Shadowing Practice: Jimmy Kimmel Interviews BLACKPINK! - Learn English Speaking with YouTube

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Our next guests are the most popular all-female group in the vast realm of music known as K-pop.
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Our next guests are the most popular all-female group in the vast realm of music known as K-pop.
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Their debut album is titled The Album.
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Joining us from Seoul, South Korea,
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Jisoo, Jenny, Lisa and Rosé, Blackpink.
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Hello, ladies.
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Thank you for being with us.
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Cho Hongo Mai, Hananju, Adayo.
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What?
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What?
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Wow.
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You're so good.
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I do, but we'll keep it in English for the rest of this interview,
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just for our US viewers.
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Thank you so much for being with us.
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I've never actually spoken to anyone from South Korea on video chat before,
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and I know you are very, very popular.
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Are you even able to leave your homes,
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or would you get mobbed by fans?
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I mean...
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Just as long as we're well covered up.
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Yeah, as long as we're disguised.
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As long as we don't go around like this.
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Yeah.
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So do you ever go out in disguises?
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I know masks are probably good,
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but do you ever wear hats,
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maybe a mustache or a beard or something like that?
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It's a big secret, but I mean,
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we do wear, like, hats and hoodies to cover ourselves.
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We try to kind of,
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like, dress really, like, manly and just, like, tough.
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Yeah, sure.
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That's what I do, too too.
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Your fans are known as Blinks.
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Is that a name that they gave themselves,
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or did you guys come up with that name for them?
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We actually came up with the name when we made the name Blackpink right away.
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So yeah.
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Why did you decide to call the band Blackpink?
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What does that represent?
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Blackpink is, we kind of felt like those two colors represented us the most
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because we're very girly but at the same time we're very savage too.
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So it's like we have a song called Pretty Savage
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and it kind of like kind of goes with Blackpink and so we thought it described us the best.
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I was told that Jisoo doesn't speak as much English as the rest of you.
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Jisoo, What is your favorite word in English?
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Oh.
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My favorite English sentence is...
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That's a pity.
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Oh, that's a pity.
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Oh!
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Can I tell you something?
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My favorite phrase in Spanish is que lastima,
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which means what a pity.
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Huh?
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True.
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Yeah!
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Guillermo likes that.
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Yeah, I love that one.
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You know, there's a documentary that your fans,
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I'm sure, have watched 100 times over on Netflix about you.
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And it's very interesting because you go to a school,
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an academy, where you train to sing and dance.
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And then they choose the students that excel.
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And then they put you in this group together.
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It's kind of like a Hogwarts,
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a Harry Potter, or an X-Men type of situation.
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In that school, do you learn?
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Is it just about performing?
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Or are you learning history and math and all the other boring things that we have to learn?
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We, well, that's the thing.
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I think I was personally really excited that we got to get rid of all those,
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in my opinion, annoying subjects.
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But in the long run,
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I mean, it would have been nice if we're educated that way,
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but mainly it's all about just performance.
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Then also like we have languages and we did like sessions for like how to...
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Yeah.
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We had like we had a lot of language,
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like we had to learn like English, Japanese, Chinese.
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You know?
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I have to ask, Heidi.
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They get so tough at me.
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Very impressed, too.
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Last year, you became the first female K-pop group to play Coachella,
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which, for those who don't know,
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is a big music festival here in the California desert.
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Is that something you knew?
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Like, is Coachella something that people get excited about in South Korea?
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Yeah, anybody who loves music in Korea would love to go to Coachella as like a dream wish.
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For us as a trainee,
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you know, we would search on internet for the performance videos and like who's going to be on the lineup.
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And yeah, it was one of the most exciting parts like as a trainee to watch those stages.
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Lisa, did you meet anybody there that you were excited to meet?
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because I know there are many performers and celebrities there at Coachella.
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Me?
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Yes.
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Jaden, actually.
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Jaden Smith.
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Jaden Smith.
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Oh, Jaden Smith.
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Oh, wow.
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How about that?
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And was his dad with him?
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Do you know about his dad?
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Yeah.
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Oh, his dad was there.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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Did you know his dad was a rapper before he became a big movie star?
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Did you know about Freddie Prinze?
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Um, not actually, but yeah,
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I saw him rap on the stage and I was like, oh my God.
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So cool.
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He was the Fresh Prince.
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He was the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
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He did the song Parents Don't Understand.
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That could be a good song for you guys to cover,
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because I think that's universal.
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Chohambo Mai, Hananju, Adio.
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It's like getting twisted a little bit towards the end.
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Your album, which I have here, is called The Album.
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Now, were you guys working so hard in school
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that you just didn't have time to come up with a title for the album?
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No. We had, like, a bunch of ideas.
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But at the end of the day,
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we knew that our fans were waiting so much for our album that we just,
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you know, we decided to go with something that just described it the best.
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Yeah, Blackpink the album sounded just straightforward.
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Cardi B is one of the artists on your album.
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Do you know Cardi B?
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Yeah, we used to listen to her song all the time.
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And we were such big fans.
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So when we heard that she was going to be a part of our album,
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we just started screaming and,
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like, jumping up and down.
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Yeah.
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So exciting.
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Cardi!
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Do you know the song, WAP?
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Yes!
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We do it all the time.
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All right.
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We're going to take a break,
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and then you guys are going to do a performance for us.
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What song are you going to sing for us tonight?
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We're going to be doing a title song from the album Love Sick Girls.
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Love Sick Girls.
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All right.
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There they are, Blackpink, the album.
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We'll be right back with music from Blackpink.
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Thank you, ladies.
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Hi, I'm Jimmy Kimmel.
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About This Lesson

In this lesson, you will practice speaking and listening skills by engaging with a fun and lively interview featuring the popular K-pop group BLACKPINK. You'll improve your English pronunciation by shadowing the native speakers in the video, allowing you to familiarize yourself with the rhythm and tone of spoken English. By mimicking their speech patterns, you can enhance your fluency and confidence when conversing in English. This exercise is particularly useful for learners looking to understand informal conversational English and cultural expressions.

Key Vocabulary & Phrases

  • disguise - a way to change one's appearance to avoid being recognized
  • manly - having qualities that are traditionally associated with being a man
  • Blinks - the name for BLACKPINK's fans
  • Pretty Savage - the title of one of BLACKPINK's songs, illustrating their edgy style
  • That's a pity - a phrase expressing sympathy for a situation
  • mobbed - overwhelmed or surrounded, especially by crowds of fans
  • girly - having qualities associated with being feminine

Practice Tips

To maximize your learning from this content, utilize the shadowing technique. This involves listening carefully to the interview and attempting to repeat what you hear, mirroring the speakers' tone and speed. Given the casual nature of the interview, you may find the pace to be brisk but manageable. Here are some practical tips:

  • Play short segments of the video, pausing after each sentence or phrase to practice your pronunciation and intonation.
  • Focus on the emotional expressions and gestures of the speakers to help convey meaning beyond the words themselves.
  • Rewind and repeat challenging phrases until you feel comfortable with them, ensuring you're practicing the correct pronunciation.
  • As you become more familiar with the dialogue, try to practice without pausing to build your fluency.
  • Use this session as a chance to learn English with YouTube, immersing yourself in both the language and the cultural context of K-pop.

By consistently practicing through shadow speech techniques, you will gradually improve your English speaking abilities, making substantial progress in enhanced pronunciation and conversational skills.

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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