʃ/ | An act of blushing; a pink or red glow on the face caused by embarrassment, shame, shyness, love, etc. |
| necessarily adverb | /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/ | Inevitably; of necessity. |
| recognition noun | /ˌɹɛkəɡˈnɪʃ(ə)n/ | The act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized (matching a current observation with a memory of a prior observation of the same entity). |
| impression noun | /ɪmˈpɹɛʃn̩/ | The indentation or depression made by the pressure of one object on or into another. |
| lyrics noun | /ˈlɪɹ.ɪks/ | The words to a song (or other vocal music). |
| celebrity noun | /səˈlɛb.ɹɪ.ɾi/ | Fame, renown; the state of being famous or talked-about. |
| relax verb | /ɹɪˈlæks/ | To make something loose. |
| leaf noun | /lif/ | The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants. |
| bug noun | /bʌɡ/ | An insect of the order Hemiptera (the “true bugs”). |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| go together verb | To be in a relationship. | |
| make up verb | /ˌmeɪk ˈʌp/ | To constitute, to compose. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- It's kind of my favorite bucket hat.
- What's on the back of my phone?
- I think it's good, actually.
- Next, what do we have?
- However, I found something really cool, it's this cream.
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 | I've had · I've taken · has been |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | people who are |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 16 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: blush /ˈblʌʃ/, recognition /ˌɹɛkəɡˈnɪʃ(ə)n/, impression /ɪmˈpɹɛʃn̩/, obligation /ˌɑ.blɪˈɡeɪ.ʃn̩/, exceptional /ɪkˈsɛpʃənəl/
- Long words — get the stress right: necessarily /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/, recognition /ˌɹɛkəɡˈnɪʃ(ə)n/, celebrity /səˈlɛb.ɹɪ.ɾi/, unfortunate /ʌnˈfɔː.t͡ʃə.nɪt/, exceptional /ɪkˈsɛpʃənəl/
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 quartz, crystal, wallpaper.
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.