Shadowing Practice: Learn English With Story 🔥 Married Without Love | Level 3 Listening || Graded Reader 📚 - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Learn English With Story 🔥 Married Without Love”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: Andrew, looked, smiled, felt. This video has 469 sentences and 3318 words to shadow. The speech runs for 24:08. The speaker talks at a steady 138 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. Only 81% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| nod verb | /nɑd/ | To incline the head up and down, as to indicate agreement. |
| kindness noun | /ˈkaɪnd.nəs/ | The state of being kind. |
| happiness noun | /ˈhæpinɪs/ | The emotion of being happy; joy; elation. |
| beside | /bɪˈsaɪd/ | Next to; at the side of. |
| honesty noun | /ˈɑ.nɪ.sti/ | The act, quality, or condition of being honest. |
| marry verb | /ˈmæɹi/ | To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife. |
| pretend verb | /pɹəˈtɛnd/ | To speak or behave so as to give a false or simulated appearance. |
| breathe verb | /bɹiːð/ | To draw air into (inhale), and expel air from (exhale), the lungs in order to extract oxygen and excrete waste gases. |
| gently adverb | /ˈd͡ʒɛntli/ | Without strong force or quickness: softly, lightly. |
| silence noun | /ˈsaɪ̯ləns/ | The absence of any sound. |
| anger noun | /ˈæŋɡə/ | A strong and unpleasant feeling of displeasure, hostility, or antagonism, usually combined with an urge to yell, curse, damage or destroy things, or harm… |
| regret verb | /ɹɪˈɡɹɛt/ | To feel sorry about (a thing that has or has not happened), afterthink: to wish that a thing had not happened, that something else had happened instead. |
| remind verb | /ɹəˈmaɪnd/ | To cause one to experience a memory (of someone or something); to bring to the notice or consideration (of a person). |
| 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. |
| painful adjective | /ˈpeɪn.fl̩/ | Causing pain or distress, either physical or mental. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| look back verb | To think of (past events) in retrospect (in hindsight). |
| drive away verb | To force someone or something to leave |
| look around verb | To inspect a building or area. |
| look out verb | To be vigilant and aware often as an imperative to alert a person to danger. |
| move forward verb | To cause to make progress. |
| move out verb | To leave one's present location; to leave somewhere for another place. |
| roll down verb | Synonym of wind down. |
| set over verb | To assign; transfer ownership of something. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- I'll wait as long as you need.
- Then why did you marry him?
- I've been thinking, he said.
- Had I ruined his life?
- Would he ever forgive me?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | woman who married · someone who truly · someone who loves |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | has not always been · You've lost · Have you told |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | is built · were retired · cannot be forced |
| Past continuous was/were + -ing — an action in progress at a moment in the past | were eating · was not protecting · was sleeping |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 34 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, I'm, didn't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: shake /ˈʃeɪk/, shelf /ʃɛlf/, reflection /ɹɪˈflɛkʃən/, ashamed /əˈʃeɪmd/, shout /ʃaʊt/
- Long words — get the stress right: uncomfortable /ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/, unfamiliar /ˌʌnfəˈmɪli.ə(ɹ)/
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 nod, kindness, happiness.
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.













