Shadowing Practice: TOEFL Speaking - Listen and Repeat Practice Test (2026 version) - Learn English Speaking with Video
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I understood every word she said.
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I still couldn't say it back.
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That's the comment I see most under the speaking videos on this channel, and it's a fair description of what this task does to people.
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You understood the sentence and understanding it was never the hard part.
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The hard part is holding all of it in your head for a few seconds and handing it back with nothing missing.
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Let's find out where your limit actually is.
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I'm gonna say one sentence once, don't write anything when the timer starts say it back out loud.
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Students who finish the tour early can wait for the group near the side entrance.
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14 words.
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If you lost anything, I'd bet it was the end near the site entrance or an article.
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Welcome to the TOEFL test with Lerina channel.
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If you're aiming for a high score on the TOEFL, this channel is for you.
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Subscribe so the next practice session lands on your feed.
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Grab some water and find a room where you can talk out loud because this only works if you actually speak.
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Speaking is the last section on the 2026 test.
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It's about eight minutes long and it holds 11 questions across two tasks.
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7 of those 11 questions are listen and repeat and the other 4 are the interview.
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On test day, it runs like this.
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You get a short scenario, something like, you're learning to work at a bookshop.
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Listen to your manager and repeat what she says.
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Then 7 sentences arrive one at a time.
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You hear each one exactly once.
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There's no reading at first, there's no preparation time at all and a clock on screen tells you how long you have to speak.
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The sentences start short and get longer as you go.
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For this training video, I'm fixing every window at 10 seconds
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so you settle into a rhythm and stop thinking about the clock.
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One more thing before round one, the sentence stays hidden while you speak, exactly like the real task.
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It only appears afterwards, so you can check yourself.
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Don't read ahead, you'll be cheating your own practice.
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Let's warm up.
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All six sentences belong to the same scenario because that's how the real task works.
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You're being trained at the campus library and the supervisor is showing you around, so repeat what she says.
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The library opens at 8.
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Quiet study rooms are upstairs.
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speakers.
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Please keep your voice down in here.
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Laptops are available at the front desk.
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Return your books to the counter by the door.
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Printing costs 10 cents per page for students.
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That should have felt slow.
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And the 10 seconds probably felt long.
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Remember that feeling because in four rounds, these get close to 20 words and the same 10 seconds will feel like nothing at all.
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Let's go back to number six for a second.
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Printing costs 10 cents per page for students.
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Say it out loud right now and listen to yourself.
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Did you say costs or cost, cents or sent, students or student?
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I'm not being fussy here because the published scoring guide for this task is specific about it.
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For the maximum score of five, you have to repeat the sentence exactly as it is and the guide lists what drops you to a four.
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One of those things is markers of tense, aspect or number, missing or incorrect,
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which is the grammar name for the S on the end of costs and the S on the end of students.
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So a sentence you heard perfectly, understood perfectly, and gave back with every idea intact can still cost you a point
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because of one consonant nobody ever taught you to listen for.
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There are two ways to fix it.
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When you repeat, finish the word and don't let your voice fade out on the last sound.
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And when you check yourself afterwards, read your answer against the sentence one word at a time instead of skimming it for meaning,
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because your brain will happily forgive an ending that your score won't.
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Real quick, because there's something coming in round three that round one didn't touch.
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A word you've never heard before is much harder to hold on to, and that's the trap in this task.
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Somebody says deliveries are unloaded behind the loading bay, and if loading bay is new to you, your brain stops for half a second to work it out, and the back half of the sentence is gone.
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Your memory did nothing wrong.
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One piece of vocabulary took the sentence down with it.
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That's why Anastasia, our teacher at LinguaTrip, built topic vocabulary lists for the course instead of a giant word dump.
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Campus buildings, health, transport, technology, the environment, the topics this test actually keeps returning to with the words
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worth knowing pulled out for each one you learn the ones
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that pay not a thousand flash cards and
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because you're watching this we're giving you free access
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so you can try it before you decide anything click the link in the description
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and you get 20 tasks from the new 2026 format completely
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free on the lingua tofl platform 20 tasks no payment the part
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that matters for today you speak your answer hit submit and And within seconds, the AI scores it on grammar, vocabulary, structure, and content.
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That's a thing you genuinely cannot do for yourself in this task.
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Your own ears fill in the words you meant to say.
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The scoring doesn't.
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If you want the whole program, the complete Lingua TOEFL course has Anastasia's detailed lessons for every task type,
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Okay, back to the drill.
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New scenario now and the sentences get a little longer.
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You're training at the front desk of a residence hall and your manager is running through the basics.
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Your room key also opens the side entrance.
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Packages are held here for up to 5 days.
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The laundry machines are down in the basement.
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Please report any maintenance problems to the front desk.
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Guests have to sign in before 9 at night.
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The elevator on the left is out of service today.
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Around nine or ten words most people are still comfortable.
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Somewhere past that it stops being comfortable and the way you listen has to change.
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That's the next tip.
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Most people listen to the entire sentence, wait politely for it to finish and only then start trying to remember it.
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By At that point the beginning is already fading and the longer the sentence the worse it gets.
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So do the opposite.
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Break the sentence into small groups of three or four words
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while you're still listening and repeat each group silently in your head as soon as you hear it.
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While she's saying the elevator on the left is out of service today, you're not waiting.
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You hear the elevator, you echo it.
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On the left, echo.
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Is out of service, echo.
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Today, echo.
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Four little groups, each one rehearsed once before she'd even finished the sentence.
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When the timer starts, you're not recalling a sentence from cold, you're replaying four things you already said.
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The sentence also comes out sounding more natural because those groups are where a native speaker would put the pauses anyway.
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Do it deliberately through the whole of round three.
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It feels clumsy for the first two sentences and then it starts to feel normal.
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This time you're volunteering at the campus greenhouse and the head gardener is briefing you.
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Break every sentence into groups of three or four words while you listen.
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Please stay on the marked path while you walk through the greenhouse.
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The tropical room is kept warm, so bring a lighter jacket.
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it.
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Do not touch the plants unless a staff member asks you to.
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Watering happens early in the morning, well before we open.
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Volunteers meet every Saturday to help with planting and repotting.
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If you have allergies, the flowering room might bother you a little.
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Number 17 is the one I check, planting and repotting.
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If repotting was a new word for you, watch what it did to the rest of the sentence.
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When a word disappears on you, the instinct is to stop.
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You don't want to say something wrong, so you say nothing and wait for the next sentence.
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I understand why.
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It's the single most expensive thing you can do in this task.
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And the scoring guide shows you exactly how expensive.
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To lose only one point, down at a four, you're allowed to have a content word missing on a longer sentence or replaced with a related word.
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Replaced.
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You can put a different sensible word in the gap and still sit one band off the top.
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And the guide describes a two almost exactly like that freeze.
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The speaker repeats the first part of the sentence then stops.
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So guessing puts you at a four and stopping puts you at a two for the same missing word.
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So when repotting vanishes, you don't stop.
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You say planting and replanting or planting and potting
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or you go straight past it
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and land the rest of the sentence clean keep the sentence moving
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and get to the end of it
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because a wrong word inside a finished sentence costs you one band
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and an unfinished sentence costs you three in round four nothing
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gets skipped whatever happens these are longer than anything the real test will give you
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and that's deliberate you're working the box office add to the campus theater on an opening night.
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Tickets bought online can be picked up at this window on the night of the show.
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Students get a discount, so remind them to have their identification card ready.
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If a performance sells out, we start a waiting list about an hour before it begins.
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Latecomers are seated during the first break, not while the play is running.
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Please remind every guest that recording during the performance is not allowed.
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Season passes can be bought here at the office or renewed over the phone.
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Number 21 is where a lot of people trip because it holds two separate details, sells out and an hour before it begins.
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And the second one usually survives at the cost of the first.
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Something in round four probably came out wrong halfway through and you kept going anyway.
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Or you stopped and restarted the sentence and felt like you'd wrecked it.
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You didn't.
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The description of a four says it plainly.
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The speaker may self -correct, but successfully completes the response.
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Fixing yourself out loud is written into the scoring as acceptable.
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So if your two words into latecomers are seated during the first play,
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and you hear yourself say the first break and carry on.
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Don't restart the whole sentence, you'll run out of clock.
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Don't apologize, there's nobody listening in real time.
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Correct the word and keep moving to the end because finishing is what's being measured.
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The one thing to avoid is the loop where you go back to the beginning three times and never reach the end.
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An unfinished sentence is the expensive outcome here, not a repaired one.
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Last six, and these are the hardest sentences in the video.
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Up to 19 words each.
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You're at the campus bike shop and the manager is training you on the rental desk.
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Any student with a valid campus card can borrow a bike for up to three days at no cost.
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Repairs that take more than an hour are usually finished by the following afternoon.
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So take a phone number.
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Helmets are included with every rental and we ask that people return them with the bike.
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Because the workshop gets busy on weekends, we tell people to book a repair earlier in the week.
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If a bike is damaged while you have it, bring it back and tell a mechanic what happened.
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Students who leave their bicycles locked to the railings outside the main entrance may find them removed by staff.
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That's 30.
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The last one was 19 words with a relative clause buried in the front of it,
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it, and a real seventh sentence on test day usually runs somewhere around 12 to 15 words.
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So everything you just did was harder than what's coming.
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You can remember all 19 words and still not get the five because the top band asks for two separate things,
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an exact repetition and a response that is fully intelligible.
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Down at three, the guide describes a speaker who struggles over a word
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or phrase or runs words together and says that reduces intelligibility.
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Nobody in that description forgot anything.
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They rushed.
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The words melted into each other and it cost them.
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Look back at round five for this one because long sentences make everyone speed up.
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You've got 10 seconds and 18 words.
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You panic slightly and you compress.
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The fix is boring and it works.
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Start speaking a beat later than feels comfortable then hold an
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even pace all the way through the last word instead of sprinting the first half
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and mumbling the end that's the last tip
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so let's run the full task now you're being trained to
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help visitors at a campus science center listen to your trainer and repeat what he says
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The main entrance is on your right.
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Our planetarium show starts every hour.
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door.
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Coats and large bags can be left near the door.
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Hands -on exhibits for younger visitors are on the lower floor.
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Add guided tours, leave from this desk at 11 and again at 2.
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Staff here can help with directions, timings, and group bookings.
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If a visitor asks about the telescope, mention our evening viewing sessions on the roof.
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That's the full task done.
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Now let's score it honestly
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because a number you can actually track is worth a lot more than a feeling about how it went.
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Go through it sentence by sentence.
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If you gave it back word for word and it was clear, that's a five.
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If the meaning survived but a small word slipped
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or an ending went missing or you swapped in a near word or you fixed yourself on the way through, that's a four.
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If most of the idea is there
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but a couple of real content words are wrong or gone or the words ran together, that's a three.
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If you got the opening and then trailed off, that's a two.
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The pattern in your own answers matters more than the total.
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If you're getting fours everywhere, your memory is fine and your endings are leaking.
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So go back to tip one.
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If the long ones are twos, you're freezing.
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So go back to tip three and make yourself finish every sentence for a week, even when it comes out wrong.
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And check yourself with something other than your own ears
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because your ears are on your side and they'll hear the word you meant to say
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record yourself and play it back
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or say your answer into any text tool your phone's dictation is fine read what what appears on
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that screen is a lot closer to what a rater hears
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than what you think you said 10 minutes a day for
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two weeks will move this more than almost anything else you could do with the time
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because it's a small mechanical skill and it responds fast If you want Anastasia's detailed speaking lessons with her example, answers for both task types,
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promo code LINGUA MARINA takes $20 off the course.
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Link in the description.
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Subscribe!
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We publish two videos every week, and post your number out of 30 in the comments.
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I want to see where everyone landed.
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Bye for now.
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What You'll Learn from This Practice
This video is a goldmine for building two key speaking skills: short-term memory retention and exact replication. You’ll train your brain to hold 10–20 word sentences in your head for a few seconds and repeat them flawlessly—critical for TOEFL, IELTS speaking practice, or any real-world scenario where you need to echo instructions. Plus, you’ll learn to catch tiny details like verb tenses (e.g., "costs" vs. "cost") and pluralization ("students" vs. "student")—mistakes that can drop your score, even if you’re close. It’s not just about speaking; it’s about speaking accurately.
Listen For These Sounds: Connected Speech Clues
The video’s sentences are packed with everyday connected speech patterns. Notice how "10 cents per page" flows into "ten-cents-per-page" with minimal pauses—linking is key here. You might also hear reductions, like "it’s" instead of "it is" or "you’re" for "you are," which are common in natural English. These subtle sounds are easy to miss, but catching them will make your shadowing practice (and real conversations) sound more native. For example, "Printing costs 10 cents per page for students" doesn’t have hard stops between words—listen closely, and you’ll hear how "costs 10" blends smoothly.
Say It Like a Native: Rhythm and Stress Tips
To mirror the speaker’s rhythm, focus on stress. In "Quiet study rooms are upstairs," the stress falls on "Quiet," "study," "rooms," and "upstairs"—these words stand out, while "are" is soft. The 10-second timer might feel long at first, but as sentences get longer (up to 20 words!), you’ll need to keep that steady pace. Practice stressing the right words and keeping unstressed ones short—this is how native speakers make even long sentences sound natural. And don’t rush! The video’s warm-up sentences are slow for a reason: mastering rhythm first makes faster speech easier. Whether you’re using this as a shadowing site or just practicing alone, remember: it’s not about speed—it’s about matching the speaker’s flow.
Ready to level up your english speaking practice? This video is more than a test prep tool—it’s a chance to build skills that work for TOEFL, IELTS, or everyday conversations. Grab some water, find a quiet space, and hit play—your future self (and your score) will thank you!
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.