Shadowing Practice: What a Sucessfully Booked Meeting Looks Like #coldcalling - Learn English Speaking with YouTube

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This is Mark calling with...
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This is Mark calling with...
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I was wondering if you had a moment.
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Sorry.
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I was wondering if you had a moment or if I got you at a bad time.
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I know you're probably pretty busy.
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No, what's up?
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Yeah, no, I really appreciate it.
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So I'm calling with you.
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We're a fintech company, and what we do is solve 100 % of manual accounting tasks within our platform.
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It's something similar to, have you ever heard of?
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Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, it's something similar.
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to that, you know, we've had some success and we've we've been able to save companies,
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you know, a lot of time for them and their finance team and give them more visibility and, you know, get some money back with our platform.
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I'm not really sure where you're at, but it's just curious, you know, if you'd have any time this week
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or next week to just kind of overview the platform with our with a guy named
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He's one of our business development managers.
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He's been at for 20 years and just switched over within the past year or two.
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And, you know, it wouldn't be a waste of your time.
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Just curious if you had any bandwidth or, you know, any time either this week
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or next week just to see the platform and see if it could be a fit for you guys.
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Well, these next two weeks are going to be busy for us.
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We have our fiscal year end at the end of March and we're just kind of gearing up to that.
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And then we got and then April is just full of auditors and everything.
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But, you know, sometime after that.
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Yeah, I mean, I can throw something on the calendar.
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So the let's see.
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So, does like the third week of April sound okay?
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Like the week of the 17th?
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Yeah, we're okay.
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Let's see.

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You're practicing English with "What a Sucessfully Booked Meeting Looks Like #coldcalling" using the Shadowing technique — a method originally developed for professional interpreter training.

Focus on sounding like the speaker — not just repeating words. With 15–30 minutes of daily practice, you'll build real-world speaking confidence.

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.