Shadowing Practice: Super Quick OCTOPUS SALAD | Bart van Olphen - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Seafood lovers welcome on another fishy Friday today really exciting
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because I'm going to make one of my favorite salads a seafood salad we're going to make a octopus salad
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and it's delicious it's easy to make and quick to make
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but you first need to cook the octopus
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if you want to know how to cook it please click here we're going to continue to make this salad
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and in first place we have to cook the octopus we
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have beautiful tomatoes we have some chili we have some beautiful olives we have delicious fresh herbs like parsley
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and basil and a bit of lemon juice
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so we start prepping the salad
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and it's I will show you it's really really quick to make
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so we have the pre -cooked we have to cook tentacles
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and we cut them in slices so here we have the octopus
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if you buy octopus make sure it comes from a sustainable source there are sustainable sourced octopus in the world
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but you also can find less sustainable
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so this is important to ask your fishmonger
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so it's tomato time time for some tomatoes i've got some red ones which i'm going to quarter
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chop my celery stalk
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and i chop it really really fine it gives a really
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fresh bite to the salad spice it a bit up with
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a bit of chili make some nice rings not too many
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but that's a good thing with octopus you can give it
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a bit of spice good okay now I give it some
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beautiful black olives like a tablespoon maybe look how summery this dish is looking.
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I chop some parsley leaves,
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take some basil, and now really important extra vierge olive oil,
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really good olive oil, and give it a few tablespoons.
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Give it some pepper, bit of rock
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salt just a few drops of lemon juice and I toss it around
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and guys this is it this was all the work I'm
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going to plate it up I have a beautiful white plate here
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look at these colors I love it it's summertime it's really
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one of my very favorites beautiful oh I love this this is so beautiful this is ultimate summer
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just a bit of extra olive oil finish it up with some basil okay
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so I'm now going to taste this great dish a bit
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of the tomato a bit of the olive bit of the chili bit of the pulpo olive oil
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hmm it's it's really clean food it's really really really good I love it the The only thing
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which is missing is maybe some toast and a nice glass of chilled white wine.
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If you have any questions, any comments, leave them down in the box below.
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Don't forget to subscribe and I hope to see you soon back on another Fishy Friday, bye -bye.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Super Quick OCTOPUS SALAD”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: octopus, olive, salad, beautiful, cook. This video has 39 sentences and 480 words to shadow. The speech runs for 3:12. The speaker talks at a natural 150 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. Only 76% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| olive noun | /ˈɑ.lɪv/ | A tree of species Olea europaea cultivated since ancient times in the Mediterranean for its fruit and the oil obtained from it. |
| salad noun | /ˈsæl.əd/ | A food consisting principally of raw vegetables (especially greens, e.g. lettuce), other savoury ingredients (typically cooked), fruit, or confectionary; often… |
| tomato noun | /təˈmeɪ.toʊ/ | A widely cultivated plant, Solanum lycopersicum, having edible fruit. |
| sustainable adjective | /səˈsteɪnəbəl/ | Able to be sustained. |
| chop verb | /t͡ʃɑp/ | To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions. |
| chili noun | /ˈt͡ʃɪli/ | The pungent, spicy fresh or dried fruit of any of several cultivated varieties of capsicum peppers, used in cooking. |
| basil noun | /ˈbæz.əl/ | A plant (Ocimum basilicum). |
| juice noun | /d͡ʒuːs/ | A liquid made from plant, especially fruit. |
| delicious adjective | /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/ | Pleasing to the sense of taste; tasty. |
| dish noun | /dɪʃ/ | A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle. |
| lemon noun | /ˈlɛmən/ | A yellowish citrus fruit. |
| spouse noun | /spaʊ̯s/ | A person in a marriage or marital relationship. |
| seafood noun | /ˈsiːfuːd/ | Food from the sea, including that derived from fish, shellfish, crustaceans, cephalopods, seaweed, algae, marine mammals, and other marine organisms. |
| summary noun | /ˈsʌm.ə.ɹi/ | An abstract or a condensed presentation of the substance of a body of material. |
| bite verb | /baɪt/ | To cut into something by clamping the teeth. |
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Future with “going to” be going to + verb — a plan or something you can see coming | I'm going to make · we're going to continue · i'm going to quarter |
| Obligation: must / have to / need to saying that something is necessary | need to cook · have to cook |
| Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — something happening right now or around now | is looking · is missing |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 8 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, we're, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: delicious /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/, dish /dɪʃ/, fishmonger /ˈfɪʃˌmʌŋɡ.əɹ/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like olive, salad, tomato.
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.