Shadowing Practice: Interview with Malcolm X after return from Mecca, Hajj in 1964 Complete - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Malcolm X.
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I think a lot of people are confused by the new Arabic name, El -Hajj Malik El -Shabazz.
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This is always...
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I've always had the name on my passport, Malik El -Shabazz, only I only used it in the Muslim world.
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Hajj is a title that is given to any
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Muslim who makes the pilgrimage to Mecca during the official Hajj season.
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Will you now use Shabazz and drop X?
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I'll probably continue to use Malcolm X, because, and I'll probably use it as long as the situation that produced it exists.
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You don't feel, you don't feel that Shabazz takes the place of X?
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My going to Mecca and going into the Muslim world, into the African world, and being recognized and accepted as a Muslim and as a brother
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may solve the problem for me personally.
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But I personally feel
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that my personal problem is never solved as long as the
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problem is not solved for all of our people in this country.
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So I remain Malcolm X as long as there is a need to protest
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and struggle and fight against the injustices that our people are involved in in this country.
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Are you prepared to go into the United Nations at this point
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and ask the charges be brought against the United States for its treatment of American Negroes?
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Oh, yes.
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Oh, yes, please.
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I took you right in my hand.
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The audience will have to be quiet.
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Yes, as I pointed out when I was doing my traveling,
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that African nations and Asian nations and Latin American nations look very hypocritical
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when they stand up in the United Nations condemning the racist practices of South Africa
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and that which is practiced by Portugal and Angola and saying nothing in the U .N about the racist practices
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that are manifest every day against Negroes in this society.
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Even in South Africa, those
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Africans aren't faced with bayonets and aren't faced with police dogs.
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I would be not a man.
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If I was in a position to bring it in front of the United Nations and didn't do so, I wouldn't be a man.
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Malcolm, do you intend to lead the charge in the United Nations?
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Well, I find that to say you're going to lead something creates a lot of hostility, division, jealousy, and envy.
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I hope to work with any group of leaders
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or any group of organizations to do whatever is necessary to see that this problem is brought before the United Nations.
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Have you had any commitment from any nations in Africa to support you in this move?
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I would rather not say at this time, but one thing I found in my travels,
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all of them look upon us as their long -lost brother.
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You realize the implication is that you have had such commitments when you say...
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This is your interpretation of what I said.
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One thing that I found in all of my travels was that all of the Africans, not only the Africans, but the Asians and the Muslims,
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look upon us as their long -lost brothers.
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And America had actually tricked many of them into a hands -off policy by giving them the impression
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that she was honestly trying to do something to solve the problem.
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My argument over there was designed to prove that it is impossible for the United States government to solve the race problem.
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It's impossible.
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Malcolm, on your trip abroad,
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you said you sent a feeling of great brotherhood and that conceivably you would be working toward integration in this country now.
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At least this is what your reporter to have said.
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Any comment on it?
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I don't think that I ever mentioned anything about working toward integration.
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They haven't even got integration right here in New York City.
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You have worse integration problems in the north than they have in the south.
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So if you can't bring about integration in New York City, as international, cosmopolitan, up -to -date as it's supposed to be,
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you'll never get integration anywhere else in the country.
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Are you prepared to work with some of the leaders of the other civil rights organizations?
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Certainly.
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Certainly.
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We will work with any groups, organizations, or leaders in any way, as long as it's genuinely designed to get results.
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Does your new beard have any religious significance?
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No, not particularly, but I do think that you'll find black people in America,
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as they strive to throw off the shackles of mental colonialism,
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will also probably reflect an effort to throw off the shackles of cultural colonialism.
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And they may begin to reflect desires of their own, with standards of their own.
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Malcolm, your more controversial remarks was a call for black people to get rifles and form rifle clubs sometime back.
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Do you still favor that?
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Of course, self -defense has made that point.
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I don't see why that should be controversial.
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I think that if white people found themselves the victim of the same kind of brutality
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that black people in this country face, and they saw that the government was either unwilling or unable to protect them,
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that the intelligence on the part of the whites would make them get some rifles and shotguns and protect themselves.
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Now, Negroes are developing some kind of intellectual maturity, too.
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And they can see that having waited upon the government to protect them has been a weight that has been in vain.
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So any of them who live in areas where the government is not able to do its job,
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then we do have to get together and do a job of protecting ourselves.
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No Negro leaders have fought for civil rights.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Interview with Malcolm X after return from Mecca, Hajj in 1964 Complete”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: nations, Malcolm, integration, Muslim, African. This video has 76 sentences and 954 words to shadow. The speech runs for 5:31. The speaker talks at a natural 173 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 84% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| integration noun | /ˌɪn.tɪˈɡɹeɪ.ʃən/ | The act or process of making whole or entire. |
| solve verb | /sɒlv/ | To find an answer or solution to a problem or question; to work out. |
| rifle noun | /ˈɹaɪfəl/ | A firearm fired from the shoulder; improved range and accuracy is provided by a long, rifled barrel. |
| commitment noun | /kəˈmɪtmənt/ | The act of sending a legislative bill to committee for review. |
| racist noun | /ˈɹeɪ.sɪst/ | A person who believes in or supports racism; a person who believes that a particular race is superior to others, or who discriminates against other races. |
| reflect verb | /ɹɪˈflɛkt/ | To bend back (light, etc.) from a surface. |
| controversial adjective | /ˌkɑn.tɹəˈvɝ.ʃəl/ | Arousing or likely to arouse controversy. |
| trick noun | /ˈtɹɪk/ | Something designed to fool, dupe, outsmart, mislead or swindle. |
| confused adjective | /kənˈfjuːzd/ | unable to think clearly or understand |
| protest noun | /ˈpɹoʊ.tɛst/ | A formal objection, especially one by a group. |
| abroad adverb | /əˈbɹɔːd/ | Beyond the bounds of a country; in foreign countries. |
| impression noun | /ɪmˈpɹɛʃn̩/ | The indentation or depression made by the pressure of one object on or into another. |
| reporter noun | /ɹɪˈpoɹ.tɚ/ | Someone or something that reports. |
| intellectual adjective | /ˌɪntəˈlɛkt͡ʃʊəl/ | Pertaining to, or performed by, the intellect; mental or cognitive. |
| interpretation noun | /ɪnˌtɜːpɹəˈteɪʃən/ | An act of interpreting or explaining something unclear; a translation; a version. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| throw off verb | To confuse; especially, to lose a pursuer. |
| get together verb | To meet, to gather together, to congregate. |
| hands off | Refrain from touching; refrain from initiating any physical contact. |
| point out verb | To identify among a group of similar subjects, or in a scene where the subject might not be readily seen or noticed, with a gesture of the body. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- Does your new beard have any religious significance?
- Do you still favor that?
- I don't see why that should be controversial.
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
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| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | is given · being recognized · is never solved |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | I've always had · Have you had · have had |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 16 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, aren't, I'll. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: integration /ˌɪn.tɪˈɡɹeɪ.ʃən/, controversial /ˌkɑn.tɹəˈvɝ.ʃəl/, impression /ɪmˈpɹɛʃn̩/, interpretation /ɪnˌtɜːpɹəˈteɪʃən/, shotgun /ˈʃɑtɡʌn/
- Long words — get the stress right: integration /ˌɪn.tɪˈɡɹeɪ.ʃən/, controversial /ˌkɑn.tɹəˈvɝ.ʃəl/, intellectual /ˌɪntəˈlɛkt͡ʃʊəl/, interpretation /ɪnˌtɜːpɹəˈteɪʃən/, significance /sɪɡˈnɪfɪkəns/
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 integration, solve, rifle.
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.