Shadowing Practice: Now Serving With Millie Bobby Brown | Vogue - Learn English Speaking with Video

I can't be a Bon Jovi without good Italian food.

Hi everyone, it's Millie Bobby Brown and I am with Vogue today to serve not only a luk but actually a meal.

I'm wearing a Dolce Archive. Who, me?

Yeah.

The ingredients for my paella are one pepper, one onion, some garlic, chorizo,

cubed chicken, canned tomatoes, our burrito rice, saffron, and chicken stock, and then some spices,

paprika, chili flakes, depending on how spicy you like it.

First, I thank the culinary gods.

I say, Millie, you are gonna do a great job today no matter what

don't put pressure on yourself i'm gonna start off by dicing

some garlic my dad's a really good cook my mom doesn't really cook

and my mom is here she's probably gonna be saying i make a really good spaghetti bolognese

but mom that's the only thing that you cook dad has various different ingredients

and he can just whip something up that makes total sense

but you'd never think you'd put together

so i learned probably from my dad we're gonna take this

ring off it's all getting really serious chop chop chop away get it really small i hate the way

when you chop garlic and you smell your fit the fit oh like i can't stand it

so usually this is jake's job

that feels about right my least favorite part of cooking sometimes

I cry um sometimes just I'm really hardcore let's see what happens today

but let's really hope not

because I've got a really strong eye look going on I

know people on here are gonna say what are you doing cutting an onion like

that and I'm gonna say I don't know what I'm doing

so I'm just gonna go in chop away guys

if you're ever wanting something to get just a tiny bit smaller

and you're cooking do my do my trick oh god do my trick you just

it's such a great trick in my house i put a big bowl on the table

and i put all the leftovers

and feed it to my chickens they love it i have

five hens they are great they're all named after the spice girls

which i heard chapel road has chickens that are named after the spice girls

which for me just feels like a segue into a really close friendship my chickens I had from

babies I raised them I was actually told they were gonna die

and then all of them survived so it's the power of love

and Chapel Rhone I guess Chapel if you're watching this know

that our chickens could get along posh would like to meet

posh point 2 .0 okay I'm in a pretty good place where the onion is really diced

my pepper right down cut the head off take the inside this is the part my chickens love the most

always save that part I was four when I left Spain

so it's always been a part of my life my first memory ever I had like a toy car

that I would drive it was like a very small you know toy car.

We lived on a hill and in Spain.

My dad can confirm or deny this, but I lost control and I was going down the hill.

My dad was chasing after me.

And like, I think that was my first memory.

I was like a really clumsy kid.

So I would fall a lot, chip my teeth, split my head open.

You know, it's all added to the creativity of who I am today, though.

It's all made me smarter at least that's what my mom tells me

so i'm like actually getting shit done whereas usually

i am on the phone with my girlfriends dying laughing at some tiktok are we done with

that oh my god the chorizo okay i hate hate hate

cooking meat like it's my least favorite part of any cooking experience again leave

that to my husband

but here we are today millie has to overcome her fears fyi i don't usually do this

so i'm gonna cut that like that

and then i'm just gonna open it like that

that feels right to me now it's just looking weird let's chop it up

actually the smell is so delicious i do slice it

because i don't like my dad also is the same we

don't like it to be too big i usually just pile them on top just to make it go faster

so we're now in a place where we have our diced veggies we have

that that thing and we're going to use the stove now let's do it let's make magic happen voila

Now we have my stove so what I like to do is I like to start off by turning it on

medium heat put some oil in I will put my onions in put my garlic in

and I'm gonna throw my saffron in the chicken stock to bloove it

while I'm cooking now I'm going to add some salt for me i i loved baking

and covid and until i smell like like it's walking

then i kind of that incentivizes me to keep going it starts to smell bad that's

when we've hit a road block i'm very much just like

go with the flow just keep tasting as i go along and see

if it needs more of anything i'm gonna let this caramelize

anytime anyone wants to kind of go out for dinner i'm always like come over

and it feels more intimate

and it actually i feel like my love for food is

like a way of saying like thank you for coming over

so now i'm just gonna throw in the red pepper i'm gonna start with my least favorite part

which is cooking the meat i have a very bad irrational fear around raw chicken

and some might say millie go go be a vegetarian

and i'm gonna say to that yeah i was a vegetarian for a really long time

but i found out my body needs meat everybody's different and that's what was happening with me we have olive oil

we have the chicken

once it's cooked i usually leave it in the bowl i don't eat it that's jake always

when we're like cleaning up after he goes you haven't even touched it

so why do we put it in there and i'm like I know, I do this every time.

But it's for the enjoyment of my other guests.

I want everybody else to enjoy the chicken.

I just seemingly can't.

We're gonna add some salt and pepper.

This is my paprika.

I'm gonna put a little bit in now to give some of the veggies some flavor.

I mean, I was on Hell's Kitchen.

Yeah, that's right.

I was the idiot sandwich.

uh no i was a guest on there

when i was like nine i love gordon i love his whole family oh

but stanley tucci's a good chef but i've never tried his food so invite me over stanley

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all right something's happening it's definitely turning a different color next we're going to add in

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that chorizo so here we go i'm just gonna put in like not all of it

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and i really like the chorizo really crispy

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so this is the part where i take the most time

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and make sure that it's like really crispy

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and delicious next i'm gonna put in my canned tomatoes i'm just gonna pop this in

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and this actually helps soften the vegetables i just like to

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kind of mix this around get it moving in yum just

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wait have faith in me it's looking good it looks where it needs to be for me

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if you put in the rice sauce it picks up all

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the flavors of the oils i'm just gonna mix this together

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and i'm gonna add in chicken stock

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so i again like to do this kind of the same thing with the paprika

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but do it intermittently because the rice really soaks up fast

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and then you have to keep trying

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and make sure the rice is actually cooking

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and then you add more i kind of play it by ear at this point

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and you let the rice do the talk now i'm going to put in the peas

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i'm going to put in the blooming saffron and i'm going to put in the rest of my paprika

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lid is going to go on top of this

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while this is cooking

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and i'm going to keep looking at this in disappointment the

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wedding food process i i didn't do a tasting i didn't

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do anything our caterer was galateo the most like renowned beautiful catering company in in honestly europe

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so i was like you got this

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and to this day guests at my wedding say there was a pasta dish

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that was like so amazing what i really wanted the takeaway to be was

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that the food was the best food they've ever had at a wedding

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and i am taking taking that very proudly i very much i'm not a trad wife

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but i do love cooking

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and i love married life i love cooking with my husband

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jake also loves the farm he also loves cooking like we're a trad couple

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but like a trendy trad couple

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so now i'm going to pop the chicken in to the paella probably needs another like honestly 15 minutes um

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but we'll check like intermittently so

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What I would usually do at home is I would then go and let the dogs out, put my life jacket on my English Bulldog because she really likes the pool, but she doesn't realize that she can't swim.

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All right, I'm going to make you a drink.

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Let's do it.

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So now I'm going to show you my favorite drink, which is a Charlie Temple.

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I grew up in the industry, always going to like fancy dinners and meeting fancy people.

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And to feel fancy myself, I would order a Charlie Temple and now growing up

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and being 21 my still my preference is always gonna be

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a shirley temple i need a cold drink let's find like a really nice one to sit on top of

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that yeah that's what we want to see okay then i'm

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gonna do a splash i like to do a squeeze of lime and then i like to

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fill it all the way up okay I like to pop

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that in there one for me one for the drink

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and then I'm going to use the back of a spoon just to get

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that grenadine doesn't that look so good

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and guess what this doesn't do leave you questioning everything you

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did the night before always choose Charlie this is like the best drink ever

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so I'm very happy with this let's check the paella oh

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my gosh it looks amazing i'm gonna do a little taste test with the same charlie temple spoon just gonna

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my dad would like it however jake wouldn't

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so i'm gonna pour some more of this on

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because the rice is still too hard

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and then i'm just going to bring all of the sides

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into the middle this might be my segue into my cooking

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career we don't know like i could be the next stanley tucci We're going to let

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that do its thing again And it's also going to get crispy on the bottom

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Which is my favorite part of any paella Toss, toss Checking That's ready Alright,

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this is ready to be served So I'm going to tidy up So we can get taste testing Alright,

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we're back I clearly had way too much fun I'm going

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to make another This time I'm going to put two cherries in The rest is bright

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The reveal here we go this is our paella I'm gonna

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start in the middle why not now I'm going to put

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a little bit of parsley not one flake went on there a little lemon and voila that is my paella

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wow i'm getting hints of saffron i'm getting hints of tomato this is delicious good job me

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it's all working it's all giving it's all serving my kitchen at home does not work like this

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and And it usually has around 10 dogs running around me, eating everything that falls on the ground.

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This has been a really peaceful, enjoyable experience.

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I love limes.

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You know when Dakota's like, I love limes.

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I would like to take this home in memory of that amazing video.

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Thanks so much for watching, bye.

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I have a nephew and I perform popular to him.

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He fully giggles and laughs at me playing Elphaba and Glinda for him.

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He loves the power of Elphaba, like he can really sense, he feels it.

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But Glinda makes him laugh.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This video has 178 sentences and 2170 words to shadow. The speech runs for 13:45. The speaker talks at a natural 158 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. Only 79% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
chop verb	/t͡ʃɑp/	To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions.
temple noun	/ˈtɛm.pl̩/	A house of worship dedicated to a polytheistic faith.
pepper noun	/ˈpɛp.ə/	A plant of the family Piperaceae.
garlic noun	/ˈɡɑɹlɪk/	A plant, Allium sativum, related to the onion, having a pungent bulb much used in cooking.
onion noun	/ˈʌn.jən/	A monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice.
trick noun	/ˈtɹɪk/	Something designed to fool, dupe, outsmart, mislead or swindle.
fancy noun	/ˈfæn.si/	The imagination.
delicious adjective	/dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/	Pleasing to the sense of taste; tasty.
jake noun	/dʒeɪk/	A juvenile male turkey.
chapel noun	/ˈt͡ʃæp.əl/	A place of worship, smaller than or subordinate to a church.
lime noun	/laɪm/	Any of several green citrus fruit, somewhat smaller and sharper-tasting than a lemon.
tomato noun	/təˈmeɪ.toʊ/	A widely cultivated plant, Solanum lycopersicum, having edible fruit.
dice verb	/daɪs/	To play dice.
hint noun	/hɪnt/	A clue.
flavor noun	/ˈfleɪvə/	The quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Meaning
come over verb	To affect in a sudden, unprecedented or surprising manner; to overwhelm a person's ordinarily contrary impulse.
start off verb	To begin.
clean up verb	To make an area or a thing clean; to pick up a mess; to tidy.
find out verb	To discover, as by asking or investigating.
get along verb	To interact or coexist well, without argument or trouble.
go along verb	To participate, cooperate, or conform.
go down verb	To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one.
grow up verb	To mature and become an adult.

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	we've hit · haven't even touched · i've never tried
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	are named · was actually told · is really diced
Verb + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — verbs that are followed by the -ing form	loved baking · keep tasting · keep trying
Superlatives the -est / the most … — the top or bottom of a group	the most time · the most like · the best

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 114 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, gonna, we're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “sh” and “zh” sounds: delicious /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/, friendship /ˈfɹɛn(d)ʃɪp/, chef /ʃɛf/, dish /dɪʃ/, gosh /ɡɑːʃ/
Long words — get the stress right: vegetarian /vɛ.d͡ʒɪˈtɛ.ɹi.ən/, ingredient /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/, creativity /kri.eɪˈtɪv.ᵻ.ti/, disappointment /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪntmənt/, culinary /ˈkʌlɪˌnɛɹi/

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 chop, temple, pepper.

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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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

Key vocabulary in this video

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Grammar in this video

Pronunciation to watch

How to practise with this video

What is the Shadowing Technique?