Shadowing Practice: TRUE definition of HOME : Jay Shetty and Trevor Noah 🏠 - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Do you still feel attached to a sense of home?
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Like, what is home to you today?
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Like, how would you, how do you think about the word home?
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For me, the true definition of the word home is familiar, of the family.
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It's a repeated interaction.
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That's all home is to me.
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You know, the reason you call it my home is because you go back to it every single day.
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If somebody flipped all the furniture and the house every day, you find you wouldn't, you'd say it doesn't feel like home.
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But it is your home.
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Yes you know I think your house yeah exactly yeah my friends are my home the languages
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you know I speak on my home the food I eat in South Africa is my home
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but my home starts to grow it starts to change
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you know I I said this to a friend of mine
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when I got back from India I said man it felt like home
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and he's like what are you Indian I said it's crazy
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but it felt like home you know there were parts of Delhi where I was like this feels like home you know
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There are parts of Bangalore, Bengaluru, where it's like, this feels like home.
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Do you know what I mean?
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And people are like, how can it feel like home?
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It's like, well, maybe because part of it is reminiscent, you know, it reminds me of South Africa.
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We have an Indian population.
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It's huge, one of the biggest in the world.
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We have Indian culture.
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But also it's just, it feels familiar.
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It feels like home.
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And so for me, that's what home means, is a sense of the familiar.
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you know you can even experience randomly if you travel a lot in a hotel that you always frequent
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it feels like home yeah
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so that's what you know that's what home means for me yeah it's just
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that you know and you feel that in new york too
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when you're here yeah you find that you have that
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because of that familiarity you feel like i've always seen you
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and i was it seems to me like you're always home
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i don't know why that's that's a nice thing for you to say genuinely
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it always seems like i never feel like you you're uncomfortable i never feel like you
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but i don't know
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if that's just what you put out no
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i i i would it's i was going to define it now it's contextually sharing now
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but i my definition of home has has always been where i feel i'm living my purpose oh
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so that's always been my purpose so and i genuinely feel like
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that where could wake up and be in another city
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or another country or another seat
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and as long as this is my like i feel this i'm doing my purpose tonight with you
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and that's why i'm here help me understand so how would you
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because i i can try to understand
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but what what would you say your you feel your purpose is
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so my purpose is to help other people find their purpose okay
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and to me my purpose is to be a vessel of
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being able to expose people to a number of different ideas insights paths stories walks of life so
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that they can find theirs i don't think everyone's purpose looks like mine right
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i don't think everyone's path looks like mine
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because i think one of the best things i got
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when i was a kid
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and again it goes back to my childhood experiences my dad was really worried
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that i didn't read enough
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and i would never be interested in reading fiction books at school
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so we'd get the fiction books like Goosebumps
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and then later on Harry Potter and all these books
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and I would never read them and I wouldn't have any interest in them
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so my dad was worried and my mom were worried
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that this kid's not going to read
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and now I was about 13 going on 14
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and I still wasn't reading a lot and
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so my dad started giving me biographies and autobiographies and
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so I read like by the time I was 16 I'd read Malcolm X uh
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Martin Luther King wow I was also reading like david beckham
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and dwayne johnson because i was a massive soccer football fan
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and so i started just like collecting all these stories
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and then as i told you
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when i sat on your show like i met a monk
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when i was 18 and that was the story
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that my purpose felt connected to got it and
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so now i feel i'm like well someone's going to listen to trevor's story
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and feel far more connected interest and
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that may spark this kid out there to say hey maybe
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that's the kind of direction
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i want to go in i feel like today where we're exposed to the same people online
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and on tv and streaming
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and we're also exposed to the same parts of them that's true
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and my hope is that this podcast even
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if you're seeing someone who's famous
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and popular like yourself hopefully people get a deeper insight into someone famous
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and popular or they get to meet someone random who's not famous
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and popular but it's interesting so anyway that's that's my purpose wow
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so i feel like if i'm doing
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that in a city in a country i'm home and it's
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because uh one of the famous scholars
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and you talk about your mother being a scriptural scholar
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and like such an avid reader i never met this scholar
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but my monk teachers would often quote him and he said
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that the only place higher than like the spiritual realm uh
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and it would be poetry but also you know literal as well
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that the only place higher than being in heaven
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or the spiritual realm is a place you live your purpose
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and i and that idea always like connected with me
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because then i was like oh so i could be in the middle of chaos
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but still feel at home right and
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so it gives me a sense of comfort
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and you know that's what keeps me going when the day is tough
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when things are going whatever they are it's it's something
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that comforts me and it works for me that's a really great purpose to have
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because i mean there's always people to help, there are always journeys waiting to be embarked upon, that's, yeah.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “TRUE definition of HOME : Jay Shetty and Trevor Noah 🏠”. This video has 102 sentences and 1106 words to shadow. The speech runs for 5:19. The speaker talks fast, about 208 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 86% 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
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| connect verb | /kəˈnɛkt/ | To join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object. |
| expose verb | /ɪkˈspoʊz/ | To reveal; to uncover; to make visible; to bring to light. |
| scholar noun | /ˈskɑlɚ/ | A student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship. |
| fiction noun | /ˈfɪkʃən/ | Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose. |
| comfort noun | /ˈkʌm.fət/ | Contentment, ease. |
| spiritual adjective | /ˈspɪɹɪt͡ʃuəl/ | Of or pertaining to the spirit or the soul. |
| insight noun | /ˈɪnsaɪ̯t/ | A sight or view of the interior of anything; a deep inspection or view; introspection; frequently used with into. |
| genuinely adverb | /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/ | In a genuine manner; truthfully, truly. |
| monk noun | /mʌŋk/ | A male member of a monastic order who has devoted his life for religious service. |
| soccer noun | /ˈsɑk.ɚ/ | Association football. |
| poetry noun | /ˈpoʊ.ə.tɹi/ | Literature composed in verse or language exhibiting conscious attention to patterns and rhythm. |
| collect verb | /ˈkɑlɪkt/ | To gather together; amass. |
| remind verb | /ɹəˈmaɪnd/ | To cause one to experience a memory (of someone or something); to bring to the notice or consideration (of a person). |
| reader noun | /ˈɹi.dɚ/ | A person who reads. |
| define verb | /dɪˈfaɪn/ | To determine with precision; to mark out with distinctness; to ascertain or exhibit clearly. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| go back to verb | To stem from; to originate in. | |
| put out verb | To blind (eyes). | |
| wake up verb | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | To stop sleeping; to awake. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- Do you still feel attached to a sense of home?
- That's all home is to me.
- Do you know what I mean?
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 25 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, you're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: fiction /ˈfɪkʃən/, interaction /ˌɪn.təˈɹæk.ʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: genuinely /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/, interaction /ˌɪn.təˈɹæk.ʃən/, uncomfortable /ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/, biography /baɪˈɑɡɹəfi/, autobiography /ˌɔː.tə.baɪˈɒɡ.ɹə.fi/
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 connect, expose, scholar.
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.