Shadowing Practice: TRYING AUTHENTIC MEXICAN FOOD | LUISITO COMUNICA - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Now this is awful wow people actually pay to eat this wow

Hey guys, I am Luisito and this video

that you are watching is actually my first video in English So I hope you guys like it.

I hope you guys enjoy it because today is going to be a special

This video might make you feel like you wanna eat the whole world

Because, that's right my fellas, as you read in the title down below

Today we're going to try some Mexican street food

We are currently in Mexico City where we have a huge variety of street food

You can find many, many different kinds of tacos

You can find soups that are only sold in the streets

You can find carts filled with fruit, candies I mean, it's Mexico City, we have it all

You name it and I'll give it to you.

It's right here on the street.

So come with me guys through this tour of Mexican street food.

I know that I'll have a blast.

I hope you guys do as well.

Vamos a darle.

Okay, so of course we're going to start eating some tacos.

You guys, if you're not from Mexico, of course you have heard of tacos.

But I'm pretty sure that you have eaten the wrong kinds of tacos.

Let me tell you, in Mexico in general, Mexico City to be more specific, we have dozens, maybe hundreds, different types of tacos.

We're going to start with these ones that are called Placero Tacos.

Mmm, it smells amazing.

You know you're eating in a good place when they serve you the taco with two tortillas.

This right here, this is the tortilla, the tortilla, as you may pronounce it in English.

It's too heavy, you know, this is heavy, this is elephant heavy.

You need two tortillas to support it.

Or you can just divide it in two and make two tacos out of one.

I mean, we're saving the big bucks, guys.

This taco costs 17 pesos.

That's less than a dollar.

And look at all the meat that they put in it.

Quite impressive.

And not only that, you can put as many of these things as you like.

I'm gonna put some rice on top of it.

I'm gonna put some chicharron in it as well.

And I'm gonna put some hot sauce on top of it.

I'm gonna go just with a little bit.

Because guys, this might be very spicy.

I might have some diarrhea tomorrow, you guys.

So let's just keep it on the low.

Okay, so this is my placero taco.

It's like if an angel came down from the sky and gave me a little kiss on the cheek.

And I'm like, oh, thank you, angel.

I give him a big hug, you know.

This is what a placero taco feels like.

And it's less than $1.

You eat two of these and you're pretty much full.

When you come to Mexico City, don't doubt it.

Try the placero tacos.

Delightful.

If you guys are not Mexican and are thinking about trying some street food, let me give you some advice.

Try not to put many raw vegetables in your tats.

Because they are raw.

I mean, they are not cooked.

Therefore, they could have some bacteria.

But I mean, I as a Mexican, I can deal with them.

I have been eating them my whole life.

But when foreign people tend to come and eat the raw vegetables, the water from the tap, they tend to get really, really sick.

So, don't risk yourself, guys.

If you are eating some street food, eat only things that are deep fried or really well cooked.

Wow, I'm excited.

We have found something really special.

This is not common to find.

I mean, I was impressed.

I was like, wow.

Let me explain to you guys what we are about to eat these right here are charales

they are really tiny fish fish of salty water really really

small basically what they do they just deep fry them

and then they just roll them over in powdered chili

and then you just eat the whole thing i mean with the skeleton with the ice with everything

that you can imagine then we have chapulines chapulines are the grasshopper these are actually pretty common in mexico city

but not as common as one would think what they do is

that they take the grasshoppers they just put them on a frying pan

then they put some spice on top of them

and you eat them the whole thing these are really really good

and i see

that they also sell dried garlic with salt i mean

you just eat the garlic like this you have stinky bread for the rest of the day

and you smell like garlic it's not the nicest thing

but of course we have to try the nice man right

here the owner of this whole thing is letting me do my own mix they give you a little bag and you

You just put whatever you want in it.

You can put peanuts, you can put the fish, you can put some Cheetos, some dry meat.

And if you want, on top of it, you can put some gummy worm.

I don't know why anyone would do that, but I mean it's Mexico City.

Anything can happen so i'm gonna put just a few charales then i am seeing right here

that they have takis as well takis is a pretty popular type of chip i'm gonna put just one garlic

because i really don't like it i'm gonna put a bunch of chapulines

because oof i love them i'll have just one little piece of dry meat

and just for the love i'm going to put some gummy worms on top of it oh check it out you

This is my lunch box right here.

I bring this to school and I'm the most popular kid.

And this, your bag of lunch, doesn't stay like this.

What you do is that you take a piece of lime and boom, you just squeeze it inside.

Then you take some Valentina sauce.

This is hot sauce.

Not really hot.

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I mean, if you're Mexican, it's not really spicy.

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You put some hot sauce in there.

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And then once you have the whole thing there, you just check it out.

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You have to pay attention with this, you guys.

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You just make a little twist and then shake it.

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Shake what mama gave you.

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You shake it like this.

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This might seem strange, you guys.

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This is a strange movement for my hand.

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But I mean, you have to really shake it.

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We are ready.

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Yes.

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Okay, so let's give it a try.

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I'm going to start with my least favorite.

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That is the garlic.

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I don't know why would anybody eat garlic like this.

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Let's give it a try.

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now this is awful wow people actually pay to eat

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this wow okay we're gonna have one charal now these are pretty good this is a small fish

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yes a thousand times yes then we're going to have some chapulines okay

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this is what a chapulin looks like check this out a grasshopper

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I love them I'm gonna have a tacky for you guys

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Not spicy at all

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And last but not least

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The cherry on top of the cake I'm gonna have the gummy worm

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Just the perfect amount of sweetness

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That my mouth needed right now

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Warning with this you guys

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Your hands end up being all red I mean it looks like you just helped a pig give birth

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You know Come on little piggy

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Let's take all the pigs out of you.

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Boom, boom.

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Your hands are all bloody

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It's either that or you had a delicious bag of Mexican lunch

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Oh, next up, I'm excited about this one.

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I really don't like eating it

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But every time I show this to a foreign person, they're quite impressed

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So this is an exciting one.

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We're about to eat some caldo de gallina

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That is hen soup.

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You know hen, the mother of the chicken I don't know if I'm pronouncing it correctly

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So what they do is that they put the soup in a big bowl

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This is a really big bowl

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They can put some rice in it as well

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And then you ask for your favorite part of the chicken

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You can ask for a drumstick

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You can ask for some chicken breast

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You can even ask for a chicken foot

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I don't know how to call it A patita de pollo I'm not the biggest fan of patitas de pollo

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But of course we're going to try it

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All for the video, all for the vlog

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Un caldo de gallina con patas, por favor Here it is,

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my gallina caldo my caldo de galina it smells really good let me tell you i can see

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that they put some white rice in it and also of course some chicken feet oh look at this wow delightful

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all sweet chicken okay let's start with the soup

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quite good

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but i'm not impressed also i have to mention this this is probably the best choice of street food

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if you are trying to eat healthy have some nutritious food some tacos might not be the best choice

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but some grasshoppers

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and some chicken soup is definitely the right choice okay now let's go with the chicken feet the patita de pollo

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oh no no no this is not good

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It's not that bad.

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I'm sorry.

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I overreacted.

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I exaggerated.

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I used to know an old person that his whole life he ate some chicken feet.

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So as you can see, you need your teeth for it, right?

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You need to kind of chew on it.

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So he got so old that he didn't have teeth anymore.

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So what he did, he was so addicted to the chicken feet that with his nails,

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he would just chun chun chun scratch on them and eat them like that.

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If eating your chicken feet with your nails is not real love, I'm sorry, but I don't know what love is.

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Okay, this was the chicken soup, the caldo de gallina, the hand soup.

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Quite good, quite healthy.

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And to end this video, to wrap it up with style, of course we need something sweet.

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Something sweet to finish with this adventure.

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We have tried many things.

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Different flavors are mixed in my mouth right now

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and i need something sweet something delicious to rinse it all off

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so we found this nice lady her name is porfiria

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and she sells merengues on the street maybe

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you have heard of merengues maybe you haven't

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it's also a type of dance merengue merengon my favorite one

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is the gaznate gaznate is the merengue wrapped up in flour dried flour

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and merengue is basically egg white mixed with pulque

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that i don't know

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i'm not even gonna try to describe what pulque is a lot of sugar

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they mix it all together then it dries up and boom you have your delicious merengue.

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They also put some color in it, that's why it's pink.

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In other words, it's amazing, it's delicious, it's the perfect sweet taste after a big meal.

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Each one of these is 20 pesos.

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That is pretty much a dollar.

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Maybe a little bit more than a dollar.

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I wouldn't say it's the cheapest thing we had today.

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Funny, no?

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The dessert is the most expensive thing we had today.

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I'm excited.

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Let's give it a try.

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Lord, come take

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Take me right now, I'm ready.

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I've seen it all, I've tried it all.

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I'm ready, take me right now.

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Wow, this is some good merengue, this is some good gaznate, my friends.

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Perfect merengue, perfect gaznate, perfect dessert after a perfect street Mexican meal.

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And we have reached the end of this video.

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This was a fun day, this was a fun experience

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We tried many things, some of them quite normal, quite common Others not so common, let me tell you I had a blast,

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my stomach had a blast

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And I hope you enjoyed this too

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Let me know what you thought of this video

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Would you like to see more content like this?

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Would you like to learn more about Mexican culture maybe?

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I think this is the perfect opportunity for you

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That maybe have some English speaking relatives

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And you're always like, oh, there's this YouTuber Luisito But you can never show them the videos because they were all in Spanish.

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Guess what Luisito is making some English videos now

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You can check them out.

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You can be a part of the pigeon kingdom

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No matter where you're from no matter if you speak English Spanish all of us can be part of the pigeon kingdom

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Alright you guys.

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Thank you very much for watching this video really hope you liked it really hope you enjoyed it

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Hope you learned something new today and as always I will see you in a few days with a new video.

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Goodbye Pimpollo

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “TRYING AUTHENTIC MEXICAN FOOD”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: eat, taco, chicken. This video has 222 sentences and 2219 words to shadow. The speech runs for 12:17. The speaker talks fast, about 181 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.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
taco noun	/ˈtɑkoʊ/	A Mexican snack food made of a small tortilla (soft- or hard-shelled) filled with ingredients such as meat, rice, beans, cheese, diced vegetables, and salsa.
soup noun	/sup/	Any of various dishes commonly made by combining liquids, such as water or stock, with other ingredients, such as meat and vegetables, that contribute the food…
garlic noun	/ˈɡɑɹlɪk/	A plant, Allium sativum, related to the onion, having a pungent bulb much used in cooking.
delicious adjective	/dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/	Pleasing to the sense of taste; tasty.
boom verb	/bum/	To make a loud, hollow, resonant sound.
shake verb	/ˈʃeɪk/	To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
blast noun	/blæst/	A violent gust of wind (in windy weather) or apparent wind (around a moving vehicle).
impress verb	/ɪmˈpɹɛs/	To affect (someone) strongly and often favourably.
spicy adjective	/ˈspaɪsi/	Of, pertaining to, or containing spice.
worm noun	/wɝm/	A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum; an earthworm.
meal noun	/ˈmiːl/	Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity.
awful adjective	/ˈɔːfʊl/	Very bad.
angel noun	/ˈeɪ̯n.d͡ʒəl/	An incorporeal and holy or semidivine messenger from a deity or other divine entity, traditionally depicted as a youthful, winged figure in flowing robes.
nail noun	/neɪl/	The horny plate or appendage at the ends of the digits of various animals, including most reptiles, birds, and mammals (both nonhuman and human).
wrap verb	/ɹæp/	To enclose (an object) completely in any flexible, thin material such as fabric or paper.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Meaning
dry up verb	To become dry (often of weather); to lose water.
end up verb	To bring to a conclusion.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

You name it and I'll give it to you.
I know that I'll have a blast.
I mean, we're saving the big bucks, guys.
I'm gonna put some rice on top of it.
Would you like to see more content like this?

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	have heard · have eaten · have found
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	are only sold · are called · are not cooked
Superlatives the -est / the most … — the top or bottom of a group	the nicest · the most popular · my least favorite
Possibility with “might / may” might/may + verb — something that is possible but not certain	might make · may pronounce · might be

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 71 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, gonna, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “sh” and “zh” sounds: delicious /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/, shake /ˈʃeɪk/, nutritious /nuːˈtɹɪʃəs/
Long words — get the stress right: diarrhea /ˌdaɪ.əˈɹiː.ə/, exaggerate /ɛɡˈzæd͡ʒ.ə.ɹeɪt/, overreact /ˌoʊ.vəɹ.ɹiˈækt/

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 taco, soup, garlic.

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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Key vocabulary in this video

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Grammar in this video

Pronunciation to watch

How to practise with this video

What is the Shadowing Technique?