Shadowing Practice: İstanbul | Easy Turkish 1 - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Hello everyone, I'm Emin.
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Welcome to EasyTurkish and the first episode of EasyTurkish.
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Today we are in the city of North Dakota, today we are in the city of Emirgan, today we are in the city of Stiklal Caddes.
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What do you
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like to
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say about Istanbul?
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I am very much.
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I am very much.
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It is a beautiful city.
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It is a very nice city.
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And I am very much growing up.
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Where you can go and get to the city, I am very much.
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I am very much.
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I am only a walk.
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I am not a walk.
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I am very much.
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I love the most.
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I love the area.
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I love the sea and the sea.
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Istanbul's most loved the sea and the beautiful voices.
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I thank you for the girls.
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I love the sea and the sea and the natural beauty.
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Boaz.
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The sea and the sea.
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I have the same.
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Boaz and the sea.
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Ambience.
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Can you report?
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Can you report?
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Can you talk about anything?
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You can talk about anything?
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You can do that?
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You can do that?
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You can do that?
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You can do that?
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You can do that?
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I can do that?
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I can do that.
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I can do that.
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I can do that.
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I'm going to take my hand.
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I'm going to take my hand.
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I'm going to take my hand.
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I'm going to take my hand.
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I'm going to take my hand.
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I'm going to take my hand.
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I'm going to take my hand.
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I have a lot of places.
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I don't know what I'm saying.
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I'm going to take my hand.
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I'm going to take my hand.
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I'm going to take my hand.
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I take my hand.
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I think I would take a lot of fashion.
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I think the fashion is really a lot of fashion.
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I don't know what I'm going to do.
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I don't know where I'm going to get a lot of fashion.
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But I think I would take a lot of fashion.
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I would take a lot of fashion.
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I would take a lot of fashion.
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I would take a lot of fish.
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What else?
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I would take a lot of fish.
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I took the river to the river to the river.
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That's so much.
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I love to get a fish.
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I want to get a fish.
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I want to get a fish.
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I want to get a fish.
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I love to get a fish.
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One is a fish.
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Two is a fish.
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I think it's a very good place.
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I think it's a very good place.
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If you want to say Istanbul, how do you say Istanbul?
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Who is it?
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Istanbul.
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I don't know.
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I don't know.
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I don't know.
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I don't know.
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I don't know.
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Istanbul.
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I don't know.
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Bencil
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What can
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you say about the culture of culture?
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A culture of culture is a typical thing?
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Good question We are a very good person
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We are very close to the city
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We are very curious
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They are very slow and slow
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We are very happy, we are very happy to be a little bit.
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We are very happy, we are very happy, we are very happy, we are happy, we are happy, we are happy.
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Atatürk!
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We are happy.
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We are happy, we are happy, we are happy, we are happy, we are happy, we are happy, we are happy.
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We are happy, we are happy, but sometimes we are happy.
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I think it's a very close to Istanbul.
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You know, you have a very close to Istanbul.
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There are some advantages and some disadvantages.
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What is the case of which is more?
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The job is a lot of work.
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So, we can stay in Istanbul.
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We can earn a lot.
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We can find a lot of work.
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We can find a way of getting a lot of work.
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We can stay in Istanbul.
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It's a difficult city, a difficult city, but it's a better place.
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For me there are disadvantages of the city.
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But I love to be here for this, it's the biggest advantage.
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That's why it's a big advantage.
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That's why it's a different thing.
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You can see the things you love, you can't see the things you love.
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You can see the dog's love, you can see the dog's love.
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You can see the dog's love.
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This is a new relationship.
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What is the relationship with the reporter?
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You don't want to do that?
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You don't want to do that?
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You don't want to do that.
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You don't want to do that.
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We don't want to do that.
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If you could do something else, what would you do?
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Traffic.
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I don't want to change the traffic.
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I don't want to change the traffic.
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I don't want to do that.
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Traffic.
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Chaos.
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It's a chaos.
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It's a chaos, right.
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Istanbul is very nice.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
The speaker keeps coming back to these words: Istanbul, fish, sea, fashion, traffic. This video has 133 sentences and 815 words to shadow. The speech runs for 5:50. The speaker talks at a steady 140 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 83% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start. 21 of its 133 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| chaos noun | /ˈkeɪˌɑs/ | The unordered state of matter in classical accounts of cosmogony. |
| disadvantage noun | /ˌdɪsədˈvæntɪd͡ʒ/ | A weakness or undesirable characteristic; con; drawback. |
| earn verb | /ɝn/ | To gain (success, reward, recognition) through applied effort or work. |
| curious adjective | /ˈkjʊɹ.i.əs/ | Tending to ask questions, or to want to explore or investigate; inquisitive; (with a negative connotation) nosy, prying. |
| reporter noun | /ɹɪˈpoɹ.tɚ/ | Someone or something that reports. |
| ambiance noun | /ˈɑm.bi.ɑns/ | A particular mood or atmosphere of an environment or surrounding influence. |
| typical adjective | /ˈtɪp.ɪ.kəl/ | Capturing the overall sense of a thing. |
| fish noun | /ˈfɪʃ/ | A typically cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills; any vertebrate that is not a tetrapod. |
| fashion noun | /ˈfæʃən/ | A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons. |
| traffic noun | /ˈtɹæfɪk/ | Moving pedestrians or vehicles, or the flux or passage thereof. |
| advantage noun | /ədˈvɑːn.tɪd͡ʒ/ | Any condition, circumstance, opportunity or means, particularly favorable or chance to success, or to any desired end. |
| welcome | /ˈwɛl.kəm/ | Greeting given upon someone's arrival. |
| episode noun | /ˈɛp.ə.soʊd/ | A discrete but connected event, situation, or period within a broader sequence, narrative, or life course. |
| grow verb | /ˈɡɹəʊ/ | To become larger, to increase in magnitude. |
| beauty noun | /ˈbjuti/ | The quality of being (especially visually) attractive, pleasing, fine or good-looking; comeliness. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| grow up verb | To mature and become an adult. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- Can you talk about anything?
- You can talk about anything?
- You can do that?
- I can do that?
- You don't want to do that?
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 32 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, I'm, can't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: fish /ˈfɪʃ/, fashion /ˈfæʃən/
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 chaos, disadvantage, earn.
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.