Shadowing Practice: Rays' Star Rookie and Team Manager on Winning ALCS 👏 - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Chandler, Chandler Simpson joining us now.
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What's going on with it?
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Yes, sir.
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Yeah.
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Oh, my gosh.
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We got Kevin Cash getting mic'd up.
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So, Chandler, let me go to you first, man.
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You get thrown into this series.
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Instantly, you change it to now be in a moment where you have champagne all over you
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and you have a World Series ahead of you.
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What's going on right here, right now?
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I mean, it's a lot going on.
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It's a tremendous feeling.
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It's a blessing.
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I mean the fact that we was able to come together like this as a team
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and well everybody was to show everybody was able to show this camaraderie
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and everybody was able to lean on each other
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and not try to be the hero the fact
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that was able to pull this out and I'm just happy
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that I was able to contribute to it
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and be a part of you you do
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so many things obviously run hit throw
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you didn't just get here overnight what do you got to
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say to the hill boys back at home the hill boys the hill boys man
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I love y 'all back home I know y 'all watching
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i appreciate y 'all i'm a bros i love y 'all know y 'all watching appreciate y 'all
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chaylor i got a question as as cash sits down right here everyone
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that we've had at this desk this week whether it's baker whether it's rasmussen whether it's you everyone feels blessed
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that they got to this organization with this team what has this guy done to make it
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so all of you have the best year of your lives
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i mean he's put us in the best situation to win
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i mean everybody he's got the most out of every single player on both sides of the ball making sure
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that we are put in a position where we can succeed.
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And I mean, he does a hell of a job.
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And I mean, it's nobody that I have my trust in.
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He's a great leader for sure.
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Chandler, I'm going to ask you a question because I can see a really humble young man in you.
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When you look back at your journey coming up, what name comes into your memory?
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What name?
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Yeah.
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Like a player?
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As a role model, whatever, what name comes up? on your life in your life.
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I say Ralph Simpson.
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That's my pops.
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I feel like he's been my everything.
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I mean, he's the reason why I'm the man I am today, aside from the player.
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But I mean, just to show grit, perseverance, and the fact that he's instilled that in me and work ethic.
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I mean, there's nothing that I know more than putting my head down to the ground
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and leaving my head up to the most high.
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So I attested him for that.
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Not only is he a great baseball player, Pedro, I know you love dancing.
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Yeah.
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Chandler Simpson is 12 years old.
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Oh, my goodness.
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Oh, my goodness.
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Oh, my goodness.
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Oh, my goodness.
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Oh, my goodness.
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Oh, my goodness.
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Your teammates know about that one?
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Nah, they don't know about that one.
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They think about it now.
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They can find out about it.
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It's crazy.
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Talent show.
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Yeah, sixth grade talent show.
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Did you win?
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No, I didn't win.
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I should have won, though.
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Well, you got to redo it now.
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I got the best moves.
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Who won tonight?
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I want to know who won.
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I don't even remember who won.
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I won in my book.
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They're going crazy in Atlanta, whoever won.
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Chandler Simpson, congratulations.
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Go in there.
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Get that champagne.
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Now we can turn our attention to Skip.
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He's way more important than I am.
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That's the hardest working, best guy.
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I'm a player, coach, manager.
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Nobody's more driven or motivated to be special like he is.
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I had Davey on our podcast, and I, from a player to a manager, and I asked him what was more gratifying.
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He said, obviously, being a manager.
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What is it about managing a group of men as opposed to being on a team,
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being managed, that you take pride in and get the pleasure of watching these young men turn into hopefully
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World Series champions?
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Yeah, I think it's a culmination of the entire season, watching them come together.
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And we talked about it from spring training.
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We felt this has a potential to be a special group.
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Aaron came out and addressed the club, which he doesn't always do.
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He addressed the club and said, forget what the outside is saying.
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We have strong belief in this group.
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And to their credit, they went out and backed it up.
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So I think that's the most gratifying.
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And me being a bad player, I didn't really contribute much.
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I was just a good cheerleader.
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But, Cash, you mentioned that, though.
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We had a dress talking over here about how
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Eric came down and said, we believe in you.
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We have confidence in you.
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Was that strategic to say, hey, we're going to hype everybody up.
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We're going to make sure that they believe they're the best.
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Where did that come from?
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Because, like you said, he's not always coming down to talk to him.
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I'm sure you're not always having that same conversation.
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Where did that come from this season?
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You know what?
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I think probably from our 25 season of not going as well as we would have liked.
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And it's not a bad thing to give some guys some reassurance and some backing belief.
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And we had a lot of roster turnover coming into spring training.
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And Eric felt that it was important.
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I'm glad he did it because it seemed like it really resonated throughout the course of the season.
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Kevin, how do you get these guys now after tonight regroup and understand clearly what their goal is after tomorrow?
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Yeah, I mean, this group is...
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They've been just a complete joy to be around all season long.
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I know they're very, very, very motivated.
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And, you know, I heard the line, you know, we don't have any
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Hall of Famers in that room right now.
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Maybe not.
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We might, but not yet.
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But I can assure you, we got a bunch of gamers, too, and we're excited to get up there to Milwaukee.
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Oh, my God.
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I can't wait to see that because I feel honestly, after spending my career and all that,
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that you guys set an example for everybody in baseball about how the game needs to be played.
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Are you looking forward to facing the Milwaukee Brewers?
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And what are the adversities that you expect against the Milwaukee Brewers?
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They're highly athletic, but so are we.
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I'm excited to see two great teams
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that play the game a little differently than maybe it's been played the last decade or so.
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And we're going to use our speed.
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We're going to bunt when it's called for.
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We'll try to get matchups, and I can assure you they're going to do the same.
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But what an exciting challenge to go up there and try to get after.
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Kevin, I've been waiting for three days to ask you this question.
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We were sitting on set for 90 minutes during that rain delay, wondering what's going on down there.
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You guys came out a different team, games four, five, and six.
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How did you use that evening?
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What happened that we didn't see?
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Honestly, the only thing that happened, the guys were waiting around.
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I think everybody's eager to play at this point.
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If we can get it in, get it in.
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MLB, you know, did the right thing by letting it delay.
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I think the most exciting thing came when I looked at Freddy Peralta and said, going into that day, six inning on,
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tighter ahead, you're going to get in this ballgame.
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And his eyes lit up.
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And then it carried into the next day, and he came in and got three huge outs for us.
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Describe Freddy in three words.
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Energetic, smiling, and confident.
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Super confident.
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That guy, I mean, he's kind of put us on his back every time he takes the ball.
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I mean, what a credit to Eric.
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for our trade acquisitions at the deadline.
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Liam Hicks, Tyler Wells, and obviously Freddie Peralta, they just thickened up a really talented team.
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Kevin, 18.
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That's why he is today.
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M -B -P.
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There you go.
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I agree.
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Kevin, 18 years ago, you were in that dugout watching David Price get the save.
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Now in your dugout, you just clinched the ALCS.
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You're going to the World Series.
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Congratulations.
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Thank you very much.
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Thank you.
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I hope it feels as good as it seems, brother.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Rays' Star Rookie and Team Manager on Winning ALCS 👏”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: player, Chandler, goodness, everybody, won. This video has 168 sentences and 1475 words to shadow. The speech runs for 7:16. The speaker talks fast, about 203 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 84% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| goodness noun | /ˈɡʊdnəs/ | The state or characteristic of being good. |
| belief noun | /bɪˈliːf/ | Mental acceptance of a claim as true. |
| congratulations | /kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/ | Expressing praise and approval, expressing approbation. |
| delay noun | /dɪˈleɪ̯/ | A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity. |
| contribute verb | /kənˈtɹɪb.jut/ | To give something that is or becomes part of a larger whole. |
| assure verb | /əˈʃʊɹ/ | To make sure and secure; ensure. |
| champagne noun | /ʃæmˈpeɪn/ | A sparkling white wine made from a blend of grapes, especially Chardonnay and pinot, produced in Champagne, France, by the méthode champenoise. |
| motivate verb | /ˈmoʊ.tɪ.veɪt/ | To provide someone with an incentive to do something; to encourage; to actuate. |
| desk noun | /dɛsk/ | A table, frame, or case, in past centuries usually with a sloping top but now usually with a flat top, for the use of writers and readers. It often has a… |
| strategic adjective | /stɹəˈti.dʒɪk/ | Of or pertaining to strategy. |
| whoever | /huˈɛvɚ/ | Who ever: an emphatic form of who. |
| sixth adjective | /sɪksθ/ | The ordinal form of the number six. |
| talented adjective | /ˈtæləntɪd/ | Endowed with one or more talents. |
| succeed verb | /səkˈsiːd/ | To follow something in sequence or time. |
| acquisition noun | /ˌæk.wɪˈzɪʃ.ən/ | The act or process of acquiring. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| come out verb | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | To be discovered; to be revealed. |
| come together verb | /ˈkʌm tʊˈɡɛðɚ/ | To assemble; to congregate; to combine. |
| come down verb | To descend, fall down, collapse. | |
| come down to verb | To reach by moving down or reducing. | |
| come up verb | To emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly. | |
| get up verb | To move in an upward direction; to ascend or climb. | |
| go out verb | To leave, especially a building. | |
| go up verb | To move upwards. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- What's going on with it?
- What's going on right here, right now?
- Your teammates know about that one?
- How did you use that evening?
- What happened that we didn't see?
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 had · he's been · They've been |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | are put · being managed · be played |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 35 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, they're, we're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: sixth /sɪksθ/, athletic /æθˈlɛt.ɪk/, ethic /ˈɛθ.ɪk/, thicken /ˈθɪkən/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: congratulations /kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/, assure /əˈʃʊɹ/, champagne /ʃæmˈpeɪn/, acquisition /ˌæk.wɪˈzɪʃ.ən/, gosh /ɡɑːʃ/
- Long words — get the stress right: congratulations /kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/, acquisition /ˌæk.wɪˈzɪʃ.ən/, differently /ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/, energetic /ˌɛn.əɹˈdʒɛt.ɪk/, adversity /ædˈvɜː.sɪ.ti/
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 goodness, belief, congratulations.
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.