Shadowing Practice: The SECRET for Instant Cleaning Motivation! π πͺπ - Learn English Speaking with Video
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In today's video, I'm going to show you how to instantly feel motivated and actually excited to clean your house.
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This secret actually works.
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You might be skeptical, but I'm going to prove it to you.
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I do this all the time, but I don't always share it with you because truth be told,
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it's embarrassing, but I'm putting myself out there because I love you and because this works.
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I learned this secret from a Tony Robbins event that I went to a few months ago.
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I did not pay for this event
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because it's bonk -a -dongs amounts of money it was a free invite
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that I got from a friend so I went to this event
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and this is the best thing I learned I'm saving you
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a butt ton of money this is it this is the secret three S's to getting instantly motivated
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and the first is state it's changing your state and what
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that means is changing your state of mind like feeling energized
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we're gonna do this weird thing right now I need you
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to stand up i know this is why i don't share it with you
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because it's embarrassing but i need you to stand up wherever you're watching this
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and actually give this a try there's science behind it
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but changing your state means that you're physically feeling
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and making the motions that you would feel
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if you were excited about what you were doing we're faking it
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so imagine for a second i came into your home and completely cleaned and organized everything what would you feel like?
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How would your body react?
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You'd be like, woo!
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Maybe you do jumping jacks.
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Some people clap.
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Some people make the motions with their body that they feel when they're excited.
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So like, can we fist pump?
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Can we finger guns?
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I don't know.
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We're doing something.
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We're bouncing on our toes.
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Even if you're just clapping your hands.
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When I do this, I instantly feel motivated and excited to clean my house.
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Anytime I look at a sink full of dirty dishes or laundry piled on the floor, I feel defeated.
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Like my energy gets sucked down.
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And then I definitely don't feel like doing anything.
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We don't do things or want to do things if we're not feeling excited about it, but we can trick our bodies.
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And there was like a bunch of science reasons.
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And I glossed over that part and I tuned out, but basically your body and your brain don't know the difference.
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So if you're like wooing with your body, your brain starts sending you chemicals that you would feel
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if you were genuinely excited about something if you were genuinely motivated
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so we can fake our brain into thinking we want to
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clean the house i hope you're doing it do some like wooing motions right now
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and the second part the second trick is story
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and this is something
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that we tell ourselves often ugh i have to clean the kitchen i don't want to do the dishes
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because the truth is we don't really want to do the dishes
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but we can instantly change this a little bit by saying
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I get to have a clean kitchen I deserve to have a kitchen
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that has no dirty dishes in the sink I deserve to have a house
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that doesn't look like a hot mess sandwich I deserve a clean house I want you to say
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that I want you to say I deserve a clean house I'm gonna give myself a clean house
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and you have to say it out loud which again is a little bit embarrassing but nobody's seeing you
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i'm doing this in front of you i can't see you i know it's embarrassing i know it feels uncomfortable
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but this works okay it does it works you're changing your state you're changing your story you're tricking your brain
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and the next thing you know you're doing the dishes and you feel happy about it.
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I don't know, man.
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It sounds crazy, but don't knock it till you try it.
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So I hope you're up right now.
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I hope you're like wooing a little bit and I want you to change your story.
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I deserve a bedroom that feels like an oasis.
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I want you to make your bed.
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I'm going to make my bed because I deserve it.
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Let's move to the bedroom.
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Can you bring me with you?
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Do you have a phone or a tablet?
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The point is wherever you are, I want you to get up.
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I want you to feel excitement, fake the excitement and fake a new story
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because you're going to feel it working and you're going to actually want to clean your house.
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And the last part, the last trick is strategy.
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And that means actually having a plan.
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And this is simple as printing off a cleaning checklist and checking it off.
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And we always think that it's the plan that's going to get us there the strategy
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if only I could find the perfect cleaning schedule or
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if only I had the perfect step -by -step solution
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but that's the least important part if we're in state
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if we're like feeling excited and if we know we can do this
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and we want to do this we don't need a plan we don't need a strategy
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but that does help so when you combine these three things the state the story and a strategy, you can feel motivated to do anything,
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even scrub a toilet, my friends.
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i promise you this works my house is a disaster right now i'm faking excitement to clean it
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and i'm gonna get there and i'm hoping you're doing the same thing
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so we're gonna clean together right now i want you to look around your home pick something
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that you want to do
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that you deserve to have done something small a clean counter wipe your bathroom a sparkly toilet whatever it is, let's get up.
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Let's start fist pumping.
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Let's do some jumping jacks and let's tell ourselves enough is enough.
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I deserve this.
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This is a gift to myself because I'm going to feel amazing when I'm done.
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You feeling motivated?
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Let's do this.
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Let me know in the comments below if you actually got up, if you did a little woo, if you clapped your hands, if you actually tidied something, or if you passively watched this video.
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I'm not judging I'm just curious
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because I know this can be uncomfortable I remember the first
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time doing this at this Tony Robbins event I was mortified
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it felt like I was in a Zumba class you know
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where you're just like I don't want to do this I feel uncomfortable
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but it worked it worked so I'm curious let me know in the comments below
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if you felt motivated if you got up and actually use your body
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and use your words to trick your brain i also want to let you know
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that i'm launching a 30 -day organizing boot camp that uses these strategies
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today it starts today i'm so nervous
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but i'm going to put the link in the description
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so you can learn more about it where i walk you through every single space in your home
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and i up your energy I put you in state we change your story
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and I give you a strategy for success it's
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if this was cringy for you you probably don't want the boot camp
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but if you feel motivated and you want more check out the link below
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and thanks so much for watching I hope you liked
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and I'll see you guys next time thank you guys
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so much for those of you who have stayed to the end we have a bearded dragon named Daenerys Targaryen
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because she's a bearded dragon and I love you know Game of Thrones, but that's not the point.
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The point is she's a lot like her mom in that she likes junk food only.
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She's supposed to eat fruits and vegetables and healthy lettuce, but she likes the meat.
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Okay.
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So she likes worms, but I'm having a hard time finding them right now.
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So I bought her crickets.
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I came home with like a big bag of crickets.
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I asked for a dozen.
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They gave me three dozen, 36 crickets.
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I didn't know where to put them.
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So I just dumped the whole bag in her cage and they're like crawling all over her.
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It's crickets everywhere.
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The next day there's none left in her cage and I'm like she ate them all?
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You do you Danny.
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I get the binging on junk food but then we started finding them all over our house.
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There's a crack in the back of her tank and all of the crickets climbed out.
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So every day we're just like there's not only do we hear them at midnight chirping
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which is so annoying but they're like the dog's trying to eat them.
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He's rolling on them.
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There's crickets in the bathroom.
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There's crickets in the basement.
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There's crickets in the kitchen.
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There's crickets in the living room.
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We're watching Stranger Things last night.
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There's crickets hopping around.
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There's just, it's an infestation that I purchased.
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I purchased these crickets and they're all over my house.
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So I don't know what we do about this.
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I feel like almost letting her loose to catch them, but she's also like her mother in that she's very lazy and hardly moved.
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So I think she wouldn't run for them.
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I don't know what we're going to do.
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I guess we're just the cricket house now.
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Anyways, I thought I'd share with you.
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Thanks so much for watching and I'll see you guys next time.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video βThe SECRET for Instant Cleaning Motivation! π πͺπβ. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: cricket, clean, motivated, deserve, excited. This video has 145 sentences and 1650 words to shadow. The speech runs for 9:11. The speaker talks fast, about 180 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| motivate verb | /ΛmoΚ.tΙͺ.veΙͺt/ | To provide someone with an incentive to do something; to encourage; to actuate. |
| trick noun | /ΛtΙΉΙͺk/ | Something designed to fool, dupe, outsmart, mislead or swindle. |
| dish noun | /dΙͺΚ/ | A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle. |
| instantly adverb | /ΛΙͺnstΙntli/ | At once; without delay. |
| excitement noun | /ΙͺkΛsaΙͺtmΙnt/ | The state of being excited (emotionally aroused). |
| uncomfortable adjective | /ΚnΛkΚm.fΙ.tΙ.blΜ©/ | Not comfortable; causing discomfort. |
| woo verb | /wuΛ/ | To endeavor to gain someone's affection or support. |
| clap verb | /klæp/ | To strike the palms of the hands together, creating a sharp sound. |
| bedroom noun | /ΛbΙdΛΙΉum/ | A room in a house, apartment, hotel, or other dwelling where a bed is kept for sleeping. |
| curious adjective | /ΛkjΚΙΉ.i.Ιs/ | Tending to ask questions, or to want to explore or investigate; inquisitive; (with a negative connotation) nosy, prying. |
| dragon noun | /ΛdΙΉΓ¦Ι‘Ιn/ | In European mythologies, a gigantic beast, typically reptilian with leathery bat-like wings, lion-like claws, scaly skin and a lizard-like body, often aβ¦ |
| toilet verb | /ΛtΙΙͺ.lΙt/ | To assist another (a child, etc.) in using a toilet. |
| pump noun | /pΚmp/ | A device for moving or compressing a liquid or gas. |
| wherever | /(h)wΙΙΉΛΙvΙ/ | Regardless of the place in, at or to which. |
| sink verb | /ΛsΙͺΕk/ | To descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| get up verb | To move in an upward direction; to ascend or climb. |
| stand up verb | To rise from a lying or sitting position. |
| check out verb | To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.). |
| look around verb | To inspect a building or area. |
| print off verb | Synonym of print out. |
| tune out verb | To stop paying attention to; to ignore; to zone out. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- How would your body react?
- We're bouncing on our toes.
- Even if you're just clapping your hands.
- Can you bring me with you?
- Do you have a phone or a tablet?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Passive voice be + past participle β the focus is on what happens, not who does it | be told Β· was mortified |
| Superlatives the -est / the most β¦ β the top or bottom of a group | the best Β· the least important |
| Verb + -ing enjoy, keep, stopβ¦ + -ing β verbs that are followed by the -ing form | starts sending Β· started finding |
| Present continuous am/is/are + -ing β something happening right now or around now | I'm putting Β· I'm saving Β· is changing |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 79 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, you're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The βshβ and βzhβ sounds: dish /dΙͺΚ/, infestation /ΛΙͺnfΙsΛteΙͺΜ―ΚΙn/
- Long words β get the stress right: uncomfortable /ΚnΛkΚm.fΙ.tΙ.blΜ©/, genuinely /ΛdΝ‘ΚΙn.ju.Ιͺn.li/, infestation /ΛΙͺnfΙsΛteΙͺΜ―ΚΙn/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75Γ 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 motivate, trick, dish.
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 β like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1β2 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 β making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.