Shadowing Practice: World's Most *EVIL* KIDS! - Learn English Speaking with Video

This video has 266 sentences and 1686 words to shadow. The speech runs for 9:27. The speaker talks at a natural 178 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. Only 81% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 less common words from the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

• gosh /ɡɑːʃ/ — A mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm.
• goodness /ˈɡʊdnəs/ (noun) — The state or characteristic of being good.
• peanut /ˈpiˌnʌt/ (noun) — A legume resembling a nut, the fruit of the plant Arachis hypogaea, native to South America.
• butter /ˈbʌtɚ/ (noun) — A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk).
• zombie /ˈzɑmbi/ (noun) — A person, usually undead, animated by unnatural forces (such as magic), with no soul or will of his or her own, typically being slow, obedient, and harmless…
• heck /hɛk/ — Hell.
• stove /stoʊv/ (noun) — A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room.
• skip /skɪp/ (verb) — To move by hopping on alternate feet.
• sandwich /ˈsæn(d).wɪd͡ʒ/ (noun) — A dish or foodstuff where at least one piece, but typically two or more pieces, of bread serves as the wrapper or container of some other food.
• possess /pəˈzɛs/ (verb) — To have (something) as, or as if as, an owner; to have, to own.
• tire /ˈtaɪ̯ɚ/ (verb) — To become sleepy or weary.
• karma /kərm(ə)/ (noun) — The sum total of a person's actions, which determine the person's next incarnation in samsara, the cycle of death and rebirth.
• yell /jɛl/ (verb) — To shout; holler; make a loud sound with the voice, especially to express intense emotions such as anger or excitement.
• dinosaur /ˈdaɪnəsoɹ/ (noun) — Those animals of the clade Dinosauria that existed during the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and are now extinct.
• lick /lɪk/ (verb) — To stroke with the tongue.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

• look at (verb) — To observe or watch.
• shut up /ʃʌt ʌp/ — Stop talking (usually in the form of making annoying, irrelevant, or false comments, during a period of peace and quiet, or when one is not allowed to talk)…
• clean up (verb) — To make an area or a thing clean; to pick up a mess; to tidy.
• sit on (verb) — To block, suppress, restrain (something).
• draw on (verb) — To sketch or mark with pencil, crayon, etc., on a given surface.
• get back (verb) — Return to where one came from.
• get in (verb) — To get into or inside something, literally or figuratively.
• hold on (verb) — To grasp or grip firmly.

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 58 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, gonna. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

• The “th” sounds: bath /bɑːθ/, seventh /ˈsɛvənθ/, eighth /eɪtθ/
• The “sh” and “zh” sounds: gosh /ɡɑːʃ/, shake /ˈʃeɪk/
• Long words — get the stress right: hilarious /hɪˈlɛə.ɹi.əs/, superhero /ˈs(j)upɚhɪɹoʊ/, indestructible /ɪndɪˈstɹʌktɪbəl/

How to practise with this video

1. Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
2. Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
3. Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like gosh, goodness, peanut.

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video: