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Seventeen years ago, you rode off with Robert Baratheon.
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You came back a year later with another woman's son.
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I want you to leave.
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Find it with a feast?
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Lady Stark thought it might insult the royal family to sit a bastard on their midst.
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Lord Stark, where's my sister?
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Stop showing off.
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It's done.
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Your Grace.
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The Targaryens are gone.
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Not all of them.
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Is my mother alive?
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Does she know about me?
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Where I am?
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Where I'm going?
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Does she care?
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The next time we see each other...
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You have to protect him.
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We'll talk about your mother.
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I promise you later.
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I promise.
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Bastard boy with nothing to inherit.
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Off to join the ancient author of the Night's Watch.
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Hear my words and bear witness to my vow.
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Let me give you some advice, bastard.
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Night gathers, and now my watch begins.
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Never forget what you are.
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Bastard son of a traitor.
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The rest of the world will not.
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Who are you?
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You are a Stark.
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You might not have my name.
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You are my blood.
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Wear a black armor.
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Keep your shield on me.
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Never be used to hurt you.
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It's gone.
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All my life, I wanted to be Jon's.
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Run to the litter.
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That one's yours, Snow.
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Show too much kindness, people won't fear you.
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If they don't fear you, they don't follow you.
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Do you remember that game?
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You don't know things, don't know.
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I should have stayed in that game.
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A monster has taken our home and our brother.
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Run to your brother.
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We have to go back to Winterfell and save them both.
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I'm tired of fighting.
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It's all that I've done since I left home.
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You are the son of the last true
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Lord of the North.
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Northern families are loyal, they'll fight for you if you ask.
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A small month has kept to face with House Stark for a thousand years.
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We will not break face today.
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I served House Stark once, but House Stark is dead.
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Prepare to jail!
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Prepare to jail!
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If you want to survive, we need Winterfell.
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And to take Winterfell, we need more men.
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I'm good at this, you know. Of what? At Roran.
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We all enjoy what we're good at.
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I don't.
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All those hard sons of bitches chosen as their leader.
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He died for us.
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Because they're evil.
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I keep hearing stories about you, bastard.
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When Rhaegar won, everyone cheered for their prince.
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Jon Snow avenged a Red Wedding.
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Rhaegar fought valiantly.
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The King in the North!
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Rhaegar fought nobly.
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The King in the North!
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Rhaegar died.
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The King in the North!
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Jon's real man.
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He's a barbarian.
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He's never been a bastard.
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He's the heir to the Iron Throne.
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After Rhaegar fell on the Trident, she had a son.
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Robert would have murdered the baby if he ever found out that Lyanna knew it.
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Ned?
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Lyanna.
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This is the last thing she did.
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There's no mother alive.
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You have to protect him.
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Now she bled to death on her birthing bed.
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Let's give the boy to her brother.
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The next time you see each other, Ned Stark.
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We'll talk about you, Mama.
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To raise as his bastard.
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I was dead.
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I promise.
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I have something for you.
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And it has to be packed very carefully.
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Needle.
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I'm going to miss you.
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Next time I see you, you'll be all in black.
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It was always my colour.
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Farewell, Snow. And you, Stark.
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When my husband brought that baby home from the war, I couldn't bear to look.
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So I prayed to the gods.
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Take him away.
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Go on.
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Father's watching.
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Make him done.
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I condemned this poor, innocent child to a horrible death.
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All because he was jealous of his mother.
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A woman he didn't even know.
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I never met my mother.
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I'll kill every Targaryen I get my hands on.
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My father wouldn't even tell me her name.
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There's horror that's come to my family.
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It's all because I couldn't love a motherless child.
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Are you a brother of the Night's Watch, or a bastard boy who wants to play at war?
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In every man's life, there comes a day when it is not easy.
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A day when he must chill.
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Why do you want to join us, Jon Snow?
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I want to be free.
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No. I think what you want, Mostarov, is to be a hero.
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I fought.
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And I lost.
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I failed.
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Good.
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I won't fail again.
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You'll have to lead one day.
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Go!
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Go!
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Follow your command!
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You learn how to follow.
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They're coming.
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What kind of person climbs on a fucking dragon?
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A madman or a king?
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What do you want?
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The right ruler on the iron track.
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She is my queen.
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Have you been down there?
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Have you seen children?
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Little children birthed?
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Father Smith.
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Burn them all!
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A real name is Egon Targaryen.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

The speaker keeps coming back to these words: bastard, Stark, Rhaegar, mother, Snow. This video has 142 sentences and 817 words to shadow. The speech runs for 6:25. The speaker talks at a steady 127 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 82% 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:

WordPronunciationMeaning
carefully adverb/ˈkɛɹf(ə)li/With care; attentively, circumspectly.
innocent adjective/ˈɪnəsənt/Free from guilt, sin, or immorality.
horrible adjective/ˈhɔɹ.ɪ.bəl/Causing horror; terrible; shocking.
horror noun/ˈhɒɹ.ə/An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance.
dragon noun/ˈdɹæɡən/In European mythologies, a gigantic beast, typically reptilian with leathery bat-like wings, lion-like claws, scaly skin and a lizard-like body, often a…
pray verb/pɹeɪ/To direct words, thoughts, or one's attention to a deity or any higher being, for the sake of adoration, thanks, petition for help, etc.
shield noun/ˈʃild/A broad piece of defensive armor, held in hand, formerly in general use in war, for the protection of the body.
gather verb/ˈɡæðɚ/To collect normally separate things.
jealous adjective/ˈd͡ʒɛl.əs/Suspecting rivalry in love; troubled by worries that one might have been replaced in someone's affections; suspicious of a lover's or spouse's fidelity.
climb verb/ˈklaɪ̯m/To traverse a slope or contour, either upwards (ascending) or downwards (descending).
loyal adjective/ˈlɔɪəl/Having or demonstrating undivided and constant support for someone or something.
chill verb/tʃɪl/To lower the temperature of something; to cool.
cheer verb/t͡ʃɪɹ/To gladden; to make cheerful; often with up.
kindness noun/ˈkaɪnd.nəs/The state of being kind.
insult noun/ɪnˈsʌlt/Action or form of speech deliberately intended to be rude; (countable) a particular act or statement having this effect.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

WordMeaning
come back verbTo return to a place.
find out verbTo discover, as by asking or investigating.
go back to verbTo stem from; to originate in.
show off verbTo exhibit the best attributes of something.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

  • Is my mother alive?
  • Does she know about me?
  • We'll talk about your mother.
  • Do you remember that game?
  • Have you been down there?

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 25 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, I'm, couldn't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

How to practise with this video

  1. Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
  2. Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
  3. Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like carefully, innocent, horrible.

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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