Shadowing Practice: The secret wealth formula nobody teaches - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Excuse me ma'am.
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Ma'am, question for you.
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How old were you when you became a millionaire?
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What makes you think I'm a millionaire?
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You look like Buddy.
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How did you get rid of it?
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Well, actually, my husband's a billionaire.
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You said, what?
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He's a billionaire.
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Sir, are you a billionaire?
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Sir, real quick, I have a channel of 24 million followers.
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Are you a billionaire?
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I am.
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You are?
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Yes.
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How did you become a billionaire?
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I became a billionaire by investing.
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So you're an investor?
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Yes.
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Can I interview you for a minute?
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100%.
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How much are you worth today?
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There's a saying, if you know what you're worth, you're not wealthy.
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What do the wealthiest people know that broke people don't know?
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Rich people became wealthy doing five things.
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Number one, they own a few high quality businesses.
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Number two, they make sure they understand them.
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Number three, they make sure they're in strong long-term growth industries.
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Number four, they hold for the long run.
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So I said, okay, what business can I buy?
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So how does somebody buy a business if they don't have a lot of capital?
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Well, I had to borrow to invest and I bought a mutual fund management company.
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In the next one to two years, what is the best industry people should be getting into right now?
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There's a saying, whenever there's a shift in the dominant source of energy, there's a shift in economic power.
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Right now, there's a shift occurring towards nuclear.
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That's what we are concentrating today.
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Did you come from a lot of money?
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Did you have rich parents?
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My mom was an orphan when I was born.
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We were both adopted because she didn't have a job.
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How old are you today?
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I'm 75.
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If me and you died tomorrow and you had one last message to leave with the younger generation, what would that be?
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To be successful, you have to have a PhD.
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That's not a school PhD.
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No. Poor, hungry, and driven.
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But when you're successful, your kids will also have a PhD.
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Papa has dough.
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So you didn't come from a rich family, but a rich family came from you.
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Exactly.
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You've got amazing advice, my friend.
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I appreciate that.
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Thank you.
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Every single week, I host live calls for the Billionaires Mentor My Audience.
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Would you do one live call and mentor my audience?
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I would be delighted.
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All they have to do is comment Billionaire below and we'll give them access.
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Okay.
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Speaking Goals for This Clip

This conversation targets conversational fluency in spontaneous interviews, helping you practice asking follow-up questions, responding to unexpected answers, and maintaining a natural flow. It also builds confidence in discussing career, wealth, and life advice—topics common in real-world interactions.

Phrase Bank

  • "Question for you" – A casual way to start a conversation or interview.
  • "What makes you think..." – Useful for challenging an assumption politely.
  • "There's a saying..." – A great transition to share wisdom or common knowledge.
  • "Hold for the long run" – A business idiom meaning to keep investments long-term.
  • "Papa has dough" – A playful, colloquial phrase for "Dad is wealthy" (dough = money).
  • "A rich family came from you" – A powerful way to describe building generational wealth.

Fix Your Weak Spots

This video is perfect for practicing natural question intonation and rhythm in rapid dialogue. Notice how the interviewer uses rising intonation for questions like "Sir, are you a billionaire?" and falling intonation for statements. To improve, try shadow speech—repeat the lines aloud immediately after the speaker, mimicking their pace and stress. Use a shadowing app to record yourself and compare. Focus on words like "billionaire" (stress on "bil-") and "mutual" (short "u" sound) to improve English pronunciation. Learning English with YouTube clips like this trains your ear to follow conversational speed, a key step toward fluency.

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.

Shadowing technique: read the full step-by-step guide →