Shadowing Practice: Stranger Things 4 - Henry and Eleven Scene - Learn English Speaking with Video
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I found a nest of black widows living inside a van.
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Most people fear spiders.
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They detest them.
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And yet, I found them endlessly fascinating.
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More than that, I found a great comfort in them.
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The kinship.
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Like me, they are solitary creatures. and deeply misunderstood.
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They are gods of our world, the most important of all predators.
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They immobilize and feed on the weak, bringing balance and order to an unstable ecosystem.
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But the human world was disrupting this harmony.
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You see, humans are a unique type of pest,
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multiplying and poisoning our world all while enforcing a structure of their own,
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a deeply unnatural structure.
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Where others saw order, I saw a straitjacket,
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a cruel, oppressive world dictated by made -up rules.
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Seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades, each life,
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a faded lesser copy of the one before.
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Wake up, eat, work, sleep, reproduce, and die.
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Everyone is just waiting, Waiting,
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waiting for it all to be over, all while performing in a silly,
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terrible play, day after day.
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I could not do that.
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I could not close off my mind and join in the madness.
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I could not pretend.
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Pretend and I realized I didn't have to
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 25 sentences and 202 words to shadow. The speech runs for 2:17. The speaker talks slowly, about 89 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound. Only 72% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| deeply adverb | /ˈdi(ː)pli/ | To a deep extent or degree; very greatly. |
| pretend verb | /pɹəˈtɛnd/ | To speak or behave so as to give a false or simulated appearance. |
| comfort noun | /ˈkʌm.fət/ | Contentment, ease. |
| silly adjective | /ˈsɪl.i/ | Laughable or amusing through foolishness or a foolish appearance. |
| spider noun | /ˈspaɪ̯dɚ/ | Any of various eight-legged, predatory arthropods, of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs to catch prey. |
| lesser adjective | /ˈlɛsɚ/ | Of two (or, rarely, more than two) things: the smaller in size (littler), in value, in importance etc. |
| cruel adjective | /ˈkɹuːəl/ | Intentionally causing or reveling in pain and suffering; merciless, heartless. |
| harmony noun | /ˈhɑ̟ɹ.mə.ni/ | Agreement or accord. |
| poison noun | /ˈpɔɪ.zən/ | A substance that is harmful or lethal to a living organism when ingested. |
| widow noun | /ˈwɪd.oʊ/ | A woman whose spouse (traditionally husband) has died (and who has not remarried); a woman in relation to her late spouse; feminine of widower. |
| nest noun | /nɛst/ | A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young. |
| madness noun | /ˈmæd.nəs/ | The state of being mad; insanity; mental disease. |
| enforce verb | /ɪnˈfoɹs/ | To keep up, impose or bring into effect something, not necessarily by force. |
| unstable adjective | /ʌnˈsteɪ.bəl/ | Not stable. |
| fade verb | /feɪd/ | To hit the ball with the shot called a fade. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| close off verb | To seal or block the entrance to a road, an area, or a building so that people cannot enter. | |
| make up verb | /ˌmeɪk ˈʌp/ | To constitute, to compose. |
| wake up verb | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | To stop sleeping; to awake. |
Pronunciation to watch
- Long words — get the stress right: ecosystem /ˈikoʊˌsɪstəm/, solitary /ˈsɑlɪˌtɛɹi/, misunderstand /mɪs.ʌn.də(ɹ)ˈstænd/
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 deeply, pretend, comfort.
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.