Shadowing Practice: Trump is in Full Cognitive Decline - Learn English Speaking with YouTube
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Well, I think that there's one thing that we can all agree on,
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Well, I think that there's one thing that we can all agree on,
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and that is that Trump has a grand plan.
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Because it looks like right now,
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the American job market is collapsing.
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It's around the same level that it was during the GFC.
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It is an indicator of a recession hurtling towards the American economy,
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which obviously affects us all.
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That single stat is freaking me out.
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And the fact that Trump has put all of these external pressures on it,
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One Nation voters take note.
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Yes, you can address migration if you do it in that ice way and don't replace it with anything else.
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This is what starts to happen.
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That's one of the things that he's done.
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It was also just the chopping and changing with the trade tariffs.
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It's also the fact that as a result of chopping and changing with the trade tariffs,
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people aren't so invested in the American economy anymore.
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They're looking for other ways to invest their money.
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And this is all leading to that.
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And then on top of that,
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he just chucks a blockade on as well.
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So what does that all mean for back home?
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I think that Jim Chalmers actually said it best when he's just out there publicly being like,
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I've been talking to a lot of dignitaries across the world.
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And I think that we're all at the consensus that we're really pissed off.
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Everyone's so angry.
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Like the fact, I know that this is old news at this point,
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but the fact that Keir Starmer basically thought,
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righto chaps um this whole america empire thing isn't working out anymore should we just bring back the british empire
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and then just got all of these world leaders all of these ambassadors to sit in the same room
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and not invite the united states like not even just the united states didn't feel like going there
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because they didn't have they had more important things to do
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just like no no you know you can't sit with us
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that is revolutionary i never thought that i would see
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that sort of soft power shunning of the United States in my lifetime.
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Like, I thought that the United States empire was going to decline in my lifetime.
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I didn't think that it would be happening this fast,
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and I didn't think that I would ever be saying something like that.
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I thought that they'd just be like how France has veto in the UN or something,
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and it's like this hangover.
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Yeah, no, no, it's still important.
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It'd be that, but no,
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no, no, it's not even that.
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And so now you just have actively one of the biggest lackeys in the world,
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which is us, proud to be their lapdog.
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And us lapdog is just like,
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like really thinking about biting the hand that feeds us i think
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that it's mostly
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because jim chalmers had a very comprehensive view of what he
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wanted to do in this term what he wanted to release what he wanted to reform in the economy
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and that's all out the window now uh i know from talking to people
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that work in parliament that it There's been a huge scramble over the last couple of months
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because what the budget was is no longer the budget.
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That's all just apparated.
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It's a mirage.
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It's thin air.
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There was going to be a lot of cost of living relief.
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This was about the previous cost of living crisis.
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Then Trump just dumped another cost of living crisis on top of that.
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And so now they're kind of like,
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well, now we can't do that.
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He's still, and apparently this is word on the street.
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I don't know if this is going to happen because you never do until the budget's out.
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But apparently he is still going ahead with housing reform,
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which I'm getting flashbacks.
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I'm getting 2019 flashbacks.
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I'm really scared.
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But also on top of that,
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yeah, like, yeah, it does need to happen at some point.
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The planning behind that, I think,
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because look, if we go look in my lifetime,
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if there is one election that I think we can all agree,
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God, it would have been nice if Labour squeaked through on just that one.
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Yes.
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OK, it would have been awesome if Kim Beasley was prime minister purely
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because of all the fat jokes that we could have made
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but uh i think that it would have been bill short
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and don't you think that 2019 election because after
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that you had the bushfires you had covert and i think
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that we would have been set up so much better as a country
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if we had a government in as opposed to a man
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that has a marketing degree and we shit at marketing
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that would have been better i think i think we can
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all agree now can't we oh god i hope we can
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so we've done this to death but there was a couple of major reasons for
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that turns out and this was released in the epstein files by the way that it was just clive palmer being like,
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I want more coal mines.
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And so he just dumped heaps of money into the election to make sure that they lost.
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But then the other big one was,
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and this was all tied into that because he was also talking about housing,
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the housing scare campaign.
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That was a big factor of the loss in 2019.
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So Labor learning from its mistakes,
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realized that in the last election that they were going to have to promise
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that there was going to be no reforms on that.
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What they did instead was go for the supply strategy,
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which was to just build many,
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many, many more houses, as well as set up the social safety net,
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which we've done the greens blocking that was just deplorable on many occasions.
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It wasn't just the half by the way it was also
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and this is just a little tip it's astonishing to me how many of you don't know this
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but the government does take the burden of some of your house the help to buy scheme exists there's people
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that come up to me all the time are like yeah i've got it
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and i have to educate my friends on this it's an astonishing thing
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that labor has set up which is
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that a big percentile of your house is available for you
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to apply for the government to say all right we'll just own this chunk of the house
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and so that immediately reduces your mortgage massively so
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that was the big move in this was just trying to
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like get rid of all the blocks to getting people into a house
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and that has had undeniable results we could go into a long video about
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that but the major thing that obviously needs to happen just like over the long term but But this is,
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again, negative gearing and capital gains,
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probably not going to do anything immediately.
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But over the long term,
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as we've seen with Howard,
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it was a very corrosive,
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devastating effect on the economy.
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And made it to this point where there were so many boomers
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that had to buy in to putting their investments into housing instead of superannuation.
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It's all a big conspiracy theory.
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But the point is that that has really skyrocketed housing in this country, tightened the supply.
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So what Labour's strategy was,
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was to just build so many houses that you can kind of just outdo
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that what i didn't appreciate at the time and this is something
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that i should have picked up on because this is always labor strategy
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when they are in their strategy is
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that you change what big business is like if you change the way
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that people make money in a country you change the country
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regardless of what government's in power it's superannuation is a great example of it there's a ton others
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that should have been the ets thanks a lot greens but there's many of these examples of labor coming in
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changing the way that the economy is being incentivized.
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And then as a result of that,
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things just start naturally correcting themselves.
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That was the grand plan of increasing supply,
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that they were signaling to property developers,
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this is how you are going to make your money from now on.
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We are not going to be buying up existing houses.
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The way that you are going to make your money and we are going to help incentivize this,
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We are putting in a bunch of,
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you know, all kinds of regulatory assistance for you to get this happening.
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We're also going to be putting in a ton of money,
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huge amounts of money spent on housing in the last term of labor.
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What they are doing is they are ensuring
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that a huge chunk of the housing lobby that in 2019 sunk labor in this election cycle,
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they're not going to be like,
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no, that's my livelihood because they're changing what their livelihood is.
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They're changing their livelihood from buying up existing housing stock to creating housing stock.
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Do you see how that has opened up the playing field for these reforms to happen now?
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It was a genius stroke.
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Massively, very, again, long-term thinking.
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This is the incredible thing about governments like this,
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and you've got to give credit to Jim Chalmers.
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As you can see by the fact that he is even contemplating bringing back Keating-style capital gains,
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the man's PhD was worth its salt.
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He really did study and has embodied Keating.
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So that is the grand plan there.
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So I think that they're still going ahead with
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that there's still I think going ahead with a bunch of NDIS reform
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because obviously as it's gone out like you know with our
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big beef with Drew Pavlou as you can see yeah there's a lot of money in it
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and what he will always deny to the grave is
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that Labor has been addressing that I think
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that it was like an increase of like 20%
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that it was going up by and they've already halved
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that to 10 they're aiming to try and get
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that to like around the five ish percent of increase in NDIS spending right so
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So that's the next phase that they're rolling out on that.
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However, it's got to be said,
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this budget, big, big reforms in those two areas.
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But other than that, it's looking like it's going to have to be,
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let's just weather out COVID 3.0 that Trump has decided to put onto the world.
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There you go, One Nation voters.
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That's what you didn't vote for,
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but seem to think that you do because you live on X
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so much that you think that you're a citizen of the United States.
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That's him.
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That is him.
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Just so you know,
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because it seems like everybody else in the world has cottoned on to the fact that it's Strub's fault,
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except for X.
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Hey, also, I've got shows coming up in Darwin.
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I've also got shows coming up in some northern Queensland towns.
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I can't remember where they are.
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Look, they're on the link here.
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Thank you for listening.
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I'll have some more updates later.
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In this lesson, learners will practice their English speaking skills by focusing on the intricate details presented in a contemporary political discussion. The selected transcript provides insights into economic conditions and international relations, highlighting the importance of engaging with complex topics. As you shadow the speaker, you will not only improve your comprehension of advanced vocabulary but also enhance your English pronunciation by mimicking the natural rhythm and tone of the discussion.
Key Vocabulary & Phrases
- Cognitive decline: A gradual decrease in mental function, often associated with aging or illness.
- Grand plan: A comprehensive strategy designed to achieve a long-term goal.
- Job market: The overall availability of employment opportunities within an economy.
- Recession: A period of economic decline characterized by falling GDP and rising unemployment.
- Trade tariffs: Taxes imposed on imported goods to protect domestic industries.
- Soft power: The ability to influence others through attraction and persuasion rather than coercion or force.
- Blockade: An act of sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving.
- Lackey: A person who is overly submissive to those in power.
Practice Tips
When practicing with this transcript, aim to utilize the shadowspeak technique. This involves listening carefully and then immediately mimicking what you hear. The speaker's tone is conversational yet carries a sense of urgency, so pay attention to not only the words but also the emotional conveyance behind them. Start by playing the video at a slower speed if needed, which will help you grasp the nuances of pronunciation and intonation.
As you progress, gradually increase the speed to match the original audio. Focus on phrases that carry significant meaning within the dialogue, such as “American economy” and “trade tariffs.” Try to repeat these phrases in their context, ensuring that your intonation reflects the speaker’s tone. This exercise in shadow speech will greatly contribute to your ability to improve English pronunciation. Make it a habit to practice regularly; the more you engage with varying speech patterns, the more fluent and confident you will become in your own speaking abilities.
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.
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