Shadowing Practice: Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody (Lyrics) - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Is this the real life?
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Is this just fantasy?
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Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality.
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Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see.
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I'm just a blue boy, I need no sympathy
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Because I'm easy come, easy go, little high, little low
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Any way the wind blows doesn't really matter to me
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To me Mama, just killed a man
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Put a gun against his head
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Pulled my trigger, now he's dead
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Mama, life had just begun
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But now I've gone and thrown it all away
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Mama, didn't mean to make you cry
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If I'm not back again this time tomorrow
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Carry on, carry on Is it nothing really matters
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Too late My time has come
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Send shivers down my spine
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Bodies aching all the time
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Goodbye everybody I've got to go
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Gotta leave you all behind
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And face the truth
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Mama
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I don't wanna die I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all
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Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
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I see a little silhouetto of a man Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the bandango?
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Thunderbolt and lightning, very, very frightening me Galileo, Galileo, Galileo, Galileo, Pegao, Magnifico!
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I'm just a poor boy and nobody loves me
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He's just a poor boy from a poor family Sparing his life from this monstrosity
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Easy come, easy go, will you let me go?
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Bismillah, no, we will not let you go
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Let him go, Bismillah, we will not let you go
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Let him go, Bismillah, we will not let you go
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Let me go, we will not let you go
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Let me go, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
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Oh, mamma mia, mamma mia, mamma mia, let me go Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me,
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for me, for me
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So you think you can stop me and spit my eye
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So you think you can love me and leave me to die
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Oh, baby Can't do this to me, baby Just gotta get out
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Just gotta get right out of here
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Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
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oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
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oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
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oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
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oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
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oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh to me.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: Galileo, Mama, Bismillah, mamma, mia. This video has 46 sentences and 451 words to shadow. The speech runs for 5:27. The speaker talks slowly, about 83 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound. 86% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| devil noun | /ˈdɛvəl/ | An evil creature, the objectification of a hostile and destructive force. |
| goodbye | /ɡʊdˈbaɪ/ | Farewell; a formula used to another person or persons when the speaker, writer, or person addressed is departing. |
| trigger noun | /ˈtɹɪɡɚ/ | A finger-operated lever used to fire a gun. |
| lightning noun | /ˈlaɪt.nɪŋ/ | A flash of light produced by short-duration, high-voltage discharge of electricity within a cloud, between clouds, or between a cloud and the earth. |
| sympathy noun | /ˈsɪm.pəθ.i/ | A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another. |
| spine noun | /spaɪn/ | A series of bones situated at the back from the head to the pelvis of a human, or from the head to the tail of an animal, enclosing the spinal cord and… |
| spit verb | /spɪt/ | To evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc. |
| mamma noun | /ˈmæmə/ | The milk-secreting organ of female humans and other mammals which includes the mammary gland and the nipple or teat; a breast; an udder. |
| ache verb | /ˈeɪk/ | To suffer pain; to be the source of, or be in, pain, especially continued dull pain; to be distressed. |
| bandango noun | A pawpaw (Asimina triloba). | |
| frighten verb | /ˈfɹaɪ.tən/ | To cause to feel fear; to scare; to cause to feel alarm or fright. |
| landslide noun | /ˈlæn(d).slaɪd/ | A natural disaster that involves the breakup and downhill flow of rock, mud, water and anything caught in the path. |
| monstrosity noun | /mɒnˈstɹɒsɪti/ | An organism showing abnormal development or deformity. |
| shiver verb | /ˈʃɪvɚ/ | To tremble or shake, especially when cold or frightened. |
| thunderbolt noun | /ˈθʌndə(ɹ)ˌboʊlt/ | A flash of lightning accompanied by a crash of thunder. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| get out verb | To leave or escape. |
| look up to verb | To show respect or admiration for (someone); to see (someone) as a role model. |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 15 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, gotta, I've. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: sympathy /ˈsɪm.pəθ.i/, thunderbolt /ˈθʌndə(ɹ)ˌboʊlt/
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 devil, goodbye, trigger.
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.