Shadowing Practice: 쿨룩 LIVE ▷ CORTIS(코르티스) 'REDRED' / [이은지의 가요광장] I KBS 260506 방송 - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Let's go, right?
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I'm not a fan of my team I don't want to see it It's not an alpha
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It's a green green The sun is red red The sun
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is red red The sun is red red The sun is
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green green The sun is red red The sun is red red The sun is red red The music
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and the team I brought my friends
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I'm out of the way
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I'm going to go and go I'm going to go to studio I'm going to get stinking
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I'm going to get stinking That's red red I'm not a
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stripping That's red red I'm a star That's red red You're a girl, mazerate I'm getting free I'm running on track, yeah I'm getting friends,
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yeah I'm getting a pack of days I'm like a real bag I'm still I'm dreaming I'm like yeah, yeah I'm like a dollar,
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yeah, yeah F1, this is my red flag You should come as it is T Cause you're crazy I get my chance, that's right I'm a star,
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this is the seed The music is the music, the music is the most difficult The music is the music, the music is the music, that's right We gotta pop out and show how We gotta get back,
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you gotta know down I'm gonna get two words on now The skin is black, green, green The sun is red, red I'm not happy, that's red,
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red That's red red The sun is green green The sun is green
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We get the sun That's red red We get the sun We just eat the sun Hey!
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Turn it up Let's go I'm turning it up I'm messing up stupid red sign The radio is spinning
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I'm on the power That's red red The sun is green The sun is green
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The sun is green green The sun is green That's rare, rare, criticize That's rare, rare,
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you should go master the team The friends who come to abroad They all have to go along Bing Bing, bing, from the streets They go again, again, again They go further, they make it bigger That's stinking,
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they're not bad That's rare, rare, you should go master the team That's rare, rare, don't you start the team That's rare,
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rare, you should go master the team Thank you.

Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This A2 speaking lesson is built on the video “쿨룩 LIVE ▷ CORTIS(코르티스) 'REDRED' / [이은지의 가요광장] I KBS 260506 방송”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: sun, green, rare, stinking, bing. This video has 22 sentences and 391 words to shadow. The speech runs for 2:48. The speaker talks at a steady 140 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 87% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.

Key vocabulary in this video

12 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

WordPronunciationMeaning
bing noun/bɪŋ/A slag heap, i.e. a man-made mound or heap formed with the waste material (slag) as a by-product of coal mining or the shale oil industry.
abroad adverb/əˈbɹɔːd/Beyond the bounds of a country; in foreign countries.
spin verb/spɪn/To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction.
strip verb/ˈstɹɪp/To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.
alpha noun/ˈæl.fə/The name of the first letter of the Greek alphabet (Α, α), followed by beta. In the Latin alphabet it is the predecessor to A.
criticize verb/ˈkɹɪtɪsaɪz/To find fault (with something).
stink verb/stɪŋk/To have a strong bad smell.
pack noun/pæk/A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back, but also a load for an animal, a bale.
studio noun/ˈstudi.oʊ/An artist’s or photographer’s workshop or the room in which an artist works.
dollar noun/ˈdɑ.lɚ/Official designation for currency in some parts of the world, including Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, and elsewhere…
flag noun/flæɡ/A piece of cloth, often decorated with an emblem, used as a visual signal or symbol.
mess noun/mɛs/A thing or group of things in a disagreeable, disorganised, or dirty state; hence a bad situation.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

WordMeaning
get back verbReturn to where one came from.
go along verbTo participate, cooperate, or conform.
mess up verbTo make a mess of; to untidy, disorder, soil, or muss.
pop out verbTo appear on the screen as a temporary window or menu.

Grammar in this video

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

StructureIn the video
Advice with “should” should + verb — saying what is a good ideashould come · should go
Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — something happening right now or around nowI'm getting · I'm turning
Future with “going to” be going to + verb — a plan or something you can see comingI'm going to go · I'm going to get · gonna get

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 32 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, gotta, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

How to practise with this video

  1. Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
  2. Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
  3. Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like bing, abroad, spin.

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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