Shadowing Practice: Reacting to Tesla's Flying Roadster - Learn English Speaking with Video
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The Joe Rogan Experience Some people think the stuff about the Roadster online was like, you know, it's not real.
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It's a hundred percent real.
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My friend was there.
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No, no, I'm even like...
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Words are tough to.. you have to use your words very carefully, you know.
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Well, here's the thing.
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Will it be available in the general public?
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Right, probably not.
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No. How could you use it?
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How could you make that legal where you have a car that can fly over other cars if there's a traffic stop?
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Like I'm trying to I guess what some people are saying it's like you know the
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A test model car like it this will not this is the version of your concept car
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Yeah, yeah, well there first of all it probably won't be released
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Anywhere near
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when they say it's gonna be released just based on what he's done in the past
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I mean the Roadster there's a lot of people that paid two hundred fifty thousand dollars for the Roadster in 2017 yeah,
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I know a guy who did that too and like imagine you did that back then and you were expecting that car
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You got a completely different design.
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Yep.
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I mean a completely different looking car now it has the fucking Lamborghini doors.
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Yeah, and it flies
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What this guy's nuts I would It's insane.
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He's so out of his mind.
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He's got too much money.
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He just does whatever the fuck he wants I'm not with the people saying it's fake with wires
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and stuff some people said that there was wires on cranes
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And yeah, I don't I'm not buying that.
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No. Well, there is already a car that does that trick where it can go upside down
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There's this really there's this race car God I forget the name of it, but it actually has a fan
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Underneath the bottom of the car that acts as a suction and this car does insane lap times
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Because it's absolutely glued to the ground perfect handling yeah perfect handling and it's only a one -seater car
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Yeah Put some headphones on watch this thing put it see if you can find it's a it's a hype
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Yeah, see that's it.
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It goes upside down.
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This thing is literally crazy.
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It blows away all of the lap times on every single racetrack.
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Because first of all, it's really light, really tiny, has insane power because it's all electric.
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And it has so much suction at the bottom that it can go upside down.
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So they were the first ones to at least demo this type of tech.
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And they did it on this car.
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Like this car literally has so much suction.
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Give me some volume so you could hear this
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So this is a literal suction cup underneath the engine that's allowing this thing to hold its entire body weight
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Which has got to be like I would imagine at least close to 2 ,000 pounds
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Yes, but whatever it's one of those carbon fiber bodies carbon fiber
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Even if it is with the engines and the batteries so if it was a a
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Combustion engine car maybe it could be under 2 ,000 pounds like there's a few Porsches like they make some
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really old like Resto mod Porsches from like the 1960s and early 1970s that can get under 2 ,000 pounds.
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They like there's this guy that worked for God, I think he worked for Bugatti or something like
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that one of those crazy high -tech car companies and he built a car that was completely the opposite.
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He built a car where he stripped everything out of it.
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He made like a 1969
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Porsche, stripped everything out of it, made all of the panels fiberglass, and he got it to like 1800 pounds.
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Wow.
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And the idea is like that is like the most visceral driving experience, the most connected you are to a car, the lighter they are.
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The heavier they are, they can get really crazy with performance.
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It's like my Tesla is probably like 4 ,000 pounds, but it's like a time machine.
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Isn't the Cybertruck like seven or eight or something like that?
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Well, that's even bigger, right?
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I have the Model S, but the Cybertruck, it's all cold stamp steel.
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I think that's the type of steel, but it's incredibly heavy.
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I ordered one of those, and then I ended up pulling out.
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What happened?
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I kind of regret it.
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I don't know.
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I wanted one.
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I just like the idea of it.
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It's very seldom that I would look at a car and just smile every time I looked at a car.
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And every time I looked at that cyber truck,
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I just smiled so I was like I kind of want one of those and then I put the money down
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My wife was like what are you doing?
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And I was like I want one like I've always been a Ford guy
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so I've got like a Ford tremor which I love that truck and
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So I put the money down and then I started hearing like other guys got them and they're like
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Oh, there's some issues and bugs being worked out.
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So I was a coward and I pulled out I shouldn't have done it, but I did well you can get one now.
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Yeah.
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Yeah I mean they're making I'm sure they make them better now.
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I'm sure they're oh, yeah
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They figured out whatever the kinks were.
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It's like any other thing.
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The first generation, it's gonna have kinks that have to be worked out.
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Yeah, but there's some issues where people are like pulling the panels off
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and some of the panels were like literally glued on.
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But they fixed all that stuff now.
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So this is the thing in the air.
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Honestly though, completely honestly, I like the look of the original model better.
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I do too.
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I think it looked cooler.
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The original Roadster, it looked more like a modern supercar and that looks more like a Lamborghini.
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Lamborghini.
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Looks like a Lamborghini had a baby with a Cybertruck.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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And not even like a new Lamborghini.
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Like a Lamborghini from the 90s.
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Yeah.
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Which are cool.
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Like a Countach.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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It's just like, that one is sick.
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That's slick.
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That thing's sick.
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That looks amazing.
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That's the, I mean, maybe they could redo that.
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I don't know.
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I don't know.
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It's a crazy world.
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These things are weird.
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It's weird that you can get a car that goes zero to 60.
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That is gonna be real.
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It's gonna go 0 to 60 in under a second.
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That's fucking insane.
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Well at that test it was 0 .8, 0 .9 seconds or something like that?
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Yeah, that's crazy.
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That's like you're gonna liquefy your insides if you go any faster.
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Well it's half the speed of sound.
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Right?
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I mean it's full, top speed rather.
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It's top speed is half the speed of sound, which is just insane.
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I think it's like top speed is over 300 miles an hour.
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What is half the speed of sound?
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Is it like 380 or something?
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360 that's insane that's fucking insane I Mean I like going fast,
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but I don't know if I want to go that I I like I like going fast,
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but what I really like is the feeling of a car
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That's what unless you're a race car driver all the how fast he goes all horseshit
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Reacting to Tesla's Flying Roadster”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: insane, Draftkings, Lamborghini, speed. This video has 162 sentences and 1490 words to shadow. The speech runs for 8:01. The speaker talks fast, about 186 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 82% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| insane adjective | /ɪnˈseɪn/ | Exhibiting unsoundness or disorder of mind; not sane; utterly mad. |
| pound noun | /ˈpaʊ̯nd/ | A unit of weight in various measurement systems. |
| prediction noun | /pɹɪˈdɪkʃən/ | A statement of what will happen in the future. |
| bonus noun | /ˈbəʊ.nəs/ | Something extra that is good; an added benefit. |
| upside noun | /ˈʌpˌsaɪd/ | The highest or uppermost side or portion of something. |
| wire noun | /ˈwaɪɚ/ | Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die. |
| strip verb | /ˈstɹɪp/ | To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes. |
| reward noun | /ɹɪˈwɔɹd/ | Something of value given in return for an act. |
| vary verb | /ˈvɛəɹi/ | To change with time or a similar parameter. |
| availability noun | /əˌveɪ.ləˈbɪl.ɪ.ti/ | The quality of being available. |
| cage noun | /keɪd͡ʒ/ | An enclosure made of spaced bars, normally to hold animals while providing some ventilation. |
| underneath adverb | /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/ | Below; in a place beneath. |
| fiber noun | /ˈfaɪ.bɚ/ | A single elongated piece of a given material, roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibers to form thread. |
| void adjective | /vɔɪd/ | Containing nothing; empty; not occupied or filled. |
| bargain noun | /ˈbɑːɹɡən/ | An agreement between parties concerning the sale of property; or a contract by which one party binds themself to transfer the right to some property for a… |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| pull out verb | To withdraw; especially of military forces; to retreat. | |
| work out verb | /ˌwɝk ˈaʊt/ | To calculate. |
| blow away verb | To cause to go away by blowing, or by wind. | |
| end up verb | To bring to a conclusion. | |
| figure out verb | To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce. | |
| pass through verb | To go through, to travel through, to transit or lie across a place or from one place to another. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- No, no, I'm even like...
- How could you use it?
- My wife was like what are you doing?
- That's the, I mean, maybe they could redo that.
- I mean it's full, top speed rather.
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | won't be released · be released · being worked |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | guy who did · sound, which is |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 28 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, gonna. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: prediction /pɹɪˈdɪkʃən/, partnership /ˈpɑɹtnɚʃɪp/, nationwide /ˌneɪ.ʃənˈwaɪd/, suction /ˈsʌkʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: availability /əˌveɪ.ləˈbɪl.ɪ.ti/, incredibly /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/
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 insane, pound, prediction.
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.