Shadowing Practice: Sophie Thatcher Shows Us What's in Her Camera Roll - Learn English Speaking with Video

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No, I think it's a hoax.
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I felt nothing.
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Even if it was placebo, I felt like a little brat on a boat.
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Hi, I'm Sophie Thatcher, and we're going to play a game of camera roll roulette.
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Premiere.
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Aha.
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Wait, there's so much.
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Wow.
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Aw.
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Well, this is not recent at all.
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This is from 2018.
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This was, I guess, my first premiere, and I was really nervous.
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It was at Sundance, and I was in this kind of ugly suit, and I look like a baby.
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And I had the blonde mullet tattoo.
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Curious what pops up for this.
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I have two tattoos, so they're popping up in a lot of selfies.
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Here are some, my temporary tattoo face, because I didn't want to commit, and I realized being an actor, it sucks having tattoos, because they have to cover it up every day,
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and you just regret everything you did at 18.
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But yeah, I left these on way too long, and it just started like, I looked like a cross punk.
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It was not cool.
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Well, this is classic.
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Karaoke.
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I'm reading shit, no fever, but it's in the rain.
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Better than half the dark.
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Karaoke, classic, big part of me.
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That was Courtney and Sophie, my Yellow Jackets girls.
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Oh my God, karaoke is my life.
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I went through a phase in COVID where I just had my Scarlet
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and I would just practice songs alone by myself and just thinking about the future with no COVID.
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Oh Lord.
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I go through phases.
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Jesus Christ Superstar, I don't know how to love him.
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Any Carpenters, but I'm kind of sick of it.
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People have heard me sing Carpenters way too much, so I think I need to move on.
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ABBA, ABBA always gets the crowd going.
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Chumbawamba is something that I recently discovered, or rediscovered, it was their famous, I get knocked down, but I get up again.
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And that also will, you have to read the room.
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You have to see what people you're with, Because you can't just pull out a musical theatre song out of nowhere.
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That'll really piss people off, depending on the crowd.
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So you just have to be in tune with everybody.
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Party!
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I don't know why this popped up on my phone, this ominous picture I took in Vancouver of someone drowning.
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I don't know why my phone thought that was a party.
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Oh, this is a picture from set.
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I don't know why they thought this was party.
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This is in the trailer.
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I took a picture with my blonde wig and I thought
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that I looked like the kid from the Gus Van Sant movie Elephant.
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It's not a friend.
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These are all really bleak actually.
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Let's see.
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Let's see what other parties we got going on.
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This is a party, I guess.
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It's not a very flattering photo, but a picture of me with horns.
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I just like what my phone is deeming party.
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Okay, this is selfie.
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This is a selfie of me in my ween hoodie.
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I got merch from the band and I was so happy about it.
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It's not the best selfie, I look kind of emo in it, but it'll do for now.
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So this was like two days ago.
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Set.
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Set, set, set.
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I will have lots of these.
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Me and my twin Ellie did this shoot with this photographer, Alex Prager, for the 100th anniversary of The New Yorker,
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where we were recreating just famous images.
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I think ours was from the 20s, but this is a picture of me with a blonde wig, smoking a cigarette.
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We were dressed identically, and I truly couldn't tell us apart in photos, and I haven't had that since we were babies, because we were dressed exactly the same.
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But it was a really fun shoot.
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Vacation.
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Oh yeah, I posted this on my Instagram, but this was me at Cannes getting an IV They offered aloe,
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offered that, or Pilates, and I was like, an IV?
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Because the can hours are crazy.
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I was getting like three hours of sleep every night, because the parties would start so late, and you'd have to stay for a little bit,
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and wake up again at like six or seven in the morning.
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It was brutal, so I got this.
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It was my first IV, and I felt like a little brat on a boat.
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It was fun, though.
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Did you notice any difference after you...
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No, I think it's a hoax!
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I felt nothing.
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But it was more, even if it was placebo, it was something.
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And I was on a boat.
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I got up.
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It was great.
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Thank you so much for playing.
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Check out Her Private Hell out July 24th.

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What You'll Learn from This Video

Practicing with this clip helps you build two key speaking skills: casual storytelling (sharing personal anecdotes naturally) and adapting tone to context (switching from playful to reflective). These are perfect for IELTS speaking practice, where fluency and real-life communication matter. Plus, it’s a fun way to learn English with YouTube—no boring drills here!

Listen For These Sounds

The dialogue is full of connected speech. Notice how "I felt nothing" becomes "I feltnothin'" (reducing "nothing" to "nothin'") and "it sucks having tattoos" sounds like "it suckshaving tattoos" (linking "sucks" and "having"). These small changes make speech flow like a native’s. Keep an ear out for "kinda" (instead of "kind of") and "gonna" (instead of "going to")—common reductions that make conversations sound natural.

Say It Like a Native

To mirror Sophie’s rhythm, stress the key words in her stories: "nervous" in "I was really nervous," "ugly suit" in "I was in this kind of ugly suit," and "karaoke" in "karaoke is my life." Pause slightly before sharing a funny detail, like "I looked like a cross punk"—this builds emphasis. For shadow speech practice, repeat her lines aloud, matching her pace and tone. Platforms like shadowspeaks or a shadowing site can help you record and compare, but even repeating along with the video works. Remember: native speakers don’t speak in perfect sentences—they stumble, laugh, and trail off. Embrace that natural flow!

Whether you’re prepping for IELTS or just want to sound more confident, this video is a goldmine. Grab your phone, hit play, and start shadowing—you’ll be nailing casual English in no time.

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.

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