Shadowing Practice: The Big Bang Theory - Sheldon Has a Girlfriend? - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Does NASA know you're using that thing as a napkin holder?
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Are you kidding?
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They still think it's in a secure locker at JPL.
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You stole it?
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Borrowed.
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The trick is to carry it out to your car like you own it.
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Excuse me.
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Oh, Amy's at the dry cleaners, and she's made a very amusing pun.
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I don't care for prochloroethylene, and I don't like glycol ether.
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Get it?
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She doesn't like glycol ether.
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Sounds like either.
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L -O -L.
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Who's Amy?
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His girlfriend.
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Sheldon has a girlfriend?
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She's not my girlfriend.
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How long has this been going on?
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Four months.
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She's not my girlfriend.
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Are you telling me for the past four months I have been asking you what's new
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and you never thought to go with Sheldon has a girlfriend?
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She's not my girlfriend.
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How did they meet?
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Raj and I entered Sheldon's information on a dating site and it spit out
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Amy Farrah Fowler.
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Oh, my God!
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Sheldon and Amy.
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Or as we call them, Shamey.
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Shamey.
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I am so digging the Shamey.
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Oh, Raj.
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Everyone pay attention.
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Yes, I have a friend named Amy Farrah Fowler.
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Yes, she is female.
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Yes, we communicate on a daily basis.
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But no, she is not my girlfriend.
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Okay, well, what do you communicate about?
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Well, my work in physics, her work in neurobiology, and most recently, the possibility of our having a child together.
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Thank you.
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Wait a minute, a child?
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You never see this girl.
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You just email and text and Twitter.
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Now you're considering having a baby?
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Amy pointed out that between the two of us,
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our genetic material has the potential of producing the first in a line of intellectually superior benign overlords
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to guide humanity to a brighter tomorrow.
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I'm guessing that future historians will condemn us for not taking this opportunity to kill Sheldon.
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okay i have a question yes penny you don't even like people touching
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you how are you gonna have sex why on earth would
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we have sex oh honey did your mom not have the talk with you you know
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when your private parts started growing i'm quite aware of the way humans usually reproduce
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which is messy unsanitary and based on living next to you for three years involves loud and unnecessary appeals to a deity.
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Oh, God.
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Yes, exactly.
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Consequently, if Amy and I choose to bring new life into this world,
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it will be accomplished clinically with fertility experts in a lab with Petri dishes.
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Which reminds me, you have broad hips and a certain corn -fed vigor.
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Is your womb available for rental?
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Still digging the shamey?
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Look, Sheldon, before you race off to the fertility clinic, you might want to think about,
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gee, I don't know, maybe actually spending some time with her.
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You mean dating?
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Yeah.
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I can't date Amy.
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Why not?
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She's not my girlfriend.
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Okay, look, don't think of it as dating a girlfriend.
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Think of it as getting to know the future mother of your child.
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Oh.
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I hadn't considered that.
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I suppose she will have to have access to our progeny.
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And you don't think I can achieve the required intimacy via text messaging?
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Probably not.
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Oh.
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That would appear as if the phone companies have been lying to me.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “The Big Bang Theory - Sheldon Has a Girlfriend?”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: girlfriend, Amy, Sheldon, shamey, dating. This video has 76 sentences and 551 words to shadow. The speech runs for 3:57. The speaker talks at a steady 140 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. Only 77% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding. 17 of its 76 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| dig verb | /dɪɡ/ | To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More… |
| communicate verb | /kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/ | To impart or transmit (information or knowledge) to someone; to make known, to tell. |
| fertility noun | /fɝˈtɪləti/ | The condition, or the degree, of being fertile. |
| trick noun | /ˈtɹɪk/ | Something designed to fool, dupe, outsmart, mislead or swindle. |
| hip noun | /hɪp/ | The outward-projecting parts of the pelvis and top of the femur and the overlying tissue. |
| superior adjective | /sʊˈpɪɹ.i.ɚ/ | Higher in rank, status, or quality. |
| steal verb | /stiːl/ | To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else without intending to return it. |
| physics noun | /ˈfɪz.ɪks/ | The branch of science concerned with the study of the properties and interactions of space, time, matter and energy. |
| honey noun | /ˈhʌni/ | A sweet, viscous, gold-colored fluid produced from plant nectar by bees, and often consumed by humans. |
| remind verb | /ɹəˈmaɪnd/ | To cause one to experience a memory (of someone or something); to bring to the notice or consideration (of a person). |
| genetic adjective | /d͡ʒəˈnɛt.ɪk/ | Relating to genetics or genes. |
| humanity noun | /hjuˈmænɪti/ | Humankind; human beings as a group. |
| involve verb | /ɪnˈvɑlv/ | To have (something) as a component or a related part; to comprise, to include. |
| clinic noun | /ˈklɪn.ɪk/ | A medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients. |
| dish noun | /dɪʃ/ | A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| point out verb | To identify among a group of similar subjects, or in a scene where the subject might not be readily seen or noticed, with a gesture of the body. |
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 | have been asking · have been lying |
| Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — something happening right now or around now | you're using · Are you kidding · Are you telling |
| Future with “will” will + verb — a decision, promise or prediction | will condemn · will be · will have |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 14 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, I'm, you're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: dish /dɪʃ/, accomplish /əˈkɑm.plɪʃ/
- Long words — get the stress right: communicate /kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/, fertility /fɝˈtɪləti/, superior /sʊˈpɪɹ.i.ɚ/, humanity /hjuˈmænɪti/, unnecessary /ʌnˈnɛs.əˌsɛɹ.i/
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 dig, communicate, fertility.
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.