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Let's start off by talking about celebrities.

Who is your favorite celebrity?

Oh, that's interesting.

I would say Angelina Jolie, Viola Davis.

Oh, my God, I love her movies.

She's she's incredible.

She's just incredible.

Yeah, I think mostly like actors.

Would you like to be a celebrity in the future?

This is an amazing question.

I dream to be a celebrity all my life, like since I was childhood, since my childhood.

I would be like, tell my mom that one day I will be on TV and I will be famous.

I always wanted to be famous.

So that's why I started like being acting or modeling, like being in it.

It's a tough way, tough road journey.

But yeah, I love to be on a light, you know, like there.

I love to be like famous, but I understood now by like growing

that you don't have to be on the TV or particularly like actor to become famous.

You can do so many other things.

And with our time, with internet and everything, like you can become famous so quickly and in different feel.

Would you prefer to be wealthy or famous?

Before, like maybe a year ago or two, I would tell you I would prefer to be famous.

But now I came to the point where I don't really care until I'm wealthy.

If I make it, if I succeed, I don't mind if people don't know me.

Like before I used to say I want to come to the point in life

when I'm like old and people talk about me people know me, they know my name, but now I'm wealthy, I'm fine.

That's all.

Now let's talk about clothing and fashion.

What is your favorite item of clothing?

I don't think I have like favorite one in anything.

I think I don't have a favorite.

I think something comfortable like some loose pants and some t-shirts, crop tops.

I've never been very fashionable.

I think it took me a very long time to find my style or something.

I don't think I found it still yet, sorry.

But like, I'm trying something,

but I more come to the point where like whatever is comfortable and I feel nice in, that's important.

That's it.

Were you interested in fashion and beauty when you were a child?

Not really, actually.

When I was around 13 years old, that's when I became one thing to become a model and actress.

I started watching some show on TV about it.

But I don't think I had this available,

like doing makeup or get the makeup or some different clothes as much in our time.

So I think I really was in it.

But like, yeah, by the time as I grow, I start loving it.

I even went to the point where on a COVID time, I studied makeup and I just learned everything about it.

And I want to become makeup artist, but life change plans, I guess.

Do you think your style or your fashion will change as you get older?

Yeah, for sure.

Everything changes.

It's like you grow, you like...

I used to love short dresses and high heels

and just go all like show myself and just be out

and loud now like as I grow I don't feel more like I don't feel

that comfortable to be like

that anymore I want more like longer dress um closed everywhere

like I don't know it's just more comfort I think

and I would prefer not wear something like loud and open and more be comfortable in something even if I go out.

Now let's talk about colors.

What colors do you like?

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I like pink, purple.

Purple been my favorite color always, but I have nothing in purple.

That's such a weird thing.

Yeah, but I'm very girly, like, you know, pink, purplish things, like red and all that.

In your country are there any colors that are more popular than others?

I think like it depends on the season, like which season we are in.

Like if it's a fall,

you know, you will get a very orangey color of the country because everything is like the trees is falling the leaves.

So it's kind of everything dries out.

Winter is all white everywhere almost.

So it's so much of snow and like grayish color, I would say even, because there's no much sun and summer it's a green, green.

So, yeah, it's like, I think it's a seasonal more.

And do colors affect your mood? Of course.

Yeah, I think, yeah, because like even if it's in a like outside and it's sunny,

it's like all beautiful weather and beautiful sky of blue,

clean, obviously you'll feel very nice in that.

And if it's like grey, like in one part of my country where my family actually lives right now,

it's very greyish most of the time in the year.

It rains and it's like, it's really grey.

And I don't like to come there because it's just depressing.

So yeah, it affects you.

talk about your future career do you think you will change

careers in the future I just changed my career right now

so I would love to stick what what I'm doing right now with with it

and just make my vault out of it

because I know it's can be possible

so for me it's very difficult to understand what I'm good at in a way like working

because I studied law

so I tried to be a lawyer I I didn't like to sit in the office and just be in one place.

I tried to be real estate.

It didn't work.

It wasn't my journey.

But through that time, I was in the modeling and acting.

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So that was my passion.

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But again, I came to the point where I will choose the world than being famous.

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So now I'm just seeing where I can make that world, make the money more than like become what I really wanted, you know.

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So I wish to not change the career

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and just stick to what I'm doing right now and make my life out of it.

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So do you think that you'll be doing this career for the next five or ten years?

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Yeah, I wish.

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I wish it gets to that point because in this career, like as you do it,

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like for longer, you become better and you make more.

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Like you just become better because it's like language or skill you have and that's what this requires only,

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like the skill of doing it.

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So it's basically a practice.

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So as long you go, the better you become.

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And what is your current career?

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I'm in training, but I've been just studying it and doing it for past like four or five months, but I already became profitable.

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So I'm really proud of it.

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But it's still a long, long, long journey to go.

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And I just want to stick to it, learn it and just, you know, like a language, just speak it.

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Like, look at it and I know everything about it.

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Do you think AI will affect that career in the future?

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I mean, there is already in some way, I wouldn't say it affects badly.

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It actually helps because some people created systems with the AI or like, how does it call it,

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like indicators, which helps us to actually trade.

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For some people it doesn't help, but yeah, it's like in some ways it helps,

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but I don't think AI will affect it badly that we cannot use it and work in it.

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It's not going to take our job.

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So describe a difficult task that I have succeeded in doing as part of work or studies.

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I think I will come to the training, which I just started.

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So it's kind of just right now.

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One of my tasks was to come to the point where I can make $1,000 in, I don't know, one week.

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And it was hard.

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And I did it.

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But it took so much nerves mentally,

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especially the mentally, like it's so hard.

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Because sometimes you see your money just going away from you in your account, and you're just sitting there and just like, it's okay.

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And you have to be zoned.

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And I think the biggest even task in it is to be still, control your emotions.

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I think emotions, yes, because I'm a very emotional person, and I'm very loud and outgoing with the feelings and all

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so for me to just not react on certain things is very difficult

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and in trading you have to be still you have to just control

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that emotions when you win

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when you lose it doesn't matter you win you have to look at it

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and like it's okay very good that's it like no emotions nothing same

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when you lose no crying no screaming no breaking computers nothing even

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if you want so much you have to like control yourself

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and just be in that feel of I'm okay with it whatever is happening

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so I think that's the biggest task that I have achieved that I'm just look at it and okay it's fine

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so we've been talking about a difficult task you worked on we're going to continue to talk about

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difficult jobs and careers and things like that what do you think are some of the most difficult jobs people can do?

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Doctors.

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I think it's very difficult because lives of others depends on you.

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So like I think mentally it's very hard sometimes for them and it's a big responsibility.

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Also, one of the biggest, biggest work in our world is being a parent.

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mother, apparently, like most, you know, raised another life, another human.

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I think it's the biggest task in this life.

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Why do you think there are some people out there that actively choose to do very difficult jobs?

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They believe in themselves.

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They're capable, they're passionate about it.

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I know people like from my class from the school who went to be a doctor's or something with physics,

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you know and they loved it for the very beginning um

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and when you're looking at it and you're like i don't even understand what's happening

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but they are like their mind works in that way

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so for them it's kind of easier uh to understand everything

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so they they love like i love to go for um lawyer because I went to study it.

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And that time I wanted so badly to become a police woman or like child service to help the kids and families.

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So I had a choice to go for a law

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and I was just passionate about it even though I don't work with it anymore.

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Some people think that there are certain careers that are easy.

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Do you think that easy careers actually exist?

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I don't think so.

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There's nothing easier.

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Like, it's all about how you put it in your mind.

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Like, from the side view, it might seem easy, but maybe that person is struggling to get where they are at the point.

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So they took time, they studied, they did hard work to get where they are.

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And no, there's nothing easy.

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Everything requires studying, mind, learning all the time,

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dedication, time, which is like time is the resource that we never can get back.

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So it can be easier.

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You are losing something.

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In order to be successful, is it always necessary to work hard?

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I don't believe in like hard work.

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You need to work smart.

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When you work smart, you can achieve something faster than if you would be hard because you would go hard on yourself,

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on the studying or like whatever you are doing.

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It just would be so hard that you pushing it too much that it just it's not happening.

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And you're questioning like why it's not happening.

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I'm doing everything.

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No, just chill.

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Like be smarter.

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If it's not happening, just let it go for some time.

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Come back to it like see what's happening wrong, change something, you know?

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So yeah, I think you just like need to be smarter with it than hard with it.

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Do you think that the most successful people in the world are also the happiest people in the world?

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I cannot say because I don't know all of them.

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And especially, I mean, personally, you really never know how people feel because behind the closed doors, you never know what's happening.

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So in some ways, they are successful and they are happy that they are successful.

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and it's make their life easier.

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But like their life is even harder because they have more responsibility and the level where they are,

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they're trying to support that level for the rest of their life.

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And I think that's the harder to just stay there or even be more than that and not lose anything.

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Because like when you have so much to lose, it's harder when you have nothing to lose.

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That's the end of the speaking test.

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Good.

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Good?

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Yeah.

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So I'm going to give you some advice for part one, part two, part three.

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Talk about how you did in those parts, and then talk about your band scores for vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and fluency and coherence.

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So part one, really, really good development.

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I could throw lots of questions at you and any topic, you'd be able to handle them and talk about them.

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You seem naturally good at speaking.

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I love to speak.

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You don't seem like a shy person, which is really, really good.

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When I've worked with people like you in the past, the only weakness that someone like you can have is, and you don't have this, I'm just bringing it up,

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is people who are naturally good at speaking and like to speak a lot,

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they can often go off on tangents and not answer the actual question.

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So they just talk about stuff.

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You didn't do that.

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So that was good.

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I can imagine being in a coffee shop with you and you doing that naturally.

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It's not a bad thing in a coffee shop, but in an exam situation, it might be.

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So just I don't think that's going to be an issue for you.

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But I thought I would bring it up because that's people watching might be like, oh, I'm really naturally good at it.

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I love speaking.

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That could be an issue for some other people.

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Similar with part two, I had to stop you.

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You got to two minutes.

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I don't mean it in a negative way.

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I don't mean it like that.

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You got to the two minutes and you did it and you talked about that difficult task.

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The thing I really liked was that you picked something real.

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So you could tell that that was a real thing that you were actually going through.

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It's just so much easier to speak about things that are actually happening to you.

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Some people don't like to speak about their personal life.

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It depends on the topic.

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Like some people are just, I don't feel comfortable using my own real experience.

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For you, I think that worked really well, but it depends on the topic.

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But as I say, I don't think there's too many topics

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that could come up in part two

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that you wouldn't be able to talk about either personally or just talking a little bit more abstractly about it.

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Part three, again, you had no problem talking about any of those things.

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You had no problem developing those things.

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You're full of ideas.

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You're full of relevant ideas.

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You're full of explanations and examples and things like that.

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And some of those questions were quite difficult.

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You know, they're quite philosophical questions that I threw at you.

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Yeah, I felt so.

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But you explored them quite well.

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I like the way you go, well, some people might feel this way or be like this, but then other people, you know, for example, are successful people happy?

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Well, some of them aren't happy for this reason.

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Some of them are happy for this reason.

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Really, that's an excellent strategy for part three.

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I really liked the way you said, like, I don't know any of these people personally.

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Some people would say something like that, like, I don't know any successful people, and then not answer the rest of the question.

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You didn't allow that to stop you talking.

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You're like I don't know any successful people personally

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but I have to if I guessed there are people

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because they achieved success they're very very happy

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but then there are other people they have so much responsibility

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and so much stress that they're going to be you know you speculated on on

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that but I think you're overriding and logic is like everyone's an individual

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and some of them aren't are happy

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and some of them it depends on the individual and you express

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that really really well let me give you feedback on so fluency and coherence grammar vocabulary pronunciation Two things are quite good,

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two things we can work on.

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I'm not saying they're bad.

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It's because English isn't your first language.

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We're not, you know, we're not looking for perfection here.

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So please don't take what I'm saying as criticism.

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It's just these are areas that you could work on.

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And none of the areas you can work on are bad.

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They just need a little bit of work.

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So your strength, your biggest strength is fluency.

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You are extremely fluent.

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You can speak at length on topic without any hesitation, without any, you know, there's a nice flow to what you're saying.

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You speak quite quickly and I think that's because you are enthusiastic.

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I would never suggest that you should slow down your speech or anything like that.

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I don't think I get it.

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Because it's not causing any issues, you know. Be yourself.

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Your fluency is your biggest asset.

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So how long have you been speaking English?

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I've been like around six years.

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For six years, well amazing.

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And I learned it like in foreign countries.

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So I didn't learn English from books.

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Basically I learned it from people from the very, very beginning.

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When I went to India, I lived in India and there it took me like around maybe one half year, two years to start getting more fluent.

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And now like as time goes by, like I get better and better.

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The next area that I think is quite good is your vocabulary.

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It doesn't matter what topic I throw at you, you have enough vocabulary to deal with it.

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You do make some errors from time to time, but they're not major and they're not frequent.

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You have a wide enough range of vocabulary to talk about most topics.

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So it's very, very good.

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You could improve it, but it depends on your life goals.

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It depends on what you want to do.

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That's not the thing that I would work on the most.

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The two areas that I would work on the most would be pronunciation and grammar.

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Now, don't think that you're going around mispronouncing everything.

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Ninety nine, 98% of the words that you say are clear.

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They're easy to understand.

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Every now and again, you mispronounce a word and it sometimes changes the meaning of that word.

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So, for example, you said...

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Lives of others depends on you.

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The lives of others instead of the lives of others.

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And you have to be zoned.

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You said zone instead of zen.

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You have to be zoned instead of zen.

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All beautiful weather.

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You said weather instead of weather.

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It's like little things are gone.

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Sometimes it changes the meaning.

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But as I said, if we looked at a transcript of what you said, the vast majority, like more than 95%,

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if not more than 98%, 99% of the words are 100% clear.

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That is why if you moved to an English speaking country, you would have no problem living and working there.

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Everybody would understand you every 10 or 15 minutes somebody might like oh zen

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but they'd be able to figure

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that she said zone she meant zen okay I can figure

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that out yeah so you wouldn't get one of the really high marks for pronunciation

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because of that

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because to get one of the higher marks really a hundred percent of the words need to be clear

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and easy to understand it is just occasionally very very occasionally

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that happens so there's two routes that you could go down

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if you wanted to improve that One would be to work with a teacher and they would, if you did a lot of work with them,

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they would be able to identify problem signs that you have.

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You're a native Russian speaker.

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Did you grow up speaking Russian?

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Yeah.

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So there are common sounds that Russians have a problem with.

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Every language has, when they try and speak English and vice versa, has an issue with that.

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So So for example, Germans will say weather instead of their Ws

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and their Vs and they'll say the magazine Wogue instead of Vogue.

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They'll get those mixed up.

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Spanish speakers will say video instead of video.

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They'll get the V and the B mixed up.

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By identifying those common sounds that you have a problem with, it means that you don't have to completely change your pronunciation.

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It's like fixing an engine.

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So if my car breaks down, you don't replace the entire car.

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You find the piece, like it could be a broken, a tire is, and you fix that tire.

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You don't throw away the car.

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That would be my approach for you with pronunciation is

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if you really want to go down that route of like really cleaning it up and being perfect, find those common sounds because English is made up of many sounds.

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Russian is made up of many sounds.

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what are those common problems and then work on those signs and it's more like going to the gym

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than going to school because your your lips your tongue your jaw is what makes the sound

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and because you've never made those signs before

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because you're a native Russian speaker that's the problem it's not your brain

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so you would have to literally train your face I never thought about it like that.

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That's interesting.

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Another way to easily do it is if you have like a notes app and you change it to English,

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it will write it incorrectly.

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So if you said zone and you're trying to say zen, it will pick up on that and it will write zone.

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So you could actually speak into the notes app and it will write out exactly what you say.

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And if there's errors in it and you see common errors.

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That's how you could do it for free.

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But it's totally up to you.

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The big issue is we very commonly see this with Russian native speakers.

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You do not have articles the, a, n in Russian.

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So again, it's kind of like it's not about that you're bad at speaking English.

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It is just you're not used to using that type of grammar.

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So you say things like...

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I dream to be celebrity with internet.

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I'm a very emotional person.

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If you're not living in a native English speaking country, articles you can get away with making those mistakes because it doesn't affect meaning that much.

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It does affect meaning from time to time, but you can get away with living in somewhere where English is spoken,

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but not to the level of native English speakers or very high English learners would use it.

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So again, it depends on your goals.

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Do you want to get a very high IELTS score

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and move to an English speaking country

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or do a career where you need a high IELTS score

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or maybe go to university again to do a master's where you would need to fix this.

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The problem with articles is they're in every sentence.

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So we would call this a systematic error that every time you're using

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that system you make that mistake or nearly every time and you're completely unaware of it.

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So nearly every sentence has a grammatical error in it and it's not just articles,

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there's some other areas of grammar that articles is your biggest issue um

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but you also have small little problems and other

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so the examiner is listening to you

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and extremely fluent they can understand nearly everything you're saying the vocabulary is very good but nearly every sentence

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more than 50 anyway has a small grammar mistake in there that means

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that the maximum you can get for grammar is six for

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about six same with um pronunciation to get about seven eight

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or nine the examiner needs to understand a hundred percent of what you're saying at the moment 99 98

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so you're getting about six for pronunciation as well your fluency is very good

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and your vocabulary is very solid so you'll be getting about seven for those

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so overall you would get 6.5 which is about the average

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so you've only been learning English

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and not formally for about six years you didn't learn it

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as a child 6.5 is very respectable it means 6.5 is the score

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that most university students need to go to university in an English-speaking country

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so if you wanted to do law in the UK

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or Canada or Australia 6.5 would probably be enough because it means you can speak people can understand you

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your reading and listening scores are probably much higher than 6.5.

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Your writing, we would need to work together on that.

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Most people, their writing is lower than their speaking.

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So you're probably at around about six for writing, I would guess.

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But overall, you would, you know, if we take your listening and your reading into account, you're probably overall at around about seven, which is quite, which is what I would guess for you,

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which means that you can easily operate in an English-speaking country you can understand everything, you can understand what people are saying, you can read everything, you can communicate through speaking,

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you can send text messages and emails and people, you'll make a few little grammar errors but people will generally understand you.

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So it totally depends on your goals.

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If you want to go and do a masters, your English would need to probably need to to increase.

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If you wanted to be a lawyer in an English speaking country, you would need to fix those problems.

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But the good news is that they're very fixable.

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Like three to six months, we could dramatically improve those things because we're not fixing everything in the grammar book.

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We're not fixing every sound in pronunciation.

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We're being very strategic and like what's the flat tire?

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Replace the flat tire, find the weakness, turn that into a strength, and we we could really help you in a very short period of time.

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All right, well done.

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Thank you so much.

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Thank you.

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Loose pants: Comfortable, non-fitted trousers (e.g., "I prefer loose pants for long flights.")
Crop tops: Short shirts that expose the midriff (e.g., "She paired her crop top with high-waisted jeans.")
Life change plans: Unexpected events that alter one’s goals (e.g., "I wanted to study abroad, but life changed plans.")
Come to the point: Reach a conclusion or realization (e.g., "I’ve come to the point where I prioritize health over work.")

Practice Tips: Master the Shadowing Technique

The shadowing technique is a proven way to boost pronunciation and fluency, and this video’s conversational speed (natural, not too fast) makes it perfect for practice. Here’s how to use it: Shadow speak by pausing the video after 2-3 sentences, then repeating them aloud immediately. Focus on matching the speaker’s tone—notice how she softens her voice when sharing personal realizations (e.g., "I don’t mind if people don’t know me") and speeds up slightly when excited (e.g., "Oh, my God, I love her movies!").

For best results, use a shadowing site or tool to record yourself and compare it to the original. This helps identify areas where your pronunciation differs, like the stress in "incredible" or the rhythm of "tough road journey." Practice daily for 10-15 minutes, and you’ll soon notice smoother speech and more natural intonation. Remember: shadowing technique works because it trains your brain to think and speak in English simultaneously—so embrace the process, and watch your skills grow!

Grammar in this video

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

Structure	In the video
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on	we've been talking · have you been speaking · you've only been learning
“Used to” used to + verb — a past habit or state that is no longer true	used to say · used to love
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	I've never been · We've put · I've been
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	be zoned · is made · is spoken

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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