Shadowing Practice: Jordan Peterson - How To Read And Study More Effectively - Learn English Speaking with Video

I mean, industriousness involves sacrificing the present for the future, something like that.

And it seems like you have to be able to conceptualize time in order to sacrifice the present for the future.

One of the things that I would recommend that you do as students in this course, and maybe in every course,

speaking of industriousness, is come up with a plan of attack for the course

and use a scheduler you know

if you treat your university career like a full -time job you're much more likely to succeed

and if you keep up on the readings

and you keep up on the on the essays and all of

that then you're much less likely as well to fall into despair

when you get too far behind using a google calendar

or something like

that to organize a schedule for the entire semester at the beginning of the semester can be invaluable especially

if you're not very industriousness very industrious because it can keep you on track

and one of the things we know about industrious people is

that they are very good at using schedules

and at planning the use of their time and

so i would like to say that you should all be smarter

but i don't know how you could be smarter we don't know anything about how to improve intelligence

and i suppose we don't really know anything about how to improve industriousness either

but i can tell you that people who are industrious come up with a strategy

for solving the problem that's ahead of them

and then they do whatever they can to stick to the strategy

and so for example if you sat down today

or tomorrow for a couple of hours three hours

and you filled in a google calendar whatever you happen to use with a strategy for studying

and a list of when all your assignments are due and all of that, and when you're going to sit down and study,

then you won't be in a position where you have to cram for 10 hours a day, hopelessly, right before an important exam.

It's also a very ineffective way of studying, by the way.

I mean, first of all, people who cram for 10 hours say they're studying for 10 hours, but they rarely are, because, well, I can't study for 10 hours.

I don't have the power of concentration that would enable me to do that for

that prolonged period of time i can manage about three hours of intense intellectual activity before i'm pretty done

and it's also the case that if you study and then sleep

and then study and then sleep and then study

and then sleep you space it out then you're much more likely to remember it's also much more likely

that you're you're much more likely to remember

if you try to recall the material and so highlighting in

that sort of thing isn't very useful

but reading closing the book summarizing what you've read without opening the damn book that's useful

and the reason for that is that you're practicing remembering

and that's what you have to practice

if you're practicing memorization you have to practice remembering you don't just go over the thing over

and over that'll help you with recognition memory but some but it won't help you with recall memory Thank you.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “Jordan Peterson - How To Read And Study More Effectively”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: likely, study, industriousness, industrious, studying. This video has 42 sentences and 564 words to shadow. The speech runs for 3:09. The speaker talks at a natural 179 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 86% 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

The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
industriousness noun		The quality of being industrious.
industrious adjective	/ɪnˈdʌstɹi.əs/	Hard-working and persistent.
cram verb	/kɹæm/	To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to fill to superfluity.
semester noun	/sɪˈmɛstɚ/	Half of a school year (US) or academic year such as autumn or spring semester.
conceptualize verb		To interpret a phenomenon by forming a concept.
hopelessly adverb	/ˈhoʊplɪsli/	In a manner showing no hope
memorization noun	/ˈmem(ə)ɹaɪˌzeɪʃn̩/	The act of committing something to memory or memorizing.
prolong verb	/pɹoʊˈlɑŋ/	To extend in space or length.
scheduler noun	/ˈʃɛdjələ/	A person or device that determines a schedule, that determines the order that tasks are to be done.
summarize verb	/ˈsʌməˌɹaɪz/	To prepare a summary of (something).
invaluable adjective	/ɪnˈvælju(ə)bl̩/	Having great or incalculable value.
ineffective adjective	/ˌɪn.ɪˈfɛk.tɪv/	Not having the desired effect; ineffectual; otiose.
despair noun	/dɪˈspɛə(ɹ)/	Loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency.
organize verb	/ˈɔɹɡənaɪz/	To arrange in working order.
assignment noun	/əˈsaɪn.mənt/	The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Meaning
come up with verb	To manage to produce, deliver, or present (something) by inventing, creating, thinking of, or obtaining it.
sit down verb	To assume a sitting position from a standing position.
go over verb	To look at carefully; to scrutinize; to analyze.

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 22 contractions and reduced forms, such as you're, don't, won't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “sh” and “zh” sounds: memorization /ˈmem(ə)ɹaɪˌzeɪʃn̩/, scheduler /ˈʃɛdjələ/
Long words — get the stress right: industrious /ɪnˈdʌstɹi.əs/, memorization /ˈmem(ə)ɹaɪˌzeɪʃn̩/, invaluable /ɪnˈvælju(ə)bl̩/, ineffective /ˌɪn.ɪˈfɛk.tɪv/

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 industriousness, industrious, cram.

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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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

Key vocabulary in this video

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Pronunciation to watch

How to practise with this video

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