Shadowing Practice: Learn English with SPIDER-MAN — No Way Home - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Wait, wait, wait, wait!

I love you guys.

Thank you.

Alright, let's do this.

Ah-ha, yeah!

Today we're learning English with Spider- No Way Home.

So let me lay it out for you.

Doctor Strange casts a spell to make everyone forget that Peter Parker is in fact Spider-Man.

But it goes awry.

This botched magic opens the door to the multiverse, bringing together various timelines.

So I've chosen an iconic scene for us to learn with today.

It's where three famous versions of Spider-Man, played by Andrew Garfield, Tom Holland, and Tobey Maguire, meet each other.

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Alright now let's get into the movie.

So this is a really emotionally powerful scene after Tom Holland's Peter Parker's Aunt May dies.

The other two Spider-Man show up to try to console him.

To console someone means to try to comfort them when they're feeling very sad or upset.

So let's watch.

Hey, wait, wait, whoa!

Sorry About me?

Yeah.

Sorry.

I got some understanding of what it is.

No, no, no. Please don't tell me that you know what I'm going through.

Okay.

She's gone.

It's all my fault.

She died for nothing.

Peter is

going

through a tough moment and takes the blame.

In such a moment, it can be really difficult to accept help, and that's what we see here.

Ah, so we have a nice phrasal verb here.

When Tom Holland's Peter says, what I'm going through, he means what he's experiencing emotionally at the moment.

This is a common phrase in English when someone is dealing with pain, grief, stress, or hardship.

You just don't understand what I'm going through.

Nobody understands what I'm going through.

Alright, want to speak English naturally?

Of course you do.

So let's practice some connected speech.

By the way, connected speech is how we natives cut, reduce, and link our words together in fluent speech.

We're going to see a few examples throughout the lesson.

So listen again to how he pronounced, and it's all my fault.

She's gone.

It's all my fault.

The short word and is widely used.

We almost always reduce it to just an n sound.

like in rock and roll, mac and cheese, or M&Ms.

Furthermore, the T in its is a glottal T.

It's cut off at the back of the throat.

It.

So, its, not its.

We then link the S from its to all.

So we hear Tom link these first three words together completely, almost as if it were just one word.

And it's all.

And it's all my fault.

Your English will only get better by speaking.

So now it's your turn.

Listen again and repeat.

It's all my fault.

can finally reach your goal of understanding fast speaking natives without getting lost, without missing the jokes, and without subtitles.

Alright, now let's move on to the next part.

You don't belong here.

What do you think it means to belong somewhere?

To be in the right place?

To be in the wrong place?

To be liked by someone?

Right, if you belong somewhere, it means you are in the right place or situation, emotionally or physically.

So when Peter says, you don't belong here, he means that the other two Spider-Mans are not supposed to be there, in his world.

You might say that you feel you don't belong in a new school, or a job that doesn't fit with your values, for example.

Those other guys are from your worlds, right?

So you deal with it.

Here, the other guys Tom's Peter Parker is talking about are some villains that suddenly showed up in his world.

Here, he's saying these villains shouldn't be his responsibility.

To deal with something means to handle or manage a problem.

It's also often used in situations where you need to face it directly rather than avoiding it.

Check it out in this example.

That's

on you is an informal phrase meaning it's your responsibility now.

Have you caught this phrase in the previous example?

Check it out again and listen carefully this time.

I don't want to deal with this.

So earlier I mentioned the vocabulary flashcards that we have on the RealLife English app.

Let me show you how they work.

When you open up the flashcards for this lesson, you might be shown a definition like, not working as intended.

Now you would think about what word that you've learned that fits with that definition.

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You take your guess and press show answer.

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You'll then see three buttons.

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Based on how well you remembered it, you would select the corresponding button.

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By answering this, the app will show you the flashcard more or less often.

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By doing this, you activate the vocabulary, shifting it from your short-term memory to your long-term memory,

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which over time helps you to retain tons more of what you learn.

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So try the flashcards for this lesson with Spider-Man for free right now.

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Simply tap the link down in the description below from your phone.

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Your future English-speaking self is going to thank you.

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Alright, now let's watch the emotional next part of the scene.

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I'm really sorry that I dragged you into this.

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But you have to go home now.

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My Uncle Ben was killed.

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It was my fault.

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I lost...

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I lost Gwen.

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My, um...

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She was my MJ.

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I couldn't save her.

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I'm never going to be able to forgive myself for that.

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I carried on, tried to, um, try to keep going, try to keep being the,

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uh, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, because I know that's what she would have wanted, but at some point I just,

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I stopped pulling my punches.

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I got rageful.

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I got bitter.

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I just don't want you to end up like.. like me.

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The night Ben died, I hunted down the man who I thought did it.

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I wanted him dead.

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I got what I wanted.

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It didn't make it better.

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I'm really sorry that I dragged you into this.

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If you drag someone into something, it means you pull them into a problem or conflict.

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Like this is actual dragging, when you pull someone or something along the ground with effort.

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So when used figuratively, it's more about involving another person in a situation they didn't choose to be in.

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You dragged Rachel into this.

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I didn't drag her into anything.

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I went to her for permission.

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My Uncle Ben was killed.

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It was my fault.

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I lost...

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I lost Gwen.

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My, um...

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She was my MJ.

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I couldn't save her.

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I'm never gonna be able to forgive myself for that.

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So although Tom Holland's Peter thinks the other Spider-Mans can't understand his feelings, it turns out they have also experienced the loss of a loved one in their lives.

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They actually want to help him based on what they've learned.

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That getting revenge doesn't heal and doesn't make things better.

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As promised, let's get some more fluent speaking practice with connected speech.

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Listen to this again.

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I'm never gonna be able to forgive myself for that.

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There's a lot going on here.

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First, going to is commonly reduced to just gonna.

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I'm never gonna.

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Then, the unstressed to turns into a t with a schwa sound, uh, uh.

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But because it follows the L sound before the vowel, it turns into a flap T, a soft d sound.

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Just like the word little, which we pronounce little, little.

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So instead of saying be able to forgive, he says be able to forgive.

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Be able to forgive.

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The word that has a glottal T, like we saw earlier in its. with me. That. That.

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Finally, for almost always reduces to for.

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It then links to that. For that. For that.

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Whoa, that was a lot.

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Let's put it all together.

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I'm never going to be able to forgive myself for that.

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I'm never going to be able to forgive myself for that.

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Now you try.

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Listen again and repeat.

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I'm never going to be able to forgive myself for that.

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I'm never going to be able to I forgive myself for that.

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I carried on, tried to, um...

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To carry on means to keep going, especially after something difficult.

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It's often used when talking about grief and loss, just like in the famous British posters from World War II.

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Let's pause here to break down the grammar.

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This is an example of the third conditional.

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You just imagine what someone would have thought or chosen in a hypothetical situation.

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Here, Peter is speculating what Gwen would have wanted him to do if she had been alive with him.

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In simpler words, it's his imagination of her wish in a past situation.

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Let's practice it together.

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Turn these sentences into the third conditional.

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If I had left earlier, I would have caught the train.

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If she had studied harder, she would have passed the exam.

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If they had called me, I would have helped them.

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Great job!

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Alright, let's check out this next part where we have a really cool expression to learn.

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To pull your punches comes from boxing,

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where pulling a punch means to deliberately hit with less force than you're capable of, either to avoid hurting someone too much or as part of training.

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Figuratively, it means not being forceful, direct, or critical.

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Now we're talking.

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I'll tell you what, you write the speech, don't pull your punches.

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I won't!

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I'm gonna push my punches, as far as my fist can extend.

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Rageful means full of rage, and intense, uncontrollable anger.

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It's stronger than angry or mad.

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It's more like you're boiling over.

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And to be bitter means to hold on to negative emotions.

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It is when you keep feeling angry, sad, or resentful about something that happened, even a long time ago.

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By the way, another expression you shouldn't confuse with pull your punches is pull your weight.

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That means to do your fair share of the work in a group or team setting.

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For example, if you have someone at work that doesn't pull her weight on a project you're collaborating on, that's really frustrating right?

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The night Ben died, I hunted down the man who I thought did it.

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I wanted him dead.

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Create phrase of verb.

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To hunt someone down means you go looking for them on purpose, usually because you want to catch them or get revenge for something they did.

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It's like you're determined to find them no matter what.

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You're sending soldiers into the island disguised as gangs as citizens, hunting people down using the tracking implants.

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Now let's watch the final part of the scene.

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I want to kill him.

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I want to tear him apart.

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I can still hear her voice in my head.

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Even after she was hurt, she said to me that we did the right thing.

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She told me that with great power comes great responsibility.

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Wait, what?

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How do you know that?

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Uncle Ben said it.

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The day he died.

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Maybe she didn't die for nothing, Peter.

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Tom's Peter is heartbroken, and all he wants is revenge.

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That's why he says...

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I want to kill him.

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I want to tear him apart.

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So if I tear a piece of paper apart, for example, I rip it into small pieces.

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Now to tear someone apart means to destroy them physically or emotionally.

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She told me that with great power comes great responsibility.

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This is probably the most famous quote in Spider-Man history.

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It means if you have power, like strength, influence, knowledge, you also have a responsibility to use it for good.

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In the Spider-Man universe, it's a guiding principle passed down from Uncle Ben, in Tobey Maguire's version, and now Aunt May, in Tom Holland's version.

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Remember, with great power.

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There must also come great responsibility.

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It's the heart of Peter Parker's transformation from a regular kid into a true hero.

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This quote originally came from the 1940s Spider-Man comics, and has since become a life philosophy for fans everywhere.

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Alright, before we get to your test, let's practice our speaking with these two phrases.

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In both instances, we lose one sound.

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With pronouns like him, her, and them, we natives usually drop the first sound.

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So instead of him, her, them, it's im, er, um.

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And the L sound from kill links to the I sound.

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Kill him.

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Kill him.

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Listen and repeat.

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If a word has the combination of letters and T, the T sound is usually dropped.

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You may have seen this many times in words like internet,

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advantage, wanted, and plenty, Here,

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he didn't say, didn't die, he said, didn't die.

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Listen again and repeat.

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Maybe she didn't die for nothing, Peter.

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Maybe she didn't die for nothing, Peter.

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Ah yeah!

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Now is the most important part.

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You have to test everything that you've learned today by watching this scene again, this time without subtitles.

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And to make it a little bit more challenging, I'm also going to ask you some quiz questions.

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Let's go!

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Hey, wait, wait, whoa!

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Sorry about me.

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Yeah, sorry.

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I got some understanding what it is.

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No, no, no, please don't tell me that you know what I'm going through.

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Choose the correct phrase of verb you use if you're dealing with something emotionally difficult.

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Go over, go through, go into.

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Okay.

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She's gone.

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She's gone.

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It's all my fault.

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She died for nothing.

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Just tell me I'll do what I should've done in the first place.

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Peter, please don't.

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You don't belong here.

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Either of you, so I'm sending you home.

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Those other guys are from your worlds, right?

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So you deal with it.

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If they die, if you kill them, that's on you.

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If your friend says, that's on you, what are they really saying?

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You win.

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It's your fault.

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It's your responsibility.

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I'm really sorry that I dragged you into this.

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But you have to go home now.

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Good luck.

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My Uncle Ben was killed.

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It was my fault.

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I lost...

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I lost Gwen.

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My, um...

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She was my MJ.

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I couldn't save her.

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I'm never gonna be able to forgive myself for that.

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I carried on, tried to, um, try to keep going, try to keep being the, uh, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man.

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Make this sentence into the third conditional.

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If I speak English more, I will get fluent.

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If I had spoken English more, I would have gotten fluent.

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Because I know that's what she would have wanted but Some point I just I stopped my punches

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If you start fighting for real without holding back you Stop pulling your punches.

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I stopped pulling my punches.

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I Got rageful I got bitter.

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I just don't want you to end up like me.

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The night Ben died, I hunted down the man who I thought did it.

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I wanted him dead.

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I got what I wanted.

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It didn't make it better.

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I want to kill him.

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I want to tear him apart.

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What does Spider-Man mean when he says, I want to tear him apart?

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He wants to find him, he wants to see him cry, he wants to destroy him.

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I can still hear her voice in my head.

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Even after she was hurt, she said to me that we did the right thing.

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She told me there was great power.

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Comes great responsibility.

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Wait, what?

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How do you know that?

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Uncle Ben said it.

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The day he died.

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Maybe she didn't die for nothing, Peter.

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Great work.

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But don't let all that hard work go to waste.

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You can study the flashcards for free right now in the

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RealLife English app by tapping the link down the description below from your phone.

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That way, next time you get an opportunity to speak in English, you can actually use them.

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And if you're sticking with us here on YouTube, you might want to check out this lesson next.

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I know guys with none of that worth ten of you.

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I've seen the footage.

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The only thing you really fight for is yourself.

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You're not the guy to make the sacrifice play, to lay down on a wire and let the other guy crawl over you.

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I think I would just cut.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This video has 321 sentences and 2887 words to shadow. The speech runs for 24:09. The speaker talks at a steady 120 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 84% 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
forgive verb	/fɚˈɡɪv/	To pardon (someone); to waive any negative feeling towards or desire for punishment or retribution against.
punch noun	/pʌnt͡ʃ/	A hit or strike with one's fist.
lesson noun	/ˈlɛs.ən/	A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided.
belong verb	/bɪˈlɒŋ/	To have its proper place.
tear verb	/tɛɹ/	To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate.
phrase noun	/ˈfɹeɪ̯z/	A short written or spoken expression.
drag verb	/dɹæɡ/	To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty.
emotionally adverb	/ɪˈməʊʃənəli/	In an emotional manner; displaying emotion.
fluent adjective	/ˈfluənt/	That flows; flowing, liquid.
connect verb	/kəˈnɛkt/	To join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object.
revenge noun	/ɹəˈvɛnd͡ʒ/	Any form of personal, retaliatory action against an individual, institution, or group for some alleged or perceived harm or injustice.
bitter adjective	/ˈbɪ.tɚ/	Having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance).
vocabulary noun	/vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/	A usually alphabetized and explained collection of words e.g. of a particular field, or prepared for a specific purpose, often for learning.
whoa	/woʊ/	Stop (especially when commanding a horse or imitative thereof); calm down; slow down.
verb noun	/vɝb/	A word that indicates an action, event, or state of being.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Meaning
go through verb	To travel from one end of something to the other.
check out verb	To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.).
end up verb	To bring to a conclusion.
boil over verb	To boil to such an extent as to overflow its container.
break down verb	To stop functioning.
bring together verb	To cause people to do something together; to bring about togetherness.
go over verb	To look at carefully; to scrutinize; to analyze.
hold back verb	To act with reserve; to contain one's full measure or power.

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 86 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, didn't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: throat /ˈθɹoʊt/, furthermore /ˈfɜː(ɹ).ðə(ɹ)ˌmɔː(ɹ)/, hypothetical /ˌhaɪpəˈθɛtɪkəl/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: emotionally /ɪˈməʊʃənəli/, conditional /kənˈdɪʃ.ə.nəl/, examination /ɪɡˌzæm.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/, imagination /ɪˌmæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/, transformation /ˌtɹæns.fɔɹˈmeɪ.ʃən/
Long words — get the stress right: emotionally /ɪˈməʊʃənəli/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, conditional /kənˈdɪʃ.ə.nəl/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, intelligent /ɪnˈtɛlɪd͡ʒənt/

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 forgive, punch, lesson.

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 chosen · have already downloaded · Have you caught
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	be liked · might be shown · was killed
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	man who I

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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.

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