Shadowing Practice: Learn MEDICAL Vocabulary in English - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Hi again.
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Welcome back to www .engvid .com.
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I'm Adam.
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Today's lesson is a bit more practical, especially if you're going to be going to travel in an English -speaking country.
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You might want to know some of these words.
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We're going to look at some medical vocabulary and to talk about the issues you're facing.
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Okay?
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First of all, let's break down the medical vocabulary into three sections.
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We have injuries, we have illnesses, we have diseases.
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First thing to understand, an injury is always about the physical body.
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It's bones, it's tissues, it's skin, it's all these things.
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Illness is inside the body, but it's usually shorter.
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It doesn't last a long time, and you can usually get rid of it.
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You can fix it somehow.
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Diseases, on the other hand, they're also inside, but they take a long time, and quite often they can kill you.
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Some diseases, nothing you can do about them.
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There's no cure for them.
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But some diseases you can treat.
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Okay?
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We'll talk about that as well.
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You can treat them, but there's no cure necessarily.
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So, let's start with injury.
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An injury to your physical body can come in different forms.
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All of these are called wound.
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Wound.
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It sounds like an OO sound.
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Wound.
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Okay?
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A wound is when you do something to physically harm your body.
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A burn.
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If you touch the stove, you're pulling out bread from the oven, you touch it, or the stove,
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you're cooking something, and you touch the hot plate, you will burn your hand.
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So if you burn your hand, it'll stink a little bit, it'll hurt a lot, but you can put some lotion on it,
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take care of it.
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A brake.
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Now, if you go skiing and by accident you fall down, you can break your leg.
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Or if you go bicycling, like off -road, like trail biking, you fall down, you break your leg, break your arm, break something,
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like a bone inside somewhere broke.
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But you could also fall and sprain something.
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A sprain means like almost a break.
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Like, for example, you fall down on your ankle.
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You can't see my ankle.
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It's down there, but I'm like twisting it.
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If I fall down on it, I won't break my bone, but it will get all swollen.
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It'll puff up.
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It'll be blue and black and very, very painful, and maybe I won't be able to walk on it, but I didn't break anything.
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Okay?
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So these are examples of injuries.
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Next, we have illness.
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Now, everybody gets ill at some time.
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If you say sickness, it means the same thing.
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Sickness, illness, exactly the same thing.
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You can get a cold, and sneezing, and coughing, and whatever.
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You can get a flu, which usually comes with a fever.
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Many Many of you know influenza, so we just say flu for short.
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This is not very fun.
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You stayed in bed for a few days, but eventually it goes away, hopefully.
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And we always...
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We often talk about a bug.
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Now when we talk about a bug, we're talking usually about a virus.
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So we say there's a bug going around.
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So during certain times of the year, you'll get on the bus,
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and somebody on the bus is sick or somebody coughed and then grabbed onto the handle, then you come on the bus,
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you grab the handle, the bug comes inside you, and then the next day you're ill.
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You have a flu, you have a cold, you have something.
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So we say there's a bug going around.
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Next, we have a disease.
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Now, a disease is a very harsh thing, okay?
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There's mental diseases, there's physical diseases.
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Something that is chronic means that it continues for a long time, it doesn't go away.
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Like, even if I have a chronic cough, it means I'm always coughing, it doesn't go away.
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Then, if you get tested and you find out that, for example, you had a tumor, let's say, you had something growing inside,
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you think maybe it's cancer, you go get it tested and then you find out it's benign.
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It means it's not dangerous.
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It's not going to do anything to you.
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It won't develop into the disease.
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But then, there are some diseases that are terminal.
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Terminal means end.
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So basically, if you have a terminal disease, you're going to die.
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Okay?
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Sad, but true.
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That's how it works.
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Cancer is a terminal disease in most cases.
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In some cases, it goes away for a little while, but it can come back.
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But if you have a terminal disease, you're probably.. going to pass away.
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Now, we heal injuries, okay?
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You go to the doctor, you go to the hospital, they do something, they fix your arm, and eventually, after a little bit of time,
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your broken arm, your broken bone heals.
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For an illness, you go to the doctor and he prescribes a remedy.
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We'll talk about different types of treatments another time, but a remedy
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Remedy is something that you use to fix an illness.
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Remedy can be a noun, you go for a remedy, or a verb, you can remedy the illness.
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Now, a disease you treat over time.
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You do all kinds of things to treat the disease, and you hope that somebody finds a cure.
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I mean, some diseases have cures, you go to the doctor and he gives you something, and you're cured.
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This can also be a noun or a verb.
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Lastly, when we talk about doctors, everybody thinks there's only one word.
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For example, if you're writing an essay, see doctor, doctor, doctor, doctor.
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Other ways to say doctor, doctor, of course.
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Physician.
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A physician is somebody who takes care of sick people.
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A pediatrician.
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Now, this is just one type of doctor, but this is the most common type.
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If you have a family doctor, he or she is a pediatrician.
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And of course, we can just go by their qualifications.
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MD, medical doctor, doctor of medicine, however you want to say it.
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Okay?
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So here's a start to your medical vocabulary learning.
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Join us again another time.
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We'll look at different treatments for different types of medical situations.
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Don't forget to go to www .engvid .com.
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There's a quiz there.
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You can try that out.
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You can ask questions in the comments section.
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Don't forget to subscribe to my YouTube channel.
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And I'll see you again soon.
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Bye -bye.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Learn MEDICAL Vocabulary in English”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: disease, doctor, break, remedy, illness. This video has 127 sentences and 1096 words to shadow. The speech runs for 6:48. The speaker talks at a natural 161 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 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 |
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| illness noun | /ˈɪl.nəs/ | An instance (episode) of a disease or poor health. |
| remedy noun | /ˈɹɛmədi/ | Something that corrects or counteracts. |
| cure verb | /kjɔː/ | To restore to health. |
| terminal noun | /ˈtɚmɪnəl/ | A building in an airport where passengers transfer from ground transportation to the facilities that allow them to board airplanes. |
| bone noun | /boʊn/ | A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates. |
| cough verb | /kɔf/ | Sometimes followed by up: to force (something) out of the lungs or throat by pushing air from the lungs through the glottis (causing a short, explosive sound)… |
| 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. |
| chronic adjective | /ˈkɹɑ.nɪk/ | Of a problem, that continues over an extended period of time. |
| physician noun | /fəˈzɪʃən/ | A practitioner of physic, i.e. a specialist in internal medicine, especially as opposed to a surgeon; a practitioner who treats with medication rather than… |
| heal verb | /ˈhiːl/ | To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure. |
| ankle noun | /ˈæŋ.kəl/ | The skeletal joint which connects the foot with the leg; the uppermost portion of the foot and lowermost portion of the leg, which contain this skeletal joint. |
| sickness noun | /ˈsɪknɪs/ | The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; an illness. |
| verb noun | /vɝb/ | A word that indicates an action, event, or state of being. |
| stove noun | /stoʊv/ | A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room. |
| noun noun | /naʊn/ | A word that functions as the name of a specific object or set of objects, such as person, animal, place, word, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea… |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
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| go away verb | To depart or leave a place. | |
| fall down verb | /fɔl ˈdaʊn/ | To fall to the ground. To collapse. |
| fall down on verb | To fail at or leave incomplete. | |
| find out verb | To discover, as by asking or investigating. | |
| go around verb | To move or spread from person to person. | |
| break down verb | To stop functioning. | |
| come back verb | To return to a place. | |
| pass away verb | To die. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- We'll talk about that as well.
- You can treat them, but there's no cure necessarily.
- You can't see my ankle.
- It's down there, but I'm like twisting it.
- It's not going to do anything to you.
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 34 contractions and reduced forms, such as you're, it'll, doesn't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: physician /fəˈzɪʃən/, tissue /ˈtɪʃ.(j)u/, harsh /ˈhɑɹʃ/, qualification /ˌkwɑlɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/, pediatrician /ˌpidi.əˈtɹɪʃ(ə)n/
- Long words — get the stress right: vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, necessarily /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/, qualification /ˌkwɑlɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/, influenza /ˌɪn.fluˈɛn.zə/, pediatrician /ˌpidi.əˈtɹɪʃ(ə)n/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like illness, remedy, cure.
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.