Shadowing Practice: Learn 10X Faster In 10 Minutes - Learn English Speaking with Video
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In the world that we live in, the ability to learn things fast is the ultimate skill.
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So today in this video, I want to show you this workflow that I use because, well, learning things is literally my job and also a hobby.
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For those of you who don't know me, hello, my name is Tina.
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I am a ex-metadata scientist turned content creator about AI and tech.
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I also run an AI education business called Learn the Octopus.
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Now, without further ado, let's go.
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A portion of this video is sponsored by Manus.
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so step number one is called standing on the shoulder of giants over here you see is the study plan
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that is the best way to learn ai coding agentic engineering
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vibe coding whatever you want to call it based on the experiences the successes
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and failures of many other people you see whatever you're trying
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to learn chances are somebody has already learned it be
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that a language driver's license ai ai coding whatever
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so what you want to do is actually take the experiences of these other people
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and stand on the shoulder of these giants to learn the way that is the best proven way to learn.
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And the way to do that is to use Notebook LM.
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Well, recently they re-banded themselves to Gemini Notebook.
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Anyways, regardless of what they're called, their tagline is called Understand Anything, Your AI-Powered Research Partner.
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So I actually have a full video covering Notebook LM, Gemini Notebook, that goes into a lot of detail about it, which you can check out over here if you're interested.
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But today we're going to be focused on how to use it to learn things quickly.
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So let's click Try Gemini Notebook, Create New Notebook, and let's say I want to learn AI coding.
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I can type, I want to learn AI coding.
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That is vibe coding, agentic engineering, whatever you want to call it.
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So I want to eventually build a desktop app that can help me track my productivity habits, for example, and gain insights for improvement.
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So help me gather the sources on how to learn this the best way possible
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and gather some projects because I want to learn by doing.
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Say tools I've heard of are Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, for example.
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Click enter.
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So it tells me these sources.
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So I'm going to import these sources that has found for me.
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Thank you very much.
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And then I'm going to say help me design a study plan so I can learn to build my productivity app.
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Wonderful!
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Okay, so it tells me that this is a four-week study plan and week one, week two, week three, week four.
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Excellent!
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This is standing on the shoulder of giants.
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I've done this for so many other things I want to learn and projects.
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For example, here's the one that I'm learning electronics with.
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Still learning electronics with, by the way.
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Without this method, this would have taken me such a long time just browsing through Reddit
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and looking at other people's study plans, reading books, things like that.
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Such a time saver.
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But this is not good enough yet.
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We're not just gonna follow the study plan right now because first I want to really customize it just for me.
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So moving on to part two, custom just for you.
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Now this is my AI coding study plan designed just for me.
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This is the one for building my hardware projects.
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I'm using the ESP32 and here's the one for learning gardening.
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All custom just for me and this is how I do it.
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So first I go to Claude.
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You should use whatever chatbot that you use the most that knows the best about you.
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In my case, that would be Claude right now.
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And I'm going to copy this study plan that it gave me.
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And I'm going to say, help me design a custom study plan with lessons suitable for me based on the research below on how to learn
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by coding, agentic engineering.
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I want to eventually build a productivity desktop app that can track what I'm working on, save it and allow me to query,
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give me insights and tips on how to improve my productivity, aka cope with ADHD basically.
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For example, alert me, hey you're getting distracted
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or hey it's time to take a break and I have the proposal from notebook column here, press enter.
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Cool, so let's see.
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So it says here, given your background, CS, the Griority, running Cloud Code Pipeline Hermes Agent Daily.
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The proposed plan of overcoming CL intimidation framework doesn't actually fit.
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Okay, to be fair, yes, this is true.
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I do have extensive experience in AI coding already, and I do actually know how to make this app.
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So you know what?
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That's fair, Cloud.
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But my point is, it's going to adapt the study plan to you specifically.
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So let's see what it's telling me here.
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Okay, so instead, it's saying that I should scaffold and de-risk activity capture Tari, React, TypeScript, Tailwind, Shell, running, blah, blah, blah, and then data model persistence and dashboard UI.
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Instead, it's a local element query, agentic engineering, rigor, and packaging.
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Okay, so this is what it's telling me that I should do, and I also really like how it tells me what is considered winning.
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Okay, great.
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So this is going to be the actual new plan.
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The plan that is custom towards me.
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Might want to make a few tweaks over here, but honestly, it captures me pretty well.
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It also even says that I've built the study plan based upon your existing infrastructure, like the fact that you have your Mac Studio, and then you also have Hermes agent and like other things going on as well.
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So cool we now have a study plan.
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You can also ask it cool can you make the study plan into a fun interactive html file
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that I can check off as I progress.
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Nice so it made this little like cute little interactive html file that you can actually check off.
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So let's open it full screen and and yeah that's a lot more fun.
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So what I like to do these days, let me actually show my full screen, is I like to use this little desktop app
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that I actually vibe coded where I can just like copy paste
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and then I can follow the study plan by like clicking it.
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I can like click stuff off and then it also gets stored into my obsidian vault.
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So you can see that it literally matches over here.
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This is a great way for me to actually track like when I'm doing things and the progress that I'm making.
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This is one of the little desktop apps that I have vibe coded for myself, which I will explain a little bit more in just the next section.
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But basically just to finish off this customization section, you get like a custom study plan made for you.
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And I just work through it and check stuff off.
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And I like to chat on my chatbot as I'm working through each part of the study plan.
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So I would be like asking it questions.
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How do I set this up?
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What do you mean by this?
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And then I kind of just like work interactively in order to work through it.
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I absolutely love it.
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It's a very like custom interactive experience.
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Little tip here is that choose which models and which chatbot
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that you want to use carefully to progress through your study plan.
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If it's something that I want to keep private, I would use a local model, a local chatbot.
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If it's a study plan that involves a lot of visuals and videos and pictures, like when I'm building electronics, for example, I want to make sure that things I'm pinning things in the right parts of the board, I would use ChatGPT.
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And if it's something that requires big context window, I would use Gemini.
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And if it's something that I just want to be like very straightforward, get through it, I would use Clot.
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I'm going to put on screen my suggestions for what kind of chatbot
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or model you want to be using for what kind of study plan and task that you're doing.
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You can take a screenshot of that
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or you can check out the free guide which I'll link in the description below which has this information as well.
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When people say they want to work with AI agents but they are scared because the learning curve feels too steep, I go like what?
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Have you heard about Manus?
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Like I just built a fully custom CRM for my own Gmail
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and Notion data with a single prompt and it even went
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and researched companies behind wild platforms like Crunchbase and LinkedIn on its own
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and that's just one example of what it can do.
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You see, Madness launched their Madness browser operator, which turns your existing browser into an AI agent that can navigate the web, click through pages, and execute multi-steps all on its own.
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Setup is very simple.
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All you got to do is install the Chrome extension, toggle on the My Browser connector inside Madness, and authorize it.
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And Madness will always ask for your permission before using the browser, so you stay in control.
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Okay, so let me show you a real problem that I have.
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I run my company called Lonely Octopus, and sponsorship and partnership inquiries come in every day from all different places.
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Just to be clear, I'm very, very grateful of this.
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Thank you so much.
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But the problem is that they're all over the place.
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Some are buried in Gmail, some are in Notion.
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I don't have a clear picture of what deals I have and what stage that they're in.
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So I asked Madness to build me one from scratch off my actual data.
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I asked it to go through my Gmail, find every sponsorship and partnership conversation from the last 90 days, cross-reference my Notion, and build me a custom CRM web app that has pipeline stages,
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deal values, next actions, and flag anything I haven't replied in five days.
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But here's where it I also told it, for every company, research them.
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Madness opens my browser and asks my permission first, then goes on Crunchbase and posts their info and visits their LinkedIn to grab their role and company size.
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It's doing the hour of due diligence that I do on every inquiry for every deal, all in parallel.
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Then it comes back with this, an actual working web app, my entire sponsorship pipeline in one board.
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Of course, after this initial screening, I still actually have to go test
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and use the product for weeks before deciding if I like it enough to work with them.
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But this initial stage went from chaos across two different apps and my brain to a system with just a prompt.
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So if you have workflows to automate or agentic task, you can try out Manus for free.
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Link is in the description.
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Thank you so much Manus for sponsoring this portion of the video.
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Now back to the video.
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And with that, let's move on to part three, the productivity system, my desktop widgets.
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So these two little guys are responsible for me actually doing what's on my study plan
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because what point is having a study plan if you don't actually do it right?
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I've already showed you this little typewriter.
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I insert my study plan and it keeps track of it.
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It saves it into my obsidian and this little avocado is a pomodoro app.
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So for example I could just say like you know one minute and we call the task film demo.
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Click start and it would just be a pomodoro timer.
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and when it's done it does that thank you
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and i can also log it which also goes to my obsidian
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and would add on a little log for what i've done
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and that is my accountability system so
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that i actually do the things it works really great for me you obviously don't need to do this
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but if you like i can also give you the prompts in the free guide
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that i have in the description and you'll become unstoppable
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but wait before i end this video i want to add a final bonus section of this workflow
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which is the memory system.
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Here's my Obsidian my memory system.
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Here I use it to track my Pomodoros and also the different study plans that I'm working on.
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As you saw my little desktop apps are able to automatically track all of this into my Obsidian
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so I have a record of how I'm working.
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I also am able to put different resources and things that I learned along the way into Obsidian as well.
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And a tip here is that you can also use a local AI agent like Hermes, Cloud Cowork, open claw and it can pull information from these logs
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so it's able to graph it for you give you suggestions
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and tips for productivity for example you can also ask you
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like what was i doing two weeks ago you know at this time don't know about you
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but i most certainly wouldn't know that before i set up the system
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so there you have it this is my full workflow
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that allows me to learn things like 10 times faster than
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i normally would be able to i hope this is also
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useful for you some inspo perhaps let me know in the comments what you think about this
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and also what's your current learning system i am always interested in learning how to learn better
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and i'll see you guys in next video or live stream.
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What You'll Learn
This video clip helps you build three key speaking skills: concise explanation (how to break down complex workflows like "learning 10x faster" into clear steps), natural self-introduction (mirroring the speaker's casual yet confident tone when sharing background), and topic transition (smoothly moving from one idea—like "standing on giants"—to the next, such as customization). These skills are critical for real-world English speaking practice, whether you're discussing learning strategies or explaining projects.
Listen For These Sounds
Pay attention to connected speech patterns in the dialogue. The speaker often links words, like "want to" becoming "wanna" ("I wanna show you") and "because" reducing to "’cause" ("’cause learning things is my job"). Notice how "for example" is shortened to "e.g." in casual context, and phrases like "without further ado" are spoken with a quick, flowing rhythm. These reductions and links are common in native speech, so identifying them will help you understand fast-paced conversations better.
Say It Like a Native
To mirror the speaker's rhythm and stress, focus on stressing key words like "ultimate skill," "proven way," and "customize." The speaker uses a conversational pace, pausing briefly after important points (e.g., after "step number one is called standing on the shoulder of giants") to emphasize clarity. Practice the shadowing technique: repeat the speaker's lines immediately after hearing them, matching their tone and speed. This helps with "shadow speech"—speaking in sync with native patterns. For pronunciation, mimic the rising intonation in questions like "hello, my name is Tina?" (though it's a statement, the friendly tone softens the end). Use a shadowing site to record yourself and compare; this is one of the best ways to improve English pronunciation. Remember, the goal is to sound natural, not perfect—so focus on rhythm and stress first.
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | has already learned · I've heard · has found |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | is sponsored · is called · be focused |
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.