Shadowing Practice: MOVIE QUOTES THAT HIT HARDER THAN LIFE - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Godfather, I don't know what to do.
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I don't know what to do.
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You can act like a man!
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What's wrong with you?
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Is this how you turn down a Hollywood Pinocchio that cries like a woman?
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What can I do?
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What can I do?
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The thing is, you only got to fuck up once.
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Be a little slow, be a little late, just once once.
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And how you ain't gonna never be slow, never be late.
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You can't plan for no shit like this, man.
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It's life.
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You spend time with your family?
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Sure I do.
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Good.
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Because a man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.
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A man is supposed to take care of his family.
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You live in my house, fill your belly with my food.
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But you're behind on my bed because you're my son.
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I mean, because I like you, because it's my duty to take care of you.
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I owe a responsibility to you.
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Now let's get this straight right here now before I go along any further.
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I ain't got to like you.
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Mr. Rand don't give me my money.
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Come payday because he like me.
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He give it to me because he owe me.
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Now I don't give you everything I got to give you.
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I give you your life.
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Me and your mama worked that out.
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Between us and liking your black ass wasn't part of the bargain.
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Now don't you go through life worrying about whether somebody liked you or not.
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You best be making sure they're doing right by you.
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You understand what I'm saying?
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Yes, sir.
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Then get the hell out of my face and get on down to that A&P.
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Is it better to be loved or feared?
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That's a good question.
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It's nice to be both, but it's very difficult.
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But if I had my choice, I would rather be feared.
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Fear lasts longer than love.
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Friendships that are bought with money mean nothing.
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You see how it is around here, I make a joke, everybody laughs.
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I know I'm funny, but I'm not that funny.
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It's fear that keeps them loyal to me.
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But the trick is not to be hated.
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That's why I treat my men good, but not too good.
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I give them too much, then they don't need me.
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I give them just enough where they need me, but they don't hate me.
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You know my father used to say, whatever you do, do it 100%.
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When you work, work.
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When you laugh, laugh.
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When you eat, eat like it's your last minute.
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When I was 16, I won a great victory.
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I felt in that moment I would live to be 100.
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Now I know I shall not see 30.
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Fredo, you're my older brother, and I love you.
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But don't ever take sides with anyone against the family again.
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This country, you gotta make the money first.
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Then when you get the money, you get the power.
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Then when you get the power, then you get the world.
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That's why you gotta make your own moves.
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There is no nobility in poverty.
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I have been a rich man and I have been a poor man and I choose rich every fucking time.
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Yeah!
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Yeah!
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Because at least as a rich man, when I have to face my problems, I show up in the back of a limo, wearing a $2,000 suit and a $40,000 gold fucking watch.
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When you lose your money, you lose nothing.
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When you lose your health, you lose something.
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When you lose your character, you lose everything.
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These days, they got a name for just about everything.
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Doesn't matter what they call you.
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It's the deeds make the man.
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Yeah, but my deeds just made things worse.
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I'm a fraud.
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I'm a phony.
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My friends believed in me, but they need some kind of hero.
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Then be a hero.
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Oh no, no, no. You don't understand.
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I'm not even supposed to be here.
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That's right.
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You came a long way to find something that isn't out here.
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Don't you see?
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It's not about you.
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It's about them.
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You're all a bunch of fucking assholes.
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You know why?
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You don't have the guts to be what you want to be.
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You need people like me.
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You need people like me so you can point your fucking fingers and say that's the bad guy.
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What'll that make you good?
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You just know how to hide.
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You need to be a gangster.
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You need to be a killer.
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Little young, young.
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You need them.
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Okay.
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If that's what you want.
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If that's what makes you feel like a man, then be a real man.
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Let's get jumped in right now.
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Here.
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Start with me.
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No, start with me.
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Here.
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Start with me.
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No, take it.
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Come on, killer.
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Come on, killer.
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Come on, killer.
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You're right there.
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Know how to hold?
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You know what you're doing?
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Come on, killer.
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There you go.
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There you go.
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There you go.
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Five pounds of pressure, that's all it takes.
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Come on, gangster.
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Five pounds of pressure, that's all it takes.
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Five pounds of pressure, that's all it takes.
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I'm gonna hit him, come get him.
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You don't want to get him.
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Come get him.
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I ain't gonna do anything like that.
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See?
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You know what they are up there?
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They liars.
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They're so in love.
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You know what happens when you deal with a liar?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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You see what happens when you deal with a liar?
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What do you see when you look at me?
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Tell me, you better give me your right answer to what you see when you look at me.
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Oh, no, oh, no, oh, no. Killer, what you see, yummy?
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You don't know.
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Oh, no. Oh, no. You got a choice.
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You got talent.
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You got a chance and I won't hear about your environment, what your momma didn't give you and the white man won't give you no shot.
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You got a chance.
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Use it while you're still alive.
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You don't know what death is.
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You have no idea what death is.
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Make a decision.
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All right.
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Louis.
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A moment of pain is worth a lifetime of glory.
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You remember that?
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I'm going to say something to you.
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You're smart, you're talented, you know a few things, but talent means nothing in this game if you don't make the right choices.
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There's plenty of talented people out there who never see the light of day anymore.
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Last thing takes discipline, because this whole game is one big long shot.
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And if you don't have the discipline to stay away from the flyers
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or from the gambles or whatever else you want to call a stupid move
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Then my friend I'm afraid to say one day you will go down.
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It's inevitable It is not our abilities that show what we truly are It is our choices You love this game.
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I mean love it with your whole heart Because if you don't Let's not even bother Let's not open that door,
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they're just gonna slam it right in our face.
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I love this game.
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I live this game.
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There's a thousand other guys waiting in the wings who are obsessed with this game.
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Obsession's gonna be talent every time.
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You got all the talent in the world, but are you obsessed?
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But the real answer to your question is that when it feels scary to jump, Ian, That is exactly when you jump.
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Otherwise you end up staying in the same place your whole life.
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And that I can't do.
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Alright, I'll give it a try.
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No!
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Try not! Do! Or do not!
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There is no try.
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Me are one what's coming to me.
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Or what's coming to you, Tom?
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The world, Chico. and everything in it.
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Not me!
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It was you!
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The greatest Kung Fu teacher in all of China!
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But I can change you!
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I can turn you into the Dragon Warrior!
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And I will!
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Come on!
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How are you gonna change this into the Dragon Warrior?
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Huh?
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How?
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How?
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I don't know!
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I don't know.
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That's what I thought.
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I wanted to save Gotham.
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I failed.
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Why do we fall, sir?
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So that we can learn to pick ourselves up.
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I said it before and I'll say it again.
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Life moves pretty fast.
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You don't stop and look around once in a while.
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You could miss it.
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I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really.
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Get busy living, or get busy dying.
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And you see, in their last moments, people show you who they really are.
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First you have to know, not fear, know that someday you're gonna die.
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It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.
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You know, they say we die twice.
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Once when the breath leaves our body, and once when the last person we know says our name.
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God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables, slaves with white collars.
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Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need.
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We're the middle children of history, man.
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No purpose, a place.
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We have no great war, no great depression.
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Our great depression is our lives.
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Raymond, you're going to die.
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No, no, no, no. What did you want to be, Raymond K.
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Hessel?
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Answering, Raymond, Jesus.
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Veterinarian, veterinarian.
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Animals.
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Yeah, animals.
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If you're not on your way to becoming a veterinarian in six weeks, you will be dead.
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Now run on home.
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Run on home.
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Come on, this isn't funny!
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That wasn't funny!
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What the fuck was the point of that?
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Tomorrow will be the most beautiful day for MK has his life.
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His breakfast will taste better than any meal you and I have ever tasted.
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I chose my path, you chose the way of the hero.
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And they found you amusing for a while.
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The people of this city?
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But the one thing they love more than a hero is to see a hero fail, fall, die dry.
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In spite of everything you've done for them, eventually they will hate you.
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You could not live with your own failure.
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Where did that bring you?
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Back to me.
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I was so afraid of becoming my dad.
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Mostly because I thought I never could.
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How?
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How do you become someone that great, that brave, that selfless?
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I guess you can only try.
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Life is this.
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I like this.
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In every moment, there is the possibility of a better future.
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But you people won't believe it.
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And because you won't believe it, you won't do what is necessary to make it a reality.
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Until you dwell on this terrible future, you resign yourselves to it.
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For one reason, because that future doesn't ask anything of you today.
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And as long as there are those that remember what was, there will always be those that are unable to accept what can be.
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Life's not fair, is it, my little friend?
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While some are born to feast, others spend their lives in the dark.
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Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times.
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If one only remembers to turn on the light.
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Now I remember you, your Connor student tells me you're brilliant.
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He also tells me you're lazy.
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I'm trying to do better.
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Well, being brilliant is not enough, young man.
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You have to work hard.
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Intelligence is not a privilege, it's a gift.
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And you use it for the good of mankind.
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The trouble with loyalty to a cause is that the cause will always betray you.
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Why are you doing that to me?
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To remind myself, I thought I'd be, if I wasn't who I am.
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Why do you think taxes and prices go up the same day in the ghetto?
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The cost of living keeps rising to make sure people keep dying.
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How else could there be men with a million years while most live day to day?
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There is no good and evil.
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There is only power.
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You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
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What you really fear is inside yourself.
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You fear your own power.
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You fear your anger.
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The drive to do great or terrible things.
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You want to protect the world, but you don't want it to change.
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How is humanity saved if it's not allowed to evolve?
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I wanted to run out of that tunnel from my dad to prove to everyone that I work- Prove what?
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That I was so funny.
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Oh, you are so full of crap.
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You're five feet nothing, a hundred and nothing, and you've got hardly a speck of athletic ability.
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And you hung in with the best college football team in the land for two years.
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And you're also gonna walk out of here with a degree from the University of Notre Dame.
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In this lifetime, you don't have to prove nothing to nobody except yourself.
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And after what you've gone through, if you haven't done that by now, it ain't gonna never happen.
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If you're using half your concentration to look normal, then you're only half paying attention to whatever else you're doing.
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Just pointing out something that could save your life.
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You want society to accept you, but you can't even accept yourself.
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Your story may not have such a happy beginning, but that doesn't make you who you are.
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It is the rest of your story.
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Who you choose to be.
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One often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it.
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We have to do something.
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We can't just let him march on the valley and take his revenge.
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He'll.. he'll...
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Your mind is like this water, my friend.
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When it is agitated, it becomes difficult to see.
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But if you allow it to settle, the answer becomes clear.
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Human, not a rabbit.
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You want to make security guards, you gotta lose weight.
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You gotta test in one week.
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Now you asked me to help you, but if you're not willing to apply yourself...
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Yeah, hey.
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Progress not perfection.
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I let her go.
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Yes, yes, Splendid.
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You.. what?
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How could you do that?
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I had to.
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Yes, but why? Because...
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I love her.
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But I can't go back.
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Don't know that you got a choice, son.
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No man can walk out on his own story.
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Sometimes you gotta get through your fear to see the beauty on the other side.
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Wake up to reality.
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Nothing ever goes as planned in this accursed world.
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The longer you live, the more you will realize that the only things that truly exist in this reality are merely pain.
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Merely pain, suffering and futility.
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Listen.
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Everywhere you look in this world, wherever there is light, there will always be shadows to be found as well.
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As long as there is a concept of victors, the vanquished will also exist.
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Come here, the secret ingredient is...
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Nothing.
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Huh?
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You heard me.
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Nothing.
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There is no secret ingredient.
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Wait, wait, it's just plain old noodle soup?
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You don't add some kind of special sauce or something?
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Don't have to.
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To make something special, you just have to believe it's special.
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Let me tell you goofball, this is not how I imagined adult life.
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Well, what do you mean?
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Well, apart from spending most of it plagued with terrifying anxiety,
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soul-crushing depression, crippling loneliness and terrible debilitating neck pain, it's also just incredibly boring.
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I mean, here we are, a couple of young people, it's Saturday night, and we're just lying on the couch watching TV in the dark.
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We're young people?
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Well, we're kinda young, and we're kinda people.
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I don't get it.
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You came in here, you turned the movie on, you turned the lights off, you sat down and you started watching it, and now you're complaining about it?
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Because I wish I was doing something else.
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Like what?
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Oh, you know the kind of things that young people do, goofball.
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They go to concerts, or they go on road trips, or to music festivals, or go camping,
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or play guitar as they sit around a bonfire on the beach at night.
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Making memories, falling in love...
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But I never got to do any of that stuff.
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You only get to be young once.
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And I blew it.
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The key in life is to lie to yourself about reality.
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Smile through everything.
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All the bad things, well, you just pile them away in a place that will come back one day in the form of,
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I don't know, rage? But everything's fine.
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I'll see you in bed.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “MOVIE QUOTES THAT HIT HARDER THAN LIFE”. This video has 346 sentences and 2793 words to shadow. The speech runs for 20:00. The speaker talks at a steady 140 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 88% 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 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| veterinarian noun | /ˌvɛt(ə)ɹəˈnɛɹ.i.ən/ | A medical doctor who treats non-human animals. |
| liar noun | /ˈlaɪ.ɚ/ | Someone who tells a lie; especially, a person who frequently lies. |
| obsess verb | /əbˈsɛs/ | To be preoccupied with a single topic or emotion. |
| gangster noun | /ˈɡæŋ.stəː/ | A member of a criminal or street gang. |
| ingredient noun | /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/ | One of the substances present in a mixture, especially food. |
| deed noun | /diːd/ | An action or act; something that is done. |
| accursed adjective | /əˈkɝ.sɪd/ | Hateful; detestable, loathsome. |
| agitate verb | /ˈæ.d͡ʒɪ.teɪt/ | To disturb or excite; to perturb or stir up (a person). |
| betray verb | /bɪˈtɹeɪ/ | To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly. |
| bonfire noun | /ˈbɑnˌfaɪɚ/ | A large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal. |
| debilitate verb | /dəˈbɪləteɪt/ | To make feeble; to weaken. |
| futility noun | /fjuˈtɪləti/ | The quality of being futile or useless. |
| godfather noun | /ˈɡɑdfɑðɚ/ | A man present at the christening of a baby who promises to help raise the child in a Christian manner; a male godparent who sponsors the baptism of a child. |
| limousine noun | /ˌlɪm.əˈziːn/ | An automobile body with seats and permanent top like a coupe, and with the top projecting over the driver and a projecting front. |
| nobility noun | /noʊˈbɪlɪti/ | A noble or privileged social class, historically accompanied by a hereditary title; aristocracy. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| go through verb | To travel from one end of something to the other. | |
| come back verb | To return to a place. | |
| come down to verb | To reach by moving down or reducing. | |
| end up verb | To bring to a conclusion. | |
| get through verb | /ɡɛt ˈθɹu/ | To overcome; to endure. |
| go along verb | To participate, cooperate, or conform. | |
| go back verb | To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time. | |
| go down verb | To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- What's wrong with you?
- You understand what I'm saying?
- What'll that make you good?
- You know what you're doing?
- Life's not fair, is it, my little friend?
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 loved · be feared · are bought |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | have been · we've lost · have ever tasted |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 120 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, you're, I'm. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: godfather /ˈɡɑdfɑðɚ/, athletic /æθˈlɛt.ɪk/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: vanquish /ˈvæŋkwɪʃ/, perfection /pɚˈfɛk.ʃən/, crush /kɹʌʃ/
- Long words — get the stress right: veterinarian /ˌvɛt(ə)ɹəˈnɛɹ.i.ən/, ingredient /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/, debilitate /dəˈbɪləteɪt/, futility /fjuˈtɪləti/, nobility /noʊˈbɪlɪti/
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 veterinarian, liar, obsess.
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.