Shadowing Practice: The Multiple Benefits of Deep Crisis | Robin Sharma - Learn English Speaking with Video
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We have a lot of people showing up on this Instagram live and I want to bring you some great value.
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And I wanted to, you know,
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I've been reading about the bubonic plague and I've been reading about past pandemics like the Spanish flu and the influenza virus.
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And I've realized, you know, if you watch too much of the news, I've been encouraging my followers over the past month,
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use the news as a tool.
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Don't use the news as a drug.
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And it's very easy to become addicted to the news so that all you see is the worst in the world.
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And yet there's so much good in the world.
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There are neighbors helping elderly neighbors as never before.
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We are finally honoring health care workers for the heroes that they are.
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We are in a grocery store or maybe, you know, getting some supplies but we're giving it to people who who need as well.
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Jack Dorsey the founder of the co -founder with Evan Williams of Twitter and he also founded
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Square gave away a billion dollars and
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so yes there is suffering in the world
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and yes it breaks our hearts when we see good people dying or suffering from COVID -19,
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and all the losses in the stock market collapse and the volatility,
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but I wanted to hop on here onto Instagram Live to remind you that storms have always happened throughout nature,
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and in many ways this is an unfolding of nature.
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There has to be disruption and storms before nature can be born anew even better.
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And I wanted to, in one of my journals here,
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walk you through some of the things I've learned about as I read more about past pandemics.
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Past pandemics, some of the benefits, are germ theory.
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We wouldn't, you know, in the old days,
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we would have leeches to suck out blood because that's how physicians back then thought you could save someone with disease.
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So past pandemics gave us germ theory.
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Believe it or not in the past we didn't understand the value, I'm talking about hundreds of years ago,
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of washing our hands as a means to avoid the spread of disease.
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Past pandemics taught us urban sanitization.
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You won't believe this but hundreds of years ago in cities we would mix sewer water with drinking water.
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Past pandemics have given us vaccines.
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Past pandemics have taught us new ways of behaving.
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Past pandemics have given us technological advances because often it is,
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you know, I remember being on a vineyard in Stellenbosch, South Africa
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and the gentleman who was giving me the vineyard tour said you see these vines over there they are stressed
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but he said to me
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and this is something I really want you to think about today
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and share it with your friends and family he said the vines on a vineyard
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that are most stressed produce the richest wine
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And I think that's a great metaphor, which is, I did a post on Instagram today, and it's tougher makes us stronger.
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And people said, Robin, what are you talking about?
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Tougher makes us stronger.
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What I mean is, if you look at a Navy SEAL, if you look at a warrior, if you look at the best business people,
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You look at the greatest humanitarians.
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Those people's leadership and heroism was forged in the fires of their suffering.
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I think suffering gets a pretty bad rap in our society.
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Suffering is actually the tool that cracks the ego open to reconnect us with our most heroic selves.
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You know, a bad day for the ego is an awesome day for your soul, isn't it?
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And so our ego surveyed the news and the landscape, and our ego says the world is falling apart.
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But what if there are benefits to the adversity?
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What if, I mean, look, here are some of the benefits of COVID -19.
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We're starting to take long walks again.
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We're starting to slow down and watch sunrises.
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we're starting to pay attention to our families again, those of us who were disconnected from our families.
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Many of us are starting to explore personal development.
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We're being forced to pull away from the noisiness
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and confront our truest selves and ask ourselves some of the big philosophical questions like, how was I living?
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Who was I becoming?
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How was I serving?
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What creativity was I not exploiting?
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What was I missing?
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we're starting to explore the benefits of a slower pace
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we're starting to increase our creativity
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and even our productivity i mean i've always made a distinction in my work between busy
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and productive and now we're actually starting to refocus our priorities
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and be more creative genuinely telecommuting is growing and so mother nature is starting to breathe again.
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We're home more so there's less traffic.
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We're flying less so the carbon footprint is going down.
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I was incredibly inspired by a story I read about a city in India
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that after 10 years can finally see the Himalayas.
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so let me leave you with with five takeaways number one
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all real battles are fought within we are fighting the battle against
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COVID -19 we are fighting the battle against unemployment 17 million in the U .S alone in four weeks unemployed.
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And I plan to release, by the way, if you have not read my free guide, The War Measures Manual, read it today and share it.
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You can get it by going to my profile here on Instagram
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and just clicking on the link and you're going to get
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The War Measures Manual.
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It is, it's only 10 pages long.
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It is rich.
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It is tactical.
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It is valuable.
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And guess what? but because of the incredible demand and feedback on the War Measures Manual,
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I'm releasing a second free guide to help you rise through this difficulty, and I'll be releasing it later this week.
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If you wanna get it, go to robinsharma .com, robinsharma .com, subscribe to my email list, you'll get all my circulars,
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and you'll get this new guide that's coming.
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So the real battle to win is the battle within yourself, And this is a great time to embrace personal mastery.
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It's a great time to understand the four interior empires I talked about in the 5 a .m club of mindset,
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heart set, health set, and soul set.
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Because when you fortify yourself through a strong 5 a .m routine,
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then you're mentally stronger, you're emotionally braver, you're physically more energetic.
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And by the way, what you want to do is you want to increase your immune response, don't you?
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And you also want to really reduce inflammation.
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You want to have stronger lungs to fight COVID -19.
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So health set is important.
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And then soul set.
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Someone sent me a DM about five minutes ago.
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Robin, why did you say that as your fears increase,
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it's a good time to heal?
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That was from my post on my Instagram earlier today.
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Well, because all fear that you might be feeling now, you couldn't be feeling it if it wasn't pre -existing.
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And so the crises around the world right now are simply activating old fears.
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And if you're really smart and wise, and you are because you're following me,
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then this is a chance to grow in fearlessness.
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Feeling afraid offers the opportunity for bravery training.
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You see, most people get afraid and they start eating too many carbs or they, you know,
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fall into their drugs of choice like too much tv too
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much complaining too much news too much sleeping all those kinds of things
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but what the warriors do and the wisest amongst us do is they look within themselves
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and they say oh what fear was just activated by covid19 oh got
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it it's in my solar plexus it's locked in my body it was repressed
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so the virus has actually activated it it was already there now i can meditate journal pray
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and all the things that i teach in my work
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And if you want to go deeper on this, definitely read The 5am Club.
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It explains a lot of this.
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But stormy times are bravery training.
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And if you use what happens on the outside to make you stronger mentally,
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emotionally, physically, spiritually, then you're going to come out of this storm.
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as a much better sailor and a much stronger human being.
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Second thing I'd say is if you're not a meditator, journaler, or daily walker, it's a great time to do it.
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Thirdly, my battery always goes low when I do these Instagram lives.
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Anyway, must be a sign that I need to leave you guys to think about what I've offered
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and play with it and reflect on it.
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Anyway, the third thing is solitude.
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I wrote about this in The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari 20 years ago.
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Someone today sent me a Thrive Global article on the 10 ancient rituals of radiant living
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that I wrote about in The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari 20 years ago.
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And they said, look, it's all coming back.
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And they read that chapter and then they wrote an article and you can find it on Thrive Global.
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I believe that's Arianna Huffington's media platform.
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Anyway, she talked about how we're rediscovering afternoon walks and how we're rediscovering solitude.
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And point number three is remember, your greatest creativity lies in solitude.
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And so rather than seeing as self -quarantine as a bad thing, ask yourself, how can I use the next six weeks
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or the next eight weeks or however long it is before it's safe.
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How can I use this and create almost a curriculum,
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a lockdown curriculum to write your novel or write your screenplay
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or architect the rest of your career
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or read the top five books you've always wanted to read or keep a lockdown journal to help you grow?
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I mean, it's like the two prisoners.
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One saw the stars, one looked out and saw the bars.
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You have a choice and you can use this time in self -quarantine almost as a laboratory to build yourself up.
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And I want to offer a resource that has helped so many people and it's the 5am club.
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If you haven't read the book, read the book or download the ebook or listen to the audio book.
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You've probably seen how many people are being transformed by it
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and saying the book is saving their lives or helping them get through this time.
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So if it's have interest to you, definitely read the 5M Club book.
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Number four, this is a big one.
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Not a lot of people share the connection between forgiveness and productivity.
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Not a lot of people make a link between high energy and deep forgiveness.
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What I wanna bring to you, and that's why in my work, I say mindset work is only 25 % of the personal mastery equation.
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You also need heart set, health set, and soul set.
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The four interior empires that I go deep into in the 5am club.
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And so forgiveness, this is a great time to forgive.
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I did an Instagram live with a Swedish podcaster,
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amazing Swedish podcaster, and he said and he said it live
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so I don't on the podcast so I don't mind sharing it he said
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Robin I had a fallout with my business partner
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and during this lockdown I called him up he said he was my great friend
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and during this lockdown time I called him up
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and we patched up our you know our broken relationship
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and I'm seeing that all over the world right now people are realizing what's most important
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and they're reaching out to people who they hurt
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or people to who hurt them and I've always said
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that forgiveness is not only an act you do for the other person
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because they're suffering often by what they did to you.
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Forgiveness frees you as well and
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so the fourth thing I'll leave you with is this time of quietude is a great time to practice forgiveness training.
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It'll boost your immune system, it'll boost your joy, it'll boost your inner peace, it'll boost your creativity, boost your productivity, and guess what?
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You'll have a lot more fun in the rest of your life.
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Finally, in the War Measures Manual, there are probably 20 specific tactics
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that I teach to the people who I mentor to help them navigate difficult times
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and show world -class leadership I mean what makes a great leader is not how you show up
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when there's a bull market and every
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and we're in times of comfort anyone can show leadership then what makes a Churchill what what made
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Churchill Churchill was how he behaved May 10th 1940
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And in the years afterward, when he became
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Prime Minister of England, what made
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Nelson Mandela, what was his 18 years on Robben Island, what made Mother Rosa Parks, Rosa Parks was that day in,
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I believe, Alabama, when she said, I'm not going to move to the back of the bus.
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my legs are tired and you're not going to make me move because of the color of my skin what made
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Mother Teresa Mother Teresa is what she did for the neediest people in Kolkata and
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so hard times make brave warriors you know
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this is this is a chance for us to build our
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mentality build our character build our bravery scale our kindness
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and compassion so once one of them so
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so again one of the tactics in the war measures manual
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this free guide I've prepared for you I want you to read it today
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and share it it'll help you it'll keep you strong keep you productive
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if you want it go to the link in my profile and access it.
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Anyway, one of the things I talk about is the B -C -S -W -C -S distinction.
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The worst case scenario, best case scenario distinction.
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And let me briefly deconstruct it.
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I am an eternal hopefulist and I know that great things are coming.
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I I mean, many countries are already thinking about a post -COVID world and planning for exiting lockdown.
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And by the way, some countries haven't even gone into lockdown.
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I believe Belarus just had a big football game and people were there watching the players play.
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So some countries aren't even in lockdown.
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Anyway, I'm not here to judge in any way.
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I never want to.
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I want to just report that fact.
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The point I'm trying to get at is, I think it's really smart to prepare for worst case scenario.
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And a lot of people say, Robin, you know, I don't want to prepare for worst case scenario, like a real collapse of the stock market,
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massive unemployment, the reemergence of COVID -19,
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and God forbid, an even more dangerous pandemic pandemic because these viruses mutate.
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I believe from my reading, SARS was more fatal than COVID -19.
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But here's, I think a lot of people who are not willing to go to look at the worst case scenario
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are in denial.
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And denial could get you killed.
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It could get your family killed and my job is to serve you
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and tell you the truth and the truth is we don't know the future
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and the truth is we suffer from not what psychologists call normalcy bias
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and cognitive dissonance and so I want to in the strongest
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and most loving of terms I want to remind you to plan for the worst but hope for the best.
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And don't suffer from denial because the pandemic could come back.
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Another pandemic could show up in a year.
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With all the leverage, the stock market could completely collapse.
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And you don't want to be caught blindsided.
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When I do my work with my clients in my online mentoring program, The Circle of Legends, or with my clients in IconX,
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we don't play games we do scenario planning and we hope for the best and we plan for it.
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We pray for them.
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Let me put it this way.
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Pray for the best, plan for the worst.
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Why wouldn't you do that?
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Because otherwise, if it all goes 10 times worse, you're just, you're going to, it's going to be dangerous.
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So that's what I mean by BSC.
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Pray for BSC, BCS, excuse me, best case scenario, and then plan for every possible contingency.
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And again, what can I say?
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I hope this has been helpful.
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If you want the war measures manual, go to the link in my, no charge whatsoever whatever,
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go to the link in my profile and get it, read it, study it.
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By the way, you know, don't just be superficial in your reading, be granular.
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If you want to figure out when you should look at deliveries that are being delivered to your apartment or your home,
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don't just read one article.
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Read 10 articles.
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Read the New England Journal of Medicine.
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You know, I'm not giving scientific.. information
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but you know it said the virus is two days on cardboard three days on copper
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and stainless steel i talk to a lot of people i go did you know this
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and then they tell me a fact i go how do you know oh because i saw a video on youtube
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not everything is real right not everything you read on the internet is true i mean i can't believe how many people,
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oh, I read it on the internet, it must be true.
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Have the deep craft rigor to study trusted sources.
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Read newspapers of meaning.
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Study people who are real experts.
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Follow people who know what they're talking about.
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Don't just read one article, read 10 articles.
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In the 5am club, there's a whole chapter.
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Shift from superficiality to granularity.
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That is what I mean.
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You look at Kobe.
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He didn't just go, oh, I'm going to watch one game tape of an opponent on how they shoot.
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He watched tens of thousands.
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If you look at Charles Darwin, eight years studying barnacles to help him evolve his theory of evolution,
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survival of the fittest.
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And so take a granular approach to navigating all this.
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Anyway, I've given you hopefully some great value.
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I don't know what else I can do to help you right now.
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You guys, Diego says, thanks for the knowledge.
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Zando, I want to talk to you guys.
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I wish I could, you know, hi from Kazakhstan.
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Oh, Kay Danilidis from Greece.
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You know, I have a lot of new
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Greek readers thanks to 5am in Greece.
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So thanks guys.
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Someone's saying something about don't put more junk in your mind?
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Absolutely.
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Use the news as a tool, not as a drug.
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Bianca, my daughter's name, says you are such a massive inspiration.
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Grateful.
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You guys, we're in this together.
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And I am here and I'm praying for everyone.
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And I'm trying to give as much information as possible to keep you inspired, strong, focused on the good.
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A lot of entrepreneurs follow me.
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This is a great time to deepen your relationship with your customers
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it's a great time to build your businesses
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it's a great time to pivot
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it's a great time to ask yourself what value can i bring to the market
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that people really need right now this is not a bad time to be in business
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if you're an innovator if you protect your confidence and your focus
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and your creativity which is what i want to help you to do through all of my work. From Kenya, great.
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Sarah from Morocco, awesome.
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Bookish from California, amazing.
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Okay, I'm going to go to video, live video if I can, if my battery cooperates.
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Let's see if we can.
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Last time, a lot of you loved my 13 -year -old friend who I brought on from Nigeria.
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By the way, If you want to follow him, he's tojtechmedia on Instagram.
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13 -year -old from, okay, anyway, from Lagos, Nigeria.
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Let me see if I can bring on some people via video before my battery dies.
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I don't know why my battery dies.
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My iPhone doesn't love me.
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I don't know why.
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I am pressing on view.
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Here we go.
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Raj from Bombay how are you Greece Marriott we love
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you well I love you you love my book I love
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you guys too how are you hello hi how are you I'm good oh my god oh my oh my god
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i'm talking to rovin sharma live hello yeah
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but i i'm the lucky one i'm talking to you oh wow wow this is not happening i'm
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so honored wow you wow okay first of all thank you
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so much for all your content really thank you so
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so much i read your 5 a .m club
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you blew my mind it just came on the right moment robin
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i cannot i mean i cannot trust a bit trespass
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that to you because it's just the book came
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when it had to so and now i'm starting the monk who gave up his verari
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and yeah wow so so you're you're you're you're very kind to me
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and really is a pleasure for me to speak with you i i just adore
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you all my readers my followers so much
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and i just you know i uh i really want to do good by you all
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and i want to serve you all i want to get to know you what's your name where are you from
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my name is pamela i am from santiago de chile we are in complete lockdown at the moment
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and we have around yeah it doesn't matter the number
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but we have tons of covet cases so me
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and my family has been two boys uh quarantined since march and yeah i mean i'm cooking actually lunch right now
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wow what what are you making for lunch i you know in chilean chilean food is so good
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let me see
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if i can show you i don't know
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i want to see you i'm i'm okay i'm sorry okay no don't be
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so this is this is salmon my husband did it actually yesterday
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so it's just meant like nice it's very nice
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and this is some arabic um rice that i got an instagram recipe from
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and some tomato risotto so yeah i mean we've been cooking a lot a lot
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and thank you so much for instagram on that because so many people have shared all the recipes and
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for me it's been great the kids also they love it mom has never cooked ever before
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well you know pamela that's that's what by the way your cooking looks amazing
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and if i ever get to santiago i'm gonna i'm gonna try to find you
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so i can sit at your dinner table with your family
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and share me that food that food looks amazing your family is very blessed
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and i'm sure you're amazing family member um by the way
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if you could send me a dm with your mailing address
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and when this is all over i'm going to send you a signed copy of the 5am club wow
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and and i just you know you really also spoke to what i was sharing in this instagram live with
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which is you know we can find a lot of blessings in adversity
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we can i've been working on my cooking too it doesn't look like yours
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but you know like i mean we're having two hour family meals right now
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and you know i'm reading books
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that you know this is one of the books i'm reading right
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now wow winston churchill you know after may 10th when he became the prime minister of england how he navigated
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the storm and
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so you know you really proved in a very visual way for us how you know
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we can we can do simple things um to make life better right now
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so i want to say thank you and it's great to meet you
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and thanks for your kind words and stay you
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and your family stay um safe and healthy and joyful
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and i'm just really grateful to you thank you oh wow robin thank you
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so much really uh me too i'm grateful for your work please keep up the new book
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because i'm reading the instagram that
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it's not how it's not easy that's something that's not easy but just as in your book you said um
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so the is how was it again the the everything is not easy it's come the hard then the uh middle
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part and then comes the easy part i remember the graphic
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but i i'm
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so sure yeah i don't remember the exact words sorry yeah um
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it's it's the habit installation protocol of the 5am club method
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all change is hard at first messy in the middle
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and gorgeous at the end gorgeous at the end yes of course oh
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and just something just to share with you um my little boy he's uh the biggest has six years old
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and he's anxious like me you know i i see lots of my um como behavior on him
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so when i read your book there was one phrase
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that really changed for me everything
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and my way of teaching him how to be also the one that comparison is the thief of joy
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that was for me my brain tattoo from your work i mean wow once i read
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that phrase was it changed everything you know like it clicked
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so i have to say thank you and from him i also
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because for him he understood actually that part and he's he's being so little and he actually got it you know
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you know you know pamela first of all i want to give credit where it's due
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that that is a i don't have a lot of battery left
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that that's a quote i used from eleanor roosevelt but i'm glad
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that was helpful and and you're right though i mean
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especially in the culture of comparison we live in with all the
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so all social media it's it's it's
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so easy to see someone's you know feed
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and then say i guess my life doesn't matter
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but you know i saw your life you know i saw i'm glad your six -year -old son got
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that he must be a wise soul so uh you're welcome he's got a wise mother
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thank you thanks to you thank you so much
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wow i mean just amazing people in the world
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Just, you can see the light that's in the world amidst all the darkness.
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Anyway, thanks for all the amazing feedback coming in from Dr. Muncerri from Iran.
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Fedro Polozzi Grande.
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No, I'm not Grande.
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This looks like an Italian follower.
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But Christina, if that's Christina from Kiki, that's I want to say hello.
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she was an icon X.
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And I just want to say, you guys are saying I'm amazing.
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I'm not amazing.
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We're all, we're all the same, you know, uh, from Nairobi, Miss Moni mystique girl.
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My mom is from Kenya, uh, Pollack from India.
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I think you guys are awesome too.
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Uh, finding Joe Natat.
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Hey, Natasha, finding
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Joe, the movie.
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I'm glad you liked it.
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Uh, from Montenegro that is uh anna i was in montenegro in september 2017 for an event it was great
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hi peksha from san francisco hope
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you are great thanks guys 5 a .m amazing happy
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you like it greg from greg is from greece oh yeah
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i want to get back to greece everyone's telling me i need to go back to Santorini
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and people keep on telling me I need to go to Greece for Naxos and I want to visit Naxos.
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Namaste from India.
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Thrive with Shiva.
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Thanks to all my many Indian followers.
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Much love as always.
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Jane Castle.
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I've survived COVID -19 and I appreciate you so much.
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Jane, you've been a longtime supporter.
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I think you're in England or South Africa.
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I'm pretty sure England, so I hope you're doing great.
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Cardiff.
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Who's from Cardiff?
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Yeah, from Cardiff, Wales.
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Hope you guys are safe.
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Iran.
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Colombia.
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Muchas gracias.
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Thank you.
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Thank you to Colombia.
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I also see Bolivia.
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Shout out from Massachusetts.
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Official Sean Burke you know you guys are bringing tears to my eyes with all this outpouring of connection here
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and I just want to say thank you so much and I'll talk to you soon bye -bye
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “The Multiple Benefits of Deep Crisis”. This video has 418 sentences and 4783 words to shadow. The speech runs for 33:15. The speaker talks at a steady 144 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. Only 81% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| lockdown noun | /ˈlɑkˌdaʊn/ | The confinement of people in their own rooms (e.g., in a school) or cells (in a prison), or to their own homes or areas (e.g., in the case of a city- or… |
| scenario noun | /sɪˈnɛəɹioʊ/ | An outline or model of an expected or supposed sequence of events. |
| robin noun | /ˈɹɑ.bɪn/ | A European robin, Erithacus rubecula. |
| manual noun | /ˈmæn.j(u)əl/ | Synonym of handbook. |
| forgiveness noun | /fɚˈɡɪvnəs/ | The action of forgiving. |
| boost verb | /buːst/ | To lift or push from behind (one who is endeavoring to climb); to push up. |
| pray verb | /pɹeɪ/ | To direct words, thoughts, or one's attention to a deity or any higher being, for the sake of adoration, thanks, petition for help, etc. |
| creativity noun | /kri.eɪˈtɪv.ᵻ.ti/ | The ability to use imagination to produce a novel idea or product. |
| virus noun | /ˈvaɪ.ɹəs/ | A submicroscopic, non-cellular structure that consists of a core of DNA or RNA surrounded by a protein coat, that requires a living host cell to replicate, and… |
| grateful adjective | /ˈɡɹeɪtf(ə)l/ | Of a person or their actions, feelings, etc.: expressing gratitude or appreciation; appreciative, thankful. |
| collapse verb | /kəˈlæps/ | To break apart and fall down suddenly; to cave in. |
| warrior noun | /ˈwɔɹi.ɚ/ | A person who is actively engaged in battle, conflict or warfare; a soldier or combatant. |
| productivity noun | /ˌpɹɒdʌkˈtɪvəti/ | The state of being productive, fertile, or efficient. |
| distinction noun | /dɪˈstɪŋkʃən/ | That which distinguishes; a single occurrence of a determining factor or feature, the fact of being divided; separation, discrimination. |
| denial noun | /dɪˈnaɪ.əl/ | An assertion of untruth. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| come back verb | To return to a place. | |
| fall apart verb | To disintegrate, to break into pieces. | |
| figure out verb | To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce. | |
| get back to verb | Return to (an activity) | |
| get through verb | /ɡɛt ˈθɹu/ | To overcome; to endure. |
| give away verb | To make a gift of (something). | |
| give up verb | To surrender (someone or something); to inform on (someone). | |
| go back to verb | To stem from; to originate in. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- We're starting to take long walks again.
- We're starting to slow down and watch sunrises.
- What creativity was I not exploiting?
- Why wouldn't you do that?
- Someone's saying something about don't put more junk in your mind?
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 | I've been reading · we've been cooking · i've been working |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | I've realized · have always happened · I've learned |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | can be born · was forged · were disconnected |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | people who who · metaphor, which is · people who they |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 148 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, you're, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: breathe /bɹiːð/, thief /ˈθiːf/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: distinction /dɪˈstɪŋkʃən/, emotionally /ɪˈməʊʃənəli/, wash /wɑʃ/, evolution /ˌiːvəˈluːʃ(ə)n/, inspiration /ˌɪn.spɪˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: creativity /kri.eɪˈtɪv.ᵻ.ti/, productivity /ˌpɹɒdʌkˈtɪvəti/, unemployment /ʌn.ɪmˈplɔɪ.mənt/, curriculum /kəˈɹɪk.jə.ləm/, emotionally /ɪˈməʊʃənəli/
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 lockdown, scenario, robin.
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.