Shadowing Practice: Nick and Judy confess their feelings 🦊💖🐰 - Learn English Speaking with Video

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I thought you should...
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He told me that you...
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That you were...
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I'll help your friend.
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Okay, I don't care that we're different.
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You know?
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What I care about is you.
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I care about you.
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Okay?
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and I didn't say it I should have said it
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but I didn't because well
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because I am an emotionally insecure source of your discomfort who is not good at expressing his feelings probably
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because I've been on my own my whole life, it's not an excuse it's why instead of telling you
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that you're the best thing
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that ever happened to me i i make jokes about your ears
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and and i tell you that you try too hard
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when you know the truth is i just don't want you to get hurt because...
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Because no one else in the world matters more to me than you do.
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I do try too hard because deep down I'm afraid that I am what everyone thinks I am.
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And I suppress my discomfort because I'm worried it makes me look weak
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and I want to be strong and I think I'm failing all the time.
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And I only take what you say personally
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because you're the only one in my life who ever believed in me even when I don't even believe in myself.
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and I should have told you that.
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No one else in the world matters to me more than you do either.
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I have unresolved childhood trauma that I refuse to discuss because being vulnerable scares me.
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I make dangerous choices because I have an unhealthy bunny hero complex.
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And I didn't join the ZPD because I wanted to be a cop.
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I joined because I always wanted to be part of a pack.
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And the thought of losing you scares me because...
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because you're my pack.
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I should never have left you I do need a herd of therapy animals
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and I should have told you that you are the only partner I would ever want because You're my fluffle
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That's a bunch of rabbits Now that is what we call an overshare I'm a lot

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “Nick and Judy confess their feelings 🦊💖🐰”. This video has 34 sentences and 355 words to shadow. The speech runs for 2:23. The speaker talks at a steady 149 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. Only 80% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.

Key vocabulary in this video

The 12 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

WordPronunciationMeaning
discomfort noun/dɪsˈkʌmfɚt/Mental or bodily distress.
scare verb/skɛɚ/To frighten, terrify, startle, especially in a minor way.
fluffle noun/ˈflʌ.fəl/A group of rabbits.
overshare verbTo share too much or in excess.
unresolved adjectiveFor which no solution has been found.
suppress verb/səˈpɹɛs/To put an end to, especially with force, to crush, do away with; to prohibit, subdue.
unhealthy adjective/ʌnˈhɛl.θi/Characterized by, or conducive to poor health.
insecure adjective/ɪnsəˈkjʊɹ/Not secure.
bunny noun/ˈbʌni/A rabbit, especially a juvenile one.
emotionally adverb/ɪˈməʊʃənəli/In an emotional manner; displaying emotion.
rabbit noun/ˈɹæbɪt/A mammal of most genera of the family Leporidae, with long ears, long hind legs and a short, fluffy tail. (Those of the larger kind are instead called hares)
trauma noun/ˈtɹɔm.ə/Any injury to the body of a living thing.

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 17 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, you're, didn'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 discomfort, scare, fluffle.

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.

Shadowing technique: read the full step-by-step guide →