Shadowing Practice: MADEA - LET THEM GO | LIFE CHANGING SPEECH (MUST WATCH!!) - Learn English Speaking with Video
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If somebody want to walk out of your life LET THEM GO and get up and go on with your life!! It's all right - sit around be depressed for a minute. Cry about it - do whatever you have to but don't stay there too long. Get up and go on with your life!
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So you know what I - this is what I learned in all these years.
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If somebody want to walk out of your life -LET THEM GO!!
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Especially if you know you done everything you can do... You can sit around and been the best man or the best woman you could be and they still want to go... LET THEM GO!!
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Whatever they running after... They'll see what they had in a minute. But by the end it's going to be too late because you're sick and you go... Because half these people you'd be sitting around crying about it... Worried about... Two - Three years from now you ain't gonna even remember their last name! How many times you've seen folks somewhere you'd be like "What the hell was I thinking?".
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I don't think that I'd be like "What was wrong with me! What was I going through? I must have been lonely as hell to hook up with you!". Let folks go son!! Some people come in your life for a lifetime.
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Some come for a season. You got to know which is which and you can always mess up when you mix them!
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Uh seasonal people up with lifetime expectations. You can't - they got people that got married with people they was only supposed to be with for a season. They only supposed to be there for a season and they wonder why they're having so much hell in their life...
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That was the person that was supposed to come and teach you one thing you didn't know. It so you just fell in love and now you're wondering why you ain't got no peace... Nowhere you go!
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No - no listen! I put everybody come in my life in the category of a tree.
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Some people are like leaves on the tree. Wind blow - they over here - they're unstable...
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Blow the other way - they're over here... Ain't no season change - they wither and die. They gone...!
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It's all right... There's some people - most people in the world are like that. They just there to take from the tree! They ain't getting there to do nothing but take and give shade every night!
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And then that's all they can do! But don't don't get mad at people like that - that's who they are...
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They'll never be nothing! That's what they put on this earth to be but be! What they are a leaf.
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Some people are like a branch on that tree. You gotta be careful with them branches too!
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Because they'll fool you... They'll get that - make you think they're a good friend and they real strong but the minutes you step out there on them they'll break and leave you high and dry!
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But if you find you two or three people in your life that's like the roots at the bottom of that tree... You are blessed! Because that's them - the kind of people that ain't going nowhere!
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They ain't worried about being seen - don't nobody have to know that they know you... They ain't got to know what they're doing for you... But if them roots weren't there - that tree couldn't live.
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You understand and they ain't got a hole. A tree can have a hundred million branches but only a few roots down at the bottom to make sure we get everything I need! You guys I'm telling you something... When you get you some roots - hold on to them! But the rest of them - LET IT GO!!
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Just LET IT GO - let folks go! I'ma do - it's not always that easy... Ain't nobody said it was gonna be easy but it'll get easy when you learn how to love yourself. When you get to a point in your life... When you look at people and you go okay - wait a minute - you or me? You will make a decision because when you telling folks to do something and I never thought nobody.
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I've never in my life - nobody would just say "Look don't bother me no more! Don't talk to me!". I've never done it! What I do is - I tell say "Look this thing you doing right here - that's going to cause a problem! You need to fix that because if we going to be friends - we're going to be cool... You got to fix that and if you don't we're going gonna have an issue!". If you see somebody fix it... They even trying to fix it... That's somebody that care! Keep them people around!
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That's a leaf that's trying to grow up and be something else - you understand! But if you tell somebody that what you doing is hurting me and I need you to stop it and they keep doing it...
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They don't care! Move on - LET THEM GO! No matter how much it hurt... LET THEM GO and it'll get easier. I promise you - every day it'll get easier and easy and easy... If you just got to make it through...
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You hear me sonny and C.P. You got to learn how to be by yourself son. People have to learn how to be alone. I don't understand, only people who "I need somebody Lord! Where's my man Lord? Where's my...?".
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That is crazy as hell! If you don't know how to be by yourself - What you gonna do with somebody else?
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Stop praying about it! Shut up and wait! Go work on you! Hell that's what that time is for to get yourself. Together I'd rather be in a corner by myself with a puppy and a goldfish and be happy - then to be sitting around with somebody in my house I'm wondering what the hell! Ain't there for you...?! You would be surprised the things people put up with just to have somebody to say they love them. That's - I don't understand! I can't live in dysfunction! I'm sorry - I'm sorry - I don't come through too much! Been through too much hell and high water to come there and let you come up in my adult life and when I'm supposed to be at peace and give me all kind of hair! Only two places on this earth you're gonna have peace - the grave and in your house. now if you can't walk up in your house and you ain't got no peace... Something wrong... Something wrong - I'm sorry!
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People be rebuking Satan... I'd be rebuking Satan and beating the hell out of everything that's up in there till they get out!! I'm sorry - you got to go! This is mine! You hear me sonny? I do for sure! You better hear me for sure! If somebody want to walk out of your life - LET THEM GO!!
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “MADEA - LET THEM GO”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: somebody, hell, tree. This video has 28 sentences and 1175 words to shadow. The speech runs for 5:37. The speaker talks fast, about 209 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. 5 of its 28 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| folk noun | /foʊk/ | People, persons. |
| leaf noun | /lif/ | The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants. |
| rebuke verb | /ɹiˈbjuːk/ | To criticise harshly; to reprove. |
| goldfish noun | /ˈɡoʊldfɪʃ/ | A type of small fish, Carassius auratus, typically orange-colored. |
| wither verb | /ˈwɪðɚ/ | To shrivel, droop or dry up, especially from lack of water. |
| dysfunction noun | /dɪsˈfʌŋk.ʃən/ | A failure to function in an expected or complete manner. Usually refers to a disorder in a bodily organ (e.g. erectile dysfunction), a mental disorder, or the… |
| unstable adjective | /ʌnˈsteɪ.bəl/ | Not stable. |
| seasonal adjective | /ˈsiːzənəl/ | Of, related to, or reliant on a season or period of the year, especially with regard to weather characteristics. |
| expectation noun | /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/ | The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen. |
| puppy noun | /ˈpʌpi/ | A young rat. |
| depressed adjective | /dɪˈpɹɛst/ | Unhappy; despondent. |
| shade noun | /ʃeɪd/ | Darkness where light, particularly sunlight, is blocked. |
| bless verb | /blɛs/ | To make something holy by religious rite, sanctify. |
| lonely adjective | /ˈloʊnli/ | Unhappy due to feeling isolated from contact with other people. |
| grave noun | /ɡɹeɪv/ | An excavation in the earth as a place of burial. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sit around verb | To spend time sitting idly, not doing anything important. |
| get up verb | To move in an upward direction; to ascend or climb. |
| come through verb | To come into a room or other space through a door or passageway. |
| get out verb | To leave or escape. |
| go through verb | To travel from one end of something to the other. |
| grow up verb | To mature and become an adult. |
| mess up verb | To make a mess of; to untidy, disorder, soil, or muss. |
| put up with verb | To endure, tolerate, suffer through, or allow, especially something annoying. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- What was I going through?
- You understand and they ain't got a hole.
- You guys I'm telling you something...
- I'ma do - it's not always that easy...
- Ain't there for you...?!
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | be depressed · are blessed · being seen |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | you've seen · I've never done |
| Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — something happening right now or around now | they're having · you're wondering · they're doing |
| Future with “going to” be going to + verb — a plan or something you can see coming | it's going to be · gonna be · that's going to cause |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 69 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, ain't, I'm. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: goldfish /ˈɡoʊldfɪʃ/, dysfunction /dɪsˈfʌŋk.ʃən/, expectation /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/, shade /ʃeɪd/
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 folk, leaf, rebuke.
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.