Shadowing Practice: Learn English with MIRACULOUS — Ladybug & Cat Noir - Learn English Speaking with Video
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After all this time, I've realized you're always here for me, even when I keep rejecting you.
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Your feelings for me haven't changed, and mine are growing stronger every day.
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I can't keep pretending anymore.
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Watch it, Cat Noir, you confusing fantasy with reality!
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You're not Ladybug?
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No, she's not me.
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She's manipulating you.
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You know I'm already in love with someone else.
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Listen to your heart.
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Oh, listen to your brain.
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You're just an illusion.
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See, I'm real enough.
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Impossible.
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There can't be two ladybugs.
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Let's learn English with Miraculous, Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir.
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I bet you didn't recognize me, it's me, Xenia, your real -life English Lindsay coach.
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So, Ladybug and Cat Noir are secret superheroes protecting Paris.
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Just like Spider -Man, they seem like regular high school students, but when there's crime, they use their miraculous to jump into action.
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The bad guy, Hawk Moth, has a partner called Mayura, who just did something sneaky.
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She created a fake ladybug, built from magic, to fool Cat Noir.
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So as we saw, Cat Noir actually believes he's talking to the real ladybug.
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When the real ladybug appeared, we heard her say, Watch it, Cat Noir, you confusing fantasy with reality!
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Watch it is something you say to warn someone.
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If your friend is distracted and almost steps into traffic, that's the perfect moment to yell, watch it, at them.
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And then ladybug said, She's manipulating you.
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To manipulate someone means to influence them in a dishonest way to get something you want.
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Little kids may sometimes use their adorableness to manipulate us parents into buying the toys they want.
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And I have at least 17 other expressions like this to teach you today with Miraculous.
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First, let's go back a little bit to see how my humorous manipulation of Cat Noir started.
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so good there's something wrong we're supposed to be nearly invulnerable
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he doesn't suspect a thing grab his miraculous his ring before
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the real ladybug gets here cat noir don't leave me what
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what's going on i have always gone out of my way to hide my true feelings for you
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but i just can't do it anymore but i thought you said you love somebody else it's it's over
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all right so cat noir is starting to sense some things off
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but he doesn't know why yet cat noir i don't feel
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so good there's something wrong you're supposed to be nearly invulnerable
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if something is invulnerable it can be hurt or damaged you probably know superman is invulnerable to everything but kryptonite,
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even bullets and fire.
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Cat Noir finds it strange that Ladybug seems hurt, but he lets romantic feelings get in the way of his intuition.
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By the way, this is a tricky word to pronounce.
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This L is called a dark L.
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It's not like L -L -L, but L -L.
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A regular L is made behind the teeth, L -L,
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but a dark L is made by lifting the tongue at the back of the mouth in words like world or cool.
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Practice saying it a couple times with Cat Noir.
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If you'd like a quick tip from me on how to practice your pronunciation, shadowing is the way to go.
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You can do it on your own
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Next we heard Mayura communicate with the imposter ladybug without cat noir hearing.
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He doesn't suspect a thing.
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When someone doesn't suspect a thing, it means they have no idea what's really happening or that something is wrong.
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Like in the movie
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Never Let Me Go, based on Kazuo Ishiguro's novel, when the boys play a cruel trick on Tommy by inviting him to play a game
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and pretending he'd be picked for one of the teams when in fact they had no intention of choosing him.
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Poor Tommy.
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Let's watch that short scene.
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And then the fake ladybug really plays with Cat Noir's emotions.
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To go out of your way to do something means you make an extra effort, more than what's normal or expected,
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usually to help someone, or in this case, to hide something.
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See these other examples.
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We have to get you back into the water, fast!
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Please, don't go out of your way on account of me.
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I'm sure you must be very busy and...
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You really went out of your way to express yourself here.
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Mr. Tushman went out of his way to tell me how sweet those kids were
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and that Julian is apparently quite the dream.
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Moving on, after the real ladybug shows up, Cat Noir has some difficulty determining which is the real one.
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Let's watch.
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She looks so real!
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Things aren't always what they seem to be at first sight.
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This ladybug isn't an illusion or an akumatized person.
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Uh -huh, she's a senti -monster.
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But she's so much more elaborate than any of those we faced before.
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So perfect, there's nothing monstrous about her at all.
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Sorry, Katie, but you should have known.
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I'm nowhere near as perfect as her.
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I love you just the way you are, m 'lady.
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Got a hint of where the amak is.
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Look at what my yura's holding.
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Whatever it takes, steal their miraculous from them and don't hold back.
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My yura looks exhausted.
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That's your chance to bring her down and find out who's behind the map!
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Cover your ears!
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No!
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What's going on?
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You're right.
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There's nothing monstrous about her.
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Whoever possesses this controls the Sentimonser.
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She couldn't help but follow orders.
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Sentimonster, you're free now.
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I won't give you orders, but I ask you, help us grab my Urus Miraculous.
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Thank you, Ladybug.
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I will help you.
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Are we cool?
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Are we cool?
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How could you?
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Now it's a little chaotic, but we can also learn a lot here.
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Don't fall for her trick!
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Milady, no!
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We've got a villain to fight.
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We'll take care of me later.
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First off, I find it quite hilarious that
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Cat Noir likes to call Ladybug Milady.
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It is an old -fashioned, romantic way of addressing a woman, short for my lady.
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Cat Noir loves being charming, so this word is perfect for flirting.
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You could also call a man Milord and Since Miraculous has the Paris theme, that reminds me of Edith Piaf's classic song.
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If you fall for someone's tricks, you believe something that isn't true, usually because someone tricked you on purpose.
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And then we hear a variation of this expression when Cat Noir is blinded by love and the real ladybug screams this.
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And notice how natives say the preposition for.
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They usually reduce it to fur.
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So it's fall fur tricks and fall for that.
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We had a couple more examples in the very first clip we watched.
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After all this time I've realized you're always here for me even when I keep rejecting you.
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Your feelings for me haven't changed and mine are growing stronger every day.
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So she said these like here for me, here for me and feelings for me, feelings for me.
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Let's improve our pronunciation by listening to those four lines again and repeating.
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Don't fall for her tricks!
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Don't fall for her tricks!
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I can't believe you fell for that!
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I can't believe you fell for that!
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You're always here for me.
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You're always here for me.
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Your feelings for me haven't changed.
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Your feelings for me haven't changed.
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Oh right, but once the fake ladybug is revealed as something else, we hear what she actually is.
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This ladybug isn't an illusion or an akumatized person.
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Uh -huh, she's a senti -monster.
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But she's so much more elaborate than any of those we've faced before.
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So first, in the miraculous world, an akumatized person, a someone hawk moth, has turned into a villain using a magic butterfly.
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And a senti -monster is a completely different kind of creation brought to life by Mayura, not a real person at all.
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Cat Noir says the senti -monster is elaborate.
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That just means very detailed and carefully planned.
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The opposite of simple.
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An elaborate plan has a lot of moving parts and clearly took real effort to put together.
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Check out these examples.
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I mean, was this really your entire plan?
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Coming in here with no backup?
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Or maybe we had a far more elaborate plan.
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Maybe my partner has a tracking device in his pocket right now.
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These Christmas decorations are very elaborate, yes?
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Now, have you ever noticed that you sometimes forget new words soon after learning them?
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Like all these expressions, elaborate, pull for something, go out of your way.
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It's only natural that our brains forget them, because we don't have the habit of learning and practicing.
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Learning and practicing.
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That's why it's so important to review the vocabulary you're seeing today.
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It's one of the best things you can do for your fluency.
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And I know this not only from my own experience learning English, but also because we've taught millions of English learners, like you.
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This will help you remember the new words from this lesson forever.
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It's really cool.
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The app knows the exact expressions you've learned from the lessons you've watched.
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And just when you're about to forget a particular word, we bring it back to you to practice.
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Monstrous literally means like a monster.
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It could be something extremely ugly, cruel or frightening.
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At the beginning of Shrek, we see everyone assumes he's a monstrous ogre, but by the end we see he actually has a big heart.
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And let's check out the grammar of this construction.
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Sorry, Katie, but you should have known.
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I'm nowhere near as perfect as her.
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Should have known is used when you're pointing out that someone had the information or the clues to figure something out, but they missed it anyway.
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So, should have is perfect for talking about mistakes, should have known, should have noticed, should have realized.
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Listen to these examples.
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You came back.
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You were right, Roxanne.
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You never should have left.
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You should have burned those boats a long time ago.
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And I'd challenge you to practice this construction by writing your own examples in the comments below.
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Tell us what you should have or shouldn't have done.
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Right, then we learn what Mayura is actually controlling.
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I've got a hint of where the amok is.
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Look at what Mayura's holding.
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An amok here is the object Mayura uses to create and control her senti -monster.
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Here it's a keychain of the Eiffel Tower that a tourist might buy.
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But in everyday English, we often use the collocation run amok.
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It means to behave in a wild, out -of -control way.
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Check out this example.
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If we allow bees to run amok like this, the hive will fall into chaos.
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What do you think Mayura means by don't hold back?
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Don't stop yourself, don't stay behind, or don't let them see you.
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Right, to hold back means to stop yourself from doing something fully.
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So don't hold back is an instruction to go all in, without hesitation.
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You'll hear this a lot in sports or competitions.
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Listen to this example.
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Then Ladybug sees an opportunity to attack.
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My hero looks exhausted.
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That's your chance to bring her down and find out who's behind the map.
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To bring someone down means to defeat them or cause them to fail.
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It's often used for villains, but also works in everyday English, like the pandemic brought many businesses down.
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Once they get the mark, they realize that the senti monster is actually quite innocent.
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You're right.
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There's nothing monstrous about her.
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Whoever possesses this control is the senti monster she couldn't help
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but follow orders can't help it means you can't stop yourself from doing something i know my daughter can't help
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but get angry when i take her phone away
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and i can't help but admire her
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when she helps younger kids at the playground get on a swing
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and here's another example i'm sorry to bother you but uh my son and i couldn't help but admire your teddy bear
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Now, the Sandy Monster couldn't help but follow orders.
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If you follow orders, you do what you think is best, do what you are told, or agree with someone.
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Right, it means listening to someone's instructions and doing what they say.
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Soldiers follow orders from a commander and employees follow orders from their manager.
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Cat Noir and Ladybug were about to defeat Mayura, but then Hawk Moth shows up.
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Let's see what happens.
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I'm choking around when I take your miraculous!
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Kendoor, cover me!
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Chen, ladybug.
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No!
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Cataclysm!
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Good move, kitty.
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Now all I have to do is grab my Euras, miraculous, and it's over.
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Chen Mei, Pockmock, you'd better surrender.
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Release him!
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Release her!
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Don't mind me.
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Don't listen to him.
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You had my hero right where you wanted her.
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I could have managed by myself.
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Why'd you do that?
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Because we're Ladybug and Cat Noir.
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Ladybug by itself doesn't sound half as cool.
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So the first line we hear from Hawk Moth is a play in words.
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Getting sentimental on a sentimonster?
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I love plays in words.
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To get sentimental means to let your emotions control you, especially feelings of love or affection.
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Oftentimes, this happens at a moment when you need to be practical.
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Hawk Moth is playing with the part Senti in the words Senti -monster and sentimental.
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So his comment is a little joke about Cat Noir caring about the Senti -monster.
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And here's how natives use the word sentimental in other contexts.
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I may be just a sentimental old turtle, but I think there's a future for this town, and I hope you'll be part of it.
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As Ladybug goes to attack, she screams this.
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Get to war!
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Cover me!
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To cover someone means to protect them or watch out for danger while they focus on doing something else.
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You'll hear it a lot in action movies.
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Listen to these examples.
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Let's go find your father.
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Cover me.
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No. I'll go.
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Cover me!
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At the end of the scene, Cat Noir scolds Ladybug for saving him instead of taking Mayura's miraculous.
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You had Mayura right where you wanted her.
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I could've managed by myself.
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Why'd you do that?
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What do you think he means by I could've managed by myself?
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He didn't need help, he had a secret plan, or she should listen to his orders.
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cool he's just saying he was capable of handling the situation on his own
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if you're carrying something heavy
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and your friend offers to help he might say
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i can manage on my own meaning
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you don't need their help listen to this other example i'll give you a hand with that team
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No, that won't be necessary.
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I can manage on my own.
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Ladybug ends the scene pretty sweetly.
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Because we're Ladybug and Cat Noir.
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Ladybug by itself doesn't sound half as cool.
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If something doesn't sound half as cool, half as good or half as fine without something else,
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it means it loses most of its appeal on its own.
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Like hot chocolate isn't half as tasty without whipped cream.
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Here's another example.
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Well, anyway, it's not half as bad as double pneumonia, right?
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Baaah!
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The piglet we know isn't half as fuzzy as you!
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Babe, if I look half as beautiful as you do in that dress, then there's no way that
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Sky won't notice me! But wait!
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This lesson isn't half as powerful without the test!
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You will now watch the scene again without subtitles and answer some quiz questions.
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Let's do it!
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we're supposed to be nearly invulnerable.
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He doesn't suspect a thing.
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If Cat Noir didn't suspect a thing, that means he was suspicious about something,
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he had no idea he was being tricked or he was pretending not to notice the trick.
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Someone who goes out of their way to help you is doing the bare minimum, avoiding you completely or making extra effort.
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But I just can't do it anymore.
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But I thought you said you loved somebody else.
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It's.. it's over.
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After all this time, I've realized you're always here for me, even when I keep rejecting you.
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Your feelings for me haven't changed, and mine are growing stronger every day.
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I can't keep pretending anymore.
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Now!
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Watch it, Cat Noir.
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You confusing fantasy with reality.
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You're not Ladybug?
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No, she's not me.
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She's manipulating you.
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You know I'm already in love with someone else.
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Listen to your heart.
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Oh, listen to your brain.
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You're just an illusion.
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See, I'm real enough.
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Impossible.
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There can't be two Ladybugs.
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Don't fall for her tricks.
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Milady is a formal, old -fashioned way to call a woman.
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What would you use for a man?
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Milord.
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He should have known is used to point out that someone will find out something in the future,
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had the chance to realize something but missed it, already knew everything perfectly.
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I'm nowhere near as perfect as her.
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I love you just the way you are, m 'lady.
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If something is wild and out of control, you could say it's running amok, holding back, or following orders.
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Got a hint of where the amok is.
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Look at what my ear is holding.
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Whatever it takes, steal their miraculous from them and don't hold back.
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My hero looks exhausted.
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That's your chance to bring her down and find out who's behind the map.
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Cover your ears.
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No. What's going on?
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You're right.
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There's nothing monstrous about her.
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Whoever possesses this controls the Senti Monster.
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She couldn't help but follow orders Senti Monster, you're free now.
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I won't give you orders, but I ask you help us grab my Uras Miraculous Thank you, Ladybug.
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I will help you
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Are we cool?
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Are we cool?
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We could call ourselves
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Cat Dwar and his Ladybugs I prefer the Bugettes and Kitty Cat.
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What do you think?
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You're in charge Ladybug I should have guessed
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How could you?
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Getting sentimental on a sentimonster?
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Huckmonster!
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You're the real monster!
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Oh, that.
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You'll find out very soon.
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We miss you, Grandpa!
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You don't mind calling him Grandpa, right?
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You won't be joking around when I take you a miraculous!
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Kanduara, cover me!
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Say it, Ladybug.
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Gataclysm!
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Good move, Kitty.
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Now all I have to do is grab my Euras Miraculous and it's over.
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Checkmate, Hawk Moth.
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You better surrender.
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Release him!
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Release her!
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Don't mind me.
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Don't listen to him!
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You had my Euras right where you wanted her.
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I could have managed by myself.
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Why'd you do that?
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Because we're Ladybug and Cat Noir.
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Babybug by itself doesn't sound half as cool.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Learn English with MIRACULOUS — Ladybug & Cat Noir”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: ladybug, cat, noir, miraculous, monster. This video has 373 sentences and 3495 words to shadow. The speech runs for 27:04. The speaker talks at a steady 129 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 83% 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:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| trick noun | /ˈtɹɪk/ | Something designed to fool, dupe, outsmart, mislead or swindle. |
| lesson noun | /ˈlɛs.ən/ | A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided. |
| elaborate verb | /ɪˈlæb.ə.ɹeɪt/ | Тo develop in detail or complexity. |
| hawk noun | /ˈhɔːk/ | A diurnal predatory bird of the family Accipitridae, smaller than an eagle. |
| sentimental adjective | /ˌsɛntiˈmɛntl̩/ | Characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion; appealing to the emotions (especially tender emotions) rather than reason, morality, aesthetic… |
| manipulate verb | /məˈnɪp.jʊ.leɪt/ | To move, arrange or operate something using the hands |
| pretend verb | /pɹəˈtɛnd/ | To speak or behave so as to give a false or simulated appearance. |
| illusion noun | /ɪˈl(j)uːʒ(ə)n/ | A distortion of sensory perception where real stimuli lead to a false or misleading impression of reality. |
| whoever | /huˈɛvɚ/ | Who ever: an emphatic form of who. |
| nowhere adverb | /ˈnoʊ.(h)wɛɹ/ | In no place. |
| hint noun | /hɪnt/ | A clue. |
| possess verb | /pəˈzɛs/ | To have (something) as, or as if as, an owner; to have, to own. |
| kitty noun | /ˈkɪti/ | A young cat; a kitten. |
| villain noun | /ˈvɪl.ən/ | A vile, wicked person. |
| exhaust verb | /ɪɡˈzɔst/ | To draw or let out wholly; to drain completely. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hold back verb | To act with reserve; to contain one's full measure or power. |
| find out verb | To discover, as by asking or investigating. |
| check out verb | To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.). |
| point out verb | To identify among a group of similar subjects, or in a scene where the subject might not be readily seen or noticed, with a gesture of the body. |
| show up verb | To appear, arrive, or attend, especially suddenly or erratically. |
| come back verb | To return to a place. |
| go back verb | To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time. |
| put together verb | To assemble, construct, build, or formulate. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- I can't keep pretending anymore.
- I mean, was this really your entire plan?
- Why'd you do that?
- What do you think he means by I could've managed by myself?
- What would you use for a man?
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 | I've realized · haven't changed · have always gone |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | is distracted · can be hurt · is called |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | determining which is · Someone who goes |
| Advice with “should” should + verb — saying what is a good idea | should have · should listen · should really subscribe |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 132 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, you're, can't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: bother /ˈbɑðɚ/, moth /mɔθ/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: illusion /ɪˈl(j)uːʒ(ə)n/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/, instruction /ɪnˈstɹʌkʃən/, shadow /ˈʃædəʊ̯/
- Long words — get the stress right: elaborate /ɪˈlæb.ə.ɹeɪt/, manipulate /məˈnɪp.jʊ.leɪt/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, difficulty /ˈdɪfɪkəlti/, hilarious /hɪˈlɛə.ɹi.əs/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like trick, lesson, elaborate.
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.