Shadowing Practice: LEARN SPANISH NATURALLY with This VLOG 🇪🇸 (w/ subtitles!) - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Algo raro está pasando aquí y quiero saber qué está pasando.
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A lo mejor no es nada raro y simplemente es que
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la gente aparca aquí todos los días y yo no lo sabía.
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Pero ayer me fui a la cama, el parking estaba completamente vacío porque es un parking en medio de la nada
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y hoy cuando me he despertado el parking está así, hasta arriba.
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So I have a lot of curiosity to know what's going on.
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I'll see if I go to the parking and find someone and with the translator I ask them.
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Is there any event?
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Excuse me.
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Italian?
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English?
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Ok.
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It's Italian.
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It's Italian.
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It's the market.
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Ah, the market!
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Yes, the market is here.
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Ah, ok.
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Why are you so expensive?
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Because you imagine playing in the market.
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Ok, I understand.
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There's the market.
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Well, now I visit it.
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And I'm wondering why there are so many people.
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Okay, this was a bad thing.
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What a shit.
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It was acid.
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I bought it because it was like an actimel, but the actimel doesn't get bad so fast.
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I thought that something happened in the cemetery, because here at the side is the cemetery.
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This is a cemetery, the cemetery.
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But it turned out to be the market, not the cemetery.
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I think they are closing.
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Good morning!
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Yes!
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What kind of books are you doing?
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A camera.
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You speak Italian?
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No, Spanish.
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Yes, it's a lot of...
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Ah, okay, a camera.
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Yes, yes, yes.
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Okay, good day.
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Yes, thank you.
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No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
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no, no.
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I have failed to go to the supermarket.
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I'll go this afternoon to the supermarket, to Lidl or something, and that's it.
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Okay, I have arrived at the lake, it is beautiful, but there is no parking,
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so I have to find another option but it has a look spectacular.
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I have parked here in the street for a moment, because all public parkings are prohibited for the auto caravans,
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so I'm trying to find a place where I can park, and I don't have to pay a look at the face.
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Okay, here it says parking for cars.
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There's a picture of a car.
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I'm going to see this card that says...
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No, it's of speed.
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Well, I'm going to park here.
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I'm going to park here, and I'm going to park here.
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I've parked in the parking that I saw before.
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The problem is that it's a little bit.
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It's not inside the road, because the road is these white lines, but I don't know if it's is paid or is not paid.
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I have not seen any signs, but as it comes out a little from the parking line,
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it worries me that they can put a loan and tell me that they can't park here.
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So I'm going to look for another parking.
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Ya me sé el camino y todo.
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He dado tantas vueltas que ya me sé el camino.
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Este parking está al lado de la carretera, que no me importa.
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Aquí detrás está la carretera.
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Lo que sí me importa es que no tiene sombra, está al sol.
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Entonces pues va a hacer calor dentro de la furgoneta.
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Here is my grandmother.
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Say hello!
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Hello!
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In English or Spanish? In Spanish.
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Hello!
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Good afternoon!
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Bye!
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Bye!
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The water is already burning, so I'm going to put the pasta.
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I can also put it so that the pasta is stronger.
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Yes, but it's not necessary.
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If you listen to an Italian say that you put oil on the pasta, I would say no, no,
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no. The two eggs that I was going to put on a How do you remove them?
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Because the wagon is inclined and they turn around.
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But well, it's fine, it's fine.
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But for a fried egg, yes, but for a fried egg, it's fine.
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But do you know what you can do too?
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You put them in water.
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You break them in water.
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Yeah, but it's not the same.
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It's not the same, but what are you going to do, love?
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So you're going to experience.
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Let's see, it's because the engine is torcida, it's inclined.
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Well, I'm going to cut the tomato with my favorite knife.
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This is my favorite knife.
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It has a micro sierra.
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No see why it's a micro.
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It's a micro sierra.
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Vale, de momento he puesto tomate, maíz, atún, le voy a poner la pasta,
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el huevo y creo que ya está.
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Creo que no tengo nada más para ponerle.
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Ebook, cartas, toalla, el agua, me Me falta la comida.
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Quizás crema de sol.
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No sé cuál es el carril para las bicicletas y cuál es el de las personas, porque hay dos carriles.
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Voy a ir por este, que parece que viene gente por el otro.
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This one here is the parking I came this morning, but it was full and I was very big for this parking.
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No, no, no.
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I don't want the mosquitoes to bite me, I don't want the mosquitoes to bite me.
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I already have a lot of picaduras and I don't want to go anymore.
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Okay.
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At the end, I've been reading and then a friend called me, so I've been talking to her.
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But the sun got a little while ago.
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And we're going back.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “LEARN SPANISH NATURALLY with This VLOG 🇪🇸”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: parking, que, est, cemetery, Italian. This video has 112 sentences and 908 words to shadow. The speech runs for 9:30. The speaker talks slowly, about 96 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound. Only 69% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| cemetery noun | /ˈsɛm.ɪˌtɛɹ.i/ | A place where the dead are buried; a graveyard or memorial park. |
| pasta noun | /ˈpɑ.stə/ | Dough made from wheat and water and sometimes mixed with egg and formed into various shapes; often sold in dried form and typically boiled for eating. |
| microwave noun | /ˈmaɪkɹoʊˌweɪv/ | An electromagnetic wave with wavelength between that of infrared light and radio waves. |
| knife noun | /ˈnaɪ̯f/ | A utensil or a tool designed for cutting, consisting of a flat piece of hard material, usually steel or other metal (the blade), usually sharpened on one edge… |
| bite verb | /baɪt/ | To cut into something by clamping the teeth. |
| sierra noun | /siˈɛɹə/ | A rugged range of mountains. |
| paragraph noun | /ˈpæɹəɡɹæf/ | A passage in text that starts on a new line, the first line sometimes being indented, and usually marks a change of topic. |
| fry verb | /fɹaɪ/ | To cook (something) in hot fat. |
| inclined adjective | /ɪnˈklaɪnd/ | At an angle to the horizontal; slanted or sloped. |
| supermarket noun | /ˌsupɚˈmɑɹkət/ | A large self-service store that sells groceries and, usually, medications, household goods, and/or clothing. |
| mosquito noun | /məsˈki.toʊ/ | A small flying insect of the family Culicidae, the females of which bite humans and animals and suck blood, leaving an itching bump on the skin, and sometimes… |
| parking noun | /ˈpɑɹ.kɪŋ/ | The action of the verb to park. |
| egg noun | /ɛɡ/ | An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, often housing an embryo within a membrane or shell… |
| acid noun | /ˈæsɪd/ | A sour substance. |
| arrive verb | /əˈɹaɪv/ | To reach; to get to a certain place. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| come out verb | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | To be discovered; to be revealed. |
| go back verb | To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time. | |
| turn around verb | To physically rotate (usually around a vertical axis) for a half turn (180 degrees), a whole turn (360 degrees), or an indefinite amount. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- Why are you so expensive?
- What kind of books are you doing?
- I'm going to see this card that says...
- I've parked in the parking that I saw before.
- It's not the same, but what are you going to do, love?
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 | have failed · have arrived · have parked |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | are prohibited · is paid |
| Future with “going to” be going to + verb — a plan or something you can see coming | I'm going to see · I'm going to park · I'm going to look |
| Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — something happening right now or around now | I'm wondering · are closing · I'm trying |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 23 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, I've. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: grandmother /ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌmʌðɚ/, algorithm /ˈælɡəɹɪðm̩/
- Long words — get the stress right: cemetery /ˈsɛm.ɪˌtɛɹ.i/, supermarket /ˌsupɚˈmɑɹkət/, spectacular /spɛkˈtæk.jə.lɚ/, curiosity /ˌkjʊɹ.iˈɑ.sə.ti/, automobile /ˈɔː.tə.məˌbil/
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 cemetery, pasta, microwave.
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.