Shadowing Practice: Loneliness comes from not working on your purpose. - Learn English Speaking with Video
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You have to develop a good and strong relationship with yourself before you get into a marriage.
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Why?
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Because if you find that partner right now in your life and you don't love yourself, you might end up losing yourself in the relationship.
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And that's why you have to understand
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that God brings things into your life at the right time when you are ready to receive it.
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And it's so important that you do not rush his timing.
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If you overly fixate on it, that's the main thing in your mind always, then you're going to push it away
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or you are going to attract the wrong people into your life
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and end up with a man that you don't want to be with.
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I went through the trenches, bro.
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And then it's like, okay, let me focus on myself.
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Let me pour it into myself.
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Let me love my alone time.
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Let me love who I am as a person.
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Let me stop feeling like I'm not worthy of this.
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And then watch God just start to bring people in your life.
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He'll do it with friendships.
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He'll do it with relationships.
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He'll do it with your career.
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So always trust in his timing, but trusting in his timing means also working on yourself and trusting that it will come at the right time.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “Loneliness comes from not working on your purpose”. This video has 20 sentences and 226 words to shadow. The speech runs for 1:00. The speaker talks fast, about 225 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 91% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 14 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| rush verb | /ɹʌʃ/ | To hurry; to perform a task with great haste, often not properly or without thinking carefully. |
| friendship noun | /ˈfɹɛn(d)ʃɪp/ | The condition of being friends. |
| worthy adjective | /ˈwɝ.ði/ | Having worth, merit, or value. |
| attract verb | /əˈtɹækt/ | To pull toward without touching. |
| pour verb | /poɹ/ | To cause (liquid, or liquid-like substance) to flow in a stream, either out of a container or into it. |
| overly adverb | To an excessive degree. | |
| trench noun | /ˈtɹɛnt͡ʃ/ | A long, narrow ditch or hole in the ground; either manmade, or formed naturally through erosion or tectonic plate movement. |
| fixate verb | /ˈfɪkseɪt/ | To make something fixed and stable; to fix. |
| focus noun | /ˈfoʊ̯.kəs/ | A point at which reflected or refracted rays of light converge. |
| marriage noun | /ˈmæɹɪd͡ʒ/ | The state of being married. |
| receive verb | /ɹɪˈsiːv/ | To be given, sent, or paid something. |
| partner noun | /ˈpɑːt.nə(ɹ)/ | Either of a pair of people or things that belong together. |
| push verb | /pʊʃ/ | To apply a force to (an object) such that it moves away from the person or thing applying the force. |
| develop verb | /dɪˈvɛl.əp/ | To change with a specific direction, progress. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| end up verb | To bring to a conclusion. |
| go through verb | To travel from one end of something to the other. |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 7 contractions and reduced forms, such as he'll, don't, I'm. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: rush /ɹʌʃ/, friendship /ˈfɹɛn(d)ʃɪp/, push /pʊʃ/
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 rush, friendship, worthy.
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.