Shadowing Practice: SLOW English Podcast for A1 Beginners ☀️ goals ☀️ - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Hello!
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Welcome back to my Slow English Podcast.
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Today, I will be speaking for beginner English listeners.
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Today, I want to talk about my friends.
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I have a few friends.
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Very few friends, but very good friends.
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Whenever I feel stressed or frustrated from work,
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from life, I can always talk to my friends.
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I can always vent to my friends.
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My friends make me smile.
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When I'm feeling down, they always make me laugh.
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I laugh a lot with my friends.
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We laugh about everything.
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Who makes you smile when you feel down?
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Who makes you laugh when you feel sad?
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Sometimes I will go eat with my friends.
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We like to eat tacos.
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I always get the longaniza tacos.
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Those are my favorite tacos.
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I like to hang out with my friends.
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We hang out at the mall,
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at the market, at the fair,
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At restaurants, we hang out everywhere.
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I don't know what I would do without my friends.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This A1 speaking lesson is built on the video “SLOW English Podcast for A1 Beginners ☀️ goals ☀️”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: laugh, tacos, hang. This video has 25 sentences and 166 words to shadow. The speech runs for 3:00. 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
13 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
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| taco noun | /ˈtɑkoʊ/ | A Mexican snack food made of a small tortilla (soft- or hard-shelled) filled with ingredients such as meat, rice, beans, cheese, diced vegetables, and salsa. |
| mall noun | /mɔːl/ | A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct. |
| ventilation noun | /ˌvɛntɪˈleɪʃ(ə)n/ | The replacement of stale or noxious air with fresh. |
| beginner noun | /bəˈɡɪnɚ/ | Someone who is just starting at something, or has only recently started. |
| listener noun | /ˈlɪs(ə)nɚ/ | Someone who listens, especially to a speech or a broadcast. |
| frustrate verb | /ˈfɹʌsˌtɹeɪt/ | To disappoint or defeat; to vex by depriving of something expected or desired. |
| longaniza noun | A type of Spanish sausage. | |
| laugh verb | /læf/ | To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and… |
| smile verb | /ˈsmaɪl/ | To have (a smile) on one's face. |
| restaurant noun | /ˈɹɛst(ə)ˌɹɑnt/ | An eating establishment in which diners are served food, usually by waiters at their tables but sometimes (as in a fast food restaurant) at a counter. |
| everywhere adverb | /ˈɛv.ɹi.(h)wɛɹ/ | In or to all locations under discussion. |
| whenever | /wəˈnɛvɚ/ | At any time that. |
| favourite adjective | /ˈfeɪv.ɹɪt/ | Most-liked. (In other words, [person]'s favorite [noun] = the [noun] that [person] likes the most.) |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- When I'm feeling down, they always make me laugh.
- Who makes you smile when you feel down?
- Who makes you laugh when you feel sad?
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 taco, mall, ventilation.
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.