Shadowing Practice: Timothée Chalamet - "Miss Stevens" award winning monologue - Learn English Speaking with Video
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You're gonna hear the truth.
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What you are, and what I am.
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We never told the truth for ten minutes in this house.
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Well, hear this, Willie.
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This is me.
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You wanna know why I had no address for three months?
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It's cause I stole a suit in Kansas City, and I was in jail.
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I stole myself out of every good job since high school, and I never got anywhere.
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Because you blew me so full of hot air, I could never stand taking orders from anybody.
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That's whose fault it is.
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It's goddamn time you heard that, Pop.
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I ran down eleven flights with a pen in my hand today.
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Suddenly I stopped.
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You hear me?
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And in the middle of that office building...
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Do you hear this?
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I stopped in the middle of the building, and I saw...
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the sky.
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You know, I saw all the things that I love in this world.
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Just the work and the food.
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Time to just sit in smoke.
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I looked at the pen and I thought to myself, what the hell am I grabbing this for, huh?
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Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be?
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What am I doing in an office making a contemptuous, begging fool of myself when all that I want is out there,
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waiting for me the second I say I know who I am.
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Why can't I say that, Willie?
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Pop, look at me.
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I'm a dime a dozen.
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And so are you.
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I'm not a leader of men, Willie.
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And neither are you.
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You were never anything but a hard-working drummer who landed in the ash can like all the rest of them. And me?
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I'm a dollar an hour, Willie.
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I tried seven states.
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I couldn't raise it.
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One buck an hour.
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Do you gather my meaning, huh?
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I'm not bringing home prizes.
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Anymore.
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And you gotta stop waiting for me to bring them home, Pop.
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I'm nothing.
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I'm just what I am.
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That's all.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 43 sentences and 337 words to shadow. The speech runs for 2:56. The speaker talks at a steady 115 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. Only 80% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| steal verb | /stiːl/ | To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else without intending to return it. |
| gather verb | /ˈɡæðɚ/ | To collect normally separate things. |
| eleven noun | /əˈlɛv.ən/ | A cricket team of eleven players. Hence first eleven - the team of best cricket players (at a school), second eleven - the "B" team, etc. |
| buck noun | /ˈbʌk/ | A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret, salmonid, shad, skunk and kangaroo. |
| drummer noun | /ˈdɹʌmɚ/ | One who plays the drums. |
| dime noun | /daɪm/ | A coin worth one-tenth of a dollar, that is, ten cents. |
| contemptuous adjective | /kənˈtɛmp.t͡ʃu.əs/ | Showing contempt; expressing disdain; showing a lack of respect. |
| suddenly adverb | /ˈsʌd.ən.li/ | Happening quickly and with little or no warning; in a sudden manner. |
| smoke verb | /sməʊk/ | To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette or cigar, burning material in a pipe, etc. |
| fault noun | /fɔlt/ | Culpability; the responsibility for a blameworthy event. |
| jail noun | /d͡ʒeɪl/ | A place or institution for the confinement of persons held against their will in lawful custody or detention, especially (in US usage) a place where people are… |
| blow verb | /bloʊ/ | To produce an air current. |
| dollar noun | /ˈdɑ.lɚ/ | Official designation for currency in some parts of the world, including Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, and elsewhere… |
| prize noun | /ˈpɹaɪ̯z/ | That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power. |
| anybody | /ˈɛn.i.bə.di/ | Any one out of an indefinite number of persons; anyone; any person. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| run down verb | To hit someone with a car or other vehicle and injure or kill them. |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 13 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, can't, couldn't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- Long words — get the stress right: contemptuous /kənˈtɛmp.t͡ʃu.əs/, anybody /ˈɛn.i.bə.di/
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 steal, gather, eleven.
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.