Shadowing Practice: Little Big Shots Funniest Interviews by Steve Harvey - Learn English Speaking with Video
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You're Abraham Lincoln?
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Yeah.
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Wow.
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So why do you love Abraham Lincoln so much?
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He believed that all men are created equal.
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He fed the cat with a gold fork?
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Yeah.
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If it's good for Lincoln, it's good for Tabby.
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I got one, too, for Matches.
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Oh, OK.
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Hi, little girl.
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I'm not a girl, I'm a boy.
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And so since you love kids, when you were a child, what was your favorite age?
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What was my favorite age?
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By the way, don't say seven just because you're talking to a seven -year -old.
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There was two because I didn't know nothing.
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Anything even embarrassing and unplanned ever happened to you?
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did you tell your friends that you were coming here yes but they didn't believe me
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they didn't believe you what do you think they're gonna say
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when they find out say this that's
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so wrong are you always this happy yeah yeah God I wish I was this happy
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I'm the only time I'm this happy how old are you I am five
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I think it's Tuesday I'm turning six how old were you when you started singing when you were two do
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Do you remember your first song?
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That would be, Jesus, Jesus.
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There's just something about that name.
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That kings and kingdoms shall all pass away.
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But there is something about that name.
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Normally normally when I asked a person what song they sang just as to say the name of it
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Your aunt taught you how to do it.
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Is she here today?
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Yes, sitting right with the girl with the hat on.
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That's my mom with the hat
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Oh, oh the girl, okay the girl with the hat on that's that's my mama
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Yeah, she got that fly hat on what kind of hat is that mom has on Wow you tell him
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Just to cover my hair cuz I don't have time to do it cuz I have four kids
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Do you have lots of clothes?
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Yes Well, why don't you wear this outfit today?
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We just bought it because I didn't have anything in my closet.
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You just said you just said you cannot practice being a woman now
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You just said you had a closet full of clothes
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And then you turned around and said you ain't have nothing to wear
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They all start training little girls to say this stuff
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My wife is 51 and says the exact same thing.
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In the family can burp loud, and you're the loudest.
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Uh, uh, my aunt is the loudest in the whole family.
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Wait a minute, hold on, wait, wait, wait.
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Is that her over there, the one in the black?
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Yeah!
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Is she burps the loudest of anybody in the family?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!
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Why is she shaking her head like it's not her?
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What are your duties as the mayor?
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It's the best thing that's happened to you since you've been mayor
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Um, my brother was a mayor twice.
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How old is your brother?
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30?
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No. 26?
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No. How old are you, Robert?
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You've been the mayor?
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Twice.
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How do you get to be mayor?
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Somebody shakes up this bucket or a hat, and then they pull out this card.
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Are you kidding me?
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And then there'll be a name on it, and whoever's name is on it, they get to be married.
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What's your favorite thing to eat?
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Es tu costa favorita de comer.
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Don't even worry about that.
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Es tu costa favorita de comer.
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I got two aunts can't do that either.
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Don't even worry about it.
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Chicken.
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Chicken?
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Pollo Loco Where do you want to go?
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Where do you want to go eat?
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In El Pollo Loco You're supposed to have a prince
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It doesn't always have to have a prince
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Sometimes you just have a prince
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When you don't even want to Right now
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Sometimes you have a prince, but you don't have the right prince.
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How much was those shoes?
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Mm -hmm.
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You don't work?
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Nope.
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Do you want to work?
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Nope.
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Can you spell nope?
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Mm -hmm.
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The tooth is missing.
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When did you lose your tooth?
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Oh, I think I was eating hard stuff.
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Who's in the choir?
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Bree, Tamia, Michael.
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Okay, no, hold on a minute.
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Okay, hold on.
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It's...
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Who's mostly the sopranos?
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Tamia.
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Don't do this.
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Don't do this.
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You've only been playing a few months.
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That's it.
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I want to take this moment out to I Want to apologize to my seven children
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You know what?
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I love you kid.
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I just saw the ones over here.
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Which one you want to do?
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he done had enough of me.
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You getting on my last nerve.
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You can't spell nothing.
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One last word.
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What's the word?
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Pneumono ultramicroscopic silicovolcano coniosis.
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What did you say?
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Pneumono ultramicroscopic silico -volcano coniosis.
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Um, is there any other alternate pronunciations, please?
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We don't know what that one is.
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Have your friends said anything to you about this viral video thing?
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Um, one of my friends.
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Oh, one of them said something?
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Uh -huh.
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How many friends you got?
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More than ten.
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More than ten?
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And only one of them said something?
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Yeah.
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So the other nine is haters.
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but only one of them is your friend because the other nine they're what they're still my friends
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what is this move
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when you do this it's the snap the oh the snap
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show it to me show me the snap get down show me the snap show me another move
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Okay, okay, listen, huh?
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The last one.
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The last one.
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Last one, okay, go ahead.
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Right here, look.
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I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
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You know what I think, Jeffrey?
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I think she tells you what to do.
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No, I didn't.
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No, my wife says the same thing, Selena so you can stop there.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Little Big Shots Funniest Interviews by Steve Harvey”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: hat, mayor, prince, snap. This video has 235 sentences and 1092 words to shadow. The speech runs for 9:42. The speaker talks at a steady 112 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. Only 77% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding. 43 of its 235 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| snap verb | /snæp/ | To fracture or break apart suddenly. |
| nope | /noʊp/ | No. |
| aunt noun | /ɑːnt/ | The sister or sister-in-law of one’s parent. |
| spell noun | /spɛl/ | Words or a formula supposed to have magical powers. |
| shake verb | /ˈʃeɪk/ | To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly. |
| costa noun | /ˈkɑ.stə/ | Synonym of rib. |
| closet noun | /ˈklɑzɪt/ | A small room within a house used to store clothing, food, or other household supplies. |
| tooth noun | /tuθ/ | A hard, calcareous structure present in the mouth of many vertebrate animals, generally used for biting and chewing food. |
| cloth noun | /klɒθ/ | A fabric, usually made of woven, knitted, or felted fibres or filaments, such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use. Sometimes… |
| mama noun | /ˈmɑmə/ | Synonym of mother (“a female parent”). |
| shoe noun | /ˈʃu/ | A protective covering for the foot, with a bottom part composed of thick leather or plastic sole and often a thicker heel, and a softer upper part made of… |
| outfit noun | /ˈaʊtfɪt/ | A set of clothing (with accessories). |
| nerve noun | /nɝv/ | A bundle of neurons with their connective tissue sheaths, blood vessels and lymphatics. |
| apologize verb | /əˈpɑləˌd͡ʒaɪz/ | To make an apology or excuse; to acknowledge some fault or offense, with expression of regret for it, by way of amends |
| alternate adjective | /ˈɔl.tɚ.nət/ | Happening by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; first one and then the other (repeatedly). |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| find out verb | To discover, as by asking or investigating. | |
| get down verb | /ɡɛt ˈdaʊn/ | To bring or come down; to descend; to cause to bring or come down. |
| go ahead verb | /ˌɡoʊ əˈhɛd/ | To proceed with; to begin. |
| pass away verb | To die. | |
| pull out verb | To withdraw; especially of military forces; to retreat. | |
| shake up verb | To agitate by shaking. | |
| 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:
- What was my favorite age?
- Anything even embarrassing and unplanned ever happened to you?
- Do you remember your first song?
- Do you have lots of clothes?
- What's your favorite thing to eat?
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 | you've been |
| Superlatives the -est / the most … — the top or bottom of a group | the loudest · the best |
| Verb + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — verbs that are followed by the -ing form | started singing · practice being · start training |
| Past continuous was/were + -ing — an action in progress at a moment in the past | were coming · was eating |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 39 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, I'm, didn't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: tooth /tuθ/, cloth /klɒθ/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: shake /ˈʃeɪk/, shoe /ˈʃu/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: apologize /əˈpɑləˌd͡ʒaɪz/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/
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 snap, nope, aunt.
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.