Shadowing Practice: NOT MY DAD - Learn English Speaking with Video

Hello everybody, my name is Markiplier and welcome to Not My Dad.

I didn't see anything.

Either that's Not My Dad, or whatever was in the corner right there is Not My Dad.

Alright, let's go.

I saw you.

Now this is just a demo, so I can't get my hopes up.

If it's going to start out really good, really interesting, really fun, then stop abruptly.

It all started on another night when Mom went to work at the hospital.

She often worked double shifts and many times didn't come home to make dinner.

Dad had been acting strange for days, and that night, he didn't make anything for us to eat.

I woke up hungry and decided to go to the kitchen to find something to eat.

Dun -dun -dun. Is that so?

Man, my room is awful. Who?

The what thief?

Is that AI?

Hmm.

The book tells the story of a creature that mimics human voices and appears to lure its victims.

Popular on creepypasta forums, it was adapted in a collection of children's stories used in several rural schools.

The children all know the rhyme by heart.

On the back of the book, handwritten in red ink, If the skin isn't yours, don't trust what you see.

The skin thief walks at night looking for someone to deceive.

Okay, find something to eat.

Also, I'm the slowest child in existence.

Hello.

Nice tea poses.

Alright.

Hi, Dad!

How's the sports?

How, uh, how's it going, Father?

Papa?

I better go around so I don't bother Dad.

Why?

What would happen?

Dad?

Father?

Papa?

Fine.

I mean, I guess I need to go to the kitchen.

You mind if I get something from the kitchen, Dad?

Fine.

Whatever.

Love you or whatever.

Oh, pizza.

Yum.

Heat it up.

He wouldn't mind this.

With all the ovens we have.

right father you don't mind do you also do we really not have anything oh we got a diet soda

no there we go pizza seems awfully uneventful Lixian add in some MLG for no particular reason

put the plate on the table

MLG put a hit marker every time I take a bite there we go ask Oh,

man, this is great man.

I'm getting flashbacks to another particular game that loves the eating sound effects

Father everything okay father sure seems like I'll wash my dishes father I

Didn't do anything that is not the way to do your dishes hello father

all right papa i'm uh gonna go to bed but first i'm gonna do a little exploration Because why not?

Hey, Dad.

How you doing, Father?

You alright, Papa?

Good.

Ah, combo bathroom laundry room.

That's very efficient.

Nice tub.

Nice turlet.

Okay, Dad.

I'm gonna go.

I better not bother, Dad.

I better not.

I can't even go that way.

Fine.

Okay.

I'm gonna go to bed, Dad.

Hmm.

Is this like a stepdad situation or is that actually not my dad and he's been replaced with something else?

I don't know.

Mom always tells me to...

I just went all the way!

Lyxian teleported me there immediately!

Okay, alright.

Thanks, Lyxian.

Thanks, Dad!

Sorry to bother you.

I'm gonna brush my teeth.

I'm so tiny. In the game.

Toothbrush.

No toothpaste, no water.

That's hardcore brushing.

Also, I think I'm getting my eye involved.

well that's all done good i'm glad all right good night father good night father Alright,

well that was that was something hey dad you don't need to stand that close to the tv

i don't know

if that's good for you is this like a health thing

do you honestly i should you know sometimes what happens is

i go on a kick where i'm doing a standing desk for the entire time

and i'm like i do it for weeks and weeks

and my legs get so strong and i'm like yes this is

so good for me me doing this when i'm standing it's

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so good and then i i'll sit down

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because i'm doing some kind of edit

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or something i'm like oh i don't want to be standing

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and then i never raise back up damn it today's the

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day i'm gonna i'm gonna go we're going up god please

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don't rip anything out please here oh my god don't rip anything out good okay we're good

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and i gotta i gotta get my my cushion this has

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been sitting over here for ages just been in the way

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oh that's nice it's like one of those standing desk like cushions with the ergonomic ramps and

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it's gonna sound weird kneading ball that's what it how else

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would you describe it it needs it's a ball shape

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and it needs whatever it don't matter don't don't listen to me god it's

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so much better god it's so much better all right good night papa i guess

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oh night two okay mom came home today to make dinner

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shortly afterward she went back to the hospital to work luckily

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she let me take a soda to my room i drank the whole can

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while finishing my homework after that i had to go to the bathroom to pee

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so you say and

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so it shall be at least i did my homework my

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papa will be proud of me right papa right father you are proud of me no

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you are proud of me anyway i could go in the

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sink i suppose it's all the same right it all goes to the same place it does okay

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I'm drifting, I'm drifting, I seem to be drifting.

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I, too, move like a lawn sprinkler when I go to pee.

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Father, please don't jump in front of me again, that was very disturbing.

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Okay, going back to bed.

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I'm sure some other bullshit will get in my way.

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Another person to disappear without a trace inside the moon.

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This time they disappear in a residential area near downtown.

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That was the worst reading I've ever done.

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Pretend I read that appropriately.

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Actually, it looks like I didn't just do the text -to -speech, it's always better.

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Police have not released the victim's identity, but say the search is still ongoing.

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Neighbors reported hearing nothing unusual the previous night.

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With this latest case, the number of disappearances reported in the area since the beginning of the month has reached 15.

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Police are continuing their investigation.

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We now return to our regular programming.

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Father?

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Father?

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Father, where did you go, father?

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I don't know why they didn't just have his chair pushed all the way to the back so you couldn't go around.

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I mean, I know I can't go around, but feels like it should have been pushed back so there wasn't even an issue.

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Gonna go to sleep, Father!

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Wherever you went.

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Probably just to the bathroom.

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Uh -oh.

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Oh - Whoa!

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Whoa!

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Father?

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Why were you in the closet, Father?

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For what purpose?

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Father, why were you?

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Must have been my imagination.

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Uh -huh.

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I'm going back to sleep.

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Uh -huh.

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Alright, goodnight, papa.

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I can't even go out there, alright.

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Goodnight, papa.

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Papa, goodnight.

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Goodnight, papa.

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Night three.

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Since mom was home, we had our usual family dinner.

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She wouldn't stop talking about work.

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But dad was quieter than usual.

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I was the last one to leave the table, as always.

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So I took my plate to the sink and brushed my teeth before going to bed.

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Mother, I'm going to put my plate in the sink and then brush my teeth before going to bed.

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Blonk.

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Just as you require of me, Mother.

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Where is Mother?

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Unless Mother had to go to work again.

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Oh, no. Oh, no. Father has disappeared again.

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Father?

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Father?

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Father?

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Father?

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Nothing unusual here.

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Just going to brush my teeth.

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Like a good lad. And my eyeballs, too.

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Oh, that's a...

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Father?

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Father?

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Well, that's weird.

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That is weird.

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Not gonna lie.

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Kinda weird.

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Very strange.

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I'm gonna go the long way around.

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Just in case my eyes do be deceiving me, and I'm actually, uh...

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I'm gonna walk in front of him and he would be very upset about that so don't do that

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They probably know I'm gonna try to check my closet they probably know that and have arranged a spook Well probably fine

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Oh, father, father, father, father,

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not father, father, father, father,

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well, you know, I'm just gonna check it probably wants to kill me,

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okay, all right, good, good,

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you know what, actually, that's for the best oh flickering light interesting father father another man missing man is found

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but family says that's not him the man who went missing

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last thursday was found early yesterday morning walking in circles near the town square barefoot despite the cold

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when approached by police he did not resist he simply smiled his wife upon seeing him stepped back

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and repeated three times that's not him this is the third case this month in

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which missing persons have returned to their homes only for their

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families to claim they don't recognize them police are treating the incidents as isolated cases

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but residents are already talking about something imitating people or wearing their skin suspicious suspicions

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I should not approach that I should not approach that being in the doorway

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but I'm gonna anyway hey what's up neighbor listen I was taught manners by my parents

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and my manners parents taught me that I need to greet my neighbors with a friendly

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handshake

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well

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what are you afraid you afraid of me you afraid why would you be afraid of me I'm not fearful

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no one would ever be afraid of me he's a coward turns out he's a coward Well,

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I can't find dad.

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Alright.

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Maybe he's in the fridge.

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No, but there's pizza.

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Well, I can't find father.

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So I'm just gonna go back to bed.

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Well.

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father oh it's oh who the fuck oh mom yeah sure

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okay sweetie what are you doing wandering around the house at

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this hour i i think i saw dad go into my closet text a speech for the mom

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but your father is in bed asleep and you should do the same don't you think

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it's okay mom it's gonna be okay what kind of thing am i saying Good night, sweetie.

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Okay, good night, mom.

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Uh -uh.

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Father?

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Dad, is that you?

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Dad.

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Hi.

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Hello.

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I was taught manners by my parents.

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Alright, rude.

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Oh!

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oh i knew

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that was gonna be it i knew it i was getting my hopies up all for nothing

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that was pretty good not gonna lie that's pretty good well

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you know what i'm i'm gonna end it there i know you guys are craving three scary games

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and i know that i'm gonna get back into it

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and there's nothing wrong with doing that and i'm gonna do

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that but for now i am uh going on a trip I'm going on vacation

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so I have to do a little bit shorter even though it's perfectly reasonable video

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so perfectly reasonable perfectly reasonable I'm gonna end this one here thank you everybody

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so much for watching hope you enjoyed it wish list this on steam

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if you want to see more of it thank you

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and as always I will see you in the next video bye

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.

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