Shadowing Practice: When You Notice This, Your Life Changes - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Your emotions are your life.
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If the regular emotions you have are frustration or anger or stressed out or worried,
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then the bottom line is you need to remember that that extraordinary life is not going to come with those emotions.
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If your habit is to get pissed off all the time or worried all the time or frustrated or overwhelmed, that habit is keeping you from an extraordinary life no matter how much money you have.
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If you have, you know, a beautiful husband or wife and and they love you and you love them and beautiful kids, but you spend your life in fear and worry.
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Your life is not love, it's fear and worry.
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Write down, I don't experience life.
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I experience the life I focus on.
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What that means is, what's wrong is always available, so is what's right.
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Right now, there are a million things you could focus on.
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If you focus on certain things, you're gonna feel great.
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Focus on something else, you'll feel terrible.
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When you train your brain to focus differently, it changes what things mean to you.
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And the meaning changes your emotion and your emotion changes the decisions you make about what to do.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 14 sentences and 204 words to shadow. The speech runs for 1:01. The speaker talks fast, about 202 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 90% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| emotion noun | /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/ | A person's internal state of being and involuntary physiological response to an object or a situation, based on or tied to physical state and sensory data. |
| extraordinary adjective | /ɪksˈtɹɔːrdɪn(ə)ɹi/ | Out of the ordinary; exceptional; unusual. |
| habit noun | /ˈhæb.ɪt/ | An action performed on a regular basis. |
| anger noun | /ˈæŋɡə/ | A strong and unpleasant feeling of displeasure, hostility, or antagonism, usually combined with an urge to yell, curse, damage or destroy things, or harm… |
| differently adverb | /ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/ | In a different way. |
| frustration noun | /fɹʌsˈtɹeɪ.ʃən/ | The feeling of annoyance at impossibility from resistance or inability to achieve something. |
| frustrate verb | /ˈfɹʌsˌtɹeɪt/ | To disappoint or defeat; to vex by depriving of something expected or desired. |
| overwhelm verb | /ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɛlm/ | To engulf, surge over and submerge. |
| focus noun | /ˈfoʊ̯.kəs/ | A point at which reflected or refracted rays of light converge. |
| worry verb | /ˈwʌ.ɹi/ | To be troubled; to give way to mental anxiety or doubt. |
| fear verb | /fɪə/ | To be afraid of (something or someone); to consider or expect (something or someone) with alarm. |
| husband noun | /ˈhʌzbənd/ | A man in a marriage or marital relationship, especially in relation to his spouse. |
| spend verb | /spɪnd/ | To pay out (money). |
| train noun | /ˈtɹeɪn/ | The elongated back portion of a dress or skirt (or an ornamental piece of material added to similar effect), which drags along the ground. |
| regular adjective | /ˈɹɛɡjəlɚ/ | Bound by religious rule; belonging to a monastic or religious order (often as opposed to secular). |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| stress out verb | To become stressed. |
| write down verb | To produce or set (something) down in writing; to record something. |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 4 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, gonna, you'll. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/, frustration /fɹʌsˈtɹeɪ.ʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: extraordinary /ɪksˈtɹɔːrdɪn(ə)ɹi/, differently /ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/
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 emotion, extraordinary, habit.
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.