Shadowing Practice: Taylor Swift – hoax (Official Lyric Video) - Learn English Speaking with Video
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My only one, my smoking gun
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My eclipsed sun, this has broken me down
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My twisted knife, my sleepless night
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My windless fight
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This has frozen my ground
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Stood on the cliffside screaming
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Give me a reason
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Your faithless love's the only hawks I believe in Don't want no other shade of blue but you
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No other sadness in the world would do
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My best laid plan
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Your sleight of hand
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My barren land
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And I am ash from your fire
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Stood on the cliffside screaming
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Give me a reason
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Your faithless love's the only hogs
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I believe in Don't want no other shade of blue but you
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No other sadness in the world would do
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You know I left a part of me back in New York You knew the hero died, so what's the movie for?
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You knew it still hurts underneath my scars from when they pulled me apart
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You knew the password so I let you in the door
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You knew you won so what's the point of keeping score
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You knew it still hurts underneath my scars
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From when they pulled me apart
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But what you did was just as dark
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Darling, this was just as hard
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Is when they pulled me apart
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My only one
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My kingdom come undone
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My broken drum
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You have beaten my heart
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Don't want no other shade of blue
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But you, no other sadness in the world would do
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Thank you.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Taylor Swift – hoax”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: knew, sadness, shade, pulled, apart. This video has 34 sentences and 242 words to shadow. The speech runs for 3:35. The speaker talks slowly, about 68 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound. 83% 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:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| shade noun | /ʃeɪd/ | Darkness where light, particularly sunlight, is blocked. |
| sadness noun | /ˈsædnəs/ | The state or emotion of being sad. |
| scream verb | /skɹiːm/ | To cry out with a shrill voice; to utter a sudden, sharp outcry, or shrill, loud cry, as in fright or extreme pain; to screech, to shriek. |
| underneath adverb | /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/ | Below; in a place beneath. |
| scar noun | /skɑɹ/ | A permanent mark on the skin, sometimes caused by the healing of a wound. |
| knife noun | /ˈnaɪ̯f/ | A utensil or a tool designed for cutting, consisting of a flat piece of hard material, usually steel or other metal (the blade), usually sharpened on one edge… |
| twist verb | /twɪst/ | To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force. |
| drum noun | /ˈdɹʌm/ | A percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming an acoustic chamber; a membranophone. |
| freeze verb | /ˈfɹiːz/ | Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature. |
| darling noun | /ˈdɑɹlɪŋ/ | Often used as an affectionate term of address: a person who is very dear to one. |
| password noun | /ˈpæs.wɜɹd/ | A word relayed to a person to gain admittance to a place or to gain access to information. |
| eclipse noun | /ɪˈklɪps/ | An alignment of astronomical objects whereby one object comes between the observer (or notional observer) and another object, thus obscuring the latter. |
| hawk noun | /ˈhɔːk/ | A diurnal predatory bird of the family Accipitridae, smaller than an eagle. |
| hog noun | /hɔɡ/ | Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar. |
| undo verb | /ʌnˈduː/ | To reverse the effects of an action. |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 3 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
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 shade, sadness, scream.
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.