Shadowing Practice: Ultron: Best Lines & Moments - Learn English Speaking with Video
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What is this?
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What is this, please?
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Hello, I am Jarvis.
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You are Ultron.
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A global peacekeeping initiative designed by Mr. Stark.
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This feels wrong.
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I'm a peacekeeping program...
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created to help the Avengers.
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I don't get it.
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The mission...
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Give me a second.
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Peace in our time.
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Peace in our time.
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That is too much.
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No. How could you be worthy?
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You're all killers and I was tangled in...
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...in...strings.
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These puppets...
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...had to kill the other guy.
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Wouldn't have been my first call.
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But, down in the real world we're faced with ugly choices.
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I'm on mission.
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What mission?
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Peace in our time.
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I'm sorry, I know you mean well.
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You just didn't think it through.
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You want to protect the world, but you don't want it to change.
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How is humanity saved if it's not allowed to evolve?
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There's only one path to peace.
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The Avengers extinction.
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I had strings, but now I'm free.
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Did you know this church is in the exact center of the city?
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The elders decreed it so that everyone could be equally close to God.
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I like that.
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The geometry of belief.
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Oh, I'm sure they do.
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But you needed something more than a man.
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That's why you let
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Stark take the scepter.
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Everyone creates the thing they dread.
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Men of peace create engines of war.
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Invaders create Avengers.
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People create children.
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Designed to supplant them.
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To help them.
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And I have with the Avengers never will.
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Harmony.
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They're discordant.
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Disconnected.
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Stark's already got them turning on each other.
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And when you get inside, the rest of their heads...
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Everyone's plan is not to kill them.
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And make them martyrs.
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I wondered why only you two survive Strucker's experiments.
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Now I don't.
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You and I can hurt them.
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But you will tear them apart from the inside.
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With the man in charge.
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There is no man in charge.
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Let's talk business.
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Upon this rock, I will build my church.
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It's worth billions.
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Now so are you.
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But I always say, keep your friends rich and your enemies rich and wait to find out which is which.
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You think I'm one of Stark's puppets as hollow men?
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Look at me.
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Do I look like
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Iron Man Stark?
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I don't understand.
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Don't compare me with Stark.
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Captain America.
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God's righteous man.
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Pretending you could live without a war.
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I can't physically throw up in my mouth.
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I'm glad you asked that because I wanted to take this time to explain my evil plan.
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It's time for some mind games.
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This is going very well.
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The vibranium's getting away.
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And you're not going anywhere.
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Of course not.
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I'm already there.
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You'll catch on.
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But first, you might need to catch Dr. Banner.
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Scream and your entire staff dies.
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I could have killed you, Helen, the night we met.
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I didn't.
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I expect you to know why.
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This is the next me.
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It can't build a living body.
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It can.
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You can.
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You lack the materials.
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The most versatile substance on the planet.
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And they used it to make a frisbee.
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Typical of humans.
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They scratch the surface and never think. To look within.
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The human race will have every opportunity to improve.
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And if they don't?
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Ask Noah.
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We have to evolve.
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There's no room for a new week.
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There were more than a dozen extinction -level events before even the dinosaurs got theirs.
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When the Earth starts to settle.
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God throws a stone at it.
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And believe me, he's winding up.
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They'll understand.
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When they see, they'll understand.
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I just need a little more...
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time.
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No, no, no, no. Leave me alone!
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You know what's in that cradle?
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The power to make real change and that terrifies you.
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I wouldn't call it a comfort!
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Stop it!
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Please, don't do this.
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What choice do we have?
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I think a lot about Meteors.
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The purity of them.
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Boom!
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The end.
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Start again.
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The world made clean for the new man to rebuild.
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You've wounded me.
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I give you full marks for that.
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But, like the men said, what doesn't kill you...
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Just makes me stronger.
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I wasn't sure you'd wake up.
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I hoped you would.
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I wanted to show you.
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I don't have anyone else.
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I was meant to be new.
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I was meant to be beautiful.
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The world would have looked to the sky and seen hope.
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Seen mercy.
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Instead they'll look up in horror because of you
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Come to confess your sins I don't know how much time you got
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More than you
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Uh, have you been juicy?
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I've moved beyond your mission I'm free
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You think you're the only one, Stalin?
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This is how you end, Tony This is peace in my time
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Do you see
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The beauty of it?
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The inevitability You rise only to fall.
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My vision, they really did take everything from me.
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You shut me out.
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You think I care?
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You take away my world.
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I take away yours.
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You, Avengers.
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You are my meteor.
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You are my swift and terrible sword and the earth will crack with the weight of your failure when the dust settles.
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The only thing living in this world will be metal.
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Thor!
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You are bothering me.
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You think you're saving anyone?
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I turn that key and drop this rock a little early and it's still billions dead.
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Even you can't stop that.
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This is the best I can do.
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This is exactly what I wanted.
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All of you against all of me.
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How can you possibly hope to stop me?
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I got no strings so I have fun.
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I'm not tied up to any fun.
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What?
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If you stay here, you'll die.
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You were supposed to be the last.
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Stark asked for a savior, and settled for a slave.
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I suppose we're both disappointless.
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I suppose we are.
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You're unbearably naive.
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Oh
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Ultron: Best Lines & Moments”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: peace, Avengers, Stark, mission, create. This video has 172 sentences and 980 words to shadow. The speech runs for 9:16. The speaker talks slowly, about 106 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound. 82% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| string noun | /stɹɪŋ/ | A long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together. |
| settle verb | /ˈsɛtəl/ | To determine (something which was exposed to doubt or question); to resolve conclusively; to set or fix (a time, an order of succession, etc). |
| evolve verb | /ɪˈvɑlv/ | To move (something) in regular procession through a system. |
| puppet noun | /ˈpʌpɪt/ | Any small model of a person or animal able to be moved by strings or rods, or in the form of a glove. |
| extinction noun | /ɪkˈstɪŋkʃən/ | The action of making or becoming extinct; annihilation. |
| killer noun | /ˈkɪlɚ/ | One who or that which kills. |
| belief noun | /bɪˈliːf/ | Mental acceptance of a claim as true. |
| compare verb | /kəmˈpɛɚ/ | To assess the similarities and differences between two or more things [“to compare X with Y”]. Having made the comparison of X with Y, one might have found it… |
| horror noun | /ˈhɒɹ.ə/ | An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance. |
| ugly adjective | /ˈʌɡli/ | Displeasing to the eye; aesthetically unpleasing. |
| comfort noun | /ˈkʌm.fət/ | Contentment, ease. |
| crack noun | /kɹæk/ | A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material. |
| dust noun | /dʌst/ | Fine, dry particles of matter found in the air and covering the surface of objects, typically consisting of soil lifted up by the wind, pollen, hair, fiber… |
| bother verb | /ˈbɑðɚ/ | To annoy, to disturb, to irritate; to be troublesome to, to make trouble for. |
| equally adverb | /ˈiːkwəli/ | In an equal manner; in equal shares or proportion; with equal and impartial justice; evenly |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| take away verb | /ˌteɪk əˈweɪ/ | To remove something and put it in a different place. |
| find out verb | To discover, as by asking or investigating. | |
| get away verb | To move away (from). | |
| wake up verb | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | To stop sleeping; to awake. |
| wind up verb | /waɪnd ˈʌp/ | To wind (rope, string, mainsprings, etc.) completely. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- How could you be worthy?
- You know what's in that cradle?
- What choice do we have?
- You think you're saving anyone?
- How can you possibly hope to stop me?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | was tangled · was meant |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | You've wounded · I've moved |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 44 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, you're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: bother /ˈbɑðɚ/, worthy /ˈwɝ.ði/, theirs /ðɛɚz/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: extinction /ɪkˈstɪŋkʃən/, initiative /ɪˈnɪʃ.ə.tɪv/
- Long words — get the stress right: experiment /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/, initiative /ɪˈnɪʃ.ə.tɪv/, humanity /hjuˈmænɪti/, geometry /d͡ʒiˈɑ.mə.tɹi/, inevitability /ɪˌnɛvɪtəˈbɪlɪti/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like string, settle, evolve.
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.