Shadowing Practice: Working Hard But No Money - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Most people want to be rich, but to be rich we need to work hard.
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We need to have a lot of patience.
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We need to be clever or smart too.
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So not everybody can be rich, even if they work hard, even if they have a lot of patience.
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Because many things depend on chance and ability too.
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of people think if we work hard enough we will be rich they believe like that and what happened is
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most of people work hard but have no money why is
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that this is the question that i keep asking for a long time
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when i was young i worked very hard in the city i asked myself a lot why we work
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so hard but have no money.
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I work more than 10 hours per day every day but I never have saving in my life.
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What happened is just have enough money to pay for rent, have enough money to pay for food,
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have enough money to pay for daily expense a little bit and then it's gone.
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I look at my friend look at many people around me I found
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that there are a few factors that make people work hard
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but have no money the first factor is we have the system
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that take advantage of most of people people who are not smart enough like me we work hard
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but we never get paid very well and some of us may be very smart
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but don't have a chance in their life.
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They cannot make money.
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They cannot save money.
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They still work hard.
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But most people believe that if we work hard enough, we will not be poor.
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We will have money.
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Work hard.
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And have a lot of patience.
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So these people just keep working and working.
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At the end, they have nothing.
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The second factor is people who want to have fun.
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They just enjoy social life.
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They just enjoy being social, but spend a lot of money for social life.
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Every night, go out and have fun every night, and most of the money is gone.
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We need to spend money to have fun.
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The third factor is most of people who are poor before, we want to have more stuff in our life, more than we need.
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We pay for what we want more than we pay for what we need.
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Especially people from the country like me, like my generation, we are poor.
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We never have TV, we never have refrigerators, we never have cars.
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So when we got a job, we want to have this thing, to have stuff like this.
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It's very addictive.
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We want new one.
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We want more.
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We want more.
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We always want new things.
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And every time when we buy something that we want, it costs a lot of money.
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Sometimes most of people have to be in debt for this part.
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The last factor is we addicted to something.
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Many people addicted to gambling.
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We like to do gambling because we expect that one day we will be rich.
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So we just pay gambling.
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But gambling, nobody can be rich from gambling.
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Except you are controlling the gambling.
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You control the system.
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You can be rich.
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You are the owner of the casino, the owner of the gambling system.
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You can be rich in that way.
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And another thing is addicted to drugs,
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alcohol and many things that suck a lot of money from our life.
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So this is the main thing that I found that people work hard but have no money left.
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I think a lot about this thing.
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I'm not addicted to drugs.
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I stopped drinking.
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I don't play camping.
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I feel I can save money.
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I don't buy anything that's not necessary in my life.
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I buy only what is really important, very necessary for my life.
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I never buy clothes more than 40 years now.
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I have no necklace, no gold ring, no watch, no thing fancy at all.
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I don't do social life so much.
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So I don't go hang out and drink often and go eat too much.
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And I work hard, but I never have saving.
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All the time that I was in Bangkok, I never have saving.
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It's never enough.
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So my problem is because of the system, take advantage of me.
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That's what I see.
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I need to get out of the system.
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I don't think I can solve this system because this is so big.
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The whole economic system is so big.
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This system, they design to draw a lot of cheap labor from everybody to make someone become rich or have more money.
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So the clever people will do that.
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They will have that.
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How can I solve my problem?
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At the time, I just think about why do we need money?
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So we need money to buy food, to buy shelter, to pay for shelter.
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We need money to buy what we need.
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We need money to buy what we don't have.
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So to do like that, everybody needs to work hard to make money first.
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But if I want to get out of the system, what can I do?
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So I experiment to learn to do what I need first.
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Go shortcut, not go work to make money and use money to buy what I need.
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But I just do what I need.
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When I practice to do like this, it seems like everything is so relaxed, so easy after that.
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I grow my own food.
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It's so easy, it doesn't take long time
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And I build my own house I do what I need
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to use in my daily life It doesn't take long time to learn to do things
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And after that we have more than we need When we have more than we need, we sell it We make income from it So
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when I change my life in this way I don't feel like I have to struggle
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so much I don't need to work so much But I have everything I need in my life
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One thing that I learned is I don't need to be rich.
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I don't need to be poor.
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To be rich is so hard.
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It's not easy for people who are not very smart like me.
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To be rich is not easy for most of people because there's a few amount of people can be rich.
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So why we need to do something hard?
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Why we need to spend most of our precious time in our life to pursue something
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that we don't really need that much?
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Being rich is not easy.
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When you're rich, it's not easy to keep being rich like that.
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It's hard.
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Being poor is not fun.
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It's very hard too.
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Being poor, you lack of everything.
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You don't have enough.
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You suffer so much.
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I don't think about to be poor or rich.
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I don't care.
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But I want to be me, be myself.
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I need to have everything that I need.
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And I can do it myself easily.
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Leftover from what I did.
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I can sell.
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I make income.
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I do not refuse money.
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I do not refuse technology.
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I just want to have enough money to make my life very easy, very comfortable.
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I don't want to be poor.
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When I live like this, I feel like I don't want a lot.
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But I pay most of our money for what I need.
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So I do not pay for what I want much.
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That make life so easy.
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And then I think this is freedom, freedom of my life.
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I can do anything I want to do.
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I can go anywhere I want to go.
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And I can eat anything that I want to eat.
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I do it myself.
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I can enjoy living in daily life more and more in this way.
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To be rich, we need to work hard.
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We need to have a lot of patience.
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We need to be smart too, to be able to be rich.
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But even that, not everybody will be rich.
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easily except people who do something illegal do some corruption do drugs dealer
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when they become rich from illegal way they can make become rich very fast
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but it's not last really long and it's suffer
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and it costs a lot of problems too
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so it's not easy it's not last long
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so why do we want to be rich why do we
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want to have too much money it consumes a lot of time in our life
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so now my thinking has completely changed i just want to
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be myself to be a person who doesn't lack of anything
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that necessary in my life so i have free time to enjoy my life at the end i end up
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don't care about being rich at all
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and i don't want to be poor poor is not fun
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be rich is not fun be normal be the way i want to be that is fun
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 153 sentences and 1509 words to shadow. The speech runs for 10:16. The speaker talks at a steady 147 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 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 less common words from the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
- gambling /ˈɡæm.bl̩.ɪŋ/ (noun) — An activity characterized by a balance between winning and losing that is governed by skill and/or chance, usually with money wagered on the outcome.
- patience /ˈpeɪ̯.ʃəns/ (noun) — The quality of being patient.
- addict /ˈæd.ɪkt/ (noun) — A person who is addicted, especially to a harmful drug.
- suffer /ˈsʌfɚ/ (verb) — To undergo hardship.
- solve /sɒlv/ (verb) — To find an answer or solution to a problem or question; to work out.
- refuse /ɹɪˈfjuːz/ (verb) — To decline (a request or demand).
- shelter /ˈʃɛltə/ (noun) — A place where a person or animal may find protection from the elements (especially rain, storms, or cold) sometimes as a place to sleep (such as a cave).
- clever /ˈklɛv.ɚ/ (adjective) — Nimble with hands or body; dexterous; skillful; adept.
- suck /sʌk/ (verb) — To use the mouth and lips to pull in (a liquid, especially milk from the breast).
- experiment /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/ (noun) — A test under controlled conditions made to either demonstrate a known truth, examine the validity of a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy or likelihood of…
- corruption /kəˈɹʌpʃən/ (noun) — The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity.
- fancy /ˈfæn.si/ (noun) — The imagination.
- relax /ɹɪˈlæks/ (verb) — To make something loose.
- pursue /pɚˈsu/ (verb) — To follow urgently, originally with intent to capture or harm; to chase.
- expense /ɪkˈspɛns/ (noun) — A spending or consuming, often a disbursement of funds.
Phrasal verbs you will hear
- get out of (verb) — To leave, exit or escape from; to become free of.
- look at (verb) — To observe or watch.
- think about /ˈθɪŋk əˌbaʊt/ (verb) — To ponder.
- ask for (verb) — To request; to order.
- end up (verb) — To bring to a conclusion.
- go out (verb) — To leave, especially a building.
- live in (verb) — To reside on the premises of one's employer (used especially of domestic staff such as nannies, cooks, maids, etc.)
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 24 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, doesn't, I'm. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: patience /ˈpeɪ̯.ʃəns/, shelter /ˈʃɛltə/, corruption /kəˈɹʌpʃən/, shortcut /ˈʃɔːtkʌt/
- Long words — get the stress right: experiment /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/, refrigerator /ɹɪˈfɹɪd͡ʒ.əˌɹeɪ.tɚ/
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 gambling, patience, addict.
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result | if we work hard enough we will be · if we work hard enough, we will not |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | people who are · people who want · people who do |
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.