Shadowing Practice: TikToks That Are Actually Relatable - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Today we're checking out some relatable TikToks.
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POV, me 10 minutes into saying, I don't need a card or basket.
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Yeah, the worst part is what somebody offers you one.
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Like, nah, I only need one more thing.
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Don't worry, I got it, I'm good.
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I can carry everything.
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And then in fact, you cannot carry everything.
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And then, God forbid you drop anything, you lose aura points.
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Bro, do yourself a favor.
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If you're buying paper towels, like, get that card.
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It'll be okay.
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Although, what do you guys think of my hair?
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I just got it lighter for summer.
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I thought it'd be cute.
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Ooh.
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My hair lady ate with these highlights.
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I like it, but what do you guys think?
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When you thought he was all the way down the stairs, but you missed one
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Very accurate how it feels like bro
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that last step feeling like your soul just left your body Did I skip a step
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or did I almost lose my life?
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High cortisol activities the only time I'll let somebody disrespect me without saying nothing back
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when you're at the TSA line There's 67 people behind you.
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You don't know if you should keep your shoes on You don't know
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if the laptop's supposed to come out the jacket off the
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hat off the belt off the phone out of the pocket Everything out of the pocket the ponytail down
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so chaotic so stressful like okay fine Yeah, let me
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but just get me through this This is my least favorite part about traveling going to the airport
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and going through security When somebody puts all the eggs on one side of the carton.
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Oh, no, no, no, no
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Where the whole thing just like flips over I I Mean I am guilty of doing this
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but like how are you supposed to take the eggs
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if you're using eggs Do you take them in order
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or do you take them randomly out of the carton because I take them in order?
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You know we love order until you grab it by the empty side of the carton.
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Why does this hurt more than the needle itself?
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Oh
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You know when you get a blood test or a shot
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and they put the cotton ball and then wrap it up
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and tell you to not Take it off
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and tell you to hold it there
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and not take it off for 15 minutes Why does it hurt more than the needle
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when you do decide to take it off?
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Okay I have a crazy story about this
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because I recently got an IV for hydration because I was dehydrated Oh
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And you know when they take out the needle they put the cotton ball
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and they tell you to hold it there for a few seconds
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Very important that you hold it there
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because the girl sitting in front of me did not hold the cotton ball in place
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And all I saw was blood like splash everywhere There's basically a ton of blood on her arm
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and she was like whoa cool Girl what she said I don't like seeing other people's blood, but I like seeing my blood.
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What's wrong with you?
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Okay, miss mosquito Sorry, I fell asleep as soon as I get home Yeah,
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yeah, this is exactly what happens when somebody sees your text and doesn't want to talk to you Sorry, I slept as soon as I got home as soon as I set foot on my laminate floors.
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I passed out right then and there That's why I couldn't text you back.
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That's cap.
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I'm not buying it.
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There is something called a little light-a-holic Oh, no, not the big light bro We cannot have the big light on
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if I go to your house at night
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and you got some big light on I'm leaving I am
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an ambient light lover like you got a sconce a lamp
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a little light for a reason Like turn them on stop
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turning the big lights on Ain't nobody want their house to
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feel like a gas station at 2 a.m am like turn
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that lamp on how it feels switching apps to talk to
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the same person okay we got one conversation going on here
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and at this door we got another conversation going on this
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is literally me with all my friends i talk to everybody through instagram like
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if my friends message me on instagram i will reply faster
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then i will get to their text like for text you
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gotta wait three to five business days instagram immediate responses
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and that's where we send all our memes that's like a
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whole different conversation than the text conversation it's like two different worlds 10 year old me for no reason.
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You know, why did we all do this?
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Every time we see a face, the need to trace over it or just graffiti, random things in a textbook or a newspaper,
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you know, especially if you're like talking to somebody or talking on the phone or like listening to somebody talk, it just gives you an urge to doodle.
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You know, even if you've never drawn anything before in your life.
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And if there's a pen and I have to listen to someone, I'm gonna do a little doodle.
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A little scribble if you will.
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I just accidentally closed the tab.
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I intended to read two years ago.
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Oh no!
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Nah, bro!
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I swear I was gonna read it.
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Today was gonna be the day that I read it.
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And then you click off and you'll never find that link again.
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It's no longer your search history.
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It's gone.
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You know if you weren't gonna read it the past two years And I think it's time to let it go.
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Let it go Let it go.
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The closed tab can't hurt you anymore It doesn't even rhyme.
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What am I singing?
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I'm on three hours of sleep.
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You know we keep in this low energy today
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POV my mind when I eat other people's food Who is seasoning their chicken in the sink?
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This is terrifying.
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I am not eating at anybody's house that I do not trust with my life.
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Also, who cooking cat?
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This has got to be an original experience.
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Girl, I have never dined at somebody's house, took a bite of something, and wondered if it is the meat of a household pet.
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Absolutely not.
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But like, anybody who does this needs to go to jail.
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No, no, no, somebody's dirty hands touched my face.
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Kill them.
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Oh, okay, good.
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He's dead.
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Nope, nope, you can't put your face.
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You can't put your face on a pillow.
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Sleep on your back.
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Bro, not the girlfriend.
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No, the girlfriend and the boyfriend are the exception to this.
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But also, like, as somebody who had acne most of their life, this is so real.
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Like, do not touch my face.
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Like, I am so weird about things and people touching my face.
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Phones, no. If I talk on the phone, it'll be like this.
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If I sleep on an unknown pillow that's not my silk pillowcase, I gotta sleep on the back of my head or sleep so that only my ear is on it.
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Also, do not touch my face.
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I don't care if you're French, you wanna do a nice to meet you, like do not touch my face.
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I will break out.
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I finally cleared my skin.
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Thank you, South Korea.
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I don't care if you just wash your hands, like do not touch my face.
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When you push on your eyes too hard.
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And you know what universe am I in?
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Like you rub your eyes a little too hard and you're in another dimension.
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I have a feeling this might be a symptom being severely dehydrated
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because it doesn't always happen it's always
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when you're dehydrated oh reminder to drink up
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because I've been dehydrated all day POV
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or cooking chicken wash hands wash hands wash arms the entire person yes make sure to get your face
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and your hair real good I don't know what it is about cooking chicken
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but every step of the way just feels filthy about raw chicken I love chicken when it's cooked,
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but handling it raw it just feels Gross like nobody wants salmonella fingers not only the chicken,
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but the chicken tray also feels filthy Like I gotta wash
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my hands in between every step You know there's people
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that do this and then people who wash their chicken and season it in the sink choose your fighter
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Parents as soon as somebody mentions the word stress.
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I'm so stressed out You've never done a hot day's work in your life to know what stress is!
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Yeah, they're literally gatekeeping stress.
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They invented stress by having you.
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They know all about it.
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Don't even try to outstress them.
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This has got to be a universal experience where parents stress mog you.
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Like, nobody can outtown have more stress than me.
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I'm stressed all the time.
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You're just a kid, so you won't understand!
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Yeah, it's always you're just a kid.
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You won't understand.
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You don't have the burden of real adult stress.
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POV, when you're trying to sleep and you randomly think of something that needs to be Googled.
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Who called up?
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No, you're not supposed to.
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When it's bedtime, you're in bed, you're not supposed to check your phone.
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Checking your phone will ruin your sleep.
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And if it doesn't, congratulations, you must be God's favorite.
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Because if I pick up my phone and I look at it, within an hour of sleeping, I will not be able to sleep.
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Or I'll randomly wake up at 3 a.m.
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And I won't be able to sleep until 5 a.m.
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So yes, phone in bed, no good.
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POV, you want to enter the bathroom, but you have food in your mouth.
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Yeah, absolutely not.
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This food is not going to make it into the room with the poo-poo particles floating around.
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Because what if they get into my mouth and into the food I'm eating?
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Like that's toilet air.
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Yeah, toilet air is a real thing.
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And it's disgusting.
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Like this is why you don't bring food into the bathroom.
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Even if you just walk in with a Six Peaks chicken nugget, It's something about the poopoo particles floating around in the air
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and they will attach onto the chicken and ruin it This is very real very relatable.
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No, smash that like button
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if you do not eat in a bathroom I do not eat in a bathroom unless it's a party
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and it's very fancy and clean.
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I'll eat a french fry in the back I don't care
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but in a public toilet absolutely not me blocking randoms on my for you page because their video irritated me
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Wait what people actually do this?
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You know when you're watching a random video it gives you the option to pick interested
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or not interested This dude just taking it to the ninth level like no,
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it's actually so bad I'm blocking you so that we never have the misfortune of interacting ever again.
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You won't be able to see me I won't be able to see you, but you know, I love the block button.
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It's like as soon as you click it Poof you're gone.
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You don't exist in my universe anymore banished to the shadow realm.
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It's pretty awesome Like I never understood why people take time
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out of their day to leave a nasty comment like literally just block you hate something
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so much You never want to see it again and make it want to disappear.
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Look very effective When your face ID won't work, so you got to pull this move I you'll lock in real quick
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And it never works with glasses for some reason like me as soon as I wake up out of bed like
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Lock in no one iPhone for no reason Oh, I wonder who that could be.
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Wait a second.
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No notifications?
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Why did you just vibrate then?
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Who's trying to reach me?
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What could it be?
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Like, who?
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Like, it's so suspicious.
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It's like, hey, you haven't checked me in a while.
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Just kidding.
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Does anyone have an explanation for this?
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Is my CIA agent trying to contact me?
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She's trying to send me a little message?
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Yeah, just to remind you that they're watching.
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When coloring is taking too long, so I pull this move.
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Oh, oh.
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Okay, okay, you know what?
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I'll let him cook.
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Someone cooked here.
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You know, if only there was the paint bucket fill button in real life.
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Click the bucket to fill.
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I thought, what are you filling in?
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Are you trying to color an entire poster board blue?
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It's the kind of nonsense school projects got us up to.
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Anything besides using the chicken hand.
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Yeah, I know.
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Once you touch the chicken, you can't touch anything else.
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This is the real thing.
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It's making me feel seen.
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Because every time I handle chicken, I put on my lunch lady gloves.
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And then I take off the gloves to season the chicken.
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I'm pretty sure it's illegal in most people's minds to handle raw chicken and then touch the lid of the seasoning.
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Like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. You gotta open up the seasoning first, then touch the chicken, wash your hands, and then season.
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No, there will be no cross-contamination.
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No salmonella salt shaker.
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This is 100% valid.
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How I feel when instead of taking a screenshot, I end up turning off my phone.
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Unk.
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Auntie, unk, unk, unk.
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Yeah, because why do I feel so stupid?
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You know, it's got me feeling real funny ever since they combined all of these.
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Like you go to screenshot and then end up- Oh, okay, okay, okay.
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Oh, never mind.
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POV, reading a recipe.
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One tablespoon baking powder.
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Wait a second, wait a second, wait a second.
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What did that say again?
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One tablespoon.
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It's a tablespoon.
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It says tablespoon.
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T-B-S-P, a tablespoon.
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Yes, making sure, yes.
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One tablespoon baking powder.
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I'm gonna put it in.
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I'm gonna put it in my recipe.
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It better say I'm checking it.
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I checked it again.
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Santa made a list.
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He checked it once.
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He checked it twice.
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He checked it.
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The rice is still safe Tablespoon, right?
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No, no, no. Actually, it was baking soda Did you really put baking powder you stupid idiot baking powder?
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Literally me anytime there's baking powder and baking soda.
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Also, what is the difference even you know It really helps me
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that they come in such different containers like baking soda is the one they put in the fridge
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But also you sprinkle it on chicken wings to make them
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crispy you sprinkle it on beef to make it more tender How does
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that even make sense
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and the baking powder is everything else baking powders for the
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baking baking soda it doesn't even make sense as a gamer every time i go out
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and drink it's like i pay for parking i buy drinks
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spend like a hundred plus dollars i'm like dang i really
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could have that's at least three four night skins two video games
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and stay at home and be comfortable
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but no i want to go touch grass
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and socialize huh you know you could socialize on the game with this yeah i did
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that for way too Now I go out and sometimes it's worth it.
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I thought she was gonna say something else I thought she was gonna be like well, that's at least one two three four four fortnight skins I could have bought a battle pass with the dinner money,
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but socializing in real life is very important It's good to
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have friends in real life as well as on the game Getting ready to store the Christmas tree for another year
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Go back into the box you came in Oh, a box is a box.
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As long as you got duct tape, it's holding it in place.
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I am not paying $45 for one of these.
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If I got a perfectly good box to fit my Christmas tree.
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I just got $550 worth of groceries because we're not eating out in 2026.
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Except for today because I already did groceries, so I can't do groceries and cook on the same day.
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Like, that doesn't...
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You can't do both.
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Bro, you literally spent $500 on groceries.
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The whole point is to cook.
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No, we spent all day getting groceries.
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We don't have time to cook.
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You know, sometimes you just get so exhausted from the grocery shopping.
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Like, you gotta pick the things off the shelf, put them in the cart, pick them out of the cart, scan them, pay for them, bag the items, and then take the bags, put it back in the cart,
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take the cart to your car, unload the groceries, and then when you go home, unload the groceries again from the cart and into your fridge.
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It's a lot.
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I will say, it's a lot.
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A serious effort was made.
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I think you deserve a little treat.
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Also, I'm gonna tell you now, I don't think this is a very effective way of doing
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it like buying a ton of groceries at the beginning of the week.
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Like this is how things go bad.
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I actually go to the grocery store almost every day.
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I want to get food for today or for the next two days just
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so I'm not buying a ton of food and things don't go bad.
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So I'm not wasting.
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For dinner, like I'll just buy food for lunch and dinner today and lunch and dinner tomorrow.
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Easy.
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When you're washing the dishes and start itching everywhere.
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Like, oh, I can't, I can't itch this itch.
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My eyeball, my eyelash, my belly button.
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No, no, there's nothing you can do about it.
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It's always when your hands are not available for itching you get the most itches crazy how that works
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POV those MFers when you start the other day.
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I was like point of work and then
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Literally digital next whenever I stutter around them I don't know what it is sometimes my brain just like malfunctions
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that I just start like stuttering random words Especially
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when I'm recording a video with him
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and I have to do my intro like six and a half times I tried meal prep again.
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I ate all six meals in just one day
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Diaries of a big back I mean hey at least the
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meal prepping worked like you meal prep for breakfast breakfast lunch lunch and dinner
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and dinner Yay now make more food next time the size
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of my chicken breast after cutting off all the pieces that give me the egg
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This is exactly my issue with chicken every time I'm cutting it up There's always
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that one piece on the breast where the breast and the tender can join.
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That's like No way that thing gotta go if it's not pure meat is gotta go But anyways, that's all for today.
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I hope you guys enjoyed this video If you did make sure to hit that like button and up
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And subscribe to the wolf pack I love you guys so much thanks for watching bye guys
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “TikToks That Are Actually Relatable”. This video has 316 sentences and 3263 words to shadow. The speech runs for 15:58. The speaker talks fast, about 204 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 83% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| bake verb | /beɪk/ | To cook (something) in an oven (for someone). |
| groceries noun | /ˈɡɹoʊ.s(ə.)ɹiz/ | Retail foodstuffs and other household supplies; the commodities sold by a grocer or in a grocery store. |
| tablespoon noun | /ˈteɪbəlˌspun/ | A large spoon, used for eating food from a bowl. |
| itch noun | /ɪt͡ʃ/ | A sensation felt on an area of the skin that causes a person or animal to want to scratch said area. |
| cart noun | /kɑɹt/ | A small, open, wheeled vehicle, drawn or pushed by a person or animal, often with two wheels on one axle, more often used for transporting goods than… |
| dehydrate verb | /diːhaɪˈdɹeɪt/ | To remove water from; to dry up. |
| soda noun | /ˈsoʊdə/ | Sodium bicarbonate. |
| carton noun | /ˈkɑɹtn̩/ | An inexpensive, disposable box-like container fashioned from either paper, paper with wax-covering (wax paper), or other lightweight material. |
| socialize verb | /ˈsoʊʃəlaɪz/ | To interact with others, especially personally, informally and off the clock rather than formally and officially. |
| randomly adverb | /ˈɹændm̩li/ | In a random manner. |
| needle noun | /ˈniː.dəl/ | A long, thin, sharp implement usually for piercing as in sewing, embroidery, acupuncture, tattooing, body piercing, medical injections, sutures, etc; or a… |
| doodle noun | /ˈdud(ə)l/ | A small mindless sketch, etc. |
| preposition noun | /ˌpɹɛpəˈzɪʃən/ | Any of a class of non-inflecting words and multiword terms typically employed to connect a following noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense… |
| relatable adjective | [ɹɪˈleɪ.tə.bɫ̩] | Able to be related to something else; connected with. |
| salmonella noun | /ˌsæl.məˈnɛ.lə/ | Any of the serotypes of the two species of rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella, especially Salmonella enterica, that cause typhoid fever and… |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| end up verb | To bring to a conclusion. | |
| go out verb | To leave, especially a building. | |
| break out verb | To escape, especially forcefully or defiantly. | |
| call up verb | To retrieve from personal or computer memory. | |
| check out verb | To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.). | |
| come out verb | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | To be discovered; to be revealed. |
| cut off verb | /ˌkʌt ˈɔf/ [ˌkɐɾ ˈɔf] | To remove by cutting. |
| drink up verb | To drink completely; to finish (one's drink). |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- Although, what do you guys think of my hair?
- I like it, but what do you guys think?
- What's wrong with you?
- Who's trying to reach me?
- She's trying to send me a little message?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result | If I talk on the phone, it'll be |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | you've never drawn · have never dined · I've been dehydrated |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | was dehydrated · I've been dehydrated · be Googled |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | anybody who does · somebody who had · people who wash |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 110 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, you're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: filthy /ˈfɪlθi/, ninth /naɪnθ/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: socialize /ˈsoʊʃəlaɪz/, preposition /ˌpɹɛpəˈzɪʃən/, screenshot /ˈskriːn.ʃɑt/, banish /ˈbænɪʃ/, eyelash /ˈaɪlæʃ/
- Long words — get the stress right: preposition /ˌpɹɛpəˈzɪʃən/, salmonella /ˌsæl.məˈnɛ.lə/, contamination /kənˌtæm.əˈneɪ.ʃən/, notification /ˌnoʊtɪfɪˈkeɪʃn̩/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× 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 bake, groceries, tablespoon.
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.