Shadowing Practice: Real vs Fake Ice Cream! | Easy English Listening Stories for Beginners (A1–A2 Level) - Learn English Speaking with Video
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I feel like a piece of bread in a toaster.
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Don't worry.
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This mango is here to rescue you.
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A little bit of green magic for a sunny day.
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This is like a hug in a cup.
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Nature is the best freezer we have.
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Clean, fresh, and fabulous.
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That's our style.
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Business is blooming, Lena.
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Our little fruit cart is becoming everyone's favorite.
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You two are the heroes of this street.
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Real fruit never goes out of fashion.
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Wait.
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What is that strange sound?
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Is it a cloud? Or a magic show?
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Forget the farm.
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The future is here, darlings.
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My eyes!
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It's like a disco party on wheels!
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Does your ice cream glow?
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No?
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Then it's boring!
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Mom, I want the ice cream that looks like a star!
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Sorry girls, I need to see if this glows.
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Mr. Watermelon, we've been replaced by a light bulb.
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Since when is chemistry more popular than fruit?
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Sweeties, people love things that sparkle.
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Three days and only one bird visited us.
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Nobody can make ice cream glow without a secret.
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I agree.
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We need to find out what's inside.
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Is she selling ice cream or nuclear secrets?
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She is definitely hiding something fishy.
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Read the sign, my recipe is for winners only.
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She is so arrogant.
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Someone needs to stop her.
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Lena, I have an idea for a high-tech disguise.
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Behold, the invisibility cloak of the fruit world.
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Agent Daniel, remember, you are just a box.
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I am the box.
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The box is me.
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I am a sidewalk.
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I didn't know boxes could migrate.
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Coast is clear.
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Wiggle to the left, Agent Box.
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Don't breathe.
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Don't breathe.
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Don't blink. Be a boring box.
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People have no manners.
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leaving trash everywhere here, right where it belongs.
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The price of being a spy is a smelly banana.
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Box leader, you have a very stylish yellow hat.
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I will wear this banana with honor.
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A giant fruit box.
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Go away puppy, I'm not a snack.
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Target spotted, preparing for entry.
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Finally free!
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That box was way too cramped.
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We're here!
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It smells like a sugar factory in here.
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Lena, I see machines everywhere, but no real fruit at all.
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Color and color, that's the secret to my empire.
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Lena, there's literally no fruit here.
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Zero?
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Who needs nature when you have science?
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I've got the evidence.
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It's all artificial dust.
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She is selling fake food.
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This is a disaster.
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Is she making ice cream or fireworks?
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Everything is ready for the night show.
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Let's make them glow like a neon sign.
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That looks like something from a monster movie.
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I don't need farmers.
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I need chemists.
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We must stop her before someone's tummy hurts.
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I wonder if this stuff is even legal to eat.
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One spoonful and they'll forget fresh fruit?
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Let's find out what she's really putting in this stuff.
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Uh oh.
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My nose is starting to tingle.
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Stay calm Daniel.
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Don't sneeze now.
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Daniel...
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Don't you dare sneeze now.
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The itch is too strong.
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Help me!
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Hello, Ruby.
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Nice warehouse.
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You.. who.. tap.
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The Fruit Girl's Little Spy.
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Garretts, are you trying to steal my formula?
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Steal it?
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I was checking if you needed bananas.
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You saw the powder.
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You know too much.
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Look, a giant pink dragon is outside.
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A dragon?
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That's the best you can do?
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Science sample.
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Thanks.
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Bye!
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Stop right there!
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Give me back my sample!
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My secret ingredient.
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Lena!
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She's crazy!
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You look like.. a mess. Are you okay?
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He took the evidence.
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No!
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I have the proof.
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This isn't ice cream.
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It's glowing color powder.
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I need to bring this sample back to our base for Kevin to research.
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Kevin, is this food or a toy?
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Hmm.
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This structure is very suspicious.
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Let's check the sugar level.
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Oh, dear.
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Whoa.
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I think something is glowing in my mouth.
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This ice cream is almost entirely artificial chemicals and sugar.
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Then we fight back with the one thing she doesn't have.
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Real fruit.
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Come see how real ice cream is actually made.
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Real taste.
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Real fruit.
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Come and get it.
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No chemicals.
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Just sunshine.
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No fake colors.
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No fake flavor.
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Just real fruit.
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Wow!
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That fruit smells amazing.
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Ooh!
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This is so good.
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It tastes like real strawberries.
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Aha!
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Oh, what a...
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Thank goodness.
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Something healthy.
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Real things don't need neon lights.
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Why is my kid's tongue purple?
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What did you put in this?
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Mommy, I feel like a sick balloon!
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These color powders are part of the decoration.
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We're going back to the fruit girls.
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I thought flashy colors would make people happy.
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People remember real taste Ruby, not fake sparkle.
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I spent so much time making ice cream look special, I forgot it should be real.
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She looks really sad.
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Ruby, here, try some real strawberry ice cream.
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After everything I did, you still want to help me.
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Everyone deserves a second chance.
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Wait, real strawberries taste...
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Promise no more chemicals, okay?
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Deal!
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You're a great clown, Daniel.
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See you next summer with real recipes.
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Fake colors fade.
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Real flavor stays.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 162 sentences and 845 words to shadow. The speech runs for 11:57. The speaker talks slowly, about 71 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound. Only 77% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 less common words from the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
- glow /ɡloʊ/ (verb) — To emit heat and light without a flame.
- powder /ˈpaʊ.dɚ/ (noun) — The fine particles which are the result of reducing a dry substance by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or the result of decay; dust.
- banana /bəˈnænə/ (noun) — An elongated curved tropical fruit of a banana plant, which grows in bunches and has a creamy flesh and a smooth skin.
- strawberry /ˈstɹɔˌbɛɹi/ (noun) — The sweet, usually red, edible accessory fruit of certain plants of the genus Fragaria.
- dragon /ˈdɹæɡən/ (noun) — In European mythologies, a gigantic beast, typically reptilian with leathery bat-like wings, lion-like claws, scaly skin and a lizard-like body, often a…
- steal /stiːl/ (verb) — To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else without intending to return it.
- breathe /bɹiːð/ (verb) — To draw air into (inhale), and expel air from (exhale), the lungs in order to extract oxygen and excrete waste gases.
- artificial /ˌɑː.tɪˈfɪʃ.əl/ (adjective) — Man-made; made by humans; of artifice.
- recipe /ˈɹɛs.ɪ.pi/ (noun) — Any set of instructions for preparing a mixture of ingredients.
- flavor /ˈfleɪvə/ (noun) — The quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect.
- bore /boɹ/ (verb) — To inspire boredom in somebody.
- neon /ˈniˌɑn/ (noun) — The chemical element (symbol Ne) with an atomic number of 10. The second of the noble gases, it is a colourless, odorless inert gas.
- rescue /ˈɹɛs.kjuː/ (verb) — To save from any violence, danger or evil.
- cloud /ˈklaʊ̯d/ (noun) — A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
- formula /ˈfɔː.mjʊ.lə/ (noun) — Any mathematical rule expressed symbolically.
Phrasal verbs you will hear
- find out (verb) — To discover, as by asking or investigating.
- put in (verb) — To place inside.
- go away (verb) — To depart or leave a place.
- go back to (verb) — To stem from; to originate in.
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 18 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, we're, didn't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: artificial /ˌɑː.tɪˈfɪʃ.əl/, trash /tɹæʃ/, sunshine /ˈsʌnʃaɪn/, suspicious /səˈspɪʃ.əs/, decoration /ˌdɛkəˈɹeɪʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: artificial /ˌɑː.tɪˈfɪʃ.əl/, decoration /ˌdɛkəˈɹeɪʃən/, ingredient /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/
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 glow, powder, banana.
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 | we've been replaced · is actually made |
| Superlatives the -est / the most … — the top or bottom of a group | the best |
| Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — something happening right now or around now | is blooming · is becoming · Is she selling |
| Obligation: must / have to / need to saying that something is necessary | need to see · need to find · needs to stop |
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.