Shadowing Practice: Learning DIGITAL ART in 1 WEEK... 🎨👀 (ft. Orb) - Learn English Speaking with Video

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So the other day I got a really mysterious package waiting for me at my front door.

It was really heavy and I had no idea what it was, but then after opening it, I had realized that this was something special.

This is the XP-Pen Artist Pro 19, one of the best digital art tablets in the entire world, and I have no idea how to use it.

My name is Shrimpy and I've been making art for over seven years, but almost 99% of my drawings have all been on paper, not digital art.

Literally the only digital art I remember making was my logo, which I did on my old iPad that doesn't even turn on anymore.

But now with this fancy drawing tablet in my hands, I thought it'd be the perfect time to try and become a digital art pro in a single week.

But spoiler alert, this challenge went a lot differently than I thought it would.

But with that, let's see what's inside this thing.

I've literally never owned a drawing tablet anything like this.

But I think it's time for a satisfying unboxing montage.

Let's go.

Let's see if I can name anything inside this box.

This is the craziest drawing tablet ever.

Because look at all the stuff it comes with.

We got a bunch of different electricity ports.

We got a bunch of different cables.

And a magic box with the...

Yeah, I'll figure out what that's for later.

In this one, we have the beautiful digital drawing pens.

But in this one...

And last but not least,

we have the drawing tablet itself and this thing flash bangs my camera apparently, but looks amazing.

And now with everything unboxed, let's turn this thing on.

Now, with all the different accessories and wires, I did feel a little overwhelmed, especially with the massive user manual.

This thing is like a book.

But I'm not one to back down from a challenge, so I spent the next hour figuring out what cable goes where, and at last, it was ready.

But there was just one last thing I had to do to make me feel like a real digital artist.

Oh yeah.

Okay, so now with my artist glove on and Photoshop open, Let's figure out what we're gonna achieve today.

Okay, so it's now day one of the challenge

and today We're gonna be seeing how much of the digital art basics we can learn without any tutorials.

No teachers.

No nothing just straight artist instinct What do I talk about?

Let's try it.

So we got the pen and we know that this thing is what you draw with It's got pressure sensitivity.

So depending on how hard you press it can go thicker and then thinner just like that

Even this on its own is so fun to play with Like, oh my god, look at me.

Okay, sorry, let me get rid of all this.

Now, luckily, I'm already pretty good at using Photoshop because I use it to make all of my video thumbnails.

So hopefully we can translate that knowledge into making some digital art.

Now, I've watched some digital art videos before and lots of people have their own, like, fancy custom brushes.

I only have the default Photoshop ones.

But not gonna lie, they look like they could be kind of fire.

So I spent the next hour getting used to sketching with the digital tablet by drawing a couple different characters.

So let me know if you can name all of them.

But to my surprise, sketching digitally actually felt surprisingly comfortable, and within a couple of sketches, I'd already improved so much.

Wait, am I cooking?

On the first day, I'd gone from this, to this, to this one which was pretty good, then to this.

Was I already becoming a pro at- Nah, you're trash.

And that was the end of day one.

But it's now day two, and today, I want to step it up a notch.

Because to be honest, because of the tablet's amazing pressure sensitivity, sketching was actually pretty easy.

Possibly even too easy.

But we still have a lot to learn.

So today, I wanted to introduce a checklist to know exactly what I wanted to achieve on each day, with the final day being a full, epic digital artwork.

But, in order to do that, we need to learn how to colour and blend digitally.

What the.. did.. do.. yeah.

Today's goal is gonna be learning how to blend colors.

First I'm gonna make a new layer so that we can actually color underneath our sketching.

Then equip the brush, make it a bit bigger, select our color, and now...

Whoa, look at that.

Now, I could just color this whole thing in one color, but that's not really that impressive.

So, let's try blending.

So I turned on the pressure sensitivity, made a rectangle, and tried blending from blue to purple.

But this turned out horrible.

No, ahhh...

A few moments later...

Yeah, I'm not gonna be able to do this on my own.

So I pulled up some Sam Does Art videos and a tutorial by Mark Brunette, and instantly learned so much.

And as a little bonus, Mark's video had a free brush pack.

So I made a new rectangle, first laying down the colors, and then using the smudge tool, and oh...

My gosh.

It worked.

It actually worked.

This was literally our first attempt like 20 minutes ago.

But after watching this amazing tutorial by Mark Brunette, and the one and only Sam Does Art, we have already made this.

Oh my gosh!

And you know I had to celebrate this with a victory dance.

But I then spent the remainder of day two experimenting with blending digitally

and using the smudge tool and found myself improving really, really quickly.

But there was still something I hadn't figured out.

What did this thing even do?

Hello?

Bruh!

Hold up, let me turn it on and...

No way!

It is a turntable!

And that was the end of day two.

But for day three, I think it's time to get out of my comfort zone.

Today, I'm gonna be facing my fears and turning off the sketch layer, cause if I wanna be a digital art pro, I cannot have my messy sketch lines showing in the final artwork.

So, I copied over this sketch I did from day 2 multiple times, so I could spend all of today experimenting with adding different line work.

I tried adding black lines, coloured lines, thin lines, and even one with no lines at all, with the goal being to make my drawings look as polished and clean as possible.

And not gonna lie, after completing these three practice drawings, I understand it now.

Okay, so first we got the one where I used black lines.

Now, this was my least favorite out of the three studies, but it already looked so much better than the one that we did in day two.

Then I tried out using colored lines.

Now see here, I used blue outlines instead of black, and I think it had a really nice effect.

Although I did forget to fine line this part.

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But then finally, we got the no lines version.

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And not gonna lie, I did not even know I was capable of doing this, but this one turned out so good.

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But let me know which one out of these three you guys like the most.

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Now with this amazing progress we've made, it had brought us to the end of day three.

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But as I went to go to sleep, I just couldn't stop thinking about what I would draw for the final artwork.

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If I was even good enough, what I hadn't learnt yet, and f- Day 4 began right as the clock hit midnight, as I knew exactly what I wanted to draw.

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If you're a member of my art discord server, you would have heard of the myth of Evil Shrimpy, a mysterious sinister being that appears once every while, and haunts the server.

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Nobody know to the true identity of Evil Shrimpy is, or why they choose to wreak havoc on our community, but the one thing I know for sure is that he's my arch nemesis.

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So I stayed up until late making the character design of Evil Shrimpy, putting all the techniques, skills and tips I had learned to the test to see

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if I could create the true form of this evil being.

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And at 2am, it was complete.

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I had stayed up way too late making Evil Shrimpy's character design and was feeling super, super tired.

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So I took the entirety of day 4 off doing the things that I enjoy most.

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But now on day 5 I decided

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that it'd be a good idea to get some feedback on what I've drawn so far from a real digital artist.

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So I got out my phone and called the incredibly talented Orb.

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Yo!

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Hi!

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What's up gamer?

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Hello gamer.

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Go ahead give me the rundown.

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Okay so I got the tablet.

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I've been learning digital art for like 4 days or so.

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And I think I'm actually getting the hang of it pretty well.

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But I wanted to get your thoughts and opinions on how I've gone so far.

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Okay, okay.

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Uh, do I- do I get something to work with?

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No, I'm just gonna like telepathically show what I've been working on.

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Ah, okay, okay.

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Okay, okay, ready?

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It's not this blank canvas.

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Oh, okay, it's not the blank canvas.

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Okay, here we are.

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Boom.

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Whoa.

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Whoa.

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Oh my god.

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You got the lighting done very well.

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Like, my eyes, they naturally gravitate towards the eyes there.

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That's good, that's good.

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You know, I...

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Because I was thinking about digital art tips, and one of the first things that came to my mind was to practice values.

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But it looks like you've got the coloring very figured out already.

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Oh, thank you.

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I don't know, I watched the Sander's art tutorial, and this one by, what's his name, Mark Brunette, I think?

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Oh, I love Mark Brunette.

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But I also did it all on one layer, so I don't really know how to use layers.

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Oh my goodness.

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How would you approach using layers in like a huge piece?

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There's not really a way to go about it, so long as it works.

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Whenever you're working on something, you make a layer above what you're working on, and then you can just merge it once you're happy with it, and then you can continue doing that loop,

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and you can make as much layers as you want, so long as it helps.

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Another tip I have is a lot of people,

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they will make the drawing hyper detailed in places that the viewers eyes don't really look at in the first place.

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So like yeah, don't worry too much about like, down here.

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Oh heck yeah, and I'm thinking, I wanna see the hand being more sharp, more defined.

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What you can also do is, you see how the fingers are bending?

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Yeah.

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For your next piece, you should make those parts dark as well.

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Also because I think the light's coming from the back.

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Nah, I completely forgot that everything in front is supposed to be dark.

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Like, that doesn't make any sense at all.

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Whoopsie!

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Orb then helped me with a bunch more digital art tips to prepare for the final artwork.

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Until we got a little sidetracked.

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Who is this little guy?

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It's you.

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But thank you so much to Orb for helping me out, and make sure to subscribe to her channel.

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Her vids are amazing.

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But with that, it was now the end of day 5, which meant tomorrow would mark the start of the epic final artwork.

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I wrote down all the tips Orb gave me, and started gathering references with the artwork.

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I wanted the piece to be an epic battle between Evil Shrimpy and myself.

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So I spent the night filling my Pinterest board with pins like this, and at last, it was time.

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So for the second last time in this challenge, I got out my XP-Pen tablet and began working on the final artwork.

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Now while I begin doing so, I just want to say thank you so much for 500,000 subscribers.

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What an absolutely incredible milestone.

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You guys have seriously changed my life and I'm beyond grateful.

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So to give back to you guys, I got a little announcement today.

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And I think you guys are going to like this one.

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Because I'm a traditional artist and I prefer working with my sketchbook and markers, I'm actually going to be giving away this professional drawing tablet to one of you guys

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because I know that there's someone out there who could really really benefit from owning one of these things.

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So, let me explain how to enter this giveaway.

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Because I want to make sure I give the tablet to someone who actually needs it to pursue their art career, and not someone that's just going to be like, BAM, draw a smiley face and never use it again,

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I made a Google Doc which I'll be posting in my art Discord server 24 hours after this video goes live.

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In that Doc, there'll be space for you to show some of your artworks, and basically explain how having this tablet would help you in your art career.

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So, make sure to join my art discord server with the link in the description

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and turn on your notifications so you don't miss out.

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But with that, we are coming to the end of this insane challenge of learning digital art in a singular week.

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I couldn't be happier with how this challenge went

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and how much I was able to improve over the span of 7 days.

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So, if you haven't already, make sure to subscribe and join the discord server.

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Thank you so much to XP-Pen for making this video possible.

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And if you want to buy one of these incredible tablets for yourself, the link to it along with my discount code is in the description.

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I love you all so much and at last I present to you the final artwork Evil Shrimpy vs Shrimpy

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You know what the top part of your mascot reminds me of?

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What?

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Have you ever had bao?

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Bao?

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That looks so yummy.

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Oh, I have.

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It is yummy.

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I've had one of these.

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Wait, what?

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What the hell?

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See, it's the guy.

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It's the little guy.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “Learning DIGITAL ART in 1 WEEK... 🎨👀”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: digital, tablet, drawing. This video has 205 sentences and 2471 words to shadow. The speech runs for 12:07. The speaker talks fast, about 204 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 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

The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
tablet noun	/ˈtæblət/	A slab of clay, stone or wood used for inscription.
artwork noun	/ˈɑɹtˌwɝk/	A painting, drawing, sculpture or other piece of creative, visual art.
sketch noun	/ˈskɛt͡ʃ/	A rapidly executed freehand drawing that is not intended as a finished work, often consisting of a multitude of overlapping lines.
blend verb	/blɛnd/	To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other.
discord noun	/ˈdɪskɔɹd/	Lack of concord, agreement, harmony; disaccord.
tutorial noun	/ˌtjuːˈtɔːɹɪəl/	A self-paced learning exercise; a lesson prepared so that a student can learn at their own speed or convenience.
digitally adverb	/ˈdɪd͡ʒɪtəli/	In a digital manner.
whoa	/woʊ/	Stop (especially when commanding a horse or imitative thereof); calm down; slow down.
sensitivity noun	/ˌsɛn.səˈtɪv.ə.ti/	The quality or state of being sensitive; sensitiveness.
brush noun	/bɹʌʃ/	An implement consisting of multiple more or less flexible bristles or other filaments attached to a handle, used for any of various purposes including…
rectangle noun	/ˈrɛktæŋɡl̩/	Any quadrilateral having opposing sides parallel and four right angles.
smudge verb	/smʌd͡ʒ/	To obscure by blurring; to smear.
yummy adjective	/ˈjʌm.i/	Delicious.
gosh	/ɡɑːʃ/	A mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm.
canvas noun	/ˈkæn.vəs/	A type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp (traditionally) or from cotton and polyesters, useful for making sails, tents, and overcoats or as a surface for…

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
figure out verb		To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce.
get out verb		To leave or escape.
stay up verb		To remain awake; to not go to bed.
turn out verb		To end up; to result.
get out of verb		To leave, exit or escape from; to become free of.
give away verb		To make a gift of (something).
go ahead verb	/ˌɡoʊ əˈhɛd/	To proceed with; to begin.
hold up verb		To wait or delay.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

Wait, am I cooking?
How would you approach using layers in like a huge piece?
You know what the top part of your mascot reminds me of?
Have you ever had bao?
I've had one of these.

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on	I've been making · I've been learning · I've been working
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	I've watched · have already made · we've made
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	one which was · someone who actually
Superlatives the -est / the most … — the top or bottom of a group	the best · the craziest

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 59 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, gonna, I've. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: thumbnail /ˈθʌm.neɪl/, underneath /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/, myth /mɪθ/, gather /ˈɡæðɚ/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: brush /bɹʌʃ/, gosh /ɡɑːʃ/, montage /mɑnˈtɑʒ/, notification /ˌnoʊtɪfɪˈkeɪʃn̩/, polish /ˈpɑ.lɪʃ/
Long words — get the stress right: digitally /ˈdɪd͡ʒɪtəli/, sensitivity /ˌsɛn.səˈtɪv.ə.ti/, mysterious /mɪˈstɪɹi.əs/, accessory /əkˈsɛs.(ə.)ɹi/, entirety /ɪnˈtaɪ.əɹ(ə)ti/

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 tablet, artwork, sketch.

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.

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