Shadowing Practice: My Typical Tuesday - Learn English Speaking with Video
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My Tuesdays now as an entrepreneur look very, very different to what they did a few years ago when I was working full time as a doctor.
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So before I'd wake up at like seven o 'clock on a Tuesday morning, I would drive an hour to work.
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I'd be at work probably from around 8 a .m to about 6 p .m.
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And then I've got like two hours of grinding that I can do on my side business before bed.
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Now I wake up around 8 a .m.
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I spend the first two hours of the day hanging out with my wife and my daughter.
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We have like a little family breakfast and then I take my daughter for a little walk.
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And then at 10 o 'clock, I wander over into the office where I am with my team right now.
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Usually on a Tuesday in the morning, I'm working with Owen, one of my team members, and we're creating curriculum content for an online business school that we run.
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Then I usually go out for lunch, sometimes with the team, sometimes with my wife.
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And then Tuesday afternoon, me and some friends have partnered up to build a series of apps.
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And so we are building a really cool productivity app called Superfocus.
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I spend a couple of hours vibe coding mock -ups for what the software could look like.
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I usually finish work by 7 p .m.
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So then I head back home, do like a little family dinner.
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On Tuesdays, I'm in charge of baby bedtime.
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So I'll hang out with the baby and read to her
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and put it sleep and then either me
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and the wife are then hanging out until bed
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or i'll go for a run or something like
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that even though i'm still working from 10 till 7 it's a very different style of work.
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In fairness in medicine you're actually saving lives.
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These days i'm not saving anyone's life.
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I'm no longer dealing with life and death every day.
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For me what i got fulfillment out of was teaching.
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Whether it's like videos or online workshops or in -person workshops
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or writing a book
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that realization kind of took me on this path where now i'm living a life
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that i could not have dreamed of a few years ago.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “My Typical Tuesday”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: Tuesday, hour, usually, wife. This video has 29 sentences and 385 words to shadow. The speech runs for 1:23. Only 81% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.
Key vocabulary in this video
13 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| clock noun | /klɑk/ | A chronometer, an instrument that measures time, particularly the time of day. |
| workshop noun | /ˈwɝk.ʃɑp/ | A room, especially one which is not particularly large, used for manufacturing or other light industrial work. |
| productivity noun | /ˌpɹɒdʌkˈtɪvəti/ | The state of being productive, fertile, or efficient. |
| curriculum noun | /kəˈɹɪk.jə.ləm/ | The set of courses, coursework, and content offered at a school or university. |
| entrepreneur noun | /ˌɑn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɝ/ | A person who sets up a business; generally, a person who owns and manages a business and assumes its financial risks. |
| grind verb | /ˈɡɹaɪnd/ | To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion. |
| vibe noun | /vaɪb/ | An atmosphere or aura felt to belong to a person, place or thing. |
| mock verb | /mɑk/ | To mimic, to simulate. |
| fairness noun | /ˈfɛɚ.nəs/ | The property of being fair or equitable. |
| realization noun | /ˌɹɪə.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/ | An act of figuring out or becoming aware. |
| wander verb | /ˈwɑndɚ/ | To move without purpose or specified destination; often in search of livelihood. |
| bedtime noun | /ˈbɛdtaɪm/ | The time or hour at which one retires to bed in order to sleep. |
| fulfilment noun | /fʊlˈfɪl.mənt/ | The act of fulfilling or the state or quality of being fulfilled; consummation; completion; realization. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| wake up verb | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | To stop sleeping; to awake. |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 13 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, I'd, I'll. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: workshop /ˈwɝk.ʃɑp/, realization /ˌɹɪə.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: productivity /ˌpɹɒdʌkˈtɪvəti/, curriculum /kəˈɹɪk.jə.ləm/, entrepreneur /ˌɑn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɝ/, realization /ˌɹɪə.laɪˈzeɪ.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 clock, workshop, productivity.
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.