Shadowing Practice: You Don’t Know What You Feel Anymore - Learn English Speaking with Video
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When someone asks you how you're feeling, do you ever pause for a second longer than usual?
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You're not hiding anything, but you genuinely don't know what to say.
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You search for an answer like fine, tired, just a bit stressed.
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Something close enough, something that ends the conversation, but the truth is you don't really know what you feel anymore.
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From the outside, nothing really seems wrong.
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You show up, you respond, you keep things moving, but inside it's unclear, not quite sad, not quite okay,
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not even numb in a way that you can explain.
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Just something distant, something hard to reach.
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Today we're going to talk about what it means when you can't seem to understand your emotions anymore.
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So not knowing what you feel isn't the absence of emotion.
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It's often what happens when you've had to ignore your feelings for a long time.
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Maybe you're the one who always has to stay calm when things get overwhelming
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Or maybe expressing yourself didn't go well in the past
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Or maybe life just kept moving and you didn't have the space to stop and ask How am I really?
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So your mind adapted instead of checking in with how you feel it learned to focus on what needs to be done,
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what's next, what's expected, what keeps things stable.
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And over time, that connection to yourself can start to fade into the background.
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There is a cost to that.
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When you don't recognize your emotions, they don't disappear, they just become harder to access.
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You might notice it in subtle ways, like struggling to explain what's bothering you, feeling disconnected during moments that used to matter to you,
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or reacting strongly to something and not understanding why.
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Sometimes it feels like a kind of emptiness, and other times it feels like everything at once, without clarity, and it can be frustrating.
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Like, how do you take care of yourself when you don't even know what you need?
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Before we continue, we want to say this.
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Thank you for being here, for watching, for listening, and for being a part of this space with us.
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Thank you for your comments.
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We read as many as we can.
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Definitely a lot of the ones you think we don't see.
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And hearing your stories and your experiences means more than you probably realize.
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This community exists because of you and we're really grateful that you're here.
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You matter.
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Okay, back to the video.
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If you've lost touch with your feelings, they're not gone.
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It just means that your mind has been trying to protect you, as our minds love to do.
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It's the only way it knows how.
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When things feel overwhelming or unsafe, our brains don't always process everything fully.
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Sometimes it creates distance instead.
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It's trying to help you function.
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And for a while it works.
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Until one day you realize you don't quite feel like yourself anymore.
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So how do you begin to reconnect with something that feels so far away?
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It doesn't have to start with understanding everything.
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It can start with something much smaller.
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So instead of, what am I feeling?
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It's what do I notice right now?
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A bit of tension, a sense of heaviness, a moment of calm.
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Where do you feel it in your body?
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Let yourself sit with it, without needing to label it right away.
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And over time, those little moments of awareness can build that connection back.
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The goal is to feel safe enough to be honest with yourself again, even if that honesty sounds like I don't know what I feel,
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but I know something is there.
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That's a start.
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And on a final note, you don't need to have everything figured out to be worthy of care.
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You don't need clear answers to deserve patience, and you don't need to understand your emotions completely to begin taking care of yourself.
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If you've been feeling disconnected for a while, be gentle with yourself.
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That distance didn't come out of nowhere, and it didn't come from nothing.
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It came from trying to get through things the best way you could.
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So maybe now, you're allowed to do more.
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more than just get through the day.
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Maybe now you're allowed to come back to yourself.
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We've been thinking about creating more videos on how to manage your emotions
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and building on that guided meditation series for different feelings you might be going through.
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You can find a bunch of them on our homepage.
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And if there's anything you'd like us to work on next, feel free to leave a comment.
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We'll try to create something based on what you need.
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Again, thank you for the support, for being here, for letting this space exist with us.
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And thank you for those perfect timing messages.
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They give us those strange mix of feelings, a bit of warmth and a bit of sadness at the same time, because it means this found you at a moment that you really needed it.
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But we're really glad that we could be there for you in those moments.
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We'll see you in the next one.
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Until then, take care.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “You Don’t Know What You Feel Anymore”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: feeling, emotion, moment, anymore, space. This video has 71 sentences and 864 words to shadow. The speech runs for 4:53. The speaker talks at a natural 177 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 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
The 15 most advanced words in the video, 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. |
| disconnect verb | /dɪskəˈnɛkt/ | To sever or interrupt a connection. |
| overwhelm verb | /ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɛlm/ | To engulf, surge over and submerge. |
| emptiness noun | The state or feeling of being empty; an emotion that combines hollowness, numbness, disconnection and a lack of meaning in life, resulting in existential… | |
| frustrate verb | /ˈfɹʌsˌtɹeɪt/ | To disappoint or defeat; to vex by depriving of something expected or desired. |
| heaviness noun | /ˈhɛvɪnəs/ | The state of being heavy; weight, weightiness, force of impact or gravity. |
| reconnect verb | /ˌɹiː.kəˈnɛkt/ | To connect again or differently. |
| numb adjective | /nʌm/ | Physically unable to feel, not having the power of sensation. |
| unsafe adjective | /ʌnˈseɪf/ | Not safe (various senses); dangerous. |
| warmth noun | /wɔɹmθ/ | A moderate degree of heat; the sensation of being warm. |
| fade verb | /feɪd/ | To hit the ball with the shot called a fade. |
| sadness noun | /ˈsædnəs/ | The state or emotion of being sad. |
| clarity noun | /ˈklæɹ.ɪ.ti/ | The state or measure of being clear, either in appearance, thought or style; lucidity. |
| unclear adjective | /ʌnˈklɪɚ/ | Ambiguous; liable to more than one interpretation. |
| meditation noun | /mɛdɪˈteɪʃn̩/ | A devotional exercise of, or leading to, contemplation. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| get through verb | /ɡɛt ˈθɹu/ | To overcome; to endure. |
| go through verb | To travel from one end of something to the other. | |
| show up verb | To appear, arrive, or attend, especially suddenly or erratically. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- It's trying to help you function.
- It's what do I notice right now?
- Where do you feel it in your body?
- Maybe now you're allowed to come back to yourself.
- We'll see you in the next one.
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on | has been trying · We've been thinking |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | you've had · you've lost |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 36 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, you're, didn't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/, meditation /mɛdɪˈteɪʃn̩/, patience /ˈpeɪ̯.ʃəns/
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, disconnect, overwhelm.
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.