Shadowing Practice: Personality | Everyday English - Learn English Speaking with Video
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We can make ourselves happier by being around the right kinds of people.
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Our study showed that people who had kind, helpful friends or colleagues were 75% happier than people who didn’t have these kinds of friends.
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The results also showed that one of the most important things is that our friends are honest.
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Lots of people also said that it is very important for their friends to be funny.
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The most unpopular kinds of friends were selfish and unhappy people.
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The results also showed that noisy people were often unpopular with neighbors and colleagues.
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Not everyone we spoke to was friendly.
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Several people were a little shy and preferred to be alone most of the time.
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These people said that they prefer to work with people who were polite but not very talkative.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 9 sentences and 133 words to shadow. The speech runs for 1:14. The speaker talks slowly, about 108 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 12 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| colleague noun | /ˈkɒliːɡ/ | A fellow member of a profession, staff, academic faculty or other organization; an associate, a workmate. |
| unpopular adjective | Lacking popularity. | |
| helpful adjective | /ˈhɛlp.fl̩/ | Furnishing help; giving aid; useful. |
| selfish adjective | /ˈsɛlf.ɪʃ/ | Holding one's own self-interest as the standard for decision making. |
| unhappy adjective | /ʌnˈhæpi/ | Not happy; sad. |
| polite adjective | /pəˈlaɪt/ | Well-mannered, civilized. |
| noisy adjective | /ˈnɔɪzi/ | Making a noise, especially a loud unpleasant sound |
| talkative adjective | /ˈtɔ.kə.ɾɪv/ | Tending to talk a lot. |
| prefer verb | [pɹɪˈfɝ] | To be in the habit of choosing something rather than something else; to favor; to like better. |
| friendly adjective | /ˈfɹɛnd.li/ | Generally warm, approachable and easy to relate with in character. |
| ourselves | /aʊɚˈsɛlvz/ | Us; the group including the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition when that group also is the subject. |
| honest adjective | /ˈɑ.nɪst/ | Scrupulous with regard to telling the truth; not given to swindling, lying, or fraud; upright. |
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | people who had · people who were |
| Superlatives the -est / the most … — the top or bottom of a group | the most important · The most unpopular |
| Comparatives -er than / more … than — comparing two things | happier than |
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 colleague, unpopular, helpful.
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.