Shadowing Practice: Week In My Life With The iPhone 18 Pro Max As a Software Engineer - Learn English Speaking with Video

I feel like this year the headlines have been all about the new iPhone Duo

and you know for good reason that thing looks amazing but

that just means something else was kind of swept under the rug.

Now I've been using the new iPhone 18 Pro Max for the past almost two weeks at this point

and I can confidently say that the headlines they don't tell the whole story.

So this time I wanted to take you through a week

in my life as a software engineer use the new iPhone 18 Pro Max and tell you what it's really all about.

okay what's going on y 'all yesterday was my birthday i

turned 26 that's pretty brutal you know 25 was still young

but 26 it started to push into that unk territory

so i just i just feel old

but the birthday itself was really nice my girlfriend surprised me

with this i guess a little staycation she hung up all these balloons

and stuff on the wall but yeah we went to the spa had a nice dinner

and we just came back from breakfast

and it just happens to be the 18th of september as well

which means the new iphones have just launched

and i've just received the message from the store from

which i bought mine from that it's ready for pickup

so we're gonna be checking out of the hotel real soon go pick up the phone

and then i need to get some work done as well.

We have performance review season and all this stuff is going on.

Let's go.

it shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone that I went with the glazer color this year.

Light blue is definitely my favorite color.

Now I got the one terabyte option because I take a lot of photos

and videos but the price is steep

so i'd recommend going for the 512 gigs and you know

that should be more than enough for most people who don't shoot log footage

and stuff and even if you do just transfer

that video file over to your laptop or something

and then delete it from your phone

and you'll be all right now the chatter on the internet

has been all about this phone being the same as last

year without few small upgrades i don't think the intention is to have this insane year over year upgrades anymore

and if we use that logic then even Samsung has just been re -releasing the same phone for the last few years.

So this phone is more for people coming from the pre -USB -C iPhones

or if you just want to ball out with the newest colors.

Guess you could make an argument for the new camera features if you're creative.

We'll talk about those a bit more in detail later

but let's be honest the updated camera app could have just been a software update.

Also the name glacier is definitely living up to its name

because the new vapor chamber is for sure keeping the chip ice cold.

To this day I've never had the phone start lagging on me, all the display being dimmed in direct sunlight

and these kind of things can go unnoticed easily especially

when you get used to it but these are the details that still make iPhone king.

Everything just simply works and you don't have to even think about it.

Lastly I gotta mention the battery life.

I've been on this phone for a couple of weeks now

and i can easily get 10 hours plus screen time

if i needed to like if you want a device

that you never have to worry about charging

when you're just going about your day then this is it

for sure okay the phone is mostly set up now still got a couple of apps

that i need to install for some reason the iCloud setup

um didn't pick up all the apps from my old phone

but for the most part the setup process was really smooth

we're about to have this all hands meeting where basically every

two weeks people can showcase whatever they've been working on and

if you've been watching the vlogs then you know

that i've been talking about this project that i've been working on

and how it's been very stressful and stuff finally that project has come

not to an end

because you know how it goes these projects they never really end they just evolve over time

but finally it's at a point where i can actually demo it

so i'm about to have this demo in front of i

don't know how many people are going to join probably like 200

or something okay one more thing before we lock in i finally got a dining table

and please tell me i'm not the only one i have

this beautiful setup over there built for whatever reason recently ever

since getting the dining table i've been finding myself working here

i don't know it just feels like i unlocked a whole

new area of the apartment after i got this dining table and yeah i just been really liking working here

all right just going over the annual performance review stuff before the meeting

and i have to write my self -assessment this year i think i did really good i had

that one major project that i've been talking about on the channel

and that project was and will be used for some pretty important stuff

which i can't comment on but still i don't know

if this is enough for a senior promo though

because i haven't done any mentoring during this period

which is a quality for seniors and yeah we just haven't had any interns

or really any new devs joining for a while

so yeah i'll keep you all updated on how things go later this year

and then it was finally time for my demo one thing

that youtube has helped me a lot with is public speaking

so nowadays i get way less nervous when presenting stuff

and yeah i think people enjoyed the demo at least i got some really good feedback hey luke absolutely loved

that video man i'm sorry

but i can't hear anything you're saying right now oh sorry about

that i'm just cleaning my apartment it's really messy in

always something with this guy okay i'm back now i switched

to these new headphones from anchor sound for it's called the space 2 pro lineup whoa

that sounds really good i can't even hear the vacuum cleaning yeah dude it's pretty wild there parts

but it's just ai chip so the voice isolation on this is next level

so yeah these are the new anchor soundcore space 2 pro headphones

and for under 200 bucks they have really great value they use adaptive anc 3 .0

which comes in clutch because when the ANC is turned on, I genuinely barely hear anything outside of the headphones.

But something that really takes these headphones to the next level is the call quality.

In a nutshell, they put their new DAS AI chip into these alongside with six microphones.

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And yes, I know, I know, you probably hate AI at this point.

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But this allows for the headphones to isolate your voice from the background noise incredibly well.

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So when you're taking calls or meetings in a busy area, then the other people in the call will still hear you

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clearly instead of all the random background noises the headphones also

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hold a guinness world record for the world's clearest call headphones

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which they earned in independent lab testing against 18 flagship competitors

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but still that's kind of crazy for a pair of headphones

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that cost under 200 bucks

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and lastly you get up to 30 hours of battery with anc on

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and they're super light and comfortable

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so you can wear these the entire working day with ease but yeah

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if you'll be looking to upgrade your headphones then the space

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2 pro lineup from anchor soundcore is genuinely really good value for money

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and if you prefer open ear they just came out with the aeroclip 2 lineup

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that gives you the world's clearest open ear earbuds for calls

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also you can match the color of the earbuds to your

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new iphone i'll link them in the first link in the description where you can scoop yourself a pair

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and a big thank you to anchor soundcore for supporting the channel and sponsoring the video

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Then I had to catch up on some work to end the evening

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because I was running after the iPhone in the morning.

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You know I feel like something really happened at the start

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of this year where AI became really good at programming

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and unfortunately some areas that used to be fun have become obsolete like fixing a bug or something.

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So it almost feels like a piece of my job has disappeared

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and I don't know man it's just been a wild year.

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Now that area of the job that disappeared got replaced with some other stuff

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and yeah the problem nowadays is that AI written code is almost always correct.

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The main problem is trying to figure out all the times

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when it's not and that's also very time consuming

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but it's one of those things where everyone is now running away from software engineering

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and unfortunately i'm somebody who likes to take the contrarian trade i've made some good money with

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that mindset in the past obviously now the risk is a bit bigger

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because we're talking about careers here

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but i don't know i could see a world where everyone is now running away from software engineering

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and coding but then we end up needing more software engineers for building with ai

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and then there's a shortage also we could be fully replaced i don't know what's gonna happen

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and i'm honestly done trying to predict this ai thing

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but personally like i said i like taking the contrarian trade and And I'm now switching career paths to become a nurse, like Antropic suggested.

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Thank you.

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oh okay just finished recording the updated what's on my iphone

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video my throat is hurting a little bit i hope i'm not getting sick

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but you know this morning i woke up with the

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you know how it feels right before you get sick anyways

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for some reason the iphone video has been like the most requested video topic on the channel

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if you discount today in the live vlogs of course

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but yeah that's why i had to make it happen now with the iphone 18 pro launch

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so if you're interested in

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that definitely go check it out after this one it should

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be live on the channel by the time this video comes out yeah this is how i balance my work

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and this youtube stuff like i just record videos on during the weekends

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so instead of me going out on a friday evening

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and then being hung over on saturday instead i just do my thing

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and record a video and uh yeah i might edit it tomorrow then

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but yeah it's 2 p .m i haven't ate anything so obviously i'm hungry and And usually, during the weekends, after I'm done recording a video,

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I kind of give myself the pass to eat whatever I want.

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And I'm not gonna lie, I'm craving a burger.

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A nice, crispish mash burger.

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That's what I'm craving.

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I think we'll go to this local restaurant and see what they got going on.

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By the way, the battery life on the new phone seems insane.

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It's 2pm, I woke up at 8pm

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and I've been using my phone pretty much the entire time

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because I was going through all the apps and stuff

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so as you can see five hours of screen time already today

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which is kind of crazy let's ignore that part

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but after five hours of screen on time pretty much at

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max brightness at all times we're at 67 battery life no

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six seven jokes we gotta leave six seven to summer of 2026 we're not bringing it to the winter

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and we're for sure not bringing it to 2027

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but there were one more thing that i noticed immediately

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when i switched to the 18 pro max is the weight difference compared to the 17 pro max

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so the 17 pro max weighs 233 grams

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and the 18 pro max is 249 grams

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so you probably wouldn't think there's a noticeable difference but

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when i'm holding this side by side i can clearly clearly see the difference

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and apparently the duo is gonna weigh like 300 grams so that's gonna be a beefy boy

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okay then finally let's talk about this camera now this year the 18 pro lineup got the variable aperture lens

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which samsung did in the 1800s by the way they were way ahead everybody else anyways now

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that the samsung fanboys are happy basically what this lets you do is control the amount of light

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that is led into the main sensor

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and it also gives you a little bit of control over the amount of background blur

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that your images have

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and something cool you can do is put the f stop at 4 then

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when you take a photo of a light source it makes the light bounce a bit.

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So at night especially you can get creative with this.

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Also technically the nighttime photography is a bit better this year

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because the lowest aperture stop is now 1 .48 which previously used to be I think 1 .78 or 1 .8.

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Regardless it doesn't make a huge difference in the low light photos though the 17 Pro Max was already incredible.

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Lastly the camera app itself got a big makeover

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and this is what i meant when i said

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that this could have been a software update

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because most of this stuff doesn't need the improved camera

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and there have been third -party apps out there already

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that gave you most of these controls

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but regardless now you can control the shutters speed

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and all these other things right in the native app

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which is nice to see and something

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that actually surprised me a bit are the styles like these look really clean

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and you can control the amount of film grain you want etc

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so when you match

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that with a low shutter speed you can cook some pretty

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serious photos straight from the native camera app oh yeah one more thing there's now this focus tracking feature

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so when you're taking a video for example

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or something you can just double click on a moving object

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and the focus will be kept on that moving object but yeah

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that was pretty much all of the new camera features like

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i don't know what else to say other than it's really good i have no complaints

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but also i don't think these are must -have updates if that makes any sense

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We'll see you next time.

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I'll see you next time.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Let's go.

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okay good morning it's almost 10 a .m it's a sunday i woke up kind of sick today

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which is pretty annoying all in all it feels like this

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entire year has been quite brutal on me of course had

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the whole moving process had the root canal my driving school

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which by the way i had a driving test

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and i failed it basically there was an empty parking lot there was nobody there

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and i just wasn't paying attention so i drove the wrong way

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if that makes any sense but this is what it is i'm gonna redo it soon

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but yeah i know these aren't like everyday things

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but i just hate it

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when there are these loose ends going on like i just

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want to get these things over with also yesterday night i woke up

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because my lamp fell down from the ceiling for some reason the hook on the ceiling

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that was kind of centering the lamp just broke now i gotta fix

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that as well i need to edit uh also sundays are kind of my home reset days

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so i need to be cleaning up doing my laundry and stuff so we definitely got a lot to do

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Thank you.

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We'll see you next time.

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okay play some music on the home group all right playing some music on the home group

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Thank you.

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Let's get started.

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Thank you.

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all right things are looking clean again i ended up using

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the same hooks to hook up the lamp as i did previously i don't know

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if this classifies as the definition for insanity doing the same

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thing expecting a different result it did last for a long time last time

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and i think that's a better way of doing it rather

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than drilling into the ceiling i don't know we'll see

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but also i keep seeing people on the internet saying

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that these are pretty much the same phones

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and i've been thinking about some of the differences first thing you'll obviously notice

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when you hold these in hand is that the 18 Pro Max is heavier than the 17 Pro Max.

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Also if you look closely you can see

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that the camera bump on the 18 Pro Max is thicker due to the variable aperture lens now.

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So just keep that in mind.

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Something that's actually quite cool

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and is kind of swept under the rug due to the

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new lens on the 18 Pro Max is the smaller dynamic island.

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Like when I hold this side by side the difference is enormous

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and the way Apple has achieved this is

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that they moved a portion of the face id camera to this top left corner of the phone

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and then they reduce the amount of pixels in this area so

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that the camera can still see through the display like that's some proper engineering not none of this software engineering

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that we're doing but like actual engineering excellence

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so yeah even though the outcome was just a smaller dynamic island you know it's not the biggest thing

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but these phones are getting to the point where the smallest details matter

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And Apple found a way to make the 18 Pro Max a bit better than the 17 Pro Max.

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But yeah, I don't think that alone is enough of a reason to upgrade.

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Like, if you're on the 17 Pro Max and you're even watching this video, thinking about upgrading, then that just tells me you're doing really well financially.

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Because nobody should be upgrading from the 17 Pro Max to the 18 Pro Max.

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Like, that just doesn't make any sense.

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But yeah, also on the new Dynamic Island, you can now fit three live activities simultaneously

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so you can be playing music have a timer on at the same time

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and something else on top of

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that not super useful i rarely have even two there

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so i i don't know of a scenario where i would have three ongoing at the same time

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but yeah also i've noticed

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that i've already scratched my phone i've had the phone for less than 48 hours at this point

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and uh it's already getting scratched up so

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yeah last year the 17 pro max definitely took a beating like this corner is fully beat up

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and some of these edges are kind of popping off the display

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so for example here there's this kind of a sharp point

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but like i said the color is too beautiful to rock a case

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so it is what it is for the rest of today

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i'm just gonna be watching netflix playing some video games maybe hopping on call of duty

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and yeah just trying to recover from this flu

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or whatever symptoms i have it's been a long day

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and it's kind of hard for me to talk right now

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because my nose is completely blocked

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but i'm glad we managed to clean up the apartment i always like cleaning the crib on sunday

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so that i can start the new week with a clean apartment so

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Thank you.

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this might be the worst week in the life video on

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youtube for the past two days i didn't record anything

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because i was

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so sick you have to understand i never ever take sick

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days i had to take one uh the day before yesterday

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and even yesterday i was feeling terrible

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so i was just kind of i wasn't fully fully at work

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but this morning thankfully thankfully i woke up

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and i didn't have a sore throat anymore i also didn't have a headache anymore

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so i decided that it's time to get back to the gym

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because i was done just staying at home all the time

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i'm not gonna go too hard today i'm just gonna do

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like an upper body workout i guess with maybe third of the weights i would usually do

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so a super super light workout let's call it a deload workout

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but yeah i just needed to get some movement in We'll be right back.

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okay it's 3 50 p .m right now just finishing up work here

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that faux soup is literally my favorite meal whenever i'm trying to cut

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or get really shredded it just fills me up so much

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and it tastes great and i think it's pretty healthy too

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but something i'd want your opinion on is this is a bit of a crazy idea

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but i just recently had it now hear me out what

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if i moved the kitchen from this wall onto this wall in the living room

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and then what if i added another wall here then this area would legally become a room

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and i could use it as my office also the apartment

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would go from a one -bedroom to two -bedroom at that point.

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I think it would even increase the value of the property.

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I was talking with some of the people who run the building and stuff.

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Yeah, you don't need any specific permit for it, but obviously it would still cost probably like 20 to 30 ,000.

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Just need to keep in mind that I would probably have to get rid of this sofa.

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What would happen is that I could move the sofa backwards like a couple of feet, one meter, something like this,

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and obviously then the main living room area would kind of open up

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so there would be much more space for walking in the middle here obviously the kitchen would be there

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but then the sofa would be pushed further back towards there

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and yeah the issue would be with kind of this area

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whenever you're walking into the living room because the kitchen will be here

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and then if the sofa has these tall edges then it would make this area feel kind of snug

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so thinking of doing the renovation then getting a sofa that's

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a bit lower on this side maybe like a l -shaped sofa

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so you can lay down on

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that side of the living room i've also done the measurements

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the kitchen itself is not as wide as this wall is

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the kitchen would end somewhere here i think i'm just gonna

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end up working for the rest of the day i really need to catch up on work

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because of the sick day

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which is kind of annoying it is what it is these things happen i might hit the sauna later this afternoon, we'll see.

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But this is like the most basic, regular week in my life.

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We're done with work.

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I had to put this on because so much has been happening.

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i've just received some pretty big news i wish i could

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talk about it more here i don't know how to explain it without leaking too much information

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because if you don't know like i just can't talk about my work

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that much on youtube i don't know how these amazon software

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engineers do it where they bring the camera to the office

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and everything but i can't do that

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if i could i would you know like

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that would benefit my channel of course like i know you would love to see it

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but i'm nothing's done yet so knock on wood everything goes right

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but yeah that's why i wanted to book the sauna

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because i just need to think about life for a moment it just it feels weird

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because i've told this story before but

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when i first started applying for my first internship i applied to every single internship in my country finland

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and i only heard back from two companies so i got two interviews

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and i actually got a job offer from both of those places now i had first accepted another company's offer

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but then last minute i told them hey i'm not coming i'm going to this other company

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and from there this freaking snowball has just started it's it's

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so weird and i keep coming back to this moment

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when i told the company that i first accepted the offer from

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that i'm coming there that ended up being kind of a defining moment in my life oh

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and by the way we're recording on the iphone 18 pro max using the selfie mode

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that came out i think with the iphone 16 pro lineup where you can hold the phone vertically

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and still record horizontally or was it with the 17 pro either way this isn't a new feature

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Let's go.

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Thank you.

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so yeah i truly hope that my videos show you

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that it's possible obviously there's been a ton of luck involved

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even with just the companies i've picked to work for

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and i've been in such a fortunate position that i've even had

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that choice but what i always say is that

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if you just keep trying then eventually the universe will reward you

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and just before you start getting some momentum that's

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when it feels the worst and that's exactly when you want to quit

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but if you keep showing up every day then it's just a matter of time

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but yeah to end of the video i wanted to show you how to take these cool light streak photos

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and the way you do this is by dropping the shutter speed

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and when you take the photo you kind of have to flick your phone the timing is kind of hard

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so you might have to try this a few times

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but once you get it right i think it looks really sick

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when all of the other stuff is in focus except the light i don't know i think it's pretty cool

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that we can do this now with just the iphone

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but yeah these have been my thoughts on the iphone 18 pro max like i said

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if you're on the 16

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or 17 pro then do not upgrade like there's no reason to

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but if you're at that point where your current phone is starting to give up

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or maybe you want more from the cameras a better battery

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life etc then you can't really go wrong with the 18 pro

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and yeah to this day i'm baffled by the battery life

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like the battery life it's next level anyways that's enough of the glazing

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if you watch this far then make sure you're subscribed thank you

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so much for watching all the way to the end and i'll see you in the next one

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This video has 390 sentences and 4610 words to shadow. The speech runs for 37:38. The speaker talks at a steady 122 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 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
headphones noun	/ˈhɛdfoʊnz/	A pair of cushioned speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound.
upgrade verb	/əpˈɡɹeɪd/	To improve, usually applied to technology, generally by complete replacement of one or more components.
sofa noun	/ˈsoʊ̯fə/	An upholstered seat with a raised back and one or two raised ends, long enough to comfortably accommodate two or more people.
lineup noun	/ˈlaɪn.ʌp/	A physical or photographic queue of people allegedly involved in a crime, allowing a witness to identify them.
demo noun	/ˈdɛm.oʊ/	A demonstration or visual explanation.
anchor noun	/ˈæŋ.kəː/	A tool used to moor a vessel to the bottom of a sea or river to resist movement.
hook noun	/hʊk/	A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.
chip noun	/t͡ʃɪp/	A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material.
dynamic adjective	/daɪˈnæm.ɪk/	Changing; active; in motion.
ceiling noun	/ˈsilɪŋ/	The overhead closure of a room.
lens noun	/lɛnz/	An object, usually made of glass, that focuses or defocuses the light that passes through it.
lamp noun	/ˈlæ̝mp/	A device that generates light, heat, or other electromagnetic radiation. Especially an electric light bulb.
anyways adverb	/ˈɛn.iˌweɪz/	Anyway, anyhow, in any case.
workout noun	/ˈwɝk.aʊ̯t/	An exercise session; a period of physical exercise.
gram noun	/ˈɡɹæm/	A unit of mass equal to one-thousandth of a kilogram. Symbol: g.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
end up verb		To bring to a conclusion.
wake up verb	/ˌweɪk ˈʌp/	To stop sleeping; to awake.
clean up verb		To make an area or a thing clean; to pick up a mess; to tidy.
come out verb	/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/	To be discovered; to be revealed.
pick up verb		To lift; to grasp and raise.
run away from verb		To avoid or shirk a problem or consequences; to rush to back away from or disclaim responsibility for something.
beat up verb		To give a severe beating to; to assault violently with repeated blows.
come back from verb		To become successful, confident or effective again after an injury, setback, failure, embarrassment, etc.

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 144 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, I've. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: throat /ˈθɹoʊt/, thick /θɪk/, smooth /smuːð/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: internship /ˈɪntɜːnʃɪp/, sharp /ʃɑɹp/, intention /ɪnˈtɛnʃn̩/, measurement /ˈmɛʒ.ə.mənt/, isolation /ˌaɪsəˈleɪʃən/
Long words — get the stress right: genuinely /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/, photography /fəˈtɑ.ɡɹə.fi/, incredibly /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/, simultaneously /ˌsaɪmlˈteɪnɪəsli/, technically /ˈtɛk.nɪˌkəl.i/

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 headphones, upgrade, sofa.

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	I've been using · they've been working · you've been watching
Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result	if i could i would you
“Used to” used to + verb — a past habit or state that is no longer true	used to be
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	have been · have just launched · i've just received

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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