Shadowing Practice: Jude Bellingham Interview before facing PSG on Semi-finals | FIFA Club World Cup 2025 - Learn English Speaking with Video

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What is your chance to win?
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I'm really proud to have made, hopefully by the time people see this, to have made 100 games for Real Madrid.
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It's a massive dream come true, a big achievement.
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I don't take for granted how much it means to play for this club
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and the level that you have to be at, the work you have to put in to play for this club.
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So to be able to represent this club 100 times is huge.
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It's a huge moment for me, for my family and hopefully there's a few hundred more.
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There's already been a lot completed, you know, winning the Champions League, winning the league, playing with some amazing players, having some really good performances,
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scoring important goals, making important goals, things like that is part of the dream of being a Madrid player.
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But there's still so much that I want to achieve, you know, starting here.
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I want to help the team win these last two games
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and take another trophy back to Madrid
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and continue to kind of keep up the brilliance
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and the greatness of the club you know obviously the expectations are huge
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because the club's the biggest in the world
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but yeah we want to add to that
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and I want to be a part of that for sure it's different
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because you know every game I feel like
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if you analyze the game tactically I've played a few different roles within one game actually you know
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defensively there's a certain responsibility and then with the ball a different responsibility.
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Each game I've been given the chance to play somewhere different
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and you know I really like the idea that you know
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when my name's on a team sheet I don't know
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if an opposition or a fan looking at it can't tell where I'm playing
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so I kind of like the idea of that.
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I've always said that I want to give everything for the team no matter what role it is
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and I think one of my My strength is that I can play those different roles.
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So I'm really glad the manager's seeing me in that light, that I can kind of deliver in whatever role for him.
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I feel good.
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I feel like I'm playing well.
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I feel like the team's playing well.
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It's a really enjoyable team to play in, as always, but especially at the minute with the new ideas
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and that new kind of eagerness with the new coach and the staff.
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So, yeah, really good time for us at the minute, I'm really enjoying this new step.
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Obviously, it's kind of coming towards the back end of the tournament now.
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We've had three weeks here that have been a great experience, but yeah, I'm feeling relaxed, obviously.
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I'm trying to tell myself not to think about it, but yeah, it's about just maintaining the body and keeping the head calm.
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The lads seem really calm, really relaxed.
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We're having good days of training, preparing well for a really tough game against obviously the current European champions.
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So we know it'll be a hard game, but we know we've got what it takes to get a result.
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Unbelievable.
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It's weird because you think you can go to these kind of, You can go to these cities in America and like, no one really knows who you are
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and you can kind of operate going through the hotel
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or walking through the city and you'll be fine but then i think it's just because the club's so big
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people just seem to gravitate towards it wherever we go we was in new york the other day
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and people were hanging off the scaffolding outside the hotel trying
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to get a look of us going onto the bus
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and it's just it's insane the games have been crazy i
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know a lot of people have spoke about you know in some of the other games
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that the the stadiums weren't full but you know like in our games you've We've had nearly 70,000, 75,000 in every game.
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And yeah, it's been mental.
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It's been an amazing experience to see how loved we are as a team out here.
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And also just another reminder of how big the club is really.
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You know, it's the biggest in the world.
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You don't see anything like this for any other team, for any other club.
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So yeah, pleasure to be a part of.
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And yeah, thank you to everyone in America for that kind of support.

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You're practicing English with "Jude Bellingham Interview before facing PSG on Semi-finals | FIFA Club World Cup 2025" using the Shadowing technique — a method originally developed for professional interpreter training.

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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.