Shadowing Practice: (Slow Chinese) 中国的外卖员 - Chinese Delivery Drivers - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Today's topic is "外卖".
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The shopkeeper is very hard to work, and can often see interesting and impressive stories.
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For example, a motorcycle is a disaster, and the fire is burning, the fire is burning, the shopkeeper is burning,
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and the shopkeeper is burning, and the shopkeeper is burning, and the shopkeeper is burning, and the shopkeeper is burning.
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Some of the shopping cart have to wait for a long time.
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The shopping cart would go to the kitchen to cook the kitchen and cook the dishes.
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At the end of the day, the house was not busy.
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The two -year -old daughter was crying.
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Several grocery stores are driving to the car, and they are the red one.
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One day to wait One of them helped me you The weather is a stormy,
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the road is being hit by the road.
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A store is stopped, and the weather is being taken off.
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- These stories are not very interesting.
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China has two big online platforms.
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一个叫美团 ,一个叫饿了吗?
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Since 2014, these platforms are becoming more popular now.
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Now, it is now becoming a part of the country's life.
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So why do you like to welcome the world?
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First, The shopping is very convenient, you don't have to eat, you don't have to go out, just use the phone to click on it.
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You can eat the hot food The R The trade is very fast 很多时候 20 -30 minutes can be sent Third,
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you choose a lot.
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You can add "中餐", "西餐", and "奶茶" or "甜品".
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Now, China has more and more of the sales.
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We call them as "cichu" or "wai mai chichu".
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There are a few people who say that China has 1000 million people in the world.
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平均每年增加10 %到20 % So many people send out the mail Can it continue to continue?
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The people of the store work for a long time 非常辛苦 They must always walk on the road, very little to rest.
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它们要争分夺秒 ,这是个成语 ,争分夺秒 ,意思就是 抢时间 1分 1秒, it's not wasted.
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雖然這樣很累 ,但他們的收入還算穩定。 The city of one -line cities, such as Beijing, Shanghai, and Senegal,
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The month's income is about 8000 to 10000 yen.
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- What can you do for a month?
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- 300 yen.
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- What can you do for a month?
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- 100 yen.
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The food makes life easier, but also brings problems.
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The first question is the environment.
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Now many other products are still using a single layer of塑料.
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For example, 塑料袋 塑料餐具 ,中國因為外賣產生很多垃圾。 This is not a bad situation.
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The second question is that the driver's pressure is very high.
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They work for a long time, if it's raining, they also work for a long time.
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- One day can't run?
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- No, I don't.
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- No, I don't.
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- No, I don't.
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- No, I don't.
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- No, I don't.
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- No, I don't.
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- 10 minutes.
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There is a movie called "The Life of the Life" "The movie" was a young person who found a new job.
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He finally started selling the sale.
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This movie is about the "Main of the Home" Many viewers watched the movie after, very excited.
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Now, there are a few hundred million students who graduate.
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以前人们觉得只要上大学就能改变命运 ,但现在有很多刚毕业的大学生也面临找不到工作的难题。 They didn't have any experience,
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no matter what they did, so they chose to sell the goods.
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You're how old?
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You're a junior.
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You're a junior?
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Yes.
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You're a junior.
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Hey, dad, sugar.
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"I'm not the most ideal job, but it can help people to feed themselves, not to pay for parents." 那么,
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the future will be how much?
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外卖源会越来越多吗?
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还是有一天会被机器人取代 如果有无人车?
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无人机会不会出现 無人外賣?
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Thank you.
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越来越多的农村和小镇也开始有了外卖服务 The platform has seen this opportunity.
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开始下乡 In the villages, the city is more small than the city.
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Maybe the future of the sale will come to more small places.
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Now, the market is a part of many people's lives.
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We have their own view, so I want to hear your view.
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Do you think that a high school person is selling the market?
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If you are失業, you will consider sending out the goods?
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In the comments section, write your opinion.
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Speaking Goals for This Clip
This video helps you practice describing daily life and social trends, a key fluency milestone for IELTS speaking practice and real-world conversations. You’ll learn to discuss both the benefits and challenges of a common service, using clear, structured language—perfect for shadowing to improve flow and coherence.
Phrase Bank
- Zheng fen duo miao (idiom): "Race against time" (to emphasize urgency)
- "Stable income" (to describe reliable earnings)
- "Single-use plastic" (common environmental term)
- "Convenient and fast" (to highlight service advantages)
- "Bring problems" (to transition to drawbacks)
Fix Your Weak Spots
This clip is ideal for improving pronunciation of multisyllabic words and idiomatic rhythm. The slow, clear delivery makes it a great shadowing site resource—try shadowspeaks techniques by repeating phrases like "race against time" to match the natural stress and pace. Focus on words like "plastic" and "environment" to correct vowel sounds, and practice the idiom "zheng fen duo miao" to master tonal flow (even in English translation). Shadowing this dialogue will also help you reduce pauses when explaining complex ideas, a critical skill for improving English pronunciation and fluency.
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 | being hit · is stopped · can be sent |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | people who say · person who found · students who graduate |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | I've done · has seen |
| Verb + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — verbs that are followed by the -ing form | started selling · consider sending |
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.