Shadowing Practice: Is Siri AI Usable for English Learning? - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Siri has been bad for a long, long time.
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Is it finally better?
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Well, that's what we're going to find out in this video.
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Specifically, is the new and improved Siri AI in iOS 27 good for English learning practice?
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There are a lot of interesting new features, not just the ability to have an ongoing chat, but the ability to move between apps.
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So I'm excited to check that out and figure out how useful it can be.
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If you enjoy the video, make sure to hit the like button and subscribe.
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And of course, check out the 90 -day program in the links in the description.
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Right now, on sale, 15 % off.
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I'm going to change voices because the voice that I usually use for Siri, please don't judge me for this.
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I just, I prefer it.
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I don't know why.
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I just like it.
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Hi, I'll practice some things I like to say while you listen.
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Let me try this one out.
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You have one new message.
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Here's another one.
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Your timer is set for one minute
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But since we're working on the right voice for you English I'll practice some things I like to say while you listen.
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Let me try this one out.
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You have hi Listen to let's find the right voice for you.
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I'll practice some things.
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I like to say while you listen Let me try this one out.
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Let me try this one out.
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You have one new message.
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Here's another one Here's another one like
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that your timer is set for one minute now for some directions at the next Okay.
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Let's go American.
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Let's find the right voice for you.
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I'll practice some things I like to say while you listen.
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Let me try this one out.
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You have one new message.
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You have one new message.
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No. Here's another one.
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Your timer is set for one minute.
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I think this is the standard classic Siri.
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At the next stop sign, let's go around again.
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It's good that you can slow it down a bit.
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Let's go around again.
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More expressive.
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Let me try this one out.
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Let's just keep it like this.
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Okay.
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Now, what is different?
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Well, among other things, you can have a standalone chat.
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So just like you can ChatGPT or Gemini or Claude, you can start a new chat and you can have a dedicated chat.
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So if you're doing something, if you make a request, any request on your phone, then you can immediately turn that into a chat about that,
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which lives then in a history that you can review later.
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So let's try that by itself and then we'll explore going around the internet a little bit.
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Hey, I just have a few spare minutes.
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I'm on my lunch break.
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Do you think you could help me practice my spoken English?
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I would love to help you practice your spoken English.
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Since you are on your lunch break, we could talk about food or anything else you would like.
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What are you having?
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That's a little bit boring.
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I don't want to just talk about the thing I'm doing.
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As we go, maybe you can give me some simple corrections, but give me three topics to choose from.
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I can certainly help you practice your English.
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Here are three topics we can chat about.
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Your favorite travel destination, a movie or book you recently enjoyed, or what you like to do on the weekend.
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All right, those are a little boring.
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Can you give me one that's kind of off the wall and crazy?
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If you want something a little more unusual, let's try this.
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If you were suddenly put in charge of designing a brand new, completely ridiculous Olympic sport, what would it be?
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And what are the rules?
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What kind of sport are you picturing?
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This, I think, are a little more interesting of topic.
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If I can invent one sport for Olympics, I think the answer is easy, napping.
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And the thing that's interesting about napping as sport is how it's score.
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It's score by the quality of resting you get and maybe something relate to the dreams you have.
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That is a fantastic idea for a sport.
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I would definitely tune in to watch competitive napping.
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Since you asked for some simple corrections, here are a few small adjustments to make your sentences sound a bit more natural.
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Instead of, this I think are a little more interesting of topic, you could say, I think this topic is a little more interesting.
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Also, Instead of how it's score, you can say how it is scored.
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Your idea about judging based on REM sleep and dreams is really creative.
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How would the athletes train for a sport like this?
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Before we continue, can you send that summary of your correction as text message to Mushroom?
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Ready to send it?
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Yes.
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It's sent?
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Okay, we can continue.
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Great.
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Let's get back to your Olympic napping sport.
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I'm really curious about the training regimen.
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How do you think athletes would prepare for a competition like this?
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What kind of training?
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I want to change what we practice.
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Can you teach me the pronunciation of the word U -S -U -A -L -L -Y?
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Here's how to pronounce it.
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U -S -U -A -L -L -Y.
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It is typically pronounced as three syllables.
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Usually.
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Would you like to try using it in a sentence?
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Well, you said two things.
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You said U -S -U -A -L -L -Y and you said usually.
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Which one is the right one?
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The correct pronunciation is usually.
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I apologize if it sounded confusing before.
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Okay, like this.
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You jua ali.
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I apologize for the confusion.
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The correct pronunciation is usually.
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You shoo ali.
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When I said you usually.
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What I said was wrong.
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You jua ali.
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I apologize for the confusion.
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The correct pronunciation is usually.
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You shoo ali.
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When you tried to say it just now, it sounded a bit like you ali.
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To get the right sound, make sure to blend the...
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I think you're kind of talking in circles.
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Sorry, something's gone wrong.
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Can you find resources online?
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I can certainly help you find some resources.
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I found several highly rated websites and tools for practicing English pronunciation online,
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including BBC Learning English, Pronuncien, and the ELSA Speak app.
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These offer a mix of interactive games, video lessons, and real -time feedback to help you improve.
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Would you like...
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Yes, but for pronunciation, can they all actually listen to your pronunciation?
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I've heard that English Fluency in 90 Days by Luke Pretty has pronunciation practice under lessons
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that can actually give pronunciation feedback based on what it hears.
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Yes, that is correct.
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The English Fluency in 90 Days program by Luke Prady does include AI pronunciation feedback.
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When you complete pronunciation practice modules within the lessons, the system provides immediate, detailed feedback on your speaking flow,
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lesson completion, and specific phonemes.
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Would you like me to look up more details about the specific courses included in the program?
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just what just one more thing i heard that there was a sale going on until the 22nd
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uh like 15 off is that right can
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that be i couldn't find any information about a 15 off
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sale ending on the 22nd for the english fluency in 90
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days program however there is a 30 discount discount available using the code LOWILTE
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and completing their seven -day English challenge unlocks a $40 course for free actually
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that coupon code is for something else and was a long time ago
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and not for the 90 -day program I can tell you right now 15 off the 90 -day program just
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so you I apologize for the 22nd of September.
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Thanks for letting me know.
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I wasn't able to find that specific 15 % off promotion in my search results.
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But it's good to know it runs until September 22nd if you're planning to sign up.
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Listen, I'd love to have you help me promote the 90 -day program all day, but I don't think it's the most interesting content in the world.
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So let's continue with the testing.
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Can you open up the webpage that I have in Safari?
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Good.
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Are you still there?
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So I have to reactivate.
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So I'm reading this quote from Marshall McLuhan.
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The medium is the message.
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This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium, that is, of any extension of ourselves,
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result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves or by any new technology.
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Can't quite get my head around it.
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That's a pretty heady quote.
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Can you simplify it for me?
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Marshall McLuhan's quote means that the way information is delivered,
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the medium, has a much bigger impact on society than the actual information being delivered, the content.
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He viewed media as extensions of ourselves because Because they amplify human capabilities,
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and he argued that the true message of any technology is the fundamental change in scale, pace, or pattern it introduces into our lives.
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Can you give me a few examples?
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McLuhan's favorite example was the electric light.
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It has no content like a TV show or a newspaper article
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but its mere presence fundamentally changed society by eliminating the boundaries of day and night,
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allowing for entirely new ways to work and socialize.
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Television versus print.
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Reading a news story in a newspaper.
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I gotcha.
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That's enough.
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Thank you.
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Can you take this with the original quote?
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If you could copy and paste it, that'd be great.
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And pop it into a new note?
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I've created a new note with the original quote and the explanation for you.
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Yeah, I see it.
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Fantastic.
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I've got the note.
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Can you also create a reminder for me to find a quote every day?
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Or yeah, just add a reminder.
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And then if there's a way for you to actually give me a quote every day.
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I've created a daily I can't automatically send you a quote every day
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but I've set up your daily reminder to find one here
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is a quote to get you start can you add the link to
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that website where I found the previous quote to the daily reminder
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so that I can just tap on it to open the new quote of the day.
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All right.
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Thank you.
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This is really interesting.
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If I rate just the conversation in the standalone chat and compare it to ChatGPT,
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Claude, Gemini, Grok, I don't think it's quite at that level.
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Maybe because it's, as far as I know, running locally.
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And so it's just not quite on the level in terms of intuition.
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Although the feedback was fine.
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The interesting topic was fine.
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The back and forth was fine.
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It's not bad.
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It really isn't bad, especially if you compare it to Siri from, well, any previous Siri.
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Any complicated request, anything, would just give you, here's what I found on the web, and that's it.
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I would only ever set alarms, and that's about it, set alarms.
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So it's a big leap from that, and the thing that I think makes it interesting is not
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that the interaction is so much better it's
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that it's native on the phone and so it can do things natively
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that are harder to do in general with chat gpt
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or claude and certainly can't happen natively on your phone through connections you can set up chat gpt work
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so that it sends messages through imessage and browses the web
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and check your email you can do you can do
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that stuff but But it's not using your phone's native operating system like Siri is.
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Siri can open Safari, your Safari, look at the thing that's there, actually read it, talk about it with you,
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make a summary, rewrite it, rewrite it, save it to a note on your phone or send it to someone
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or to yourself in iMessage or as an email or add a reminder to your reminders.
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And all of that's happening natively on your phone.
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That is the interesting part.
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So maybe as the interactions get better, it will become the way to go.
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It is very cool to be able to just do that kind of stuff through conversation.
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The thing that is a little frustrating that could be improved is persistence.
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So when I went from one thing to the next, Siri went away.
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But if Siri is there with me as a kind of companion,
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I want the same Siri chat to come with me to Safari to talk about the thing, to do the summary, then move over to notes to work through it,
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to do a summary, to set up the reminder.
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And for all of that to have a continuous presence, me and Siri.
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There's then a real assistant living in my phone, doing things for me, using my phone.
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That's when it becomes, I think, really, really interesting.
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But I'm very impressed with the ability to adjust the voices, to slow it down, to change the intensity.
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I'm very impressed with the ability to move between different apps.
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Of course, this is if you're on an iPhone.
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I'm disappointed that it's taken so long to get to this point.
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I'm not overwhelmed by the quality of the interaction, but it's okay.
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I'm not surprised by the fact that it can't process pronunciation.
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And I'm looking forward to testing it further to see how it can kind of fit into my daily life
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and help me do things more intuitively.
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So that's something that I hope continues to get better.
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Now, speaking of that pronunciation feedback, yes, it is so frustrating that when you want to practice pronunciation, AI can't do it.
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Except some can, including, as mentioned, the 90 -day program.
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Now, under specific lessons, pronunciation lessons in the 90 -day program where there's real practice to do,
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there is beneath it a place to do immediate pronunciation practice.
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and get immediate feedback not on the text
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but on the actual pronunciation on the phonemes the sounds the flow intonation
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and it is quite accurate beyond
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that as you go through the program you do role plays
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you get feedback on role plays you complete assignments get feedback
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on assignments you do level checks to check your level throughout the program all of this
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while you're completing over 50 hours of video lessons
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and you get help from me throughout via whatsapp And I really think this is the best way to learn English, because if you just randomly practice with AI,
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it's just kind of this aimless thing.
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It's fine, it's good practice, but it's aimless.
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Here, you're following structured content created by someone who knows what they're doing, who spent years building that content,
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and to complete the feedback loop and actually build the skill, practicing the thing you just learned, getting immediate feedback, trying it again,
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immediate feedback and then if you you know need help further I'm right there on whatsapp
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and I'm very responsive so check that out in the link in the description
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if you're watching this later
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and it's not 15 % off I honestly think it is still a really really great deal
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so link in the description let me know what you think of Siri the new
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and improved Siri in iOS 27 thank you for watching and I'll see you in the next one.
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What You'll Practice in This Lesson
Ever wondered if Siri can help you improve English pronunciation or boost your speaking skills? In this lesson, we’ll explore the new Siri AI features from the video and practice real-world phrases used in casual tech discussions. You’ll learn to follow conversational flow, mimic natural tone, and pick up vocabulary for talking about AI tools—perfect for IELTS speaking practice or daily communication.
Key Vocabulary & Phrases
- Standalone chat: A dedicated conversation with a tool (e.g., "Siri now supports standalone chat, like ChatGPT").
- Expressive: Full of feeling or emotion (e.g., "The new voice sounds more expressive").
- Dedicated: Designed for a specific purpose (e.g., "Start a dedicated chat with Siri").
- Shadowing: The technique of repeating speech immediately after hearing it (great for pronunciation practice!).
- Ongoing chat: A conversation that continues over time (e.g., "Siri now handles ongoing chats smoothly").
- Semantic: Related to meaning (though not in the video, it’s key for understanding AI tools!).
Practice Tips for Shadowing Success
The video’s tone is casual and conversational, with slight pauses and natural speed—ideal for shadowing technique practice. Here’s how to make the most of it:
- Start slow: Pause the video after short phrases (like "Is it finally better?") and repeat them. Focus on matching the speaker’s rhythm, especially the relaxed "uh" and "um" sounds that make speech sound natural.
- Emphasize expression: The speaker mentions "more expressive" voices—mimic the rise and fall of their tone when saying phrases like "Let me try this one out." This helps with intonation, a key part of IELTS speaking practice.
- Use a shadowing app (or just your phone!): Record yourself shadowing and compare it to the video. Notice if you’re speaking too fast or too slow—aim to match the speaker’s pace for fluency.
- Focus on keywords: Highlight terms like "standalone chat" and repeat them multiple times. This builds muscle memory for tricky vocabulary, making it easier to use in real conversations.
With these tips, you’ll turn Siri’s new features into a powerful tool for improving your English—one chat at a time!
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | is set · is scored · is introduced |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | has been · I've heard · I've created |
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.