Shadowing Practice: كيف تحكي بثقة وبدون خوف حتى لو كنتِ خجولة| speak with confidence - Learn English Speaking with Video

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If someone has a problem with you, I don't know what you're doing.
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There's always a problem with you.
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I always say that I always work with camera
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and I always show people with a lot of people and I always give them a lot of work.
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Like IWA.
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I give them a lot of people.
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I tell them a lot.
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I tell them a lot.
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I don't think I'm feeling it.
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I feel that I'm not a good person.
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person a person a person a person a person a person a I don't speak a lot, I don't do it.
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When I was a kid, I started to give people a lot
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and I started to give people a lot and I started to talk and I started to do it.
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The people who are not worried about me are going to be a kid.
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Even if you didn't have this thing, there are scenarios that you can do with it.
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If you work with it, you can do it with it.
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Like I want you to do it.
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I was lucky enough that I was going to get a lot of fun.
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But that doesn't mean you can get to get here.
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You can't talk about the world.
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No, you can't.
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Even if you didn't have a lot of time to talk about a number of people around you, this video will help you.
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What is the language that you can't speak about?
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Basically, the language is not only about the word you want to speak.
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It's about your own language.
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It's about your First of all, it's not a person who doesn't listen to me.
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Many times we have seen people like this.
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I think that everyone is a person who is one person who is missing his mouth.
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When he gets out his mouth, he's all he's dead.
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In fact, we're going to see those people who are not nice or what we saw from them.
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But we're going to get closer and see that he's not a person who is a nice person.
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No, because when they talk, they're going to be able to talk.
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They're good and good and good and good and good and good and good.
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Your mind is about everything in your life.
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What you read, what you read, what you read, what you read, what you read, what you read, what you read, what you read, what you read, what you read.
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It's important to know what we're talking about, what we're talking about, what we're talking about, and who we're talking about.
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We're going to be able to do something that doesn't have a difference in the first time.
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The first language is the first language.
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You should be able to do it first, you need to learn, you need to learn, to learn from your language and language.
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It will be able to a lot of help.
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Even if you can read books in real life, read them online.
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Even if you don't like reading books, read them or read them.
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I can't be aware of the Arabic language.
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Every time I know you all the language, every time you see these things, even when you see someone who is not a good person, when you say a lot, he doesn't know it.
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Even if you're talking about it, you're talking about it.
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And you're talking about it.
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What's the girl?
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The girl is a good person.
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Every time I know you all the principles, every time you're against you and your personality.
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2. We need to move forward and focus.
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"How do you know you're a person who's a person who's
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a person who's a person who's a person who's a person?"
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And between the "وقاح" It's easy to be a "وقاح"
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but it's hard to be a person who's a person who's
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person who's a person who's a person who's a person who's a person who's a person who's a person
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But it's a lot of hard to be someone when you put it in a place that's hard to be.
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I don't want to be a person, I don't want to be a person, I don't want to be a person, I don't want to be a person.
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is a person who is a person This is not about the job that you work, because the person who is in front of you is looking at the "Ele of the Ab"
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or "Turbaai" You don't want to say a good thing about you
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when you're in a way that's not a good way to say about a weird person.
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If the person is a good person, with a sense of a good person, not a good excuse, the power of personality and the power of personality between them is a good fit,
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if you don't know you're between them, you will see you're going to see a good fit for your situation.
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You have to be able to find out that I'm going to take my own right, I'm going to be able to get my own experience
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when I'm trying to get out of my experience or I'm going to be able to get out of my own way, and I'm going to be able to get out of my own way.
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Third step, and I'm going to say about the basic principles, the foundation that we're going to build on the real -time process to get out of your language and how to speak.
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because as long as we spoke and taught us in this video, if not, it's not a good idea and I understand you will be able to speak.
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You have to have a special way to you.
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You can't change your mind when someone is talking about you.
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I don't like the "fara" Someone says "What is the ferole?
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What is the ferole?
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How is the ferole?
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How is the ferole?" I'm saying "I'm going to say
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that the ferole is ferole." You're not saying that you don't like the ferole.
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You're going to be able to feel the ferole.
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This is an easy example.
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The human needs to be married.
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Right?
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I'm always with the maroon.
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I have a lot of confidence in my opinion.
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But there are no problems.
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You don't have to change.
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You don't have to change.
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There are things that you can't change.
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There are things that you can't change.
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There are many people who give you an idea that you don't have a personality.
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So, I'm going to tell you how to speak.
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If you don't have a personality, you're fine.
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If you're talking about how you're doing with your body, if you're talking about your body, you're going to talk about it.
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But you're going to be able to do it or you're going to do it like this.
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Or you're going to do it like this.
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If you're not feeling a feeling, don't have a feeling.
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If you're not feeling a feeling, don't have a feeling.
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You'll have a feeling, don't have a feeling.
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Even if there are spaces between your speakers, the most important thing is to not do that.
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This is a lot of pressure on your speakers.
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And when you think about the speakers, you should not know what you're doing.
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If you say "Ahhhhh" This is not a movement, we don't do it.
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We look at the word before.
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The word is very important.
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We look at the word before.
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This movement is not correct.
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You're not afraid of being angry at all.
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So, we're going to go.
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If you have a small group of people,
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the most important thing is not to say "Ahhhhh" "Ahhhhh" "Ahhhhh" "Ahhhhh" "Ahhhhh" and the distance, always.
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But it's not a problem if you work with a lot of people who don't think about it.
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I have a lot of times when I When you're in a place, you should be able to get into the process of the process.
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The process of the process is not to be a big deal or a big deal.
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How do you think that your process is not to be a big deal?
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Let's take them one more.
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The process of the process of the process is that you're in front of your face.
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When you're in front of someone, you say "Why are you going to be a big deal?" I don't want to stop and stop.
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All of You say that the yellow is nice to you.
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This is a nice and nice thing and the other side of you is very strong.
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It's a very strong idea that you're not asking.
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You're not asking.
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You're not looking for the yellow is nice to you.
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So you can get to the people.
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At the moment, people don't want to be surprised that you have to ask people in these places.
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Even if the children don't want to ask questions about the best, even if they put them in a place, they must be honest.
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They must be honest, they must be honest, they must be honest.
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And I saw that the makeup is a little bit more, and the lipstick is a little bit more, and the eye is a little bit more.
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They don't say that.
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I say that yes, it's nice, but I feel that if I made my eye here, if I took the eyeliner, I'm going to get it, it's nice if I put my lipstick on it.
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It's a very good one.
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The makeup is a very good one.
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We're going to choose to be a good one or a good one.
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Or not, you can choose the other one.
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and people who were in your life and the X -Heads, it's not a good thing.
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One more, to get a little bit with him.
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You can wear it in a little bit.
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I want to talk about it, but it's not a lot.
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It's not a good thing to enter into depth or into details.
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It's not a good thing to know what happened with your mom, your mom, your father, your aunt and your dad.
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One more, to get a little bit with the things that are small and small.
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They don't enter the world or the world This is what I'm learning again
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So I'm telling you that you don't do this I was here
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and I was here and I was here with everyone I came to my life
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and I saw him with my own And I saw
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that this person is a bad person So why did I do this?
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I know that the pain is a lot of pain
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So we should look at this issue Especially if you're someone like me He's very soft, he doesn't have to pay attention to the time, he's very soft, he doesn't want to pay attention to the things he wants.
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But there are people who are more than what we know.
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So we have to keep on this.
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8. To all this talk, you need to focus on a job.
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Any place you can't enter your life.
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I mean, when I was a member of any place I went to work with my job,
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I didn't say that the place I was a good person. So you can go.
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It's not important to sit in your head, not to be able to do it, but you're not sure you're in your head.
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You're in your head.
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You're in your head.
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You're in your head.
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You're in your head.
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You're in
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If you want to know what the person is, you can't understand it.
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You can't know what he is, what the problem is, what the problem is, what the problem is, what the problem is, what the problem is, what the problem is, what the problem is, what the problem is.
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You can't understand it, it's easy to understand it, it's easy to understand it.
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You can understand it, it's easy to understand it.
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You can understand it, it's easy to understand it.
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You can understand it, you can understand it, you can understand it, you can understand it, you can understand it, you can understand it, you can understand it, you can understand it.
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or you didn't have any other way, you didn't have any fun or fun or fun or a little bit or a little bit or you like me.
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This person doesn't have any idea.
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It's easy.
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So you don't have to ask yourself a lot about me.
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I have to love everyone.
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If you're not going to love everyone, you're not going to love everyone.
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You can be the person who doesn't like you.
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You don't like me.
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Before you ask yourself, is it really good?
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You like this person?
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I love you and I love you so much.
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I'll see you in the next video.
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I love you.
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Bye -bye.

Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This A2 speaking lesson is built on the video “كيف تحكي بثقة وبدون خوف حتى لو كنتِ خجولة”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: feeling, kid, language, sudden. This video has 614 sentences and 4798 words to shadow. The speech runs for 15:11. 81% 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:

WordPronunciationMeaning
sudden adjective/ˈsʌd.ən/Occurring quickly with little or no warning or expectation; instantly.
principle noun/ˈpɹɪn.sɪ.pəl/A fundamental assumption, fundamental law or guiding belief.
lipstick noun/ˈlɪpˌstɪk/Makeup for the lips.
scenario noun/sɪˈnɛəɹioʊ/An outline or model of an expected or supposed sequence of events.
aunt noun/ɑːnt/The sister or sister-in-law of one’s parent.
characteristic noun/ˌkæɹ(ə)ktəˈɹɪstɪk/A distinguishing feature of a person or thing, a part of mental or physical behavior.
café noun/ˌkæˈfeɪ/A coffee shop; an establishment selling coffee and sometimes other non-alcoholic beverages, simple meals or snacks, with a facility to consume them on the…
eyeliner noun/ˈaɪˌlaɪnɚ/Makeup used to outline the eye, generally applied along or close to the lashline.
personality noun/ˌpɜɹ.səˈnæ.lə.ti/Of people, a set of non-physical psychological and social qualities that make one person distinct from another.
speaker noun/ˈspikɚ/One who speaks.
yellow adjective/ˈjɛloʊ/Of a yellow hue.
soft adjective/sɔft/Easily giving way under pressure.
teach verb/ˈtiːt͡ʃ/To pass on knowledge to.
angry adjective/ˈæŋ.ɡɹi/Displaying or feeling anger.
confidence noun/ˈkɑn.fɪ.dəns/Self-assurance.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

WordMeaning
get out of verbTo leave, exit or escape from; to become free of.
find out verbTo discover, as by asking or investigating.
get out verbTo leave or escape.
move forward verbTo cause to make progress.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

  • I don't know what happened to anyone else.
  • There's always a problem with you.
  • I don't think I'm feeling it.
  • What is the language that you can't speak about?
  • Before you ask yourself, is it really good?

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

StructureIn the video
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thingpeople who are · person who doesn · person who is
Advice with “should” should + verb — saying what is a good ideashould be · should not know · should look
Superlatives the -est / the most … — the top or bottom of a groupthe most important · the best
Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — something happening right now or around nowyou're doing · is missing · we're talking

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 255 contractions and reduced forms, such as you're, don't, I'm. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

  • Long words — get the stress right: characteristic /ˌkæɹ(ə)ktəˈɹɪstɪk/, personality /ˌpɜɹ.səˈnæ.lə.ti/, basically /ˈbeɪ.sɪk.(ə.)li/

How to practise with this video

  1. Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
  2. Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
  3. Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like sudden, principle, lipstick.

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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