Shadowing Practice: Listen and REPEAT & Shadow for FLUENCY: English Speaking Practice - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Alright, let's practice speaking English.
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We're going to do some repeat after me, work on your pronunciation.
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We're going to do some shadowing, say it together with me.
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Work on your flow, your pace, your overall English speaking fluency.
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Life is a rat race.
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No, that's a lie.
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Let me tell you all about it.
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Let's jump into the text.
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You don't need to spend your life worrying about death.
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you don't need to spend your life worrying about death why
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because nature takes care of that part for us
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so nature refers to the natural things of life will take
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care of that's a phrasal verb there take care of so
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that means to deal with it it'll deal with
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that for us it will we will die It just means we are going to die naturally, so you don't need to spend your life worrying about death.
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All right, go ahead and shadow me on this.
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Say it together with me.
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Ready?
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You don't need to spend your life worrying about death because nature takes care of that part for us.
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You don't need to spend your life worrying about death because nature takes care of that part for us.
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worrying worrying worrying it's kind of hard to say as i was saying it i was thinking
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that that sounds weird but that's how we say it you don't need to spend your life worrying
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worrying it's like an e sound in the word ee -ing it's like e instead of r We're yeeing.
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Okay, moving on.
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The only thing really important is how we choose to live.
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The only thing really important is how we choose to live.
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You say it.
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That's the only thing that is really important is choosing how to live our life.
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when my time comes when my time comes this is a good phrase to remember
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when my time comes that means when i die
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when it's my turn to go it's a soft way to say
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when i die
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when my time comes i want to be found oh i
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said wanna didn't i wanna want to wanna i want to
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be found peacefully tending to my plants peacefully tending to my plants tending to what's
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that one taking care of taking care of my plants watering my plants
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that kind of thing unaware of death's approach unaware i don't to be oblivious
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and unaware of death coming death is coming
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and you You don't even think about it because you're busy tending to your plants peacefully.
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All right, let's shadow it.
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Ready?
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Here we go.
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When my time comes, I want to be found peacefully tending to my plants, unaware of death's approach.
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Again.
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When my time comes, I want to be found peacefully tending to my plants, unaware of death's approach.
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I long to be
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so immersed in the simple joys stop there I long to
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be I really want I long to be I really want to be
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so immersed just immersed means just full of something covered with something
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to be totally into something doing it only focused on one thing you're immersed in it Immersed in the simple joys,
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my hobbies, my loved ones, everyday routines.
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Okay.
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Something's itchy right here.
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All right.
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I long to be so immersed in the simple joys, my hobbies, my loved ones, everyday routines.
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It's going to continue on the next page, right?
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But let's go ahead and shadow it.
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I long to be so immersed in the simple joys, my hobbies, my loved ones,
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everyday routines, that, okay, so I long to be so immersed, I long to be so immersed,
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that death feels like just a brief pause.
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Not some final curtain I have to prepare for.
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I have to becomes I have to, I have to, I have to prepare for. So a final curtain.
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You know, at the end of a show, the curtain comes down.
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That's the final curtain.
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It's finished.
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It's over.
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It's the final curtain.
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All right, so what was it?
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I want to be so immersed in tending to my plants that death feels like just a brief pause,
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not some final curtain I have to prepare for.
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That death feels like just a brief pause, not some final curtain I have to prepare for.
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Not some final curtain I have to prepare for.
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Say that last part.
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Okay.
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The rat race.
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we're all caught in.
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We're all caught in a rat race.
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Did you know we're caught in a rat race?
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What's a rat race?
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The rat race is a phrase we often use to just, how do I describe rat race?
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It's the work life, the competitive nature of life.
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We're always competing in life.
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We have to keep up with the Joneses.
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We have to go to work.
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We have to buy the food.
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We have to do this, this, that, that, that, that.
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So many things we have to do.
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That is the rat race.
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The rat race we're all caught in is built on a big lie.
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The idea that we'll have more time to truly live later.
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Ah, so the lie is that you don't need to take a break and do things now.
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You can live your life later.
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We'll have time later.
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That's the lie.
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All right, go ahead and shadow it with me.
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Here we go.
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The rat race we're all caught in is built on a big lie.
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The idea that we'll have more time to truly live later.
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Again, the rat race we're all caught in is built on a big lie.
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The idea that we'll have more time to truly live later.
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To truly, to truly, to truly live later.
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We spend so many years running on a stressful treadmill.
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We spend so many years running on a stressful treadmill.
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Trying to network, chase promotions, and accumulate wealth.
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Trying to network.
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If you network, you get to know lots of people.
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You build up your network of people that you know so that you can have more opportunities in life.
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You chase promotions.
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You try to accumulate wealth.
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We spend so many years running on a stressful treadmill trying to network, chase promotions, and accumulate wealth.
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Again, we spend so many years running on a stressful treadmill, trying to network, chase promotions,
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and accumulate wealth, thinking we'll finally enjoy life when our bank account hits a certain point, or when we retire.
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Thinking we'll finally enjoy life when our bank account hits a certain point, or when we retire.
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So, I'm going to go back.
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We spent so many years running on a stressful treadmill,
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trying to network, chase promotions and accumulate wealth,
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thinking we'll finally enjoy life when our bank account hits a certain point or when we retire. but later is unpredictable.
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Later is unpredictable.
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You don't know what's going to happen later.
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You might not be healthy five years from now.
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You don't know what's going to happen.
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That's what it means, but later is unpredictable.
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Once we realize how fleeting life is, fleeting, do you know that word, fleeting?
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If something's fleeting, it lasts for a very short time.
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It's fleeting.
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It's here and gone.
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It's fleeting.
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Okay, once we realize how fleeting life is, The pressure to chase every promotion,
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seek everyone's approval, or constantly prove our worth, begins to fade.
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So that pressure begins to fade.
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What begins to fade?
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The pressure that we feel.
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The pressure to chase every promotion, to seek everyone's approval, or constantly prove our worth.
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Okay, we're going to shadow it.
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Here we go.
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Once we realize how fleeting life is, the pressure to chase every promotion,
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seek everyone's approval, or constantly prove our worth begins to fade.
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Okay, we're going to say it one more.
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Instead, we start to notice and appreciate the moments that truly matter today,
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right in front of us.
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Instead, we start to notice and appreciate the moments that truly matter today, right in front of us.
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Instead, we start to notice and appreciate the moments that truly matter today, right in front of us.
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One more time.
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Instead, we start to notice and appreciate the moments that truly matter today,
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right in front of us. And that's it.
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Now, we're going to do the whole text again, non -stop.
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Go ahead and shadow me.
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Follow along if you can.
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Let's do it.
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Here we go.
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You don't need to spend your life worrying about death, because nature takes care of that part for us.
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The only thing really important is how we choose to live.
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When my time comes, I want to be found peacefully tending to my plants, unaware of death's approach.
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I long to be so immersed in the simple joys, my hobbies, my loved ones,
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everyday routines, that death feels like just a brief pause, not some final curtain I have to prepare for.
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The rat race we're all caught in is built on a big lie,
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the idea that we'll have more time to truly live later.
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We spend so many years running on a stressful treadmill, trying to network, chase promotions,
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and accumulate wealth, thinking we'll finally enjoy life when our bank account hits a certain point or when we retire. But later is unpredictable.
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Once we realize how fleeting life is, the pressure to chase every promotion,
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seek everyone's approval, or constantly prove our worth begins to fade.
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Instead, we start to notice and appreciate the moments that truly matter today right in front of us.
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Boom!
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Good workout.
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Keep moving forward, one step at a time.
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Thank you for practicing with me again today, and I'll see you in the next training video.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Listen and REPEAT & Shadow for FLUENCY: English Speaking Practice”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: rat, truly, spend, race, immersed. This video has 166 sentences and 1627 words to shadow. The speech runs for 13:33. The speaker talks at a steady 120 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 |
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| chase verb | /t͡ʃeɪs/ | To follow at speed. |
| promotion noun | /pɹəˈmoʊʃn̩/ | An advancement in rank or position. |
| fleet noun | /ˈfliːt/ | A group of vessels or vehicles. |
| curtain noun | /ˈkɜɹt(ə)n/ | A piece of cloth covering a window, bed, etc. to offer privacy and keep out light. |
| shadow noun | /ˈʃædəʊ̯/ | A dark image projected onto a surface where light (or other radiation) is blocked by the shade of an object. |
| stressful adjective | /ˈstɹɛsfəl/ | Irritating; causing stress. |
| unaware adjective | /ˌʌnəˈwɛɚ/ | Not aware or informed; lacking knowledge; unmindful. |
| peacefully adverb | /ˈpiːsfəli/ | In a peaceful manner. |
| fade verb | /feɪd/ | To hit the ball with the shot called a fade. |
| everyday adjective | /ˈɛvɹiˌdeɪ/ | Appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions. |
| routine noun | /ɹuˈtin/ | A course of action to be followed regularly; a standard procedure. |
| retire verb | /ɹəˈtaɪɹ/ | To stop working on a permanent basis, usually because of old age or illness. |
| pause noun | /pɔːz/ | A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation. |
| hobby noun | /ˈhɑ.bi/ | An activity that one enjoys doing in one's spare time. |
| unpredictable adjective | Unable to be predicted. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| go ahead verb | /ˌɡoʊ əˈhɛd/ | To proceed with; to begin. |
| build up verb | To erect; to construct. | |
| come down verb | To descend, fall down, collapse. | |
| follow along verb | To continue behind or beside an animal, person, vehicle or other object, especially as a companion. | |
| go back verb | To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time. | |
| keep up with verb | To manage to remain beside or just behind someone or something that is moving away from one. | |
| move forward verb | To cause to make progress. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- Let's jump into the text.
- All right, let's shadow it.
- We're all caught in a rat race.
- Did you know we're caught in a rat race?
- We're always competing in life.
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 44 contractions and reduced forms, such as we're, don't, we'll. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: promotion /pɹəˈmoʊʃn̩/, shadow /ˈʃædəʊ̯/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, accumulate /əˈkjuːmjʊˌleɪt/
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 chase, promotion, fleet.
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.