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i genuinely thought that was satire then i saw another video

and another video

and another video apparently people are now eating entire sticks of

butter on camera on purpose why are we eating sticks of butter

and frosting you're eating sticks of butter the americans are snacking on butter y 'all

and somehow this has become one of the weirdest food trends taking over tiktok right now

but after watching way too many of these videos for research you're welcome i realized

that this story isn't actually about butter it's a story about what the internet rewards right now

and the weirdest part the more ridiculous these videos got the more views they got

so let's rewind

because this didn't come from nowhere this whole thing has roots in the carnivore diet you know the meat

and animal fat only no plants way of eating on carnivore

butter is treated like a staple fat something you cook with

something you add to steak something you use for energy since you're cutting out carbs completely

and for a while now wellness

and fitness influencers have been calling butter a superfood talking about

vitamin a d e k2 talking about happy hormones better skin

more energy better mood butter is probably god's gift to this

earth butter is probably the best thing that's ever been invented

in a laboratory butter is a superfood i eat two sticks of butter every single week

and no i don't struggle with my weight or fear heart disease

and look i'm sure some of

that has a grain of truth to it in small amounts

but i can tell you right now none of these people

were saying eat five sticks of butter in one sitting what's happening right now is completely different

and it's actually dangerous and we'll get into why butter mukbang

big scoop butter used to be something you put on your

food you spread it on your toast you cook with it

you bake with it now people are eating it like it's a protein bar not one stick multiple sticks

and tire tubs on camera for content

so today we're going to be eating a little snack one

of my favorite snacks we're going to be eating butter with

strawberry frosting we're going to take one butter by itself let's eat butter

and frosting i am absolutely so excited for this i've been seeing people eat these

and i have been craving it and my mouth has literally been watering for this I just dip it like that

butter mug bun sweetened condensed milk

so we just straight up eating ingredients now I just gained 10 pounds from watching

and it doesn't stop at that oh no, people are glamorizing the heck out of butter they're turning it into an entire aesthetic people are eating it with condensed milk,

with sprinkles, with frosting they are full -on butter recipes now see butter

with funfetti the blue funfetti is my favorite and i may have ate a little.

oh oh sprinkles dot butter stick look how cute she is

let's eat butter with strawberry frosting i had never had this combination before

so i am really excited for this can't forget the sprinkles cheers

butter is no longer an ingredient for some corners of the

internet it's basically become its own food group at this point

you know wrapped butter let's eat butter with cheese oh my god three butters three ways cheers

i'm not going to lie to you most of these videos made me physically gag

and there's a new twist now butter balls those little pre -portioned butter balls

that were literally invented for easy cooking

so you can drop one exact portion into a pan without measuring that's the whole point of them portion control

but the internet has turned it into an entire thing people are now just eating those straight up like snacks like popcorn.

Y 'all should be thanking me.

I put y 'all on to butterballs.

I put y 'all on to eating stuff with butter.

Butterballs six ways.

Can't believe people are eating butter.

I'm one of them.

First we got honey butter.

Ooh, what's the cholesterol?

Wait, what the heck?

Why was that actually so good?

Next, we got Slap Your Mama butter.

Oh, way too salty.

Not good at all.

Let's do cinnamon butter.

Looks like a mochi ball.

Oh, nuh -uh.

It's missing something.

Oh, I can't believe I'm actually eating these.

Baby tahin butter.

I think I'll like this one.

oh it's kind of sour I don't like

that let's do sugar butter whoa I got a good feeling

about this one oh that's a good combo am I weird for liking this gotta try the famous combo cinnamon sugar

everyone's been eating these is this gonna clog my arteries

wow I get the hype I feel like a certified big

back eating them like chips is diabolical at this point

we're going to start dipping butter

into melted butter

i can

eat like the whole bag of these in one sitting that's

how good they are i'm genuinely curious does butter taste differently in the us

because after watching all these videos i started questioning everything i love butter

and i know what butter tastes like

and i can't imagine eating an entire stick of butter not

to talk about five in one sitting this is just crazy

behavior am i missing something is american butter better this isn't

just happening in america by the way i've seen this also happening in the uk

so i want to know the butters you guys have there

is it better like do you put something in it somebody

said is butter like different in america honestly that's the question

i asked it tastes the same these people are just under

spells under spells is one way to put it honestly

but i'll just say they're just chasing clout at this point you are under spells people you're under spells

and at the rate people are buying and eating the stuff don't be alarmed

when butter prices start climbing you're out here treating a dairy

product like it's a luxury item like i really don't understand it what kind of butter are you guys eating

because what is with all these people eating butter the americans are snacking on butter y 'all yes butter

that we used to bake you know cookies with

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and i'm not talking about like you know 100 grams of butter

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that they just know a kilo they have stacks of butter in front of them

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and you know what this is why people make fun of americans

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because we do weird like this you go to any other country no one's doing weird like

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that they look at you and they go you're eating butter with frosting

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if we're going to glamorize a food this hard can we

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glamorize something like carrots celery something with um i don't know nutrients

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and honestly this is how it always goes one person does

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something ridiculous then people copy it then someone has to one -up it

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because the original version isn't shocking enough and that keeps happening over

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and over until the normal version of the trend doesn't even

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exist anymore that's literally how we went from a regular mug

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bang ramen fried chicken to somebody biting into a raw stick of butter like it's a granular bar

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and i'm not the only one asking these questions by the way

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so you have these little kids thinking that this is a huge trend

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which it is and they're gonna sit there and eat butter by the pounds it's disgusting it's so unhealthy.

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It's just irresponsible as an influencer.

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How can people be eating full blocks of butter and with frosting or by itself or with anything?

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That is just ridiculous.

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I will have one tablespoon with a sourdough bread and I will feel guilty.

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Actual doctors and dietitians have actually started speaking up about this online

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and their concern is a lot more serious then ew that's gross i hate

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when viral content has the potential of normalizing extreme behaviors

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and just one bite of this stick of butter dipped in

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condensed milk can give you a massive dose of saturated fat added sugars

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and calories hopefully you don't need a doctor like me to tell you this is horrible for you

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and for vulnerable viewers especially young people

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or anyone with a complicated relationship with food

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that can seriously distort what normal eating looks like Like eating

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almost 5 ,000 calories in straight up saturated fat is not a flex.

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It is not cute.

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It is a major risk factor for cancer, cardiovascular disease, and mortality.

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And it's gross.

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As a cardiac nurse, see you soon.

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That's not even a doctor speaking in some official capacity.

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That's just a nurse on her lunch break watching this like yeah i'll see some of y 'all professionally

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because here's the thing people keep treating this like a funny

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internet moment we're talking about a food that's really high in saturated fats

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and also contains cholesterol not something you're supposed to eat by the stick

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and to be fair to butter we love you okay you're

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not the enemy it is not poison in small normal amounts

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it's fine it's genuinely been part of human diet forever this

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isn't about demonizing butter as an ingredient it's about what happens

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when your body gets hit with that much saturated fat

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that fast for the camera americans acting like they got free health care

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which honestly sent me

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because that's kind of the vibe of this whole trend isn't

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it another comment said a line is healthier than this i'm

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not endorsing anything i'm just saying the comment section has jokes

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and they're not wrong to ask questions

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and somehow watching these videos wasn't enough people actually started trying it themselves not

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because they needed to not because butter suddenly changed overnight just

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because they saw it on tiktok we can all agree eating butter bad okay however

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i can't deny the temptation i want to eat the damn

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butter balls we've got sprinkles we've got cinnamon sugar that's how

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they've been doing it should i try one on its own i mean i know what

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but it tastes like i'm sure it's miles better with the sprinkles

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get a big bite it's gonna be a big bite he said yum big bite

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yum so good i had it butter milk bang gotta get a big bite bro big bite big bite Is it good?

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No. I guess you can say I'm easily influenced.

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Let's try this.

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Okay, that's disgusting.

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It tastes exactly what it's supposed to be like why do people do stuff like

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that nothing about that looks appetizing my stomach is genuinely churning this is

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so disgusting what exactly were we expecting here it's butter we

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already know what butter tastes like nobody just discovered some secret

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gourmet food it's still butter this has got to be a form of suicide honestly

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and if your first thought after watching someone eat an entire stick of butter was hold on let me try

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that then honestly we have a bigger problem here why does

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the internet keep doing this this is not the first insane food trend

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and it will not be the last we've seen the cycle before remember

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when people were eating laundry detergent pods

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that was a whole thing then it was raw liver then people were microwaving raw chicken

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and eating it half cooked for content we survived cool eight

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picos we survived the extreme spicy food challenges where people were

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literally finding the most ridiculous the most unsanitary ways to eat these things for content.

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One comment said, we've got to be approaching the series finale.

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So let's actually break down why this keeps happening.

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First, some of this is rage bait.

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Not everyone biting into a stick of butter on camera is actually eating it.

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In mukbang culture generally, it's common for creators to spit food out right after a bite or lean into something outrageous, especially because outrage performs.

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And can we talk about how wasteful that is?

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You're buying multiple sticks of butter biting into them for the camera

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and then spitting it out that's not content that's just littering

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with extra steps second the algorithm rewards extremes no one goes viral for eating a normal breakfast

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but eat three sticks of butter for the camera

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and suddenly everyone's sharing it stitching it arguing about it in the comment section extreme content spreads faster

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because it triggers a stronger reaction shock disgust disbelief

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and strong reactions get more shears than mild ones that's not

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an accident that's just how these platforms are built third mukbang

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escalation mukbangs used to be ramen seafood boils um fried chicken pretty normal

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if very large meals

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but you know they were pretty normal news now creators are competing to stand out in an oversaturated genre

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so the content keeps escalating butter is just the newest version

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of how do i make people stop scrolling it's crazy she should not be doing this

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because this will make people and young ones think this is okay

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and it's not and honestly that's the part

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that sticks with me the most it's not really about the

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person eating the butter it's about the 13 year old scrolling past it

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and just thinking this is normal now

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so here's what i keep coming back to

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if eating sticks of butter raw gets someone millions of views

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today what does the internet have to do next month to top it.

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Someone left this comment, what's next, frozen soy sauce?

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Genuinely, I would not be shocked at this point nothing is off the table

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because that's genuinely the pattern these trends don't play too they escalate

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and the algorithm keeps rewarding who's ever willing to go a little further than the last person

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so butter mug bangs unhinged yes surprising not really not anymore

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this was never really about the butter butter has been in

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existence forever all right it's not a new discovery butter is

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just this week's main character next week it might be something else

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and people are going to keep buying into it

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so that's basically it for today's video

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if this video shocked you like it did me as i

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was researching let me know in the comment section let me

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know your thoughts as well what do you think about this trend in general thank you

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so much for watching do not forget to subscribe and i'll talk to you guys in my next one bye

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “We’re Speedrunning Our Deaths For Views Now?”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: butter, eating, stick, eat. This video has 216 sentences and 2466 words to shadow. The speech runs for 15:37. The speaker talks at a natural 158 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. Only 79% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.

Key vocabulary in this video

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

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
butter noun	/ˈbʌtɚ/	A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk).
bite verb	/baɪt/	To cut into something by clamping the teeth.
frost noun	/fɹɔst/	A cover of minute ice crystals on objects that are exposed to the air. Frost is formed by the same process as dew, except that the temperature of the frosted…
genuinely adverb	/ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/	In a genuine manner; truthfully, truly.
snack noun	/snæk/	A light meal.
ridiculous adjective	/ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/	Deserving of ridicule; foolish, absurd.
shock noun	/ʃɔk/	A sudden, heavy impact.
spell noun	/spɛl/	Words or a formula supposed to have magical powers.
saturated adjective		Full; unable to hold or contain any more.
reward noun	/ɹɪˈwɔɹd/	Something of value given in return for an act.
bang noun	/ˈbæŋ/	A sudden percussive noise.
disgusting adjective	/dɪsˈɡʌstɪŋ/	Causing disgust; repulsive; distasteful.
ingredient noun	/ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/	One of the substances present in a mixture, especially food.
cinnamon noun	/ˈsɪnəmən/	A small evergreen tree native to Sri Lanka and southern India, Cinnamomum verum or Cinnamomum zeylanicum, belonging to the family Lauraceae.
gross adjective	/ɡɹoʊs/	remarkably great, big, vast in an often unpleasant way; (of behaviour) Highly or conspicuously offensive.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Meaning
break down verb	To stop functioning.
cut out verb	To refrain from (doing something, using something etc.), to stop or cease (doing something).
take over verb	To assume control of something, such as a business or enterprise, and sometimes by force.

Sentences worth repeating

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

I think I'll like this one.
I guess you can say I'm easily influenced.
Someone left this comment, what's next, frozen soy sauce?

Grammar in this video

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

Structure	In the video
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on	have been calling · i've been seeing · have been craving
“Used to” used to + verb — a past habit or state that is no longer true	used to be · used to bake
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	has become · that's ever been invented · has turned
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	is treated · been invented · be alarmed

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 68 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, you're, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: algorithm /ˈælɡəɹɪðm̩/, aesthetic /ɛsˈθɛ.tɪk/, unhealthy /ʌnˈhɛl.θi/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: shock /ʃɔk/, luxury /ˈlʌk.ʃə.ɹi/, genre /ˈ(d)ʒɑnɹə/, temptation /ˌtɛmpˈteɪʃən/, dietitian /daɪəˈtɪʃən/
Long words — get the stress right: genuinely /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/, ridiculous /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/, ingredient /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/, cholesterol /kəˈlɛstəɹɒl/, complicated /ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/

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 butter, bite, frost.

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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