Shadowing Practice: Timothée Chalamet: What It Means To Make British Vogue History | In Conversation - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Timothy, lovely to see you.
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Lovely to see you.
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Cheers.
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We're in a diner.
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Do you cook?
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I can make breakfast.
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I can make a good deviled eggs.
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Do you make French food?
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I can eat ratatouille.
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I can eat French food.
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I'm not a great cook.
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That's something that I think, as I adultify, that would be a good thing to get good at.
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Do you cook?
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No. Really?
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I can barely boil an egg.
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Okay.
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How do you boil an egg?
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Two minutes, hard boil, soft, I think.
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So you're back in your hometown, New York.
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How does it feel?
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It feels good to see the city back to life.
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First real summer here in two years.
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Happy to be home, happy to be with family and friends.
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What have you been in the past two years?
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California, Hungary, going back to Hungary now, England, Kentucky, Ohio, Nebraska, a little bit everywhere.
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How many movies have you made in that period?
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I guess three.
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I had a small part in Don't Look Up.
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And then I did a film with Luca, Bones and all.
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And then I shot Wonka, which is a Willy Wonka origin story.
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I just finished that in London.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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What do you do on your days off?
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Right now, just trying to reconnect with old friends.
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It's hard trying to hit the pause button.
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Hello, Jigs.
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Thank you.
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Mmm, this looks delicious.
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How did you choose these incredible roles?
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I feel like early on in my career, I just wanted to work on things that were great, regardless of the size of the role.
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And that often meant working with a great director.
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I guess I'm trying to go where it's not obvious to go.
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And I feel Wonka is symptomatic of that.
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My teeth are okay.
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My teeth are perfect.
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Let's see.
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You're the first man to be on the cover of a British Vogue.
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And I remember for me it was a no-brainer.
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It's a no-brainer.
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It's like, who is it who sort of represents now?
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Who is sort of loved by people of all ages?
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And somebody who was so first and great at the idea of imagery and translating characters.
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And it was you.
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The way you responded to Bones and all, and the way that the styling of the shoe was inspired by that.
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It was inspired, yeah.
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We're a women's magazine, so to have a guy be in it, it's always like the fantasy, isn't it?
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Because the reality is you deal with women's wear every day.
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Right.
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But we got women's wear in there, too.
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Oh, I mean, we do practically all women's wear.
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But the beauty of the shoe, what I loved about it was it wasn't male, it wasn't female.
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What I loved, you were able to go like, let's go, I feel good in this.
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So now that we're talking about fashion, you have such an innate sense of style.
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Who are your style icons?
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Who were your style icons growing up then and now?
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That's a delicate question, not to give you a pretentious answer back, but there was no one I feel like I revered.
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I've always loved the idea that, you know, you can appropriately express yourself through clothes.
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I saw you on the red carpet of the Oscars and you killed it.
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Thank you.
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Your choices are so incredible.
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I know you have great relationships with people like Tom Ford and Hyder Ackerman.
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What's your process?
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What's great with like Hyder or Tom Ford, as you said, is they're so personal to the process of choosing.
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You know, they're not handing me something.
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Same thing with Virgil Abloh.
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I'm spoiled in that these are the best designers in the world too, obviously.
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But fashion is something that's always been so fun to me.
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So let's go back to Wonka.
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You filmed it in England.
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Did you pick up any English accents?
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No, I wish.
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No, no, no, no. Because the thing about being a British accent, some people can just crush it.
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I will say there's this TV show Pistol, the Sex Pistol TV show.
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I'm loving it.
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It's hard for me to get into TV things.
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It's hard for me to get hooked into TV things, and that one fully hooked me.
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What do you hope to be doing in ten years' time?
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I know it's a bit...
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Oh, what a question.
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Anywhere good.
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Hopefully life takes me where God sees fit.
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You're on such a trajectory in your acting career in the fashion world.
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Is there anything that you'd like to achieve that you haven't so far?
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No, and a wise man once said, if you want God to laugh at your plans, say them out loud.
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So, I have some things, but I think the scary thing about achieving more success in acting or...
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Fashion's fun, so I don't look at it like that, but I'm weary of vanity projects in any direction.
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I fear the thing where it's like, oh, that guy did good at acting, so now he's doing very mediocre at this other thing, you know?
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What about you?
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Where do you want to be in 10 years?
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Happy, healthy, and, you know, still enjoying what I'm doing, hopefully.
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I've got a last question for you.
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Okay.
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How does it feel to be the first man on the cover of British Star?
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Extraordinary, man.
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Thank you.
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And weird and just an honor.
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Like you said, it's my process.
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I don't know what the process is here.
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I've seen interviews with Rihanna before, or, you know, Billie Eilish or Lady Gaga or whoever.
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It's, you know...
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You know what you all have in common?
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You all represent the zeitgeist, a moment in history, a moment in time.
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So when somebody looks back in 10 years or 20 years, they'll be like, oh my God, these were the people who represented that time.
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It's that easy, that simple.
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Wow, that's scary as fuck.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “Timothée Chalamet: What It Means To Make British Vogue History”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: Wonka, loved, process. This video has 116 sentences and 1009 words to shadow. The speech runs for 4:37. The speaker talks fast, about 219 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 84% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start. 24 of its 116 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| boil verb | /bɔɪ(ə)l/ | To heat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas. |
| brainer noun | /bɹeɪ.nə(ɹ)/ | someone with a certain type of brain |
| inspire verb | /ɪnˈspaɪə(ɹ)/ | To infuse into the mind; to communicate to the spirit; to convey, as by a divine or supernatural influence; to disclose preternaturally; to produce in, as by… |
| accent noun | /ækˈsɛnt/ | A higher-pitched or stronger (louder or longer) articulation of a particular syllable of a word or phrase in order to distinguish it from the others or to… |
| icon noun | /ˈaɪ.kɑn/ | An image, symbol, picture, portrait, or other representation, usually as an object of religious devotion. |
| adultify verb | To treat a non-adult like an adult. | |
| innate adjective | /ɪˈneɪt/ | Inborn; existing or having existed since birth. |
| pretentious adjective | /pɹɪˈtɛn.ʃəs/ | Motivated by an inappropriate, excessive, or unjustified desire to impress others. |
| ratatouille noun | /ɹæt.əˈtuː.i/ | A traditional French Provençal stewed vegetable dish consisting primarily of tomatoes, zucchini and eggplant. |
| reconnect verb | /ˌɹiː.kəˈnɛkt/ | To connect again or differently. |
| revere verb | /ɹɪˈvɪə(ɹ)/ | To regard someone or something with great awe or devotion. |
| symptomatic adjective | /ˌsɪmp.təˈmæt.ɪk/ | Showing symptoms. |
| zeitgeist noun | /ˈzaɪtˌɡaɪst/ | The spirit of the age; the taste, outlook, and spirit characteristic of a period. |
| mediocre adjective | /ˌmidiˈoʊkəɹ/ | Not excellent or outstanding, usually disappointingly so. |
| weary adjective | /ˈwɪɚi/ | Having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; tired; fatigued. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| go back to verb | To stem from; to originate in. | |
| grow up verb | To mature and become an adult. | |
| look up verb | /ˌlʊk ˈʌp/ | To have better prospects. |
| pick up verb | To lift; to grasp and raise. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- How do you boil an egg?
- What have you been in the past two years?
- How many movies have you made in that period?
- What do you do on your days off?
- How did you choose these incredible roles?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | Wonka, which is · somebody who was · people who represented |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | I've always loved · I've seen |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | was inspired |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 26 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, I've. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: timothy /ˈtɪməθi/, cloth /klɒθ/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: pretentious /pɹɪˈtɛn.ʃəs/, crush /kɹʌʃ/
- Long words — get the stress right: ratatouille /ɹæt.əˈtuː.i/, symptomatic /ˌsɪmp.təˈmæt.ɪk/, mediocre /ˌmidiˈoʊkəɹ/, trajectory /tɹəˈd͡ʒɛktəɹi/, practically /ˈpɹæk.tɪ.k(ə.)li/
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 boil, brainer, inspire.
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.