Shadowing Practice: LEARN ENGLISH with This Vlog | Summer City Speaking Practice - Learn English Speaking with Video
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okay so today let's practice english speaking in real life i'm an english learner
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and i'm going to practice speaking just walking around my city
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and describing everything i see
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and everything i do you know it's gonna be great even
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in cozy it's summer it's warm i decided to take a walk
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so if you also want to practice english like listening skills
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and maybe learn your vocabulary or maybe just hang out with me, have a good time, you know, explore this city because this city is amazing.
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Yeah, let's do that together.
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I hope you're gonna enjoy it.
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All right, so as you can see, it's already getting a little bit darker on the street.
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You see, the sun is going down right there
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and I particularly chose this time
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because the place where I'm going today it's you know it's better to see
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when it's night when it's dark because today we're going to you see those skyscrapers
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it's Moscow downtown and yeah we have already been there recently you know remember
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but today we're going to go there from the other side the side there I really really love a lot
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because like that view is going to be just magnificent bro you're gonna be surprised i'm telling you guys
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and yeah here we are again
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this place this mall has become one of my favorite places in masca recently yeah
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because like i don't know i love that
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and today i decided to come here again
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and walk around right now we're going to go like around the small i'm not going to go inside
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that's the downtown now i've been just waiting
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the lights and i'm gonna go to that area walk a little bit around
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the shopping mall just huge shopping mall man it's huge and then we're gonna go there it's like literally 25 minutes walk
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towards the place I'm gonna go right there.
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Now we're just crossing the street.
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You see how many people are here and it's summer.
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In the summer all people are I don't know, so fresh and beautiful, you know, happy.
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Very, very happy.
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some green lights 11 10 9 seconds 8 7 I bet so yeah this place has become my favorite in Moscow
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I want to hang out here literally every single day
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because we got huge railway station it looks beautiful we got like a tower tower
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and a clock clock to check on time we got big fountain
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and the cafe like a restaurant angola yeah fountain looks good
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i went here last time with my friends we ordered the some food inside the mall
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and then we went out i took a seat here and just chilling,
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eating, you know, because when it's warm you can just sit outside and eat wherever you want.
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Here is like one of the entrances.
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We got a flower.
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Can we spin it?
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Yeah, I can spin it.
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And maybe you'll also remember those flags.
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We got kids around, we got tourists.
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Tourists are here mostly because the railway station and the bus station, big bus station is also here.
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Actually I have never been inside the railway station itself.
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I've never took a train from this place.
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I don't know even where the trains can go from this place. but somewhere apparently
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okay I don't see nothing actually interesting here like just a crowd of people
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listen to this listen to this music it sounds like something latino right we are in Latin America
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Yeah, feels like my home, even though I don't speak Spanish, but I'm Latino.
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the entrance into the subway.
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What are all these people been waiting for?
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Ah, maybe just train and sitting.
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All right, I'm gonna go around the corner, turn right here.
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Oh, no!
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I missed the chance.
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Wow, so beautiful.
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Airplane Somebody is leaving our city Bye -bye Oh my gosh,
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it's so tall And also right there we got tall buildings By the way,
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guys, do you like eating in McDonald's or in Burger King, in general, this kind of junk food?
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Me, personally, I love that.
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I love burgers, fries, cocktails and stuff, but I don't do it really often.
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I don't eat it really often because it's not actually healthy, but I eat it and I love it.
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Here we are.
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oh so many people it's gonna take me an hour it's gonna take me an hour to just get my order
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damn all right let's just what's going on there like
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okay i will just make an order like this let's go you guys bad news the system is broken
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and like the TV doesn't show in the number of an awful like the order you made
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but we got cakes and coffee I just ordered one lemonade
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so it's not gonna take a long time actually to cook a just pour it into the like the cup.
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So many fries oh my gosh and they fry it in oil.
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It's so bad.
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Here's the menu.
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Guys, I got it.
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I bought it.
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I was waiting for 20 minutes just in the line because the line was big.
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It's the best lemonade in my life.
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You have to get ready like now you have to get
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ready bro cuz y 'all maybe don't understand the thing you're
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about to see right now okay guys here we are that's the observation deck I was talking about
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and here is the view okay it's not that crazy actually
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in real life it looks way bigger these skyscrapers like
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and you are literally on the other side over that river you're gonna see this right now
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here is the river it's a river walk down there
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and this view you can take a cruiser by the way that's a really modern cruiser
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just enjoying the river and here's the bridge can you actually use that no i think it's broken
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and the sun is going down right there but i'm going just to hang out
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in this area i'm going to go down there and walk a little bit down there
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right how can i go down oh i don't actually need to go down
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because there was also a great park right here wait oh yeah i'm literally in the forest
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and then boom skyscrapers and here is the
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way down i can take a seat on that bench i want to try that it's a hill very steep
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You don't want to fall from this.
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You don't want to fall down.
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Oh, wow.
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But, you know, it's kind of windy right now.
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It's a little bit nippy, a little bit cold.
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You know, but anyways, the weather is great.
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It looks good.
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That's my POV right now.
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My point of view.
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like actually when i when i first time saw this place
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when i was my first year in moscow
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when i only entered the college i was astonished
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and i was just i was in shock and here
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while i'm waiting for the complete darkness outside let's just talk
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a little it's about life by the way i see some activities right there
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so i will go take a look yeah let's talk about
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life you know i got nothing new like in my life it's just a summer break
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but the thing that happened on internet recently especially like on american internet
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because i'm a big fan of american youtube i watch it to practice my english is like
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that maybe do you know streamers like Casinat, Eyeshow Speed, these kind of people.
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I like watching them and right now they have kind of marathon of playing Minecraft 24 -7
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which is crazy and yes sometimes I watch that being in my dormitory room.
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In terms of playing video games like I have played Minecraft maybe
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when I was at school when I was in five grade maybe
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and I was bad at it I just didn't like it I played with friends a couple of times
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and I didn't play video games
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that much except one video game FIFA the only game I
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played for the whole my life yeah obviously I play such kind of games as a assassin
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and like GTA 5 I played oh
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sport ground oh let's do sports a little bit I saw
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with the news recently there is going to be new FIFA 27 the next like December right November I don't know
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and I've been looking forward to seeing this
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and I also saw they're gonna have like new features in FIFA kind of open world like in GTA
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when you can just walk around as a player
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and participate in different tournaments just walking around on the map you know it's gonna be very interesting
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because fifa never had this kind of feature before yeah let's
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go pull up bars i want to do little pull ups
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to straighten my back i like pulling ups i can do like 20 pull ups
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because i practice it every day outside of my dormitory like in dormitory backyard we got pull barrows, right?
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Can you see me?
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I hope you do.
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Let's do sport.
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Three, four, five.
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guys i found it there's the swing it's like a web
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web where i wanna spend my entire life just lying down like this oh my gosh yeah here is the view
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okay guys that's what i'm talking about with this kind of park
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this kind of place you can chill okay we got this
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kind of view in the night i hope you enjoy this view
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and practicing english together today don't forget
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that i have a group chat for english learners on telegram
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so if you want to find like a speaking partner
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or make more friends you can join
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that free group chat on telegram yeah guys love you all love you thank you
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so much i'm going to go home i'm going to get some dinner done
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and yeah thank you see you bye bye
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 148 sentences and 1669 words to shadow. The speech runs for 14:43. The speaker talks at a steady 113 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 85% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| mall noun | /mɔːl/ | A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct. |
| railway noun | /ˈɹeɪlˌweɪ/ | A transport system using rails used to move passengers or goods. |
| gosh | /ɡɑːʃ/ | A mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm. |
| clock noun | /klɑk/ | A chronometer, an instrument that measures time, particularly the time of day. |
| downtown noun | /ˈdaʊ̯nˌtaʊ̯n/ | The main business part of a city or town, usually located at or near its center. |
| entrance noun | /ˈɛn.tɹəns/ | The action of entering, or going in. |
| spin verb | /spɪn/ | To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction. |
| chill verb | /tʃɪl/ | To lower the temperature of something; to cool. |
| fountain noun | /ˈfaʊn.tɪn/ | A natural source of water; a spring. |
| fry verb | /fɹaɪ/ | To cook (something) in hot fat. |
| telegram noun | /ˈtɛləˌɡɹæm/ | A message transmitted by telegraph. |
| cruiser noun | /ˈkɹu.zɚ/ | A frigate or other vessel, detached from the fleet, to cruise independently in search of the enemy or its merchant ships. |
| awful adjective | /ˈɔːfʊl/ | Very bad. |
| shock noun | /ʃɔk/ | A sudden, heavy impact. |
| flower noun | /ˈfloʊɚ/ | A reproductive structure in angiosperms (flowering plants), often conspicuously colourful and typically including sepals, petals, and either or both stamens… |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| go down verb | To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one. | |
| walk around verb | To walk with no planned destination; to meander. | |
| fall down verb | /fɔl ˈdaʊn/ | To fall to the ground. To collapse. |
| go around verb | To move or spread from person to person. | |
| go out verb | To leave, especially a building. | |
| look forward to verb | To anticipate, expect, or wait for, especially with a feeling of approval or pleasure; to be excited or eager to. | |
| pull up verb | /ˌpʊl ˈʌp/ | To lift upwards or vertically. |
| walk down verb | To continually advance (on an opponent) and punch (the opponent) in order to control the fight and dominate the opponent, while shrugging off the opponent's… |
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
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| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | have already been · has become · i've been |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | is broken · was astonished |
| Past continuous was/were + -ing — an action in progress at a moment in the past | was waiting · was talking |
| Future with “going to” be going to + verb — a plan or something you can see coming | i'm going to practice · gonna be · gonna enjoy |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 61 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, gonna. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: gosh /ɡɑːʃ/, shock /ʃɔk/, observation /ˌɑbzɚˈveɪʃn̩/, astonish /əˈstɑnɪʃ/
- Long words — get the stress right: participate /pɑːˈtɪs.ɪ.peɪt/, magnificent /mæɡˈnɪfəsənt/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, dormitory /ˈdɔɹ.mɪˌtɔɹ.i/
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 mall, railway, gosh.
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.