Shadowing Practice: Why We Have A Snowflake Generation - Learn English Speaking with Video
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We all know in this room, people that have spent hours, days, weeks, fucking months, and even years finger -fucking with their model online.
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What are you a moron?
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It doesn't work.
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Nobody likes it, but your mother wake up
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Talk to us about like you call that the snowflake of generation
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Well snowflake mean you melt under pressure, okay Not that there's a every snowflake is different and you know a higher power made a motive.
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I don't mean that i mean you melt under pressure
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because you've never been held accountable what gets measured gets accomplished
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and uh the uh
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and today the kids they have uh like a soccer
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there's no winners now now it's a participation ribbon uh
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there's no winners in a lot of sports well that's life's not like
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that just because you participate at a job you work for general motors
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or a bank you don't get a room for just showing up you don't get promoted for just showing up
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and the kids aren't used to being held accountable
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and kids now have safe spaces
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and they have where meaning you can go to a place in the building
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when life's getting too rough and you can just chill out well life's not like
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that there is no safe space in life back 15 years ago
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when I first met you there was no safe space you had to suffer until you got successful
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and then you continue to get more successful
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and it meant uh
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you continue to suffer the more success the more stress the more stress the more success why do you think
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now nowadays the kids are like snowflakes well it's
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because their parents were snowflakes
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you know our role models are uh unfortunately our parents kids
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do not what our their parents tell them to do they do what they see their parents do and
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if their parents you know uh were non -achievers uh unfortunately
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parents are not are not built to program kids for high performance unless you're lucky enough to have steffi graf
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and andrew andrew as your parents both world champ gold medalists uh
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i mean your parents don't know anything about creating high performance athletes high performance individuals some of the people
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that get QLA the best are former world -class athletes.
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Or military backers.
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And military backers, correct.
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Because they have self -discipline, right?
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Correct.
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Wow.
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The most epic event of this century,
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the Oscar for high ticket closers, closers in black, 2019.
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The $50 billion man, Dan Payne, king of high ticket sales, Dan Lok.
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Get your ticket today.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Why We Have A Snowflake Generation”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: parents, snowflake, ticket, safe, performance. This video has 21 sentences and 411 words to shadow. The speech runs for 2:52. The speaker talks at a steady 144 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 86% 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 |
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| suffer verb | /ˈsʌfɚ/ | To undergo hardship. |
| athlete noun | /ˈæθ.liːt/ | A participant in any of a group of sporting activities including track and field, road running, cross country running and racewalking. |
| melt verb | /mɛlt/ | To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat. |
| accountable adjective | /əˈkaʊntəbl̩/ | Obliged, when called upon, to answer (for one’s deeds); answerable. |
| ribbon noun | /ˈɹɪbən/ | A long, narrow strip of material used for decoration of clothing or the hair or gift wrapping. |
| finger noun | /ˈfɪŋɡɚ/ | A slender jointed extremity of the human hand, (often) exclusive of the thumb, and the corresponding part, irrespective of including a thumb, in many other… |
| soccer noun | /ˈsɑk.ɚ/ | Association football. |
| participate verb | /pɑːˈtɪs.ɪ.peɪt/ | To join in, to take part, to involve oneself (in something). |
| epic noun | /ˈɛp.ɪk/ | An extended narrative poem in elevated or dignified language, celebrating the feats of a deity, demigod (heroic epic), other legend or traditional hero. |
| participation noun | /pɑːˌtɪs.ɪˈpeɪ.ʃən/ | The act of participating, of taking part in something. |
| discipline noun | /ˈdɪsəplɪn/ | A controlled behaviour; self-control. |
| chill verb | /tʃɪl/ | To lower the temperature of something; to cool. |
| nowadays adverb | /ˈnaʊ.ə.deɪz/ | At the present time; in the current era. |
| accomplish verb | /əˈkɑm.plɪʃ/ | To finish successfully. |
| champ verb | /t͡ʃæmp/ | To bite or chew, especially noisily or impatiently. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| show up verb | To appear, arrive, or attend, especially suddenly or erratically. | |
| wake up verb | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | To stop sleeping; to awake. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- What are you, a moron?
- It doesn't work, nobody likes it but your mother.
- Why do you think nowadays the kids are snowflakes?
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 | been held · being held · are not built |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | have spent · you've never been held |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 8 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, aren't, doesn't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: participation /pɑːˌtɪs.ɪˈpeɪ.ʃən/, accomplish /əˈkɑm.plɪʃ/
- Long words — get the stress right: participate /pɑːˈtɪs.ɪ.peɪt/, participation /pɑːˌtɪs.ɪˈpeɪ.ʃən/
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 suffer, athlete, melt.
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.